Apocalypse: I Built the Infinite Train-Chapter 449: Earth Explosion

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Less than an hour remained until nightfall, yet Haiyan Island and the offshore island had already been swallowed by churning ink-black clouds.

The dark clouds pressed heavily toward the sea like oil-soaked cotton batting, while fierce winds whipped up ten-meter waves that shattered violently against the reefs. The air filled with the salty, fishy scent mixed with sulfur, as steam evaporated from Mount Garland combined with thick smoke to turn dozens of miles of sea into a boiling hellscape, making it impossible to distinguish where sea met sky.

Around Haiyan Island's surrounding waters, the storm had become a gathering of sea monsters. Within the shadows, various creatures that triggered megalophobia appeared intermittently—a mountain-sized multicolored serpentine shadow swam through the wave troughs beneath the dark waters, its dark blue scales stirring whirlpools, its full form unclear. Further away, pale white tentacles over thirty meters in diameter pierced the sea surface before crashing down violently, the resulting tidal wall instantly swallowing half of the offshore island's lighthouse. The air vibrated with low-frequency hums, the breathing of unnameable giants from the deep.

The entire small offshore island now experienced slight tremors. Through mountain forests and valleys, dense black tides of monsters surged like flash floods toward Sea Rock Prison in the southwest direction of the island, seemingly fixated on some prey. Even underground, abnormal entities tunneled forward, tearing the surface apart.

"That thing is invisible, use shockwaves to scan!"

Inside the geothermal well, Lin Xian shouted loudly. At that moment, thousands of drones under Viola's control rapidly moved toward Lin Xian and his companion's position for defensive considerations. Simultaneously, KIKI shot out from between the drones like a streak of light.

"Hoo~"

KIKI exhaled lightly in mid-air, then clenched both hands empty before her!

A low humming sound rang out as a nearly transparent spherical light curtain rapidly contracted toward her chest, transforming in an instant into an impact wave sphere emitting white fluorescence. It radiated outward from her center in all directions!

Beautiful!!!!

The invisible shockwave amplified spherically, vibrating outward omnidirectionally with tremendous force, instantly expanding to cover hundreds or even thousands of meters in diameter!

The shockwave directly swept away the erupting heat waves and steam from the geothermal well, violently expanding outward in spherical waves. Countless falling rocks, including the guardrails and debris on the geothermal core device, were all blasted away by the impact force!

[Target detected!]

Under this 360-degree shockwave without blind spots, Viola's thousands of [eyes] captured the target within milliseconds. Instantly, all Thunderhawk drones simultaneously turned direction and fired toward a broken passageway above.

Dense red pulse rays concentrated precisely, erupting with piercing energy pulse sounds. The moment the rays hit, the seemingly empty passageway suddenly flickered with pale green biological force field ripples. The ripples spread and conducted, instantly outlining the contour of a completely transparent, twisted giant worm.

Seeing this, Lin Xian immediately realized it was the monster hiding in the flood discharge channel. This thing moved mysteriously—Qian Dele and Ning Jing's team had specifically searched for it before sealing the upper channels but found absolutely no clues. Who knew it could not only turn invisible but couldn't even be detected by biological sensors? Utterly bizarre!

"Found it, catch it!"

"Okay!" Before Lin Xian's words even finished, KIKI already unleashed a surge of surging telekinesis to seize the creature whose biological force field glow hadn't yet disappeared. The tremendous force even gouged deep cracks in the wall around the broken passageway, clearly showing KIKI was using her full strength.

For Lin Xian and KIKI's current abilities, dealing with a special-level monster by going all out wasn't a problem at all. Hearing the earth-shaking commotion outside, Lin Xian knew they needed to finish this quickly, so without hesitation, he raised his hand and pointed.

Gravitational Lens.

A white hole transdimensional portal formed directly out of thin air, specifically designed to handle all fancy tricks!

Hum!

A spatial humming sound rang out as the roaring magma gas waves in the geothermal well seemed to instantly vanish, even the blazing cold light being directly swallowed. A distorted space directly formed in the area controlled by KIKI, like a white water vortex in the air.

Instantly, this distorted dark region rapidly collapsed into a lightless black hole, emitting crushing sounds. The originally transparent area now clearly showed continuous distorted biological matter, like a giant channel black worm, but its entire body seemed wrapped by countless snake-like transparent sea worms. After shedding its invisibility, the main trunk composed of these black worms constantly twisted and changed color, with large numbers of black worms already being sucked into and crushed by the Gravitational Lens—even the force field light on its body couldn't escape.

Seemingly sensing the threat, the giant black worm began frantically twisting. The black snakes on its body seemed capable of disintegrating in different directions, directly dispersing to climb onto the geothermal well's rock walls. Dense and countless, they looked like they were "melting" into a spreading escape.

Witnessing this, Lin Xian and KIKI seemed to directly witness what "indescribable" meant—this wasn't any specific creature at all. Neither worm nor snake, its entire body could permeate and escape in any shape. After Lin Xian's Gravitational Lens swallowed out a hollow area, the remaining worm-snakes all detached from the swallowing region, spreading across the rock walls to form a "snake wall" covering hundreds of meters!

Simultaneously, countless black worm-snakes continued crawling out from the passageway, gradually covering an even larger area. In just the blink of an eye, the geothermal well's rock walls ahead of Lin Xian and KIKI had turned ash-gray. With the squirming movements of these worm-snakes, the rock walls seemed to come alive, making one's skin crawl with disgust.

"So disgusting." KIKI exclaimed in astonishment: "How could this group of things mark us with a level 4 marker?"

Dense red pulse rays concentrated precisely, erupting with piercing energy pulse sounds. The moment the rays hit, the seemingly empty passageway suddenly flickered with pale green biological force field ripples. The ripples spread and conducted, instantly outlining the contour of a completely transparent, twisted giant worm.

If it were just one, he'd be absolutely confident about handling it quickly—after all, he'd tested his Supercritical Diffraction Sword before. As long as aimed accurately, this skill could slay S-class and below monsters without any problem.

But currently, looking at that densely squirming "worm wall," Lin Xian realized things looked bad.

By now, those black worms had spread across nearly half of the geothermal well's dome ceiling, covering the magma-scorched red rock walls with black-gray. Then those worm-snakes uniformly turned their eyeless heads toward Lin Xian and KIKI's position, seemingly preparing to release something!

[Detected spirit value surge, attack warning!]

"Little lady, fall back!" Lin Xian, also detecting the danger, immediately shouted to KIKI.

"Okay!" Before Lin Xian's words even finished, KIKI already unleashed a surge of surging telekinesis to seize the creature whose biological force field glow hadn't yet disappeared. The tremendous force even gouged deep cracks in the wall around the broken passageway, clearly showing KIKI was using her full strength.

Just then, the hundreds of millions of black worm-snakes on the rock wall dome ceiling suddenly erupted with high-energy dark energy surges. Countless silver-green threads nearly invisible to the naked eye shot out toward Lin Xian's direction. Those thread-like filaments, resembling liquid jets like sharp swords, were extremely difficult to detect. But as density increased near the center, what appeared like silver-green water vapor waves formed outside the drone defense shields, instantly striking against the Iron Curtain drones' defensive shields.

At that moment, a massive dull impact sounded. These Iron Curtain shields forged from high-strength metal, along with the drones themselves, were instantly dissolved by this attack matrix composed of millions of jetting filaments—as if erased by high energy, vanishing in an instant. When those dense filaments impacted Lin Xian's AT force field shield, they caused a silent space to violently explode with an air burst that nearly shattered eardrums!

Boom!

Silver light exploded. In that instant, Lin Xian's AT force field shield flickered violently. Lin Xian felt his power nearly drained completely. By reflex, the hyperstring reactor phase halos immediately lit up with three halo rings, finally blocking that massive impact.

By then, only countless metal fragments remained of the instantly dissolved Iron Curtain drones, falling like rain with a crashing sound.

"Such perverted jetting power!"

Lin Xian's heart raced violently. The attack power of special-level entities truly couldn't be underestimated. This unprecedented attack method had given him a major disadvantage—that dense worm-snake jetting would be impossible to withstand even inside the Infinite without the AT force field shield. Lin Xian deeply regretted not bringing Fire Bro or Ryunosuke, but it was too late now.

"Wow, your drones—"

KIKI immediately grew anxious upon seeing this. She hadn't brought her VK electric blades either. At this critical moment, she glanced at the blazing magma below the passageway, then suddenly let out a sharp cry, raising her hands to deploy telekinesis, directly grabbing a massive glowing red magma liquid mass from the surging magma well below and throwing it into the air. This small sun-like magma ball illuminated the geothermal well with scorching light, its heat waves oppressive. Then KIKI gritted her teeth fiercely, raising her right fist to apply telekinetic force and throwing a punch toward the magma ball!

A spatial humming sound rang out as the roaring magma gas waves in the geothermal well seemed to instantly vanish, even the blazing cold light being directly swallowed. A distorted space directly formed in the area controlled by KIKI, like a white water vortex in the air.

The ten-thousand-ton telekinetic fist struck the magma ball like striking sparks, instantly spraying high-temperature magma across the dome ceiling and rock walls over a wide area!

Instantly, this distorted dark region rapidly collapsed into a lightless black hole, emitting crushing sounds. The originally transparent area now clearly showed continuous distorted biological matter, like a giant channel black worm, but its entire body seemed wrapped by countless snake-like transparent sea worms. After breaking free from stealth, the main trunk composed of these black worms constantly twisted and changed color, with large numbers of black worms already being sucked into and crushed by the Gravitational Lens—even the force field light on its body couldn't escape.

The next moment, magma fell like a torrential rain of pear blossoms, covering most worm-snakes attached to the rock wall dome ceiling. Instantly, entire walls of green biological force field shields flashed frantically, the entire rock wall ignited, with massive numbers of worm-snakes burning as they fell like rain, twisting and coiling in mid-air before dropping into the magma below.

Seemingly sensing the threat, the giant black worm began frantically twisting. The black snakes on its body seemed capable of disintegrating in different directions, directly dispersing to climb onto the geothermal well's rock walls. Dense and countless, they looked like they were "melting" into a spreading escape.

Lin Xian now realized this thing before them was likely some kind of independent life form—perhaps needing complete elimination or possibly having some kind of [main body].

Witnessing this, Lin Xian and KIKI seemed to directly witness what "indescribable" meant—this wasn't any specific creature at all. Neither worm nor snake, its entire body could permeate and escape in any shape. After Lin Xian's Gravitational Lens devoured a hollow area, the remaining worm-snakes all detached from the devoured region, spreading across the rock walls to form a "snake wall" covering hundreds of meters!

Chen Sixuan's voice came through intermittently, affected by the geothermal well's interference: "Over here... situation... we discovered..."

"Teacher Chen?" Chen Sixuan's voice made Lin Xian's heart tighten. He looked up at the black worms continuing to densely converge above, realizing crises had arrived both underwater and outside. Whatever this thing was, it needed immediate resolution.

"Lin Xian, what do we do?" Seeing the situation, KIKI also felt overwhelmed, her face pale.

[I've used all drones for optical visual scanning, detecting 316,508 equivalent biological entities, not including already eliminated ones or possible unemerged creatures in passageways.]

Viola calmly reported to Lin Xian: [Only 914 Lei Xun 2000 pulse drones remain. Without considering biological force fields, I need 173 seconds at fastest to clear all.]

"Whether it's a group or a single entity, this thing's scale has already reached special-level standards, and it can turn invisible too! Looks like it won't be easy to deal with!" Lin Xian's forehead sweated as he retracted the Gravitational Lens, his expression grave.

While Viola calculated, all Thunderhawk drones had already opened fire at full capacity, precisely targeting each worm-snake. Under the sweeping red pulse rays, massive numbers of worm-snakes continuously fell.

If it were just one, he'd be absolutely confident about handling it quickly—after all, he'd tested his Supercritical Diffraction Sword before. As long as aimed accurately, this skill could eliminate S-class and below monsters without any problem.

"No time left."

Lin Xian glanced around decisively: "By the time we finish killing this thing, the abnormal entities outside will have broken in."

Then he looked at KIKI: "No time left. Have Viola hold them off. KIKI, dig out the reactor!"

"What about the marker?" KIKI asked in shock.

"Taking a gamble!" Lin Xian's gaze swept across the geothermal well as he said sternly: "Blow this place up directly. No matter how many monsters come, we'll take them all down together—absolutely can clear the marker."

"Then wouldn't we be gone too?" KIKI's eyes widened.

Lin Xian looked at KIKI: "Forgot how we escaped from White City?"

"Little lady, fall back!" Lin Xian, also sensing the danger, immediately shouted to KIKI.

KIKI understood immediately. Without hesitation, she flew out, hovering above the boiling magma pool, both arms pressing down violently!

Boom!

The telekinetic field transformed into giant hands plunging into the churning molten rock. Below, the titanium alloy shell of the geothermal core device reactor submerged in magma emitted piercing groans. The thousand-ton columnar structure was forcibly ripped out, bringing up magma waterfalls that splashed like bloody tears among the worm-snake masses, evaporating into walls of foul-smelling mist.

Just then, the hundreds of millions of black worm-snakes on the rock wall dome ceiling suddenly erupted with high-energy dark energy surges. Countless silver-green threads nearly invisible to the naked eye sprayed out toward Lin Xian's direction. Those thread-like filaments, resembling liquid jets like sharp swords, were extremely difficult to detect. But as density increased near the center, what appeared like silver-green water vapor waves formed outside the drone defense shields, instantly striking against the Iron Curtain drones' defensive shields. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Lin Xian gave the order to Viola, then leaped down. The Mechanical Heart roared as hyperstring reactor phase halos opened fully. Blue-white data streams erupted from his pupils, transforming into substantial cubic grids wrapping around the reactor, directly covering the dragon-style reactor configuration over it.

At that moment, a massive dull impact sounded. These Iron Curtain shields forged from high-strength metal, along with the drones themselves, were instantly dissolved by this attack matrix composed of millions of spraying filaments—as if erased by high energy, vanishing in an instant. When those dense filaments impacted Lin Xian's AT force field shield, they caused a silent space to violently explode with an air burst that nearly shattered eardrums!

"Chain reaction catalyst loading 99%.. Warning! Biological energy reaction breaking through threshold!" Viola's alarm exploded simultaneously with the ceiling's roar—the remaining three hundred thousand worm-snakes suddenly converged into a twenty-meter diameter drill, carrying silver-green poison spikes plunging straight down!

"Go!" Lin Xian quickly covered the reactor with metal materials, then shouted to KIKI.

'Detonating this thing requires critical reaction. How do you plan to trigger it?'

Lin Xian turned back with a fierce gaze: "I still have a large 'blasting cap'—manual timing should just buy us some time."

"Blasting cap?"

By then, only countless metal fragments remained of the instantly dissolved Iron Curtain drones, falling like rain with a crashing sound.

KIKI looked up to see a white giant missile slowly emerging from the lightning storm of Lin Xian's Black Star Forge mechanical gate above. Her pupils contracted violently.

"Such perverse spraying power!"

"This should definitely be enough to trigger fusion chain reactions." Lin Xian's gaze turned fierce: "With an earth explosion of this scale, we'll probably have to blast out through the erupting volcano."