Apocalypse: I Built the Infinite Train-Chapter 452: No Survivors

Pop.

Like a bubble bursting, or some fragment shattering—the sound was minuscule yet somehow deafening, originating from the deepest recesses of consciousness.

In that instant, the entire offshore island sea area seemed to have been put on pause. The enormous golden-red mushroom cloud, the high-temperature fireball vaporizing the sea surface and evaporating the island, the shockwaves sweeping across the Pacific Ocean surface, along with the thunder in the sky, the sea monsters beneath the waves, and the indescribable abnormal entities—all fell into a state of suspension at this moment.

Inside Infinite's cockpit, Lin Xian, KIKI, Director Ding, Chen Sixuan, and Viola all became completely still.

In Chen Sixuan's peripheral vision, Infinite brushed past that abyssal maw, the flickering of detectors and sonar systems freezing at this moment. Meanwhile, in Lin Xian's view, a strange flower was blooming, within which a darkness was slowly releasing. In Lin Xian's pupils, it felt as if he had fallen into a planet-sized abyss, with his current world merely being beneath a cave, that blackness being the cave's exit.

Time froze at this moment, perhaps for only a second, just an instant. Throughout the deep sea, Infinite and the nuclear submarine remained motionless suspended in water, the seawater seemingly solidified into a solid entity.

Yet at this time, in Lin Xian's eyes, the countdown numbers remained completely unaffected.

From 16:10:33, it calmly jumped to 16:10:32.

Hiss!

As the countdown jumped, Lin Xian took a breath. He didn't feel any changes, his pupils now slightly constricted as he focused on the dark center of Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes. He immediately frowned because the central darkness had now spread out, devouring Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes' cultivation chamber, along with Ding Junyi's hands and vines.

"Director Ding."

Lin Xian called out immediately upon seeing this, but when he spoke, no sound emerged. When he looked up, he shockingly discovered that Ding Junyi was completely frozen in a static pose. Lin Xian quickly glanced at the others—everyone in the cockpit seemed to have been put on pause.

What's happening?

Lin Xian's expression changed dramatically. He saw floating fragments in the air not falling due to gravity, bubbles outside the portholes also frozen in place. Most bizarre was the black hole blooming from Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes—that miniature black hole resembling his Gravitational Lens now appeared pure black, looking incredibly eerie and abrupt within space.

This darkness had no edges, looking as if some deity had carved this piece out of space itself. If he had to describe it, it was like someone had used Photoshop to perfectly fill an area with absolute black—no thickness, no edges. This black hole wasn't a hole nor a sphere, as if light and dimensions didn't exist here.

He immediately realized something, but why could he still move? And why was the countdown still unaffected?

"Viola!"

Lin Xian attempted to call out to Viola but received no response. He looked at Viola, preparing to reach out and touch her, but just as his fingers were about to contact Viola's mechanical arm, his movement stopped again. His pupils trembled slightly as if he had seen something.

In the integrated central pipeline behind Viola's neck, a faint blue glow was frozen—that was the photon transmission array of Viola's quantum processing center. And now, even that tiny signal light point had stopped.

Light had stopped.

At this moment, Lin Xian felt an illusion that he had detached from reality, as if he could hear his own breathing.

Confusion, panic, bewilderment, anxiety—various emotions sprouted from Lin Xian's heart.

Just then, he suddenly discovered that his body carried elongated light shadows beneath him—below his hands, below his body—like puppet strings. The difference was that his entire body had them, these light rays extending vertically downward, penetrating Infinite's floor, extending infinitely to some unknown place.

Lin Xian raised his hand in confusion. As his fingers moved, the light shadows below followed as if *pulled*. This seemed to be some kind of mapping of himself, but within this mapping, he saw a distorted line wrapped within his own reflection. Lin Xian raised both hands trying to see clearly, and when he looked closer, he shockingly discovered this was actually another person's shadow.

Chu Yan!

Lin Xian's heart shook at this moment. He didn't understand the current situation—what did these light shadows represent?

Lin Xian's expression changed dramatically. He saw floating fragments in the air not falling due to gravity, bubbles outside the portholes also frozen in place. Most bizarre was the black hole blooming from Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes—that miniature black hole resembling his Gravitational Lens now appeared pure black, looking incredibly eerie and abrupt within space.

Finally, Lin Xian focused his gaze on the black void before him and took a step forward.

But there was only pure black inside.

Then, Lin Xian attempted to extend a finger closer.

At that moment, an incredibly bizarre scene occurred!

As Lin Xian's finger approached the black hole, he actually saw an equally distorted finger appear within the black hole, moving toward his fingertip like a mirror reflection.

But this finger didn't move synchronously—it just approached briefly before retracting.

The next moment, a face that seemed distorted by water waves suddenly appeared within the black hole, immediately startling Lin Xian. That face had wide eyes as if in terror.

But in the blink of an eye, the face disappeared again, followed by a flash of azure blue energy beam that also vanished instantly.

This bizarre scene made Lin Xian extremely curious, and he immediately leaned in closer, trying to see what was inside the black hole.

Nothing.

"Damn it, what exactly is this thing?"

Lin Xian wondered inwardly, then gritted his teeth and directly raised his finger, activating kinetic cannon, preparing to fire a test shot toward this black hole. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Hum!

As kinetic cannon activated, Lin Xian's finger seemed wrapped by some metallic device, faintly hearing the sound of some motor charging and rotating. Then, azure blue energy light glowed.

However, just as he subconsciously prepared to fire, seeing the blue flash on his finger, thunder seemed to explode in his mind. His whole body shuddered for an instant before he immediately withdrew kinetic cannon.

At this moment, Lin Xian seemed to have even forgotten how to breathe.

He looked at the black hole before him and finally realized—the shadow appearing in that black hole was likely himself!

He extended his finger, approached to test, then prepared to use kinetic cannon but immediately gave up—didn't this exactly correspond to the moments of finger, face, and blue flash in the dark ripples earlier?

So that terrified face was actually himself.

Lin Xian raised his hand in confusion. As his fingers moved, the light shadows below followed as if *pulled*. This seemed to be some kind of mapping of himself, but within this mapping, he saw a distorted line wrapped within his own reflection. Lin Xian raised both hands trying to see clearly, and when he looked closer, he shockingly discovered this was actually another person's shadow.

In other words, what was in the black hole was himself from seconds later!

Now, Lin Xian looked again at the elongated light shadow mapping on himself. In this instant, he remembered a sci-fi movie he'd once seen—one that depicted a 4-dimensional world where time existed as a physical entity, where past and future happened "simultaneously." From this dimension, one could see themselves from any period.

Tick, tock.

The countdown before Lin Xian's eyes continued flowing incessantly.

"This countdown remains unaffected."

"So this is the power of Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes' bloom? Not just a dimensional bubble, but a dimensional entity?"

Tap, tap.

As if some sound was echoing, Lin Xian kept thinking. Who would have thought that when he looked at the black hole again, he discovered that the black hole had already doubled in size? Now it had completely devoured not only Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes' cultivation chamber but also both of Ding Junyi's hands.

Within the black hole, a human figure appeared again. Lin Xian frowned—he was indeed preparing to approach for a closer look. Now realizing: if he didn't go investigate, would that create a time paradox, causing the original timeline to deviate?

No, no—the current problem was how to eliminate this dimensional bubble from Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes, then have everyone evade the deep sea monsters and escape into the super vortex array.

At this moment, a strange thought suddenly flashed through Lin Xian's mind.

Then, Lin Xian attempted to extend a finger closer.

So he looked at that black hole. The human figure inside still hadn't disappeared and was actually penetrating deeper, as if *waiting* for something.

Lin Xian frowned, took a deep breath, and decisively approached. As he drew near the black hole, his visual field began undergoing strange changes. The black hole's edges flowed like melting oil paint, the originally static cockpit control console stretched into spiral color bands, and the frozen seawater outside the portholes actually rippled as if viewed through a layer of boiling oil film.

When Lin Xian's vision entered that black hole, he shockingly discovered that the black hole's center wasn't pure black but revealed countless overlapping train carriage silhouettes—scenes of Chen Sixuan and Xiao Yuan debugging the electromagnetic cannon in carriage 2, residual images of KIKI and Shasha playing video games and laughing together, Ding Junyi's sprouting lettuce shoots at her fingertips in carriage 3, and Daluo and Fire Bro drinking tea in carriage 5. These scenes from different time points pierced his vision like shattered glass.

These images were divided into dense grid patterns, endlessly filling his entire visual field. Everyone was vividly active, as if life was still proceeding, with Infinite still charging along tracks filled with zombies.

Seeing these images, all speculation was confirmed. Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes had indeed unfolded a dimensional entity. Lin Xian wanted answers, so he quickly searched through these grid images for the timeline after entering the deep sea. His right hand extending toward the black hole quantumized and scattered upon touching the boundary, skin texture decomposing into flickering gray data streams, bone outlines transforming into nebula-like light points. He flowed through time, and soon he saw Infinite submerged in water.

At this moment, the entire black hole visual field rapidly expanded. Just as Lin Xian was about to make contact, the view pulled away again.

Was this visual field disappearing?

A thought sprouted in his mind. Lin Xian immediately found the image of Infinite entering the deep sea again.

Finally, he saw a deep black area. In this region, he was enveloped in pitch-black seawater, Infinite silently suspended as time developed in various directions.

Lin Xian quickly searched—geothermal core device explosion, charging into deep sea, underwater cliff vortex, sea monsters surrounding. Lin Xian found that moment and saw his own bewildered actions.

But in these visual fields, time wasn't frozen. Lin Xian zoomed in on the image and shockingly discovered that at that critical moment, when Ding Junyi plucked Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes, the moment the flower bud exploded, an entire dimensional region vanished into darkness. Then Lin Xian looked into the distance and saw a new area.

The flower bud exploded, the seabed as if swapping space-time!

Boom!!!

Beep beep beep beep.

"Lin Xian, all our markers have disappeared!" In Infinite's cockpit, Chen Sixuan looked at Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes after the spatial ripples flashed and immediately said to Lin Xian.

Lin Xian now looked at Chen Sixuan with a complex expression, then looked at the surrounding KIKI, Ding Junyi, and Viola. His expression froze for an instant before shouting:

"KIKI, grab Infinite and dive down!"

Lin Xian wondered inwardly, then gritted his teeth and directly raised his finger, activating kinetic cannon, preparing to fire a test shot toward this black hole.

Boom! KIKI used telekinesis, and Lin Xian directly activated Mechanical Heart. Infinite's propulsion systems now operated frantically, overcoming powerful water pressure and undercurrents in the turbulent underwater currents, charging straight down toward the pitch-black abyss beneath the underwater cliff!

"Cliff drop: 6,150 meters!"

In the abyssal currents, Infinite resembled a speck of dust, falling frantically deeper toward the endless deep sea!

The moment searchlights pierced through, hellish scenery crashed into everyone's pupils. Below the train head suddenly plunged into absolute nothingness, the underwater cliff rock face as if cleaved by divine axe, vertically extending toward bottomless abyss. Exposed sedimentary rock layers glowed with corpse-bone pallor in the light beam.

Kong kong kong!

Infinite's pressure hull transmitted intense vibration sounds. KIKI looked at the sonar system where countless red dots were now completely retreating from Infinite. She immediately breathed a long sigh of relief and said in amazement:

"Wow, we actually succeeded! Those monsters are all heading toward the geothermal well eruption!"

As Infinite rapidly descended, the massive nuclear explosion's transmitted shockwaves continuously weakened. The cliff seabed rumbled and settled.

"Lin Xian." Ding Junyi, who had released Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes, now withdrew her ability and looked at Lin Xian: "This dimensional bubble effect seems better than before. The markers were erased very smoothly."

[Descent speed 12 meters per second, diving posture controllable.] Viola also said.

Chen Sixuan now looked grim: "Isn't this too fast? This trench is so deep—if we're caught by these undercurrents, could we lose control and sink directly?"

"Won't happen." Lin Xian pressed his headset: "Cai En, how are you guys?"

"Whoo-hoo, all smooth. We're behind you." In the abyss, the black nuclear submarine turned on searchlights, following a hundred meters above Infinite's position as they rapidly descended.

"Just a few more minutes until we reach that super vortex array. We absolutely cannot let our guard down." Lin Xian said.

Beep beep.

Just as Lin Xian relaxed slightly, a red light suddenly flashed on the sonar detector.

Everyone's hearts immediately clenched as they looked. They saw the red light flash once before disappearing.

"What happened?"

"In the previous scan path, those sea monsters on the cliff had already retreated. All abnormal entities should have stopped approaching this direction." KIKI said.

"Could it be a scanning error?"

"Viola?" Lin Xian asked.

[Approaching scan, possibly effects from geothermal core eruption.] Viola responded.

"Lin Xian!"

Just then, a voice suddenly sounded through the headset.

Shiori.

"Monster, below us!!!"

Lin Xian heard Shiori utter such a trembling, fearful scream for the first time.

As the voice echoed through the headset, everyone in the cockpit looked toward the portholes. Searchlights shone into the endless abyss, only countless floating dust moving in the black seawater.

At this moment, the sonar detector sounded again.

Beep.

Red light flashed.

As if some sound was echoing, Lin Xian kept thinking. Who would have thought that when he looked at the black hole again, he discovered that the black hole had already doubled in size? Now it had completely devoured not only Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes' cultivation chamber but also both of Ding Junyi's hands.

"No!"

Within the black hole, a human figure appeared again. Lin Xian frowned—he was indeed preparing to move closer to investigate. Now realizing: if he didn't go investigate, would that create a time paradox, causing the original timeline to deviate?

The sonar detector had already discovered it—only that thing's range exceeded the entire detector's area!!!

Oceanic Titan!!

Realizing something, Lin Xian suddenly shouted sharply at Viola.

"Viola, immediately—"

"Lin Xian!" Chen Sixuan turned and shouted, her beautiful eyes filled with panicked gaze.

Boom!

However, before Lin Xian could finish speaking, the floating dust outside the portholes had already visibly become turbid, quickly completely obscuring the portholes. Keep in mind this cliff drops to over 6000 meters deep—how could trench sediment surge to such height?

But it was already too late. In that instant, Infinite and Viola's alarm sounds only rang once before Lin Xian saw Infinite's train body completely torn apart in his vision. The entire train was instantly destroyed into fragments by deep sea high pressure and mountain-like impact force. Everyone inside perished silently, including where the nuclear submarine was. Blood mist mixed with seawater, dissipating into nothingness.

Beneath the cliff, an immensely enormous figure seemed to drain the trench of seawater, cracking the seabed as it rose like a mountain emerging from crustal movement, squeezing the offshore island continental shelf's seabed, raising kilometer-high tsunamis as it emerged with a thunderous roar.

In the turbid underwater currents, only several sections of train pressure cabins and submarine segments exploded into fragments, sinking toward the abyss. The interior circuits and lights flickered several times before completely vanishing into darkness.

No survivors.