Chapter 296: Underground Tunnel
Lin Xian's first reaction was that the voice message was brought by that woman named Chu Yan.
After all, Grace also had Chu Yan's holographic face.
But the problem was, in his dreams, if time wasn't dislocated, Chu Yan should be in Yu Bei City covered by Extreme Night after the nuclear explosion. How could she simultaneously appear in the underground of Yijin, thousands of miles away, leaving such a warning message for the securely guarded Intelligent Brain—Grace?
Instantly, Lin Xian felt he was trapped in a massive illusion, making it hard for him to decide.
From Lin Xian's cautious perspective, after learning the evacuation route, his first choice would inevitably be to evacuate as quickly as possible, since being in Extreme Night, this Yijin City was filled with dangerous fungi, leaving no room to fight back. As long as he didn't see the dawn, Lin Xian couldn't feel at ease.
But according to the information 'Grace' just provided him, there might be corpse chasers near Yijin City, and under such circumstances, they absolutely shouldn't risk leaving the city. The best approach would be hiding deeper in the underground tunnels, waiting for the next active fungal period to leave.
What made Lin Xian undecided was his inability to judge the authenticity of these messages.
Ding Junyi noticed the solemnity on Lin Xian's face at that moment and spoke, "Are you worried this might be 'her' trap?"
Lin Xian looked at Grace, who was undergoing a restart after shutting down, took a deep breath, and nodded, "We are very passive right now."
"I know, the evacuation route is provided by her, and not evacuating was also her suggestion. The whole train is stopped in the underground tunnels; if it's a trap, we will lose any chance of escape."
Rumble~
The sound of the trembling tracks grew closer, and Lin Xian's thoughts raced swiftly.
Finally, Lin Xian's eyes focused, he directly stepped forward and grabbed Grace, the power armor on him quickly transmitted torque, lifting the seemingly delicate but nearly half-ton humanoid robot up. The Mechanical Heart swiftly operated, severing Grace's power line, directly shutting it down, then walked towards the tunnel exit.
"We can only take a gamble, everyone stay silent and rest underground!"
Ding Junyi gave Lin Xian a deep glance, then immediately followed.
Clang clang!
The Joint Train, like a steel dragon, plunged straight into the underground through the secret track at the freight station maintenance workshop amidst the spore fog, intercepted along the way in the underground tunnel by Ning Jing, causing massive active fungal filaments to swirl and numerous human-fungi gather around.
At the freight station, Kiki teamed up with Ning Jing and a group of Superpower Users to block those human-fungi and human-head fungi outside the passage, with occasional violent explosions sounding. Not long after, the entire freight station was a sea of flames!
"Things are getting out of control!" Kiki shouted urgently into the communicator from the air, watching the dense human-fungi in the spore fog.
"We can't worry about that now, we must seal the entrance completely!"
Ning Jing shouted, throwing a piece of shipping container steel plate violently, whoosh! The steel plate cut through the air with ferocious momentum, slicing countless human-fungi apart, spewing moist decaying organs with mucus, but no blood, colorful like a plant.
The Joint Train was too long, with a large number of carriages pouring in, the wind pressure continued to howl out in the underground tunnel. It took over ten minutes for all 500-plus carriages to enter the underground tunnel, and by then, the entire freight station was nearly blown into ruins, spore fog kicked up like a dust storm!
"Let's get inside and seal the entrance!"
"Quick!"
Instantly, dozens of Superpower Users rushed into the underground tunnel.
This time Ning Jing shouted to Ah Bai, "Ah Bai, it's your turn."
Kiki anxiously said, "Such a large explosion, will it cause a chain reaction?"
"No, it's not in the main city, and we have to eliminate most of the hidden dangers."
"Got it!" Kiki responded, immediately raising a large Telekinesis Shield, "Go, I'll block the road."
Ah Bai nodded, stepped forward under urgency, lifted his sunglasses, and in an instant, dark red laser beams swept across the ruins of the freight station like wipers, directly slicing through the spreading fungi and human-fungi. Seconds later, red explosions like some special energy resonated among human-fungi, obliterating the giant rats coming from the shadows, setting off a series of earth-shattering explosions within a range of several kilometers of the freight station!
Boom boom boom!!
The ground trembled, dust rolled, and a powerful shock wave thundered forth!
Kiki and others responsible for the rear were blocked at the tunnel entrance by this shock wave, sent directly into the lower tunnel, and the flying stones and dust swept up instantly buried the tunnel entrance like a tsunami, causing a massive collapse at the entrance. The group ran hundreds of meters towards the interior before the earth-shaking momentum gradually calmed down.
Thus, the secret track entrance was completely buried, directly preventing human-fungi from invading.
Huge disturbances caused tremors in Yijin City, eerie howls came from street corners and Dark Alleys, Extreme Night wild outside the city, as though the whole city woke at this moment, horror from the darkness, all sorts of unnameable creatures surged quickly towards the freight station!
Meanwhile, the 15-kilometer-long Joint Train was roaring frantically through tracks dozens of meters underground!
"Open the sprinkling system in all carriages, clean off the attached spore fog!"