NOVEL NEXT Chapter 300: Convoy Upgrade! (Part 3)
Li Yi nodded, hurriedly put down the repair box, and while wiping the oil off her hands, shouted to the little girl on Lin Xian's head,
"Duo Duo, time to sleep."
"Okay~" The little girl named Duo Duo shyly withdrew her neck, secretly glanced at Lin Xian, and then obediently burrowed back inside.
Lin Xian came under the car, and Li Yi quickly said behind him, "We've arranged a separate carriage for the kids, placed in the middle for easier care, although this train is much more spacious than our bus, there's still a lot of clutter in the vacant spaces that we haven't sorted out yet. Sorry to embarrass you, Captain Lin."
"How is Liang Lei's injury?" Lin Xian asked.
"Better." Li Yi looked gratefully at Lin Xian: "Initially, Captain Chen brought people to send Lei Zi to your medical cabin for another check-up, various...recovering, and he has thick skin, plus his superpower has also recovered relatively quickly."
Lin Xian nodded, then straightforwardly explained the matter of inviting Luo Yang's team to join earlier.
"Luo Yang's team has already agreed. I came to find you, hoping your team can also join us on the Infinity."
Upon hearing this, Li Yi was suddenly stunned, looking at Lin Xian in shock, opened her mouth, somewhat in disbelief and said,
"Lin...Captain Lin, is what you said true?"
"Are you reluctant?" Lin Xian asked.
"No...it's not that," Li Yi was both surprised and happy, for some reason, tears glistened in her eyes: "Lei Zi, Luo Yang, and I have discussed this matter long ago, it's just..."
She spoke as she looked back at the carriage, then looked at her own big belly with a bit of helplessness: "I'm just worried I'd be a burden to Captain Lin you..."
Lin Xian's expression slightly tensed, seriously said: "I heard you rescued dozens of stranded survivors along the way?"
Li Yi smiled bitterly: "It's not easy, everyone helping each other counts as another path to survival..."
Lin Xian took a deep breath, saying: "It's my luck to meet a team like yours. If I were a survivor struggling to survive in the apocalypse, I would dream of encountering you all. How could I ever think of you as a burden?"
In the beginning, Lin Xian had very clear goals regarding the increase of personnel on his train.
Loyalty, and usefulness.
He believed this was the necessary trait for surviving under the apocalypse.
Absolute self-interest; everyone was to be used.
Yet, as the dawn journey progressed, Lin Xian realized that only those who sincerely unite in a team, those who haven't lost their humanity during the apocalypse and extend their hands to compatriots, resisting resistance together have the privilege to climb higher mountains, pass the flame, and break through the dawn.
The children in that carriage may not have combat power, may not provide significant help under the apocalypse, but aren't those innocent hearts exactly what humanity ultimately needs to protect?
"Captain Lin, I..." Lin Xian's words left Li Yi at a loss for how to respond momentarily.
Lin Xian directly said to her: "From now on, you join us, this big family we will protect together."
Upon hearing Lin Xian's words, Li Yi instinctively tightened the corners of her mouth, then immediately covered her mouth, her eyes somewhat moist, she looked at Lin Xian and nodded: "Okay, thank you, Captain Lin."
"First, take care of Lei Zi and the kids, let the other folks adapt more to the new equipment, we'll have to break through the Extreme Night next, a lot of trouble ahead."
"Got it."
After communicating with Luo Yang and Li Yi, Lin Xian felt a weight lifted from his mind.
If there were no issues, the Infinity was about to have a major upgrade, not only in terms of weapons but also intelligence and drive upgrades.
Checking the time, it was already past 5 AM, Lin Xian immediately returned to the Zero Element Center, beginning to seize the time to continue devouring items.
[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +10, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +5]
[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +15, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +6]
[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +20, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +8]
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In the monitoring hall, Lin Xian picked and chose, as long as he saw something usable, he didn't spare it, all became his materials and Mechanical Source Points.
Having settled the monitoring hall, Lin Xian directly operated the mechanical arm, beginning to transfer those already dead survival pods, then directly completed the devouring across the glass curtain wall.
[Devouring successful, Mechanical Source Point +3, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +1]
Once a survival pod was devoured, it turned into brown ashes, in an instant, the people inside along with a few strands of broken mycelium directly plunged towards the bottom of the hive center.
Among them were both men and women, almost all aged over 40, and these people's bodies had nearly turned into plant-like deformity, where internal organs accidentally slipped out from cracking chests with a thud, but no blood at all, looking extremely strange.
These survival pods don't yield many source points, but they are numerous, Lin Xian spent about six or seven hours to manage hundreds of survival pods, whereas his Mechanical Source Points grew by nearly 2000 points, truly in quantity engulfs all!
[Current Mechanical Heart Level LV.5 (4340/20000)]
Mechanical Devouring: 4 (1760/2000) improves devouring efficiency
"Indeed, visiting a large base, with ample time, it really grows fast, devouring is almost Level 5, eventually devouring an ordinary car might only take a few minutes."