Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train

Lin Xian said, "Food isn't the most urgent issue. The main thing is water. Now, it's because of the desert drought. If it really gets to the point where there's water but it's undrinkable, that's the real trouble. So, we can only hope the Phoenix Society quickly develops technology to resist and filter the dark invasions in the water, otherwise, humanity won't even last this year."

"Don't worry, there will definitely be a way." KIKI immediately encouraged Lin Xian and Chen Sixuan, "What's wrong with you two? Don't you even have this little confidence in us? Have you forgotten, humans are also evolving. As long as we can adapt to the power of those dark invasions, it will actually accelerate our evolution!"

Lin Xian's tone hesitated upon hearing this, then he smiled and said, "That does make sense."

"Hehe~"

At this moment, Ning Jing's voice came through the communication channel: "Captain Lin, all the rescued people have been screened one by one. They are all teams that recently encountered sand bandits in the no-man's land. Most of them are small teams, so they were targeted by the sand bandits. The longest anyone here has been there is six days. We suspect those sand bandits might be selling their prey once a week, regardless of age or gender."

Lin Xian nodded: "These people are probably valued based on the peak Spirit Vibration Value data, likely used for researching superpower people, or perhaps there's some other purpose?"

Lin Xian then explained Lao Mo's situation and his speculations to the various team leaders. When they learned that Lao Mo and his group had actually rushed into the Western Desert from the Wei River side, everyone was a bit shocked. These team leaders were quite familiar with the routes and terrain and knew that it's impossible to drive such a distance in one night, especially in the Extreme Night fog.

"That's too bizarre. Could it be that they were swept here by some monster in the Star Abyss, or is there something like a space-time anomaly in Star Abyss?" Shi Deyuan said with a puzzled expression.

"Rushing into the Western Desert overnight, unless their vehicle was equipped with a plasma pulse propeller…" Qian Deli also commented lightly.

Monica, holding a wine glass, said sharply, "If it's not their own issue, then it's the weirdness in Star Abyss. We've already seen plenty of strange situations, but since that Lao Mo's group is alive, then they probably didn't encounter an Abnormal Body, but something… even more bizarre."

Upon hearing this, many acknowledged it. In the Star Abyss, encountering an Abnormal Body head-on, the configuration of Lao Mo's team wouldn't possibly survive. Since they charged out of the night and weren't marked with a Dark Mark, it suggests that the situation they encountered can't be simply explained away as a monster.

"Lao Hu, tell us about your situation." With this in mind, Lin Xian opened his mouth directly to call Hu Lushou.

At this time, Hu Lushou was lying on the sofa of his luxury RV, listening to everyone's talk. When he heard Lin Xian calling him, he immediately sat up with a serious expression and said, "Uh, Captain Lin, you're talking about the Iron Power Team, right? Is it those two all-terrain heavy-duty RVs?"

"Yes."

Hu Lushou's eyes narrowed: "Then I remember. Before it got dark, I did see those two vehicles among those teams. At that time, I also thought the modification on those two vehicles was incredible…"

Knowing that Lin Xian valued this matter, Hu Lushou didn't dare to be vague and immediately recounted the detailed situation he had encountered before.

"Back then, we followed the route from the Wei River all the way toward Silent City. Along the way, tens or hundreds of teams had already gathered. Initially, we thought with such a big group, we'd surely have some support along the way."

It wasn't just Hu Lushou who thought this way; in fact, all the teams at the time had the same goal—follow Silent City to Jin Hai!

With such a massive convoy moving, there was still some degree of safety, not to mention having a moving Mechanical City. But with the arrival of that night's darkness, all positioning instruments and even compasses lost their function. Coupled with numerous Abnormal Body attacks, all the teams were in chaos, and even the stationary Silent City started urgently roaring through the mountains to get moving. Thus, all the teams madly escaped using the moving Mechanical City as their coordinates.

But Silent City's electromagnetic guns echoed throughout the night. Hundreds of teams endured an entire night of rushing, yet dawn never came. Most of those teams faced severe casualties, with despair permeating under the dark night.

Hu Lushou didn't know where his team ended up in some deep forest. There was no direction, no landmarks, and everyone was engulfed by increasingly thick fog.

The night poured down as thick and sticky as asphalt, the fog seeping out of the ground like a living thing. At that time, hiding in the vehicle, Hu Lushou's face was ashen. He seemed to hear intermittent horn sounds from afar, but they were definitely not ship horns—more like a kind of giant cephalopod's internal organs contracting in mucus, squeezing out groans. The moonlight outside the window had long warped into a sickly blue-gray, as if shining through the decomposing corpse of a jellyfish a hundred million years ago.

Even recalling it now, Hu Lushou shudders a bit. That night, they seemed to have stumbled deep into the Black Abyss, entering a world as if in Hell. Just looking out of the window would make his retina feel like burning, as if countless rusty steel needles were piercing through his optic nerves into his cerebral cortex. Outside, giant shadowy figures as big as mountains dissolved and regrouped in the fog. Occasionally, a limb covered with coral-like bone spurs or half a face made of decayed petals and gears would appear, making it hard to distinguish between reality and illusion.