Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train
Chapter 342 - 248 Endless Winter Night (12,000 Happy New Year to Everyone)_7

Chapter 342: Chapter 248 Endless Winter Night (12,000 Happy New Year to Everyone)_7

Lin Xian shivered, as the temperature inside the carriage with the heater running at full power was only a little over ten degrees, and the connections between carriages and the bathroom were filled with chilling frost and snow.

He directly donned the power armor, temperature maintenance device, cold proof clothing, and cold proof helmet, then headed to the nuclear-powered carriage, preparing to open the cockpit door.

Bang~!

The door motor groaned painfully, yet the door remained motionless.

Lin Xian frowned, went up to operate it manually, and when the power armor exerted torque with a sudden jolt, a sound of ice shattering like a cracking ice wall was heard outside the door.

Woosh~

As soon as the door opened, a white chill almost solid enough to touch rushed straight at him, and under the train’s interior lights, the snow outside had already piled up to the door, almost spilling into the carriage.

Lin Xian’s expression changed; knowing that the train door was 1.3 meters above the ground, it meant the snow was at least 1.4 meters high, which was terrifying.

Yet, Lin Xian felt somewhat relieved, as apart from the still fierce cold wind, it seemed the snow had stopped!

With thick snow piled up, Lin Xian braved the cold wind, stepping out, hearing a crunch as his entire leg almost sank into the snow.

Watching this, Lin Xian sighed lightly: "Thank goodness."

Luckily, the snow was thick but not solid.

Lin Xian struggled out of the snow, then closed the door and climbed onto the train roof by stepping on the gaps in the train’s armor steel plates.

Aside from the howling wind, all was pitch dark around. He turned on a flashlight to observe, finding that everywhere was a vast expanse of white, the entire Infinity train seemingly trapped in a white platform, tightly enclosed.

On the roof, thick snow had accumulated, while a layer of transparent ice covered the sides of the carriages, making the train look as if it had just been excavated from polar ice layers.

The engine and heater were working with a low hum; Lin Xian proceeded towards the front car, checking the outside conditions.

[Low temperature warning, low temperature warning]

The power armor issued an alarm, the heavy cold proof clothing quickly getting coated with bits of ice.

Lin Xian swiftly walked over the car roof; upon seeing the train’s condition, he felt a chill in his heart

"In this situation, the train should still be operable, as long as it doesn’t keep snowing..."

Based on the calculated time, it would be another seven or eight hours until nightfall. If the blizzard continued, he would have to take the risk to have the whole team start the train and push through the storm at night.

Yet, with such deep snow and night marking, if they were attacked by hundreds or thousands of Snow Demons, there would almost be no chance to reinforce the marking. With no ammunition supply, trapped in the vast snowfield, they could only stay put and await their fate.

After a round of inspection, Lin Xian slightly relaxed, then suddenly thought of something before returning, jumping off the train and treading through the deep snow towards the previously destroyed convoy.

He needed Mechanical Devouring!

Even though those vehicles couldn’t contribute many Mechanical Source Points to him at the moment, Lin Xian’s decomposition center had materials dwindling, heavily used for weapon and ammo production over the past few days. Since entering the snowfield, there were no mechanical items, not even utility poles to be found. Now that there was a convoy here, Lin Xian didn’t want to waste it, unsure of what he’d face tomorrow otherwise.

By now, most cars from the destroyed convoy were buried under snow, leaving only protruding mounds. Lin Xian trudged over and brushed away the snow to reveal the covered vehicles.

With a step, the slope snow layer suddenly sank, causing the SUV to tilt.

Thud~ Clatter,

As the SUV tilted, a man’s head, frozen solid like an ice sculpture, broke the window glass, exposing half a head. Lin Xian shone a flashlight over, immediately seeing a frost-covered, wide-eyed dead face staring motionlessly at him.

Unfazed, Lin Xian placed his hand on the car to begin devouring, simultaneously shining the flashlight on him and said, "Better to die early, a relief sooner. Don’t come back to this world in the next life."

"Brother, living is really hard." The frozen man sighed to him.

"I know." Lin Xian swept the flashlight around: "You’ve done well enough to get so many people here."

"But none of them survived." The frozen man turned his stiff neck to look at a bus: "It’s a pity, if not for those monsters..."

Looking at Lin Xian, ’he’ said: "Your train can hold more people, but if they’re all dead, it would add more pressure on you, right?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "I’m not a savior, nor can I guarantee all my team will survive till tomorrow. So I don’t want to take more people, at least not before I reach a certain level of capability."

"You’re afraid." The frozen man looked at him and said: "Otherwise you wouldn’t be working around the clock, and sleeping wouldn’t be a luxury for you."

Lin Xian shrugged, denying: "I am a Superpower User, with abundant energy, and the Hell Black Chrysanthemum transforms Evolutionary Power on the train to supplement my stamina, so I’m doing fairly well."

"Well?"

The frozen man touched his broken neck, mockingly looking at him: "Then why did you see me and inexplicably talk to a dead man like me?"

Lin Xian rolled his eyes speechlessly: "It’s just midnight loneliness."

The frozen man sighed seriously looking at him. "Honestly, with so much pressure, haven’t you thought about clinging to the Phoenix Society? That would ease your burden significantly. Your abilities could complement many things with them, no need to bear the whole train by yourself~"

"Makes some sense..."

Lin Xian exhaled cold air, his gaze sweeping over the convoy buried under snow, and the entirely dead man’s corpse in front of him, speaking to himself.

[Devour complete, Mechanical Source Point +20, Mechanical Devouring Skill Proficiency +10]

[Decomposition: Acquired High Manganese Steel *10, Hot Rolled Forging Steel *10, Cold Rolled Duplex Steel Plate *5, ordinary carbon steel *20, Non-metallic foam material, Non-metallic composite materials...]

As devouring concluded, the SUV before him rapidly decayed into a small heap of brown ashes, the debris and the man’s body falling into a snow hole, and the surrounding deep snow lost its support, cascading down to cover the man in snow again in the blink of an eye.

"Good luck."

Before being buried in snow, the frozen man said to Lin Xian.

Rumble.

At this moment, the snowfield suddenly began to tremor slightly,

Lin Xian saw the snow layer and the air in front of him seemed to be vibrating constantly. He immediately looked up, as it seemed he heard some extremely low-frequency roar coming from the distant snowfield. High above in the sky, a vibrating ionosphere suddenly swept over from the distance, and instantly, Lin Xian only heard a rustling, boiling sound coming from the outside of the narrow pass.

Just as he thought the Snow Demons were stirring, the boiling sound suddenly receded and soon vanished completely.

Around Uliyasatai Mountain, a strange silence enveloped once more.

Lin Xian gazed towards the firmament, where in the distant center of the Extreme Cold Vortex, thunder erupted sporadically, casting a cobalt blue stormy sky like a cosmic behemoth, quite unsettling.

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