"Hold on tight, everyone!"
Lin Xian yelled into the intercom, his eyes red with the strain of mobilizing all his strength to operate the Mechanical Heart.
The Gemini 11R Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive, with its immense thrust, accelerated alongside the Infinity’s engine, with the train speeding through the ascending tunnel.
The cold wind howled through the tunnel, and the train once again entered a sealed tunnel.
But the Abyssal Giant Monster seemed to not allow any living creature to escape from its territory, as thunderous noises came from beyond the tunnel walls.
Lin Xian’s heart pounded wildly; no one knew if the ceiling would collapse in the next instant, burying everyone on the train under the deep pit of Underground City 9, becoming blood food for that Abyssal Giant Monster.
Watching the countdown on the mobile terminal, KIKI clenched her teeth and held onto Lin Xian’s arm, by now incredibly anxious.
A huge, muffled roar echoed between heaven and earth.
The earthquake began, with sand and stone flying everywhere.
Lin Xian knew that the Abyssal Giant Monster outside...
On level 62 of the Underground City, inside the newly built private academy’s classroom, there was dead silence, desks scattered, and various stationeries strewn about, while zombies ran wildly in the corridors.
On level 56, within the residential area, wind chimes hung on the narrow capsule room doors, praying for peace, swaying violently under the earthquake.
The streets of the commercial district were eerily silent, with various neon lights and shop signs lost within the darkness.
At the center of level 70, a cerulean light flickered; a white orb triggered the pre-set explosives up and down 10 floors. The beams of light and the heat waves filled the entire 10 floors, and the shock waves rippled, vaporizing all zombies and human ghosts in that instant.
And with the main structure destroyed, from level 65 and above, floors began collapsing; all sealed isolation walls lost their function.
The collapsing floors started a chain reaction like dominoes, breaking apart layer by layer, as the dazzling white orb headed toward the center of the pit.
The earth trembled as the ground began to sink!
A huge ball of flame and shock waves engulfed the dark monster, and it began to fall toward the bottom of the pit.
In a flash, silence seemed to reign between heaven and earth.
Inside the tunnel passage, the Gemini 11R Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive propelled the Infinity forward at high speed. Terrible devouring sounds like thunderous explosions followed them, causing fractures in the rocky layers that even started cracking the snowy ground above.
Countless amounts of snow surged into the tunnel, a sign that they were nearing the surface.
The enormous amount of snow caused the flatbed trailers behind the Infinity to derail, and the entire train began to tilt.
"Girl, help me stabilize the front!"
KIKI grabbed Lin Xian’s arm with one hand and pointed the other toward the front. Superpowers surged as she forcefully pressed the Infinity onto the tracks.
Rocks slid down, concrete crumbled, the tunnel walls collapsed, and countless stones fell onto the body of the Infinity, creating a thunderous noise.
On the Infinity, Chen Sixuan and Ding Junyi tightly gripped the handles in the cockpit, completely losing control of the train, leaving it to the roaring, raging engines.
The earthquake struck, and the excavated Underground City began to collapse thunderously.
Everyone could only feel the sound around their ears gradually becoming deafening, and all light had been swallowed up.
"Break through for me!"
Lin Xian’s eyes were nearly splitting, he bellowed out loud.
At that moment, a light-sounding noise rang in his ear.
[DRX core acceleration successful]
[Program initiated, starting to connect to driving power!]
A surge of electric energy suddenly erupted. Lin Xian originally felt as if he was forcefully paddling, but now it was as if a powerful propeller had been attached to him, a great driving force swept through, and the train suddenly accelerated!
Sparks flew from the tracks, as the Gemini 11R Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive’s acceleration propelled the Infinity through the collapsing tunnel at breakneck speed.
After a rumble of ringing in their ears, the sounds around them suddenly became empty, and the howling blizzard sounded as if it had turned hollow. Everyone felt the pressure suddenly ease!
They had broken through!
The lights on the Gemini 11R Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive lit up, and the surroundings became markedly vast; behind them, the sound of massive rumbling and collapsing echoed.
Then, the train switched tracks and proceeded towards the pitch-black platform ahead at an extreme speed.
"We’re out!" KIKI regained her senses, the grand Underground City behind them was rapidly being submerged.
"That side has completely collapsed!"
Chen Sixuan’s voice came through the intercom; in the Infinity’s cockpit, she was looking back through the porthole.
Snow dust falling, it was now that Lin Xian could see the nighttime area around them clearly, the train was emerging above ground, and behind them, the massive structure of the Underground City was collapsing.
As the sound of the earthquake behind them gradually subsided, the Infinity suddenly stopped after rushing onto the external GF4 platform.
"The land collapse might trigger a chain reaction, do you still have time to grab those two Cole cabin cars?"
Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian, who had actually stopped the train, quite puzzled, "Theoretically, shouldn’t we be seizing every moment to escape right now?"
Lin Xian quickly unhooked the train’s connections and immediately said to the intercom: "Teacher Chen, prepare to turn the train around!"
The outside blizzard had already covered the snowfield with over one meter of snow, and the external passageway outside the wall was completely blocked by Zombies and cars. If they didn’t turn the train around and with no Ice-breaking Shield, the "Infinity" would definitely derail.
So Lin Xian made a decisive decision; as soon as he rushed onto the platform, the first thing was to turn the train around!
Over there, Chen Sixuan immediately understood Lin Xian’s intent. There was only a single track across the snowfield; if they charged out bearing the two flatbed trailers behind them, it would definitely cause a series of derailments.
"I understand." Chen Sixuan immediately began to act.
Ding Junyi frowned, but she also caught on to Lin Xian’s purpose. It turned out that his first motive for stopping was not to tow away those two carriages but for a different consideration.
The ground still shook unceasingly. Lin Xian acted swiftly, coordinating promptly with Building’s Chen Sixuan and KIKI, utilizing the platform’s double-track to adjust the direction of the carriages.
The Ice-breaking Shield equipped Whale 03E Heavy Gas Turbine Locomotive remained at the front, and the Gemini 11R Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive was at the end. Meanwhile, Lin Xian found the two Cole cabins, crudely connected to the cast linking hook, bypassing the circuit to release the wheel lock, and then started the train, making a run for the outside.
Now, both Lin Xian and KIKI were back on the "Infinity," and once again started the engines without a moment of relaxation – they were sprinting towards the platform exit.
"No time to open the gate, bust through it!"
Outside the iron gate of the fence, thousands upon thousands of unfrozen zombies were howling, attracted by the massive noise as the ground cracked and walls collapsed. Countless zombies surged forth through the night like locust swarms!
The gas turbine roared. Dragged by the 290-megawatt power of the Nuclear Power Electric Locomotive at the back, the "Infinity" was like a sharp blade in the night, plowing through the horde of countless zombies.
Behind the train, the ultra-expensive Underground City collapsed layer by layer, taking with it the foundations hollowed out hundreds of meters deep towards the center of the earth.
Massive clouds of dust obscured the sky and seemed without end below the night’s snowy expanse...