"There’s a valley up ahead, we should be able to see Yu Bei City once we get past it. This part of the road should merge into the main line before the Yu Bei freight station."
The Infinity plowed through the snow, picking up speed across the snowy plains.
"Hope everything goes smoothly."
Lin Xian’s expression was solemn; though he said this, every member of the squad knew the situation in Yu Bei City was incredibly complex. Many survivors had headed to this airport port on the high skywalk, including former members of the Federation Organization, the Iron Guard Brigade, the Airport Guard Corps, local survivors of Yu Bei City, etc. Moreover, from the radio messages, the Atmospheric Jellyfish was also drifting towards Yu Bei City...
"With snow this thick, if there’s no snowplow, even normal caravans would find it difficult to move through." Chen Sixuan remarked.
Lin Xian responded, "In this situation, survivors either head to major city hubs to wait for official relocation or join large caravans or a Doomsday Train like ours. Small caravans have a tough time surviving unless they possess strong superpowers."
From the initial chaos of the mass exodus from Star Abyss until now, as time moved on and with the call from officials and various survivors, those who lived would gradually clarify their direction of survival, band together, and humanity’s organizational strength would begin to exert itself, gradually moving from disorder to order.
"If we get through the high skywalk, we should be able to catch our breath for a while, but going east from Star City will bring us to the edge of Star Abyss 4. We might end up running into the dark quicker, passing by the edges of polar night areas, which comes with many unknown risks."
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Snow splashed from the front of the train, the Infinity steadily raced on the tracks, quickly entering a valley from the snowy plains, surrounded by many cars buried under the snow.
"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, those two are awake now."
The voice of Sha Sha came through the walkie-talkie, Lin Xian replied, "Give them some bread and water, don’t bother with anything else."
It seemed the train had hit something like a car, emitting a dull sound.
Teacher Chen pointed to the front, shouting loudly at Lin Xian.
Lin Xian looked up and saw on the hillside of the valley ahead, a large air gunboat had crashed, creating a huge gully in the ground, debris flying everywhere, many parts still engulfed in flames, several internal components had already a thin layer of snow, it seemed to have crashed last night.
The others on the train saw this scene too, Zhao Yan and Xu Wen were gobbling down the bread given by Sha Sha. Xu Wen suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Teacher Zhao, look, it’s a military flying device!"
Both stared in shock; the scene of the flying device crashing was extremely gruesome, only a few soldiers’ bodies could be vaguely seen scattered around, with mostly just traces of blood remaining.
Ding Junyi from car number 3 also came to the window, looking at the scene muttering softly,
"Iron Guard Brigade."
In the direction of the cockpit, KIKI had also run over, the vast open area ahead began showing more and more military wreckage, tanks, helicopters, flying devices, air gunboats, everywhere charred, burning, sparking, more and more soldier corpses, all speaking to everyone about how fierce the battle here was.
"Iron Guard 3, Destroyer... My God, Warhawk air gunboats, heavy TFV600 twin-tube tanks, Lightning 2 aerospace fighters... What on earth did they encounter, could it be that giant jellyfish?" KIKI exclaimed.
"Very likely." Lin Xian’s expression turned slightly grim, the equipment in front of them was essentially the main battle gear of the Interstellar Army Iron Guard Brigade, and to be beaten so severely was truly horrifying.
"Did they... completely perish?"
"No, the radio reported that Brigade 52 is retreating towards Yu Bei City, and the situation there now... must be very complex." Chen Sixuan said with a bit of worry.
"If there are airborne Abnormal Bodies, indeed the high-altitude corridor is no longer safe, but we have no other choice now."
The Dazhu Mountain Tunnel is already blocked, and it’s too late to change to the western line. Now they only have one way left, which is to rush up the ascent channel.
A huge swooshing sound came, and everyone looked up at the sky to see a small flying device speeding past overhead, seemingly heading towards Underground City No. 9.
"Is this a plane from the former Federation Government or the Phoenix Society?"
"I don’t know." Lin Xian glanced and didn’t pay too much attention.
Beneath the ruins of Underground City No. 9, there was still an Abyssal Giant Monster buried, and no one knew whether that thing would climb up to the surface. Even if someone told Lin Xian there was treasure there, he wouldn’t turn back now.
At this moment, as the train slowly moved forward, the view ahead gradually opened up. On the ground and the hillsides, a gigantic irregular-shaped trench appeared, stretching intermittently towards the distance.
In this trench, there were all sorts of damaged vehicles, scattered debris, vehicle structures, and even an overturned, burning military transport train.
Around the outer rim of one deep trench, there was a huge gray tentacle broken in the middle, surrounded by indescribably fluid and human plasma.
Lin Xian remembered the shape of these trenches and the tentacle, and said with a heavy look: "It really is that Atmospheric Jellyfish!"
"These caravans simply can’t withstand it..." Chen Sixuan swallowed her saliva, now somewhat hindsight.
That night, the danger came too bizarrely and mysteriously. If it weren’t for Lin Xian and the Building having armored the roof in advance, their train might have been torn and derailed just military transport train.
The ’Infinity’ moved down from Daluo Mountain along the valley. In the view, a huge industrial city cluster gradually appeared. They had already reached the outskirts of Yu Bei City. Looking into the distance, several gigantic skywalk columns loomed through the chilly mist, spreading towards the Dazhu Mountain’s snowy mountain ranges.
To cross the 4500 kilometers of highland snow mountains, the Federation Government spent over 30 years building the aerial cargo track. All cars, trains, and cargo carriers were transported to the next port at speeds exceeding 1000 kilometers per hour, using electromagnetic acceleration devices just like taking a rapid elevator at an airport. Yu Bei City’s Airport No. 1 is an important transportation hub connecting western and central cities of the Dragon Country. Such high skywalks are not the only one. In the entire world, the 320,000 kilometers Star Orbital, which includes high skywalks, ocean tracks, and main ground tracks, connects the entire Blue Star, representing an unprecedented mega-engineering!
Crossing tens of thousands of kilometers of land, the Star Orbital stretches eastward across the continents of Asia-Pacific, Blue Ocean, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Arctic, Eastland, and Republic, as well as the Pacific Ocean, Black Ocean, North Pole Ocean, and Atlantic. It is arguably the most important transportation hub in human history.
Huge highrise buildings cover the sky, but inside the city in the distance, it is eerily quiet. ’Infinity’ begins to merge into the main Y3365 track, heading towards the direction of Yu Bei freight track terminal.
Several city roads and highways also appeared in the view, cars stretching endlessly towards the city direction almost completely blocking the roads, plasma, limbs, burning vehicle frames, and scattered luggage and clothing all buried under heavy snow.
Just as the train was slowly heading towards Yu Bei City, a buzzing drone quickly approached from afar in the sky, seemed to observe for a while, and then turned back not long after.
Lin Xian sensed something unusual. At this time, a snowmobile came from the snowfield, heading towards the direction of the train, towards the cockpit.
The people in the car were on guard, then they saw the woman driving the snowmobile take off her helmet, revealing a somewhat familiar face.
"Captain Lin, stop for a moment!"
Lin recognized this woman; she was the leader of the Bigfoot Caravan who had previously asked Lin Xian to repair a water purifier at a bonfire mutual aid meeting, Shu Qin.