Whoosh~
Zzzzz
Whoosh~ Crack crack.
Inside Carriage No. 12, Lin Xian and KIKI sat on the empty floor of the carriage, resting as they watched the PX-05 robot busy assembling equipnt in the weapons station.
“Lin Xian.”
“Hmm?”
“Don’t you think it’s such a coincidence? Other places we went, we didn’t encounter any monsters, but the mont we entered the night, we were surrounded by them. Then, at a critical mont, soone appears and leads us to this little town.” KIKI propped herself up with her hands behind her, tilting her head to look at Lin Xian.
Lin Xian smiled helplessly, closing his eyes and taking a deep breath. “I’d like to know as well. If I knew, maybe we could turn from passive to active in this apocalypse.”
Oh~
KIKI sighed deeply and then lay down on the floor, rubbing her stomach. “I hate the apocalypse. I miss my ice cream, chips, and milk tea. Every ti I think about the terrifying things outside the train, it’s so unsettling.”
Lin Xian couldn’t help but reply, “What does it have to do with being terrifying?”
“I don’t care.”
KIKI huffed lightly, closing her eyes and reaching up to grab at the air. “When my powers are stronger, I’ll fly up to the sky, crush all those monsters, and go into the Abyss to see what the hell is going on in there.”
“Kid,” Lin Xian said, “Do you rember in your dream...”
“Aiya, Aiya, I’m not listening~”
As soon as Lin Xian ntioned the dream, KIKI imdiately covered her ears, seemingly unwilling to discuss her mories with Lin Xian.
“I’m not—” Lin Xian said seriously. “What I ant is, I saw a giant floating in the air in your dream.”
Hearing this, KIKI froze and quickly answered, “A very big person, a giant floating in the air, a giant dried corpse, right?”
Lin Xian nodded. “I think this kind of thing couldn’t possibly be a hallucination. Since I saw it, you must have seen it at so point too.”
“It was when the helicopter crashed, in Jiang City,” KIKI said, looking at the ceiling. “I can’t rember too clearly since it was during the crash, but after so ti, I started to rember a little. I think I saw a really scary monster in the clouds.”
“A monster?”
“A thing that big. Isn’t that a monster?” KIKI said, her tone dismissive.
Lin Xian was montarily speechless. “True, a giant like that... but it’s a dried corpse. I don’t even know if it’s alive or dead.”
“Who knows?” KIKI closed her eyes, seemingly not wanting to think deeply about it. She scoffed, “We can’t even handle the stuff we’re facing now. All we can do is run. The more we run, the more monsters there are, and the stronger they get. It’s as if we’ve been targeted, like the monsters in the night put a bounty on us. With so many ability users in our train, we must be worth a lot.”
Lin Xian furrowed his brows slightly and fell into silence.
Seeing that Lin Xian wasn’t speaking, KIKI sat up and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Xian shook his head, feeling a little confused. “Nothing, just thinking about what you said.”
“It’s late now. You should sleep for a bit,” Lin Xian suggested, glancing at his watch. “I’ll wait for this to finish and then need to deal with the train at the back.”
“Alright~”
KIKI nodded sleepily, got up, glanced at Lin Xian, then took a few steps before stopping. Suddenly, she floated back to him, wrapping her legs around Lin Xian’s waist like a koala, her arms around his neck, burying her head in his chest.
Lin Xian raised his hands in surprise. “What are you doing?”
“Don’t move, I’m just going to sleep here for a bit.” KIKI murmured in his arms.
Lin Xian felt her warmth and the softness of her waist, helplessly saying, “Isn’t this a bit... ambiguous? I ant, in this kind of situation.”
“Shut up.”
KIKI closed her eyes and moved Lin Xian’s hands to her waist. “Hypocrite. When you were peeking at my underwear, you weren’t so serious. You didn’t talk so much when I asked you to hug . Anyway, you don’t need to move while you’re devouring the machines. I can protect you.”
With that, KIKI shifted her position, wrapping her legs tightly around his waist. Her body was light and agile, like a well-behaved cat, soft and comforting.
At that mont, KIKI suddenly felt sothing pressing against her lower abdon. Her face turned red, and she frowned, biting her silver teeth. “Pervert.”
Lin Xian was caught between amusent and helplessness. “You’re being unreasonable now. I didn’t want to move. You insisted on clinging to . What else can I do?”
“Tch~”
Lin Xian looked down at KIKI, who had closed her eyes and looked drowsy in his arms. His heart ward. He knew that KIKI was only trying to protect him.
The situation outside was unclear, and to devour the trains, he had to take so risks. But with KIKI, who had a telekinesis ability, by his side, he could relax a little. However, he knew that KIKI hadn’t slept for two straight days. While he had collapsed from exhaustion on the ascension elevator, KIKI hadn’t fared much better.
“Are you sure you want to do this?”
“Mmm~” KIKI whispered softly, almost asleep.
“Alright then.” Though it felt strange, since it was KIKI’s special bodyguard service, Lin Xian didn’t feel like complaining.
He stood up and, holding KIKI like a koala, walked out of the nuclear-powered locomotive’s cockpit and headed towards the intercity train heads pulled from Jiazhou City, ready to begin devouring.
Before boarding, he glanced around at the pitch-black freight platform, sighed, and climbed into the long-unused train cockpit.
With KIKI by his side, Lin Xian felt surprisingly calm. It seed like she really could fall asleep in his arms, her breathing becoming steady. He settled into the seat and began his chanical devouring.
Lin Xian opened his chanical Heart panel.
【Current chanical Heart Level: LV.3 (565/5000)】
Strength Level: 3【30%】 (Burst 300 kg)
Speed Level: 2【40%】 (Max 13 m/s)
Defense Level: 2【26%】 (Iron Bones)
【chanical Awakening】: chanic
【Awakening Skills】: Research Center, Manufacturing Plant
chanical Devouring: 3 (466/1000) – Increases devouring efficiency
chanical Manufacturing: 3 (260/1000) – Increases construction efficiency
chanical Passives: Scan/Repair/Disassemble
【Special Skills】
Wind Cannon (Normal) (Level 3, Max Level)
Ice Shield (Normal) (Level 2, 09%)
Backlash (Rare) (Level 1, 30%)
Power Surge (Rare) (Level 1, 23%)
【Reminder: VoG Grenade Launcher blueprint is being upgraded, ETA 0:00:34】
“Hey, the blueprint is almost done...”
【Congratulations! You’ve obtained the Thunderstorm A1 Grenade Launcher (Blueprint)】
“Wow, turning single-shot into burst-fire. Shasha will probably love this.”
Lin Xian smiled in delight. The Research Center was truly amazing. If it weren’t for the practical limitations, Lin Xian really wanted to throw in the electromagnetic railgun to see what it could produce.
But he could only dream for now. That kind of thing, given his current chanical manufacturing level, would probably take fifty or sixty days to develop. Even if the blueprint ca out, it couldn’t be built. It was like watching a movie without ever getting to act.
After so thought, Lin Xian decided to test it with the A33K Heavy Anti-Material Sniper Rifle, one of the weapons from Teacher Chen.
【Please choose the weapon developnt direction:】
【Firepower】 (3 days 15 hours)
【Mobility】 (3 days 12 hours)
“Huh?”
Lin Xian frowned. “I thought my chanical manufacturing was at level 3? Why does it still take this long?”
He pondered for a mont and guessed that the Anti-Material Sniper Rifle was an advanced weapon, so it required more ti.
For the experint, Lin Xian also placed the Roarer K23 Electric Gatling Gun and the newly obtained Thunderstorm A1 Grenade Launcher blueprints in. Sure enough, the forr needed 4 days, and the grenade launcher needed 3 days and 20 hours.
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