Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 513 The Colorful Blood Python

The Infinite's journey went more smoothly than Lin had anticipated. Apart from the hunters they encountered on the first night, they only faced attacks from some scarlet zombies or energy-devouring insects during their journey. Although the Infinite train had more than a dozen carriages, thanks to its heavy defenses and the deployment of a large number of drones, these monsters did not pose much of a threat.

The more this was the case, the stranger it seemed to Lin Xian. As the crimson light penetrated deeper, the Infinity was now traveling on the mountainous plains east of the Sierra Madre Mountains in western Mexico. Its trajectory was not smooth. This north-south longitudinal line was not the main line of the planetary orbit. It was an old road from nearly 40 years ago, and after the apocalypse, it lacked maintenance, resulting in frequent occurrences of broken rails, rust, and terrain collapse.

The dim sunlight could not penetrate the thick, scarlet clouds, making the space appear hazy as if one were in a thick fog. On the afternoon of the third day after they arrived from Jako, Lin Xian and KIKI were driving the Infinite, which was approaching the vicinity of León in central Mexico.

rub rub!
Countless steel rails flew rapidly through the air, as if driven by magnetic force to precisely fall and assemble, and a small steel rail bridge was erected out of thin air over a broken river valley.

Lin, clad in his modified power armor, was radiating dark energy. After all the parts were in place, he simply reached out and grabbed them, instantly welding the metal joints shut. He completed the construction and installation of the nearly 50-meter-long railway bridge in less than three minutes, without even using any drones. His efficiency was astonishing.

"There are three main routes coming from North America. Besides the route we are on, there is the western route from Guaimas to Mexico City, which is close to the Pacific Ocean, and then there is the western route from Monterrey. All three routes can be traversed, but judging from the condition of this road, no convoy has ever withdrawn from this route."

KIKI flew down from the sky, surveyed the road conditions ahead, and said over the communication frequency, "Do you think we might have gotten separated from the main force?"

"That's a good thing." Lin Xian walked towards the edge of the valley, stepping on the cold sand covered with ice chips. He frowned as he looked at the concentration of the Spirit Dispersion value displayed on the HUD panel. "But it shouldn't be that coincidental."

KIKI landed beside him, her gaze fixed ahead. Under the crimson fog, the entire valley was utterly desolate. The river had long since dried up, revealing a gravelly riverbed. The decaying vegetation and trees looked as if they had been burned by a great fire, withered and blackish-gray, resembling the rotten wood of a gloomy place, utterly lifeless.

"It doesn't feel like we're on Earth anymore, it's so lifeless." KIKI tossed a small pebble, which landed silently on the riverbed below, rolling away with a gurgling sound. "Didn't you say that the Tower People's civilization had clear mountains and green waters, and towering sky canopies? How come, apart from those ugly 'angels,' we don't see any of those things at all?"

"Civilized games only give us what we can understand, but that's not actually the case."

Empty!

Lin Xian activated his mechanical heart and walked ahead. The Infinite, which was parked on the track behind him, followed slowly forward under his control. After passing through the valley, they hadn't gone more than a hundred meters when another section of damaged track appeared ahead. Broken and bent steel rails were scattered and buried in the sand and gravel, as if they had been broken off in one direction.

KIKI grabbed the broken track from the sand and gravel, then Lin Xian mechanically refined it, and it quickly fell back into place and reconnected.

The two worked in perfect harmony, repairing everything along the way. During the process, Lin Xian devoured every metal object he could see without wasting a single one. The seven manufacturing sequences in the Black Star Forge were constantly running, producing tracks and components. This particular track was needed for their later evacuation, and he had to repair it.

"Lin Xian."

KIKI landed from the sky, and a wave of psychic energy dispersed the crimson dust that was flying in front of them. The two looked ahead and saw the outline of broken walls and ruins appearing and disappearing in the dim light. Before long, a dense cluster of cities came into view.

The high-rise buildings and streets were all shrouded in crimson. The Infinite slowly followed, gradually approaching a station in the city. Lin Xian and KIKI returned to the car and looked from the cockpit at the black, blood-like bacterial patterns crawling all over the exterior walls of the buildings on both sides of the road, like blood vessels wrapping around the buildings layer by layer. The city was deathly silent, and in the shadows, some motionless humanoid mummies could be seen everywhere. It was unclear whether they were zombies or some kind of dead ghosts, standing in twos and threes.

“The crimson is getting stronger, even stronger than the fog we encountered in the North Bay.” KIKI looked outside and whispered, “Should we speed up and rush over? The buildings here are very dense, and there are bound to be many crimson monsters.”

Lin Xian shook his head: "Charging won't do any good. Nothing is chasing us, and... is there anywhere safe?"

The heavy train slowly crawled along the tracks through the dilapidated and gray city, maintaining a low speed. KIKI and Lin Xian were responsible for clearing obstacles and repairing the tracks, trying not to cause too much noise. Along the way, the city was almost devoid of color. The billboards along the tracks and streets were all covered with a layer of scarlet frost, as if the colors of the world had been erased and the entire city was buried in a thick layer of sand.

But they knew that it was not sand, but a substance of blood mist mixed with ice shards. They could not extract water from it to drink. There was no food, no water, and no air in the entire world. Even without breathing, they would quickly mutate and die under the intensely distorted dark energy radiation.

Soon, an open-air rail station appeared ahead, but Lin Xian did not intend to stop. He drove directly out of the city from the rail station. Just as the Infinite was driving on an overpass in the city, an unusual vibration alerted the two of them.

"Feel it?"

"Ah."

Buzzing~
The vibrations were eerie, though not loud, as if the elevated railway tracks below were slightly twisting. Lin Xian slowly brought the train to a stop, his gaze fixed ahead. With a thought, all the train's fire control radars instantly activated, and the onboard 1130 and electromagnetic railguns silently rose. At the same time, the array of drones surrounding the train began to increase their tracking distance, forming an invisible flying net that completely enveloped the Infinite. "Be careful, we're definitely being watched by something," KIKI said seriously.

Lin Xian scanned all the sensory radars and found that the electronic devices did not issue any warnings. However, a strangely rising vertical warning line on the Spirit Scale detector made him realize the problem. He whispered, "This fluctuation is not simple. At the very least, it is at the Special Level. If we cannot kill it in one blow, we will rush out of the city and find an opportunity to break through."

"Hmm." KIKI nodded, then raised her hand and used an invisible psychic wave to probe forward, but still found nothing.

The tremor seemed to arise out of nowhere, causing the entire viaduct to sway slightly, and the straight tracks to appear to be undergoing some kind of gentle twist.

Lin Xian's eyes narrowed as he noticed large hollow areas appearing in the crimson mist ahead. He immediately realized something, and his gaze sharpened.

"A huge guy, and it's invisible!"

"Where?!"

"Right in front of us!" As soon as Lin Xian finished speaking, the three electromagnetic railguns on the carriage instantly turned their bases under his control, aiming at an area in front of the train. Azure energy beams lit up, ionizing and vibrating, and immediately bursting out beams of destruction!
Whoosh! Sizzle!
The focused beam shot out, but instead of heading into the distance, it suddenly exploded with electromagnetic vibrations in an area twenty or thirty meters ahead of the Infinity Train. In the instant the power erupted, a mottled blood python covered in waves of blood suddenly appeared out of thin air on the previously empty track, its mouth wide open as it charged straight at the Infinity Train!

Lin Xian's pupils suddenly contracted as he saw a blinding scarlet light flash across the sky. He hadn't expected that this behemoth would arrive before them so silently. This colorful blood python was nothing but flesh and bones, its body as thick as two Infinity sizes. Several strange bone strands swirled and swayed, and the entire python's body was densely coiled on the railway bridge like a cave of white bones. If they hadn't discovered it in time, they would have already rushed into the monster's gaping maw!
"careful!"

KIKI's expression immediately changed, and she suddenly grabbed with her outstretched hand, directly condensing her mental power into a physical field. In just a few dozen meters, the mottled blood python seemed to suddenly crash into a mud pit, completely blocking its huge body. The python's body, which was wrapped around the railway bridge, shook out a sky full of blood waves, and the entire railway bridge collapsed in an instant!
air!
As the railway bridge collapsed, the Infinite train on the tracks plummeted. Lin Xian, looking at the teetering bridge ahead, immediately said...

"You hold onto the train, I'll take it down!"

Before he could finish speaking, a flash of ionization appeared, and Lin Xian vanished from his spot in an instant, teleporting hundreds of meters away to the top of a broken building. Beep beep beep! The warning of fluctuations in spiritual energy within his power armor kept beeping, indicating that both the crimson exterior and the eerie, mottled blood python were extremely poisonous. Even a small hole in the power armor would be enough to kill someone within minutes!
The moment he appeared, Lin Xian felt a tremendous sense of spatial detachment. He looked down at his arms and saw that the surface of his power armor was emitting a dense crackling sound, as if countless dense spatial bubbles were exploding. Lin Xian frowned, unable to care about the environmental issues at the moment. He looked at the fleshy giant python clinging to the orbital bridge and felt a chill run down his spine. The strange creatures he had encountered in the Dark Tide had some resemblance to Blue Star creatures or even beasts, but the scarlet creature in front of him had completely shed the common sense of fleshy creatures, making it seem jarring from Lin Xian's human perspective.

He recalled the "angels" of the Tower Civilization, those perfect human bodies, limbs, and faces, which were likely created from a human perspective. But the creatures in this crimson realm had begun to shed their biological normalcy on a large scale, becoming indescribable.

A disgusting thought flashed through Lin Xian's mind, but he did not hesitate at all. He raised his hand and the mechanical door of the Black Star Forge opened from the sky. A storm of lightning exploded, and in an instant, the mechanical arm of the Xuanwu descended from the sky. Holding the Vermilion Bird Plasma Diffraction Sword, he swung a round of Bell Slash, preparing to cut the Blood Python in half with one sword!
hum!
The blast wave from the high-temperature plasma diffraction sword swept across the buildings and streets beside the rail bridge, tearing the ground apart like a hot knife through butter. It then crashed down on the blood python's body. However, this ultra-high-energy plasma diffraction sword seemed to have struck a layer of metal. A huge black and red bio-force field instantly appeared, making the blood python's body seem to double in size in an instant. The mechanical arm's sky-slashing strike could only 'crash' it aside, unleashing a series of thermal explosions!
Boom boom boom!
The colorful blood python twisted and flipped out, its huge skull head tumbling off the rail bridge and crashing into a building. The building wall collapsed instantly, and the immense force pulled the python's body apart, tearing the rail bridge apart and causing the hundreds of meters of viaduct to crumble and collapse with a deafening roar!

Taking advantage of this gap, KIKI's eyes in the cockpit flashed with dazzling purple lightning. Instantly, the Infinity was swept up by an invisible external force. Without the iron wheels turning at all, it rushed straight out of the broken bridge. The carriages behind it pulled and screeched on the tracks, and then all of them floated into the air and flew straight towards the uncollapsed tracks in front of them to connect.

Ugh!

The crimson mist swirled like a hurricane, accompanied by an incredibly strange sonic boom. The colorful blood python that tore off the overpass created tremendous force on the ground, and the skull swept across a block with a deafening roar, causing violent earthquakes within a radius of several kilometers.

Lin Xian sensed the monster's power, which was several times stronger than the special-level monster he had encountered on Sea Rock Island. As the seismic waves and the crimson hurricane approached, he instinctively took off to avoid them. However, while his attention was focused on the colorful blood python, he suddenly noticed out of the corner of his eye that as the crimson hurricane blew in, the surrounding buildings, walls, and even various flying stones and debris were physically displaced irregularly, as if the picture was splitting due to a signal problem in an old television. A straight building immediately experienced large-scale cracking, with smoke and dust bursting from top to bottom and sand and stones crashing down!
"hiss!"

At the same time, his power armor was crackling with metallic sounds. Then, an unparalleled pain came, as if his internal organs were being torn apart. Lin Xian immediately felt a chill run down his spine and realized what was happening. He immediately activated his energy leap and flew into the sky!

"Forest……"

With a flicker, KIKI's signal on the communication band immediately disappeared, and Lin found himself in a thick crimson fog. Before he could catch his breath, he immediately checked the integrity of his power armor.

Fortunately, his power armor was made of nanotechnology, and the misalignment system was quickly and automatically corrected and restored. Some of the internal mechanical units were also quickly repaired under his mechanical heart. He looked at the crimson blood mist filling the sky, his face extremely solemn.

"This is... their world."

(End of this chapter)