Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train

Chapter 1277 - 492: Night Falls! (2)

Based on Lin Xian’s experience, he quickly found an independent device laid with multiple pipelines within the mechanical construct of the entire storage chamber. This device was clearly modified later, specifically for the storage compartment. Most critically, Lin Xian found Blood Essence on this device!"As expected, it looks like a dark energy generator, some frequency? Isolation?"

While scanning the blueprint, Lin Xian began devouring items inside the materials bay for material conversion, to facilitate later manufacturing. Meanwhile, he was amazed by the design on the device. It looked like an upgraded version of the Dark Energy Synchronization Device. Although the principle was not clear yet, relying on his understanding of mechanical constructs, he quickly realized that this was a type of frequency generator that utilized dark energy conversion and seemed to isolate the crimson in some way.

"Strange, with such a device, why isn’t it applied throughout the entire starship? Is it only used for material preservation? Or is this a backup plan..."

"Never mind for now."

Thinking too much at this time wasn’t helpful. He quickly completed the blueprint scan, then took a piece of Level 3 Blood Essence from the device, planning to return to the shelter room to craft a simple version for immediate use, as he currently didn’t have any Blood Essence on hand. Now that he had one readily available, he couldn’t pass it up.

"All the Blood Essence is with Teacher Chen. Sigh, the response plan of Phoenix Society is so quick, I hope everyone stays safe."

Returning to the shelter room, Lin Xian immediately activated all manufacturing sequences and, in an extremely short amount of time, crafted a "storage unit" about the size of a small truck compartment. All the resources that drones had ’rescued’ were placed into it. Upon activating the Level 3 Blood Essence and energy capacitor, he astonishingly found that the scarlet gas inside disappeared at an incredibly fast speed!

"Immediate effect..."

Having completed everything, Lin Xian slumped into a chair, sweating profusely as he looked at the storage unit in front of him. Not wanting to waste a single second, he worried about wasting the hard-earned food and water, which would spell disaster for the night.

After catching his breath, Lin Xian stood up and walked into his small storage unit to open two cans and check the situation. As he stepped inside, his vision suddenly darkened, plunging into complete darkness!

What’s going on!?

Lin Xian was bewildered, turning to look at the lighted room behind him. The door of the storage unit was wide open, yet it seemed like entering another world inside.

"I understand now..."

Lin Xian turned on the light, gazing at the neatly arranged water and cans inside, remembering the monsters that once appeared from the crimson during his escape along the ocean trajectory, an eerie thought crossed his mind.

The world shrouded by crimson is another frequency!

Or rather, similar to another dimension!

Although this theory seemed rather explosive, Lin Xian had no doubt. It was the most plausible explanation.

Thinking of this, he immediately exited the storage unit, moved to the edge of the room, and began scanning the area directly with his hands. He wasn’t trying to scan the entire starship wreckage but focused the scan on the outer armor area, primarily to confirm his hypothesis.

Minutes later, Lin Xian opened his eyes, greatly astonished.

"Indeed, the entire starship is equipped with such a frequency system to isolate the crimson. They definitely can survive!"

He turned, waved his hand, and countless materials flew from the air. This time, he rapidly constructed a framework throughout the room, spreading that pipeline device everywhere. Once everything was in place, Lin Xian approached an almost-broken porthole, using his mechanical superpower to repair it. Then, looking at the scarlet sand outside, he pressed the switch.

Buzz!

The entire room’s space suddenly shifted, transforming from a crimson gloom into a clear brightness, even the air seemingly refreshed.

Lin Xian removed the power armor, experiencing a familiar sensation surging back. Though the scarlet presence within the shelter chamber was minimal due to the building’s isolation, it was still discomforting. The sensation of the body’s immune system collapsing, leaving him powerless, was gone once the device was installed, just like returning to the nights of old.

"Done, looks like a lot has happened in these three months."

Lin Xian heaved a long sigh, promptly opening a bottle of water, drinking it in big gulps without a second thought. At this moment, he wasn’t concerned about how much the water had been corrupted by the crimson. After finishing, he felt an unrivaled comfort, as if every cell in his body was rejoicing.

Sssss!

After filling with water, Lin Xian stood in the bathtub while three service drones sprayed a water mist to cleanse the bloodstains off his body. The waste blood water was then collected by pipes for purifying and storing again.

Though he now had a device to isolate the crimson, he didn’t want to waste a single resource. He still needed to find his team and clues about the Phoenix Society within the crimson, making these supplies extremely important.

Boom!

In the room, the mechanical right arm crafted by Lin Xian precisely fit onto Dragon Girl’s right arm. The alloy right shoulder interface illuminated with a ghostly blue glow as the maintenance robot quietly withdrew, completing the task Lin Xian requested.

Taking it out from the Black Star Forge wasn’t difficult, but putting it back in was very exhausting, so Lin Xian decided not to retract her.

Beep beep, beep beep.

At 18:45, just before Lin Xian entered the hibernation pod, the reminder tone configured by his trusty electronic watch rang once more. He nestled in the metal chair by the porthole, his gaze piercing through the starship window to the outside, where the crimson wind swept iron-red sand, casting a solidified sea of blood across the heavens with no clouds or light, only a crimson canopy pressing against the earth.

He didn’t know if there was darkness, nor whether the current night was different from the past. At this moment, he could only quietly wait, with the whole world outside enveloped in crimson, the red wind surging like waves in the air, creating a sky that seemed to bow down, devoid of clouds, as if a crimson barrier covered the land entirely.

Lin Xian watched through the porthole as darkness suddenly descended!

It was like a massive shadow of a planet silently sweeping across the world, turning the crimson into a deeper, almost blood-clotted dark brown, causing Lin Xian to realize that it was nightfall.

A different nightfall.

At this moment, Lin Xian’s breathing suddenly intensified, and between the hills of stacked wreckage, anomalies emerged. He seemed to catch glimpses of twisted gray shadows inexplicably appearing in the swirling crimson sand, like smoke blown by the wind, or residue seeping from the depths of the sand. They had humanoid outlines, but their limbs were inverted, elongated, their steps erratic. Within the crimson mist, they appeared and disappeared. With a swirl of the wind, they dispersed into mist, then immediately formed into new bizarre shapes.

"Abnormal Body?"

Lin Xian’s expression darkened. The crimson made these things appear faintly unreal, yet at the same time incredibly lethal.

At this moment, his gaze focused further away, where a figure stood atop a dune that was shattered by the fragments of a half-buried starship’s wing. It stood about four or five meters tall, with a torso shriveled like a dried tree trunk, but eerily proportionate limbs, silently standing beneath the crimson sky like a decaying obelisk.

It made no movement, had no breath, and wasn’t clear if it was facing him or away from him, just a sheer silhouette of pure black.

That was an entity identical to a ’person’, with a head, shoulders, except with unnervingly long limbs, resembling the lone figure of a phantom in a horror story, a Gao Liren.

Lin Xian squinted, his pupils contracting, trying to penetrate the dizzying darkness, only to find it impossible to see clearly.

Yet, in the blink of an eye, a massive, dark hole—an enormous human face—eerily appeared outside the porthole. It was a face without features, only a bottomless hole occupying the entire face. From deep within the hole, a viscous crimson glow pulsed like a living thing, pinned directly on the window.

Staring at him!