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Chapter 1343 - 518: Keep Accelerating!_2
Lin Xian frowned at the words: "And then the high-level Abnormal Bodies serve the S-Class, the world-class?""Exactly."
"So this isn’t a biological group, but a devouring system..."
"Didn’t you already see it in the High Tower Civilization’s rehearsal ball?" Chu Yan asked.
Lin Xian opened his mouth, and at that moment, a thought flashed through his mind, as if he had caught something, but it quickly vanished.
"In short, they devour each other until they become an [Angel]?" Lin Xian frowned. "So, in the end, High Tower Civilization develops into just a single biological entity?"
"Yes and no."
Chu Yan sighed. "It seems like a single biological entity, but it’s actually a collection of billions of organisms’ thoughts. This unified life form even shares thoughts, so their social structure... well, that’s why their civilization develops so quickly. A large part of it is because of this. Do you remember the mycelial network in Yijin City? All life consciousness is aggregated computing power."
Lin Xian suddenly understood, and his expression immediately turned serious. "Damn, then that’s the computing power of a civilization, or rather, [Angel] is actually the carrier of a civilization... So do they still need a planet?"
"How would I know? That part of my consciousness has been devoured. I don’t even know what that part said to you or did," Chu Yan said.
"It said quite a lot. You even protected me. Also, that part of the consciousness didn’t have a prosthetic limb; it should have been the illusion of your complete body."
Chu Yan’s expression dimmed slightly. "Whether there’s a complete body or not isn’t important, but a complete personality is very important."
After saying that, she looked at Lin Xian. "The Foundation definitely won’t let you escape back to the Polar, and now that the world-class has made a move, they can’t control the thoughts of the High Tower Civilization. So we are very likely all to die here. Facing the world-class organisms, the threat the South Heavenly Gate poses is not as significant as it used to be. Do you have any plans?"
"What plans could I have?" Lin Xian gazed forward intensely. "Do whatever can be done. In this situation, it’s about running away as much as possible. As long as the tracks aren’t broken, whether it’s a hundred kilometers or a thousand kilometers of train, I can get it running. As long as we start sprinting, there will be a chance. Now, we can only pray the train hasn’t been derailed; otherwise, facing the Scarlet Tide, we might not have time to connect the rear..."
"So, let’s hope they can hold on."
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Rumble!!!
The scarlet sky was torn into a bloody rag by countless artillery fires. The searchlights at the head of the Silver Star pierced the thick fog, causing the entire Colorado Wilderness surface to tremble like a giant drum. That was the sound wave of billions of monster tides and over six thousand sections of iron trains charging and roaring from all directions.
The Thunder Fleet and the Sky Dome Train hovered in the low sky, the barrel of the Orbit Shock Star Cannon on the battleship turning red-hot, and the anode pulse cannon array on the Sea Suppression Ship had burned out one-fifth. Each volley was like a Heavenly God throwing thunder, blasting a kilometer-diameter vacuum hole in the thick fog.
Under the roar of ten thousand cannons was a tide silhouette resembling Hell. The Iron Guard Brigade’s assault troops and the Silver Star’s searchlights shone into the thick fog, where nerve-wracking monster tides surged from almost every direction, as if a sea was roaring, causing the earth to shake!
Within the monster tide, large A-level Special Level Abnormal Bodies continuously emerged, with spine forests growing on the backs of the mountain-like wriggling meat tumor giant beasts. Swarms of multi-legged corpse insects surged among them, while the sky was obscured by the wing demon flocks, shrouding the remaining starlight.
"The Breaking Formation Team must maintain formation! He Yifeng, Wang Yong, Li Chongyun, you three units must protect the train head—millions of lives are tied to your belts. I don’t care about your casualty numbers, even if there are monster corpses in front, you must blast them open with cannons and clear the way!"
"Don’t worry, sir!"
Over a hundred kilometers of steel lines erupted into an epic battle scene. Drone swarms laid track on the desolate plain, and hundreds of kilometers of trains raced across the barren land. The ground of Colorado was shaking, the sky was burning, and the firepower line stretched from the Rocky Mountains all the way to the Black Stone Plain!
This was a life-and-death escape of a human migration force!
Billions of monsters were assaulting this Century Train, with hundreds of thousands of people retreating on the continuously armed trains in the rear, firing fiercely at the side monster tides, with various battle situations communicated across the convoy frequencies. There were shouts, cries for help, and some on fire.
The 13 Iron Guard Brigade’s thousands of TFV-600 twin-tube tanks plowed walls of fire across the wilderness. The metal storm of the 1130 Close Defense Cannon on the armored vehicles shredded diving wing demons into a blood rain;
Silver Star’s triple-barreled electromagnetic guns continuously fired into the fog, leaving scorched marks on the Scarlet Land. The modified trucks of the Republican Convoy, welded with machine guns, rampaged, and Lei Zhen’s heavy trucks charging at the edge of the monster tide on the right wing, the fan-shaped firepower combined with the train’s metal storm, almost illuminating the sides of the train as brightly as day.
Suddenly, twelve giant snake-like tentacles pierced out from the depths of the thick fog, each over three meters in diameter and covered with compound eyes and suckers. Wherever the tentacles swept, a dozen armed vehicles of the Iron Shield Team were lifted into the air like toys. A welder on a heavily loaded truck roof held a blowtorch to ignite the fuel tank, turning himself into a humanoid Molotov cocktail to smash into the insect tide. In the communication frequency, Team Leader Liang Hao shouted in anger: "Accelerate, accelerate, the firepower projection from the Dragon Kun Fleet is about to fall, step on the gas pedal to the floor!"
Boom!!!
In the Black Stone Plain, a monster tide emerging from the valley surged like a spray directly at the train line located in the T45-T47 section. A convoy here kept retaliating with firepower, but it didn’t last half a minute before the entire convoy of over a hundred vehicles was obliterated.