Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 829 - 352: Star Abyss Traversal (10,000 Views Special, 2-in-1)_5
In fact, he didn’t even want to check the time. Since arriving in Jiang City, Lin Xian had not felt so relaxed.
Chen Sixuan, KIKI, and others all knew Lin Xian was exhausted, so no one disturbed him. The team members in each carriage were in high spirits. Lin Xian let them engage in free activities with Qian Suxun and others. As soon as he lay down, an immense fatigue washed over him, and he fell into a deep sleep.
A drop of cold rain fell on his forehead. He opened his eyes to see a tall and graceful figure above him, arms crossed, looking down at him. The rainwater slid down her mechanical arm to the elbow equipped with high-frequency blades and a propeller, then dripped down.
Chu Yan.
She looked at Lin Xian, who was leaning against the corner of the rooftop parapet, with a slightly odd gaze and began to speak.
It was a bit blurry at first.
But Lin Xian seemed to immediately guess those three words from her lip movement.
"It’s you again." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Lin Xian stood up, glanced around, and immediately realized he should be in a city.
Light rain was falling from the sky, and the remnants of neon lights soaked in the eternal night rain. Holographic billboards occasionally flickered, projecting illusions of long-gone products. He turned his head and looked from the high building to see a huge and dilapidated industrial metropolis. At this moment, several core areas in the city center were still illuminated, appearing as survival zones that had been fenced off by survivors or the Federation, while other dark areas were filled with wandering zombies in the streets.
For some reason, seeing those rotting faces and blue-skinned, sharp-clawed zombies gave Lin Xian a sense of familiarity.
Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with a peculiar expression: "You escaped from Star Abyss?"
"You know again?"
"You usually only sleep after a crisis has been resolved."
"Is this what you call sleep?" Lin Xian looked at her, somewhat helplessly: "I’m dreaming and still executing tasks with you."
Chu Yan glanced at him: "It’s your consciousness connecting with me. I didn’t ask for you. Your presence might affect the confidentiality of my tasks."
Lin Xian opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond, so he closed it again.
Truth be told, Lin Xian could not confirm Chu Yan’s organization or identity and could not trust her. Yet, this subtle connection between them required them to understand each other’s background clearly. Their communications carried an undertone of mutual probing.
Seeing Lin Xian’s silence, Chu Yan promptly said,
"Do not disturb me."
Lin Xian leaned back, attempting to let his consciousness rest: "I don’t want to either."
Chu Yan promptly stopped speaking, leapt away, and the propeller erupted with a vortex, quickly scudding through the city’s night sky. Simultaneously, signals from teammates continued to come in from all sides.
But as soon as she landed, Lin Xian’s figure appeared again in a nearby corner, like a sticky plaster that couldn’t be shaken off. Chu Yan slightly frowned, feeling somewhat conflicted.
As a Spiritual Ability User, Chu Yan could control all mental aspects, including her consciousness and emotions. However, her connection with Lin Xian puzzled her greatly, considering the special nature of her tasks, compelling her to find a way to solve this controllability issue.
Chu Yan switched her communicator to silent mode and then said to Lin Xian,
"Aren’t you curious about the reason for this state of connection between us?"
Lin Xian closed his eyes and said indifferently: "Curious, and then what?"
He had initially surmised that the connection with Chu Yan’s consciousness appeared after the emergence of the gravitational lensing ability. This time, experiencing the dimensional bubble within Star Abyss and seeing Chu Yan’s face after using the gravitational lensing caused a black hole further confirmed his hypothesis.
But as for why such a phenomenon occurred and why it involved Chu Yan, Lin Xian did not know.
Chu Yan looked at the time and then said to Lin Xian: "5 minutes, let’s exchange information to see if we can figure out this issue."
Lin Xian opened his eyes and looked at Chu Yan: "Alright, then tell me why you appeared in my house."
"Tracking the No. 02 world-class creature, the Floating Giant Corpse. You hid in Jiang City for so long, you should have some awareness," Chu Yan said directly: "Additionally, your shelter once showed high-density Spirit Vibration Value fluctuations, which is also a reason for my investigation."
Lin Xian heard this, frowning slightly. High Spirit Vibration Value fluctuations — could it be referring to KIKI?
"My turn to ask, what ability did you use to cause this consciousness intertwining with me?" Chu Yan asked sternly.
"It’s a kind of, uh..." Lin Xian didn’t know how to describe it, so he said directly: "I call it... gravitational lens."
Upon hearing this, Chu Yan’s expression changed immediately.
"What did you say?!"
Seeing Chu Yan’s expression, Lin Xian felt puzzled, thinking he might have guessed something, stood up and looked at her: "I said, my ability is called gravitational lens."
"Impossible!" Chu Yan frowned, scrutinizing Lin Xian: "How could you use such a weapon?"
"Weapon?" Lin Xian responded subconsciously to her tone.
Chu Yan’s eyes became fixed as she stopped speaking. She looked silently at Lin Xian, her gaze becoming complex.
"Mechanical superpower, seems your superpower is rather unique."
"Thank you." Lin Xian misinterpreted these words, yet from her expression, he felt surprised. Apparently, Chu Yan could also use gravitational lensing, and it seemed not to be a superpower but rather a kind of weapon.
Could it be that all the skills my Mechanical Heart gained are fundamentally mechanized weapons?
Thinking of this, Lin Xian gasped suddenly. Research and Development Center, Preparation Factory, Decomposition Center — it seemed all these were traceable. Yet Lin Xian was also curious about Chu Yan’s organization, which managed to possess such weapons.
