Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 868 - 363: Remolding (Supplementary Update!)_2

For a moment, Lin Xian had a bit of a headache.

Click, click.

The sound of footsteps reached Lin Xian’s ears, and he looked up to see a man with glowing eyes approaching from the far end of the corridor. Mochizuki Masashi’s nanotech pupils emitted a deep blue glow in the shadow of the corridor as he walked into the engine room with his hands tucked into his sleeves. Seeing Lin Xian sitting cross-legged atop the engine, he spoke,

"Your posture reminds me of those fantasy novels I read as a child, where cultivators love to find a secluded spot to sit and enhance their powers."

"I’m not cultivating; this is science," Lin Xian said, glancing at the devouring progress in front of him.

[Devouring progress 30%]

"Digesting this massive transport ship in your belly sure seems scientific," Mochizuki Masashi commented dryly.

"You didn’t come all this way to suggest that our train group should evacuate Silent City to avoid trouble, did you?"

Mochizuki Masashi nodded: "That’s one plan. If you evacuate, you could effectively draw the enemy’s attention while utilizing your firepower and mobility, relieving the pressure on Silent City."

"Sounds good, but we don’t know the enemy’s movements. Our train group doesn’t have a better route, and Dawn City’s target priority is Silent City. It’s a case of ’if they don’t move, neither do we.’ In this situation, the smarter we are, the more trouble we face," Lin Xian said.

"That’s why I’m here to remind you that the crisis might not necessarily come from outside."

Mochizuki Masashi said as he opened a holographic screen, displaying hundreds of surveillance views of Silent City’s main and secondary cities. Tens of thousands of drones and over a hundred thousand survivors gathered here; diverse and busy. The lower docking deck constantly echoed with gunfire, waves of zombies running alongside Silent City’s tracks, and more and more survivor caravans driving onto Silent City via the docking deck.

Lin Xian frowned slightly, watching the dense scenes, then turned to look at Mochizuki Masashi.

"Let me ask you a question."

"Hmm."

"If you want to use Yongcheng Port, you can’t ignore Dawn City or the Phoenix Society. You can’t pretend they don’t exist, can you?"

"Then cooperate with them."

Mochizuki Masashi looked at Lin Xian calmly and said, "This clone of Zhou Mingyuan said one thing right: in the face of darkness, humans are always on the survival side, and cooperation is cooperation, no matter who it’s with."

Lin Xian smiled: "Looks like Dawn City has pushed you towards the Phoenix Society."

Mochizuki Masashi shook his head: "No, the stance is something you choose for yourself. It is Dawn City itself... that has forced the Phoenix Society to come back."

Lin Xian was taken aback: "Is the Phoenix Society not withdrawing?"

"It seems so for now. The latest news is that the Heavenly Calming Ship from Dawn Center will arrive at Dawn City tonight."

"Heavenly Calming Ship? The Phoenix Society’s high command?"

"The commander of the Phoenix Society."

"Awesome, are the two sides going to war?"

"That depends on the outcome of the negotiations," Mochizuki Masashi said.

Lin Xian crossed his arms: "It seems Star Abyss No.5’s anomaly is much more troublesome than we thought. I really don’t understand what good it does Dawn City to cooperate with the Deep Red World, especially as the expansion of the Star Abyss intensifies." 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"You’re wrong."

Mochizuki Masashi said calmly: "By combining the overall data and the Star Abyss detection situation, I’ve formed an interesting, albeit somewhat frightening, new viewpoint."

"What viewpoint?"

"On the influencing factors of the expansion rate changes among the 13 Star Abysses." Mochizuki Masashi pointed, and the holographic screen shifted to display a planetary map of Blue Star, across which the 13 Star Abysses were spread out, showing circular devouring areas of varying sizes like 13 dark black holes.

Upon entering Star Abyss No.5, Lin Xian already knew that this Star Abyss was a dimensional overlay from another dimension, continuously extending and expanding through the mode of dark tides. It’s imaginable that after the global extreme night, it would bring more than just darkness, flipping all of Blue Star into another world!

"Have you noticed that these Star Abysses are mainly distributed on land, with only one in the ocean area, Star Abyss 13?"

"Yes, I noticed," Lin Xian nodded and said.

"Then the question is, why are the areas of Star Abyss No.5 and No.7, compared to others like Star Abysses No.3, 4, 6, and 8, smaller, even though they are all dimension anchors of the Star Abyss?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "Are you suggesting there might be some sort of pattern here?"

Mochizuki Masashi then opened two sets of data for Lin Xian to see: "The first is the nightfall time calculated by tidal distance before Silent City was engulfed into the Star Abyss. At a distance of 500 kilometers, the dawn time was 10:28. The second is our dawn time at a distance of about 300 kilometers from Star Abyss No.5 after we came out, which was 10:30."

Lin Xian’s eyebrows slowly furrowed: "After all these days, it’s only delayed by two minutes?"

"It’s not just that. By calculating the distance from City No.2’s anchor point in Luling Forest to the Extreme Night Zone, I discovered an even more interesting phenomenon—after being devoured into the Star Abyss, the anomaly caused the abyss to expand roughly 100 kilometers. Normally, Star Abyss No.5 should expand at a rate of 120 kilometers a day, but due to the anomaly, it has only expanded by 280 kilometers in 15 days."

Mochizuki Masashi looked at Lin Xian with interest: "Isn’t it fascinating?"

Lin Xian’s eyes widened: "Are you saying we thought Star Abyss No.5 was accelerating its expansion, but it’s actually slowing down?"

"Bingo!" Mochizuki Masashi said as he walked slowly through the holographic screen, speaking blandly: "Based on the information I have, it’s possible to explain this using the theory of entropy increase. You can understand it as the areas of Star Abyss No.5 and No.7 originally covering the Yunjiang Plain, a densely populated and industrial area. The devouring takes time, so their expansion is slower and smaller in scale. In contrast, other areas like the western Star Abyss No.3, with fewer towns and Lu City Dingzhou as the central point, mostly consist of small plateau towns, hence the fastest expansion globally. The expansion slows down only after Yu Bei City is devoured."

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