Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train

Chapter 1354 - 522: Chaos (Part 2)

The railroad ties and crushed stones were thrown into the sky, mixed with towering pillars of smoke and dust, completely devouring the already scarce light.The world plunged into a turbulent chaos filled with the scent of rust and blood.

Disaster descended in an instant.

"Ah—!! Derailment!"

"Help! The carriage has overturned!"

"The connection is broken! The rear is pushing forward—!!"

The public communication frequency was instantly flooded with ghastly wails and cries of despair.

The Gale Team’s train was the first to meet disaster, its massive inertia turning the armed train into a toy flipped by an invisible giant hand, with a dozen massive carriages sharply tilting, rolling, and crashing into the convoy of vehicles alongside with the heart-wrenching sound of metal tearing.

Steel beasts crushed and collided, erupting in dazzling sparks and towering flames.

A tanker truck, loaded with fuel, was swept by a rolling carriage, turning into an earthshaking fireball. The scorching shock wave, laden with burning debris, swept for hundreds of meters, instantly engulfing the Iron Guard Brigade soldiers resisting the Monster Tide nearby.

Screams even drowned out the sound of gunfire!

"Report! The left flank... the left flank has fallen! The 7th Regiment... it’s all over!"

"The right flank needs support! The monsters are advancing! We can’t hold them off!"

"Brigade headquarters! Brigade headquarters! Please respond! General Li Sheng!!"

Meanwhile, the command post of the 13 Iron Guard Brigade led by General Li Sheng also completely lost contact!

The scores of connected carriages behind, under terrifying tensile forces, detached from the track like dominoes, rearing up and then slamming down with force.

The piercing howl of shattering glass, the groans of twisted steel, and the muffled noise of bones being crushed mingled together, the rear train couldn’t react in time, crashing harshly into the steel wreckage ahead amid dense fog and dust, causing a more severe secondary collision and chain explosions.

In the light of the fire, countless silhouettes were flung from shattered windows like broken dolls, instantly overwhelmed and ripped apart by the surging horde of insects, not even having time to scream.

Lin Xian, clad in power armor, sped through the sandstorm, charging forward against the fierce high-temperature airflow.

"Grace, open fire!"

"Grace..."

Boom boom boom!

"Gra..."

[Grace received]

[Phase calibration complete... Energy core overload operational... Constraint field construction stable...]

[Fire!]

Boom!

In the skies above, the atmosphere was violently torn apart, and the beam of destruction fell once more, precisely hitting the giant eye in the sky, making the pervasive smoke and dust glow starkly.

In the next moment—

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An indescribably terrifying explosion bloomed tens of thousands of meters high! It wasn’t a fiery explosion, but a pure annihilation and release of energy! A circular, kilometer-wide destruction shock wave, enveloping atmosphere ionized into plasma, swept out in all directions like a raging stellar ring from the impact point of the light spear!

Where the shock wave passed, the flying Abnormal Body in the sky and even the crimson mist were instantly vaporized!

Next was the windstorm sweeping across the land! The residual energy and shock wave tearing the atmosphere resulted in violent turbulence!

Jiang Yun and KIKI seized the moment to break through the sandstorm with their superpowers, and by then, a vast cloud of blazing fire suddenly approached from the distance in the sky.

"I’m here!"

Lu Xingchen, surrounded by flames at their peak, like a volcano about to erupt, roared, and pounded his fists fiercely at the swirling crimson sandstorm.

"God·Heaven-Burning Ash!"

The crimson-gold sea of fire, with him at the center, burst forth like a supernova in all directions!

KIKI, Jiang Yun, and Brother Huo joined forces, guiding the shock wave brought by the torrent of South Heavenly Gate towards both sides of the train line, instantly carving out a shock zone over ten kilometers in diameter, and the view suddenly became clear.

"Look!"

Lin Xian and Chu Yan simultaneously flew into the air, arriving in front of the trio of KIKI, all looking at the edge of the shock area, where a wall of wind and sandstorms raged endlessly, with crimson storms swirling above.

Behind the sand wall, besides the hovering Sky Giant Eye, they could also see the outline of a massive pillar, thousands of meters high, like a towering tree.

But it wasn’t a tree; it was a biological meat pillar, like a fishing rod standing on the ground.

And at the end of that rod was the Sky Giant Eye!

Then, below the ’rod,’ a silhouette of a crustal creature, over ten kilometers wide, occupying a vast plain, became faintly visible.

It was writhing.

The ground cracked and heaved.

"What on earth is that?"

"That eyeball is suspended in the sky!"

Lin Xian’s power armor scanned the moving outline vividly, and his expression was filled with shock.

At this moment, he strangely felt, as if he had seen this thing in his memories.

Anglerfish...

Right.

That monster was like an anglerfish living beneath the earth’s magma, yet its massive scale was terrifying, and the object suspended in the sky was uncertain to be its eye or the ’lantern’ used for luring prey.

This is the body of Chaos!

"Lin Xian, look quickly."

KIKI pointed to the ground below, and everyone looked to see the joint train, already derailed and split into dozens of battlefields on the cracked ground, halting all charge, with over a million people now trapped in an endless Monster Tide.

The dense gunfire rained down upon the Monster Tide coming from all directions, while Chaos emerged from the crust, directly shattering their retreat plan.

"What to do, there are still so many people?" Jiang Yun’s face was grim as they surveyed the land below, countless compatriots in dire straits in that moment.

Lin Xian also remained silent; virtually every available means had been exhausted, and facing the emergent Chaos, it seemed the only option left was to escape.

"We can’t save them now, the line to the northern front is too far, we must abandon it."

Chu Yan spoke with unusual calm, "Lin Xian, we’ve already relocated at least half the people; under these circumstances, nobody can save them."

"How could we!!" Brother Huo’s eyes were bloodshot at this moment, watching countless lines below burn fiercely and trembling all over. Yet he knew, with such a long line, he couldn’t save more than a few people.

Once the trains derail, they completely lose mobility, and at the moment the tracks shattered, fate shut the door on them.

"Ah!!"

"We can’t hold it off."

"Help!!"

On the public channel, fragmented screams from several broken lines could still be heard. Lin Xian’s fists clenched, his mind constantly calculating.

At this moment, from the bloody-hued sky storm, a silver-gray spindle-shaped assault ship boldly dashed out of the storm, its bow spraying a hundred-meter-diameter deep blue light spear, brutally tearing the crimson sky curtain to create a rift through the heavens, speeding toward the battlefield!

Subsequently, a second, a third, and more various types of floating battleships, transport ships, airships, combat ships, and more, numerous flying vessels shot forth like meteors.

These airborne units swiftly headed toward the derailed train formations, joining in fire support, instantly turning the tide on large swathes of the battlefield, giving those train formations on the brink of annihilation precious breathing room.

"Which fleet is that?" Jiang Yun, amidst the hurricane sweeping back the Monster Tide, spoke with incredulity in her voice.

"Fire Stone? No!"

"Outworld visitors?!" Brother Huo also exclaimed in surprise.

Lin Xian scanned the floating ships emerging from the clouds, his pupils trembled, then he smiled.

"Just in time."

Buzz! As if sensing a twist of fate, Chaos emitted a terrifying hum.

But by then, several space-based weapons flew out of the storm, directly bombarding the Sky Giant Eye, the violent energy exploding in the sky, raising a cloud of impact.

Subsequently, within the massive storm, a towering Floating City churned away the sky-filling clouds, accompanied by a resonance that echoed across the land, the mountain of machinery that obscured half the sky smashed through the clouds, descending slowly.

At this time, Lin Xian and the others heard the familiar weary voice of Mochizuki Masashi over their communicators.

"Long time no see, Lin."

Silent City, coming from across the sea!