Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train Chapter 1392 540: Ark_2

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The walls of the entire room were tightly covered by mechanical armor. She knew it was Lin Xian's work to block all external surveillance and also to shield against the Foundation's monitoring. The walls were a mix of various metal materials, though she wasn't aware that these metal walls were now covered with various symbols, drawings, and strange metal devices, resembling the internal structure of a metallic alarm clock.

Among those drawings, there were diagrams of the Wangyue Planet Ring's orbit, operational parameters of the South Heavenly Gate, some unknown planets, and world-class biological models engraved in metal. The floor was littered with bottles and cigarette butts, and steak dishes piled upon the entire table, with heaps of dirty clothes stacked like a mound of zombies.

She finally found Lin Xian in this heap of trash. He was curled up in the corner of the wall, wearing only one shoe, and in this metal-structured room, he seemed like a dark piece of wood.

Chu Yan initially thought he was asleep but quickly noticed his vacant eyes staring at the garbage-filled room. His bloodshot eyes seemed not to notice Chu Yan's entrance, just blankly staring at the metallic sun model on the ceiling, motionless.

Chu Yan had never seen Lin Xian look so haggard. Despite eating heartily every day, his body was thin like a zombie wandering in dense fog.

"Lin Xian."

Chu Yan's voice echoed like a falling stone in a deep valley. Lin Xian heard this voice, seemingly taking a long time to react.

He slowly turned his head to look at Chu Yan, his bloodshot eyes blinked after a long time, as if responding to signify he was still alive.

But soon enough, Lin Xian recognized her, his eyes brightened a little, and a slight smile cracked his dry lips as he said to her,

"You've come."

Chu Yan's gaze froze, seeing Lin Xian like this. For a moment, she felt suffocated. This man who all the way had wanted to build a safe refuge train and be a laid-back conductor on it had ultimately been put on the human salvation noose by that beating heart. The trials and pressure of the entire world in just two months had completely crushed him. It was unimaginable what his infinitely operating Mechanical Heart had experienced during those countless days and nights.

She didn't say a word, silently found a basin in the room's bathroom, repeatedly washed a piece of cloth that could still be considered a towel, then fetched a bowl of hot water and came to Lin Xian's front, quietly helping him wipe the grime off his face.

Lin Xian smiled silently, and with a hoarse voice said, "I thought... they'd only let you come after I activated the Black Umbrella Plan."

"It's already a chaotic mess outside. The committee thinks that the confidentiality of our spiritual link doesn't hold any meaning anymore."

Chu Yan continued wiping as she calmly said, "Anyway, they've already pinned everything on you, and even if it means waiting until the world ends, they won't urge you anymore."

Facing this person who had exhausted everything, Chu Yan didn't say any comforting words. Lin Xian's Mechanical Heart and her Spiritual Brain Domain were decisions from High-dimensional Humans, as well as the choices of current Human Civilization. Perhaps the Phoenix Society did not regard them as human, as if by putting the blame of extinction on a heart that doesn't possess thinking could absolve moral culpability.

"Perhaps. What else can humans do?"

"The Wangyue Planet Ring has already reached its designated position for more than ten days. If you can't make this decision, let me help you." Chu Yan, after washing his face, helped him up from the ground.

Lin Xian shook his head, gave a wry smile, "I still want to try a bit more."

"What effort?"

Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan, "I want to go out and see."

"What's there to see? Despair, crying, oppression, and voices cursing you," Chu Yan said, "Actually, you don't need to do anything. Pressing the annihilation button is unlikely to change anything."

"The only difference is whether we die watching the sunlight or looking at the dust cloud."

Despite saying so, Chu Yan, with the committee's orders, took Lin Xian out of the greenhouse.

She put a mask on Lin Xian, and then the two walked one after the other down the street outside.

In the extreme daylight of Kunlun City, there was no night, always bathed in sunlight. But too much sun can tire people. People lived, night and day flipped, their spirits half-squinted, and although the sky was clear, the temperature was around minus fifty to sixty degrees.

Silhouettes on the street were sparse, with no one talking, quiet like hurried ants.

The cold wind swept through the streets and alleys; the city of tens of millions showed no bustling scenes, except the venues that stirred emotions.

People shouted, cursed, and there were gunshots of the interstellar army echoing skyward from time to time.

Lin Xian walked slowly, observing the different people on the road. Perhaps besides the freezing cold and the eerie atmosphere, the scene on the street reminded him of the cities before the Apocalypse Day.

"It's the Sword Holder!"

Someone exclaimed. Lin Xian paused, seeing a few children running out of an alley. One of them picked up a flyer off the ground with his own portrait defaced, carefully tearing off the corner with profanity before holding it as a treasure.

"My dad said he's a hero."

"Hero my foot!" another boy said, "Gave us hope yet does nothing, everyone's waiting to die."

"That's not the case."

"Then what is?"

"At least not that..."

Snowflakes drifted down from time to time. Lin Xian came from one street to a large rally square, seeing through the tens of thousands of people, someone vehemently speechifying on the high platform.

"The fate of the world shouldn't rest on one person; we can't just because the Phoenix Society pushed the Sword Holder forward, point all blame at him!"

The woman's eyes were red as she loudly proclaimed, "Are we going to put the blame of abandoning humanity on a comrade who saved us countless times and think it solves the problem? Rather than believing, it's a transference of responsibility; why can't we all bear it together? The eastern wall conflict is heating up; shouldn't we put our efforts into these truly important areas!"

The person shouting was Chen Sixuan. Lin Xian watched Teacher Chen from a distance, feeling a warmth in his heart. He didn't go over to greet her but continued walking on the street.

In the higher skies, thousands of members of the Superpower Group still continuously bombarded the Heavenly Veil.

Boom!

A massive wave propagated, and a flying girl dropped midair, gasping urgently due to overuse of her Superpower, while a nosebleed slowly trickled down. She wiped it away casually and looked skyward again.

At this time, a few companions flew over, concernedly asking:

"KIKI, are you okay?"

"I'm fine. The earlier attempt seemed to have some effect."

"Really, that's great. How about you rest a bit, and we organize another resonance, increasing density this time!"

"No need to rest, I'm okay, let's go."

"Alright."

At this moment, as she flew in mid-air, she seemed to sense a gaze, so she looked downward, only seeing a few pedestrians hurriedly passing by.

She steadied herself, turned back to look toward Kunlun Central's direction, took a shaky breath, and then bit her lip, once again soaring skyward.

"No greeting?"

Chu Yan caught up from behind, asked.

Lin Xian shook his head, "No."

Although there were a thousand words, Lin Xian chose silence. He knew once the silence was broken, his partners would quickly be isolated by the crowd just like him.

After walking within the crowd for an hour, he headed towards the way back.

Chu Yan followed behind, looked at his back, and spoke,

"Is this the effort you want to make?"

"Yes."

"Does it disappoint you?"

Lin Xian shook his head, "No, everyone did well enough."

"Then what are you expecting?"

Chu Yan asked.

Lin Xian stopped, looked at the ground beneath him, and remained silent for a long time.

He reached to touch his heart, slowly saying,

"I wanted to know if they really gave up on humanity."

After speaking, he turned back, looking at Chu Yan with a despondent gaze.

"It seems now, indeed, we have been abandoned."

...

At this moment, the South Heavenly Gate stationed in the geostationary orbit of Blue Star, with its 12-kilometer-diameter ring energy storage array, suddenly lit up with blinding bluish arcs. Deep space radars synchronized coordinate parameters, aimed at the L1 Earth-Moon position...

at that colossal human 'Ark.'