Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train Chapter 3 - 1: Infinite Train Plan_3

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Previously on Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train...
Lin Xian calmly ate dinner by candlelight, updating his diary on the impending extreme night. He sorted scavenged items, devouring mechanical junk like a speaker for strength gains and a hairdryer for the new Wind Cannon skill, which he tested cautiously on a pillow. His Mechanical Heart progressed amid the apocalypse's Dark Tide expansion, where Star Abysses spawn horrors and mutations grant rare superpowers.

Quickly, survival squads commanded by Superpower Users started popping up like flickering sparks.

"Jiang City broadcast: The six monitoring squads in northwest and southwest zones have vanished. All survivors should head east immediately!"

"The [Oasis] convoy, established by Superpower User big brother Liu Wei, sets off at 16:00 tomorrow from Walmart in Baicheng District. Accepting only healthy people aged 16-50, no kids, elders, or females, though carriers of guns, arms, or heaps of provisions may add one extra relative..."

"[Jiang City Fortress] invites all Superpower Users and attractive ladies. We're based in Jiang City's military nuclear bunker, boasting over three hundred residents, structured roles, and ready to endure the Extreme Night..."

"I'm at Mingwang Neighborhood Block A, Suite 1304, stocked with plenty of goods—the place got fortified specially. Seeking only beauties 16-30 years old, nothing less than stunning..."

"Ananda serves as the envoy dispatched by the Creator God to purge humanity's evil desires and spirits. With a heart full of remorse, join our Jile Heavenly Paradise Sect to dodge the calamity. Devote water, rations, and virginal girls sincerely, and the Savior God spares the blameless. Those yearning for relief from torment, dial 139..."

"I'm Professor Wang of Jiang City Research Institute. My figures show Jiang City gets engulfed by Extreme Night once more in 5 days. No dawn this round... Hahaha, finished, physics... what a joke, nobody escapes... hahaha!"

Within the pitch-black void, Lin Xian methodically twisted the radio knob, as wildly desperate messages grew ever more common. Clearly, post the debut Extreme Night, nearly all of Jiang City's remaining people had bolted away.

Just twenty-one days of Extreme Night had transformed bustling Jiang City, once home to a million souls, into a terrestrial inferno. And heaven knows the duration of the upcoming Extreme Night, or if his stockpiles would hold out till light returned?

"Unlimited Train Recruitment Initiative—Constructing an ironclad behemoth train, thundering across 320,000 kilometers of Star Orbital!"

Lin Xian pulled up his phone, checking the forum thread he'd posted locally before the prior Extreme Night; the few replies dripped with mockery.

"Watched Snowpiercer one too many times, eh..."

"Dude, worldwide grids are mostly dead—how's your train gonna move sans power?"

"Gas turbine trains guzzle 50 liters of fuel hourly at minimum. With that fuel, why not grab an SUV instead?"

"Apocalypse fool—first busted rail sends you crashing to earth..."

"Dreams run wild: a rolling steel bastion shrugging off zombie hordes, yet alas, pipe dreams stay dreams, riddled with impossibilities."

"Moron."

His thread pitched building a fortress train packed with living cars, resource haulers, clinic, farm, power plant, and factory units, while steadily gathering crew. Entry demanded top-tier: superpowers or expertise fitting those compartments.

A battle-ready colossal train, surging powerfully over 320,000 kilometers of Star Orbital fleeing the Extreme Night eastward. Halting partway? Its armored shell like a citadel repels corpse waves and nocturnal monstrosities!

This idea brimmed with allure, yet teetered on pure lunacy!

Yet after Extreme Night struck, networks and grids largely crumbled. No fresh bites on the post for ages.

Besides radio echoes from holdouts bunkered in hideouts,

Jiang City lay wrapped in total hush.