Apocalypse: I Built the Infinite Train

Zzzzt!

The Arc Pulse Resonator finished charging for the second time, and a scorching white plasma spark exploded with a deafening crack!

Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Thick black smoke whooshed past, filling the air with the acrid stench of high-voltage discharge searing through both air and monster flesh.

Whoosh!

A blue mechanical energy cannon pierced through a four-legged monster that had lunged at the Emperor Squad’s armored vehicle. At the same time, a black rifle was hurled straight into the creature’s skull, halting its advance.

Chen Wei, who had been laying down suppressive fire with his machine gun, glanced up at Lin Xian on the train before immediately slamming a fresh magazine into place and resuming his relentless barrage.

“Hold the damn line!”

“F*! Why the hell are there so many of them!?**”

“Sh*t, I’m running out of ammo!”

At that moment, frantic voices from other convoy leaders crackled through the comms system.

An overwhelming pressure crashed over the convoy like a tidal wave. Under these circumstances, survival meant one thing: run for your life. Against this endless swarm of Snow Wraiths, there was no guarantee they had enough bullets to match the sheer number of enemies. The monsters emerging from the blizzard stretched into the unseen distance, an ocean of horrors.

Even Shi Diyuan, who had seen his fair share of large-scale battles, wore a grim expression.

Bang!

Through the wind and snow, Ning Jing leaped through the air, her fist obliterating a four-legged Snow Demon before she landed atop the train. She turned toward Shi Diyuan, who was still launching grenades.

“We won’t reach Xilan City until past midnight, and we’re already barely holding on before nightfall—what do we do?!”

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

A golden afterimage streaked through the battlefield. Qian Dele flicked his wrist as he approached.

“Oi, oi, oi, we need to speed the hell up! We can only shake them off if we push forward. If worse things crawl out after dark, we’re dead meat!”

“We can’t go any faster!”

Bzzzt! A psychic shockwave blasted away a wave of Snow Wraiths as Lin Xian and KIKI retreated to the train. Lin Xian caught his returning black rifle mid-air and shouted,

“The snow’s too thick! We’re already at maximum speed. Even Dragon Mountain No. 1 is using its Horizon Clamp System, but with so many creatures latching onto the tracks, we’ll derail if we go any faster!”

Shi Diyuan cursed, “We don’t have enough ammo to last that long! We planned for alternating fire to conserve supplies, but these motherf*ers swarmed us! Every damn monster around Duck Ze Lake seems to have come straight for us—they’re trying to rip us apart!**”

Ning Jing’s face darkened. Dragon Mountain No. 1 had dealt with monster tides before, but this was different. These creatures had first been drawn toward the Trakamar Ice Canyon, leaving the northern route eerily empty, only to swarm toward them in full force.

Could it be that these monsters were specifically hunting the Emperor Project team?

“What do we do now?!” Qian Dele scowled. His convoy had already suffered significant losses, and without ammo, their survival, logistics, and tech convoys—at least thirty or forty vehicles—had been forced into the train’s left flank for safety. But seventy to eighty armored vehicles in the rear were still getting picked off one by one. If this continued, they’d be wiped out.

“Use the armor to hold the line!”

Lin Xian made a decisive call.

“There’s no other choice now. All ability users and enhanced fighters—climb onto the train and hold them off! Move every vehicle except for the heavy firepower units to the left flank and preserve some ammo for left-wing defense—minimize casualties first!”

“That’s a solid plan!” Shi Diyuan looked back at the convoy. “If we don’t do this, the people in the back are as good as dead once the night creatures show up!”

“That’ll cut down our firepower!” Sun Kai responded from inside his battle vehicle.

“Firepower isn’t the issue!” KIKI snapped over the comms. “We can’t kill them all anyway—if the convoy sticks together, we can cut down on support pressure. Their vehicles can’t take the hits like our train can!”

“She’s right!” Qian Dele nodded. “The convoy is stretched too thin! Better to consolidate our forces rather than let the monster tide pick us off one by one.”

“Alright, shifting formation now!” Sun Kai, an experienced commander, immediately understood the intent.

Bzzzt. Bzzzt. Bzzzt.

Within moments, all but a dozen heavy-duty polar vehicles had raced to the train’s left flank, forming a protective barrier around the logistics and tech convoys.

Meanwhile, every ability user, enhanced fighter, and heavy weapons operator scaled the train’s left side, using grappling ladders that Lin Xian had just finished constructing.

On the train’s rooftop, Lin Xian also welded an arc-shaped wall of steel spikes, designed to impale any Snow Wraiths trying to climb up or dive-bomb from above.

At that moment, the storm-ridden battlefield became a moving warzone. The train’s weapon stations, rapid-fire turrets, anti-air autocannons, close-in defense cannons, and railguns all unleashed hell against the rolling tide of monsters.

The battle had become a high-speed pursuit between the Infinite Train and Dragon Mountain No. 1—two thousand people locked in an unprecedented fight for survival.

Inside Car No. 3 of the Infinite Train, the Hell’s Black Chrysanthemum pulsed with a sinister red glow. The Eerie Cube shrieked with constant alarm signals.

The dark corruption was surging.

The oppressive fear pressed against everyone’s minds, amplified by the minus 60-degree blizzard.

The suffocating grip of death loomed over the entire battlefield.

Bang!

A Meteor No. 3 Heavy Sniper Rifle thundered, obliterating the skull of a giant four-legged monster. Chen Sixuan was specifically targeting the larger threats, but just as she took her shot—

Whoosh!

A black rifle whistled through the air, piercing a Snow Wraith lunging toward her from behind.

Chen Sixuan spun around, eyes wide.

Her exosuit’s defense system had been screaming alerts nonstop, yet monsters were still slipping through.

Lin Xian sprinted toward her.

“Watch yourself! Protect yourself first!”

“…Got it.”

Gritting her teeth, Chen Sixuan raised her rifle once more.

Nearby, Miao Lu landed next to her.

The two of them stood back to back, firing in unison.

Zzzzt!

The Arc Pulse Resonator flared white-hot once again, igniting another plasma explosion.

And so, the nightmare raged on.

The monster tide slammed into the train over and over, refusing to relent.

The endless battle pushed every fighter to their limits.

But survival was the only option.

“It’s almost dark!”

Sitting in the vehicle, Yu Yuheng nervously stared at the blizzard outside, gripping his comms device.

“If we can’t shake them off, we’ll have to risk accelerating!”

The moment night falls, the monster tide would become even more ferocious, and unknown horrors would emerge.

As the endless horde surged forward, a sense of despair settled in everyone's hearts. The dark corruption within the Extreme Cold Vortex twisted their minds, amplifying the suffocating pressure.

“Lin Xian!”

KIKI’s urgent shout came through the comms.

“The rear vehicles can’t hold out much longer! Should we tell them to abandon the cars?!”

“Won’t help.”

Qian Dele’s voice remained calm.

“Without their heavy firepower, they’re as good as dead. We can’t protect this many people.”

“Lin?!”

Shi Diyuan glanced around, trying to locate Lin Xian, but—

“Where the hell is he?”

“Lin Xian!”

Chen Sixuan also called out over the comms.

“Wait for me!”

Suddenly, Lin Xian’s voice came through.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Above, gunfire and explosions roared across the train’s rooftop.

Meanwhile, Lin Xian rushed inside the Infinite Train, taking the elevator from Car No. 2 and sprinting toward Car No. 3.

【Non-mechanical energy successfully converted. +1000 Mechanical Source Points.】

The moment he entered, a holographic screen flared to life.

The Hell’s Black Chrysanthemum had absorbed dark energy, converting it into Mechanical Source Points, replenishing Lin Xian’s Mechanical Heart.

His exhaustion eased slightly.

Suppressing his urgency, he stormed into Car No. 3, where the Hell’s Black Chrysanthemum glowed brilliant red.

“Level 4 Dark Mark!”

Ding Junyi, anticipating Lin Xian’s intent, immediately spoke:

“We miscalculated. Dark Mark stacking doesn’t automatically reach Level 5.”

Lin Xian’s eyes sharpened.

“That means only an S-Class Eerie Entity can imprint a Level 5 Mark!”

The only time the Infinite Train encountered a Level 5 Mark was at Jiazhou, likely originating from Yubei Spaceport, where they had been targeted by S-Class and multiple Eerie Entities.

Turning on his heel, Lin Xian bolted out of the carriage.

Ding Junyi was stunned.

She had assumed he had other plans, but he had only come for an answer—and immediately left.

Whooosh!

Across the frozen plains, waves of Snow Wraiths surged endlessly.

Larger eerie entities emerged, and countless anti-air rounds streaked toward the sky, suppressing the winged horrors circling above.

On the right flank of Dragon Mountain No. 1 and Infinite Train, the armor plating had suffered severe damage—some of the steel panels were shredded, grille armor had begun falling apart.

“We can’t hold out much longer!”

“There’s too many!”

“Ammo! We’re almost out!”

“Flamethrowers, get ready!”

HUMMMM!

The 250,000-kilowatt joint locomotive engines roared in fury, propelling the convoy through the blizzard, with the endless monster tide roaring in pursuit.

On the train’s rooftop, hundreds of Snow Wraiths swarmed upward.

Big Luo, Chen Sixuan, Lü Chang, Miao Lu, and Shu Qin were forced back by the overwhelming onslaught.

Sasha’s “Sally” mecha had run out of ammo.

Jumping out, she grabbed her Thunderstorm A1 grenade launcher, firing wildly behind her comrades.

At the rear, Lu Xingchen and KIKI fought with everything they had, suppressing the horde, yet even their overwhelming power felt drained against the unrelenting blizzard and endless swarm.

“Lin Xian… we… we’re not gonna make it…”

KIKI hovered in the air, her chest heaving, her arms trembling from overuse of her psychic abilities.

Blood trickled from her nose, which she hastily wiped away before unleashing another Psychic Shockwave, blasting away a charging pack of four-legged monsters.

The comms remained silent.

Then—

Light.

A blinding radiance ignited in the sky, piercing through the blizzard like the sun itself.

It grew brighter—slicing through the storm clouds, creating a massive hole in the dark sky.

The glowing sphere distorted, gathering the last embers of the sunset, and in the next instant—

It erupted.

A celestial beacon.

A lighthouse in the storm.

A divine fire illuminating the frozen battlefield.

—Gravitational Lens!—

At the front of the train, standing atop the Whale 03E Heavy Gas Turbine Locomotive, was Lin Xian.

His right arm was raised, pointing skyward.

His lips were pale, blood streaming from his eyes and nose.

“…This is the last option.”

BOOM!

The divine radiance scorched through the blizzard, purging the darkness like judgment from the heavens.

Thousands of monsters screamed—

Their ashen skin cracked, their flesh blistering under the holy blaze.

Many four-legged demons burrowed underground, frenzied in fear.

The Snow Wraiths clinging to the train turned to dust, their bodies disintegrating in the golden light.

In seconds, the tide of monsters collapsed.

The battlefield fell silent.

The once-relentless horde suddenly fled, disappearing into the snowy abyss.

The blizzard raged on.

The storm clouds reclaimed the sky.

The light vanished.

Beep. Beep.

His watch beeped faintly.

Nightfall approached.

The last sunset glow had faded.

At the front of the train, Lin Xian’s strength drained from his body.

His vision blurred—

He collapsed.

A golden streak caught him—Qian Dele.

“Hey, pretty boy, still hanging in there?”

Around them, Lu Xingchen, Ning Jing, and Shi Diyuan rushed over.

“Lin Xian! You alright?!”

Chen Sixuan and KIKI sprinted up.

“I’m fine.”

Lin Xian wiped the blood from his face, bracing against the biting wind.

The fear in everyone’s eyes didn’t fade.

Nightfall was coming.

And they all knew—the real nightmare hadn’t even begun.

“What now?”

Shi Diyuan’s face was grim.

“We’re almost out of ammo. Are we seriously gonna die here?”

“We should regroup while we have the chance.” Chen Sixuan urged.

Lin Xian clutched his comms device, his gaze drifting to the horizon.

“…Hope they saw that.”

KIKI frowned. “Who?”

Then—

BOOM.

A distant roar echoed from the storm clouds.

Not thunder.

But—

Aircraft.

The comms crackled.

“Infinite Train, this is the Starfleet 7th Recon Airborne Unit! We’ve spotted your signal flare! Combat forces arriving in three minutes for extraction!”

Above, a fleet of aircraft pierced the storm—

—thundering toward them at supersonic speed.