I Have a Job

Chapter 248 Silent Hunting

KIKI frowned slightly when he heard this: "What if we can't kill them all?"

"We can only try to reduce the level of the mark." Lin Xian's eyes flickered as he said in a deep voice, "The other survivors should have encountered the same problem. They don't have the Hell Black Chrysanthemum yet, so they can only passively defend. In this case, the mortality rate is definitely high!"

Lin Xian didn't expect that once he entered the snowfield, the dilemma he faced would be almost impossible to avoid.

KIKI was right, even if he left enough time, he could not guarantee that he could kill all the pursuing snow monsters, so Infinity could hardly completely clear the marks on his body, which meant that they would always be exposed in the blizzard.

But after thinking about it, there is no better way. The train cannot stop, and it is impossible to kill all the monsters in the snow. The snowfield is as endless as the sea. As the snow layer increases, who knows if there will be something more terrifying.

"That's it!"

Lin Xian made a prompt decision, pressed the headset and said: "Everyone stop firing, Brother Huo, come back, Teacher Chen, speed up!"

"Let's hold our ground for now. If these things just follow us, they won't cause any direct damage to us. Besides, our defenses are very thick and not that easy to break through. My idea is to find a place with less open terrain to clean up before dark and try to reduce our mark level before dark."

"These things are so damn terrible. They can hide under the snow and actually mark us..." Sasha said angrily.

"Hyenas are such group hunting creatures. Their attack power and means may not be as good as those of jackals, tigers and leopards, but they can surround their prey in a large group and then wear down their prey bit by bit. As long as the prey starts to bleed, it will be doomed to die of exhaustion." Ding Junyi said at this time.

Hearing Ding Junyi's words, everyone suddenly felt a lingering sense of crisis. The train was surrounded by monsters, but they could do nothing. It was as if they were treated as prey that was doomed to die. They were marked by this group of snow monsters. After entering the darkness, they rushed over and devoured them!

Lin Xian raised his voice to encourage everyone, "But what is certain is that these things will not attack before dark, and we can observe the changes in our marks, which allows us to take some initiative and at least decide what level of mark to enter the night with."

"I have a suggestion."

Ding Junyi heard that all vehicles had stopped firing, and pointed to the black chrysanthemum in the area and said to Lin Xian: "Open fire to 'decompress' before the mark reaches level 5. Level 5 may be something we cannot handle. For the sake of safety, we should not try it lightly."

Lin Xian looked at the disaster plant whose red light was changing and nodded.

"That's what I thought."

Then he looked at everyone, "Let's do it. Everyone keep alert. Once we reach Level 4 here we will open fire again. I'm worried that if the snow gets thicker, it won't be easy to lower the mark."

The most terrifying situation is that the destruction is not as fast as the growth, then tonight Infinity will most likely face a highest level of "Dark Hunt"!

If this is the case, then everyone can only pray not to encounter monsters of the level of Atmospheric Mica in this blizzard.

The pursuit of the snow monsters made everyone in the Infinity very nervous. Many people looked solemnly at the increasingly thick snow, the increasingly strong storm, and the...

Rustle, rustle~

More and more snow monsters!

Inside the carriage, the atmosphere began to become extremely heavy. The train kept moving, and every second that passed seemed to be setting a countdown for the Infinity.

At this moment, the entire train was like a gradually increasing pressure cooker. The atmosphere was so heavy that it was becoming difficult to breathe.

Lin Xian walked quickly towards carriage No. 12. All he could do now was to frantically make bullets for the team, especially the large-caliber bullets needed for the Growler K23 electric rotary machine gun, Thunderstorm A1 grenade launcher, and the 1130 and T8-Z Vulcan military assault models.

When facing groups of predators, the best way is still heavy firepower.

At this time, most of the materials in his decomposed space were converted into materials needed for ammunition, and then, with the help of the mechanical manufacturing power of his hands, they were quickly made into ammunition.

The other members were also busy carrying away ammunition from carriage No. 12 box by box, and began to stock up various firepower points with munitions, howitzers, 12.7mm machine gun bullets, and 30mm tungsten core armor-piercing bullets. Lin Xian was manufacturing them frantically as if he was risking his life.

At the same time, he secretly prayed in his heart that the three convoys of Great Eagle would listen to his theory of the Dark Mark and take precautions against it.

"They changed their route from Yuankou to the west of Yunzhou Mountains. The wind and snow should not be as severe as here..."

Lin Xian thought to himself.

Chen Sixuan, who was in charge of observing the road conditions, also learned about the situation at the moment. She looked at the deepening snow in front of her with a grim expression. The huge storm cyclone in the sky was so dark that it seemed to swallow up the world, making people suffocate.

"Before Dalat Town, we have to pass through the Uliyastai Mountain. The altitude is not very high, only a few hundred meters. The terrain here..."

Chen Sixuan was driving while looking through the route records she had made in advance.

Originally, when entering the dark night, the best way was to find an open area to facilitate the appearance of strange entities and also to facilitate escape.

But the current situation is exactly the opposite for them. There are endless snowfields on both sides, and there are countless snow monsters underneath. If they cannot carry out a "guarding" style of ambush in a relatively narrow terrain, I am afraid that even if all the bullets in the car are used up, it will only attract more predators. Therefore, in this vast snowfield, finding a good defensive camp before dark tonight has become a very critical task for Chen Sixuan.

In Carriage No. 5, Lu Xingchen, who was not able to kill a lot, clenched his fists with some dissatisfaction. Looking at the building carefully preparing ammunition, he said solemnly,

"It looks like I am controlling the fire. I can't kill too many, I have to leave some room. I can't kill too few, or I will leave troubles for the future. These evil monsters are really a headache."

"You also have headaches?"

Dasha lowered his head and said, "I suggest you finish the tea you want to drink in advance. From now until tonight, we should not let down our guard at all."

"Roommate, don't worry!" Lu Xingchen sat cross-legged on his own cushion, closed his eyes and said with the look of a master: "I always have room for maneuver. The Snow Demon and my divine fire are inherently incompatible. Today, watch how I go on a killing spree!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

Above the sky, a terrifying and huge extreme cold vortex was moving strangely, a blizzard was blowing violently, and the strong wind was carrying cobalt blue ice crystals dancing wildly under the sky. In the center of the vortex, it seemed that violent space distortion could be seen!

Heavy snow was howling above the train, and as the temperature and wind speed continued to increase, even the visibility began to gradually decrease.

From the beginning when Lin Xian woke up and ran on the snow under the sunshine, to now under the dark clouds and heavy snow under the storm, the Infinity has only been running for less than two hours. It can be seen that the movement and spread speed of this extremely cold vortex is extremely terrifying.

Click, click, click~

Fog and ice kept forming on the windows, and the coldness seeped into the interior from the connection between the carriages. Feeling the rapidly dropping temperature outside, Lin Xian had to raise the temperature inside the train again.

"Captain Lin."

In Carriage No. 10, Shu Qin was watching with a serious look as the snow monsters outside gathered and shuttled through the snow like a school of fish. She said into the communicator, "The scale is starting to grow. You're right. The thicker the snow, the more of these ghosts there are."

Lu Chang at the side sighed with a worried look on his face, "I'm afraid there will be some big guys, which will be troublesome."

Lin Xian asked Ding Junyi directly: "Director Ding."

"It has reached the level 2 mark. According to the growth rate, it will reach level 3 in 30 minutes and level 4 within an hour." Ding Junyi reported calmly on the communicator.

"good."

Lin Xian closed his eyes and pondered, "We'll start in an hour. Shuqin, pay attention to the movement patterns of those creatures and try to shoot as accurately as possible."

"receive!"

Lin Xian looked at the time. It was only 16:00, and there were still about 2 and a half hours before dark. However, they had to clean up once in an hour. Lin Xian planned to decide when to do it next time based on the results of this time.

At this moment, he couldn't help feeling a little anxious. In this situation, not only did the entire vehicle need to have sufficient firepower, but it also required accurate judgment. Otherwise, one careless mistake would lead to a greater disaster.

Now he only hopes that the action in one hour will produce effective results. If not, he will have to stop in advance until the mark is pressed down.

In this case, ammunition becomes the key.

"KIKI, you and Brother Huo will attack together later. Shasha, don't use the mecha, prepare to activate the 1130 close-in defense gun and orbital electromagnetic gun. Director Ding, please report the marking situation at any time so that I can deploy firepower according to the changes."

"OK."

"clear!"

"receive!"

Lin Xian would not use all his firepower at the first moment. He would have to increase it gradually according to the suppression of the snow monsters and the dark marks. After all, the 1130 bullets fired very quickly, and most of them were projectile rain. Dealing with these snow monsters was like using a cannon to kill mosquitoes. He didn't want to waste it right at the beginning.

Time passed minute by minute, and soon, a boiling sound seemed to be heard on the snowfields on both sides of the Infinity.

That was the sound of a large number of snow monsters roaming under the snow!

In carriage No. 3, Ding Junyi used her mobile terminal to focus on the spectral changes of the black chrysanthemum, while also recording the time.

Finally, after Hell Black Chrysanthemum reached level 4, she immediately said to Lin Xian on the communicator.

"Lin Xian, our Dark Mark has broken through level 4."

"Open fire!" Lin Xian stopped making bullets without saying a word, stood up and went to carriage No. 11 and opened the automatic explosion-proof door.

Da da da da da! Bang bang bang bang!

The people who had been prepared for a long time opened fire immediately after hearing the order. Five Growler K23 electric rotary machine guns and multiple M556 light machine guns roared at the same time, and the building in carriage No. 5 and Lu Xingchen also began to clean up immediately.

In an instant, a violent storm of metal jets poured into the boiling snow fields on both sides. Gunfire exploded, snow dust flew, and a large number of snow monsters began to be blasted and pierced!

Above the roof, a huge fire broke out, burning the snow monsters that were angered by the gunfire and tried to jump out.

Suddenly, snow monsters began to emerge from the deep snow on both sides of the track. Their bodies were burned by the sun. They climbed onto the armor of the car while howling, and stabbed with their long tails!

Dong! Dong! Dong!

Heavy metallic sounds rang out. I didn't expect that the poisonous needles on the tails of these snow monsters were so powerful that they could actually nail a deep dent in the thick armor plate.

The bolt penetrated into some gaps in the armored grilles, and the spike went straight into the iron sheet of the train, embedding itself several inches deep.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

On the roof of the car, KIKI, wearing a winter suit, flew from the front to the back of the car, continuously releasing shock waves in his hands, knocking all the snow monsters that climbed up away, falling into the sun and fire, and being burned in an instant.

Before dying, these snow monsters were like bees ready to die. They rushed forward and used all their strength to strike out with a needle, and then were burned down by the fire.

After a while, these snow monsters that jumped out of the boiling snow field nailed dense dents on the steel plates of the Infinity!

Whoosh!

Lin Xian stood at the No. 11 hatch, raised his hand and fired a [Mechanical Energy Cannon] to directly blast through a large snow monster that was lying in wait and preparing to rush towards the train, and also shot through two others.

Bang! Bang!

The howitzers began to explode in the deep snow. Each explosion was like a brilliant firework, blasting several snow monsters wandering under the snow into pieces.

Lin Xian's face looked extremely solemn. Almost every shot could blow out a snow monster, which showed how many snow monsters were hidden under the seemingly calm snow layer in the distance.

"Director Ding!"

"Downgrade to level 3." Ding Junyi checked the time and said, "Increase firepower!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian called the weapons station directly: "Shasha, electromagnetic cannon!"

The orbital electromagnetic cannon does not need spare ammunition, although it is used to attack large-sized monsters, but it is no longer necessary at this time.

"Okay!"

Without saying a word, Sasha immediately turned on the orbital electromagnetic gun system.

Woo!

The roof of carriage No. 2 opened, and the main gun of the G3-rail electromagnetic gun slowly rose. The extremely energetic capacitor below began to store energy. In the main gun track, a blue energy beam began to light up. Immediately, the fire control system began to capture biological targets, aimed at a dense area, and began to fire.

Woo, sizzle!

A powerful ionization vibration sounded, and the dazzling cannon light directly hit an area more than 100 meters away where snow monsters were densely populated.

Boom!

The snow dust exploded, and the shock wave shook the hurricane and blizzard together. A several-meter-wide explosion crater immediately appeared in that area. More than a dozen snow monsters were instantly wiped out, and the exploding green plasma sprayed everywhere.

With the addition of powerful firepower, the suppression of the snow monster becomes even stronger.

"ah!!"

In carriage No. 5, Dalou stood at the automatic door holding a Gatling gun, shouting and shooting at the snow monsters outside. A several-meter-long bullet chain hung behind him. A strong heat wave burst out from the barrel of the Gatling gun, madly harvesting these strange creatures!

On the roof, Lu Xingchen and KIKI, two range-based psychics, were responsible for burning and suppressing the snow monsters that were jumping out of the snow like locusts, while the other was clearing the snow monsters on the train while using large-scale telekinesis waves to kill more snow monsters under the snow.

"Downgrade to level 2, 3 minutes!" Ding Junyi's voice came again from the communicator.

As the Infinite Fire passed through, the snowfields along the way turned into a sea of ​​corpses and green plasma. The violent firepower output continued to spray, almost completely covering up the sound of the blizzard.

Da da da da da!

Bang bang bang!

At this time, except for the 1130 close-in defense gun and the Vulcan mecha, almost all the firepower that the Infinity can mobilize has been deployed, and the only thing left is the trump card of the psychic.

Lin now doesn't dare to use the gravity cube easily, and it is even more impossible to use it on these monsters. The unknown giant creatures in Parma Grassland and Yaze Lake are like swords hanging over his head. He must now save enough energy to supply unlimited ammunition.

"Downgrade to level 1, 1 minute!"

Finally, with the suppression of powerful firepower, the dark marks left by these snow monsters like a tide were suppressed to below level 1 again at this moment. Although the Hell Black Chrysanthemum was still emitting a faint red light, Lin Xian still ordered the entire team to cease fire.

Lin Xian looked at the time, 17:05, which took about 12 minutes.

He calculated and said to Chen Sixuan, "Teacher Chen, the dark time should be around 18:35. Adjust the speed. We will enter Wuliyastai Mountain at 18:00."

According to the calculation of the camping point provided by Teacher Chen, the time is just right. In order to avoid the inaccuracy of the dark time, Lin Xian deliberately left enough time to mark and eliminate.

"good!"

In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan, who had received clear instructions, felt relieved and began to speed up the Infinity.

The thick layer of snow was violently shoveled away by the Infinity's ice-breaking shield and scattered on both sides of the track. The engine of this super-heavy track fortress roared and began to accelerate madly, racing against time to drive towards Mount Uliyastai .

At this moment, every minute faster can buy more time to relieve pressure, and the cleaner these "marks" are cleared, the safer the situation of Infinity will be after nightfall.

In the corridor of the whole train, people kept moving. A big battle just ended, but everyone had no time to rest and recuperate. They immediately began to load their ammunition and prepare for the next "pressure relief"!

"KIKI, get to the cab."

"what?"

Lin Xian brought KIKI to the driver's cab of the Infinity. The train accelerated at this time, and Lin Xian needed KIKI to stay in front to guard against emergencies on the track for Chen Sixuan.

"Girl, use your powers to stabilize the car. If there are foreign objects or other problems on the track ahead, blast them away!"

"Okay, I understand." KIKI understood Lin Xian's intention, and Chen Sixuan said at the side.

"The snow is already over 80cm deep. I estimate that at this rate, it may be over 1.5m or even deeper after tonight."

What she was worried about was that the train would be completely buried, making it impossible to move forward.

But the problem is that in this situation, the Infinity cannot continue driving in the dark unless it risks its life.

Lin Xian looked solemn and nodded: "Let's solve the current problem first."

"Hey, Lin Xian, where are you going?" KIKI asked at this time.

Lin Xian turned around and left, saying, "Repair the carriage that was pierced just now."

Those snow monsters seem small and easy to kill, but the problem is that there are too many of them and they are agile. The spikes on their tails can cause certain damage to steel armor, which is really a headache.

This is still during the day. Once night falls, according to the intelligence, this thing will enter a violent mode and will be even more unscrupulous. By then, there will not be many people on a train as long as the Infinity, and facing the whole train being surrounded, it is likely that they will be able to only take care of the front and not the rear. Once the carriage is breached, the loss will be huge.

"The outer layer of the research carriage is made of nitrided steel + boron carbide ceramic layer + self-repairing gel interlayer. This is interstellar aerospace technology. In fact, you can consider upgrading the armor in this regard."

In carriage No. 4, Ding Junyi was paying attention to whether the plants were affected by the infiltrating snow and wind. Seeing Lin Xian repairing the outer armor of each carriage one by one, she spoke up.

"It's not that simple."

Lin Xian was concentrating on the task at hand and said, "Now these things are only good-looking but not practical. Facing those monsters, we still need to re-equip ourselves with armor to resist. Upgrading the lining is far less important than upgrading the outer armor."

Ding Junyi raised her glasses and said, "As far as I know, the advanced armor steel used by the military is mainly tungsten-titanium alloy type I and type II. For mechas, it is mainly super carbon yne alloy and nano-ceramic armor used by individual soldiers. Perhaps you will be interested in these materials."

Lin Xian became interested when he heard this and looked at her: "Director Ding has a wide range of knowledge. What you said is right. If we can have these materials as a foundation, the external armor protection of the Infinity will definitely be raised to a higher level."

Lin Xian did not have the material molecule scans for these materials at the moment, so the preparation center could not convert them. But even if it did, the conversion of such high-level materials would be time-consuming, labor-intensive and material-intensive, not to mention that Lin Xian wanted to use them to make the external armor for the entire train.

So in addition to the key issues such as blueprint, mechanical manufacturing, and mechanical devouring, the material issue also began to become important before Lin Xian.

It turns out that Infinity only needs some forged steel, titanium alloy, high manganese steel, and high-hardened tungsten steel. These materials can be made by devouring cars, trains, or some large man-made mechanical objects. However, Lin Xian first obtained tungsten-titanium alloy by disassembling it from the damaged "Iron Guard 3" military assaulter mecha, and used it in key structures such as the GK03 electric knife and ice-breaking shield.

Therefore, if he wants to obtain this type of material, he must find more advanced things to devour. Cars and trains can no longer solve major problems and can only be used to transform them into materials for ammunition and weapons.

Rumble~!

In the blizzard, the Infinity train was running fast and the cold rails were roaring. A large number of snow monsters gathered in the snowfield again, following the movement of the train and making a boiling rustling sound in the snow.

After Lin Xian repaired some of the damage inside the carriage, he began to repair and reinforce the external armor to a certain extent. In addition, the shooting holes were activated after the war started, and the automatic explosion-proof doors were opened, the temperature in the entire carriage dropped sharply. In order to maintain the temperature inside the car, Lin Xian set the passage gates of carriages 3/4 to automatic closing mode for passage.

As for the living compartment at the back, there was no way out at all. Cold wind invaded through the shooting holes, and the temperature in the living area quickly turned into ice and snow. Many teammates who were firing had their hands frozen. For this reason, everyone in the compartment began to wear thick body temperature maintenance devices and cold-proof clothing, waiting for night to fall.

"Lin Xian, we're almost there!"

In the cockpit, Chen Sixuan looked at several large hills in the distance ahead of the snowfield, which were now covered in white by the wind and snow. Mount Uliyastai was a circular hilly landform with the highest peak only a few hundred meters high. When the Parma grassland was not covered by heavy snow, it was a beautiful scenic spot, but now only a vast and towering snow hill could be seen.