Thus, Hu Lushou could only frantically urge the team to accelerate their journey. Amidst such torturous jolts, the Fu Lu Shou Team miraculously rushed out of the mist. When the scorching sun shone down, Hu Lushou finally realized he and Sun Chang had appeared in the Western Desert, and over half of their team was already lost.
Thankfully, the key supply vehicles and personnel were still intact. However, just as Hu Lushou thought he could make a comeback, they encountered sand bandits again...
"So many caravans lost direction during Extreme Night, that’s just too bizarre..." Qian Deli questioned after hearing Hu Lushou’s story, "North of Longjiang is Luling Forest and Haiqu City; you can’t possibly end up in the Western Desert coming out of that primordial forest, right?"
"Right, getting into the Western Desert requires crossing hundreds of miles of hilly canyon lands, it’s impossible to just drive in haphazardly," Shi Deyuan said.
"Could it be you guys went into some time-space wormhole?" Monica teased.
Lin Xian glanced at Chen Sixuan and KIKI. If it had been just Hu Lushou, Lin Xian would surely think he was exaggerating. But the situation described by Lao Mo and Sun Yuzhen was quite similar to Hu Lushou’s. Their team appearing in the Western Desert was proof enough of Hu Lushou’s claims, forcing Lin Xian to believe that Hu Lushou and Lao Mo’s group had encountered some kind of supernatural phenomena...
"This might serve as a warning to us," Lin Xian said solemnly, "That Star Abyss No.5 is becoming extremely unstable, and the Star Abyss monitoring by the Phoenix Society might be slipping out of control..."
With these words, everyone in the channel fell silent.
The Phoenix Society’s yearly 96-day evaluation had already been a conservative estimate. If it’s true as Lin Xian said, then perhaps everyone might not have much time left.
Lin Xian thought for a moment and said, "There’s no point in guessing further; everyone rest up tonight. Let’s head out two hours before dawn tomorrow!" Googlᴇ search novelꜰire.net
"Alright!" Everyone agreed with the proposal. It wasn’t just a matter of water resources now, with Star Abyss No.5 acting up, the best option was to cross the uninhabited area and reach Quan City quickly. Any other worries were meaningless.
After communicating with the various teams, Lin Xian briefly discussed the situation with the key members of Infinity through a communicator. By this time, he had also completed the fully automatic bullet press machine. The new industrial machinery looked quite grand sitting in the carriage No.13.
Lin Xian would then only need to make a few sets of material conveyer belts, using the PX-05 robots for control, and place the primer materials, metal plates, bullets, powder, and other materials into it. If efficiency wasn’t enough, he’d just add two more robots. This way, he could set a specification and quantity request for the robots and manufacture bullets non-stop for 24 hours, with the only constraints being energy and devour materials.
Currently, energy wasn’t a problem, and for devour materials, Lin Xian still had plenty from Yijin City; those were initially prepared for laying track, so they were not an issue for the moment.
After getting everything ready, Lin Xian stood up, gazing at the large industrial machinery, and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Finally, got a major task done, no more rolling each bullet by hand..."
Hand-rolling ammunition, while trivial for Lin Xian’s energy, was too time-consuming, and the bullets would be consumed faster than he could make them. It almost turned him into a mechanical entity.
The fully automatic bullet press took Lin Xian about four hours to complete. Now there were nighttime guards in every carriage and weapon station; Lin Xian hurriedly ate something, drank some water, and went back to carriage No.1 to sleep.
The last time he slept was after fainting in Xilan City; next in Yijin City and then entering the Western Desert without even closing his eyes. After today’s fierce battle during the day and continuous manufacturing in the afternoon, he was utterly drained, feeling slightly dizzy; he fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
In the dark, Lin Xian seemed to hear the ticking of a watch’s second hand. But the problem was, he wore an electronic watch, which shouldn’t make a sound.
Opening his eyes, the light was blinding. In front of him was a bright corridor.
The corridor was very clean, seemingly inside some research facility. Unclear whether it was above or below ground, but Lin Xian felt a vague sense of familiarity with this corridor.
Lin Xian looked at his hands; the surrounding realism was intense, yet his subconscious told him he definitely wasn’t physically in this place.
The hallway was exceedingly quiet. Lin Xian checked ahead and behind, seeing no one. At this moment, he spotted a sign ahead that might tell him where he was.
But just as Lin Xian took a few steps forward, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps from the front corner. The footsteps came closer, seeming to belong to more than one person. Subconsciously, he felt he shouldn’t just stand there. Just as he was about to move, a door nearby suddenly opened, and a hand reached out, forcefully pulling him inside, closing the door.
The next second, a team appeared at the corner and swiftly passed the spot where Lin Xian had just stood.
Inside the room, the light was dim. Lin Xian, his mouth covered, was pressed against the door, his gaze scanning the room. In front of him, he saw a ’familiar face.’