168: Chapter 168 Danger Approaches Again? Symbiotic Relationship Between Warships!
γ The train has temporarily stopped. Passengers may disembark for activities. γ
γ Note: The stopping area is a deep-sea environment. Passengers without underwater activity capabilities, please do not leave the carriage, or bear the consequences yourself. γ
"Stopped?" Wen Yiran blinked, "Can the train even stop on the seabed?"
"This train isn't normal to begin with," Jiang Wanwan said, "It can drive into the sea, so what else is impossible?"
She turned to look at the group: "Let's use this time to reorganize our personnel."
Pearl Tear stepped forward: "Miss Jiang, since the outpost is ahead, I would like to take Princess Princess Xiyao back to the bunker first; it is safer there."
Jiang Wanwan shook her head: "Wait a little longer."
"Wait for what?"
Chao Yin spoke coldly, her tone tinged with impatience, "If the people of Cang Ming notice our presence, or discover the anomaly at the outpost, a bloody battle awaits us. The Merman warriors are far more formidable than the monsters from just now!"
"I know." Jiang Wanwan met her gaze, "But Lin Xiao hasn't returned yet."
Chao Yin sneered: "And so? We just keep waiting? What if he doesn't come back?"
As soon as those words were spoken, the air suddenly froze.
Wen Yiran looked up abruptly, her eyes cutting across like knives: "Hey, what did you say?"
While speaking, she had already raised her composite crossbow.
Her finger rested on the trigger, ready to fire at any moment.
"I am merely stating a fact." Chao Yin remained unmoved, "Deep-sea combat, alone, facing an entire fleetβyou know better than us what that means."
"Chao Yin!" Pearl Tear whispered a reprimand.
But Chao Yin had no intention of shutting up: "Your Highness, please prioritize the big picture!"
She ignored the others and grabbed Princess Xiyao's arm, "No matter how important that human is, how can he compare to your status? You are the hope for our national restoration; you must not lose sight of the big picture for the sake of the small!"
Princess Xiyao did not respond immediately.
What Chao Yin said was not entirely unreasonable.
She bit her lower lip tightly, still hesitating on how to act.
Jiang Wanwan did not speak either.
Her expression remained calm, but faint ice-blue mist had begun to rise from her fingertips.
At this moment.
Several team leaders, led by Fan Sinian, arrived at the door and happened to run into the scene of the argument.
The few of them looked at each other.
Without Lin Xiao's orders, they dared not act rashly.
They could only come to seek Jiang Wanwan's opinion.
In addition, the elite forces from each carriage had also gathered in the corridor of Carriage 7.
They also heard the commotion coming from the room.
Consequently, a dangerous thought began to spread among the crowd.
If Lin Xiao really couldn't return, the power structure of this train would collapse instantly. Who would take charge of the situation then?
Just as the atmosphere within the territory of Room 07-01 was about to drop below freezing.
A huge shadow slowly enveloped the train.
Everyone was still waiting for the next step of the action plan, and when they noticed the change in the seawater outside the window, they were all stunned.
The shadow pressed down slowly from above, completely blocking the view outside the train window.
Borrowing the faint blue light projected by the crystal clusters on the ground, one could only see a huge grey-white silhouette covered in rivets and gun barrels.
It was a warship.
A warship much larger than any of the previous ships.
Its hull was less than ten meters from the top of the train, and its huge propellers were still slowly rotating, churning up bubbles.
Dozens of giant cannons were lined up on both sides of the hull, the pitch-black muzzles looking intimidating.
Fan Sinian subconsciously raised his shield, blocking in front of the crowd.
"Damn..." His voice was trembling, "This thing is way bigger than those ones from just now..."
Fang Yuan gripped his horse-slaying saber, his face pale: "If this thing fires a shot, we're all done for."
Pearl Tear's pupils shrank violently: "This is... a super-dreadnought?"
Back then, she had seen descriptions of such ships in the war reports of the Di Peoples Kingdom.
That was the most terrifying war machine of the human industrial era, each one representing absolute destructive power!
"It's over, it's over, it's all over now," Xu Shan muttered, holding the iron hammer in his hand, "We were tracked down by them after all!"
Wen Yiran's hands were trembling, but she still raised the [cloud piercer], aiming the arrow at the behemoth overhead.
"We have to fight even if we can't win."
Her voice was trembling, but very firm.
But at this moment, Jiang Wanwan raised her hand and pressed down on her crossbow.
"Wait, look at the chat channel."
There, a message had just popped up.
γ Lin Xiao: Don't panic, I'm the one driving the warship γ
The chat channel was quiet for a few seconds.
Then, came a tsunami-like flood of messages.
γ 08-09 Fan Sinian: Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap, Brother Lin, what did you say??? γ
γ 05-05 Fang Yuan: Huh? Brother Lin, how did you come back driving an aircraft carrier! γ
γ 03-05 Li Kui: What the hell did I just see... γ
γ 11-05 Wang Yan: No, buddy, are you still human? γ
γ 02-04 Zhou Jun: Brother Lin, please give us a heads-up before the next operation; the brothers were all scared to death! γ
In the corridor.
Fan Sinian sat on the ground, his shield hitting the floor with a "clatter".
Fang Yuan also let out a sigh of relief, leaning on his horse-slaying saber to support his body.
Just as Zhou Jun said just now.
Everyone wasn't afraid of the overwhelming Calamity Creaturess, but they were scared to death by this move of Lin Xiao's.
Inside the room.
Wen Yiran's crossbow lowered, her mouth wide open.
"Brother Lin, he, came back driving a ship?"
Jiang Wanwan's mouth finally curved up, and a smile spread from the corners of her eyes to her brows: "I said, he would be fine."
Pearl Tear's face was full of shock, unable to say a word for a long time.
She finally understood why Princess Princess Xiyao trusted this human so much.
This man was not an ordinary strong person.
He was the kind of person who could rewrite the rules.
Princess Xiyao stood in front of the window, looking up at the giant ship that blotted out the sky, the outline of the ship reflected in her golden eyes.
In that gaze, there was admiration, joy, and a trace of hesitation.
The super-dreadnought slowly approached the train.
The huge hull was parallel to the carriages, less than twenty meters apart.
Lin Xiao was still in the core area of the ship, with countless split screens in his field of vision.
Not long ago.
After Lin Xiao arrived at this super-dreadnought, he immediately followed the same pattern and killed his way into the core control area.
Afterward, he controlled the eight giant cannons to attack the battlecruisers nearby that hadn't reacted yet.
After connecting to the core, he also learned about the past of this warship.
This super-dreadnought was named queen elizabeth.
It also had eight cannons, but it was equipped with the largest caliber and most powerful naval guns of the time.
The Iron-Devouring Worm in the incubation chamber was also a size larger, its shell with a metallic luster even thicker.
The cruisers around couldn't withstand the attacks of these heavy cannons at all and disintegrated rapidly.
Even if there was a counterattack, it couldn't cause effective damage to the the queen.
Because she possessed extremely strong protection.
The thickness of the main side armor belt reached 330 millimeters, and the front armor of the turret was also 330 millimeters.
The key protection areas could effectively resist most enemy artillery attacks other than its own 381-millimeter main guns.
In addition, the the queen was also a high-speed battleship.
To describe it in four words:
Force and Speed both A!
Lin Xiao easily resolved the attacks of the enemy ships. After wiping them out, he controlled the the queen to catch up with the train.
And now.
Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to detach from the core and return to the train.
Instead, he was thinking about a question.
If he could take this ship away...
It was very handy to use.
But he ultimately had to return to the train.
This was the rule, and also the reality.
He couldn't stay on this warship forever, running on the seabed with the train.
Just leave it on the seabed like this?
Too wasteful.
Just as Lin Xiao was calculating if there was any way, a prompt popped up in his field of vision.
γ Detectable fusable unit: queen elizabeth Β· Special Ocean Kin γ
γ Symbiosis count: 1 / 1 γ
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