175: Chapter 175 Boarding the Ship and Setting Off, Enemy Tide Surging!

"You said that yourself; it has nothing to do with me."

Seeing Jing Hua's exasperated appearance, Lin Xiao smiled brightly and cheerfully.

He even twisted the knife further:

"Of course, I cannot let down Miss Jing Hua's good intentions. These three hundred sets of equipment, I will reluctantly... accept!"

The territory fell silent.

Fan Sinian sensed the killing intent erupting from the short-haired female mermaid, quietly retreated behind the others, and swallowed his previous uncooperative words.

Meanwhile, Wen Yiran, who was standing by the coffee table sorting through broken equipment, widened her eyes on the spot and began to calculate rapidly in her mind.

With so many sets of weapons and Bio-Armor, how much money would that sell for!

She was going to be rich, she was going to be rich!

Seeing Wen Yiran's excited expression, Lin Xiao sent a private message.

【07-01 Lin Xiao: Stop the work on repairing equipment for now. Later, we will sell the new equipment sent by the merfolk directly.】

【07-01 Lin Xiao: I still have a lot of old equipment in my hands; you can organize them slowly later.】

【07-01 Wen Yiran: There's still a lot?】

Lin Xiao briefly explained the situation on the battlefield just now.

After three rounds of shelling.

Jing Hua led the merfolk to charge up and clear out the remaining Imperial Guards.

And Lin Xiao wasn't idle at that time either.

He quietly activated the Stealth skill and stripped all the Imperial Guard soldiers killed by Jing Hua's side completely bare.

Therefore, he didn't just have a few dozen sets of Bio-Armor on hand, but hundreds.

Plus the three hundred sets promised by Jing Hua, it was enough to arm the passengers of the entire train!

After reading the content sent by Lin Xiao, Wen Yiran immediately forwarded it to Jiang Wanwan and Tian Xiwei, while quietly giving a thumbs up.

On the other side, Jing Hua, who was kept in the dark, was very angry.

A flush of red appeared on her beautiful face.

But she didn't say much else; after all, it was her own slip of the tongue that had inadvertently provided him with leverage.

Jing Hua and Princess Xiyao discussed in secret for a while, then dispatched a squad of sentries to return to the secret base to retrieve equipment and supplies.

At the same time, they notified the remaining old forces to come and support.

"I hope you and your people do not let us down!" Jing Hua sat on the sofa, crossing her arms. "Otherwise, even if it means mutual destruction, I will bite a piece of flesh off you!"

Lin Xiao nodded with a smile.

He valued this war even more than Jing Hua did.

According to the description of the public event, if the event requirements were not met, all passengers would be lost in the deep sea, with no return date.

Therefore, this operation could absolutely not fail, and must not fail!

Waiting for a moment.

The squad of sentries sent out returned to the train.

The number of people increased from the original ten to thirty.

And in the plains outside the train, a large force of nearly a thousand people had assembled.

They brought three hundred sets of brand-new Bio-Armor and weapons as promised.

The equipment was piled up in the corridor of Carriage 7 like a small hill.

Under Lin Xiao's arrangement, the passengers lined up to exchange supplies and stardust for equipment, with uncontrollable excitement on everyone's faces.

Some walked back and forth in the corridor after putting on the combat armor, some gestured with their double-bladed trident, and others took photos of each other to post in the chat channel to show off.

Xiao He also received instructions from Lin Xiao, standing at the door of Room 07-01, handing a large ear of corn to everyone who was about to go into battle.

"You have to be full to have the strength to fight!"

He said, the smile on his face was genuine, but there was a hint of worry hidden in his eyes.

As for the team leaders, they received an extra bottle of corn wine.

Fang Yuan took the mineral water bottle, stuffed it into his backpack, and patted Xiao He on the shoulder: "Don't worry, with Brother Lin leading the team, it's very stable."

Xu Shan walked by carrying a hammer and added in a muffled voice: "Exactly, you just stay on the train and wait to count the spoils."

Xiao He shook his head with a smile and continued to hand out wine to the next person.

Lin Xiao stood in the center of the territory, his gaze sweeping over the passengers who were ready for battle.

He did not select a regiment-sized combat force of three hundred people, but only screened some elite forces from each carriage, gathering a little over a hundred people.

The train currently had only 415 people, and less than half of them were capable of fighting.

If 300 people were pulled to the battlefield, it would be no different from draining the pond to catch the fish.

Considering all this, Lin Xiao only took Fan Sinian and Fang Yuan on this operation.

He left The three women to guard the train, while Xu Shan and Zhou Jun took the remaining elite forces to assist from the side.

The combat plan proceeded steadily.

Fan Sinian stood by to take roll call for Lin Xiao; those selected stood to the left, and those not selected stood to the right.

Some were unwilling and ran over to ask why they hadn't been chosen.

Lin Xiao just replied indifferently: "Next time."

No explanation, no comfort.

But no one dared to ask more.

Jing Hua stood by watching this scene, her brows furrowed tightly.

"Hey, I gave you three hundred sets of equipment, and you only picked one hundred people?"

She finally couldn't help but ask, her voice subconsciously raised a few notches. "Do you know how many troops are in Cang Ming's main force? Only taking one hundred people, are you going to fight or to die?"

"Miss Jing Hua, it is the quality of the troops that matters, not the quantity." Lin Xiao stood up, walked to the window, and looked at the silhouette of the giant ship in the darkness in the distance. "Moreover, as our last home, this train also needs to be defended by heavy troops."

"Could it be..." He looked back at Jing Hua, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up. "Is Miss Jing Hua worried that the combat power is insufficient? Do you have so little confidence in the old merfolk forces?"

When this was said, Pearl Tear and the other merfolk standing behind Jing Hua looked at each other.

A nameless fire rose in Jing Hua's heart.

She was clearly asking about these humans who were going to participate in the war, so how did the topic turn to the old merfolk forces?

Although she was angry inside, she did not flare up.

"Fine, then one hundred people, but I also have a condition."

"Speak."

"You will be the vanguard!"

Jing Hua's gaze fell on Lin Xiao's face, carrying a strangely familiar sense of arrogance.

Oh, right, the last proud and conceited girl had already been ruined.

She had even listened to her teammates' nonsense and attempted to use a honey trap to carry out an assassination.

Jing Hua couldn't see through what Lin Xiao was thinking, she just lifted her chin and said coldly: "Since you took the initiative to accept the commission proposed by Princess Princess Xiyao, then I want to see with my own eyes what kind of battle you weak humans can actually fight!"

Lin Xiao smiled. "This is what you said, don't go back on your word~"

He was dying to play it this way.

This way, he could strip equipment to his heart's content.

The equipment worn by the main force would surely be better than those of the vanguard team just now, right?

...

Lin Xiao finished checking everyone's equipment, led them through the membrane, and entered the cold seawater.

The moment the Bio-Armor touched the seawater, it activated the [Underwater Breathing] trait.

The filtration device on the face mask could continuously extract oxygen from the seawater and could also recover the gas exhaled by the wearer, which, after conversion, was supplied back to the respiratory circulation system.

Fan Sinian splashed around in the seawater twice and quickly found his balance: "This thing is really awesome!"

Fang Yuan picked up the horse-slaying saber and tested the feel; the blade carved a beautiful arc in the water: "You have to admit, after wearing this equipment, the movements are much more agile than before..."

The bone-chilling cold hidden in the seawater was also reduced a lot.

In this way, the wearer could stay in the seawater for a period of time without having an accident due to hypothermia.

Lin Xiao led everyone and swam straight towards the queen elizabeth, using the skill [Death Grip] to be the first to board the deck.

Fan Sinian, full of anticipation, followed closely behind, swimming flexibly over the railing.

But the moment his feet touched the deck, he froze.

"Holy crap!" He looked down at the layer of flesh still wriggling beneath his feet and said in shock, "This thing... is it really alive?"

Fang Yuan also climbed up, and the excited expression on his face gradually faded.

"Brother Lin, is this ship... reliable?"

"Don't worry, I'm an experienced driver!"

Lin Xiao responded with a smile, then led the people across the main deck towards the bridge.

The moment the cabin door was opened, all the passengers widened their eyes.

They saw lines that looked like blood vessels spreading in all directions along the gray-white fleshy cabin walls.

Fan Sinian crouched down and walked carefully into the passage.

The noisy sound of the surrounding water current instantly quieted down, and only a certain rhythmic pulsing sound could be heard.

It was as if they had entered the chest cavity of a huge creature.

Fang Yuan followed behind Old Fan, looking left and right with curiosity.

It had to be said that this eerie world refreshed his understanding time and time again.

"Old Fan, Yuaner, you two take the people and stay in the bridge and the sailor's quarters, wait for my command."

After giving the order, Lin Xiao turned and left, turning to walk towards the lower deck entrance at the stern, from where he entered the true core control area of this warship.

The engine room.

He came to the core again and reached out his hand.

Tentacles shot out from the surface of the meatball and pierced into his arm.

Lin Xiao closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, his vision had split into countless fragments.

He saw the passengers in the cabin who were still looking around.

He saw the personnel left behind peeking out from the train windows.

He saw Jing Hua assembling all the power of the old forces, lining up and waiting in the plains in front of the train.

And with the help of the visual synapses on the mast lookout, Lin Xiao could observe the situation several nautical miles away.

He discovered that in the darker, deeper seawater further away, dense red light spots appeared and were approaching rapidly.

Zooming in on the screen, he discovered that those were eyes.

Coming from thousands of merfolk warriors who had been catalyzed by source essence and had long lost their sanity!