214: Chapter 214 Under the Muzzle of a Cannon, All Living Beings Are Equal!

"Given the current situation, it's normal for him to have it on; I'd be more worried if he didn't..."

Fang Yuan gazed at the red light constantly blooming within the Black Tide and remarked out of the blue.

Hearing this, everyone nodded in succession.

But no matter how you slice it, they still didn't understand the reason for Lin Xiao's madness.

Was it for the rank one position?

They didn't understand.

But as a veteran who had reincarnated countless times, Lin Xiao knew this mode all too well.

Endless Tower Defense.

This mode was extremely rare, but the rules were exceptionally simple: defend until the attack duration ends and the enemies retreat.

During this period, Calamity Creatures would spawn continuously.

The more you kill, the more appear.

The more that appear, the more you kill.

There is no limit!

As everyone knows, every single Calamity Creature is a walking treasure trove.

Their kill rewards contain materials, stardust, skill books, equipment blueprints...

All the resources that need to be carefully calculated and rationed in normal rounds can be farmed infinitely here.

Of course, some might ask.

Isn't this mode a bug?

If everyone could farm it to death, wouldn't they all be invincible?

That logic holds, but in previous reincarnations, Lin Xiao had only encountered this type of mode during the mid-to-late stages of the calamity.

And the Calamity Creatures that appeared then were behemoths of level seventy or eighty, or even over a hundred.

Before them, even the Leviathan would be considered a little girl.

Those sky-blocking monsters each possessed world-destroying power.

Let alone farming monsters, survivors would be lucky to just stay alive until the attack ended.

But now, in the second stage, this mode had appeared.

The spawned Calamity Creatures were mostly level three or four ordinary monsters, interspersed with level five or six elite monsters.

For Lin Xiao, who was wearing a level 4 set, wielding a level 4 battle axe, and had stacked his constitution attribute to 60 points.

What was the difference between these monsters and walking treasure chests?

Isn't this fucking welfare?

In his past lives, during countless reincarnations, when was he not pressed to the ground and rubbed by the game mechanics?

When was he not struggling to survive in the despair of resource scarcity?

When was he not watching his teammates fall one by one, while he couldn't even afford a decent weapon?

Now, such a good opportunity was laid out before him.

If he went soft, he would be doing a disservice to the suffering he endured over those thirty-six million reincarnations.

Kill.

Kill until they're dead.

Kill as many as there are.

Squeeze every drop of value out of these monsters.

For the third stage, fourth stage, fifth stage...

For those hurdles he couldn't overcome in his past life, hoard enough supplies, accumulate enough capital!

Another hour passed.

The surging Black Tide showed signs of retreating for the first time.

Those Calamity Creatures seemed to hear some command imperceptible to humans and stopped their attack one after another.

They no longer rushed crazily toward the Astral Express, but began to withdraw, like seawater during an ebb tide.

In the chat channel, in the train corridors, and on the roof, everyone cheered.

But just as the atmosphere began to relax.

Deep within the Black Tide, several massive figures slowly emerged.

They broke through the thinning Black Tide and pressed toward the Astral Express.

The surface of their huge conch shells was covered with thick frost, and on top of the shells were icebergs emitting blue light.

[Frost Vein Ancient Conch, Level 11 Ocean Kin, Lord-level Calamity]

These were the massive Calamity Creatures seen on the sea surface earlier.

But what was seen then was only the tip of the iceberg.

Their true bodies were hidden below the water level.

At this moment, in the deep sea, these behemoths finally revealed their full appearance.

The diameter of the conch shell alone was visually estimated to exceed five hundred meters.

The wrinkled soft tissue hanging below was more than ten times larger than the iceberg on top.

Between the folds were countless tiny holes that opened and closed with their breathing, constantly spitting out pale blue water currents.

In the terrified gaze of the passengers, five Frost Vein Ancient Conchs, carrying a suffocating pressure, slowly approached from the depths of the Black Tide.

They moved very slowly, but every step made the seabed tremble.

Sediments that had accumulated on the plain for who knows how many years were kicked up more than ten meters high by the movement of their bodies.

Lord-level.

Belonging to high-risk territorial Calamity Creatures, their combat power was comparable to a BOSS of the same level.

On the roof, the voices of the people who had just been cheering stopped abruptly.

The coconut juice in Fan Sinian's hand dropped to the ground.

"Ice... iceberg?"

He muttered, his voice filled with an tone of disbelief.

It wasn't just him.

Most of the surrounding passengers were clutching their heads, screaming incessantly.

"It's those icebergs from before!"

"How did they chase us here?"

"Five of them... there are five... how do we fight this, how do we fight?"

Just as everyone was panicking.

A figure rushed out of the seawater at high speed, passed through the [Coating], and landed steadily on the anti-slip steel plate on the roof of Carriage 7.

Seven hours had passed since the Black Tide started its attack.

He had been killing in the Black Tide for seven hours.

There was no rest in between.

Even when the durability of his battle axe and level 4 set dropped to zero, he used pleasure tokens to repair them immediately.

At this moment, Lin Xiao stood in place, his back still straight, without a trace of fatigue.

The heavy battle axe in his hand pointed diagonally at the ground, with the remains of Calamity Creatures still hanging on the blade, shining with a dark red light under the lights.

Under the crystal face mask, the corners of his mouth slowly curled into an arc.

When the Black Tide retreated, Lin Xiao did not pursue the fleeing Calamity Creatures.

Killing those small fry, no matter how many, was just icing on the cake.

But Lord-level.

Five Lord-levels.

I wonder how many rewards this stuff will give!

As the Frost Vein Ancient Conchs approached, the tiny holes on the surface of their conch shells suddenly opened.

Countless gray-white tentacles shot out from the holes, like springs compressed to the extreme, stabbing toward the Astral Express at a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture.

Different from that time on the sea surface.

That time, the passengers were hiding inside the carriages, protected by the Astral Express's rules.

The tentacles lashed against the carriages and were countered by the rules, disintegrating inch by inch.

But this time, most of the elite forces were on the roof.

If they were hit directly by the tentacles, the consequences would be unimaginable!

"Can this layer of film block it?"

Someone asked in terror.

That layer of [Coating] could isolate Calamity invasions and block Black Tide pollution, but it was only a film after all.

Facing a full-force strike from a Lord-level Calamity, could it really hold up?

No one knew the answer.

But the tentacles had already stabbed over.

The tips of the gray-white tentacles gleamed with an eerie ice-blue cold light, and wherever they passed, the seawater instantly condensed into fine ice crystals.

Hundreds of tentacles stabbed toward the Astral Express simultaneously, like a rain of ice spears shooting from all directions at once.

Everyone looked at the person standing in the middle of the Carriage 7 roof.

Dozens of gazes, filled with fear, anticipation, and a last glimmer of hope, all converged on that rank one god.

Being watched by so many pairs of eyes, Lin Xiao was unhurried.

Today is different from the past.

Last time on the sea surface, he could only stay behind alone, using all his strength to sever one tentacle, and then fled back to the Astral Express in a sorry state.

Now.

Nineteen turrets.

Seventy-six naval guns.

Level 5 guns, level 10 shells.

He wanted to see how many volleys these things crawling out of the conch shells could withstand.

With a slight movement of his mind.

The Astral Express trembled slightly.

The nineteen turrets and seventy-six naval guns on the entire train began to turn simultaneously.

The gray-black turrets emitted a low mechanical humming sound, and the thick gun barrels were slowly raised by the hydraulic devices, pointing at the behemoths approaching.

Inside the gun breeches, golden stardust energy began to gather.

The light went from barely visible at first, to gradually brightening, and finally.

The breeches of seventy-six naval guns lit up simultaneously, like seventy-six golden eyes opening on the Astral Express.

Everyone on the roof held their breath; they had never seen such a spectacular scene.

During the more than seven hours of defensive battle before, the naval guns had been firing continuously, but that was scattered shooting round after round.

One gun finished firing, another took over, keeping the firepower uninterrupted.

But there had never been a time when seventy-six naval guns aimed at the same direction simultaneously.

"Fire!"

A roar came from Lin Xiao on the roof.

The next second, accompanied by a deafening roar, seventy-six beams of light pierced out from all parts of the Astral Express simultaneously.

The doomsday train also tilted more than thirty degrees to the other side due to the massive recoil generated by the simultaneous firing of the naval guns.

Everyone on the anti-slip steel plate staggered.

Most people fell directly to the ground, and some agile ones barely stood firm by grabbing onto the edges of the turret bases.

Those who steadied themselves looked up again.

They saw golden energy shells dragging long trails, like meteors moving against the current, converging into a golden torrent.

They crossed a distance of hundreds of meters, the seawater on their path instantly boiled, leaving only a vacuum channel with rolling bubbles.

Then, the first shell hit the behemoth in the very front.

The ice layer on the surface of the conch shell exploded instantly, revealing the gray-white soft tissue underneath.

The following shells tore open the layer of soft tissue below, leaving a huge hole, and blue blood and flesh sprayed out from the wound.

The third shot, the fourth shot, the fifth shot...

The subsequent shells drilled in along that hole, exploding one after another inside the conch shell.

The huge body of that Frost Vein Ancient Conch paused abruptly.

It stopped.

Its body began to swell violently.

The thick and hard conch shell was easily shattered by the erupting energy flow.

The gray-white soft tissue instantly vaporized under the dazzling golden light.

Blue blood diffused in the seawater, like a huge blue firework in full bloom.

The iceberg on its head also quickly disintegrated and collapsed in the shockwave of the explosion, with countless ice fragments shooting out in all directions.

The flesh and blood of the Frost Vein Ancient Conch erupted with extreme cold the moment it touched the seawater.

The surrounding seawater turned into a huge ice wall within a few seconds.

The broken corpse of that Frost Vein Ancient Conch was frozen in the center of the ice wall, like an ancient insect sealed in amber.

[Energy + 100]

[Points + 10000]

[stardust + 30000]

[source essence Crystal * 1, stardust crystal shards * 317, abyssal water * 446...]

Lin Xiao looked at the reward notification popping up in his field of vision, his pupils shrinking slightly.

source essence Crystal?

A Lord-level Frost Vein Ancient Conch can drop source essence Crystals!

Good, very good!

Lin Xiao licked his lips, trembling with excitement.

Then, not a single one can be let go!

"Fire!!!"