321: Chapter 321 Fierce Battle in the Clouds, Wolf's Gaze in the Desert!

Many passengers fighting the Insect Swarm on the front lines subconsciously looked up toward this side.

The veteran passengers were no strangers to Jiang Wanwan.

But the new passengers were very curious.

In their impression, Jiang Wanwan was the gentle woman by the Train Conductor's side, the person in charge of the bank zone.

So they subconsciously assumed she was just a common administrative role.

But now, Jiang Wanwan alone was outputting the firepower density of an entire long-range formation, without even breaking a sweat.

The glances looking over were filled with a bit more heartfelt admiration.

Tian Xiwei stood one step behind Jiang Wanwan.

Feeling the surrounding gazes, she took a deep breath, refusing to be outdone.

Her fingers tapped lightly, and two halos fell onto Jiang Wanwan simultaneously.

Skill [Judgment]: Applies a Judgment status to a friendly unit for five seconds, during which the target's attacks cannot be dodged.

Under the buff of this skill, the Ice Arrow transformed from a straight shot into a homing missile. Any bug that was locked on couldn't run away at all, directly colliding with the Ice Arrow and shattering into powder.

Immediately followed by the skill [True Word · Amplification]: Every time a skill hits an enemy target, it adds a mark to oneself. Each mark increases skill damage by one percent, and the marks can stack infinitely.

With Jiang Wanwan's firing rate, stacking up to hundreds of layers within thirty seconds was a piece of cake.

Tian Xiwei, who released the skill, had black mist rising from her body.

That was her weapon, [seal ring], activating its characteristics.

Tian Xiwei turned to Lin Xiao, who had already rushed into mid-air, and pushed her right hand into the air.

Two halos flew out simultaneously.

[True Word · Flash Shield]: Provides a shield for a friendly unit. The shield will gradually thicken within thirty seconds, and when it breaks, it will cause a high-brightness visual impact to surrounding enemies.

[Fanatic Remembrance]: Applies a Fanatic mark to a friendly unit for twenty seconds. While the mark persists, for every instance of damage the target receives, the next attack damage increases by five percent.

...

Lin Xiao noticed the two extra buff icons in the lower-left corner of his field of vision.

But he didn't have time to look closely.

Because there were simply too many buffs on him.

The dark red border of [Berserk], the golden emblem of [Gentlemanly Demeanor], the blue wave pattern of [Raging Tide], the deep red blood gauge of [Massacre], the silver chain icon of [Coordinated Combat]...

A long string of passive skills and weapon equipment characteristics piled up in two whole rows in the lower-left corner of his vision.

Lin Xiao had no time to identify them one by one.

The Level 5 battle axe [terminator] danced in his hands.

The Scarab Beetle surrounding him all burst like water balloons.

As the axe blade cleaved into the Scarab Beetle's carapace and green body fluid exploded, the battle axe characteristic [Soul Siphon Strike] automatically activated, converting the absorbed vitality into fuel for the Maximum Output Mode.

The stacked [bleeding] layers from [Massacre] had already entered the Blood Rage state, doubling attack power and ignoring defense.

Combined with the damage buffs from [Fanatic Remembrance], [Raging Tide], and [Berserk].

The force of every axe strike made the air around the blade scream.

Lin Xiao was almost killing like a madman.

He alone blocked the Insect Swarm from three directions.

But there were too many Scarab Beetle; relying solely on monotonous melee attacks made it hard to exert effective suppression.

Lin Xiao raised his hand to wipe the green slime off his crystal faceplate, revealing a smile that was almost fanatical.

It was time to try the harvest from last night.

He first extended his left hand and pushed forward, unfolding an electric field with a radius of ten meters out of thin air.

Arcs of electricity jumped in the air, inflicting a 60% slow and a small probability of [Paralysis] effect on all Scarab Beetle within the electric field's range.

The Insect Swarm's flight speed was cut by a huge margin, and the originally dense offensive formation became sluggish and chaotic within the electric field.

Then he raised his hand, gripped with his five fingers inward, and dark red flames burst out in the center of the electric field.

The flameless but violent fire made these bugs squeak and crackle, killing a large batch in an instant.

But the fire did not extinguish there.

Dark red sparks jumped randomly, leaping from one bug to another, and then spreading to the surrounding Insect Swarm.

Like a prairie fire.

The dense squeaking and the crisp sound of carapaces bursting intertwined in the flames.

Scorched insect corpses fell from mid-air with embers, hitting the ruins near the fortifications with a dull thud.

The fire spread faster and faster, covering an increasingly wider range.

Chen Pingan in the due south position had just swung his horizontal blade to unleash two tornadoes, sweeping up the Insect Swarm on the flank.

He looked up and saw the overwhelming sea of fire on Lin Xiao's side, paused for a moment, then gripped his horizontal blade and flew over.

"Brother Lin, lend me some fire!"

"Use it as you please."

Upon receiving the response, Chen Pingan held the blade with one hand and cut in from the edge of the flames.

The moment the blade passed through the sea of fire, it was wrapped in a layer of dark red burning flames.

Immediately followed by continuous steps of Moonwalk, his figure rose above the Insect Swarm, and he slashed down vertically with the horizontal blade.

A tornado wrapped in dark red flames exploded from the blade, sweeping the bugs with the [Burning Body] effect into the cyclone and blowing them toward the Insect Swarm further away.

Now, the sky was instantly filled with magnificent dark red fire clouds.

Constantly bursting ice-blue flowers intertwined with various dazzling skill lights, dyeing the dome of the entire Cloud Palace ruins into an ever-changing colorful painting.

Ice and fire crossed and exploded on the same battlefield, and the shattered sheaths of the Scarab Beetle reflected the light of the skills, like a firework show that would never stop.

[Basic Physique Limit + 1]

[Basic Physique Limit + 1]

[Basic Physique Limit + 1]

...

Every thousand Calamity Creatures killed increased Physique by one point.

Lin Xiao swung his axe in the sea of fire, traveling through the wreckage of the Insect Swarm, watching his Physique attribute jump up bit by bit, becoming more excited the more he killed.

If it weren't for insufficient mental power, he would even want to summon a meteorite to make the atmosphere in the arena even hotter!

Just as everyone on the doomsday train was fighting fiercely in the Cloud Palace.

On the edge of the desert.

The Silver-White Train stopped behind a raised sand ridge.

The self-repair system had already patched most of the damaged carriage shells, the flow speed of the liquid metal was still slow, and some corners still showed scorched cracks that had not fully healed.

But the overall outline had recovered to more than 90% of what it was before the shelling.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen stood in front of the window of the Train Conductor's room, his right hand fingers tapping the window frame unconsciously.

His gaze did not fall on the boundless desert outside the window, but through his senses, he was firmly locked onto a coordinate at the end of the firmament.

That direction.

The force that had made him suffer consecutive setbacks had conducted a long-distance teleportation not long ago.

Judging from the energy waveforms sensed, the duration of this teleportation was even longer than yesterday.

Both ends of the channel were very stable.

One anchor point was moving slowly on the ground, which was probably the train they were traveling on.

And the other anchor point was fixed and hovering at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen's knuckles stopped on the window frame.

Ten thousand meters high...

His brows slowly furrowed, his thoughts pulled back to a long time ago.

In the first stage when the Silver-White Train first entered this doomsday world and was at a dead end.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen and the passengers accidentally saved a group of humanoid jellyfish creatures who called themselves royalty.

After saving the jellyfish, they received a large number of gifts.

The train also took this opportunity to evolve, gaining powerful abilities for leaping and teleporting.

And those humanoid jellyfish who called themselves royalty came from an ancient country of Heze.

That was a holy land with infinitely rich resources.

The towering palace was built at an altitude of ten thousand meters, suspended above the magnificent ring-shaped clouds.

And in the palace, there was a very precious ancient well, which was the foundation of the entire country's establishment.

The jellyfish hoped that the Silver-White Train could help them eliminate the Calamity Creatures that had invaded their country.

In return, they gifted the train a large number of precious items.

With the help of these supplies and secret methods, Train Captain Baili Wuchen led the Silver-White Train to crush all subsequent stages, and even began to plunder the resources of other trains.

Of course.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen had no interest in helping the jellyfish restore their country.

He was only interested in that ancient well.

Whenever those jellyfish mentioned the ancient well, their words were full of undisguised reverence and yearning.

Something that could make an exiled royal family still unable to forget, something that could establish a palace above the clouds, was definitely not an ordinary object!

And at this moment, that anchor point was hovering at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

It was very likely the location of the palace.

Did that group of people actually find a way to go up to the sky?

Not only did they go up, but they also gained a foothold there, continuously transporting troops.

Could they have already found that ancient well?

Could they be using the ancient well to farm rewards?

This thought pierced into Train Captain Baili Wuchen's mind like needles.

He slapped the window frame and walked to the desk to call up the all-train communication channel:

"Everyone, prepare for jump combat. Issue enchanted ammunition to every person for every magazine, no reserves left!"

A moment later, the female adjutant with black-rimmed glasses knocked on the door.

The expression on her face was as cautious as ever.

"Train Captain, the stardust reserves are not enough. The repair consumption caused by the previous round of shelling exceeded expectations, plus the loss of forced migration... The remaining stardust is currently not enough to support continuous jumps!"

Train Captain Baili Wuchen turned around slowly and asked in a gentle tone: "How much is missing?"

"At least... another ten million is needed."

"Ten million?"

Train Captain Baili Wuchen nodded, his expression very calm.

He walked back behind the desk, opened the drawer, and took out a bound data record.

The page opened recorded the information of the last five carriages, densely packed with the names and numbers of passengers.

Now, it was time for them to make a contribution again.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen closed the booklet and handed it to the adjutant.

"Select two hundred people from the labor carriage and feed them into the train core. Let them exert their final remaining heat to provide for this Train Captain to expand the territory!"

The female adjutant's hand holding the booklet trembled slightly.

She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but her gaze met Train Captain Baili Wuchen's eyes, which were calm without a ripple, and all words were stuck in her throat.

The people in the labor carriage were survivors they had captured.

They had been imprisoned in the last five carriages, given only the minimum amount of water and food to maintain survival every day, and used for various consumable purposes like livestock in captivity.

Used as bait to scout the way when exploring ruins, and pushed to the front as meat shields when encountering enemy forces.

And now, they were to be thrown directly into the train core to be converted into energy to drive the jump, just like adding firewood to a furnace.

The female adjutant felt a bit of physiological nausea, but she dared not say anything, and could only silently exit the Train Conductor's room and obediently execute the order.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen turned his face back toward the train window and looked at the distant sky.

A cruel smile appeared.

"Mine... it's all mine!"