330: Chapter 330 One man fights alone, a thousand build defenses!

Lin Xiao, standing at the very front, watched the silver-white giant snake rearing its head amidst the ruins and gripped his battle axe tightly.

The scene before him reminded him of his encounter in the deep sea.

Those warships sunken on the seabed were likewise covered in eerie flesh tissue crawling over their steel skeletons.

Ship cannons were entangled by tentacles, the decks were overgrown with breathing sarcomas, and there were crew members fused and symbiotic with marine life...

The turrets currently installed on the doomsday train came precisely from that super-dreadnought named queen elizabeth.

What was that thing called again?

Little Eight seemed to have mentioned it before, it seemed to be called... Living Machinery?

So, was there some kind of connection between the ability used by Train Captain Baili Wuchen and those Living Machinery?

This question lingered in Lin Xiao's mind for only a moment before he pushed it aside.

Now was not the time to explore these matters.

Compared to the parasites encountered on the queen back then, Train Captain Baili Wuchen's fused form was, at least in terms of size and aggression, on a completely different level.

The next part would be a tough battle.

Furthermore, without the suppression fire from the passengers, layers of dark clouds gathered from all directions.

The sound of the Scarab Beetle's elytra rubbing together coalesced once more into a buzzing that made the eardrums tremble, so dense that even the starlight from the dome was partially obscured.

Inside the safe zone, the passengers of AE1001 stared at the fusion-type monster in the distance.

Even the veterans who had experienced the deep-sea decisive battle had their expressions change.

Fan Sinian had just been sent flying by a punch from Train Captain Baili Wuchen, and his ribs were still throbbing with dull pain. Hearing the commotion outside, he immediately pushed away Ruan Li, who was helping him with treatment, struggled to crawl up, and leaned against the broken wall to take a look outside.

"Damn..."

He opened his mouth, but besides that one word, he didn't know what else to say for a moment.

Fang Yuan stood beside him, gripping his horse-slaying saber tightly.

Liu Bi and Chen Pingan stood side by side; the two exchanged a glance but said nothing.

This battle was already beyond the capabilities of any captain.

Chen Pingan considered himself capable of cutting his way in and out of the Insect Swarm seven times, and could face any squad leader or lieutenant of the Silver-White Train.

But with this silver-white giant snake, this collision of power levels, if he or they were to rashly intervene, they would only become a burden to Lin Xiao.

Jiang Wanwan walked out from the crowd.

Her pace was fast, and there wasn't much expression on her face, but her eyes remained fixed on the giant snake in the distance that was ready to strike, and only when she confirmed that Lin Xiao was temporarily safe did she relax slightly for a moment.

"Sister Jiang, should we provide support for Brother Lin?" Fan Sinian asked, clutching his ribs.

Chen Pingan heard this and was about to speak, but Jiang Wanwan's words rang out a step earlier.

"If we go over, we'll just be making things worse."

Jiang Wanwan's tone left no room for discussion, and although her voice wasn't loud, it was clearly heard by everyone around.

She withdrew her gaze and scanned the captains who had gathered around: "Captains, please lead your people to rebuild the defense line, intercept the Insect Swarm, and give Lin Xiao an absolutely safe environment to output damage."

As she said this, she turned to Tian Xiwei and Ruan Li, who were not far behind her.

"The two of you, support Lin Xiao well. Do not let the buff skills break, and ensure healing skills are timely. Do you hear me?"

The two people standing behind nodded simultaneously.

Jiang Wanwan looked at Captain Xie Yun again, "Captain Xie Yun, you are responsible for coordinating the joint defense. If the Insect Swarm breaks through the defense line, you have the authority to mobilize any team to fill the gap."

"Understood," Captain Xie Yun replied.

Orders were passed down layer by layer, and the crowd began to move again.

Formations were redeployed amidst the ruins, and the sounds of weapons being drawn rose one after another.

The wounded were pulled to the rear, and the green halos of healing spells lit up in the darkness from time to time.

No one spoke, no one questioned. All passengers had only one mission: block the Insect Swarm and survive!

In the center of the battlefield, Lin Xiao stood atop the ruins, feeling a warm current of a series of buff skills surging from behind him.

The silver halo of [Judgment], the stacking marks of [Word of Truth: Amplification], the scarlet sigils of [Fanatic Memory], and the translucent shield of [Flash Shield] condensing around him.

All the buffs that could be applied were accurately in place at the first moment.

He tilted his head slightly, his gaze passing over the chaotic battlefield and landing on Jiang Wanwan in front of the crowd.

Wanwan did not speak, nor did she make any move that might interfere with his judgment.

She simply stood there, across a distance of several hundred meters, nodded gently at him, and then the corners of her mouth curved into an extremely faint smile.

A smile of affirmation.

As if saying: "I know you will definitely win!"

A warm current surged in Lin Xiao's heart, gradually pouring into his exhausted limbs and bones, and the strength in his body became abundant once again.

He turned his head back to face the silver-white giant snake again, his fingers tightening slightly, gripping the battle axe more firmly.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen let out a hiss, controlling the Silver-White Train—or rather, the silver-white Living Machinery giant snake—and swooped down toward Lin Xiao.

This time, Lin Xiao did not call for ship cannon support.

Although the power of the ship cannons was formidable and could strike the Cloud Palace within range, the result of the last concentrated fire was already very clear.

The protective film wrapped around the outer periphery of the palace was too thick; the energy shells converted from stardust lost more than half of their kinetic energy when passing through that layer of fluid barrier, and the remaining half was blocked by the indestructible bedrock layer.

Both the explosion damage and splash range were greatly discounted, and the destructive power caused was far from expectations.

Therefore, he simply wouldn't waste stardust.

Go head-to-head directly!

Lin Xiao had encountered even stronger Superior Beings.

The Lord of the Abyss almost dragged the doomsday train into the seabed, but he still blasted it into the underground.

Now it was just a piece of Living Machinery made of flesh and steel, what was there to fear?

Lin Xiao kicked off the ground, his figure shooting out like a cannonball, meeting it head-on.

He relied on a high movement speed bonus to close the distance with the giant snake.

The battle axe flipped, its blade wrapped in the deep red light of [Blood Rage] and [Soul Siphon Strike] modes, and he slashed fiercely at the side of the snake's body.

Then, he retreated as soon as he touched it, not giving the opponent time to counterattack, and changed angles to launch another attack.

Tian Xiwei's buff skills were accurately stacked on before every axe strike landed.

Ruan Li's healing spells had almost no moment of interruption.

These buffs, combined with the stacking of Lin Xiao's own several passive skills—movement speed increase, damage increase, damage reduction...

It was practically his strongest output method.

But this time, the usually invincible combination did not gain much advantage.

Under the frenzied slashing, only shallow marks were left on the surface of the fused and evolved carriage.

Compared to the previous destructive power that swept away everything, the results were minimal.

Although the [bleeding] effect stacked with [True Damage] could affect the giant snake.

Especially after turning on the Blood Rage mode, one could see dark red energy residue when the axe blade grazed the iron skin.

That was the True Damage ignoring defense, burning the flesh.

In this state, the giant snake would briefly lag due to pain, but it was merely a lag.

It was too big.

Moreover, Train Captain Baili Wuchen could absorb the life force of his own people to replenish his consumption.

After merging with the Silver-White Train, his strength not only did not diminish but instead became even more violent.

Every attack was a large-scale sweep.

It was fast and powerful; even with Lin Xiao's constitution and damage reduction, it was difficult to withstand.

Some Scarab Beetles attracted by the commotion of the battle had not yet launched an attack before they were directly smashed into bloody, mangled debris by the swinging Tail.

The edge of the ruins, which had already been battered beyond recognition by the ship cannons, was gradually stripped of all topsoil and broken bricks under the giant snake's frenzied sweeping, revealing the gray-black bedrock layer beneath.

Even the bedrock, which could not be destroyed by ship cannons, was now being scraped by the iron shell of the silver-white carriage into marks of varying depths.