Bzzzt!
In an instant, Lin Xian's vision swam.
Clack-clack, clack-clack.
When he opened his eyes again, the first thing he heard was Teacher Chen's frantic shouting.
"Lin Xian! Lin Xian!"
His vision began to clear as he opened his eyes. Feeling the train thundering along the tracks, Lin Xian jolted awake on the floor.
Beside him, Chen Sixuan had gone pale with fright after seeing him suddenly collapse.
"What happened to you?!"
Lin Xian rubbed his temples and looked at Chen Sixuan. "How long was I unconscious?"
Chen Sixuan looked bewildered. "Just... just a moment. You suddenly fell over."
Lin Xian hurriedly checked on Kiki, who lay on the floor. Half of each eye had already been swallowed by that black ink, and a terrible foreboding rose in his heart.
Thud!
One crisis followed another. With Kiki's fate still uncertain, another violent impact suddenly struck the roof of a carriage farther away.
Lin Xian's expression changed sharply, and he told Chen Sixuan,
"Look after her for me!"
As he spoke, Lin Xian ran straight toward the rear carriages.
Bzzzt!
With a thought, he called up the blueprint for the GK03 Electric Saber that Kiki had given him. He waved his hand, and a pile of tungsten-titanium alloy type I rapidly assembled and forged itself in midair. In the blink of an eye, a sleek black saber slowly took shape. Lacking several crucial materials, he had only fashioned a temporary prototype out of tungsten-titanium alloy type I. He also grabbed a fully loaded automatic rifle and hurried toward the rear.
The newly forged hilt was still warm. Holding it gave Lin Xian a jolt. Kiki's fate remained unknown, and they still hadn't shaken off Tang Hai or the massive Corpse Tide. He could only deal with the immediate crisis first.
He