My Doomsday Train

Inside a karst cave beside an underground river.

The heavy-looking Stellar-class train was parked to the side, its headlights illuminating the entire cave, while humming oxygen generators consumed energy to maintain sufficient oxygen levels.

“…”

Having finished washing and eating breakfast, Chen Mang was already lying in the "Combat Training Virtual Space" in the train compartment, starting his solo mission training for the day. This was his new toy, and he quite liked it.

He had just spent 45,000 units to upgrade his "Combat Training Virtual Space" to level 10, gaining two corresponding special supermodel effects.

The level 10 supermodel effect meant that training in the virtual space would directly increase his physical fitness in reality.

Of course.

Human physical potential was still limited. Expecting the "Combat Training Virtual Space" to train him into a superman was impossible, but with systematic training, goals like becoming a parkour expert or a knife-fighting master were not difficult to achieve.

Three hours later.

Chen Mang, feeling a bit bored, exited the "Combat Training Virtual Space", stretched, and headed towards carriage number 2, where the production lines were stacked, including the "Pickaxe Production Line."

Before mining the "Crimson Heart Rock", he had upgraded the pickaxe production line to level 3 to ensure it could produce pickaxes capable of mining level 3 minerals.

The cost of manufacturing a level 1 pickaxe was 1 unit of iron ore.

A level 2 pickaxe was 10 units of iron ore.

A level 3 pickaxe was 100 units of iron ore.

Now, he spent another 4,100 units of iron ore to directly upgrade the "Pickaxe Production Line" to level 10. At this level, the production line could produce level 10 pickaxes.

The price of a level 10 pickaxe was 1 billion units of iron ore.

Well…

The number made him a bit speechless. Level 10 pickaxes were for mining level 10 mines.

It also came with two supermodel effects.

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「Pickaxe Production Line Level 5 Supermodel Effect」: None.

「Pickaxe Production Line Level 10 Supermodel Effect」: None.

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He had tried using a "Drill" to mine, thinking that the drill could easily turn iron ore into powder. He did succeed in drilling the protruding cauliflower-like iron ore on the ground into powder, but not even 1 unit of iron ore dropped.

He also tried attaching a "Pickaxe" to a wheel, attempting to create a simple automated mining machine.

In the end, it still failed.

The three level 2 iron ore mines and one level 2 copper mine beside the cave were completely mined.

The current train panel showed a total of 684,000 units of iron ore and 231,000 units of copper ore.

Not enough, keep going!

Chen Mang looked at the iron ore on the panel, his eyes narrowing. He needed more iron ore.

Under his control, the Stellar-class train immediately left the cave and headed towards the "Mohe Hills" along the underground river.

Half an hour later, they successfully arrived.

Chen Mang in the train compartment looked out the window, seeing the road ahead undulating like ocean waves, but fixed in place. Without special wheels, the train could hardly move forward, but it didn't pose much of a problem for him.

He switched to "Spider Leg" wheels, and after spending 4,400 units of iron ore, the "Axe Production Line" was also upgraded to level 10 in one go, now capable of producing level 10 axes, although the price was still 1 billion units of iron ore.

The two corresponding supermodel effects were also none.

After spending 10,000 units of iron ore to produce a thousand axes, the resource detection radar successfully located two adjacent lumberyards deep in the "Mohe Hills".

“The environment is not bad.”

Chen Mang looked out the window, seeing lush green trees everywhere, which seemed more vibrant than the wasteland. The slaves had already started heading into the forest with axes to begin logging.

Two more days passed.

These two lumberyards had also been completely logged, but their capacity wasn't too large, yielding a total of 230,000 units of wood.

That was enough.

There was nothing in the train that needed wood right now, and this amount of wood would last him a long time.

He immediately set off again, controlling the Stellar-class train to travel along the underground river in the wasteland.

「Ding, detected a level 2 resource mine 2,000 meters deep.」

Start digging.

「Ding, detected two level 3 resource mines 1,000 meters deep.」

Start digging!

“Has time passed so quickly?”

Inside the Stellar-class train.

Chen Mang sat on a chair, manually shaving his stubble. After finishing, he placed the razor aside, and the girl holding the basin of water nearby came over knowingly.

After wiping away the remaining stubble with clean water.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, looking at his refreshed self in the mirror with satisfaction. It had been a full thirty-seven days since he left the "Mohe Wasteland".

In these 37 days, he had only done one thing.

He had mined the entire "Tieling Wasteland" along the underground river veins. There were mines to dig every day, and the slaves had not rested for a single day. It was no exaggeration to say that he had almost mined all the mines under the Tieling Wasteland.

Perhaps, there were mines deep underground in other places besides the underground river veins, or even mines more than 10,000 meters underground.

But he wasn't planning on searching anymore.

The cost-effectiveness was no longer high.

He couldn't possibly control the train to shuttle underground, as that would increase the range of the resource detection radar and detect deeper mines, but the speed would be much slower than on the surface.

Adding the iron ore accumulated in the past few days, the current resource units in the train were at an almost astronomical number! -

3,654,000 units of iron ore.

710,000 units of copper ore.

230,000 units of wood.

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“Do you have a name?”

Chen Mang casually asked the girl standing quietly behind him in the mirror. This woman was chosen by Old Zhu from the slaves to be responsible for the hygiene and daily life in his train compartment. She had performed well these days.

She was quiet, didn't have extra thoughts, and worked efficiently.

“Xiaofang.”

“What did you do before the apocalypse?”

“Elementary school teacher.”

“…”

He glanced back at the girl behind him and nodded casually: “Good, I like cultured people. Go down, I don’t need you anymore.”

“Yes, Master Mang.”

After the woman left.

Chen Mang tidied up his new clothes with satisfaction, looked at himself in the mirror, leaned on his cane, and smiled with satisfaction. After spending 4,400 units of wood, the "Clothing Customization Production Line" was upgraded to level 10, gaining two supermodel effects.

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「Clothing Customization Production Line Level 5 Supermodel Effect」: The manufactured clothes have a good temperature-locking effect.

"Clothing Customization Production Line Level 10 Supermodel Effect": Can manufacture high-quality clothes. The manufactured clothes will provide the wearer with a strong temperament boost. Requires 500 times the crafting materials.

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The price to manufacture a set of clothes is 1 unit of wood.

Extremely cheap.

Moreover, it's custom-made. Compared to the price of 40,000 units for a set of "Individual Soldier Skeletal Armor," this is practically charity.

Even if high-quality clothes require 500 times the crafting materials, it's still only 500 units of wood.

The "Clothing Customization Production Line" upgrade has no special effects, only two special supermodel effects upon reaching the corresponding level.

Tomorrow is an important day.

Tomorrow will be the day the train officially gets on the right track. Various processes will be standardized, and the term "slave" will be officially changed. He specially crafted a set of high-quality clothes for his formal appearance at the opening tomorrow.

As the train conductor, his attire actually influences the people below.

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If the train conductor dresses brightly and smartly, the people below will feel at ease.

If the train conductor himself looks dirty and disheveled, the people below will be worried when working, fearing that the train will be breached by monsters one day.

The train has no mines to dig today and is parked in the wasteland for rest.

All slaves have a day off today and are free to rest in the carriages or near the train.

"Not bad."

Chen Mang looked at himself in the full-length mirror and smiled with satisfaction.

He crafted a black suit for himself. Once a suit is custom-made to perfectly fit the body, it gives off an air of sophistication. If the price is slightly lower, wearing it will make you look like a real estate salesman.

Adding the white vest and black shirt as inner linings creates a sense of layering.

Especially the "Hell Staff," it's the perfect finishing touch.

Just then—

A knock came from outside the train compartment.

"Come in."

Li Shiji walked in with a stack of blueprints: "Master Mang, I've drafted a few arm badge logos for the 'Hengxing' train as you requested a few days ago. Please take a look."

"Mm."

Chen Mang sat on the chair and took the blueprints Li Shiji handed over, examining them one by one.

Finally, he placed one of the blueprints on the table and tapped it.

"This one it is."

"I will craft an ordinary carriage later, and I will also prepare 100 refrigerators for you. Go find Old Zhu and ask for some manpower to assist you in building this maze."

"Try to complete it before dawn tomorrow."

"No problem." Li Shiji responded with a serious expression, then hesitated: "Master Mang, can you craft a few more ordinary refrigerators?"

"My idea is this: After the robot explores the maze for a few minutes, it will definitely discover the uniqueness of this refrigerator."

"At this time, if we put an ordinary refrigerator at the deepest part of a high-end refrigerator, the back-and-forth running will waste a lot of time. After it knows this setting, we can also put five ordinary refrigerators and one high-end refrigerator all..."

"Alright, no need to say anymore."

Chen Mang narrowed his eyes slightly, smiled at Li Shiji, and waved his hand: "I'll craft another 200 ordinary refrigerators for you. Go and use them."

He already understood the situation.

A mix of truth and falsehood, making it quite torturous.

An ordinary refrigerator isn't expensive, only requiring 100 units of iron ore. 200 ordinary refrigerators only cost 20,000 units of iron ore.

The "Clothing Arm Badge" and "Level S Job Advancement Quest" have basically been finalized.

The train is being repaired today, and the slaves have a day off.

And his task today is to use up all of the "3.654 million units of iron ore." He spent more than thirty days digging this batch of iron ore in the Iron Ridge Wasteland.

First, consume 480,000 units of iron ore.

He crafted an ordinary carriage and 300 refrigerators, and upgraded 100 of them to level 10.

It's worth mentioning that.

Whether it's "Refrigerator," "Single Bed," "Telescope," or "Three-legged Cat Heavy Machine Gun," when calculating scores on the "Iron Ridge Wasteland Region Leaderboard," it's calculated based on the highest-level single item.

It won't directly include all of them in the score just because 100 level 10 refrigerators were crafted.

The Hengxing train currently has 11 carriages, not counting the temporary one built to store the maze.

According to his plan, he needs to build a few more carriages.

Li Shiji's appearance tells him that some of these slaves might not have been nobodies before the apocalypse, being extremely skilled in a certain industry or profession. Such talents might be able to help him one day.

So he additionally crafted two hard-sleeper carriages, both of which are high-level talent carriages.

One carriage for men, one carriage for women.

Talents who enjoy high-level treatment will usually reside in these two carriages.

Each "Hard-Sleeper Carriage" has upper and lower berths, a total of 18 beds.

And he inserted these two carriages between carriage 4 and carriage 5.

The current layout of the train is:

The train head, him alone.

Carriage 2 stores all his industrial production lines, such as the "Pickaxe Production Line," "Heavy Machine Gun Bullet Production Line," and "Off-road Motorcycle Production Line," etc.

Carriage 3 stores all the reserved bullets, and resources such as copper ore and wood are also piled up in this carriage. At this time, several level 10 refrigerators are piled up in this carriage for storing minerals in batches.

Carriage 4 is used to place some living production lines such as the "Moldy Bread Slice Production Line", "Cola Production Line", "Steamed Bun Production Line", etc. Old Zhu and others will also go to this carriage to make slave food on weekdays.

Carriage 5, the hard sleeper carriage for female high-level talents.

Carriage 6, the hard sleeper carriage for male high-level talents.

Carriage 7, the hard sleeper carriage for thugs. Two level 10 refrigerators are piled up in the corner. One refrigerator is filled with 10 "Combat Training Virtual Spaces" as training grounds, and the other refrigerator is filled with many single beds for settling the newly recruited thugs.

Carriages 8 and 9 are used to house 101 human slaves, and the ground has been covered with carpets, etc.

Carriages 10 and 11 house the 121 goblin slaves, and the 4 level 10 refrigerators house the 800+ new slaves who joined the train.

Carriages 12 and 13 are firepower carriages, providing long-range fire support, with "40-tube Cherry Blossom Rocket Launchers" and "Repeating Bed Crossbows."