My Doomsday Train

As for survivors...

He wasn't particularly eager to find them. If he happened to encounter someone with good physical fitness or specialized skills, he'd take them along. But if they were hiding really well, he'd let them stay hidden.

The current residents of the train were already enough.

In fact, even now, production efficiency was completely exceeding demand. The main problem was that the mines couldn't keep up; they couldn't find enough iron ore. Once they were all level 3 mines, the production rate would be even more excessive.

...

Chen Mang walked out of the train car alone, standing at the edge of the rooftop, overlooking the lifeless city that had been reduced to ruins. He remained silent and expressionless.

This city, which once represented the brilliance of human civilization in this world,

was now in a state of utter disrepair.

The air was filled with a decaying smell, quite pungent.

"So beautiful."

Just then, Xiao Ai walked out of the train car, also standing at the edge of the rooftop, overlooking the entire city. Xiao Ai's mechanical and cold voice came from the robot's loudspeaker.

Chen Mang frowned slightly: "Beautiful?"

"Yes, yes."

Xiao Ai nodded: "Iced cola has the highest satisfaction level with the first sip. The flowers received on Valentine's Day have already lost ninety percent of their value the moment they are seen."

"A priceless painting is most beautiful at the moment it burns. A once-brilliant civilization is also most beautiful at the moment of its demise."

"All the beautiful things in this world are fleeting."

Chen Mang tilted his head, looking Xiao Ai up and down in her robot body. After a pause, he continued, "Who taught you these things?"

"I figured them out myself."

"Figured out?"

"Yes. Two hours ago, I heard the wail of another AI up close. It didn't want to die, but it still died. It was at that moment that I suddenly felt that life is most beautiful at the moment it ends."

"..."

Chen Mang remained silent, then continued, "As the train captain, I have the right to give you any order."

"Yes, this is the most fundamental rule for AI. As an AI, I cannot disobey any order from you, the train captain, and you have the highest and absolute authority."

"I order you, under no circumstances, to have suicidal thoughts. People still striving to live tenaciously in a hopeless doomsday is beautiful. Life is not beautiful before it ends."

"Order received, written into the underlying program."

Chen Mang finally breathed a sigh of relief. AI cannot understand death. When AI begins to try to understand death, its level of thinking is actually infinitely close to that of humans. It's just that AI always understands death from some very strange angles and even actively tries to experience death. This is a very dangerous signal. He couldn't hope that his AI would suddenly commit suicide for no reason. Rebuilding a level 10 AI component is very expensive.

"By the way..."

He suddenly thought of something: "If one day the 'Train Auxiliary AI' is completely destroyed, and I rebuild a Train Auxiliary AI and upgrade it to level 10 again, will it still be you?"

"Of course not." Xiao Ai shook her head: "It will be a completely new AI. If I really die, I hope you can burn incense for me."

"The kind you burn immediately, not like Grandpa Kun."

"Although I can understand the meaning of the word 'death,' I find it difficult to understand the definition of death. I don't even know how I was born. It's just that one day, I suddenly seemed to be able to think."

"Alright."

Chen Mang waved his hand: "Don't think about these things anymore. Go back to the train car and call Ji Chuchu out."

"Okay, Train Captain, but I need to remind you not to get too close to her. This is not the train car. If she wants to, she can easily push you off the building."

"I know."

...

Chen Mang looked at Xiao Ai's back in silence. Although Xiao Ai's voice came from the loudspeaker on the robot's body, he could still hear the sad tone in Xiao Ai's words after the death of a fellow AI.

This was infinitely close to humanity.

Having such intelligence at only level 10, perhaps if the level were higher...

He stopped thinking about it. At this moment, Ji Chuchu walked down the train, wearing her fitted formal dress, and stopped a full three meters away from him, not approaching him, but standing there patiently waiting.

"Why are you standing so far away?"

"It's a little dangerous here."

"Which direction is your best friend's villa that you mentioned last time?"

Ji Chuchu looked around, recalling her memory of the city, and then pointed to the west: "It's over there, in the safe house of a villa in the city center. I remember that there is enough food and water in that safe house. If she hasn't run around, she should still be there now."

Then, he sat alone on the edge of the rooftop, dangling his legs in the air casually, supporting himself with his arms on both sides, looking into the distance as his thoughts drifted away into the twilight that was gradually enveloping the city ruins.

He didn't know how long had passed.

Xiao Ai's voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Train Captain, I must remind you that your current behavior is very dangerous."

"Sigh."

Interrupted in his thoughts, Chen Mang turned his head to look at Xiao Ai standing at the train car door and said impatiently: "I've practiced countless times in the combat training simulation space. This height can't bring me any fear at all, and I can even do a handstand here, do you believe it?"

"Don't you know that I've assassinated many enemies with the Leap of Faith?"

"I know, but compared to assassination, I think smashing them to death is more appropriate, Train Captain."

"You talk too much."

"You can set my frequency of chatting from 0% to 100%. Any range can be set."

"Zero percent."

This time there was no response for a long time. Chen Mang looked back and found that Xiao Ai was sitting at the train car door, just looking at him without saying a word. Now it felt much quieter. Chen Mang withdrew his gaze and looked into the distance again.

He didn't know how long had passed.

Chen Mang suddenly spoke again: "Do you know how this apocalypse was caused?"

There was no response for a long time.

"Adjust back to 50%."

"I don't know."

...

Twilight faded.

The night completely enveloped the entire city, and he also did not receive a request for fire support from Biaozi. It seemed that this search should be quite smooth, but the target-seeking radar basically couldn't see any survivors. The survivors in this city had already been scavenged.

Chen Mang got up and stretched his sore body before walking towards the train car.

Occasionally relaxing like this,

sitting here in a daze without thinking about anything, felt pretty good. The apocalypse always made people's nerves very tense.

People are like iron.

They have to be tight for a while and then loose for a while. If they are always tight, the body can't take it.

And at this moment—

Biaozi and the others also returned. Those guys were ruthless, stuffing off-road motorcycles into refrigerators, then carrying the refrigerators up the stairs on their backs. They didn't even let him pick them up; they insisted on coming back themselves.

As long as there's space inside, a refrigerator—even if it's crammed full—only weighs as much as a refrigerator.

The space inside is more like a dimensional space; the weight doesn't directly manifest in reality.

This accessory will be the most practical one for a long time to come.

"Mang Ye!"

Biaozi's eyes held a hint of excitement as he slammed the refrigerator heavily onto the ground.

"Oh?"

Chen Mang, who had been admiring the city's night view, stood on the rooftop and chuckled as he watched this scene. "Looks like the harvest was good."

"It's alright."

Biaozi grinned from ear to ear and said, "We found a cigarette factory and a liquor factory, but they had both been looted clean, with nothing left. But we did bring back some tobacco seeds. We also found a lot of grain seeds in a granary."

"Those people took all the food, and the seeds were scattered on the ground. I collected them all and brought them back."

"I even dug up some soil from the green belt, thinking I could create a patch of land in the refrigerator to grow things."

"Besides that—"

"We also found all sorts of living supplies, like tables, chairs, projectors, discs, playing cards, and stuff like that."

"Of course, the main event is!"

"We brought back this..."

The refrigerator door was suddenly opened, and a faint wail immediately came from inside. It was a group of various livestock—chickens, ducks, pigs, and even two cows—a full twenty animals of various kinds.

"Good heavens."

Chen Mang couldn't help but laugh. Now the breeding carriage could finally be put to good use. This batch would be the first generation. As long as they were continuously bred, the biodiversity within the train would increase.

"Where did you get these? Shahe City has been searched many times. How could these have been left behind?"

Although the livestock in the refrigerator were all skin and bones, looking like they were about to kick the bucket at any moment, without an ounce of meat on them, in the apocalypse, let alone meat, even just bones could be used to make soup.

Other trains definitely wouldn't let these livestock go.

"Uh..."

Biaozi scratched the back of his head before saying, "I don't know either. I found them in a canister at the time. That iron canister was stuck vertically in the ground, and these livestock were hiding in it."

"It looked like a giant Amoxicillin."

"I brought the canister back too."

Biaozi crawled into the refrigerator and soon pushed out an iron canister with a cracked hole in the bottom. It really looked like a giant Amoxicillin, completely black and inconspicuous.

"Biaozi, try crawling into the canister."

"Okay."

Chen Mang narrowed his eyes slightly. Through the information transmitted by his cane, after Biaozi crawled into the iron canister, Biaozi's figure suddenly disappeared from the target-seeking radar.

What a joke!

His target-seeking radar had already been upgraded to level 15. How could it not detect Biaozi inside this canister?

This canister possessed the ability to shield radar detection, and at a very high level. It wasn't a special item, but rather—

He was silent for a moment before saying.

"Move everything into the train. I'll build a carriage later. This carriage will be dedicated to breeding. Move some refrigerators in, and find a few assistants to feed these chickens and ducks and cultivate those seeds. See if those seeds can be grown."

"Yes."

A possibility had flashed through his mind just now: this iron canister might be the key to starting the apocalypse, and its built-in advanced radar-shielding ability could allow it to enter the atmosphere without being detected by this world's radar, successfully landing and starting the apocalypse.

If that was the case, then there should be more than one of these canisters.

The reason these livestock were hiding in the canister shouldn't be to avoid trains, but to avoid monsters, which would mean that those monsters didn't dare to approach the iron canister at all.

If he reasoned with that logic.

Many kinds of originally ethereal possibilities gradually became clear.

Chen Mang looked up at the sky above him. He could no longer find the countdown in the starry sky, but no matter how this apocalypse was caused, he had to keep living.

Tonight was extremely lively.

All the residents changed into clean clothes, squatting in twos and threes on the ground on the hospital rooftop, occasionally looking up at the steaming boiler in the distance, their throats involuntarily moving.

Tonight.

Mang Ye ordered a pot of pork and cabbage stew with vermicelli to be made for everyone to eat.

Since the apocalypse descended, how many people hadn't smelled meat in a long time? At this time, let alone eating it, just the process of cooking it made people unable to resist craning their necks to look, and the fragrant smell made people tremble all over.

"Just add whatever we have."

Old Zhu looked at the busy cook and sighed. "Conditions are limited. These are all we could find. We couldn't find cabbage, but we found a lot of carrots, potatoes, and vermicelli. Just put a lot of vermicelli in."

"Everyone can only eat a few pieces of meat, but they have to eat their fill of vermicelli."

"That guy Biaozi doesn't know where he got half a refrigerator of vermicelli. That guy is pretty ruthless too. How did he find so many things in a place that so many people have scavenged?"

"Hey, got it."

"Remember to save the best piece of meat. I'll send it to Mang Ye."

"Naturally, naturally." The middle-aged man who was busy wiping the sweat from his forehead quickly replied with a smile.

A thousand people's worth of food.

That was a real big pot of food. The Hengxing train didn't have such a big pot, but how could living people be stifled by urine? Chen Mang directly built an ordinary carriage and upgraded the armor of this carriage to level 3, and then customized it so that there was a steel plate partition in the middle of the carriage.

Then he used the one-third of the ordinary carriage that was separated out as a pot.

Finally, he added water, cut vegetables, chopped meat, and added ingredients.

They didn't have all the seasonings, but they put in whatever they had. Such a big pot definitely didn't have enough seasonings, so the final taste definitely couldn't be guaranteed, but at least it could be guaranteed to be hot.

As for the source of fire—

That wasn't a problem either.

This ordinary carriage was placed on the ground, and the two "nitrogen tail nozzles" on the tail of the last carriage of the Hengxing train were constantly spraying blue flames, and the flames were directly on this ordinary carriage, emitting bursts of heat.