My Doomsday Train

Time always passes quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was already dark. Chen Mang spent almost the entire day in the train compartment studying his "Beginner's Guide," including the train's existing accessories.

Now that he possessed the "Unlimited Upgrade" plugin, the white-grade vehicle accessories were definitely inferior to the higher-grade ones. After all, his high-grade vehicle accessories could also be infinitely upgraded.

He currently only possessed two high-grade vehicle accessories, both of which were red.

They were the Level 2 "Geothermal Furnace" and the Level 1 "Wheel Changer."

Both of these accessories were auxiliary types. The former was mainly used to devour abandoned trains and decompose them into iron ore resources, while the latter could replace train wheels during travel, allowing him to cope with different driving environments.

However—

Upgrading the "Geothermal Furnace" from Level 1 to Level 2 only required 100 units of iron ore, but upgrading from Level 2 to Level 3 required 10,000 units of iron ore. Each upgrade allowed him to decompose the corresponding level of abandoned trains.

The "Wheel Changer" required a full 10,000 units of iron ore to upgrade to Level 2, and each upgrade added an additional "wheel" slot.

According to the information in the "Beginner's Guide."

The higher the grade of the vehicle accessories, the more resources were required for each upgrade. Therefore, the path he planned for himself was very clear: in the early stages, with limited resources, prioritize upgrading the white-grade "vehicle accessories."

He didn't need to upgrade them too high. As long as he upgraded them to have super-model effects, such as the Level 5 "Wheel Blade," he could usher in the first qualitative change.

This way, he could obtain the greatest improvement with the least amount of resources.

Then, he could use the improved effects to plunder or mine more resources to continuously improve the level of the train, thereby upgrading those higher-grade "vehicle accessories" to a sufficient level.

At that time—

His train would usher in a real qualitative change!

Chen Mang sighed, rubbed his somewhat dry eyes. The plan could be said to have no problems at all, it's just that the process was a bit arduous and far-reaching. After all, this wasn't a game, and he couldn't be given enough time to develop. Unexpected events that could occur at any time would interfere with his development plan.

What he could do was to try to avoid some accidents and, when he could develop, try to develop with peace of mind.

At this moment!

The last slave also emerged from the mine. This mining time had far exceeded 10 hours, basically around 12 hours, with the longest one having mined for 14 hours.

Far exceeding his expectations.

He chuckled, immediately got up and walked out of the train compartment, waved to Old Pig who was guarding the train entrance: “Gather all the slaves.”

“Understood.”

Old Pig respectfully nodded in response and handed over the list that he had prepared: “Master Mang, this is the mining ranking of all the slaves today.”

Night.

Chen Mang stood alone against the wind on the top of the train, while a group of ragged slaves gathered below with expectant eyes.

Although there seemed to be many people, it still brought a strong sense of loneliness in the vast wasteland.

The thugs also stood around with guns, guarding against possible dangers. Slaves would not escape in the wasteland. Everyone gathering together still had a sense of security. Once alone and relying on their legs, it was impossible to run out of the wasteland in this lifetime. That sense of near-death would make people feel what true despair is.

People, no matter where they are, are social animals.

Even as slaves, a group of people staying together as slaves is better than one person wandering the wasteland.

…

Chen Mang swept over everyone, feeling the slightly cool night breeze, and couldn't help but laugh after looking at the list in his hand for a moment: “Everyone performed very well today. The person who mined the least also mined 11 iron ores.”

“Very good!”

“What makes me most gratified is that none of you gave up because you had no hope of competing for first place. Everyone worked very hard. The upper limit of a team is often determined by its weaknesses. I hope everyone can maintain this mining speed in the future and strive for a higher level.”

“Everyone will get two more slices of bread for supper tonight.”

“Besides that—”

“First place, Zhang Haoping, mined 20 pieces today.”

“Stand out, let me take a look.”

As soon as he finished speaking.

A dark-skinned middle-aged man in the crowd immediately walked out of the crowd, stood in the open space, looked up at Chen Mang, and said in a somewhat simple and honest voice: “Master Mang, it’s me.”

“Very good.”

Chen Mang looked up and down at the man, and could vaguely see the man's legs trembling in the night. He looked a little tired today, and waved with a smile: “According to the agreement I said in advance, you choose one of these two women.”

The man, who looked a little honest, pointed to one of the tall women almost without any hesitation, and grinned excitedly: “Master Mang, I want this woman, she’s tall, I like her.”

There was a burst of low laughter from the crowd.

However, no one dared to say anything.

“She’s yours tonight.”

Chen Mang waved his hand, and the tall woman standing in front of the slaves immediately walked up to the honest man with cat-like steps, bent down, and rubbed the man's forehead with her nose, with a smile in her voice.

“Do you still have strength?”

“Yes, yes, yes!!”

The man, who was originally exhausted, stood up almost instantly, and said in a hoarse voice full of expectation: “I have nothing on my body, just brute strength.”

Chen Mang smiled when he saw this and didn't say much, just looked at the list in his hand and continued.

“Second place, Li Kui, mined 16 pieces today.”

“The remaining one is yours tonight.”

“And—”

“If everyone can still maintain a minimum daily mining quantity of 11 in the next five days, everyone can still guarantee five slices of bread a day when there is no ore to mine. If everyone can maintain a minimum daily mining quantity of 12, an additional carriage will be added on this basis.”

As soon as he finished speaking.

There was another burst of cheers and excitement from the crowd. This was a benefit that was truly implemented on everyone.

Each additional carriage meant that it would be much more spacious, and they no longer had to curl up in a ball at night, and they didn't have to worry about the slaves going to the toilet stepping over them.

After doing all this.

Chen Mang walked down from the top of the train. Biaozi, who was standing aside waiting, immediately waved to distribute tonight's dinner. Each slave was given two more slices of bread, while the top three were given steamed buns and pickles separately.

“Master Mang.”

Old Pig, who was waiting below, sighed with emotion: “I have to say, most of the time, women are very good stimulants to mobilize emotions.”

“But Master Mang, you are generous enough. Ordinary train captains don’t easily give women of this quality to their subordinates.”

“After all, cosmetics are not easy to find in the apocalypse, and there are not so many good-looking clean clothes. Women with good bare faces and figures are absolutely scarce goods in the apocalypse.”

“Very precious.”