My Doomsday Train

Chapter 108: "Congratulations, you have officially become a Mechanical Train!"

Soon—

AI's crisp, mechanical voice echoed in his ears.

“Damn it.”

At this moment.

With the final 30-second countdown about to end, the bald man, his nerves on the verge of collapse, knelt on the ground as if resigned to his fate, slowly straightened his body, and looked at the dozens of refrigerators in front of him with despair, suddenly bursting into a miserable laugh.

The next moment!

The robot suddenly seemed to lose control and fell to the ground as the countdown ended.

The man's consciousness was also extracted at this moment.

“Huh?”

Chen Mang, who was sitting in the control room and witnessed everything, didn't have time to sigh when he saw this scene, his eyes suddenly lit up. He poked his head out and looked at the sky outside, but no drone was coming.

Which meant—

This robot became his trophy?

He immediately picked up the walkie-talkie.

“Old Zhu, have Li Shiji dismantle this maze. Neatly store all the refrigerators into one refrigerator, and then bring out that robot.”

“Yes.”

Old Zhu's voice quickly came from the walkie-talkie.

As the saying goes, the one who tied the bell must untie it. Only Li Shiji could dismantle this maze. If anyone else went in, let alone dismantle the maze, they would be dismantled by the maze.

This batch of refrigerators cost him a full 480,000 units of iron ore!

Now it seemed that everything was worth it.

Even if this batch of refrigerators was sent to the "Core Melting Furnace" for recycling, it could almost recover half of the cost. However, he planned to recycle the ordinary refrigerators, while keeping the Level 10 refrigerators for his own use. It would be a pity to recycle them. In the future, they could all be used as storage boxes or single-person houses for the residents.

One hundred square meters, not small.

A perfect square with zero shared area. This was pure zero shared area, unlike the zero shared area that many real estate developers in the previous world talked about, which included the area of balconies and terraces. Placing a few small refrigerators, a single bed, and some daily necessities collected in the apocalypse would make it a warm little house.

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The bald man, his consciousness returning to the "Azure Dragon," leaned back in his chair, his eyes vacant, staring blankly into the distance, as if he had lost his soul.

After an unknown amount of time.

The bald man finally recovered and looked at the lines of text on the screen that he had been unwilling to face.

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「 Challenge Failed. 」

「 But you are the first train captain to arrive at the Underwater Maze encounter. In view of your courage and spirit of exploration, you can still receive a consolation prize. 」

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The bald man looked at these two lines of text, as well as the thing that looked like a "badge" that had appeared on the control panel at some point. His eyes gradually regained their brilliance. He shook his head, picked up the badge, and shook his head with a resigned bitter smile.

“Oh well.”

“At least there’s a consolation prize.”

However, the next moment—

When he held the badge in his hand, a panel appeared in front of him.

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…

After a long silence, the bald man casually threw the badge on the table. What was the point of this damn item!

He was already in a desperate situation. Did he need courage?

What he needed was a damn solution!!!

In a daze, he turned his head and looked at the refrigerator in the corner of the train compartment. It was a white accessory among the 17 accessories that could be crafted for a Level 1 train, and it could be upgraded to Level 2 at most. He had crafted several of them and placed them in the train.

This was normal.

Although he hadn't upgraded the refrigerator to the stage where it had a supermodel effect, he could roughly guess it.

The Level 5 or Level 10 supermodel effect of the refrigerator was to have a space of one hundred square meters. This was not difficult to guess, and it was normal. Upgrading from a refrigerator to a cold storage was completely understandable.

But—

That was a refrigerator! That was a single accessory!

It wasn't that upgrading one refrigerator to Level 10 would automatically upgrade all the other refrigerators to Level 10. He had seen at least seventy or eighty refrigerators with such a large space. How much Murphy Stone would that consume?!

How could anyone obtain so much Murphy Stone?!

Was this logical?

“Murphy Stone,” a special item that could break through the level limit. Of course, even if Murphy Stone was used, the resources that should be consumed for this upgrade still needed to be paid. He didn't know about this item in higher-level areas, but he knew that it was extremely rare in the green area!

Otherwise, the "Supermodel Effect Quantity Ranking" in the Shahu Plain wouldn't be so competitive. Basically, there wasn't much difference between the first and the hundredth. Only yellow-grade vehicle accessories could be upgraded to Level 5 to create a supermodel effect.

Everyone basically had the same number of yellow-grade accessories.

It shouldn't be—

“Wait!”

The bald man suddenly straightened his body. A thought flashed quickly through his mind, and his eyes sparkled with disbelief. He had seen a Level 2 train in the "Kunlun Mountain" area. At that time, that Level 2 train had given him a great shock. It could freely walk on cliffs that were close to ninety degrees!

At that time, he was still guessing whether that person had used a large amount of Murphy Stone to upgrade the "Spider Foot" accessory to a high enough level.

Maybe he was a relative of some big shot.

But after thinking about it, it was a bit unrealistic. That was "Murphy Stone." What big shot would be willing to use this resource to help their relatives? Even if it was their own child, they wouldn't do it. Wouldn't it be safer to just let their relatives and children stay in their own train?

But now…

These two trains had one thing in common. They had both consumed a large amount of Murphy Stone. Could it be the same train?

The man frowned and recalled for a long time before shaking his head. He was sure it wasn't the same train.

The train he saw in the Kunlun Mountain area at that time had two open-air carriages at the back and didn't have so many machine guns.

Yes!

Although he didn't have time to observe the inside of the train due to the urgency of time, the 10 heavy machine guns on the ceiling of the carriage where the maze was located had left a deep impression on him.

He was a Level 5 train, and he had more than 600 slaves in his train.

But he had never thought of installing 10 heavy machine guns inside the carriage. How afraid were you that these slaves would riot? Even if you were really afraid, one heavy machine gun would be enough. As for 10? Were you afraid of killing them too slowly and feeling insecure?

Based on the maze and his observation of this train.

He quickly had a first impression of the train captain of this train.

Extremely insecure, extremely tyrannical to the slaves below, which constantly triggered riots that had to be suppressed with force, possessing a large amount of Murphy Stone, liking to mock others, and being meticulous!

The bald man shook his head, trying to calm his mood as much as possible. He picked up the "badge" he had just thrown on the control panel and pinned it to his chest.

Too bad—

He didn't know which area the other party was from.

If it were one of the white areas near the Shahe Plain, that would be great. His mission failure would mean the other party's S-rank "Mechanical Job Change" mission succeeded. Then, upon entering the green area of the Shahe Plain, they would become the first on the Shahe Plain, and also the first S-rank potential Mechanical Train he had ever seen!

At that time, he would know the name of this train!

"Hehe..."

The bald man couldn't help but grin again at this thought. If it really came to the Shahe Plain, then don't blame him for bullying the weak. No matter how much S-rank potential it has, it's still just a Level 3 train, at most just upgraded to Level 4.

He, a Level 5 train, bullying a Level 4 train, wouldn't that be... wouldn't that be a hopeless mismatch?

The smile on the man's face instantly disappeared, and he stood silently in place with a blank expression. A train that has upgraded so many refrigerators, wouldn't it upgrade other components as well?

And after completing the S-rank difficulty "Mechanical Job Change" mission, there would also be a large, red-quality, destructive weapon.

That would indeed be a hopeless mismatch.

"Mom, is there really no such thing as a 'Murphy Stone Mine'?"

Soon—

An AI's electronic mechanical voice came from the carriage.

"'Murphy Stones' are special props, only obtained with a probability during certain adventures or when killing rare bosses. They do not form mines. This is the information currently in my database. However, when you come into contact with other keywords or go to higher-level areas in the future, my database may be updated with different information."

"If there are no Murphy Stone Mines, then how could he upgrade so many refrigerators? He can't be cheating, can he?"

"This is the real apocalypse, not a multiplayer online game created by a manufacturer. There is no such thing as a 'cheat' to use."

"That's true."

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Meanwhile.

Inside the train.

Li Shiji, who was cleaning up the maze, looked at the robot kneeling on the ground and sighed with some regret: "Why didn't you just take one more step forward."

He walked to the front, opened the nearest refrigerator, and a sheet of A4 paper slowly floated out.

Three sentences were clearly written on it.

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"In fact, the real end is on the first floor. When you enter the maze, there is a refrigerator placed against the wall on the far left of the maze entrance."

"That refrigerator is the end, silly child."

"In fact, the end is at the beginning."

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As for the truthfulness of these three sentences.

Of course, they were false.

There were only those eleven refrigerators on the first floor. Where was the end? It's just that after walking here, if this robot had human thinking, it was probably on the verge of mental breakdown.

The perception and judgment of the environment, and even the memory, would be greatly reduced.

When seeing these three sentences.

It might even tamper with its own memory, really painting a picture in its mind of when it first entered the maze entrance, and it seemed to have seen a refrigerator placed against the wall on the left.

Even if the robot had surveyed the entire space when it first entered the maze.

At this time, as long as it had human thinking, it would probably start to doubt itself.

That's when it would really be fun.

Especially when there were only a few minutes left on the countdown, when the robot strode back to the first floor and found nothing in the left corner, that's when the feeling of emotional breakdown would reach its peak.

This robot's strength was a little lacking.

Many of the things he arranged were not triggered.

What a pity.

Li Shiji shook his head with some regret, then put the robot in a refrigerator and began to clean up the entire maze. Due to the restrictions of the rules and the lack of usable props, many of the plans in his mind could not be realized.

Otherwise,

He would directly electrify all the refrigerators, lower the temperature to the lowest level, and fill the refrigerators with water before electrifying them to make them freeze into ice. Even if robots came, they would have to slip and fall a few times.

It would be even more fun if there were projections.

Hengxing, inside the train car.

Chen Mang sat on the chair, looking at the semi-transparent virtual panel that popped up in front of him.

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"Congratulations, the Hengxing train has successfully completed the S-level difficulty job transfer mission and has officially transferred to a Mechanical Train!"

"And you have become the first train captain on the Shahe Plain to complete the S-level difficulty job transfer mission."

"Your 'Unknown Component' will be of red quality, and will begin to randomly draw from the large heavy firepower red quality components..."

"Drawing to the red quality vehicle component 'Ground Blast Missile'."

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The next moment!

A line of words surrounded by a golden frame slowly swept across the top of the train screen, and fireworks were set off around the screen. At the same time, a voice resounded in the minds of all the train captains of the "Shahe Plain".

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"Shahe Plain Area Broadcast": Congratulations to the Hengxing train for successfully completing the 'Mechanical Train' S-level difficulty job transfer mission and becoming the first Mechanical Train on the Shahe Plain to complete the S-level difficulty job transfer mission.

"Ah?"

Chen Mang's mouth slowly grew wide, and he looked at the three-dimensional image of the red-quality vehicle component 'Ground Blast Missile' on the train screen. After a long while, he recovered and immediately spent 1 unit of iron ore to create it, and then created an open-air carriage again.

This was one of the 12 components that could be created by the Level 3 train: the "Unknown Component".

The quality and name of the component would only be reflected after the job transfer mission was successfully completed. Regardless of the quality, the cost to create it was only 1 unit of iron ore.

Immediately afterwards.

Chen Mang jumped out of the train car, strode to the rear of the train, and looked at the newly added open-air carriage. A missile that was a full 8 meters long and more than 2 meters wide was placed diagonally in this open-air carriage, pointing straight at the sky!

The whole body was black, the missile head was surrounded by white, and a touch of red was dotted in the center.

It added a touch of cruel violence to the already domineering Hengxing train.

If this ground blast missile were to smash down, everything within the explosion range would be barren!

He stood there with his cane in hand, looking up at the "Ground Blast Missile" that pointed straight at the sky and occupied an entire open-air carriage, just quietly admiring it.

The rain stopped.

A ray of sunlight passed through the gaps in the dark clouds and fell impartially on the missile.

It seemed to be endowing it with a high-gloss mission.

Making it appear particularly sacred and dazzling in the dim apocalyptic wasteland, making people unable to take their eyes off it after just one glance.

"That's great."

Chen Mang's mouth turned up slightly, and he lowered his head to take out a cigarette from his arms and put it to his mouth to light it, before exhaling a long puff of smoke.

All the grievances and anxieties since crossing over to this apocalyptic world were also exhaled with this puff of smoke.