My Doomsday Train

The train headed north.

Nitrogen-fueled afterburners on both sides of the train were firing on all cylinders, blasting blue flames and increasing the train's speed. From a distance, the train, adorned with dozens of pale blue flames, resembled a land-based rocket.

Its speed was extremely high.

If the firepower attachments on other trains lacked the "AI automatic target acquisition" super-model effect, or if the AI's computing power wasn't high enough, then the hit rate would be difficult to guarantee. Of course, unless his train maintained this speed and traveled in a straight line, the AI could easily calculate the impact point.

They departed in the late afternoon, nearing dusk.

By the time the sky had darkened, with countless stars, the moon, and the sun hanging in the sky together, Chen Mang could clearly see the distant mountain. He estimated they would arrive in about half an hour. The Shahe Plain was no smaller than the Tieling Wasteland.

Along the way,

he encountered several Level 2 iron ore deposits, but they were all being mined by other trains, so he didn't linger.

Just then—

Soon, he saw a person wearing a cloak, their face obscured, standing in the distance, slowly waving at the Stellar train.

Could it be a black market merchant?

Chen Mang thoughtfully controlled the Stellar train to slowly stop near the cloaked figure, but he didn't open the carriage. At the same time, the firepower weapons outside the carriage immediately rotated their muzzles to lock onto him.

When a train possesses Inheritance Value, it can purchase rare accessory blueprints and items from black market merchants, and even gain access to the Doomsday Black Market. Some accessories can only be installed on the train when the Inheritance Value reaches a certain amount.

The moment the train stopped,

Chen Mang turned his head to look at the cloaked, mysterious figure standing beside the train, his mouth twitching slightly. Although the person was wearing a cloak and hood, making it impossible to see their face, he recognized the other party's identity at a glance.

It was that damn Goblin Merchant!

Even though he was wearing black gloves, he still caught a glimpse of green skin at the junction of the gloves and sleeves, as well as the short stature and extremely pointed ears that the cloak and hood couldn't hide.

If it wasn't a Goblin, what else could it be?

Yesterday, he had luckily obtained a special item: the map coordinates of a certain "Goblin Ruins." He planned to mine some iron ore to upgrade the train and then check out this place.

He hadn't expected the so-called black market merchant to be a Goblin Merchant. This Goblin Merchant's business was quite extensive.

Just then—

The cloaked, mysterious figure who stopped the Stellar train stood in place with a cold expression and said in a hoarse voice, “Foolish humans, congratulations on encountering the mysterious, elusive, and great Black Market Merchant. You can use your Inheritance Value to purchase any item from me.”

“This is the item list.”

“Please state the item number you wish to purchase.”

“Remember, please state the item number. The great Black Market Merchant doesn't have time to waste words with you.”

“You only have one minute to choose.”

Immediately after!

Four items quickly appeared on the control panel screen, the most expensive of which cost 100 Inheritance Value, indicating that they should not exceed the train's current Inheritance Value.

Moreover, there was a line of scarlet text at the top.

「Doomsday Adventure, Black Market Merchant.」

「Unpredictable, any train may encounter a Black Market Merchant, but only trains with Inheritance Value can purchase rare and valuable items from the Black Market Merchant.」

「Attacking, imprisoning, or harming the Black Market Merchant is prohibited.」

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1: Special Item ‘Murphy Stone’, 100 Inheritance Value.

2: Random Yellow Grade Accessory Blueprint, 100 Inheritance Value.

3: Random White Grade Accessory Blueprint, 10 Inheritance Value.

4: Special Item ‘C-Grade Difficulty Exemption Ticket’, 100 Inheritance Value.

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“.”

Chen Mang first looked at the information of the four items on the control panel screen, then looked at the Black Market Merchant standing next to the train. With a slightly strange expression, he lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and instead of making a choice, he turned his head to look at Xiao Ai.

“Release Doba for me, and let him meet him.”

Soon—

Doba, carrying a pickaxe, led a large group of a hundred Goblins, jumping down from the last carriage of the train and striding towards the front of the train.

“Foolish human, what are you going to—”

Before he could finish speaking,

he saw Doba's pickaxe flying from a distance, heavily smashing in front of the Black Market Merchant, accompanied by Doba's angry roar: “Foolish Black Market Merchant, how dare you call the great human prophet that?!”

“You—”

The Black Market Merchant, wearing a black cloak and standing in place, turned his head to look at Doba, frowning and saying with a gloomy expression: “Foolish… foolish… Goblin?”

The Black Market Merchant suddenly froze in place, only then realizing.

“You are Goblins?”

At this time, Doba also walked up to the Black Market Merchant and said grimly: “Please call me Doba, the Goblin King!”

“I didn't expect to encounter a Black Market Merchant here. Only one Black Market Merchant can be born from thousands of Goblin Merchants. It seems that the heavens are blessing the Goblin race!”

“I—”

“Doba, the new Goblin King.”

“Under the leadership of this great human prophet, Goblin civilization is slowly reviving. These behind me are all my clansmen. Are you willing to rejoin the Goblin race, join my command, and assist me in reviving the Goblin race?”

“I…”

The Black Market Merchant's body trembled slightly, and he suddenly opened his hood, kneeling on one knee in front of Doba, tears welling up in his eyes as he hoarsely shouted: “I am willing to follow in the footsteps of Lord Doba and revive the Goblin race together!”

“Very good.”

Doba nodded with a satisfied expression, then took a step forward to help the Black Market Merchant up: “Let the Goblin race be great again.”

“Now follow me back to the train.”

The Black Market Merchant also nodded heavily, his eyes red, and followed Doba towards the last few carriages of the train.

“The Goblin race finally… finally has a king again.”

“Let the Goblin race be great again.”

“Hey, hey, no—”

Inside the train car, Chen Mang, who was watching this scene, finally reacted from his daze. He hurriedly stuck his head out of the window and looked at the group of Goblins who had already walked to the end of the train carriage. He looked at the cigarette in his hand, which had unknowingly burned to the end, and was just about to say something when the Goblins had already all squeezed into the carriage.

He looked at the paragraph on the screen again.

「Attacking, imprisoning, or harming the Black Market Merchant is prohibited.」

Imprisoning? Attacking?

He hadn't done anything! The Black Market Merchant hadn't resisted at all and had obediently followed behind Doba, shouting something about letting the Goblins be great again as he ran to his carriage.

A few seconds later.

The line of text on the console screen gradually disappeared, as if nothing had happened. Only the target-seeking radar showed a yellow dot in his carriage number 13.

"This works too?"

Chen Mang sat dazedly in the chair, and after a long while, he let out a long breath and gently rubbed his temples: "Get Doba to come here."

He initially sent Doba down just hoping that, since they were both goblins, he might get a discount or something. He didn't have much hope to begin with, but he had to try, right? He didn't expect the black market merchant to be so obliging.

Doba's body shook, releasing an aura of dominance.

The black market merchant, who had been extremely arrogant just now, immediately knelt and submitted.

Are you goblins so simple and pure?

You say you're a king, and he actually believes you're a king?

Then why not just say you're the Goblin God next time?

He was too engrossed in watching the show just now, which caused him to not buy any of the four items. He didn't know if he could still find the black market merchant in the train to buy them now.

Soon—

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Doba carried a pickaxe, passed through several carriages, and arrived at the train room.

Chen Mang looked at the pickaxe on Doba's shoulder and frowned, "When did you develop the habit of carrying a pickaxe everywhere you go?"

"Great Human Prophet."

Doba raised the pickaxe in his hand with a serious expression: "If a race wants to have cohesion, it must have a clan emblem. The reason why the goblin civilization can be revived is all because more than a hundred of us goblins dug it out with the pickaxes in our hands."

"So I have designated the pickaxe as the clan emblem of the goblin race. When the goblin civilization is officially revived in the future, I will use the story of surrendering to the Stellar train as clan history, and this pickaxe will be the clan emblem of the goblin race."

"Yeah."

Chen Mang nodded expressionlessly and, after a long silence, opened his mouth and said, "What's the situation with that guy?"

"Reporting to the Great Human Prophet."

"Among the goblin race, there is a special existence called goblin merchants. You have already seen their special characteristics last time. Their load-bearing capacity is extremely strong, and their speed is also extremely fast. They often travel around as walking merchants. This is an innate ability."

"And among the goblin merchants, there is an even more special existence."

"That is the black market merchant."

"Black market merchants do not have a strong load-bearing capacity, and their speed is not fast, but they can travel through space. As long as they have a thought, they can appear in a completely unfamiliar and unknown place. This is completely uncontrollable."

"Therefore, black market merchants are often difficult to find, because even they themselves don't know where they will appear next time. Many black market merchants, from the first time they learn to use this ability, basically become orphans and can never go home again."

"As they get older, they can randomly teleport up to 10 times a day."

"I just communicated with him. Unlike me, he has not recovered all of his intelligence, but he is better than other goblin clansmen. He can speak and has a certain ability to think, although his brain has been set by an unknown existence to block the train and sell goods."

"Just like when I was in the depths of the underground and wanted to go to the Mohe Hills."

"But he still remembers the greatness of the goblins in his mind, still vaguely remembers the destruction of the goblins, and still wants to revive and rebuild the goblin civilization like me!"

"Great Human Prophet, can he join the train?"

"."

Chen Mang did not speak, but leaned on the chair, gently rubbing his temples, digesting the news. He had always felt that the existence of goblins was somewhat incongruous.

He had been to the Mechanical City and the Kunshan area.

He possessed a mechanical train and had also heard of a flesh train.

He had seen mechs carrying rocket launchers on their shoulders, and had also been chased by terrifying worm monsters tens of meters long.

Basically, everything he had seen could be divided into two categories.

"Mechanical" and "Monster."

Only these goblins… didn't belong to either category. They couldn't be considered mechanical, and they weren't monsters either. They were like… they popped out of some corner, somewhat incongruous with this world.

Those monsters were completely devoid of their own intelligence and only had a bloodthirsty desire.

And these goblins, although they initially appeared as monsters, did not have a bloodthirsty desire, only a desire to prove their greatness.

After a moment of silence, Chen Mang raised his head and looked at Doba: "Yes, but he is a black market merchant after all. I don't know if he can join."

Okay, after he agreed in his heart, he had already seen the yellow light spot disappear, and it had been converted into a green light spot, officially becoming a member of the Stellar train.

That's good.

I don't know how many wandering black market merchants there are on this planet. The probability of other people meeting a black market merchant should be reduced a bit.

"Go and call him here."

"Yes."

Soon—

The black market merchant, wearing a black cloak, was also called over, standing solemnly behind Doba.

"Hmm…"

Chen Mang paused for a moment before saying softly, "Take out the goods you have on you and let me see them. I won't rob you."

"No."

The black market merchant shook his head decisively, then glanced at Doba before hesitating and reluctantly saying, "Great Human Prophet, I don't have any goods on me. Only when you pay the inheritance value will the corresponding goods appear on me."

"Can I do it now?"

"Yes."

Chen Mang didn't say anything more, but waved his hand to signal Doba and the others to leave. Then, he looked at the backs of the two with a thoughtful look. In other words, his train was equivalent to having a permanent black market merchant.

In the future, if he wanted to spend inheritance value, he wouldn't have to wait to encounter a black market merchant to spend it. He could directly spend it with the black market merchant on the train.

This effect alone was enough.

After all, how much food can a few more mouths eat?

Maybe many trains have inheritance value, but they are just suffering from not being able to meet a black market merchant. He can completely charge a considerable referral fee.

Moreover…

He turned his head and looked at the train component information on the console screen.

The black market merchant himself cannot control his teleportation landing point. Once teleported out, he may never return to the Stellar train in his life.

But—

He had the "Train Ticket" component. As long as a train member tore up the ticket, they could instantly return to the train, but he had already upgraded it to level 10, but the range was only 10,000 meters away. Only members within 10,000 meters could return to the train.

Perhaps when it is upgraded to level 100 in the future, the range will be more considerable. After all, it is a white component, and it does not require too much resources to upgrade.

This still needs to be carefully considered.

Strive to develop more uses. The random teleportation effect is a conceptual level.