My Doomsday Train

Chen Mang immediately spotted the train speeding through the blizzard high in the sky. It was Erdan's "Azure Dragon."

“I’ll give it a try.”

He glanced at his copper reserves, which stood at 825,000 units. Crafting a level 6 missile cost 300,000 units of copper.

“Hoo.”

Chen Mang took a deep breath, not dwelling on it further. He had to try to know if it would work. Besides, the zombie was constantly roaring. If he could precisely lodge the missile in its mouth and detonate it inside, the power would be greatly amplified.

One missile probably wouldn't be enough; he'd need two.

Soon.

After consuming 300,000 units of copper, a level 6 ground-burst missile was crafted.

“Shasha…”

Accompanied by the sound of rotating mechanical gears, a jet-black missile slowly rose from the 14th car, pointing diagonally at the sky, ready to launch at any moment.

“Can it hit the mouth?”

Chen Mang turned his head to Xiaiai beside him and asked in a low voice.

“Yes.”

Xiaiai's voice was devoid of emotion, but her reply was crisp and efficient.

On the open-air 14th car, spine-like hydraulic supports held the missile. With a roar, deep blue flames erupted from the hexagonal nozzle at the missile's tail, instantly raising the temperature around the train to a high point.

The missile launched from the train, piercing through the air, its target the massive zombie in the blizzard.

The trailing flames slashed through the blizzard, as eye-catching as if Satan had used a pus-filled brush to tear through the night sky.

The next moment—

“Rumble!!!”

A deafening explosion suddenly echoed between heaven and earth. Compared to the previous missile explosion, this one sounded more muffled. The highly compressed explosives contained within the missile detonated in the zombie's throat.

Almost instantly.

The zombie's head was seen blasted high into the sky.

Its neck snapped on the spot.

Countless orange-red flames spewed from the severed neck.

Three seconds later.

The headless zombie, still running wildly, seemed to finally realize what had happened. Its body crashed heavily to the ground, sending a large amount of blood-red snow flying into the air, making for a rather beautiful sight.

“…”

Chen Mang glanced at the stream of data constantly jumping on the console screen, the AI calculating the missile's trajectory. Looking at the headless zombie that had fallen in the snow in the distance, he chuckled.

“There’s no need to display this stuff; I can't understand it anyway.”

“If I don’t show it, you might not know how hard I’m working.”

The zombie had already fallen in the snow, unable to rise again. A large amount of thick, fresh blood poured from the neck wound, staining the snow red.

Blood and white snow were truly a great combination.

The snow stained red with blood was like wrapping grilled meat in lettuce when eating barbecue, both refreshing and satisfying, diminishing the bloody feeling brought by the blood and adding a unique coolness and iciness from the white snow.

He originally thought he might need two level 6 missiles.

After all, this zombie was indeed too large. It was the largest monster he had ever seen. He didn't expect that just one missile, successfully hitting the mouth, would completely incapacitate the zombie.

On the target acquisition radar, the red dot had gradually disappeared, symbolizing that the zombie had no chance of survival.

The next moment—

The words on the light screen at the junction of the two areas also changed.

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「The area ahead is a green zone, a world of ice and snow.」

「The highest level of monster that may exist is level 6. The current train level is 5. The danger factor is low. Please pay attention to safety.」

-

The blockade was lifted!

At this time, the Azure Dragon train, which had been speeding through the air, also suddenly headed towards the Stellar train. Erdan's excited roar came from the intercom.

“Wait a moment.”

Chen Mang smiled and shook his head, immediately controlling the Stellar train to enter the area in front of him. After getting a little closer, the "Powerful Magnet" sucked the dropped items after the zombie's death into the train.

There were no other trains approaching here.

He didn't have to worry about anyone snatching his dropped items. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't possibly snatch them from him.

Erdan naturally wouldn't snatch them. If Erdan were that kind of person, he wouldn't have come to save Erdan.

At this time—

The Azure Dragon train turned around and landed beside him. Erdan, wearing a military coat, jumped down from the train room with an excited face and stood in the snow, shouting towards the train room of the Stellar train: “Brother, come down and chat!”

With each sentence, a large amount of hot air spewed from his mouth into the cold air.

“Eh?”

Erdan suddenly discovered that he couldn't see the internal situation inside the front of the Stellar train at all through the glass, and couldn't help but say in disbelief: “Brother, you wouldn't have upgraded the yellow-grade accessory "Dust-Free Glass" to level 5, would you?”

“Not long ago, a train captain was crying on the train radio, saying that he thought the level 5 supermodel effect would have something good, but in the end, there was only a one-way window supermodel effect, wasting so much iron ore for nothing.”

As soon as he finished speaking.

Chen Mang also pushed open the train room and jumped down, leaning on his cane and stepping in the snow, coming to Erdan's side. He took out two cigarettes from his pocket, lit one for himself, and handed one to Erdan. After exhaling a long breath, he looked at the huge zombie lying in the snow not far away and sighed.

“Brother, when the apocalypse came, did you go to calculate your Bazi (Chinese astrology)?”

“This area was fine originally, why are there so many things happening as soon as you come?”

“Hey.”

Erdan said in a slightly embarrassed whisper: “I can't completely blame me for this matter. It's a long story. I'll tell you slowly later, but brother, I really envy you. S-level potential is so good.”

“Those level 6 trains are still using machine guns. Brother, you've created a missile with a level 5 train.”

“It’s simply a dimensionality reduction strike.”

“It's a pity I haven't seen what the large firepower accessory of the A-level train "World-Weariness" on the Sand River Plain is, but it's definitely not as good as your missile, brother.”

Then he looked at Chen Mang with a serious face and said.

“Thanks, brother. If you hadn't come this time, I would have been exhausted to death in this area.”

“How much copper ore did your missile use? I'll reimburse you.”

Chen Mang glanced at Erdan and said casually: “300,000 units of copper.”

“…”

Erdan was silent for a while before continuing: “Let's talk about the reimbursement later. I've used up all the copper ore in my train. Brother, I'll remember this favor. Just tell me if you need me in the future.”

“As long as it's not something that makes me go to my death, just say a word, and I'll come immediately.”

“I thought you would say that you wouldn't hesitate to go through mountains of knives and seas of fire.”

“That sounds a bit fake, after all, everyone is afraid of death.”

“But…”

Er Dan tightened his military coat, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes as he looked at Chen Mang, who was thinly dressed. "It's so cold, and you're wearing so little? Aren't you cold?"

"I'm fine."

Chen Mang patted Er Dan's shoulder and smiled, "The clothing customization production line has been upgraded to level 10, and it has a temperature-locking effect. Standing here for a while won't be too cold. What's wrong? Haven't you upgraded to level 10? The supermodel effect is quite useful."

"…"

Er Dan's lips twitched slightly, and he didn't say anything. Even if he suddenly had a thousand Murphy Stones in his life, he wouldn't spend eight of them on such a useless 'clothing customization production line' just for a temperature-locking effect. He'd rather wear more clothes!

"Alright."

Chen Mang pointed to the huge headless zombie not far away. "Let's talk later. I still have something to do. I need to cut up this zombie and collect it before it freezes."

"Wait a minute."

Er Dan looked at the zombie in the distance with some confusion. "Brother, you're not the Flesh Train, what do you need that thing for?"

"I'll collect it first. Maybe it'll be useful in the future. After all, it's not easy to find such a big zombie. And if we trade with the Flesh Train in the future, it can be used."

"No, brother, doesn't killing zombies drop 'corpse meat'? That kind of unitized flesh material is the key to upgrading the Flesh Train. Although the Flesh Train does devour this flesh as a snack, it doesn't need that much!"

"Is that so?"

Chen Mang silently looked at the zombie in the distance. He had always thought that the Flesh Train was directly upgraded with flesh. He had collected a lot of it these days, but after a pause, he still walked towards the train compartment. "Let's collect it first, maybe it'll be useful."

Ten minutes later.

Chen Mang built thirty ordinary carriages, each with a ten-meter-wide level 50 car blade. The entire Stellar Train, like a python, continuously rotated around the huge zombie and constantly drilled out from the ground, emerging directly from under the zombie's body.

Soon, it was dismembered into pieces.

After the 'car blade' component is forcibly removed from the carriage, it will instantly shatter into glittering shards.

Then, a group of train residents got off the train, picked up the fragments on the ground, wrapped a corner with rags, and began to meticulously divide the large pieces of flesh from the huge zombie, as long as they didn't exceed the size of the refrigerator door.

As long as they met the size requirements, they would be instantly sucked into the train's refrigerator by powerful magnets.

After a monster dies, its defense will be greatly reduced, making it not very difficult to cut, even a little easier than cutting up that level 3 man-eating spider back then.

Speaking of which.

He had killed many monsters, but that level 3 man-eating spider should have been the most miserable one to die at his hands, being slowly sliced to death.

He then controlled the Stellar Train, activated the 'Geothermal Core', and the train head transformed into a blood basin mouth containing countless rotating gears, completely swallowing all thirty ordinary carriages that had been separated from the train.

Afterwards—

Chen Mang jumped down from the train compartment, walked to Er Dan's side, and smiled with his hands on his cane, "Sorry, I've been poor for too long, and I always feel like it's rare to see such a big zombie for the first time, so I collected it, thinking it might be useful someday."

"By the way."

He tilted his head and waved to Old Zhu, who was on the side, "Find some people to dig up some of this snow, don't get it dirty, find the clean kind, and freeze it in the refrigerator, it'll be useful in the future."

"Yes."

Old Zhu nodded with a serious expression before striding away.

"…"

Er Dan, who had been stunned for a long time, sniffed and looked at Chen Mang with disbelief. "Brother, have you always played like this?"

"Why is it that we're both train leaders, but I feel like our train operation methods are completely different?"

"No, how can a train be played like this?!"

"It's alright."

Chen Mang smiled and said, "It's actually nothing."

"Huff."

Er Dan took a deep breath and tightened his military coat again, his expression complex. "It's good to have a lot of refrigerators."

Even if he wanted to stuff these things into the train, he couldn't fit them in. He did have the 'Space Gate' yellow-grade component, which was similar to Chen Mang's level 10 refrigerator, but he was reluctant to fill such a precious space with zombie flesh.

A level 5 'Space Gate' is not cheap.

He couldn't bear to spend the money.

The main thing isn't whether he's willing or not, it's that this thing is useless! What's the use of stuffing so much zombie flesh into the train?!

The Flesh Train doesn't want it either!!

He now completely believed that Chen Mang definitely started from scratch and had no big boss funding him behind the scenes. Only people who start from scratch develop this kind of personality. Those who have big boss funding are extravagant and wouldn't care about these things.

"I'll send you a few refrigerators later. This thing is quite useful, you can take a few."

"No."

Er Dan shook his head with a serious expression. "That's not appropriate. You came all the way to save me and consumed so much of your copper ore. I haven't repaid this kindness yet, and if you give me refrigerators, wouldn't I become a beggar?"

"But…"

Er Dan paused, then said with some temptation, "How about I exchange something with you? I got two boxes of cigarettes a few days ago, each box contains 250 cartons of cigarettes. I'll give you one box in exchange for two refrigerators, how about that?"

Chen Mang raised his eyebrows slightly, put his arm around Er Dan's shoulder, and smiled, "How about I give you six refrigerators in exchange for two boxes of cigarettes? You can keep 50 cartons for yourself from these two boxes. Anyway, you don't give them to your slaves to smoke. You and your managers can't use that much, right?"

"Deal!"

Er Dan almost immediately took over the conversation as soon as Chen Mang finished speaking, as if he was afraid that Chen Mang would go back on his word, and then couldn't help but grin and smile, "Thanks, brother."

"These 6 refrigerators of yours have helped me a lot."

"By the way, brother."

He suddenly thought of something and said with a serious expression, "Although there are storage boxes and space gates, these two things can maximize the use of train space, but in many cases, the function of a level 10 refrigerator cannot be replaced. Have you ever thought about selling refrigerators at the market?"

"Sell?"

Chen Mang shook his head. "Refrigerators are white-grade components. Upgrading to a level 10 refrigerator requires at least 8 Murphy Stones. You can do the math yourself. How much should I sell them for?"

"Of course, I've thought about selling them, but I don't plan to sell them in the green zone."

"They can't afford the price."

"I'll sell them when I go to the yellow zone in the future."