My Doomsday Train

Chapter 169 "Danger, danger, do not approach!"

There won't be any major troubles, nor will any talent be buried.

Chen Mang withdrew his gaze from the train and looked again at the city ahead. Not a single light was on in the city, only a faint yellow glow emanating from an unknown source within the entire underground space.

A huge space had been hollowed out deep underground.

The city was located in this space.

If a city is plunged into darkness, the sense of oppression it brings is extremely strong. Those towering skyscrapers are like terrifying monsters that will devour everything at any moment.

After a long while.

"Let's go."

Chen Mang threw the burnt cigarette butt at his feet before climbing back into the train car via the ladder, preparing to enter the city and explore.

There was no way to leave.

Obviously, if he couldn't find the nuclear bomb and activate it, he would be trapped here forever. Perhaps he could try... to drill his way out. This should be below the 'Zombie Basin'.

If he drilled upwards, theoretically he should be able to get out, but he didn't know if the boundary of this adventure map could withstand a level 50 drill.

Anyway, the adventure map in the Kunlun Mountains area didn't stop him.

He had plenty of iron ore now, a full 3 million.

At worst, he would upgrade the drill to level 100, or even 200 or 300 in one go. By then, he didn't believe the boundary of this adventure map could stop him. This could be considered a backup plan. Even if he couldn't find the nuclear bomb, he shouldn't be permanently trapped in this map.

The Stellar train slowly accelerated, continuing to delve deeper into the city along the highway.

After about a few hundred meters.

Chen Mang suddenly noticed a question mark floating in the low air above the ground on the highway in the distance.

A three-dimensional, white question mark, about the size of an adult man, slowly rotating.

A trace of doubt flashed in Chen Mang's eyes, but he quickly realized what it was. He controlled the train to run over the question mark. As he approached, he noticed a small 'projector' below the question mark.

The question mark was being projected into the low air by this projector.

The moment the train ran over the question mark.

"Whoosh!"

Two mechanical arms suddenly stretched out from the ground on the highway below the question mark, attaching two walkie-talkie-like devices to the outside of the train car on both sides of the train head.

At the same time—

A line of information appeared on the control panel screen.

"The train's energy shield has been strengthened. For the next ten seconds, your train's energy shield level will be increased by one level."

" ."

Chen Mang looked at the line of information on the screen with a slightly strange expression, then looked at the next question mark not far away on the highway. Could it be that this adventure map was originally supposed to have a kart racing section?

Run faster and pick up the items first.

He controlled the Stellar train to continue speeding along the highway, and in a few minutes, he had reached the edge of the city.

"Get out of the car!"

The train stopped again, and Biaozi and the others jumped off the train again, preparing to go to the office buildings on both sides of the street to start exploring.

He wanted to do this last time in the City of Machines, but the process of that adventure map was fixed, and he didn't have time to explore the entire map. This map didn't have any process or time limit. He wasn't in a hurry, so he could explore slowly.

There must be good things in these office buildings.

Explore first.

He turned his head to look at the office buildings outside the window. They were basically in ruins. From the gaps in those destroyed and dilapidated office buildings, he could clearly see countless mechanical gears inside, but they had long since stopped turning.

He had always been curious, if these office buildings were full of gears, could people still live there?

And what were the gears for?

If it was for transmitting energy, there should be many ways to transmit energy with higher efficiency, faster speed, and less loss than gears, after all, it was a relic of an advanced civilization.

He looked at the screen.

The screen showed the first-person perspective of Biaozi and the others exploring, plus the real-time surround sound coming from multiple speakers in the train, giving a sense of immersion.

"Be careful."

Biaozi silently muttered in his heart. This sentence was transmitted to Ai Zong through the cluster thinking, and then from Ai Zong to the iris chips of the team members. The sentence itself didn't have any meaning. Who wouldn't know to be careful when coming to an unknown place? It was just to let everyone see his message and feel a little more confident.

As soon as they entered the office building lobby.

The ground was in a mess.

The ground was covered with brownish-red bloodstains, but they were already very faint. A long, long time ago, there should have been a slaughter here, but there were no corpses or bone fragments to be seen.

" ."

Biaozi tentatively squatted down and tapped the floor with his knuckle.

A muffled sound came.

Sure enough, the floor was a whole piece of steel plate, without any gaps. It looked dark black. All the buildings in this city, whether inside or outside, were dark black, which seemed extremely oppressive.

"Wait!"

Biaozi's expression suddenly changed slightly. He scanned the surroundings again. This place... Although it was his first time here, it gave him an extremely familiar feeling!

It was the office building in the "Resident Evil" map chip.

Although there were still some different deviations, the overall look was almost the same.

He closed his eyes and stood in place, quickly recalling.

When he was clearing Resident Evil, the last step was on the rooftop, going to the opposite high-rise building along the steel cable. He had overlooked the city. That city, that city...

It looked almost exactly like this city.

He didn't know if this information was useful, but he transmitted the information back to Ai Zong before carefully exploring. The first floor lobby had been searched and no abnormalities were found.

There was only a front desk.

And there was nothing on the front desk, not even a pen and paper, it was empty.

The elevator had stopped running.

Biaozi walked in the front, leading the team members to check layer by layer along the fire escape.

Outside the office building.

The Stellar train was already flying in the sky above the city, almost close to the top of this space. The top of this space was only a thousand meters away.

Several mechanical eyes outside the train began to rotate rapidly.

Countless data information streams also flashed on the control panel screen.

"Scanning progress 47%. Scanning progress 99%. Scanning progress 100%."

"Comparison progress 89%. Comparison progress 100%."

"Similarity 72%."

"Conductor."

Little Ai's mechanical electronic voice came from inside the train car: "Comparison complete. The similarity between this city and the city in the Resident Evil map is 72%. The differences in some similar areas are mainly due to differences in map integrity."

"In Resident Evil, the tall building on the left with a huge lightning rod is complete, but here, that tall building has collapsed."

"However, the overall urban planning structure is completely consistent."

"Which means—"

"The city in Resident Evil is still in the midst of war, while this place looks like it's after the war has ended."

"Yeah."

Chen Mang nodded, not finding it too surprising. After all, since the "Map Chip" was created, it's normal for the map to have a prototype for reference. It's too much work to create a city out of thin air.

He could understand this.

The only thing he didn't understand was, this city is in an underground space, what's the use of installing such a big lightning rod on a tall building?

Can lightning strike here?

How big of a vow would that be?

Thirty minutes later—

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All three guard squads returned safely, having searched three office buildings. There was nothing useful. The office buildings were empty, without even computers, A4 paper, fire axes, or office desks and chairs.

All empty.

The Constellation train didn't linger too much, but continued to drive along the central road of the city towards the unknown.

During the aerial scan just now, Little Ai marked several points worth noting. If there was a nuclear bomb in this city, it could only be in these few points.

At this time, a simple overhead view of the city was floating on the control panel screen.

The three red-marked points were his next targets.

A dozen minutes later.

Soon, they arrived at the first target, located in the core area of the city, similar to a military base, with no tall buildings around, making it extremely conspicuous from the air.

The area wasn't very large.

About the size of a basketball court. There was a steel mesh fence around it.

The area on the ground was so small, but the underground was relatively large, about three or four football fields in size.

Chen Mang looked at the dozens of red dots on the target radar. There were creatures in this underground base, but... the target radar couldn't see the specific information of these red dots. He didn't know what kind of creatures they were, or what level they were, he only knew there were red dots.

"."

He took out the "Laboratory Access Card" from the drawer and handed it to Little Ai beside him: "Take this to Biaozi and have him lead a team down to take a look."

"Yes."

After Little Ai left, he looked at the information about this serendipity map on the screen again, his brows slightly furrowed.

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"A high-yield nuclear bomb is hidden in this city, its power is enough to destroy the entire city and perish together with those monsters, but the crisis came too quickly, and the nuclear bomb didn't have time to be activated."

"This mission: Activate this nuclear bomb and escape from here."

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He had been to many serendipity maps, but those serendipity maps were relatively simple, mostly clearance-type maps. This was the first time he had encountered such a complex serendipity map.

There was no detailed clearance process, no difficulty selection.

There was also no time limit. Those tall buildings had no air walls and could be visited at will, although there was no harvest.

Including what he originally thought would be a reward for crossing the finish line first.

But he didn't get any reward for crossing the finish line first, as if that prop race was just set up casually.

In other words.

The freedom has become higher, but the difficulty has also increased.

And escape from here?

Escape from the nuclear bomb? Or escape from what?

Chen Mang suddenly laughed. Although there was no grading of serendipity maps, this serendipity map was obviously more complex than the other serendipity maps he had encountered. In other words, the rewards would be higher.

"Bang!"

Biaozi manipulated the mecha, splitting open the steel door of the military base in front of him with an axe, and then strode into the military base in front of him.

On the surface.

There was only a square exposed outside.

About one hundred square meters, the whole was a steel structure, which looked extremely thick.

Many heavy firepower weapons were placed on the inner square. At a glance, there were at least one hundred large-caliber "heavy machine guns", with calibers comparable to the cannons on the train. Each heavy machine gun was equipped with a box, and the alley was filled with stacked energy stones.

These heavy machine guns were energy weapons.

In addition, there were ten rocket launchers, each with forty rounds, which could launch forty rockets at the same time.

And in the four corners, there were four things similar to telephone poles, with a steel ball at the top, and it was unclear what they were.

The firepower could be said to be very fierce.

It's just that they were all damaged.

The most important thing is—

The muzzles of all the weapons were not aimed at the outside of the military base, but were uniformly aimed at the flat house on the ground, as if afraid that some terrifying monster would run out of the house.

"."

Biaozi quickly scanned his surroundings, took a deep breath, and after looking at the information constantly transmitted from the iris chip, he slowly approached the flat house and tightly gripped the giant axe in his hand.

"No signs of life on the ground."

"At a depth of 130 meters underground, you will encounter the first red dot. The monster's name is unknown, and the level is unknown."

"Mangye instructed that the main focus should be on detection, and tear up the ticket as soon as possible if you encounter a crisis that is difficult to resist."

The information on the iris chip was sent by Ai Zong.

He slowly walked to the door of the flat house in the military base, and several large characters were written on the wall of the house in scarlet font.

"Military restricted area, do not approach!"

"Danger, danger, do not approach!"

He was already standing at the door.

The door was quite large, enough for his mecha to enter.

There was a red button on the doorpost, with the words "Open the door" written on it. He put his hand on it and pressed it. Soon, a lot of gear noises rang out.

The door in front of him slowly retracted into the walls on both sides.

But there was another door behind.

Before he could do anything, the door behind him also began to slowly retract into the walls on both sides, and another door appeared.

One minute later.

All the doors had been opened. There were eight doors in total. Biaozi stood at the door and looked at it. The walls of this house were made of solid steel, three meters thick. This thickness was really outrageous.

And there was nothing in the house.

There was only an exposed elevator shaft like a mine shaft, and a red warning light slowly flashing in the corner of the house.

This was the first time he had seen a light in this city.

The ground was covered with dust, and it had been abandoned for an unknown amount of time.