My Doomsday Train

Inside the train car.

Chen Mang had already thrown the pistol and magazine into the "Earth's Core Furnace." As for the handheld zombie detection shield and the train token, he cleaned them up and put them away, just in time for trading at the gathering in a few days.

However, he had a problem he couldn't decide on and needed to discuss it with Old Zhu.

"Old Zhu."

Chen Mang sat on the console, lost in thought, and said, "I'm planning to attend the gathering in six days to exchange for some materials. What do you think, should we keep these slaves for our own use, or sell them directly at that time?"

"Master Mang," Old Zhu tentatively opened his mouth, "Are you worried that the atmosphere on the train is currently pretty good, and the slaves are working quite hard? That adding a group of outsiders might give the current docile slaves some unwanted ideas?"

"Yeah."

Chen Mang nodded slightly, he was indeed a little worried about this matter.

"Actually, Master Mang, you don't need to worry too much about this."

Old Zhu took a deep breath and began to explain, "First of all, the treatment of slaves on our train is among the best in the entire wasteland. If it were right after the apocalypse, many people might indeed have different ideas."

"But our batch of slaves has probably been passed through the hands of several train captains. They are very aware of the slave treatment on other trains. Not to mention the distant past, Master Kun's matter was just a few days ago."

"Moreover—"

"And let this new batch of people be Level Three Slaves, and our old people will be Level Two Slaves. In this way, after those Level Two Slaves enjoy the corresponding treatment, it will be difficult to incite anything. After all, the price of a riot is different."

"Moreover, we will definitely accept more slaves in the future. We can't just not use them because of their improper origins. In the wasteland, people are an extremely scarce productive force, and how many people can have proper origins if they can survive in the wilderness?"

"With this system, it will be much easier for us to absorb slaves in the future, gradually integrating them into the Stellar Train."

"In addition to this..."

"I can also set up some reward mechanisms. Fulfilling certain contributions can be exchanged for many things, such as women, delicious food, a day of rest, etc."

"..."

After patiently listening, Chen Mang suddenly laughed. He finally understood why even a hero like Cao Cao needed a strategist like Guo Jia's 'Ten Victories, Ten Defeats' theory.

In fact, he also vaguely had this idea in his mind, but he always felt something was wrong. After listening to Old Zhu's words, he suddenly became confident. Many times, people still need to absorb some confidence from the outside world.

"Good."

"Let's do it this way. You can draft the promotion mechanism and corresponding contribution values yourself."

"You will receive this batch of slaves first and give them some simple training."

"Understood."

Old Zhu said with a serious expression, "I will go and do it now."

Time flew by, and six days later arrived in the blink of an eye.

It was now late at night, and the slaves were carrying their pickaxes back from the mine. They would have to set off early tomorrow morning to attend the gathering at coordinates "239, 1923." This place was more than 600 kilometers away from him.

The journey would take several hours, so they needed to set off early.

These few days had been relatively peaceful, except for being chased away by the zombie horde twice, there were no major accidents.

A total of 8100 units of iron ore were obtained.

With the addition of this new batch of slaves, the mining speed had also increased a lot.

This batch of iron ore had already been spent by Chen Mang for the most part.

Currently, the "Stellar" train, in addition to the engine, has a total of 4 cars, namely, Cargo Car 2, Living Car 3, and Slave Cars 4 and 5.

Chen Mang had spent a huge sum of money, a full 4000 units of iron ore, to build "Steel Armor for the Cars" for all four cars.

"..."

On the wasteland.

Chen Mang stood on the open space, leaning on his cane, and looked at the thick and dark armor on the dragon-like train in front of him, his eyes filled with satisfaction.

After the whole body was built with armor, this train had a bit more of a ferocious and heavy aura on its exterior.

It looked strong.

Unlike before, when it looked like a newbie.

Of course, they were all level 1. He didn't have that much iron ore to upgrade the "Steel Armor for the Cars" to level 2. It would cost 5000 units of iron ore to upgrade this thing to level 2.

In addition to this—

He also built a total of 3 heavy machine guns, plus the one he had seized before. Each car had one installed on the top, which looked powerful and full of deterrence, costing him 1500 units of iron ore in total.

However, he only had a few hundred rounds of heavy machine gun bullets, so this thing was mostly unused, basically only playing a deterrent role.

He also spent 1000 units of iron ore to build a "Built-in Fire Control System." The level 1 built-in fire control system had a heavy machine gun embedded in the ceiling at the rear of each car. They were also heavy machine guns. This thing was much more cost-effective than building an external heavy machine gun, except that it could only shoot internally.

Yes, there were no bullets for the time being, mainly for deterrence.

Before finding "Copper Ore," his heavy firepower weapons could basically only be used for external deterrence.

Currently, all the accessories that can be built for a level 2 train have basically been built by him. The follow-up is to slowly upgrade them in a targeted manner to a fully equipped level 2 train. There are still 1600 units of iron ore in the train now.

He spent another 1000 units of iron ore to upgrade the "Enemy Detection Radar" to level 2, allowing its detection range to reach a radius of 2000 meters.

He kept the remaining 600 units of iron ore.

It was used to make food and water on weekdays.

In order to avoid spending all the iron ore, and not finding new iron ore for a while, and not encountering other trains, everyone in the train would have to starve to death in the wasteland.

"Huff."

After sorting out the gains of these few days, Chen Mang looked at the gradually collapsing mine in the distance, feeling a little reluctant for a moment. As the slaves all left the mine, this mine also ushered in its end.

All the resources had been mined, and this mine had been re-integrated into the wilderness.

Perhaps after a period of time, this mine will reappear here.

But next.

They need to find a new mine.

Chen Mang took a deep breath, stuck the cigarette that was about to burn out in his hand into the soil, stood on the wasteland, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and muttered.

"May God bless us, may everything go smoothly tomorrow."

"As long as we can successfully exchange for enough spider silk at the gathering, we can go to the Abyss of Doomsday to mine level 2 iron ore and level 1 copper ore."