When a person is about to die, there's no time to think too much.

Even if the shell is almost overhead, he hasn't thought about how the other party might spare his life. It's not like a snap of the fingers will make the shell turn elsewhere, right?

-

"1,201,000 units of iron ore, 1,080,000 units of copper ore, 10,000 units of wood."

"Various living supplies, numerous."

"More than 700 survivors."

"..."

-

Time was tight, and those living supplies were not carefully counted. Zhang Yi and Zhang Er threw them into the fridge, primarily counting various resources.

No Murphy Stone and no blueprints.

But there were indeed a lot of resources.

...

Chen Mang stepped back into his train compartment with large strides.

He glanced at the Train Resource Panel.

"3,101,000 units of iron ore, 2,235,000 units of copper ore, 1,509,000 units of wood, 4,480,000 units of Red Heart Rock."

There were those two volleys just now.

He fired 800 shells, consuming 140,000 units of copper ore.

However, he seized 1,080,000 units of copper ore.

Completely covering the cost.

"..."

Chen Mang looked at the Train Panel with a faint smile, saying that good advice falls on deaf ears, and when the shells are overhead, they start calling him brother. Why couldn't they have done that earlier? Wouldn't it be nice for everyone to be amicable early on?

He shook his head.

First, he took 500,000 to upgrade the train head's armor to level 9 armor.

This way, in case something goes wrong, at least the train head could be preserved.

The train head is the core of a train. As long as it's intact, there's a chance for the train to rise again!

This is the advantage of the "Armor" accessory.

Each carriage upgrades individually with this defense accessory.

Whereas the "Energy Shield" is not, it's an accessory that envelops the entire train, requiring a holistic upgrade. Of course, the resources needed for each upgrade are astronomical, far exceeding the resources needed for armor upgrades.

He also had the "Energy Shield" accessory and upgraded it to level 3.

He knew the situation.

This accessory is priced according to the number of carriages; the more carriages, the more it costs to upgrade each time. It's similar to armor, but it can't upgrade carriages individually and must upgrade altogether.

Once the energy shield is upgraded, adding a carriage also requires additional iron ore expenditure.

...

"So next..."

On the leaderboard, Chen Mang found a train of the six men previously killed by Ai.

"Level 9, B-grade potential Mechanical Train, Horizon."

He sent a message.

"Let's trade privately. I'll give you 100 Murphy Stones for 1 million units of iron ore. Don't tell anyone, or the market price gets disrupted, and I can't sell later. On-site trade, I'll send you the coordinates."

"Oh, understood now? Can't you trade remotely?"

"Remote transactions require pinning messages in the chat, which exposes me. Do you agree? If not, I'll find someone else."

"Very well, send the coordinates, meet for the trade."

"I've sent it over, I'm waiting for you."

Pretty good.

Chen Mang chuckled softly, then used 300,000 units of iron ore to upgrade the red-grade accessory "Earth Core Melting Furnace" to level 9. The train head slowly opened, revealing countless high-speed spinning gears inside.

Swallowing the entire level 9 train whole.

The sound of steel being crushed hummed continuously.

Acquired 870,000 units of iron ore.

...

"Tsk."

Zombie Basin, within the level 9 Horizon train compartment.

A woman sitting in a chair pulled out a cigarette, put it in her mouth, and gazed contemptuously at the Fixed Star's information on the train panel. She could guess with her eyes closed what Fixed Star wanted, which was to quickly upgrade to level 9 and escape this Zombie Basin area.

Too bad.

Even reaching level 9 wouldn't let it escape.

But it didn't matter; she first wanted to get those 100 Murphy Stones, and when Fixed Star realized it couldn't escape and came begging to them, she would begin organizing all the trains to come together to prepare to resist this crisis.

As for that million iron ore.

She never intended to give it.

Her train had a B-grade potential, equipped with a "Train Stunt," and a blue large firepower accessory "Photon Cannon," and being a level 9 train isn't something to fear of Fixed Star.

Even if Fixed Star had an exaggerated number of Supermodel Effects and an S-grade potential.

If a fight broke out, it might be uncertain who would win.

But she wasn't planning to fight; she intended to promise to give the iron ore after the Zombie Volcano crisis ended. Could Fixed Star really rob her at such a critical moment?

The fact before her had two points.

First, without the call of all level 9 trains, getting them to gather together was impossible. Fixed Star alone didn't have the appeal.

Second, even if all trains followed Fixed Star's call and submitted all their copper ore, it would still be impossible to withstand so many Corpse Tides with just the weapons on Fixed Star alone.

Their level 9 trains were necessary.

Only they and some senior level 8 trains had the ability to kill level 9 zombies!

Completing the "B-grade difficulty" mechanical reassignment task required a lot of Murphy Stones.

She had savored the wonders of Murphy Stones.

This made her extremely crave more Murphy Stones.

"If she's willing to lightly toss out 100, it means there are more, right?"

The woman's eyes glimmered with an inexplicable light as she eagerly pushed the control lever, turning towards the coordinates.

...

Zombie Basin.

In one part of the wasteland, a level 7 Flesh and Blood Train quietly parked on the side.

It was the Fixed Star train disguised with "Mechanical Antenna."

The current distance was about eight kilometers from the coordinates.

He wasn't sure if that level 9 "Horizon" train would come, so all he could do was wait patiently.

Just then——

"It's coming!"

The Target Detection Radar showed a level 9 train approaching swiftly.

The Fixed Star train's front drill extended rapidly, spinning at high speed, quickly disappearing underground, and moving swiftly towards that level 9 train beneath the earth's surface.

Soon it was traveling parallel below that level 9 train.

There were still 300 meters left to the coordinate point.

But he wasn't prepared to wait any longer.

Next moment!

"Train Stunt": Death Spin!

A high-speed rotating metal storm burst from underground, targeting this level 9 train's compartment almost instantly.

The high-speed spinning "Drill" drilled into this level 9 train's compartment.

Then, the high-speed spinning train blades on both sides of the carriage enveloped the compartment.

Almost in the blink of an eye.

The battle was over.

Level 9 train "Horizon" was annihilated!

...

Fixed Star concealed from the radar, like a snake lurking underground for ages.

Struck with a fatal blow.

The level 9 train didn't even have time to activate its "Energy Shield," highlighting another drawback of the energy shield: it activates only upon sensing an attack, and in an unexpected strike from below like Fixed Star's, the energy shield can't activate in time.

With just level 3 armor on the compartment.

It was crushed nearly immediately.

Even the second and third carriages, due to the inertia of speed, were impacted by the Fixed Star train emerging from the ground and were likewise nearly shredded.

The following carriages lost balance and crashed onto the side plain.

Like a centipede with its head cut off.

The wheels spun on the overturned carriage, losing power supply, and spun slower and slower.

The entire battle.

From start to finish, it took less than three seconds.

If Chen Mang hadn't extended the train blade only one meter, not extending too much, otherwise in full state with ten-meter train blades, they could almost shred half of this 19-carriage-long train.

Building a level 9 train.

Takes a very long time indeed.

Even for Chen Mang, from a level 1 train to the current level 7 train, it took nearly three months.

Others building a level 9 train would need at least four months even at his speed.

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