My Doomsday Train.

Chapter 263 "Very good."

Purple accessory "Space Stillness".

Effect: After activating the accessory, all creatures in the train, including AI, except him will be forced to remain still for 30 minutes. During this period, they will not have any memory and their bodies will be unable to perform any movements.
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This is a newly craftable accessory added when the train is upgraded to level 7, and he has never used it so far.

No application scenario was encountered.

But at this moment——

This accessory works as it should.

next moment!
The train suddenly accelerated again, leaving all the rabbits behind far behind.

"Xiao Ai."

Sitting in the train cabin, Chen Mang tried calling Xiao Ai several times, but there was no response. Even Xiao Ai was stopped, and the train could not cruise automatically, and had to be operated manually throughout the journey.

Chen Mang picked up his cane and strode towards the last carriage.

Fortunately, I have a walking stick.

Even if you are not sitting at the control panel, you can still control the train.

I didn't stop at all during the journey, but I was secretly thinking that I had to find a way to get around on the train. It would be very tiring to run from the front to the back of the train, which is a distance of several hundred meters. It would be tiring if I was a little tired, but it would waste time at the critical moment.

Soon.

He successfully arrived at the last carriage, where four or five rabbits with ferocious expressions and red eyes were floating in the air.

The whole scene looked quite strange.

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Chen Mang poked it tentatively with his walking stick. The fur was still soft and he could feel the body temperature, but there was no reaction. Is this the power of spatial stillness? It feels a bit unreasonable.

Completely disregarding levels.

All living things on the train will be frozen!

No matter what level of monster you are, you can directly replace it with a creature, including the AI, which is all frozen. This thing is a bit like a "stop-loss device" at a critical moment, assuming that the AI ​​really rebels or there is an uncontrollable riot on the train.

After activating this accessory, everything will be back to normal.

He knew that any parts that could appear in the train's craftable parts could not be useless.

He did not activate the hundred heavy machine guns on the ceiling of the carriage. Level 15 and 16 bullets were too expensive and he was reluctant to buy them. They were much more expensive than the shells of the Doomsday Cannon.

A level 1 space door was immediately built on the carriage.

Then he pushed all the rabbit monsters floating in the air in one by one.

Yes, pushed in.

Perhaps it was because these monsters were already sprinting in the air before being frozen, so even after being frozen, he would not fall to the opposite side even if he pushed so hard, but would move horizontally.

One, two, three.
Soon, all these rabbit monsters were pushed into the space gate.

"call"

Chen Meng breathed a sigh of relief, then stood at the junction of carriages 15 and 16, tightly grasped the railing of carriage 15, and chose to forcibly dismantle the "space door" of carriage 16.

next moment--

The space door in carriage No. 16 suddenly collapsed, and countless white light fragments fell into the air.

Those level 15 and 14 monsters, the strongest in this area, were reduced to ashes!

Died in the space shattering.

“A bit invincible.”

Chen Mang, who was standing at the edge of carriage No. 15, looked at the miserable situation in carriage No. 16 and chuckled slightly. The attack of space shattering doesn't care what level of monster you are or how strong your defense is. It will directly kill you by reducing your dimensionality!

Theoretically speaking.

Just the right coordination and a little bit of luck.

With this mechanism, he can even kill level 100 monsters!

It should be possible, but I don't know if the defense of a level 100 monster can withstand this level of spatial strangulation.

And this method is not unique to him, every train has this method.

"Space Gate" + "Space Stillness".

These two accessories are available to every train conductor.

The most dangerous place in the world is not surrounded by monsters.

But trapped in other trains.

Every train conductor has absolute control over his own train. In his own territory, he is the absolute king. Even the emperor cannot do anything to him. Running to other trains is basically the same as seeking death. Fortunately, he has never had the habit of visiting other trains casually.

The only regret is.
Perhaps because of the mechanism, these monsters died by disaster by default, not by the hands of the Star, and did not drop anything.

Chen Mang shook his head without thinking too much and turned to walk towards the train room.

This accessory is level 1.

He has never upgraded before, but the duration of his immobility is half an hour. There is no cool-down time when using it, but the immobility time cannot be canceled. Now there are still 24 minutes before the immobility is lifted.

When passing by residents' cars.

He even went into the space gate to take a look.

As he spoke, the scene before him was somewhat strange.

All the residents were frozen in place, motionless, a bit like wax figures, extremely quiet and quite creepy.

"Ok?"

Chen Mang suddenly frowned slightly. He saw a resident lowering his head to light a cigarette. The jumping flame was burning the cigarette in the man's mouth, but the flame seemed to have stopped?

He walked over, tentatively put his hand close to the flame and touched it.

Orange-red flames.

There is no temperature.

Even flames can be stopped directly, which is awesome. This can prevent fires from happening when the space is still.

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Chen Mang's face looked a little strange. He thought of something interesting and he must try it after he was safe.

Then he left the residents' car.

When passing by carriage No. 5, he opened the sliding door in the corridor and saw Ji Chuchu and Yan Yao sitting on the bed and talking. At this moment, both of them were standing still, with their lips slightly open. They should have been communicating in the last second, but were frozen in the next second.

He walked forward and grabbed a few handfuls.

The touch feels normal.

There is no stiff touch.

Just this feeling
Ok.

Chen Mang held his walking stick and sensed the information on the search radar. No rabbits were catching up with him anymore. The remaining low-level rabbits could not catch up with his train at all, and there were still 22 minutes of space ban.

She looked in front of her again, opened her red lips slightly, looked at Yan Yao and smiled at Ji Chuchu who was saying something.

Human nature.

Can understand.

There is enough time.

He suddenly realized that this accessory should have another meaning, as the saying goes, stealing a little time to relax from busy life.

Half a day is enough.

He laid Ji Chuchu down on the bed. The whole process was extremely quiet in the car, without any resistance. It was a rather strange feeling that he had never experienced before, but it felt good.

20 minute later.

He put Ji Chuchu back in her seat and wiped the residue from her lips with a tissue before leaving the carriage.

I was just wondering how to spend the rest of my time since this space is still and cannot stop, but now I have the solution.

Back in the train room, Chen Mang, feeling refreshed, sat on the control panel, lit a cigarette, and looked at the information flashing on the screen.
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"You have killed the level 15 monster Red Rabbit, you have killed it."
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He originally thought that killing monsters using the space gate mechanism should not be counted as killed by the Star, but he didn't expect that it would be counted.

If no items were dropped, it means that the items were shattered by the space gate.

“What a waste!”

He sighed softly, and at this moment, the time when the space was still was over, and the train returned to its usual noisy state.

"Warning, warning, eh? Train conductor, where are those level 15 red rabbits?"

"died."

Chen Mang glanced at the screen of the enemy-searching radar, then gradually slowed down and came to a complete stop. The train slammed heavily onto the ground from a low altitude. "Have a team of members get off the train and prepare to engage the enemy."

"Yes!"

It wasn't just these rabbits that were chasing him, it was all the red-skinned rabbits in the entire area, and it was just the highest-level and fastest ones that caught up with him.

There is a large force chasing behind.

but
Facing the large group of red-skinned rabbits, he had no intention of running away. After all, his train was also equipped with level 14 armor. Except for the level 15 red-skinned rabbits, wouldn't the others be just food for the soldiers?
The rabbits in this area were obviously at war with him. If he didn't kill all the red-skinned rabbits in this area, there was no way he could stay in this area safely.

This area is different from other areas.

Once you enter this area, you cannot return to the blue area, even if it is only a level 12 train and has not been upgraded to a level 13 train.

At this time, his three-hour farce had already caused a sensation on the "Train Radio".
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"Someone really rushed into a purple zone without any preparation. The biggest rule of the 'Stone Man Zone' is that you can't kill any red rabbits. Doesn't that guy know this?"

"This is called daring skill. This is the first time I've seen a train outrun a level 15 red rabbit head-on. Oh my god, that piercing sonic boom made me feel like I was about to explode. And then it was gone in front of me in the blink of an eye. That speed is incredible!"

"But the red rabbits are very vengeful and will not give up until one dies. They also reproduce very quickly. There's no telling how many there are in this area. Even if that guy's train is fast, it still needs energy stones. How long can the iron ore stored in the train last? And he can't escape to other areas."

"That's not the case. It depends on whether the train has been expanded. If it hasn't been expanded, and it still has the drill accessory, it can hide underground."

"It's expanded. I saw that train, it seems to be called the Star, with more than a dozen carriages in total. The expansion is quite large, so it's definitely impossible to go underground."
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"These guys are really tight-lipped."

Chen Mang, who was sitting in front of the control panel, looked at the conversation of everyone on the train radio and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He had not been busy escaping in the past three hours. He also threw a lot of "Neon City Free Admission Tickets" down. After so long, there must be someone on the train who picked them up.

He had expected someone to mention it on the train radio.

Unexpectedly, no one mentioned this matter, and they kept their mouths shut.

It's not that he thought of using a drill to hide underground, but he couldn't hide underground forever. He came to the purple area to mine higher-level mines, have better opportunities, upgrade the train level, and go further, not to hide underground.

A lot of rabbits?
Just slaughter them.

He wanted to see how many rabbits there were in this area. He had nearly 20 million copper mines here.

Waited about seven or eight minutes.

The remaining group of fast-running level 12 and 13 red-skinned rabbits had already run over breathlessly. The Doomsday Cannon washed them first, and then Zhang Yi drove the "Pope" mecha, holding a huge mace and rushing over with a roar!

"die!!!"

With a roar, an energy stone on the back of the Pope mecha began to flash, and then several electric beams shot out from the center of the mecha, covering an area of ​​ten meters in diameter, and controlled all the red-skinned rabbits in place.

"Open"

Chen Mang was a little surprised. He really didn't know that this mecha had any skills. He didn't carefully check the specific information of the mecha. He had too many things to do in a day, and it was impossible for him to figure out everything.

"Good."

He smiled and looked at the control panel screen. The rest of the things had nothing to do with him. Monsters of these levels could not break the train's defense at all. It was basically safe. He would wait for the next batch of tired level 15 red-skinned rabbits to catch up and then use the same trick again.

The space stillness just now consumed one-fifth of the level 4 energy stone.

Equivalent to 100,000 units of iron ore, this accessory will determine how much energy it consumes based on the number of creatures in the carriage and their levels.

Then he looked into the refrigerator beside him.

It just so happens that everything dropped by these rabbits can be thrown into the store for sale.
"Eh?"

Chen Mang looked at the refrigerator with some confusion. Why was there such a large pile of messy things in it? Where did they come from? He had no idea. Moreover, he had clearly used several Murphy Stones to upgrade the armor of the "Traveling Frog", so how come there was an extra Murphy Stone now?

This thing can reproduce asexually.

He frowned and flipped through the train log to see if there was any bug. Although it was a good thing to have a lot of things out of thin air, he at least had to know what the situation was, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

It’s like a thousand yuan appears by your bedside every day before the end of the world.

It's certainly a good thing.

But I felt somewhat uneasy inside and couldn't sleep that night. I began to wonder if I was living in the underworld and that the money was burned for me by people from above.

soon--

The answer is found.

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Chen Mang snorted silently, lit a cigarette, coughed lightly, and turned off the train radio.

how to say.

After his "powerful magnet" accessory was upgraded to level 100, its pickup range reached meters. He had just been walking around in this area for three hours straight, sucking all the items dropped by people when they killed monsters into the train.

But no one seemed to know that he had picked it up.

After all, this thing doesn't display any information. I just looked at the prop that suddenly disappeared in front of me with a confused look on my face, not knowing what happened.

This thing is pretty smart then.

I didn't get all of his "Neon City Free Admission Tickets" back, because you know he threw them away, right?

"Good."

Chen Mang coughed lightly before looking away from the control panel screen. Today was the first day that "Neon City" was open for business. Although he was in the train room, his soul had already drifted to Neon City.

After dealing with this batch of rabbits, he would have to go to Neon City again.

"Xiao Ai."

"I'm here."

"Have Li Shiji and Uncle Li report to the Neon City area now. By the way, send a body to stay there permanently."

"Okay, conductor, what task do you want to assign to Li Shiji?"

"He can design games, right? Let him go to Neon City and design some games that recycle stellar vouchers."

"clear."

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The end of despair.

Silent wasteland.

The captain of the Star train is slowly becoming stronger. From almost starving to death in this world at the beginning, he has now become a hegemon. However, being a hegemon is obviously not enough to satisfy Chen Mang's appetite.

What he wants is global dominance.

That way I feel a little safer.

And in the No. 5 high-end talent carriage.

"neat?"

Sitting on the bed, Yan Yao looked at Ji Chuchu across from her and asked in confusion, "Why did you suddenly stop talking in the middle of your conversation?"

"Ah? Ah"

Ji Chuchu felt the familiar taste in her mouth and the messy bed sheets next to her. She glanced at the time on her iris chip which had suddenly sped up by half an hour. A possibility quickly emerged in her mind. She looked at Yan Yao who was in front of her with a puzzled look on her face. After a moment of hesitation, she looked out the window with a beautiful smile.

"It's okay, I just suddenly felt that Mr. Mang is quite cute."

"Why do you say that suddenly?"

"I just feel like Mr. Mang isn't that serious after all, he does have a cute side."

"Weren't we just discussing the high-precision clothes we just made?" Yan Yao looked at Ji Chuchu in confusion: "Why did we suddenly jump to Mr. Mang? What happened?"

"fine."

"Okay, by the way, Chuchu, it's the end of the world, let's open up and have a chat, okay? I've actually been wanting to ask you, are you friends with me because you really like me, or are you simply friends with me because you think my father has been funding your studies?"

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The smile on Ji Chuchu's face suddenly froze. After a while, she looked at Yan Yao and shook her head helplessly, "Yan Yao, sometimes you really make me feel at a loss for words."

"how to say."

"There are many things you'd better not know. It's very confusing."

"How messy can it be?" Yan Yao pouted. "Isn't it just about sleeping? People in the entertainment industry don't sleep, right? How can humans pass on their heritage if they don't sleep?"

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Ji Chuchu was silent for a long moment before continuing, "That's much more complicated than you think. Let me briefly mention a few. At the time, Wang Hai and Li Ting were considered the unspoken couple in the industry. You were obsessed with them for a long time and said you longed for such a pure love. Remember?"

"Remember, they are so sweet."

"Well, Wang Hai was very popular at the time, and his family was a major federal tycoon. Li Ting was just an ordinary college student. Can you guess how she hooked Wang Hai so tightly? During their five years together, Li Ting had five cuts on her private parts."

"Make sure it's tight enough."

"Wang Hai's schedule is quite tight, so we don't have much time to meet. Before each meeting, Li Ting would take a lot of birth control pills to ensure that she would not have her period that day. She also used a variety of methods such as oral and injections to ensure that she was in the best physical condition that day, so that she could give Wang Hai a perfect experience."

"This is just a small part of what Li Ting does."

"Do you still think they are sweet now?"

"what?"

Yan Yao was slightly stunned, and said in disbelief: "But I clearly feel that Wang Hai loves Li Ting very much."

"like?"

Ji Chuchu shook her head: "Wang Hai is also a ruthless person. In order to prevent Li Ting from taking the ball to the top, he directly got himself sterilized."

"What do you mean by love or not?"

“A lot of things just need to be listened to.”

"Before Li Ting took over, she trained for four years. During those four years, she learned nothing but dragon-slaying techniques."

"Before the apocalypse, every rich person was tricked."

"Including your father"

Ji Chuchu paused for a moment and didn't continue. She just shook her head and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this. It's meaningless. It's the end of the world."

Yan Yao also thought of her father at this time, and she looked out the window in a daze and murmured.

"Chu Chu, do you think my father is still alive? He's such a good man, he should be rewarded, right?"

Ji Chuchu didn't reply, but just looked at the scenery outside the window with a smile, and there was a subtle hint of sarcasm in her smile.

In "Neon City".

At this time, the number of train conductors was increasing, from the initial thirty to more than ninety.

Uncle Li was sitting at a computer desk next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the "Sun City" high-rise building, typing quickly on the keyboard, looking at the account details on the secondary screen next to him, and making a simple report.

"Boss Ai, isn't this new customer acquisition reward a bit low?"

"Recruiting a new member and rewarding them with 500 star vouchers is only attractive to low-level trains. High-level trains have no such appeal at all."

"Ah."

Xiao Ai nodded and said seriously, "Mr. Mang means that different levels of trains will be given different rewards for recruiting new members. For example, for trains in the white area, the reward for recruiting new members is 500 Stellar Vouchers, while for trains in the green area, the reward is 2000 Stellar Vouchers."

"The higher the level of the train, the greater the purchasing power."

“This has already been set.”

"I understand." Uncle Li nodded and continued to carefully make the account details. At this time, Neon City already had a reserve of 878 million units of iron ore. This number kept changing, sometimes higher and sometimes less.

Some train conductors who have spent all their money will exchange the remaining star coupons for iron ore before leaving the Neon City, with no intention of keeping them.

"Boss Ai, no one is willing to keep the Stellar Vouchers in their balance. This will put a lot of pressure on Neon City's iron ore reserves."

"Yes."

Xiao Ai nodded again: "Master Mang rejected the idea of ​​not allowing too much iron ore to be extracted at one time, or requiring advance reservations, etc. This is the apocalypse, not the day before the apocalypse. Iron ore is the lifeblood of every train."

"If we can't exchange the star vouchers for iron ore in time, it will cause everyone to panic."

"So what Mang Ye means is that there won't be any thresholds. Anyone who wants to withdraw cash can do so at any time, ensuring that everyone can quickly cash out in times of crisis. Initially, we'll expand violently and disorderly. Once the number of users reaches a certain level, admission tickets will no longer be given away for free, but will have to be purchased with Stellar Vouchers."

"My plan is to try to get interest back on deposits by then."

"However, this plan is still in its infancy. After all, in the apocalypse, crises abound. No one would save iron ore, even if it offered higher interest. Immediately improving the train's combat capability is the only way to better survive. Therefore, this plan may be presented in other forms in the future."

"clear."

Uncle Li didn't say anything else, but started to do the accounting again. He now made an automated spreadsheet, so that the workload could be reduced a lot in the future. After all, there was no need for reporting or anything like that here. If it was just about keeping statistics, the workload would not be too heavy.

Li Shiji was designing quickly on the screen next to him.

next moment--

Chen Mang suddenly appeared in front of the French window. Uncle Li, Li Shiji, and the others beside him hurriedly stood up and said, "Hello, Master Mang."

"Ah."

Chen Mang nodded without saying anything. He just stood by the French window, leaning on his cane and overlooking the lively scene below. After a moment, he chuckled and said, "Don't just stand here. Go down and walk around. Blend in with the group. Only then will you know what everyone wants more."

in the crowd.

Chen Mang walked on the street and looked at the train conductor who was exploring back and forth on the street. He was not wearing any mask. Many people knew about the Star, and some people had heard of the name Chen Mang, but few had seen his face.

Even if you have seen it, so what? You can come in, but you don’t allow him to come in?
If he insists on making random associations, what can he do?

"Mr. Mang."

Li Shiji, who was following behind Chen Mang, was explaining his thinking: "When I was a game designer, I worked on many online games, and the main source of profit for online games was krypton gold."

“Although Neon City isn’t an online game, it actually has many similarities.”

"certainly--"

"We can't make money by selling stats or costumes, but the biggest krypton gold project in online games is the lottery!"

"We could build some raffle wheels."

"You only need to invest a little bit of Stellar Tickets to have a chance to win a big prize."

"For example, the grand prize for a 500-stellar-ticket prize pool is a "Level 10 Refrigerator," while the grand prize for a 2000-stellar-ticket prize pool is a "Murphy Stone." Beyond that, you can also set up smaller prizes, like a "289% discount coupon for ten consecutive draws," a "% discount coupon for a hundred consecutive draws," and a guaranteed grand prize for draws."

"We also have a large number of products that are profitable at no cost."

"For example, the Memory Bank, all the money it earns is net profit. The service of purchasing memories has been removed, and only the service of selling memories remains."

"Good."

Chen Mang interrupted Li Shiji with a smile, "Let's not talk about the memory bank for now. Few people have the mental strength to reach the standard for memory implantation. But your lottery roulette idea is very interesting. Remember to arrange it."

"No problem, then are we pseudo-random or true random? Pseudo-random means setting a loss-to-profit ratio."

“How random.”

"If you want to play, play it for real. You can figure out the probability."

"No problem. Then, Master Mang, can I pick a few more items and only put them on the lucky draw wheel? If you want to get this item, there is no other way to get it except through the lucky draw wheel."

"can."

"Ok?"

At this moment, Chen Mang frowned slightly and tilted his head to look at the crowded sex shops on both sides of the street: "Uncle Li, how much profit are these shops making now?"

"108 million Stellar Vouchers."

"Good guy"

Chen Mang was a little confused. Only four or five hours had passed, and these brothels had made a profit of 108 million, accounting for one-tenth of the total turnover. What a joke! He had originally treated these shops as bonuses.

He believed from the bottom of his heart that no one would play with these things with precious iron ore in the doomsday.

It just seemed a little different from what he expected.

The first time so many people came to Neon City, they went to brothels. It was because everyone had very little initial capital at that time. If they didn’t go to brothels, they couldn’t afford to buy other things. But this time, the money they spent was real money.

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Chen Mang was silent for a moment before instructing, "Go back and tell Lao Zhu to look for Doomsday madams on the train. Those robot madams aren't very professional. Find some professional madams."

"Yes."

Although he doesn't understand, he makes money when there is money.

"Look at the accounts and see what everyone buys the most."

Uncle Li flipped through the tablet in his hand and hurriedly introduced, "The place with the highest turnover is the casino. In four hours, the turnover reached 2189 million. Because of your rules, Mr. Mang, the casino does not gamble with customers, only allows customers to gamble with each other, and the casino takes a cut."

"We have set a commission rate of 3% from the winners, and the specific data is still being compiled."

"Many train conductors gamble in casinos."

"Some of them had grudges and were a bit angry. Two train conductors of the 12th-level mechanical train contributed 1682 million in turnover."

"Ah."

Chen Mang nodded. The turnover seemed to be a lot, but in fact not much iron ore was exchanged for star coupons. After all, you lost to me and I lost to you, back and forth, it was all turnover.

Turnover is not the same as gambling money.

Turnover is the total amount generated by repeated betting during the gambling process, including the accumulation of wins and losses.

Uncle Li scrolled his tablet a few times and continued, "The next most popular item is the 'Space Bag,' and the 'Level 10 Refrigerator,' which is also selling quite well. The rest of the items are performing well."

"Many random white-grade accessory blueprints have been sold out, and there's no way to restock them for the time being."

"Secondly, there are a few more suggestions on the 'Suggestion Message Board' you set up, Mr. Mang."

"The first suggestion is that slaves cannot be traded in Neon City."

“The second suggestion is that there isn’t enough variety.”

"The third suggestion is that it is not friendly to lower-class trains. There are not many things that lower-class trains can afford."

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Chen Mang walked on the street, nodded and said nothing much. These suggestions were all good, but there was no way to solve the problem.

One of the main purposes of the gathering was the slave trade.

But Neon City can't do that.

Grant rule restrictions.

All train captains can only bring their own train members when entering or leaving Neon City. They cannot use the admission ticket of another train captain to leave and board that captain's train. Neon City is destined to be unable to trade slaves. There is no way around it.

As for the types of goods.

He has been working hard on this. He has kept a lot of blueprints for white-grade accessories, hoping to draw some products similar to "space bags" to enrich the product variety.

As for being unfriendly to low-grade trains.
There is nothing we can do about this.

(End of this chapter)