My Doomsday Train.

Chapter 276 "Cyber ​​Mine".

Uncle Li hurriedly explained, "Master Mang, weren't you planning to buy a large quantity of Dream Stones? You bought 102 in total, at an average price of 50 units of iron ore. This cost you 5100 million units of iron ore."

"Most train conductors exchanged their stellar coupons for iron ore. Only a few retained their stellar coupons, but the corresponding iron ore is considered a liability asset and is temporarily sealed in Neon City."

"If these Dreamstones were not included, today's net profit would be 5892 million units of iron ore, a year-on-year increase of 112.1%."

"Ah."

Chen Mang put on a smile again after hearing this and nodded, "That's right, you scared me. I thought something happened to Neon City. Why did the profits suddenly drop so much?"

"The next time you report, the data should be more accurate."

"Yes, Master Mang taught me that."

Uncle Li breathed a sigh of relief. He was so scared. Could he let Li Shishi do things like reporting data from now on? He was a little panicked.
"Bring out the iron ore and the dream stone."

"Yes."

102 dream stones are neatly placed on the control panel.

It looks extremely dazzling.

“That’s the charm of trading.”

Chen Mang leaned on his cane and looked at the more than 100 dream stones in front of him. The corners of his mouth could not help but rise. It took the Star Train basically a whole month to collect the dreams of all the residents before a dream stone was born.

It would take 100 years to collect all the more than 8.5 dream stones.

but--

In the neon city, just 24 hours had passed and he had obtained 102 Dream Stones.

Trading is an extremely great existence in human history. Starting from bartering, it has greatly improved everyone's quality of life. This is why "gatherings" still exist in the chaotic environment of doomsday when almost all social activities have stagnated.

transaction.

It is necessary and cannot be left behind.

Without trade, it would be difficult to survive by relying solely on self-sufficiency.

After the train is upgraded to level 11, it can obtain the "Dream Materialization" function. With this function, it can collect Dream Stones. His Star can obtain a Dream Stone per month because it has a large enough number of residents. It takes five or six months for a normal train to obtain a Dream Stone.

You must be a senior advanced train to obtain a dream stone.

According to statistics.

Among the guests of "Neon City" this time, there are not 102 senior and advanced trains. It is estimated that many trains rushed to the train radio station and bought up Dream Stone in large quantities after learning that Neon City had acquired Dream Stone, acting as second-hand dealers.

This batch of "Dream Stones" is basically 100% full.

There are only a dozen or so that are at 99% capacity, and the acquisition price is a little lower.

It can be said--

He cleared out all the inventory in the market he could reach at one time, so he won't be able to acquire as much in the future. But it doesn't matter. With Mundo around, he can slowly reach more areas and more trains.

Take it easy.

"Can the price get any lower?" Chen Mang looked at Uncle Li standing beside him. "After all, this thing is useless on most trains."

Dream Stone.

You can use the "Dream Creation" function of the level 12 train to create dreams by consuming dream stones and slightly increasing your mental power. The only use of mental power at present is to drive some firepower mechas, but mecha blueprints are rare, and mechas that require mental power are even rarer.

Currently, the Star only has the "Leech" mecha, which requires mental strength.

“It’s hard to go any lower.”

Uncle Li shook his head. "Those who can afford to sell Dream Stones are basically those who run high-end trains. This price is already the lowest price after talking to several train conductors. If the price is any lower, those high-end train conductors will be a little dissatisfied."

"Instead of exchanging it for iron ore, it's better to use it yourself, even as a recreational activity."

"This price is already the lowest we could negotiate after many discussions. Even so, several train conductors chose not to sell it to us and instead kept the Dream Stone for their own use."

"Too."

Chen Mang nodded. Value will change over time.

For example, when he just came here, if he picked up Ji Chuchu, and a train conductor spent 5 units of iron ore to buy Ji Chuchu from him, he would definitely sell her without any hesitation.

But if now, a train conductor spent 5 units of iron ore to buy Ji Chuchu from him, he would not only refuse, but also give the other party a shot.

Isn't this provocative?
Are you so brave?!
There are still 1204 million units of iron ore in the train, which is not very abundant. At this time, in carriage No. 10, there is another level 1 space door on the wall. Level 1 is enough.

There were originally three space gates here.

"Film and television base", "entertainment space", "fighter jet landing pad".

There is a fourth one here now——

"Cyber ​​Mine".

In this space gate, there are 10 level 100 single beds neatly arranged. They are extremely expensive and consumed a total of 510 million units of iron ore.

"This investment is really expensive. It can be considered a heavy asset investment."

Chen Mang stood in front of the 10 single beds and looked at the 10 residents who were standing there nervously.

"Mr. Mang."

Lao Zhu reported quietly nearby, "These 10 residents volunteered to participate, but there's a small problem. Normally, residents' Stellar Vouchers are calculated based on the excess from their daily mining. How are Stellar Vouchers calculated in the Cyber ​​Mine?"

"You'll still get paid based on commission. If you bring in one level 1 iron ore, you'll be rewarded with 9 star vouchers."

"1000?"

Lao Zhu was slightly stunned. This number might not be significant in Neon City, but in the Star, it was a sky-high price. As long as one was brought out, it would basically be equivalent to several months of work.

"Yes, I'll go down and talk to them."

soon--

The 10 residents who were originally a little nervous suddenly walked to the 10 beds one by one with excited looks. However, due to their excitement and because there were so many people gathered around them, they could not fall asleep for a long time.

I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

And on each single bed, there is a dream stone embedded.

"Conductor."

Xiao Ai, who was standing nearby, whispered, "Why don't you guys go out first and I'll help them sleep?"

"Ah."

Chen Mang and his group immediately left the space gate. As the oxygen content dropped rapidly, the 10 residents in the "Cyber ​​Mine" also fell into a coma.

Everyone has the same dream.

In a level 9 iron mine, mining with a level 9 pickaxe, there is nothing else in the entire dream.

Inside the train.

Chen Mang looked at the surveillance footage of the "Cyber ​​Mine" on the screen. Creating dreams requires the consumption of "Dream Stone" capacity, but the consumption is very small. It cannot be seen in the percentage, and he doesn't know how many decimal places there are.

He did a rough calculation.

The cost of manufacturing such a cyber mining machine includes a "level 100 single bed" and a "dream stone", which is 101 million units of iron ore.

This does not include the residents' daily food and the tiny cost of rewarding star coupons.

101 million is the cost price of a cyber mining machine.

Bringing out a level 1 ore will give you 9 million units of iron ore in return.

Although it is only a low probability event.

However, the maintenance and use of cyber mining machines are free of charge. There is only a cost when they are manufactured. In other words, as long as the time is extended infinitely, the investment will always be recovered. It just depends on when you can make a profit.

"Conductor."

Xiao Ai's voice echoed from the train cabin: "All ten residents of the Cyber ​​Mine have successfully fallen asleep, and their dreams have all been successfully implanted. According to the rules, as long as you enter a dream, there is a chance that you will bring out an item from the dream. There is no set dream duration here."

"That means even if you dream for an hour, there's a small chance you can bring back an item from your dream."

"And it takes exactly one hour to mine one unit of iron ore."

"Our residents are quite hardworking, and it takes about 50 minutes to mine one unit of iron ore."

"I've modified the mechanical structures you just created with the Mechanical Heart, and named them 'Awl Thorn' according to your instructions."

"When a resident falls asleep, a mechanical mechanism will activate and insert a steel needle into the resident's buttocks every hour, waking them up."

"Then the oxygen levels are lowered again, allowing them to fall asleep quickly."

"Repeat every hour."

"Each resident works 12 hours a day, which means they can dream 12 times. This greatly increases the probability. If 10 residents fall asleep, there is a 120 chance of obtaining a level 9 unit iron ore every day."

"very perfect!"

Chen Mang grinned and nodded. As long as he could obtain a level 9 iron ore unit, he could use the money to continue to build more "cyber mining machines" and allow more residents to move in, and then the snowball would continue to roll.

unemployment?

nonexistent.

The residents of the Star still don’t have an accurate understanding of themselves. They are always worried about losing their jobs. How could they possibly lose their jobs?

"The probability should be one in ten, right?"

"I dreamed about ten times before I brought out a level 9 unit of iron ore. That time I hadn't used dream crafting yet."

"Conductor, you are the child of destiny. You are different."

"Next time, take your son with you."

"Good conductor, you are destiny."

"Um"

Chen Mang paused for a moment before adding, "Next time Neon City opens, we'll buy some accessories that can help people fall asleep quickly. Reducing oxygen levels does have its drawbacks, after all."

"It's okay, actually. We have a 'medical cabin'. Any problem can be fixed directly. The cost of repair is nothing compared to the profit."

"It's better to reduce costs as much as possible. With someone like you who's constantly experiencing oxygen deprivation and oxygen generation, the oxygen concentrator is also very tired."

"Understood. I'll buy Neon City next time it opens."

Another seven days passed.

Neon City is opening for the fourth time. The number of visitors is increasing with each opening. If this trend continues, Neon City will soon be able to open every day.

today--

Neon City ushered in a major event.

Almost every guest who walked out of the starting point was shocked by the scene before them. An advertisement for a product appeared on all the screens in the city.

"Mining Robot!"

"Not 39998, not 29998, just 9998!"

"Take home a mining robot that can work 24 hours a day!"

"You can mine and cut down trees!"

"The only one in the world!"

"This is a limited edition sale, only 5000 units available, while supplies last!" "I haven't seen such a lively scene in a long time."

A train conductor who entered the neon city for the first time looked at the scene in front of him and murmured. The large outdoor screens hanging on the high-rise buildings all showed the posters and copy of this product in a neat and uniform manner.

It even made him feel dazed for a moment.

It seems like the end has not come.

He was still in a modern city, and everything seemed like a dream.

So unreal and unreal.

"Mining robots?"

Many people were stunned when they saw the overwhelming posters. This was the first product they had seen that could replace slaves in mining, and it was a robot that could work continuously for 24 hours. Isn't its work efficiency higher than that of slaves?
“Only 5000 units?”

"Ah."

Chen Mang, who was standing by the French window, could only nod slightly: "I'm not sure if there will be many buyers. Let's see how the sales are going first."

The market is difficult to imagine. Any conceptual product must ultimately be verified in the market to know how the market accepts it.

Only a novice entrepreneur would imagine the market without any investigation.

The cost price of a mining robot is 2500, and it is sold for 9998, with a profit of about 7500.

If all these 3750 units can be sold, a profit of million can be made.

The profit margin is not very large.

It is far inferior to the "space bag". It costs 1 unit of wood, and he sells 5 units of iron ore, which is equivalent to 5 times the profit. This is a profit that drives capitalists crazy.

But no train will buy this thing in bulk. Basically, people buy a few to use on the go, not hundreds or thousands.

But "mining robots" are different.

If we want this thing to be truly popularized and used, and to significantly improve train production efficiency, it would be meaningless to buy seven or eight of them. We have to buy at least a hundred or more to achieve a certain scale.

This is a high-volume product.

For products that sell in large quantities, the profit margin will definitely be low. If the profit margin is high, others will not be able to afford it.
Three hours passed.

Only more than 100 "mining robots" were sold, and these 100 or so were bought by many train conductors, with each conductor buying one or two.

Chen Mang was very confused at first. What was the use of these train conductors buying a mining robot?

Later, we sent Uncle Li out to inquire and found out.

These train conductors bought one or two mining robots just to serve as an incentive, telling the slaves on the train that if they don’t mine well, your jobs will be replaced in minutes. You are not very important to the train, and the train is doing you a favor by giving you food!
"."

After learning the reason, Chen Mang remained silent for a long time with an expressionless face before speaking softly.

"A long time ago, I heard a fable."

"Sardines are a type of fish that easily die during transportation. One day, a fisherman accidentally put a catfish into the sardine transport. Unexpectedly, the sardines remained active due to avoiding natural enemies, and most of them survived in the end."

"This phenomenon was later classified as activating the vitality and competitiveness of the original group by introducing external stimuli."

"In management science, it's also called the catfish effect."

“It can effectively improve employee motivation.”

"My original intention was to sell production tools, but I didn't expect everyone to buy them and treat them as catfish."

No single trainset was purchased in bulk.

This was actually within his expectations.

after all
This is the end of the world. There is no "slave association". No one cares about how slaves are treated. There is no salary, just food. Slaves have no place to complain.

This leads to.

Even though mining robots are extremely cheap, and even ridiculously cheap, they are still not as cheap as slaves.
That's no temper.

He couldn't control what happened in other areas. He couldn't just say that the treatment of slaves on all trains must be improved. It would be strange if anyone paid attention to him.

"But this is fine."

Chen Mang nodded. "When the trains develop in the future and we find a way to trade slaves remotely, or when we can operate across regions, we can buy all the slaves they have at a high price and place them in the cyber mines on the Star."

"And then sell them the mining robots."

at this time--

Xiao Ai looked at the changing information on the screen and suddenly said, "Conductor, a train conductor spent nearly 1000 million units of iron ore to purchase mining robots at once!"

"Oh?"

Chen Mang's eyes lit up: "Go and find out why this train conductor bought it. Find out his pain point and see if we can dig out this pain point."

soon.

Uncle Li returns again.

"Master Mang, that train conductor was a high-level train conductor. He was severely damaged in a natural disaster, and almost all his slaves died. Slaves in the high-level areas are very scarce. He was worried about it, and then he came across us selling mining robots, so he bought a thousand of them."

"correct."

Chen Mang smiled with satisfaction. This was his target group!

It's been nearly two years since the end of the world.

The survivors had basically been divided among the trains.

Maybe in the white area, there are still survivors hiding in the city ruins, but in those advanced areas, where can the survivors hide? Slaves are difficult to obtain. Once they die, they are gone. One less is one less.

This customer group is the main user group of "mining robots".

"Good."

In this way, there is another source of iron ore.

Chen Mang leaned on his cane and looked at the crowded street, nodded with satisfaction, "I'll leave this place to you guys to continue guarding. I'll go back first. If there is any emergency, please contact me immediately."

"Yes!"

Seven days have passed since the Cyberminer was officially put into use.

Within these seven days.

With the joint efforts of 6000 residents and 2000 robots working day and night, most of the mines in this space have been mined. The remaining mines are expected to be mined in another seven days.

The mining can be completed completely!
During these seven days, he started by keeping an eye on the "Cyber ​​Mine" occasionally, and later on kept an eye on it every day.

Slightly disappointed.

During these seven days, no one brought out level 9 iron ore. The probability was even lower than he imagined.

"but."

Chen Mang sat on the chair, looking at the bustling mining scene outside the window with a strange expression. Maybe catfish is really useful?

It was already one o'clock in the morning.

At this time of day, most residents are asleep, with only a few hundred working overtime.

And today.
More than 3,000 residents are working overtime.

2000 catfish were dropped, exploding in the residential area like depth charges.

If you don’t work hard, you will be replaced!

This has become the slogan of all residents. They work so hard at mining that they almost never sleep. It feels like they are competing with robots to see who will be scrapped first. The Coke production line is almost smoking.

blister?

Wrap it with a cloth and it won’t hurt!

Sore arms?

Cut it off and sew it back together, you'll have a brand new arm, no pain!
Spine pain?

Cut it off and sew it back together, you'll get a brand new spine, no pain!

Sore feet?
Cut it off and sew it back together, you’ll have a brand new pair of feet, no pain!

There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved by restarting!

If restarting doesn't solve the problem, then you haven't restarted enough times.

"."

The corner of Chen Mang's mouth twitched slightly, and then he looked at Xiao Ai standing beside him and said seriously: "I swear, this is not what I thought at first. These residents seem to be a little too extreme."

“Actually, it doesn’t have to be like that at all.”

"This was an unexpected situation. Although I don't want to admit it, it really happened out of the blue."

"besides--"

"When did the 'simple first aid kit' become available for free in train compartments?"

"They're not free. They're sold in local shops at a relatively low price. You can buy one with one star voucher. This is a train welfare benefit to help injured residents recover quickly."

"They paid for it themselves?"

"Ah."

"And buy Coke at your own expense?"

"Ah."

"Voluntary overtime?"

"Ah."

"I think I'm a good person. The residents on my train are treated the best of all trains, but what you said makes me sound like that evil capitalist."

"It's the people below who acted spontaneously. It has nothing to do with you, the conductor."

"really."

at this time--

Xiao Ai, who was standing nearby, suddenly spoke up, "Master Mang, the Dream Stone on a resident's bed in the Cyber ​​Mine has been flickering since they woke up."

"Oh shit!"

Chen Mang jumped up from his chair and grabbed his coat from the rack nearby, throwing it on. "Go take a look! If it's a damned level 9 pickaxe, smash that mining machine for me!"

"Really bad?"

"It's fake, don't get sick."

Soon, three minutes later.

Chen Mang came to carriage No. 10 and secretly decided to use the Mechanical Heart to build a flat elevator similar to the ones in the airport. Running from the front to the back of the train every time was too damn tiring!
"call"

He stood at the entrance of the "Cyber ​​Mine" space gate and rubbed his palms on his clothes nervously.

He was really afraid that a level 9 pickaxe would appear.

Then he really wanted to kill someone.

"Xiao Ai, are you sure you didn't create some damn Coke and oxygen concentrator in your dream?"

(End of this chapter)