Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 55 Gathering the Manufacturing Station!

Speak of the devil, and he appears. No sooner had Jiang Ran finished thinking about the monkey liquor than she sent a message the next evening, right after Jiang Ran finished her afternoon training.

While sipping her sports drink, Jiang Ran received the crafting table fragments sent by the magical girl, silently marveling to herself: "Having the directional prayer skill is really great."

Magical Girl: "Recently, there are far fewer boxes than before. I only managed to get two or three fragments here and there before, so I didn't tell you. I was thinking of trying to gather more."

"I didn't expect to only find one chest after digging all day, but it's a diamond chest! I don't know if my luck is good or bad, but I got 10 fragments, so I guess I'm more concerned with quality than quantity, hehe."

Jiang Ran couldn't help but smile as she watched the magical girl ramble on.

After getting to know her, I discovered that this magical girl seems to be a natural optimist. But only someone like her would still have the mindset to share her discoveries with others after the apocalypse.

With these 13 fragments, she now has 56 fragments, and only 10 more are needed to complete the crafting table!
Even if you don't put in too much effort, there's still a sense of relief that you're "finally close to doing it."

As for the issue of fewer boxes that magical girls complain about, many people have noticed that there is a lot of discussion about this topic in the chat lobby.

Since vehicles were discovered in the village, it's as if players are being encouraged to kill each other. Not only is the chance of digging up supply crates getting lower and lower, but most of the items that come out of the crates are weapons.

Even weapons like shotguns, which were originally only found in gold chests, can occasionally be found in silver chests. When you're really lucky, you might even find one or two bullets!

This was something I never dared to even imagine before.

It was precisely because of the increase in weapon crates that those convoys were more confident in their sweeping operations.

However, unlike in the previous life, because of Jiang Ran's light-speed annihilation of the Ghost Domain, and because everyone did not know the exact location of "Miss", those convoys were somewhat hesitant when sweeping through, worried about running into a tough opponent.

After the caravan's expansion slowed down, the snow sweepers' situation wasn't as dire as it had been in the previous life, which could be considered an unintended consequence for Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran, who was staying in the cellar, was unaware of these additional effects.

Now that she's seen how efficient the magical girl is at collecting items, her only wish is for the puppet skill to cool down quickly so she can make another "spinning top" specifically for digging up boxes.

After accepting the fragments, Jiang Ran gave the magical girl some high-calorie food and cold-weather supplies in exchange.

Just as I was about to close the chat window, a new friend request came in.

There have been too many players using Miss Jiang lately, but most of them are cyber beggars who cry pitifully and just hope that Jiang Ran can share some supplies with them.

So she was too lazy to look at them one by one and let Xiaobai filter them herself first.

But this person's ID looks familiar.

*
Whirlwind Slash hesitated for a long time before sending a friend request to the black-stockinged young lady.

She had been trying hard to collect crafting table fragments and even managed to get a lot of bricks, but when she didn't want them before, they would come in five or ten pieces at a time. Now that she wanted the fragments, she couldn't find a single one.

Even trading halls, where fragments used to circulate occasionally, have almost no trace of this item anymore.

Just when she was worried about not being able to pay back the Whirlwind Slash before it expired, she actually opened a diamond treasure chest and found ten universal fragments!

She immediately prepared to return the favor with a big brick.

It was only then that she suddenly realized that Li Dazhuanfei, who was originally in her friends list, was gone.

She searched for the ID, refusing to believe it, but the system message said: The player is offline!
Even the IOU that was in the backpack had disappeared.

Realizing what this meant, Whirlwind Slash felt more disappointed than relieved that he didn't have to pay off his debts.

Li Dazhuanfei was one of the few kind-hearted people she encountered in the game. When she was in dire straits, he was even willing to exchange IOUs for life-saving supplies for her.

She always thought Li Dazhuanfei was a hidden master, but even someone like that fell in this snowy field. Perhaps this is the cruelest part of the game; someone who was chatting yesterday might be gone forever today.

She couldn't change any of it, because she herself was struggling in it like an ant.

Coming back to his senses from his grief, Whirlwind Slash began to ponder the fate of the ten fragments he possessed.

She's barely scraping by these days, and keeping these things—which she doesn't even know if she'll be able to piece them together before she dies—would be better spent exchanging them for more useful supplies.

The consensus now is that although Miss Black Silk is vengeful, she is a good trading partner as long as you don't offend her. That's why Whirlwind Slash mustered up the courage to try adding Miss Black Silk.

Fearing rejection, she directly wrote the transaction request on the application page.

【Young Miss, I have 10 universal fragments here, would you like them?】

*
Jiang Ran desperately needs it.

She easily guessed that Whirlwind Slash must have discovered that "Powerful Brick Flying" was gone, and since these fragments were relatively useless, he thought of getting rid of them from the black-stockinged young lady.

Therefore, she didn't waste any words and, after adding him as a friend, directly said, "Name your price."

Whirlwind Slash quickly said, "I'd like to exchange some small-caliber pistol bullets."

Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow.

Ever since she showed off her ammunition stockpile, quite a few people have come to buy bullets from the young lady.

Especially with the unusually high weapon drop rate in crates recently, bullets, a consumable item, have become even more precious.

But since they haven't been able to reliably manufacture bullets yet, even with a large stockpile, Jiang Ran is still unwilling to trade such consumables.

Moreover, strictly speaking, these fragments were originally owed to her by Whirlwind Slash; she only reluctantly gave them up to erase the traces.

Now that Whirlwind Slash has been delivered to her doorstep, she's being asked to exchange her precious bullets for something that rightfully belongs to her—what a joke!

She replied directly, "To me, none of your stuff is worth as much as bullets."

Whirlwind Slash didn't seem surprised by the answer and sent another screenshot: "Can I add these?"

Jiang Ran's previously nonchalant expression froze for a moment.

The screenshot shows two items.

One is a name change card, which is rare but not uncommon.

But the other one was the blueprints for the robotic arm.

Although Xiaobai is currently in charge of digging out boxes, having a robotic arm would naturally increase efficiency significantly.

It was indeed useful to Jiang Ran, but she felt it was a bit of a loss to exchange bullets for it.

It was at this moment that she suddenly realized something: it seemed that she had never gained an advantage in any of her transactions with Whirlwind Slash.

Is this reasonable?

Jiang Ran felt uneasy about whether to make the deal or not, while Whirlwind Slash was also deep in thought as he looked at the chat box.

—They barely exchanged more than two words, so why did the young lady give her a strange feeling of familiarity…?

(End of this chapter)