System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 545 - 285: "It doesn’t sound like a simple project." _3
"Even the Constant Star Train only had six hours at the mechanical abandoned factory stage, other trains should have at most five and a half hours, especially since the first stage consumed so much copper ore, there’s not much copper ore left for other trains in this stage."
"Can they really still make it?"
"Hard to say." Old Pig shook his head, hesitantly saying, "Maybe some trains got delayed for over thirty hours in the first two stages and are currently progressing through the last stage."
"Can the first two stages really delay them so long?"
"After all, not everyone is Master Mang; it’s hard to say."
"So what do we do now? What if time runs out and not enough people are gathered? Will we automatically win, or will the third stage be delayed?"
"That, I don’t know..."
"..."
Chen Mang stood with his cane, also eagerly watching the empty square. Could it be... his train is the only one that successfully cleared the stage? You are all high-level trains from the red zone, it shouldn’t be that none of you can pass, right?
...
Only one hour left on the countdown.
The Constant Star Train remained the only train in the square.
No trace of any other trains.
"I think we overestimated the other trains..." Biaozi said softly, sitting on the ground, "Even the Constant Star Train barely made it, it seems even less likely for other trains to get through."
"Are they really that weak?"
"Don’t worry, maybe they’ll show up in the last few minutes."
"Let’s wait a bit longer."
...
The countdown reached the last minute.
A large, scarlet countdown appeared on the light screen above the square.
"00:00:59."
"It’s over!"
Biaozi sighed lightly, "It seems it’s really only the Constant Star Train..."
As the countdown reached zero.
The light screen above the square began to change, the third stage officially began.
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"Congratulations, reaching the third stage proves your strength and potential, you are eligible to inherit the legacy of the Mechanical Civilization, but we need the strongest one."
"The Train Captain who persists till the last will win."
"The third stage consists of four sub-stages."
"In the first sub-stage, you probably don’t have much ammunition left in your train, but on a truly brutal battlefield, we must ensure the train retains combat capabilities even when ammunition runs out."
"Next, you will face a wave of Corpse Tide composed of Level 10 zombies; the number of zombies is infinite."
"The train with the fewest kills within 1 hour will be eliminated."
"Now, the third stage begins!"
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As this light screen just appeared, and when the accompanying 10-second countdown started to reach zero, a burst of fireworks exploded out of nowhere, and a brand-new light screen emerged.
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"Congratulations to the Constant Star Train for becoming the last winner to persist in the third stage."
"Next —"
"You will receive the final prize passed down from the Mechanical Civilization."
"Please disembark and proceed to the podium, what follows will be known only to the Train Captain."
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"Did we just win like that?"
Sitting inside the train cabin, Chen Mang glanced around, determining his victory directly, as no train reached the third stage before the second stage countdown ended; everyone was eliminated in the second stage...
He thus claimed victory in the third stage easily.
Chen Mang looked at the cylindrical podium rising from the ground in front of the train, enclosed, made of glass, resembling an old-fashioned telephone booth.
He left the train, leaned on his cane, and walked step by step to the podium, paused for a moment, then gently opened the glass door and stepped inside.
When standing on the podium.
The surrounding scene instantly shifted, no square, no Constant Star Train, a brutal war scene appeared on the inside glass, extremely realistic, giving him an immersive sensation.
A massive battle between trains and the Insect Race.
Every moment, numerous trains and Insect Race were turning into sparks, exploding out of nowhere.
Immediately —
Lines of text successively appeared on the podium screen.
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"Since you passed the second stage, you must know the concealed truth about the Mechanical Civilization. The Mechanical Civilization did not battle the Insect Race for hundreds of thousands of years as stated but was wiped out in just 295 years."
"On the eve of extinction, the Mechanical Civilization’s leadership altered the chronology so that other civilizations exploring the ruins of the Mechanical Civilization would think it wasn’t that weak."
"It was a pointless lie."
"But the top brass cared. In the last year before extinction, the leadership of the Mechanical Civilization clearly knew their demise was inevitable, with no turning point, many leaders chose to give up, spending their last year indulgently in a life of luxury and excess."
"However..."
"This information was concealed, many members of the Mechanical Civilization remained unaware they were facing annihilation until death." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"The Mechanical Civilization had a plan, to send countless small shuttle ships drifting through space, and when detecting any planet under attack by the Insect Race, the nearest small shuttle ship would rush there at top speed and inject the serum it carried deep into the planet."
"To pass down the techniques of the Mechanical Civilization."
"Allowing the planet’s natives to inherit it."
