System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 564 - 288: "Vast Civilization"! (End of Month Request for Monthly Pass)_5
"Until..."
"When I saw those folks show up on the streets, I was thoroughly convinced."
He was referring to those folks as the residents of the Constant Star Train.
Few people had seen Chen Mang, even fewer had seen the residents of the Constant Star Train, but coincidentally, they both had. The train residents were at store entrances hustling for customers; there was no need to say anything more.
It was basically a done deal.
The two of them were the Train Captains of the "Only Love One" and "Ten Steps, One Kill" trains, which were now Level 7 trains located in the Zombie Basin.
They had deep encounters with Chen Mang.
When they were in the green zone, the "Shahe Plain," they had, under the introduction of Er Dan, attended a train wedding hosted by Chen Mang for the train residents and even had a good meal. The stark difference in treatment of slaves led to a significant contrast in the conditions of the slaves on their trains after they returned.
"It felt like Master Mang had a good impression of us, too. Why was there no follow-up?"
The Train Captain of Only Love One train sighed. They went with the intention of clinging to Master Mang’s back. He thought they performed well, even gave Master Mang gifts. Master Mang was smiling and talking to them the whole time, with no airs, even gave them gifts during the farewell.
They always thought they had built a rapport with Master Mang.
But for some reason, there was no further contact. By the time it was confirmed that the city belonged to Master Mang, the gap between them had far exceeded before, not even on the same level at all.
Their trains were just small fry in this city, with many stronger trains than theirs.
But this entire city belonged directly to Master Mang.
Completely incomparable.
"How could there be further contact..."
The Train Captain of Ten Steps, One Kill train saw it clearly, shrugged helplessly, "Interactions between people can’t just depend on relationships; there has to be resource exchange, right? We are of no use to the Constant Star at all. And most importantly... after the wedding, Master Mang went off to the Zombie Basin, we couldn’t even contact if we wanted to get closer."
Just then—
A man with no pants ran out of the adjacent restroom hunched over, only to dash back in after stepping out of the restroom door.
It looked rather comical.
But the two were long accustomed to this scene.
The public restrooms in Neon City operated like this, charging by the minute. The first five minutes were free, but anything over that cost 100 Fixed Star Coupons per half hour, rounded up to the next half hour.
As a result...
Some people would defecate, run out with their pants down halfway to refresh the free time, and then return to finish up. If they had a bellyache and did more, they’d run a few extra times.
They couldn’t just relieve themselves wherever they wanted; there’d be fines for that. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
Some lower level trains’ crews resorted to such measures.
After all, it was doomsday, everyone’s sense of shame was quite low; even if you saw them, what could you do?
"Wait a minute!"
Originally, this was a normal scene, but the Train Captain of the "Only Love One" train suddenly froze, noticing the man’s face, he said in disbelief, "I know this guy, he just spent 2 million Fixed Star Coupons buying three purple-grade accessory blueprints at the Free Trade Market."
"I remember he was the Train Captain of a Level 14 train, how could he be short of that 100 Fixed Star Coupons!"
Even the two of them, though only Level 7 trains, didn’t skimp on that bit of Coupons, using the restroom as long as they needed without looking at the time.
The two exchanged glances.
They saw the complexity in each other’s eyes.
"I finally understand how these strong individuals become so strong. Save where you can save, spend where you should, never overspend a penny, putting all the money on the blade edge."
"We have to start heading in that direction too, cannot be so extravagant anymore."
"Surely, Master Mang is the same."
"Master Mang is definitely not."
"Why not?"
"If Master Mang were like that, the slaves under him wouldn’t eat so well; look at them over there, each with a rosy face, looking better than me."
"But you have to admit, the work enthusiasm of the slaves under Master Mang is really strong, they all seem to work so diligently."
...
As the time rolled to midnight, the Neon City was still operating, yet the streets were almost empty.
Starting today, Neon City will operate 24/7.
No matter when or where.
Anyone can come to Neon City.
The Constant Star Train sitting on the wasteland, listening to Mr. Li’s report: recently, Neon City’s total profit was 124 million units of iron ore, which was not little and constantly increased.
The train’s total iron ore balance now reached—
"649 million."
Its train armor was at level 19, needing 800 million units of iron ore to reach level 20, just short of a bit.
"Let’s dig some mines."
After pondering for a while, Chen Mang finally headed towards the shower room intending to wash up and rest, saying, "Find some Level 5 iron mines tonight, then let the mining robots disembark and work. If no Level 5 is found, Level 4 will do."
"Understood."
Ai’s voice sounded from within the train cabin.
But in the next moment!
"Train Captain, the Cyber Mine has produced output, and two at once."
"Finally produced!"
Just about to shower, Chen Mang donned his clothes again, striding towards the carriage end, finally output was produced, after all these days of mining, the Cyber Mine was like a scrap, with no movement, leaving him quite exasperated.
