At this moment, I could only muster up the courage to look at Chen Mang and say deeply: "Hello, Master Mang."

Then I looked at Er Dan, hesitating a bit: "Dan... Dan... Dan..."

"Alright, he's clearly Er Dan, you're about to call him San Dan at this rate."

Seeing this, Chen Mang couldn't help but laugh and patted the strong man's shoulder: "Just call him Dan."

"Whew..." With Master Mang's command, the strong man quickly breathed a sigh of relief: "Hello, Dan."

Then he quickly slipped into the Gate of Space with the crowd, carrying a pickaxe.

"Sorry about that."

Er Dan sighed helplessly: "That kid used to be my slave leader, I have a pretty vivid impression of him."

"No worries, a Level 1 iron mine, so many residents go in, it'd probably be mined out in half a day. Shall we continue to sit outside?"

"No problem."

"You go first, I'll grab something from the train head."

"Alright."

...

Walking alone back to the train cabin, Chen Mang looked at the data recorded on the screen. The content of this Level 1 iron mine is roughly 10,000 units of iron ore, consuming half an hour, if calculated based on this.

About 480,000 units of iron ore could be produced a day.

Not bad.

Equivalent to a guaranteed monthly output of over 10 million units of iron ore.

At this moment——

The sound from the speaker in the train cabin came with Ai's voice: "Master Mang, maybe I am indeed quite smart. The experiment you let me continue, I really have some progress now. Although I can't manufacture Level 5 iron ore in the short term, as the experiment improves."

"We can enhance the absorption strength of the receiver."

"That is, the time to manufacture iron ore will be greatly shortened."

"That's even better."

Chen Mang nodded in satisfaction: "You have to believe in yourself, I've always thought you can do it. Many things you have to do and then realize you really can."

"By the way."

"About the kid Da Mao."

"I like that kid, upgrade him to Level 2 resident treatment."

"Yes."

Then he carried some cigars, cola, and... a few vacuum-packed bags of dried duck down.

"Here."

Chen Mang sat on the camping chair and handed over a few bags of spicy-flavored dried duck: "Got this some days ago, the taste is still nice. Try it."

"Let me try." Er Dan hurriedly took it in both hands, opened the package, tore off a piece of duck meat, and put it in his mouth. His eyes lit up immediately: "It's dry, chewy, flavorful, very tasty! Haven't had this stuff for ages."

"Is it spicy?"

"Doesn't seem spicy."

"Eat more if it's not spicy."

"Then I won't hold back, Master Mang?"

"Don't be polite, go for it."

Chen Mang leaned back in the chair, sipping a chilled cola, watching Er Dan devouring the food, for a moment feeling like he was watching a mukbang, his eyes slightly squinted smiling without speaking.

He didn't eat.

He has a shadow about this overwhelming stuff.

At this moment!

After seven or eight bites, Er Dan vaguely felt something was wrong, picked up bottled water and took a sip, but didn't mind it, just continued eating the dried duck in hand. While eating, he kept talking: "Master Mang, let me tell you about these days..."

A minute passed.

Er Dan's neck to face was completely flushed, sweat covered his forehead, continuously panting and sticking his tongue out.

"Spicy?"

"Spicy."

"Didn't you say it wasn't spicy at the start?"

"At the start, it wasn't spicy!"

"Drink more water."

...

Meanwhile——

Inside the Level 1 iron mine within the Gate of Space in car number 2, Da Mao swinging his pickaxe suddenly saw a line flashing on his Iris Chip.

"Ding, resident notification."

"Resident number 4998, you've received joy from Master Mang, your resident treatment will be upgraded from Level 3 to Level 2, with the progress of Level 3 treatment inherited and retained at Level 2."

"Please continue to strive, as the Fixed Star becomes better because of you."

"Ah?"

Da Mao was slightly taken aback, even as these lines started to fade, he was somewhat incredulous, hurriedly using his mind to view "Historical Notification", repeatedly recalling these lines several times, carefully viewing them one by one, finally realizing he was actually upgraded to Level 2 resident treatment?

And without any merit!

Merely because of Master Mang's joy?

At the next moment.

Excitement and thrill immediately filled his mind, standing there chuckling foolishly with the pickaxe held, counting fingers to plan, with the progress of Level 3 resident treatment kept at Level 2, it means his time to advance to Level 1 resident treatment is greatly shortened. He could soon earn Fixed Star Coupons.

Only Level 1 resident treatment can earn Fixed Star Coupons.

Which means only when becoming a Level 1 resident can you truly integrate into the Fixed Star, previously was considered as an internship, just more humane before the Doomsday.

They wouldn't let you try out for seven days and find you're unsuitable, then directly terminate you without pay.

Here, if the internship isn't suitable, there's after-sales service, someone will help you pass on peacefully.

"Mao, what's up, why are you laughing?"

Just then, a skinny man next to him panted heavily approaching: "Aren't you trying to advance to Level 1 resident treatment soon, let's hurry and mine, others are too fast with their mining, if we don't hurry up, the mine will be gone, there's only a little, too many wolves, not enough meat."

"I..."

Da Mao hesitated for a moment whether to tell this man. He was a slave leader in the Azure Dragon train, this man was his confidant, but he worried that if he told him.

This man would imitate him, intentionally stuttering in front of Chen Mang.

That would ruin things instead.

A bit too deliberate, then what awaits might not be the ding, joy from Master Mang, but...

"Ding, punishment from Master Mang."

He immediately had an idea, shook his head, smilingly said: "It's nothing, just keep mining."

Then Da Mao took a deep breath, looked at his resident panel, continued swinging the pickaxe mining, unable to suppress a smiling mouth, corners of his mouth uncontrollable.

He was a slave leader in Azure Dragon, considered a minor official.

Here, just a regular resident.

But somehow, he feels he lives more comfortably here, and even more motivated inwardly.

-

"Name": Da Mao.

"Number": 4998.

"Train": Train Resident.

"Position": None.

"Balance": 0 Fixed Star Coupons.

"Treatment": Level 2 Resident Treatment.

"Upgrade Progress": 23%.

"Spiritual Power": 11.4.

"Physical Comprehensive Quality": 11.6.

-

Perhaps it's because of the "resident panel" that makes him always feel a stronger sense of belonging in the Fixed Star train, which he didn't have in the Azure Dragon train.

How to say...

The accurate description would be that in the Fixed Star train there's a sense of mission to rejuvenate everything, whereas in the Azure Dragon train it's purely a doomsday survival sense.

The upgrading system for resident treatment is——

Daily required mining of 10 units of iron ore, which is the base task amount. The extra mined iron ore will serve as the resident treatment upgrade, when the extra mined iron ore reaches a certain quantity, the treatment will be upgraded.

Once upgraded to Level 1, the extra mined iron ore will be converted into Fixed Star Coupons.

By then, you will be qualified to shop in the "Resident Store".

It is said, previously, there was no such progress bar.

Later, Master Mang and President Ai invented it. With this progress bar, residents can see more intuitively how far they are from the next treatment upgrade, having a game upgrade feeling.

Working then becomes really diligent.

There's a saying.

Before Doomsday, it was impossible to have such numerical, transparent, streamlined promotion systems.

But if any company implements this system, how could employees not work diligently?

Da Mao pondered while continuously swinging the pickaxe.

The whole space.

Only the clank clank clank sound of the pickaxe striking iron ore, not very orderly, but very melodious.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.