When resources are insufficient, and growth is wild, especially when modern civilization suddenly falls into a doomsday civilization, the psychological difference is difficult to accept.

Slavery is the most effective system, without exception.

In such circumstances, incentive systems are useless because no matter how you incentivize, it can't be better than the life he had before the apocalypse. Before the apocalypse, he could still eat hot pot. Can you use hot pot to incentivize him? Can you prepare hot pot on the train?

However—

When the train reaches level 12, like those three level 12 Mechanical Trains.

At this point, the train is basically perfected. Something like the Energy Shield, those components would cost tens of millions of iron ores just for an upgrade, and how much does a set of clothes cost? How much does a Gate of Space earn? How much does a piece of bread cost?

In a situation where living supplies are abundant.

Slavery fades away softly from the stage.

The Train Captains also begin to talk about human rights, and this is when they start transitioning to a feudal system. All the survivors are their own people. As a Train Captain, one must protect their people, but as their people, you must also contribute to the train.

And at this time.

The living conditions of survivors improve more and more.

The terms of address naturally change accordingly, no longer using derogatory terms like slaves, but employees, passengers, and the like.

...

Inside the Constant Star Train.

Chen Mang, leaning against the back of the chair, closed his eyes and was resting without speaking; he had just talked a lot with those three Train Captains. The doomsday situation was becoming more and more precarious, and two sayings of uncertain origin had emerged.

The first is that in a few years, all regional barriers would be broken, and at that time, high-level monsters could come to low-level areas to massacre freely.

The second is that the highest-level region, the Seven-Color Region, is a doomsday wilderness with no monsters, where everyone can rebuild their home.

Where these two sayings came from, it is impossible to verify.

It's also impossible to verify whether it's true or false.

But it did give some Train Captains a bit of hope.

Just at this time—

"I've found it."

Ai's voice suddenly rang out inside the train room: "It is.."

"Just hold on a moment."

Chen Mang interrupted: "Don't suddenly speak like that. Before speaking, flash the white light inside the train room or use some other way, then speak, understand?"

"Understand."

"Good, continue."

"Yes, Train Captain, that bug has been found. I've checked the consumption status of all the parts of the train these days; among them, there is a consumption always unaccounted for."

"This consumption existed a long time ago. The earliest records trace back to the Tieling Wasteland, where it suddenly disappeared for 12 days, and then after 12 days, this unknown consumption reappeared, but it was very small, making it hard to notice."

"Adding up all the unknown consumption, the specific number is 392,900 units of iron ore."

"Upon tracing back, I found the missing carriage number 16, named 'Giant Beast Carriage.' This carriage is different from other carriages, not appearing in the form of a carriage."

"Each time iron ore is consumed to upgrade the 16th carriage, it's spent on this Giant Beast. Due to the Giant Beast being in its infantile stage, it occasionally absorbs the energy from the train's Energy Stone to sustain its vital characteristics."

"Where is the Giant Beast?"

"Here."

Ai opened the door and came in from outside the train room, the voice transferred from the train room's sound system to the loudspeaker in her throat, carrying a fluffy little cub: "This is the thing, specifically appeared on the train the fourteenth hour after the Constant Star Train was established."

...

"Giant Beast?"

Chen Mang slightly frowned at the fluffy little cub in Ai's hand, roughly the size of a basketball, entirely covered in fur, looking like a plush toy, with no visible limbs.

Only vaguely could a rather small mouth and two eyes closed together, as if sleeping, be seen under the fur.

It didn't look threatening at all, and was light green all over, looking more like a toy.

Or a magnified bacterium.

"Hmm."

Ai nodded, her expression serious: "Initially, I couldn't find it, but in recent times, I learned from those experimental materials about a special carriage named 'Giant Beast Carriage.'

"Capture the infant Stellar Giant Beast and treat it as a carriage for cultivation until it reaches adulthood, where it would possess extremely terrifying power."

"Some Stellar Giant Beasts are said to feed on mineral stars, and some Stellar Giant Beasts are several hundred thousand kilometers long, extremely terrifying."

"And a Giant Beast raised as a 'Giant Beast Carriage' since infancy will be extremely loyal to the train upon reaching adulthood. This loyalty stems from its bloodlines because it grows up on the train and the food is provided by the Train Captain. In the Giant Beast's heart, the Train Captain is its mother, and the train is its home."

"It's an extremely terrifying strategic weapon."

"I searched the entire train and finally found this little guy next to the engine in the train head."

"..."

Chen Mang remained silent, lighting a cigarette, and after a long exhale of smoke: "Let's not think about whether this little guy is a Stellar Giant Beast. I just want to know why the train identifies it as a carriage that needs armor upgrades? Does this mean every time armor is upgraded, we have to upgrade it too?"

"Yes."

Ai tilted her head to glance at the furry little thing in her hand: "Though Stellar Giant Beasts are terrifying, they are very weak during infancy, particularly with an extremely long growth period. The stronger a Stellar Giant Beast, the longer its growth period."

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