"No, but Train Captain, you've passed by Carriage No. 2 twice and never thought to step into the Armor Research Center to see me."

"Hmm..."

Chen Mang's mouth twitched slightly. He immediately grabbed the cane beside him, got up, and walked toward Carriage No. 2 connected at the back of the train's room: "I'll go take a look now."

Is it because he upgraded the "Train Assistance AI" too much?

The last time he upgraded the AI to Level 100, it seemed to have increased the AI's thinking ability significantly.

Very soon.

Chen Mang pushed open the door and saw the screens on either cheek of Ai displaying the words "Self" and "Pride," looking exceedingly proud, standing next to a machine he had never seen before.

"What is this machine...?"

His gaze shifted from Ai to the machine, scanning it up and down. It resembled a massive meat grinder but was a bit too large, a cylindrical shape roughly ten meters in diameter!

Entirely made of steel.

Only one side was glass, allowing a clear view of the machine's internal structure.

In the center of the cylinder is a steel pipe embedded with countless Car Blade Fragments, each at Level 100. It's no exaggeration to say they're as sharp as cutting through iron easily.

Obviously.

Once this machine is activated, this meat grinder will grind anything that falls into it to mush.

"How is it?"

Ai proudly introduced: "This is the result I spent a whole 22 hours from last night until today manufacturing. I did a simple deduction based on the data in my database; the success rate of Mr. Li's idea of a 'Zombie Spawn Cage' is about 0.9%."

"The information in the database tells me such a thing is impossible."

"But..."

"I still preemptively manufactured this meat grinder as a follow-up instrument to the 'Zombie Spawn Cage', which can turn all the created zombies into mush. I have already connected this 'meat grinder' and the red instrument 'Cosmic Receiver' through pipes."

"This meat grinder not only has the effect of grinding. On top of the grinder, there is a large piston similar to a suction tube, which, after successfully grinding a tank of zombies into fragments, will exert strong pressure to extract all the Core Energy from the zombies and allow it to flow through the pipe to the Cosmic Receiver, which then converts it into iron ore and forms the corresponding iron ore in the Gate of Space."

"Everything here is all set, just waiting for Mr. Li's 'Zombie Spawn Cage' to take shape to start immediately!"

"Not bad..."

Listening to Ai's introduction, Chen Mang was a bit surprised: "Not needing sleep sure is great. Such a huge meat grinder finished in a day's work, such a massive machine, and you did it all by yourself? You're a superhuman."

"Of course, it's not just me."

Ai shook her head, and then a dozen robots crawled out of the meat grinder, and dozens more peeked their heads from behind the "Cosmic Receiver," while some who were modifying Mecha machines stood up from the nearby scaffolding.

"To be precise, it's 198 people. From the batch of robots we brought back from 70,000 meters underground last time, some were in a scrapped state. After disassembling parts and reassembling, I repaired 197 robots, plus my original one, that makes 198 robots."

"What is the power source for your engine?"

"It's connected to the Circuit System and the generator, consuming Energy Stones."

"And the engine?"

"I dismantled the engine from the Off-road Motorcycle."

"I remember I didn't upgrade this component before. It's just Level 1, not fast enough, right?"

"It's a bit slow, but barely enough to use."

Chen Mang shook his head, immediately spent 175,000 units of iron ore to upgrade the yellow grade component "Off-road Motorcycle Production Line" to Level 20 before continuing: "Just upgraded to Level 20, the speed should be about right now."

"I'll go change it later."

"And the Mecha under the scaffolding over there?"

"Biaozi and the others' Mecha levels are a bit too low. They can't manage in the blue area. Biaozi's physical fitness isn't enough to use the 'Thunderbolt' Mecha. Over there, we're modifying and welding higher-grade armor for him."

"Okay."

"There's one more thing, Train Captain. Since we brought back a lot of robots last time, I disassembled many of them and finally found the module inside the robot where AI can reside. I can go to Neon City with you."

"Oh?"

Chen Mang raised an eyebrow: "That's indeed good news. With your Supermodel Effect that can invade networks, we can access many restricted areas in Neon City. But if you go to Neon City, can you still execute predetermined commands to retaliate if the train is attacked?"

"Yes, maybe not at Level 10, but at Level 100, I can completely split myself in two. The main AI will still execute the predetermined defense retaliatory commands within the train."

"Very well, prepare for the next few days. We'll depart and head to Neon City once again."

"Yes!"

...

Returning to the train room, Chen Mang sat back in his chair, letting out a long sigh. Ai had brought him so much information all at once. This guy... is becoming more and more like a human, even knows how to take credit now.

If it was when the level was still low, this kind of thing would have been directly passed through the train room's speakers.

Instead of complaining about not being seen.

Two Level 3 iron mines have been entirely excavated. The resources in the train have now reached 14,215,000 units of iron ore.

The Level 100 "Solar Energy Panels" can already entirely cover the train's daily consumption and bring an additional income of 180,000 units of iron ore per day.

A total of 14 carriages and one train head.

The expansion price is 14,000,000 units.

Chen Mang immediately sat back in his chair again and pressed the "Train Expansion" button, adjusting the parameters to a carriage of 10 meters wide, 30 meters long, and 10 meters high.

In the next moment—

A line of words appeared on the control panel screen.

-

"Train expansion will commence after the countdown ends. Before then, please ensure everyone leaves the train to prevent accidents."

"00:29:59."

-

Do we still need to leave the carriage?

Chen Mang didn't say much, just picked up the cane beside him and hugged Xiaolv as he walked out of the train room. Then every screen in the train lit up, and piercing warning sounds echoed throughout the entire train.

Also, Ai's mechanical electronic voice quickly sounded.

"The train is about to upgrade, please all residents orderly leave the train. Residents of Resident Area 1 and 2, please leave the carriages first. The rest of the resident carriages' residents should stay in their respective areas and avoid moving recklessly."

Although the number of residents was large.

But accompanying the slow rotation and movement of the 100 heavy machine guns on the ceiling, as if they seemed eager to find a low-key place to start cutting, made all residents follow instructions obediently to do what each needed to do.

The Level 100 "Built-in Fire Control System" seemed somewhat redundant, but in fact, it wasn't entirely so. Without these 100 machine guns, the residents wouldn't be this obedient.

The train was too small.

The train door was also too small, more than 6,000 residents made the traffic lines in the carriages overly crowded. It indeed should have expanded long ago, even though the area within the Gate of Space is large enough, people can't stay in the Gates of Space forever; even a trip to the Resident Store makes them sweat all over!

Very soon—

All residents on the train, including those creatures in the breeding carriages, were brought down. At this time, not a single living being was on the Fixed Star Train.

Everyone stood in place, gazing at the Fixed Star Train in front of them.

In the distance.

Was a line of Black Hole Armored Robots and guards, spreading out a defensive line.

Using chains to lead various cattle, sheep, pigs, even a man, and a large number of zombies, Mr. Li had clearly become the focus of the crowd. Many residents looked at Mr. Li with curiosity; the train had many newcomers, most of whom had never met Mr. Li before. Only the older ones knew he had recorded Fixed Star Coupons for them over a while.

But soon lost his job.

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