For the sake of safety.

He always carried a Giant Wave Gatling in his pocket.

"Train Captain."

Ai continued excitedly in a trembling voice: "Biaozi and the others found a warehouse filled with materials. They were about to go and rummage through those materials, but I told them not to touch them."

"The materials in this warehouse are all 'fiber copper molds'!"

"What are they for?" Chen Mang furrowed his brow and looked at the screen on the control panel, which showed the images transmitted by the Mechanical Eye. The warehouse wasn't big, roughly the size of a basement under a residential building. He hadn't heard of this material before and didn't know its purpose.

"The receiving end of the Cosmic Receiver is made from this material!"

"Then I understand."

Chen Mang calmly took out a walkie-talkie and said: "Leave this batch of goods here and don't touch it. Once this area is completely secured, we'll come back here. Second and third teams disembark. The second team will guard this batch of goods, and the third team will explore other areas."

After giving simple orders.

He looked at the image on the screen and couldn't help but smile. With this batch of materials, more Cosmic Receivers could be manufactured, and those are much better than Solar Energy Panels.

After using up millions of units of iron ore to upgrade the Solar Energy Panels to Level 100, they found they could obtain 180,000 units of iron ore daily.

His first reaction was...

To expand.

Business people know that the steps to doing business are actually simple: first, create a business model where an investment of 100 units can steadily generate profit after breaking even. Then, all you have to do is keep scaling it up.

Business sounds difficult.

But it's really about scaling the step from 0-1 into 1-100.

However, 70% of people fall at the 0-1 step, and the rest also face many hurdles.

So his first reaction was to stockpile iron ore and then manufacture 100 Solar Energy Panels. The train's progress would certainly stall temporarily, but once completed, the daily revenue would be 18 million units of iron ore!

Compounding profit through compounding, Doomsday Capitalist!

But unfortunately.

Most parts inside the train can be manufactured in multiples, except this one could only be produced once.

It was strangled in the cradle, this newly conceived plan.

Unexpectedly, when one door closes, another opens. Though replicating the Solar Energy Panels was shot down, replicating the Cosmic Receiver—a plan he hadn't even considered—was realized by chance.

"Great."

Chen Mang happily looked at that warehouse full of materials, not knowing how many receivers these materials could make. But soon, his brow furrowed, and a flicker of anger appeared in his eyes.

The outermost materials had been gnawed seven to eight parts through!

Obviously, it was those damn zombies that chewed them!

"No worries, Train Captain, this material does not require intact integrity; a bit of gnawing, the remaining ungnaowed parts can still be used, no major impact."

"That's good."

After pausing for a moment, he continued, "Can you hear my thoughts?"

"Of course not, but I can guess through your expressions, Train Captain."

"Don't guess next time."

"Okay."

...

Chen Mang sat inside the train cabin, looking at the screen on the control panel showing the footage of Biaozi and the others exploring. This area wasn't large, just an underground lab, with no idea what experiments were conducted here.

The area was already cleared.

There was only one elevator going up.

It was the only entrance and exit; that elevator couldn't fit the train but could hold about twenty humans. It wasn't a "Train Elevator."

The zombies had all been cleared out.

The zombies that rushed out earlier were almost all the zombies here, and those hiding in dark corners had been cleared out by Biaozi and others.

"All safe!"

Biaozi, jogging to a stop below the train cabin, looked up and shouted confidently.

Soon—

The train cabin doors slowly opened.

Chen Mang, with a calm expression, rested on a cane and held Xiaolv in his arms, stepping on the air as if on solid ground, seemingly walking down an invisible stairway from the sky to the ground, lightly saying without looking back.

"Go check out that warehouse."

"..."

Biaozi was left stunned, his eyes wide from the spectacle for a while before he reacted, quickly responding and following closely. The other team members behind him also rubbed their eyes doubtfully, wondering if they hadn't rested well and were seeing things.

Master Mang...

Wasn't he just walking on air?

Flying through the air without any armor?

Master Mang really is a cultivator.

...

Inside the underground lab.

Chen Mang calmly leaned on his cane, pacing across the plaza toward the warehouse, his face expressionless but inwardly chuckling quietly.

Scale a ladder?

He, a Train Captain, Master Mang, bottom exposed to his subordinates, climbing down a ten-meter-high ladder.

Too inelegant a pose.

He wasn't planning to come down, but then he thought of a good idea...

Using the Mechanical Heart, he crafted two iron pieces to insert in his shoes, and some more in the waistband, then controlled the Powerful Magnet with his cane from afar, working them with his movements to appear as if walking in the sky like a viewpoint effect.

Perfect.

Without a few metal inserts in the waistband, balance would be tricky.

The Level 100 "Powerful Magnet" component is truly handy, highly recommendable; every Train Captain should have this component!

At this time——

Arriving at the warehouse entrance, Biaozi immediately strode ahead of Master Mang, opened the door first, and introduced, "Master Mang, here is the warehouse."

"..."

Chen Mang looked at the materials in the warehouse before him, nodded with satisfaction before waving his hand and smiling, "Move everything back to the armor research area of Car 2, gently, don't damage them."

"Yes!"

Then he moved to another warehouse, which was much larger, filled with a massive amount of iron ore!

And it was all Level 3 iron ore!

Each piece of iron ore was equivalent to 100 units of iron ore.

This warehouse stored a large amount, simply stacking it without storage containers.

"..."

Chen Mang expressionlessly observed the iron ore in this warehouse, while Zhang Yi and Zhang Er were swiftly transporting this batch of iron ore. Finding an iron-filled warehouse was usually good news, but he wasn't too pleased.

Because more than half the iron ore was eaten.

Yes, eaten by those damn zombies!

Damn it!

Truly detestable, why couldn't zombies just wait to die like proper zombies, why eat iron ore, it's not for you to eat, they're supposed to eat flesh, why iron too!

If it weren't for these zombies, all this warehouse iron ore would be his.

Quickly the assessment was complete.

"Train Captain, this warehouse has 3.4 million units of iron ore."

"Around 12 million were eaten by zombies."

"...Huff."

Chen Mang took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart as much as possible, those damn zombies ate 12 million of his iron ore, he loathed zombies!

Then he turned and strode back toward the train cabin.

Near the cabin, easily flying back aboard from the sky.

Not bad.

Landed a batch of materials and 3.4 million units of iron ore, providing a secure base for the train's journey. He could have gained more, if not for those damn zombies!

As for that single-person elevator, no need to bother with it.

Through the Target Detection Radar, found out that it led directly to the outskirts of the Mechanical City's ruins, where there should be nothing left to explore, everything had been rummaged through by so many people.

Next, check out the train tunnel, see what's ahead.

Taking unconventional paths yields unconventional rewards.

If others take the water route, you take the land route.

If others take the land route, you take the water route.

Seeking the common may provide meals.

But seeking differences brings wealth.

But also quite possibly starvation.

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