Chen Mang didn't think much, he just stood at the entrance of the train head, leaned out to take a look at the slave carriage not far away. Only after confirming there was no major commotion, did he continue to explore.
Nearly a hundred slaves.
That's not a small number. Frankly speaking, even if a hundred pigs rushed at you, you'd surely die with just a small handgun, let alone a group of slaves who have survived the apocalypse.
However, he wasn't lacking bullets at the moment; he had just collected quite a few handgun bullets from the abandoned carriage.
Then he looked at the birthmark on the back of his hand, and soon a translucent panel floated before his eyes.
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"Newcomer Train Captain Task 1, own a train of your own within three months, completed."
"Time taken, less than a day."
"Reward: 'Soaring Dragon Assault Rifle' production line blueprint *1."
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"..."
Looking at the rewards on the panel in front of him, Chen Mang couldn't help but grin ear to ear. Assault rifles, these things are fully automatic, whether in terms of power, range, or suppressive strength and accuracy, all far exceed a small handgun.
Moreover.
According to the "train rules", weapons produced on the train's production line cannot harm the Train Captain and Deputy Train Captain. This way, he can safely hand over the weapons to his thugs.
Provided that this production line must be created by the Train Captain himself, production lines dismantled from other trains do not follow this rule.
Of course.
He could ignore this train rule; it's not like he couldn't use the weapons produced on this production line to harm the Deputy Train Captain.
And he's already chosen someone for the Deputy Train Captain.
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"Blueprint Name": Soaring Dragon Assault Rifle Production Line.
"Blueprint Grade": Green.
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On the train control console, besides "Train Panel", "Train Members", "Vehicle Accessories", there's also a button labeled "Train Rules".
After pressing this button.
The screen inside the train will display some basic rules regarding the train, these rules can better guide survivors to become Train Captains.
Among them is an explanation of the grade of vehicle accessories.
The grades of vehicle accessories, from lowest to highest, are —
White, Green, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Red, Gold, Pink, Rainbow.
The lowest grade is white.
For example, a level 1 train can create 14 accessories, six of which are white, these six accessories are relatively ordinary.
The higher the grade, the rarer the accessory.
The remaining seven accessories are all green. To upgrade the train to level 2, you must craft all these seven essential accessories.
And these seven accessories are.
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"Pure Water Filter": Green-grade accessory, requires 100 units of iron ore to craft.
"Wind-Fire Wheel": Green-grade accessory, requires 500 units of iron ore to craft.
"Wagon Steel Armor": Green-grade accessory, requires 1000 units of iron ore to craft.
"Circuit System": Green-grade accessory, requires 10 units of copper ore to craft.
"Generator": Green-grade accessory, requires 100 units of copper ore to craft.
"Pickaxe Production Line": Green-grade accessory, requires 100 units of iron ore to craft.
"Axe Production Line": Green-grade accessory, requires 100 units of iron ore to craft.
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Ores have levels, there are level 1, level 2, and even level 3 ores. Different levels of ore are used to satisfy the crafting and upgrading conditions of different levels of "vehicle accessories", all the ore units here are level 1.
These seven accessories must be crafted to upgrade the train.
As for the remaining six white accessories, they are optional in crafting.
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"Single Bed": White-grade accessory, requires 1 unit of wood to craft.
"Refrigerator": White-grade accessory, requires 100 units of iron ore to craft.
"Coca-Cola Production Line": White-grade accessory, requires 100 bottles of mineral water to craft.
"Moldy Bread Slice Production Line": White-grade accessory, requires 100 slices of moldy bread to craft.
"Telescope": White-grade accessory, requires 10 units of iron ore to craft.
"Steamed Bun Production Line": White-grade accessory, requires 100 steamed buns to craft.
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"Hmm..."
Chen Mang carefully studied the various materials within the train room, finally reaching a conclusion that the train can essentially form a self-sustaining ecological cycle, essentially being self-sufficient on the train.
It is akin to a mobile refuge.
If he upgrades the train level high enough and all the vehicle accessories to a high enough level, he could have an extremely sci-fi train filled with the aesthetics of violent beauty.
As for...
This kind of Moldy Bread Slice Production Line requiring 100 slices of moldy bread seems a bit unreasonable, he quickly accepted it. After all, when mining at the mine, the situation was already quite sci-fi.
Next.
First, check how many resources he had before deciding which accessory to prioritize crafting.
He filled his handgun with bullets, then dismantled four magazines from other handguns and filled all four magazines with bullets before leaving the train room and heading towards the seventh slave carriage.
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In the slave carriage.
No riot occurred, it was even somewhat harmonious, each slave orderly handed over the iron ore in their pockets, piling it up on the ground into a small mound.
Chen Mang had just arrived here.
Old Pig, holding a pickaxe, hurriedly approached: "Mang, it's been counted, there are a total of 356 pieces of iron ore, which equals 356 units."
"Hmm."
Chen Mang nodded, swept his gaze over everyone present, then calmly said: "A train cannot be without thugs. The next three days is a trial period, the 10 best performers will be promoted to thugs, given the right to be armed, and enjoy a higher level of food, fed full every day."
"Everyone, head to the other abandoned carriages, collect the scattered mineral resources inside."
"I hope you understand one thing, I saved your lives, I don't need your gratitude, I just need you to know, since I have the ability to save you, it won't be too hard to kill you either."
"Now, off the train!"
As soon as he finished speaking.
The eyes of all the slaves in the carriage suddenly lit up, immediately snapping out of their listless state, each one energetically rushing out of the carriage to start quickly collecting resources, completely indifferent to the dirty and sticky pools of blood inside the carriages.
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On the wasteland, Chen Mang looked calmly at the slaves scavenging in the abandoned carriages like locusts. In the appointment of "Train Members", there are four basic positions.
They are Train Captain, Deputy Train Captain, Train Patrol Officer, and Survivor.
Positions can be customized with additional ones, but the basic roles are just these four.
Train Patrol Officers are thugs, and survivors are slaves, just with a nicer name.