In fact, among the current top-ranked players on the "Regional Leaderboard," he was the only one whose power value was entirely supported by "accessory levels." Most of the others relied on the number of slaves and the base power value bonus of a Level 3 train.

—-

Another seven days passed.

The Level 2 copper mine was also completely depleted. With over 200 slaves working overtime, they had exchanged their labor for a total of 140,000 units of copper ore.

He stored all this copper ore in a specially built Level 10 refrigerator.

It was a strategic reserve.

With this batch of copper ore, even if the "Crossbows" and "Carriage Blades" couldn’t handle a threat, he could rely on the "Rocket Launchers" and "Heavy Machine Guns" for a clean sweep. But that kind of situation was basically very unlikely to happen.

In the "Ironridge Wasteland" region, there should be no existence that could threaten him now.

The train currently had 60,000 units of iron ore and 140,000 units of copper ore.

Chen Mang took out another 50,000 units of iron ore and upgraded the "Resource Detection Radar" straight to Level 10, increasing its detection range to ten thousand meters and gaining two advanced effects.

—

[Resource Detection Radar Level 5 Advanced Effect]: Can estimate the mineable quantity of the detected mine.

[Resource Detection Radar Level 10 Advanced Effect]: Can obtain the next refresh time of a depleted mine.

—

Before he could take a closer look at these two advanced effects,

"Beep, beep, beep."

On the control console, the screen began to beep loudly.

"Damn!"

Chen Mang took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. The resource detection radar showed that two thousand meters underground, next to that underground river cave, there were two Level 2 iron mines.

Estimated mineable quantity: 380,000 units of Level 1 iron ore.

He was so damn tempted!

And not just two thousand meters deep. Another five thousand meters down, there was a Level 3 "Crimson Heart Ore" mine, with an estimated mineable quantity of 1,800 units of Level 3 Crimson Heart Ore.

He still had some Crimson Heart Ore on his train.

It was dropped by that Cannibalistic Spider he had killed, but he hadn’t found a use for it yet. It was a rare, high-level resource.

Why were all these high-level resource mines spawning underground?

But...

He could only look, not possess. His Stellar didn’t have the ability to travel underground. But...

"..."

He looked out the window at the abandoned goblin train. This goblin train did have the ability to travel underground, but it was completely abandoned and unusable. There was no way to repair it; it was completely scrapped.

Should he send Duo Ba back to that dark space to build another goblin train?

Forget it.

He quickly dismissed the idea.

It was unrealistic. Not to mention how much time it would take, even if it really came out, it wouldn’t be in this area. Who knew where Duo Ba would be teleported to?

Could he only watch as wealth lay before him, unable to obtain it?

Meeting, brainstorming!

Soon—

The command car was full of people.

Lao Zhu looked at the two Level 2 iron mines displayed on the resource detection radar screen, two thousand meters underground. After hesitating for a long time, he was the first to offer an opinion. "At the bottom of the Apocalypse Abyss, two thousand meters underground, which is eight thousand meters from the surface."

"These two iron mines are in an underground river. If we can find the source of this underground river, perhaps we don’t need the train to have the ability to travel underground. We can follow the river all the way to the mine."

"Ahem." Biaozi coughed lightly. "That’s a bit unrealistic. Underground rivers are extremely complex. Some places are as wide as a lake, while others are only as thick as a bucket. The train can’t possibly enter an underground river. This is just wishful thinking."

"Even if this underground river channel is extremely flat, the train doesn’t have the ability to move in water."

"..."

Chen Mang swept his gaze over the crowd. Seeing that after half a day of discussion, there wasn’t a single useful idea, he waved his hand. "Get Duo Ba for me."

"Drilling?"

The green-skinned Duo Ba stood in the head of the train, frowning as he stood on his tiptoes to look out the window toward the abandoned goblin train. "My original goblin train could do it, but... hmm..."

"The ’Drill’ is a white-grade accessory that comes with a Level 1 ’Goblin Train.’ I really don’t know where to get this accessory..."

"And..."

"Wait, I remember now. Killing a monster called a ’Pangolin’ has a chance to drop this accessory blueprint. But these monsters usually live in groups in large mountains. We don’t seem to have any mountains here."

Lao Zhu and Biaozi exchanged glances, their eyes filled with anxiety.

This was the first time Boss Mang had called a meeting of all management personnel to discuss something. They were all eager to give a feasible suggestion to prove their talent.

But...

This matter was too tricky. They really couldn’t think of a solution.

Especially Lao Zhu, who was about to go crazy. He had always prided himself on being an internal affairs management talent. It was understandable that Biaozi couldn’t think of anything, but if he couldn’t, it would seem like he was incompetent.

"Pangolin?"

Chen Mang leaned back in his chair, his eyes narrowed thoughtfully, his knuckles tapping a rhythmic beat on the table. He actually knew where there were mountains. At the westernmost edge of the "Ironridge Wasteland" was the "Kunlun Mountain" region.

That area was full of continuous mountain ranges. He should be able to find pangolins there.

But...

That was a high-level region.

Low-level trains could enter high-level regions, as long as they weren’t afraid of dying. The danger level there was a straight-up spike.

His Stellar could basically travel unimpeded in the Ironridge Wasteland, but if he went to the Kunlun Mountains, Level 3 monsters might be everywhere, and there would be even higher-level monsters. The danger was palpable.

But he had the "Spider Legs" accessory. If he went to the Kunlun Mountains, his mobility wouldn’t be too much of a problem.

He didn’t make a decision immediately.

He just dismissed the meeting, had everyone return to their carriages, and put the matter aside for now. First, he would go to the "Taiping City" ruins and get some slaves.

With the "Search Radar," those survivors hiding in the ruins would be easily found by him.

The two mines at the bottom of the Apocalypse Abyss had been completely depleted. According to the advanced effect of the "Resource Detection Radar," the next refresh time for these two mines was in 62 days. For a short time, he probably wouldn’t be coming back to this place.

"Boom!"

The roar of the engine sounded. The Stellar, which had been sleeping at the bottom of the Apocalypse Abyss for a long time, with the extension of its mechanical legs, quickly climbed the cliff and began to ascend rapidly on the steep wall.

When the sun finally shone on the carriages again after a long time, the Stellar appeared on the ground once more. It switched back to the Windfire Wheels and roared toward the Taiping City ruins!

An hour later.

"..."

Chen Mang took a deep breath, his eyes fixed on the distant wasteland. He had already made up his mind. He had to go to the Kunlun Mountains.

In this one hour, the resource detection radar had sounded three times.

The depths of the Ironridge Wasteland were buried with a large amount of iron and copper ore!

The entire Ironridge Wasteland was a large-scale resource mining area, just that many high-level resource mines were deep underground.

He couldn’t just watch as these resources remained buried underground.

When he officially went to a high-level region in the future, even if he wanted to come back to the Ironridge Wasteland, he couldn’t.

Kunlun Mountains, he had to go and brave it!

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