CHAPTER 506: CHAPTER 276: "XIAOYI, KEEP IT UP." _4

Sometimes the memory of a dream can last for hours, and sometimes it’s forgotten the moment you open your eyes.

He sat in a chair, lit a cigarette, and began to flip through the train log.

Everything is normal.

No noteworthy incidents or surprises.

He just picked up Xiaolv from the chair next to him, played with its powdery little mouth, and said with a smile, "Once we get out, the train can almost be upgraded to Level 15, then you can wake up too."

"An S-level Stellar Giant Beast cub, it’s really exciting to see what you’ll be like when you wake up."

He suddenly thought of something.

After a moment of silence, he spoke, "An S-level Stellar Giant Beast should be the highest level, right? There shouldn’t be any r, sr, ssr levels, right?"

In the train room, Ai’s voice quickly sounded.

"According to the information in my database, the S-level Stellar Giant Beast is the highest level. There’s no information about r, sr, ssr levels, but that’s just in my database, not sure if the Mechanical Civilization has corresponding levels internally."

"Hopefully not."

Chen Mang breathed a sigh of relief. He was worried that even at Level 15, Xiaolv wouldn’t wake up. A stronger Stellar Giant Beast would require consuming more iron ore to nurture the cub, and he didn’t have that much iron ore to spare for Xiaolv.

S-level is enough; hopefully, there won’t be any more surprises.

The conditions to upgrade to a Level 15 train are quite high, and he isn’t there yet. This requirement will likely hold him back for a long time.

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"Upgrade Conditions": Consume 60,000 units of Level 3 iron ore; all components inside the train must be over Level 240; have over 500 or more survivors; and have three pairs of train residents get married through a ’Doomsday Marriage Certificate,’ and have one child under the age of 16.

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The first few conditions are easy to meet; he’s already met them, but the latter conditions...

It’s apparent.

Mechanical Civilization probably hopes that high-level trains have more of a sense of responsibility, and while surviving, consider the continuation of the species and the heritage of civilization as much as possible. Although those children are unlikely to contribute much value at this stage, they are undeniably the backbone of cultural transmission.

The future of civilization requires them to carry it on.

There are quite a few children under the age of 16 on the Fixed Star.

But three pairs of train residents getting married through a ’Doomsday Marriage Certificate’ is a bit challenging.

First—

"Doomsday Marriage Certificate" isn’t something easy to come by; he’s curious about where other trains upgraded to Level 15 got their Doomsday Marriage Certificates from?

On Fixed Star, there are three Doomsday Marriage Certificates.

But there’s never been anyone who could use them; truly falling in love seems like an impossible barrier.

Mountain Cat and Mei Jia have already been married.

Just need two more.

But...

"Ai, I remember quite a few people on the train recently paired up, is there not a single genuine couple?"

"They’ve all tried, but none."

"Even though they know they’re not genuine with each other, they haven’t broken up?"

"Uh... Train Captain, this is the doomsday; being together is just about getting by, no one cares if the other is genuine."

"I know."

Chen Mang furrowed his brows slightly, sitting in his chair and pondering for a while before speaking softly, "Call Zhang Yiren for me."

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Soon—

"Master Mang."

Zhang Yiren stood in the train room, cautiously glancing at Chen Mang sitting in the chair, testing, "You wanted to see me?"

"Mm, do you remember that cornea movie you shot last time, where the male and female lead kept missing each other, and after missing several hundred times, they each started their own families and then reunited, and finally fell in love with each other again, that melodramatic movie?"

"Master Mang, don’t worry."

Zhang Yiren said seriously and solemnly, "I’ve already reformed, the movies I’ve been shooting lately aren’t that kind of script anymore; such melodramatic storylines not even a dog would write."

"Write it, why not write it."

Chen Mang tapped his knuckles on the table a few times, "Write two more scripts like this, and make the process as melodramatic as possible, aiming for the male and female leads to be madly in love with each other by the end, the kind that would die without each other."

"Uh...I can write it." Zhang Yiren glanced uneasily at President Ai beside him for help, unsure what Master Mang meant, could this be a test?

"You must be able to write it; when you’re done, hand the script over to Ai."

"Alright, you can go, you’re done here."

After Zhang Yiren left,

He then looked at Ai, "Once those two scripts are finished, you find two young couples, take them to your mecha research and development center. I’ll provide two ’Combat Training Virtual Spaces’ there, implant the scripts into the dreamscape; if they can’t truly fall in love, a barrage of this would definitely make them fall head over heels."

"Do it for seven days and nights."

"When they wake up, take them to get married first thing."

"Understood."

Ai nodded in sudden realization. Such melodramatic scripts may be melodramatic, but having it as the male and female leads happening to yourself, you’d definitely fall head over heels.

People are sad when they lose something, even if it’s worthless to them.

Just like a simp who sends goodnight messages to his goddess for three years, suddenly one day stops, and that goddess won’t be able to sleep tonight.

Even though this goddess doesn’t lack a simp like that.

As the male lead, even if he doesn’t like this woman, after missing a few hundred times, he’d become deeply in love.

Love...

It’s not a sacred thing; it can be artificially manipulated.

For example—

The simplest way to pursue a girl isn’t about intentions or trying to create rendezvous opportunities, but to directly use technology.