CHAPTER 521: CHAPTER 280: WITHERED WOOD SPRING _3

Several days have passed.

The Cybermine finally shipped again, and almost all the residents of the train went to Neon City to relax, except for the fifty Cyberminers in the Cybermine, as it was just past midnight, during the Cyberminers’ work hours.

Chen Mang stood on the "Flat Elevator" he had crafted with the Mechanical Heart in car number 2, which stretched all the way to car number 15, to expedite the journey from the front of the train to the back.

The speed of advancing on the Flat Elevator was roughly equivalent to a man briskly walking.

However, when Chen Mang briskly walked on the Flat Elevator, the speed was equivalent to a man sprinting, and the rapidly changing scenery created a sense of discomfort, with the body and eyes somewhat out of sync.

The body felt as though it wasn’t moving that fast, yet the eyes reported to the brain that the speed was indeed that fast.

This elevator is directly connected to the generator via the Circuit System.

This is the benefit of the "Mechanical Heart": the mechanical products it creates can directly connect to a "generator," eliminating concerns about inadequate energy supply.

He made his way to car number 10.

Chen Mang pushed open the Gate of Space to the "Cyber Mine" and saw a resident sitting at the bedside, eagerly looking at him. Chen Mang gently pressed his left hand in the air to gesture the resident not to speak.

He walked to the bedside, placed his hand on the Dream Stone, and looked at the small Teleportation Gate that appeared beside him.

He reached his hand into it.

When he retrieved it, he had a translucent and extremely dazzling Level 9 iron ore in the light, and the capacity of the Dream Stone at the bedside quickly dropped to 5%.

"Whew..."

Chen Mang took a deep breath and tightly grasped the Level 9 iron ore, leaving the rest for President Ai to handle, then strode back to the train chamber.

...

Inside the train chamber.

Chen Mang sat on a chair, looked at the Level 9 iron ore in his hand, and started to laugh.

The laughter grew louder.

He wasn’t laughing because he had acquired one hundred million units of iron ore, but because he was delighted to have invented a stable and efficient area for obtaining iron ore, even though he didn’t know how trains in other areas fared, he believed the "Cyber Mining Machine" was only available with him.

To make a Cyber Mining Machine, others needed 98 Murphy Stones just to upgrade a "single bed."

The cost was extraordinarily high, and Murphy Stones weren’t easy to collect. Even if you had plenty of iron ore, acquiring 98 Murphy Stones in a short time was very challenging.

The only regret was.

There were too few Dream Stones.

He currently had two Dream Stones in a semi-depleted state, with only 5% capacity, and they could no longer be embedded into the mining machines, while every one of the fifty mining machines had a Dream Stone, and there were still 66 Dream Stones in storage within the train.

He was eager to expand the "Cyber Mine" again, increasing it to 100, 200 machines.

However...

Dream Stones were insufficient, and only 4 Dream Stones were acquired from Neon City yesterday.

He needed to acquire more Dream Stones!

To purchase more Dream Stones, Neon City must have more trains over Level 11, and they had to be old trains. If the train’s resident count was around 1,000, creating a Dream Stone would take at least 6 months.

Doomsday had only erupted for nearly two years.

They were exceedingly rare and difficult to procure in bulk.

"..."

Chen Mang frowned, contemplating how to quickly purchase a large quantity of Dream Stones, a critical matter related to whether the train could undergo explosive growth. His target group consisted of old trains above Level 11, not relying on Mondo, whose teleportation was completely random and uncontrollable.

Perhaps...

In the second round of the "Withered Wood Spring" Adventure Map opening in 47 hours, he might be able to purchase some Dream Stones from the other 19 trains.

But it would still be trivial, not enough to make an impact.

He needed a stable source.

"Ai."

"I’m here."

"Think of a way to obtain a stable and substantial source of Dream Stones."

"...Alright."

...

Then, Chen Mang looked at the train’s total Resource Panel. After this month’s development, the resources in the train attained explosive growth!

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"3.1 billion units of iron ore, 1.025 billion units of wood, 1.12 billion units of copper ore, 1.23 billion units of Red Heart Rock, 1.07 million units of Titanium Crystal Ore."

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The iron ore earned from Neon City last night had already been moved to car number 3, and among this 3.1 billion units of iron ore, it included the Level 9 iron ore he had just gained from the Cyber Mine.

The resources of wood and Red Heart Rock were already significantly overstocked, difficult to exhaust in a short period. The 1 billion units of copper ore fully supported him in fighting several hard battles!

Iron ore was the most abundant.

Yet in reality, it was the least...

It could be depleted within minutes if used.

For example――

He was now going to upgrade the armor again, to bring it to Level 18.

Increasing from Level 16 to Level 17, the price for one car was 20 million units of iron ore.

Increasing from Level 17 to Level 18, the price for one car was 30 million units of iron ore.

Across 16 cars, with the half consumption effect, it was 2.4 billion units of iron ore.

Accompanied by 2.4 billion units of iron ore in the train, turning into powder and merging into the cars.

The Train Armor reached...Level 18!

Level 18 Train Armor!

With just two more levels, he could get the 20-level Supermodel Effect of this accessory, but the cost was that the originally vast number of units in the train dwindled to only 69.99 million units of iron ore.

"Back to being poor again."

Chen Mang rubbed his temples in slight frustration, the speed of acquiring iron ore was too slow, he needed to visit the red area soon to see if he could find Level 5 iron ore, as Level 4 iron ore mining hadn’t kept up with his consumption.