CHAPTER 525: CHAPTER 282: "PRESIDENT AI, THE 1ST ONE!

"..."

Chen Mang gazed at the scene before him, his lips twitching slightly. The space fragment trap—forget his level 18 armor—even level 30 armor seemed unlikely to withstand it. It appeared he would need to rely on deciphering techniques.

Just then—

A train moved.

The train had a total of 6 carriages. The unpainted train compartment doors opened, and a middle-aged man jumped off the train. He looked towards Chen Mang’s direction and mumbled, "What the hell is going on here?"

The voice wasn’t loud, but in the quite silent square, it could still be faintly heard.

Right after.

As if someone had pressed the pause button, other train captains also jumped off their trains, gathered together, and began whispering and discussing.

"Go."

Chen Mang immediately led Li Shiji and the others towards the group of train captains. He wanted to see what these high-level train captains were like. Walking up, he glanced at everyone and was the first to speak.

"The other side of the cliff is not the end either. I think we can first communicate our discoveries and rely on our skills when we get to the other side of the cliff."

"My current judgment is that the tens of thousands of glass pods on the ceiling might be misdirecting and not hiding any information."

However—

After he finished speaking, this group of people still spoke among themselves, completely ignoring him as if they had excluded him.

"How do we get over there then?"

"I don’t know. Just now a train tried to fly over, wasn’t it directly torn apart by space?"

"The only way now is to solve the puzzle here. I feel maybe try shooting at those glass pods on the ceiling?"

"Hey!"

Biaozi standing behind Chen Mang shouted angrily, "Master Mang is talking to you. Didn’t you hear?"

All the way here, nobody dared to ignore Master Mang like this group of people.

Ignoring Master Mang, they also felt humiliated following him.

"It’s okay."

Chen Mang calmly raised his hand to stop Biaozi and again spoke to the group, "Do you all seem to know each other?"

Yet still no one paid attention to him, not even glancing his way.

"Damn it!"

Biaozi couldn’t help but curse in anger. Rolling up his sleeves, he furiously stepped forward, pushing away the thug closest to him, ready to grab a train captain’s collar and question him.

However...

His body froze on the spot as he looked at his retracted right hand. How did it feel that the slap he just gave went so lightly? Looking up at the nearest thug with a cold face, he reached out to push again.

This time, he saw clearly.

His hand went straight through the person’s body without any resistance.

Biaozi was bewildered, tentatively stepped forward, reaching out to push the nearest train captains. As expected, without exception, his hand went through their bodies.

"I..."

He took a deep breath, backing slowly to Master Mang’s side, his voice trembling slightly, "M-Master Mang, they don’t seem to be human..."

"..."

Chen Mang didn’t speak, just extending his cane to stab at them one by one, without exception all of them went through smoothly. He also went to a train nearby and stabbed into it, similarly without obstruction.

It was confirmed.

Among the whole scene, only "Fixed Star" and their own group were real; the other trains were holograms.

No wonder this group remained motionless initially, only coming down when he sent a train into the cliff to be destroyed.

"Return to the train."

...

Inside the train compartment.

Chen Mang sat on the chair, glanced at the countdown on the screen control panel, and softly said, "It’s basically confirmed now. There should be 20 trains located at different squares."

"Each trial separately."

"Just now, in that conversation, it was mentioned that a train attempted to fly over and was directly torn apart by space. The train here shouldn’t be referring to that level 1 train, but the "20th train."

"It’s kind of like a scene recreation."

"At some point, 20 trains arrived here, with the 20th train attempting to fly over but being torn apart by space, leaving Fixed Star to take the ecological place of this 20th train now."

"If my judgment isn’t mistaken, it should be only when a train is crushed that these people will leave the train to converse."

"Ai, replay the footage you recorded just now; see if there’s any clue in it."

"Yes!"

Soon—

The screen displayed the content of the train captains gathered and discussing earlier, and the sound also came out from the train room speakers.

The conversation content wasn’t very long.

Only lasted about two or three minutes.

"Gear." After the video finished playing once, Li Shiji paced back and forth in the train compartment, "They mentioned the word ’gear’ six times in the conversation just now, and one person even commented with a mocking tone that it’s this kind of ’main gear’ game again."

"Master Mang, you all saw it too, that bridge rapidly rotating like a metal storm isn’t rotating around a central body, but rather numerous steel blades each rotating at their own frequency at high speeds."

"Some steel blades are rotating faster, while others are rotating much slower."

"All the power of the steel blades comes from the gears at the back, these gears are connected together forming a complex and massive gear matrix, with there fundamentally being one ’main gear,’ this main gear provides all the power."

"As the main gear rotates, all the gears move together, however, due to the pitch size and other factors, the rotation speed of each gear differs."