Make the original Fixed Star crew have a stronger sense of identity and pride in the Fixed Star.
The cohesion among the masses can also be stronger.
This way, their enthusiasm for work can improve.
Treatment is always a comparison; although the current treatment given by the Fixed Star Train is not the best, it should rank among the top 30% globally.
With the train’s rank increasing, iron ore is no longer so scarce, and nearly every train will now feed the slaves adequately, but...
The food is definitely not as good as theirs.
Their bread even still has fillings, whereas other trains’ bread might just not be moldy, and the taste is simply not on the same level.
Not to mention they also have a clear promotion mechanism and various things that can be exchanged.
Although this group already has a strong sense of identity with the train, seeing the outside world will make it even stronger.
On the Shahe Plain, inside a train, a middle-aged man sitting before the control console looked at the screen showing a suddenly interrupted image, face full of confusion, instinctively raising his head to peer at the empty plain before him.
He was driving the train across the plains, searching for ore.
The Target Detection Radar suddenly told him there was a train ahead.
He looked at the screen.
That train was mining in the marshland, where there is a large deposit of high-grade resources in the center—a fact almost everyone on the Shahe Plain knows due to the density of the deposits.
But no one has ever gone in before.
The corrosion levels in that marsh are high to armor, and poisonous gases can penetrate the train, posing great danger to the life forms inside.
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He suddenly noticed there was indeed a train in there mining!!!
At first, he thought maybe it was the "Flesh and Blood Train" just fooling around; there had been a few Flesh and Blood Trains roaming the Shahe Plain since they have high corrosion resistance, but the Flesh and Blood Train doesn’t need iron ore and the like.
Previously, one train did collaborate with the Flesh and Blood Train.
That Mechanical Train sent all its slaves into the Flesh and Blood Train, letting it take his slaves inside to mine, then bringing back the ores. As payment, the Mechanical Train agreed to hand over a Murphy Stone.
Yes, that’s generous payment.
After all, the Flesh and Blood Train didn’t need to expend anything, just needed to carry the Mechanical Train’s slaves inside, stay there a few days, then come out again. The Flesh and Blood Train agreed readily.
Not long after those slaves entered the Flesh and Blood Train, the Mechanical Train’s Train Captain received news that all the slaves sent in had died. Furious, he contacted the Flesh and Blood Train, and the reply given was... some parts malfunctioned and ate those slaves.
The Mechanical Train’s Train Captain obviously couldn’t accept this and demanded angrily on the spot, questioning what kind of parts could get out of control!
But the Flesh and Blood Train’s Train Captain earnestly replied again, saying the Flesh and Blood Train’s parts inherently malfunction from time to time; even I myself lose control sometimes. Do you believe I might lose control and come after you if you keep blabbering?
Soon after, several Train Captains of the Flesh and Blood Train came out to testify that the train parts could indeed malfunction if stimulated. The matter then gradually faded away, and that Mechanical Train eventually disappeared from existence.
It’s likely the Train Captain dug himself to death while mining.
No one has been able to enter this area since, until today, when he once again encountered a train mining inside, and it wasn’t the Flesh and Blood Train because the number of red dots on the Radar was too many...
The Flesh and Blood Train couldn’t contain this many people.
So he sent a drone to scout, confirming there was indeed a Mechanical Train mining there, with an extraordinarily large number of slaves—at least a thousand, the most he’s seen on a Mechanical Train.
The man stood silent and complex in expression, then he saw the train start rotating, in an unstoppable manner destroying his drone. Sending a drone to gather intelligence was an offensive move, and he didn’t expect his drone to return.
Was it necessary to use a Train Stunt?
It was just a small drone, after all. Didn’t you have Heavy Machine Guns? A few bullets would be enough to render it scrap.
This was akin to him not even starting a basic attack and only having a distant glance, yet the opponent sprinted and flashed right up, activating a big move.
Is a Train Stunt something you use so casually!
Although he didn’t know what the Train Stunt that turned the train around was called, he could confirm it was indeed a Train Stunt, given only "Train Stunt" could achieve such an extraordinary feat, and that in Shahe Plain, only that batch of Flesh and Blood Train possessed Train Stunt.
There was no news of anyone acquiring "Train Stunt" through fortuitous encounters or boss drops; it was only obtainable through train potential, requiring a B-level or above potential.
Currently in Shahe Plain, only two trains have a potential above B-level.
One being the A-level potential "World-Hating."
He had seen that one, and the train in the middle of the marsh wasn’t World-Hating. Then it could only be the recently emerged star, the S-level potential "Fixed Star."
"Strong figures always have such a volatile temper, huh."