Old Pig sighed, "The girl might have left without saying goodbye because she knew your stubborn nature, but if that’s the case, I think she definitely wouldn’t be too far from you. Maybe she rented a room next to you and has been watching over you."
"First, she wants to see you a few more times before passing."
"Second, she’s also afraid you might do something foolish."
"Think about where you lived before leaving Taiping City. If she’s lucky, she might still be alive, hiding somewhere in the corner."
Mountain Cat was stunned in place, and then his eyes immediately turned red. He knelt on the ground facing Old Pig, speaking in a slightly panicked and hoarse voice, "Pig Train Captain, can... can Master Mang take me to look around that factory near the suburbs of Taiping City?"
"She... she might really be waiting for me there."
"I, I, I can exchange my life for it. If there’s ever a life-or-death mission on the train in the future, I’ll be the first to go, is... is that okay?"
Old Pig waved his hand and had Biaozi help Mountain Cat up. After a moment of silence, he finally spoke, "I’ll find a chance to talk to Master Mang about this, but the most important task for the train now is mining, so don’t hold too much hope for this."
"I can only say I’ll find a chance to talk to Master Mang about it."
"Alright... alright..."
Mountain Cat shakily stood up and returned to his bed, burying his head in his chest, lost in thought, his body trembling slightly.
Biaozi glanced at Mountain Cat but said nothing more, only extinguishing the nearly burnt-out cigarette in his fingers and sighing softly. He had only one bedridden father and no other attachments.
It’s just that he hadn’t thought about this matter for a long time.
When Doomsday first came, he thought about saving his father.
Later, he basically assumed in his heart that his father was already dead. No one here didn’t have family, but in the Doomsday environment, everyone tried not to think about these things as much as possible.
In Hell, fate brings you together.
Inside Slave Carriage No. 7.
Mr. Li felt the steady movement of the train beneath him and let out a breath. He glanced at the dim lights on the car’s ceiling and looked regretfully at the burnt-out cigarette in his hand.
"Had I known I wasn’t going to die, I wouldn’t have smoked this cigarette. Such a waste."
The young man beside him whispered, "Mr. Li, are you really so reluctant to smoke the two cigarettes that Master Mang rewarded you with?"
Mr. Li shook his head and said softly, "I don’t have a craving for cigarettes, but this thing makes me feel like I still have some connection to modern society, rather than being born a slave."
"It reminds me of past splendors, makes me feel like I’m still human."
"Mr. Li, don’t you want to be a slave?"
Mr. Li glanced at the young man, then flashed a hint of helplessness in his eyes, "Do you think I have a choice? Who would want to be a slave if given a choice?"
"Well, it’s not so bad."
The young man scratched the back of his head, "I used to work as an outsource for a delivery company. Honestly, I think the current workload isn’t too intense, not too stressful."
"I can summarize my life with fourteen characters."
"’Difficulties after difficulties, failures after failures.’"
"It’s not so bad now."
Mr. Li didn’t speak, just retracted his gaze. He had been thinking lately about how to climb into the management team. He had a plan, but he needed an opportunity.
Wait for a new group of slaves to board the train.
That would be his time to shine.
Under the starry sky’s vast wilderness.
The Fixed Star train was extremely steadily moving across the wilderness, maintaining this speed for a whole half-hour already.
The trick was always to keep the train running at top speed.
Chen Mang looked in the rearview mirror, watching the two small yet ferocious rabbits relentlessly pursuing the train through the night. Those two red-skinned rabbits had been chasing him for a full half-hour.
Extremely fast, almost at the same top speed as the Fixed Star train.
"Beep... Beep... Detected Level 3 unknown monsters, no relevant information found in the database."
"Please be cautious, Train Captain."
This red line had been flashing on the control panel screen.
To make a long story short.
Half an hour ago, he was steering the train towards the Doomsday Abyss coordinates. The journey was extremely calm with no unexpected incidents, but suddenly there was a clunking noise, as if the wheels had run over something like a speed bump.
Then he saw in the rearview mirror, those two rabbits, originally one on top of the other, separated with difficulty and began chasing the train with fierce faces, as if vowing not to stop until death.
If nothing unexpected happened.
It was likely that when the wheels ran over them, they were mating.
In that case, having a bit of a temper is understandable.
Unknown Level 3 monsters, mostly like a newly emerged monster boss. He was suddenly tempted.
A possible first kill boss just laid before him.
But the blade mounted at one meter above ground, while these rabbits were only thirty centimeters high; too low for the blades to hit, and at the moment, he didn’t have a good means to kill the rabbits. Although he hit them once, he didn’t seem to cause any harm.
He wasn’t worried about his own safety.
Even if he stopped the train, with its Level 3 armor, these rabbits couldn’t break his defenses.
The "Wind-Fire Wheel" Level 5 Supermodel Effect allows the train’s speed to double at the expense of consuming a large amount of Energy Stones. If he wanted to escape, these rabbits in heat wouldn’t be able to catch him.
The standoff was simply because... he had developed a killing intent.
He planned to lure these rabbits to the Doomsday Abyss. That was the place he had designated as their burial ground.
At this moment, sitting by the control panel, Chen Mang noticed that the two rabbits, perhaps realizing they couldn’t catch up, suddenly stopped chasing and started mating again in place.
"Not chasing? That’s not acceptable."
Chen Mang, without a second thought, turned the train around and again rushed at them.
Of course, being on guard, he didn’t manage to hit them this time, as they skillfully dodged out of the way. However, this made the two rabbits, who had just calmed down, once again become fierce, full of sharp teeth, eyes burning with anger as they charged forward, closely chasing the train in a furious sprint.
He nodded in satisfaction, glancing at the Doomsday Abyss coordinates. Half an hour’s journey left, the first kill should be assured.
He had just conducted an experiment.
The Level 5 "Three-legged Cat Heavy Machine Gun" was loaded with Level 1 bullets. Under the "Train Assistance AI" head-locking effect, he fired a hundred rounds, but all missed. The rabbits were moving too fast, dodging left and right making it impossible to hit them.
So he didn’t bother making Level 3 bullets, though the train had 510 units of copper ore to make 51 Level 3 bullets.
Considering the rabbits’ small frames, if all 51 Level 3 bullets could hit, it should basically kill them.
However, he needed to find a suitable terrain with limited space for the rabbits to dodge, so that the heavy machine gun bullets could fully hit; the Doomsday Abyss offered such a terrain.
These two newly emerged Level 3 bosses likely only appear in low-level areas. Even with the machine gun’s head-locking effect, he couldn’t hit them. Trains in other lower-level areas facing this agile and fast boss would have an even harder time.
His train reached a top speed of 254 km/h with many advanced components, yet these two rabbits could keep pace closely behind. It’s clear their speed is almost a league ahead of other Level 3 monsters.
Faster than the Level 3 Cannibal Spider.