"Hold on, hold on, don’t die, I’m coming."
Chen Mang gritted his teeth, swiftly climbing toward the mountain peak, heading directly for where the pangolins were moving, as they were about to meet.
The four heavy machine guns on the roof of the carriage slowly rotate their muzzles, and when the sound of AI locking successful came from inside the train.
The muffled sound of gunfire echoed piercingly through the mountains.
He didn’t use the crossbow but used all level 3 bullets. It was not the time to worry about the cost of copper mines when finally finding pangolins; the crossbow’s rate of fire was too slow, and under these circumstances, heavy machine guns were more reliable.
Hundreds of heavy machine gun bullets poured like torrential rain over the dozen or so pangolins.
These pangolins exploded in a mist of blood in the air, and Chen Mang controlled the train to skim along the side of a level 4 rock snake using a "Powerful Magnet" to seize dropped items, but the distance was too close, and the rock snake’s speed was too fast.
The rock snake, angry from having its prey snatched, swung its tail and smashed heavily onto the train, its immense force sending the train flying off on the spot, with one carriage visibly denting in an instant.
This is the first time level 3 armor looked so miserable.
No way to stabilize its form while flying in the air, the train faced a thousand-meter high cliff and almost certain death from falling into the gorge.
But, the more critical the moment.
Chen Mang’s breath became increasingly steady as he adhered to the seat back while the train tumbled in the air, eyes fixed on a nearby cliff—it’s now!
Two strands of spider silk fired like arrows from the spider legs, aimed right at the cliff ahead. They adhered tightly upon impact, stabilizing the falling train’s form in the air and under inertia, swinging like a pendulum toward the opposite cliff.
When the train collided heavily with the cliff, a muffled impact felt in Chen Mang’s chest but thankfully, the crisis of falling into the gorge was averted. The spider legs quickly began running along the cliffside again without delay.
Meanwhile, the screen on the control panel beside him was constantly flashing red.
"Carriage 4 has suffered severe damage, outer armor integrity down to 62%."
"Coca-Cola Production Line accessory integrity down to 78%."
"Steamed Bun Production Line accessory integrity down to 81%."
"Spider leg accessory integrity down to 71%."
Chen Mang casually glanced at these warnings on the screen, quickly snatching up the dropped items attracted by the Powerful Magnet, finding the white accessory blueprint "Drill" among them, and couldn’t help but grin.
Picked up the blueprint and gave it a fierce kiss.
Then stuffed it into the drawer beside him.
"Damn it, for the sake of this thing, almost all of us could have been lost here."
"I won’t set foot again in the advanced region until we forge a level 6 armor!"
The original maximum speed of the spider leg was 170 km/h, but after damage, it only reached up to 120 km/h. However, the task was perfectly completed, and now he needed to escape the Kunlun Mountain as quickly as possible.
He glanced at the rearview mirror at the rock snake atop the peak, which was several meters long.
Lightly grinding his teeth.
When he returns to Kunlun Mountain again, if he doesn’t annihilate the rock snake, see how it survives.
In carriage 5, Biaozi gripped the iron bars of his bed fearfully, eyes fixed on the fleeting scenes out the window, his voice trembling.
"I really hope there were no windows in this thug carriage."
"If there were no windows..."
"I might feel a bit more at ease."
It was his first time seeing a snake entirely composed of rock; earlier, that massive tail almost hit his thug carriage. If it had, the people in this carriage surely would have died, some ending with really bad luck.
Master Mang planned to come to the advanced region, and he fully supported the idea, thinking given the current train’s strength, going to the advanced region with caution wouldn’t be too dangerous.
But after arriving, he understood what dancing on a knife’s edge really means.
Originally, what he experienced in "Tieling Wasteland" wasn’t Doomsday; damn, it was newbie guidance. Only upon entering the advanced area did he feel what true Doomsday and ultimate despair meant.
In this environment, can a train really survive?
Does the Train Captain dare sleep at night with his eyes closed?
What if upon reopening them, he would see his great woman?
Old Pig next to him was praying devoutly with hands clasped, but his trembling body obviously showed his turmoil.
"Pig Train Captain, will this sudden, temporary religious act work?"
"I didn’t suddenly turn religious."
The train climbed vertically at ninety degrees at this moment, Old Pig pressed against the wall, gripping the bedpost’s bars tightly, forcing a bitter smile: "I vaguely feel like I can hear my mother’s voice."
"It seems she misses me."
Just then, Hei Hao approached, whispering: "Biao, my stomach hurts a bit now...it’s probably not a good time to go to the bathroom, right?"
The sleeper carriage they were in had its own bathroom.
"Are you saying you have no fear?"
Hei Hao scratched his head: "Master Mang is much stronger than me, if he isn’t afraid, I don’t have to be either. If he is afraid, then my fear is useless, what am I afraid of?"
Old Pig and Biaozi exchanged glances, remaining silent for a long while before suddenly relaxing.
"If the taller guys aren’t afraid, why should we be?"
Kunlun Mountain Range.
Although the train sustained damage, the return journey was safer than when they came. After all, knowing where powerful creatures are located allowed them to avoid them on the way back.
When the Constant Star Train smoothly charged through the white screen in front of it and returned to Tieling Wasteland.
Chen Mang, whose nerves were tightly wound, suddenly went limp, slumping onto the control panel as a long-lost sense of safety welled up in his heart once more—it’s great to be back in Tieling Wasteland.
The trip to Kunlun Mountain cast a bit of a shadow over his view of the advanced region.
Without level 6 armor, he would not take a single step into the advanced region.
And even with level 6 armor, it wouldn’t be enough; the excessive impact would still harm people inside the train, he had to find some way to obtain vibration-dampening accessories.
Chen Mang sat before the control panel, his shirt soaked through with sweat ignored as he slouched in the chair, lighting a cigarette and staring vacantly at the smoke lingering stubbornly at the ceiling.
In Tieling Wasteland, he could still maintain absolute dominance.
Virtually no train or creature could harm him.
At that moment, he didn’t want to think about anything, do anything; all he wished was to quietly finish the cigarette in his hand, calming down from the thrilling journey’s constant stimulation.
The battered Constant Star Train quietly rested at the junction of Tieling Wasteland and Kunlun Mountain, like a soldier wounded and sent to the rear, gazing at its body in a dazed state.
Chen Mang’s emotions gradually calmed, the cigarette between his fingers burned out, and he retrieved the white accessory blueprint "Drill" from the drawer, carefully observing it for a while before grinning and uttering four words.