Chapter 136 - 109: My name is Li Yi, that kid calls me Mr. Li.

70,000 units of iron ore.

It’s equivalent to half of a level 2 iron mine. As expected of a level 4 train, it has way more than what I obtained by devouring Master Kun’s train.

The "Earth Core Melting Furnace" yields different amounts of iron ore from devouring different parts.

For example, devouring one of my regular train cars might yield 50 units of iron ore, which is half back, but devouring some wrecked train cars or other parts would yield much less.

But since it’s free, it’s already enough.

Especially...

This train also has a lot of resources piled inside.

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"120,000 units of iron ore, 40,000 units of copper ore, 3,700 units of wood."

"120,000 units of spider silk, one special tool, two blueprints, several rifles, and bullets."

"Sixteen packs of cigarettes, two bottles of white liquor, three cured pork ribs, and even a several-hundred-pound frozen pig in the fridge."

"Some assorted household items collected from the city ruins."

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"The ancients weren’t wrong about that."

Standing outside the train in the cave, Chen Mang listened to the sounds of the underground river flowing by and the train’s headlights illuminating the entire cave. As he took the harvest list handed by Biaozi, he sighed with a sense of feeling.

Robbing and killing really is a good way to get rich.

Of course.

There’s not much iron ore or copper ore because these two resources are necessities. No one would accumulate too much of these on their trains; every bit is used to enhance the train’s capabilities.

They might keep tens of thousands to sustain the train’s daily operations.

After mining these two iron ores, the resource gain would definitely exceed what’s on this list.

But... it’s a mixed bag!

There’s everything.

There’s even spider silk, a whole 120,000 units of it. This guy’s train doesn’t even have the "spider limbs" part, so what’s he doing with so much spider silk? I wonder where he got it from; probably slaughtered a whole nest of "Cannibal Spiders."

My "spider limbs" haven’t been upgraded for a while, and now it’s like the food is right in my mouth.

Can’t not eat it.

As for those rifles and bullets, I tossed them all into the "Earth Core Melting Furnace," and the special tools and blueprints were kept in the train compartment for me to check later.

"Hmm..."

Chen Mang, after pondering for a while, looked at Old Pig and said with a smile: "Go and ask if there’s a good cook among the people downstairs. We’ll keep that pig. We’ll need to make a trip to Shahe City later and see if we can find some vermicelli and cabbage, so everyone can have pork and vermicelli stew."

"Back in the Doomsday Abyss, I promised everyone that I’d make chicken soup for them."

"That chicken is laying eggs happily; I can’t bear to kill it, so we’ll just have this pig."

"Eating bread every day is tiring."

"No need to pay with any meat buying coupons; everyone gets some, as a train benefit."

"By the way—"

Speaking of meat buying coupons, Chen Mang paused slightly and said seriously: "When we initially designed the ’Meat Buying Coupon,’ it was meant only for purchasing meat, and the idea of a store only came up later. Since the ’Meat Buying Coupon’ is already acting as a currency on the train, it’s not fitting to keep the name."

"Change the name to... Fixed Star Coupon."

"Also, sort through those collected household items and put them in the store."

"Understood, I’ll arrange it later."

Old Pig nodded seriously with a look of concentration, quickly jotting it down in a small notebook he took from his chest pocket.

After giving these instructions, Chen Mang glanced at the residents who had already lined up to receive pickaxes to start mining not far away. He didn’t linger and instead headed towards his train compartment. The Fixed Star Train would be mining here for the next few days.

But now he needed to check the effects of those special tools and blueprints and upgrade the train to a level 4 train.

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"Pork and vermicelli stew..."

Old Pig looked at Master Mang’s departing back, swallowing a few times unconsciously, with saliva faintly gathering in his mouth. His meal treatment on the Fixed Star Train was considered good, but it was meat pancakes every meal.

In the doomsday, having such a meal was something to secretly enjoy.

He was quite content with that.

Even though the variety of food was pretty much non-existent, upon hearing the words "pork and vermicelli stew," which were both familiar and unfamiliar, his mouth started to salivate instinctively.

He seemed to vaguely smell the fragrance.

"So delicious..." Biaozi standing next to him dumbly smiled with a dazed look in his eyes: "And with a soft steamed bread to soak up some soup, soft and fluffy, with cabbage, vermicelli, and pork mixed together in the mouth—what a taste..."

"Damn, I can’t think about it; I’m already looking forward to going to Shahe City!"

"If we can’t find cabbage and vermicelli, I’d die there!"

"Do you dare to say that?" Old Pig gave Biaozi a strange look: "Alright, let’s get to work. You go and check the backgrounds of those survivors. This time Master Mang didn’t say to kill anyone. We’ll keep the Deputy Train Captain and the thugs, and find out the relationships among the rest and the Train Captain."

"After you interrogate them, I’ll arrange them."

"I need to go see how the statistics on that side are coming along. Damn it, without a computer, the data collection for more than a thousand people is such a damn big job; it’s a headache."

Biaozi glanced at Li Shiji not far away: "Why don’t you ask that kid? He’s bright. Maybe he has a solution."

"I did ask."

"What did he say?"

"He said bugs happen all the time; they’re inevitable. As long as it can generally function, it’s fine. Even with a computer, it’s not free of bugs."