Chapter 313 - 196: "Team 1, all of you get down here!"_2

He turned off the movie playing on the screen.

Looking out at the swiftly approaching "Azure Dragon" train.

"It has two more carriages and a few cannons now."

Chen Mang scrutinized the rapidly approaching train, it seemed like this thing had developed quite well during this time.

Soon—

The Azure Dragon train stopped in front of him.

Er Dan ran anxiously to the side of the Constant Star Train, looked up at the window of the train compartment, and shouted, "Bro, hurry up and bring your AI down, it’s urgent!!!"

"I really can’t take it anymore."

Chen Mang opened the train compartment door, leaned on a cane, and came down with Ai, looking at Er Dan helplessly, "Keep it down, it’s not a big deal, no need to rush."

"It really is urgent!"

Er Dan looked bitter, "You’ll know once you see my train compartment."

...

At the entrance of the Azure Dragon train compartment, Chen Mang leaned on his cane and looked expressionlessly at the open train compartment door. Inside, the lights were flickering, and some chaotic sounds were coming from the speakers.

"Son...son...son..."

"..."

Chen Mang was silent for a while before speaking, "Why isn’t it an electronic voice?"

"I found some recordings of my mom from before she died and input them into the AI, making it have a voice similar to my mom’s. Bro, please hurry."

"It’s quite a hellish situation."

He waved his hand, "Ai, handle it quickly, just looking at it gives me a headache."

...

Ten minutes later.

"Whew..."

Er Dan let out a long sigh, wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, and looked at Chen Mang with a bitter smile, "Bro, I’m embarrassed, but I ran into some absurd trouble, sigh."

"That adventure map is a bit too ridiculous."

Chen Mang shook his head, pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, snapped his fingers nonchalantly, "Tell me about your ’Eternal Prison’ encounter map, what’s going on?"

Er Dan nodded, just about to speak, when he saw Ai come over to Chen Mang, extend a finger, and a flame emerged from her fingertip to light Chen Mang’s cigarette.

The words got stuck in his throat, as he dumbly watched this scene unfold.

"This...is?"

"Oh."

Chen Mang waved his hand with a smile, "Just some gadgets, nothing worth mentioning, continue with your story about ’Eternal Prison’."

"Oh, okay." Er Dan scratched the back of his head before continuing, "Though I like going to adventure maps, this was unexpected, Zombie Basin has no cities. These days I’ve been mining, finished mining yesterday, and started looking for more mines."

"I passed a place that looked like a village."

"I didn’t expect to find survivors hiding inside."

"They were hiding in something like a big capsule, the Target Detection Radar couldn’t detect them. I only found out because I saw someone come out for food with my own eyes, and then I brought them all on board."

"Let me interrupt you, please." Chen Mang thoughtfully spoke, "Did you bring that big capsule along?"

"I did, couldn’t figure out much about it. If you want to study it, I’ll give it to you later."

"We’ll talk about this later, continue."

"Okay, then I found several survivors hiding in the village, one of them named Zhang Yiren told me..."

"Wait!"

Chen Mang expressionlessly interrupted him, "Let me stop you again here, this Zhang Yiren, is it the Zhang as in ’Article Zhang’, and the Yiren as in ’Ten Steps, One Kill’ Yiren?"

"It’s him, why, Master Mang, do you know him?"

"Is he a screenwriter or something?"

"He is."

Chen Mang immediately smiled, but there was a sinister glint in his eyes, "Get him down here now. You can put your matter on hold for a moment, I have something to talk to him about."

"Okay."

...

Three minutes later.

Chen Mang looked at the emaciated man standing in front of him and calmly said, "Are you Zhang Yiren?"

"I am."

"Did you write the script for the movie ’Love One’?"

"I did."

Not knowing what was happening, Zhang Yiren stood trembling slightly, looking up at Chen Mang and softly asked, "Big brother, are you...a fan of the film?"

"I’m a fan of your ass."

Chen Mang took a deep breath, "Come on, tell me, do you think the script you wrote is interesting? Where’s the story, just to have the male and female leads constantly bumping into each other without recognizing each other, only to fall in love at the end?"

"You think filming several hours of this crap is interesting?"

"No, big brother...the ending has a twist."

"Oh, tell me, what twist?"

"In the end, the two don’t end up together. After searching in vain for three years, the female lead starts a new relationship. The new boyfriend is the male lead’s best friend. The male lead learns this one day and chooses to give his blessing. The female lead eventually finds out, immediately leaves her now-husband, and runs back to the male lead. The current husband, out of love, donates his cornea to the male lead. Just as the female and male lead are about to move forward together, the nurse who had been caring for the male lead all along..."

"Alright."

Chen Mang couldn’t help but laugh angrily and picked up the radio, "First squad, get down here now!"

"Time to work!"

Then he jabbed the cane at the man’s face and roared angrily.

"I just wanted to relax and watch a movie, do you know how precious it is to watch a movie during Doomsday, and you gave me this kind of crap!"

"Lucky I fell asleep, otherwise, if I really saw the ending, my blood pressure would’ve skyrocketed."

"Er Dan, is this guy important to you? I want this guy."

"He’s useless." Er Dan replied quickly, clearing the relationship swiftly, "He’s just a slave on my train, I don’t know him, never talked to him. Master Mang, if you want him, take him."

It was the first time he’d seen Master Mang so angry.

The main thing is...

Listening to this makes me agitated too. Whatever crap you filmed, before the apocalypse, you’d just get cursed out by haters. After the apocalypse, running into haters, you’ll have to enjoy it properly.

...

Biaozi and the others rushed out from the train and immediately went to Master Mang’s side, hoisting the man named Zhang Yiren onto their shoulders and headed back to the train.

"Whew..."

Chen Mang exhaled softly, looking at Er Dan with apologetic eyes, "This time, I embarrassed myself in front of you. You know, humans are emotional creatures; having a little emotion occasionally is normal. Continue, where were you?"

"I understand, totally understand. I was saying I met several survivors in that village, one being Zhang Yiren, and Zhang Yiren told me..."

Just then—

Screaming filled with fear suddenly came from Zhang Yiren.

"Big brother, I’m just a screenwriter, you can’t fully blame me, the director changed a lot of the script!"

"The director is on the train too, he should at least take half the blame!"

"Bro, let me interrupt again. If it’s convenient, can you hand over the batch of survivors from your village to me?"

"No problem."

Er Dan wiped the sweat from his nose, quickly turned his head to look at the thugs behind him and shouted, "Bring down those latest slaves."

Not sure why.

Even though Master Mang wasn’t harsh on him, he was a bit scared, and couldn’t stop the sweat from beading on his nose.

Soon—

Three or four men and two women were brought down.

One of the fat men looked at Zhang Yiren, who was being carried on a shoulder, and cursed, "You ungrateful bastard, you’re a jerk. If I hadn’t pulled you into my safe house, you’d be dead, and now you’re betraying me!"

"How is that my fault? I said the script would definitely get criticized if filmed. You insisted I change it. You said the harsher the criticism, the higher the engagement. If not for you, I would’ve written the male and female leads into a relationship at first meeting."

"If it were written like that, what’s the point in filming the movie, you could end it in a sentence!"

"That’s your problem, you’re the director, not me."

...

"Uh..."

Er Dan, listening to the arguing, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead again, and weakly said, "Shall I continue?"

"Keep going."