Chapter 415 - 246: So next is harvest time!_2

It’s an even better treasure.

In his mind, this Special Tool could almost sit alongside the "Hell Staff" as the top-tier item.

Earlier, he had acquired another item called "Hell Sunglasses," which slightly increased his Physical Comprehensive Quality when worn. With three items all having similar names, could they be part of a set?

Perhaps renaming them Paradise might bring better fortune.

And last but not least, a purple-grade Mecha Blueprint—"Pope"!

Biaozi hasn’t even piloted the blue-grade mecha "Thunderbolt," yet the purple-grade "Pope" has already appeared.

To be fair, Biaozi’s growth was already quite fast.

And he was indeed relentless.

It’s just unfortunate that amidst the rapid development of the train, individual growth seems somewhat insignificant.

That’s all.

This sums up the entire harvest this time.

Chen Mang, smiling happily, held Xiaolv and leaned on the staff, stepping down one step at a time onto the ground, feeling quite pleased as he inspected the cave, where on the left, residents were slicing the boss’s body, and on the right, others were mining.

A scene of harmony and prosperity prevailed.

All was well.

The original oxygen content in this cave was very low, and no one knew how long that creature had stayed here without needing oxygen. There were no other exits, indicating the creature had been slumbering here all this time.

No signs of excretion were found.

Could it be that it fed on these iron ores?

Like those zombies?

"Master Mang!"

Not far away, Biaozi ran over excitedly to report, "The dismemberment is complete."

"Well done," Chen Mang nodded with a smile.

"Master Mang, there’s one more thing. Over the past days, I’ve completed all the normal difficulty levels of the remaining five maps, including Dragon Castle, and the extreme difficulty of two remaining Dragon Castle maps as well. My physical status has reached 19.9."

"I was thinking..."

Biaozi scratched his head, excited yet embarrassed, "I was thinking of applying for a ’Thunderbolt’ mecha."

Blue-grade mecha, Thunderbolt.

"Requires the operator’s Physical Comprehensive Quality greater than 19.0; at above 19.5, full strength can be unleashed."

He practically went sleepless for this goal these past days!

Guzzling down his homemade "man’s drink" daily without hesitation.

With the dual support of technology and effort, his growth was phenomenal.

He finally caught up with Zhang Yi and Zhang Er.

"... "

After a moment of silence, Chen Mang patted Biaozi on the shoulder softly, "You’ve been training Zhang Yi and Zhang Er all this time. Have you checked their current physical attributes?"

"No... I haven’t."

"Your application is approved, but there’s more news: the train now has a purple-grade mecha ’Pope,’ stronger than ’Thunderbolt.’ So far, only the two of them can use it."

"Have them find Ai later and receive their new mecha."

"You can choose one you like from the ones they’re retiring."

"Go ahead."

With that, Chen Mang moved on, continuing to inspect the cave, feeling a great sense of security under a black dome-shaped hat. After all this time since arriving in this world, it was his first time roaming away from the train so comfortably.

He actually wanted to experiment.

If the hat could give him the same defense as the Train Armor, what would happen if he jumped from 100 meters high?

He thought about it but figured it would probably end poorly.

After all, he didn’t have the "Permanent Shock Absorption" component built into him.

Faced with large monsters, he still needed to run, but when facing gun-like attacks that didn’t exceed the Train Armor’s level, they could probably be ignored. He thought to test it later.

...

"..."

Chen Mang left, leaving Biaozi standing there, frozen, with an expression of bewilderment and the smile on his face slowly fading. After a while, he reacted, looking down at his hands full of despair.

Why!!!

He had given it his all!

He barely managed to catch up, thinking he could finally own a "Thunderbolt" mecha like Zhang Yi and Zhang Er, but unexpectedly, the train now had the purple-grade mecha "Pope."

He was still overshadowed.

At that moment—

Zhang Yi and Zhang Er walked by his side, devouring sandwiches and muttering to each other.

"Boss, President Ai wants us to pick up the new mecha. I think it’s called Pope. I’m not too keen on getting it. I’m comfortable with Thunderbolt and reluctant to switch."

"Same here, but we have to switch. President Ai said our Thunderbolt mechas should be retired for Biao. If we don’t switch, Biao will have nothing to use."

"Alright then, why doesn’t Biao want the Pope mecha?"

"Maybe he just doesn’t like it."

"Phew..."

Biaozi placed his hands on his chest, took a deep breath, and watched Zhang Yi and Zhang Er’s departing backs, forcing a smile, "It’s okay, it’s okay, Biaozi, don’t worry about others; you originally wanted the Thunderbolt mecha, didn’t you?"

"Your dream has been achieved, and perfectly completed, what happens to others is none of your concern."

"None of your concern..."

But he couldn’t help himself from punching the ground in anger, heading towards Car No. 2 to pick up the Thunderbolt mecha. Afterward, he aimed to tackle the extreme difficulties of the remaining maps!

He now had a new goal!

He also wanted the Pope!

He was the captain; how could he always be overshadowed by his own team members? He couldn’t let this slide, or his resolve would be shaken!

...

"..."

In the cave, Chen Mang watched Biaozi’s enraged departure and shook his head with a smile. Biaozi’s desire to catch up with the two prodigies was perhaps a tad too ambitious. But it was also fortunate.

Without these two targets ahead,

Biaozi wouldn’t have progressed this quickly either.

Just a few months ago, Biaozi had only ever worked as a foreman before Doomsday, just with more combat experience than others, not much more, but now...

How short a time had it been?

Biaozi could already hold his own.

The growth speed was fast indeed, but Biaozi seemed blind to his growth speed, single-mindedly wanting to catch up with the two prodigies, unaware that his growth speed indeed applied significant pressure on his squad members!

This resulted in squad members also being forced to maintain a rapid growth pace.

And squad members didn’t know that their growth pace applied great pressure on the other two squads!

So...

In this competition, everyone was being forced to maintain a very high speed, except... except for those two goofballs.

There’s talent, nothing can be done about it.

Especially under Biaozi’s lead, with talent and full-force training, how could Biaozi possibly keep up...

...

"Well."

Back sitting in the train compartment, Chen Mang sighed softly with a helpless smile.

"Let’s craft a new ’Thunderbolt’ mecha for Biaozi. The two Zhang Yi and Zhang Er are retiring can be passed to others. A few of them in squad one are almost meeting the requirements. "

"That guy has been eagerly awaiting the ’Thunderbolt’ mecha for so long."

"Just give him a new one to play with."

"Understood," came Ai’s voice from the train compartment.

Only then did he look towards the sparkling mine not far away. It was a special mine, structured similarly to an iron mine, with piles of sharply defined resources protruding from the ground.

But it wasn’t black, nor was it brass-colored.

Rather...

Transparent, glittering beautifully under the light.

This was a level 4 Titanium Crystal Ore.

He had never seen this ore and didn’t know what it was used for, but he knew it was rare, possibly useful in the future.

Just like when he first mined "Red Heart Rock Ore," not knowing what it was for until later learning it was for building mechas.

"Pretty nice."

Chen Mang sat in the train compartment, freshened up, then went to his bed to sleep, feeling a bit sleepy after not resting all night.

There wasn’t much left for him to do.

He had already completed his tasks.

Once they left this mine, the train would reach level 11, and most likely move straight to level 12.