CHAPTER 122: CHAPTER 102: "DOES TIME PASS SO QUICKLY?

Inside the cave by the underground river.

The substantial Fixed Star Train was parked nearby, with several headlights illuminating the entire cave. The buzzing oxygen generator constantly consumed energy to maintain adequate oxygen levels within the cave.

"..."

Having washed and eaten breakfast, Chen Mang lay down in the Train Room and started today’s solo mission training in the "Combat Training Virtual Space"; it’s his new toy, quite enjoyable.

He just spent 4.5w units to upgrade his "Combat Training Virtual Space" to Level 10, thereby gaining two corresponding special Supermodel Effects.

The Level 10 Supermodel Effect is that his training in the virtual space would directly enhance his physical fitness in reality.

Of course.

The human potential for physical fitness remains limited, hoping to train oneself into a superhuman through "Combat Training Virtual Space" is hardly possible, but achieving goals like a parkour expert or dagger mastery isn’t too difficult.

...

Three hours later.

A somewhat bored Chen Mang exited the "Combat Training Virtual Space," stretched, and then walked towards Carriage 2, used to pile up production lines, including the "Pickaxe Production Line."

Before digging the "Red Heart Rock," he upgraded the pickaxe production line to Level 3, ensuring the pickaxe can excavate Level 3 ores.

The cost to manufacture a Level 1 pickaxe is 1 iron ore unit.

A Level 2 pickaxe costs 10 iron ore units.

A Level 3 pickaxe requires 100 iron ore units.

And now, he again consumed 4100 units of iron ore to directly upgrade this "Pickaxe Production Line" to Level 10, now capable of producing Level 10 pickaxes.

The price for a Level 10 pickaxe is 1 billion iron ore units.

Well...

This number somewhat dampened his spirits; Level 10 pickaxes are meant for mining Level 10 Ore.

It also gained two Supermodel Effects.

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"Pickaxe Production Line Level 5 Supermodel Effect": None.

"Pickaxe Production Line Level 10 Supermodel Effect": None.

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He once tried using the "Drill" for mining; the diamond drill easily pulverized the iron ore to powder, and indeed, the experiment was successful. The iron ore, which protruded like cauliflower on the ground, was drilled into powder but didn’t drop even 1 iron ore unit.

He also attempted to tie the "Pickaxe" to the car wheel, trying to create a rudimentary version of an automatic mining machine.

Ultimately, it ended in failure again.

"Pickaxe."

Only when held by a slave does it have the mining effect, which is the fundamental rule of this world.

"..."

Chen Mang scanned each production line in the carriage, starting to think and prepare for upgrading the train to Level 4.

...

Soon——

Ten days later.

Beside the cave, all 3 Level 2 iron ores, including one Level 2 copper ore, were fully mined.

Currently, the Train Panel contained 684,000 units of iron ore and 231,000 units of copper ore.

Not enough, continue!

Chen Mang squinted at the iron ore on the panel; he needed more iron ores.

Under his control, the Fixed Star Train immediately left the cave and headed straight towards "Mohe Hill" along the underground river.

Half an hour later, successfully arrived.

Inside the train room, Chen Mang looked out the window; the road conditions were undulating like sea waves, only fixed. Such road conditions are almost impassable without special wheels, but it didn’t affect him much.

Switched to "Spider Foot" wheels, consumed 4400 units of iron ore, and the "Axe Production Line" was also upgraded to Level 10, capable of producing Level 10 axes, but the price remained at 1 billion iron ore units.

Both corresponding Supermodel Effects were also none.

After consuming 10,000 units of iron ore to produce 1,000 axes, the Resource Detection Radar successfully found two adjacent wood fields deep in "Mohe Hill."

"The environment is indeed nice."

Chen Mang looked out the window; everywhere was full of lush green trees, looking more alive than on the wasteland, and the slaves had already started wielding axes to enter the forest and began chopping.

...

Two days later.

These two wood fields were also completely logged by him; the capacity of these two wood fields wasn’t much, yielding 230,000 units of timber.

Enough.

Currently, there was no place in the train needing timber; this bit of timber is sufficient for him to use for a long time.

Immediately set off again, controlling the Fixed Star Train, driving along the underground river on the wasteland.

...

"Tick-tock, detected a Level 2 resource mine 2000 meters deep."

Excavate.

"Tick-tock, detected two Level 3 resource mines 1000 meters deep."

Excavate!

...

"Is time passing that quickly?"

Inside the Fixed Star Train.

Chen Mang sat on a chair, manually cleaning his stubble with a razor; after finishing the cleaning, he placed the razor aside, as a girl holding a water basin courteously approached.

After wiping away the residual stubble with clean water.

He breathed a sigh of relief, looking at his refreshed self in the mirror with satisfaction; at this point, it had been thirty-seven days since leaving "Mohe Wasteland."

During these 37 days, he did only one thing.

Excavating across the entire "Tieling Wasteland" along the underground river vein; every day had mining, slaves hadn’t rested a single day. Without exaggeration, he nearly mined all the ore fields under Tieling Wasteland.

Perhaps, beyond the underground river vein, there might be more ore fields other places deep underground, or even more than ten thousand meters underground.