CHAPTER 30: CHAPTER 30: NO MATTER HOW THE WORLD’S FLOODS RAGE, YOU CALMLY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP, RIGHT?

There are four factors that affect the train speed in total.

1. External acceleration accessories.

2. Different types of wheels.

3. Train weight.

4. Train level.

The "Fixed Star" train currently uses level 1 "Wind-Fire Wheel," which has the advantage of maintaining the fastest speed of its level on the wasteland, adding 30 km per hour to the top speed.

The original base top speed of the train is 100 km per hour.

After upgrading to level 2, the base top speed becomes 130 km per hour.

Adding the "Wind-Fire Wheel" and the train’s own weight.

"156 km/hour"

"..."

Chen Mang looked at the max speed displayed on the control panel screen. After taking a deep breath, he quickly calmed down, his mind rapidly cycling through countless combinations; there were only two ways to increase the speed now.

He definitely didn’t have external acceleration accessories, so he only had the options of upgrading the "Wind-Fire Wheel" or detaching all the carriages.

But...

To upgrade the "Wind-Fire Wheel" from level 1 to level 2 required 1000 units of iron ore, and he currently only had 913 units, which was not enough. However, he could throw those firearms into the "Earth Core Melting Furnace," which should be able to make up the remaining 87 units of iron ore.

Climbing from the sunroof to the front of the train to throw the firearms into the furnace was risky, but feasible.

If the unknown threat behind them was really closing in tightly.

This was the only way left.

"But..."

Chen Mang looked at the rearview mirror of the train head into the empty night, wondering if this speed was already enough. Surely, no monster could outrun this speed on foot, right? Even zombies couldn’t reach this speed no matter how hard they tried!

...

"Master Lu."

In a train cabin with 8 carriages remaining, a burly man with a Bodhisattva Guanyin tattoo shook his head, looking up at a dwarf on the control panel, whispering: "That train doesn’t have a train radio, we cannot contact them."

"Sigh."

The dwarf on the control panel sighed slightly, shaking his head regretfully: "What a pity, if the people on that train had abandoned the train and fled into the mine, they might have escaped disaster."

"They panicked when they saw us fleeing and followed suit."

"That train of his will soon be caught by that creature."

"This creature really is."

"Taiping City has been a slaughterhouse these past few days; could this guy really have been mining here all this time? He actually dared to mine here!"

He remembered this train.

A few days ago, when he enthusiastically arrived in "Taiping City" for the slaughter, this train was already mining here. Things had been going crazy on that side these past few days. When he escaped, he found that this train was still mining here.

Remarkable.

While the world is in chaos, you develop peacefully here.

It seems the harvest was pretty good, even armored the front of the train.

He also grew up step by step from weakness, so he actually understood this Train Captain he had never met, but... it’s just a bit of a pity. After mining for days, he dug himself into hell, hoping there’s mining in hell too.

If there are mines in hell, they must be rare ores. Maybe they could even build a Hell Train or something.

At high speed, he couldn’t see the train anymore, so he played with the Buddhist beads on his wrist, closed his eyes, and clicked his tongue: "With my kind heart, surely I’m going to heaven after I die, and then I’ll get some kind of Heaven Train."

The Cannibal Spider behind was level 3.

The heavy machine guns and cannons on their train were only level 2, unable to break its defense; picking on juveniles was fine, but against that boss, they couldn’t break its defense at all.

When the monster’s level overwhelms the level of the offensive vehicle accessories, the offensive vehicle accessories cannot cause damage, the damage is simply ignored, and it is difficult to even peel a layer of skin.

Even a red-grade vehicle accessory, like a level 2 "Fixed Defense Cannon," cannot damage a level 3 zombie.

The power of the offensive vehicle accessory is determined by grade and level.

But whether it can break the defense is only determined by level.

Upgrading offensive vehicle accessories not only increases the accessory’s power but also allows it to cause effective damage to higher-level monsters.

Of course, level 1 is an exception.

Level 1 monsters are the most basic monsters; even ordinary weapons like a fire axe can damage them. After Doomsday, all conventional weapons were rendered useless. To have weapons that can cause enough damage to monsters, one can only rely on thermal weapons crafted on the train’s production line.

Thus.

The train is the only main theme in this world.

...

Originally.

The trains were constantly provoking at the edges. When the level 3 Cannibal Spider ran to one end, the train on the other end would take the opportunity to kill the boss’s juveniles, thus killing them and obtaining possibly dropped rare resources and accessory blueprints.

But...who knew that after too many juveniles were killed, the Cannibal Spider went crazy, ignoring its juveniles in the city and went on a rampage to chase their few trains.

Then, they could only flee; there was no other choice.

They initially fled in different directions, but later the boss spat out all its spider silk, blocking other routes, so they were forced into one direction. After reaching the wasteland, they no longer needed to turn, they just maxed out the horsepower and raced for speed, and their speed was slightly faster.

"What a pity though."

The dwarf on the control panel looked regretfully at the dusty wasteland behind him. The rare resources obtained from killing the Cannibal Spider juveniles over the past few days were pretty good, almost making up for the losses. If they could kill the Cannibal Spider boss, the dropped rare resources would be even richer.

However...

Only offensive vehicle accessories of level 3 and above can damage this Cannibal Spider.

Neither the green-grade heavy machine gun nor the blue-grade cannon were cheap to upgrade to level 3. He hadn’t prioritized upgrading these two because, most of the time, they didn’t encounter level 3 monsters on this wasteland. However, there was a level 3 "Soaring Dragon Assault Rifle Production Line."

But the bullets shot by the level 3 rifle felt like just scratching this Cannibal Spider.

It could break the defense but was useless.

White-grade offensive vehicle accessories don’t cost much to upgrade, but...white vehicle accessories can’t be upgraded to level 3.

So, they could only flee.

...

And at this moment—

Inside the "Fixed Star" train, sitting at the control panel, Chen Mang suddenly felt the ground shaking noticeably, instinctively looking at the rearview mirror of the train. Just one look made his breath almost stop.

In the distant sky, a spider towering over ten meters tall was charging toward him at high speed.

It looked like a small mountain racing towards them.

"..."

Chen Mang turned pale, taking a deep breath, feeling as if all his blood was rushing to the back of his head, adrenaline soaring. It was the first time he realized he seemed to have a fear of giant creatures.

He wasn’t particularly afraid of spiders, but seeing such a huge spider for the first time was really too stimulating for him.