"And by relying on the identity of a black market trader, they make those Train Captains pay first. The moment they receive the payment, they randomly teleport away, leaving not a trace!"

"In 18 hours, they've perfectly completed several transactions!"

Mondo, who was standing by, initially saw Master Mang's face looking a bit fearful, wondering if he had done something wrong. But upon seeing the expression on his clan leader's face, he immediately gained confidence, proudly puffing up his chest, waiting for praise from Master Mang.

"..."

Chen Mang remained silent without expression for a long time before he tapped the table with his knuckles: "Maybe due to the different cultural backgrounds of our races, such behavior isn't called commercial transactions among us humans; it's called highway robbery."

"Did you go out in the name of the Fixed Star?"

"No."

"Good, don't report it in the future either. Go make a new black cloak, make sure to wrap it completely."

"Understood!"

"You may leave now, I'm going to rest for a bit before I call for you."

He gazed at their departing backs, sighed lightly again, then gestured to Fang standing at the doorway that she could leave as well.

He could almost imagine the scene at that time.

After all, "black market trader" is quite a fortuitous encounter!

When he first met Mondo, there were several lines of text appearing on the train control screen.

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"Doomsday Encounter, Black Market Trader."

"Unpredictable whereabouts, any train might encounter the black market trader, but only trains with Heritage Value can purchase rare and precious items from them."

"Do not attack, imprison or harm the black market trader."

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In this situation... Who would suspect that this black market trader is not legitimate?

Since it's a black market trader, besides having Heritage Value, selling a bit of Murphy Stone should be pretty reasonable, right?

Also, with the restrictions not to attack, imprison, or harm the black market trader, although it doesn't mention the consequences, the cost is already clear, making Train Captains even less likely to actively attack Mondo.

Thus——

When those Train Captains excitedly carried their storage boxes down, ready to exchange Murphy Stone with Mondo...

They saw Mondo directly toss the storage box into a refrigerator and vanish in the blink of an eye, leaving a bewildered Train Captain standing alone in the chilling wind.

Probably preferring to believe the black market trader rushed home with a stomach ache rather than believing he ran off.

Frankly...

The gains are indeed substantial, looks like Mondo could do more of such things in the future, as long as he encounters high-level trains, basically he can perform a Robin Hood act, depending on where fate randomly leads him.

Quite nice.

Mondo will also be a Traveling Frog from now on, and together with Er Dan, he already has two Traveling Frogs. He can peacefully stay inside the Fixed Star train, and his Traveling Frogs will continue to bring him a steady stream of resources.

He turned his head toward the "Train Panel" beside him.

Thanks to this brilliant maneuver of the black market trader, the train's iron resources directly reached 2,020,000 units!

There's really nothing more to say!

They can directly help "Azure Dragon" reopen!

To avoid prolonging the potential chaos of nightmare dreams, the S-level role transition needs to be chosen sooner rather than later. Now that someone has chosen it, the crisis is averted.

He immediately headed toward the train room outside.

As for that "Rare Train Order," it was dropped by a Level 9 monster after death.

...

"Farewell, my old friend."

Inside Azure Dragon.

Er Dan stood in the train room somewhat reluctantly, looking at all the accessories. At this point, all the removable parts inside the train have been taken away, such as "Headlamp," "Car Sound System," "Three-legged Cat Heavy Machine Gun," "Bunny Cloud," and "Nitrogen Tail Spray," etc.

The remaining parts that can't be detached can only stay on the train.

He took one last look at the train room, took a deep breath, then chose to resign from the Train Captain's role on the Train Members panel, and abandoned the handover.

The next moment——

He felt that sense of intimacy with the train vanish instantly, and the once familiar train room became strangely unfamiliar, like a feeling as if his mother had passed away.

Just empty.

When his mother passed away, he wasn't very sad.

It was only one day when he came home after work, instinctively opening the fridge, and saw the dumplings his mother had made for him before she left, did he stand in a daze. He realized... he was alone in the world now.

Only from that moment did he start to wander, because he no longer had a home.

"Alright."

Mind filled with myriad thoughts quickly drifting by, Er Dan stepped off the train, and looked toward Chen Mang, Old Pig, and others standing by: "Still a bit reluctant to leave my old friend."

But clutching the "Train Assistance AI" he had dismantled, he still smiled.

"But the fact that the AI can be removed is enough."

"At least there's still someone accompanying."

Old Pig just smiled without speaking, simply tossing a Rare Train Order from his arms over, and pointed to the storage box beside him: "There's 1,000,000 units of iron ore resources inside, along with some timber and copper ore, use them as you please."

"We'll talk if it's not enough."

"Okay!"

Er Dan took a deep breath, caught the rare order, and the next moment, a train head composed of countless dotted lines appeared in the air. As the lines gradually solidified, the train head descended from the air, landing heavily on the ground.

Just like before.

Having done this once, naturally, everything felt routine. Er Dan immediately went into the train room inside and crafted all the accessories that could be made, and reassembled all the parts he dismantled from the "Azure Dragon" train into this train.

Using iron ore, he upgraded all basic accessories to Level 5.

And then crafted 4 ordinary carriages for train upgrades. After the upgrade was complete, he continued to craft those accessories available for Level 2 trains.

Soon——

He reached Level 3 train, having 18 carriages. These carriages had no accessories, only meant for upgrading the train, and later they would all be devoured by the "Earth Core Melting Furnace" of the Fixed Star train.

All the conditions needed for train upgrades were met, and as for the total accessory levels of the train, the original accessories of "Azure Dragon" were all maxed, naturally fulfilling the requirements.

The process had reached the stage of choosing role transitions.

"I'm off, Master Mang!"

"Go ahead."

When Er Dan chose the S-level "Mechanical Train Transition Task" at that moment!

The walkie-talkie in Chen Mang's hand, which had been lacking any reaction, finally began flashing red lights continuously and emitted a beeping sound. He smiled lightly, returned to the Fixed Star train room, closed the door, and pressed the red button. At that moment, everything went black, and he fell backward powerlessly.

...

Minutes later.

"Buzz buzz buzz..."

The sound of rotor blades cutting through the air was heard above the Fixed Star train head, and then a gigantic drone came flying over from a distance and hovered over the crowd, carrying a square box beneath it.

As the box crashed heavily onto the ground and scattered open.

A robot stood up.

"...Is this the feeling of being a robot?"

Chen Mang's consciousness now resided within this robot body, tentatively moving around, giving a stiff feeling. Did Ai normally operate such a body?

Without further delay.

He strode past Er Dan and others, giving Old Pig a flick on the head, then walked toward the final carriage of "Traveling Frog," which was the maze starting point Er Dan set up, the terminal at the train room.

Once inside the carriage, he sat cross-legged on the floor, patiently waiting.

His mission was to fail the challenge.

Thus to forfeit 30 Murphy Stones reward in exchange for S-level potential for Er Dan's "Traveling Frog."

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