"It's actually this guy?"

Chen Mang was slightly stunned, then couldn't help but shake his head and laugh wryly. This was just too much of a coincidence. His initial intention was to randomly stop a Level 4 train to give it a chance, not expecting any return, just acting on a whim for fun.

He thought about this matter.

Unexpectedly, he stopped an old acquaintance.

"Master Mang!?"

Soon—

A dwarf man jumped down from the train compartment, excitedly strode to the front of the Fixed Star train, placed his hands on his hips, and looked up at the train compartment with effort: "How can I see you here? You didn't formally establish communication with me, so I couldn't reach you."

"Originally, I wanted to ask you, I heard there was a crisis in the Zombie Basin some days ago. I was wondering if you were alright."

"Now it seems you are indeed okay."

Once formal communication is established, even if you are not in the same area, you can contact through the train radio and determine if the other party's train is destroyed by checking if their name is dimmed. But the prerequisite for establishing formal communication is a previous private chat between both parties.

"Now it's established."

Chen Mang also smiled as he stepped down from the train compartment, looking down at the dwarf man standing in front of him, waving his hand. Soon, the door of the Resident Carriage No.10 opened, and a group of goblins strode towards the two of them: "Do you feel the joy of seeing compatriots? They are all as tall as you."

"..."

The dwarf man sighed helplessly: "I was concerned about your life and death, and here you are teasing me?"

"Just a little joke."

Chen Mang chuckled as he squatted down, took out a nut from his pocket and handed it over: "Here, have some candy."

"Is there anything the train needs? This is our fifth meeting, after all, and I'd like to give you some opportunities."

"Like iron ore, copper ore, and such."

"Giving you a couple of Murphy Stones wouldn't be a problem either."

"I want..." the dwarf man hesitated.

"No tall girls."

"Then forget it."

"Wait, there actually is one." Chen Mang motioned for Zhang Damei to come down.

"..."

The dwarf man looked at Zhang Damei, who was quite robust and could probably crush him into a meat patty with a single punch, and hesitantly waved: "Actually, I'm not really into this anymore lately..."

"Thank you for your kindness, Master Mang."

"Tsk."

Chen Mang rose with a smile, looking at Ai standing by the side: "Get the storage box that just arrived, give it to my brother here as a meeting gift, it contains 100,000 units of iron ore."

"This is a bit much..." the dwarf man whispered awkwardly: "Master Mang, even though you're doing well now, 100,000 units of iron ore isn't trivial for you either. Giving it to me like this feels like I'm getting something for nothing."

"No problem."

Chen Mang stood there stretching, not minding these things. Originally, there wasn't much iron ore on the train, especially after upgrading the Level 100 Drill, only 2.8 million units of iron ore remained.

But just now, while in the Train Tunnel, Mondo, who had been out for a long time, finally returned home.

He brought back a large amount of resources.

Just iron alone, he brought back 7.8 million units!

In addition to that, there were also copper, wood, blueprints, and more.

For this, he could only say it was amazing, and immediately ordered that Mondo be promoted to a Level 1 senior talent status, enjoying the same treatment as Biaozi and Old Pig, making him the third in the train to enjoy a Level 1 senior talent status.

He had a higher status than Bidoba on the train.

In less than 20 days, he earned 7.8 million units of iron, equivalent to mining three Level 3 iron deposits on his own!

This status, if not granted a Level 1, wouldn't seem justified.

One man is equivalent to an army!

...

"This really is..."

The dwarf man looked somewhat embarrassed as he watched Ai, who's carrying the storage box, come down: "This feels so awkward, I didn't do anything... uh, wait."

He looked puzzled at the scratch on the storage box.

"Why does this storage box look so familiar?"

"It looks exactly like the storage box that a Black Market merchant took from me the day before yesterday."

"Master Mang, you may not know, but I encountered a "Black Market merchant" the other day. That Black Market merchant said there was a big sale, except for consuming Heritage Value, they also sold Murphy Stones for 10,000 units each, but it could only be purchased using the train's iron reserves, any of the three."

"My train happened to have 300,000 units of iron reserved for upgrading the train, so I took out 100,000 units to buy 10 Murphy Stones, but the Black Market merchant also required a storage box for the transaction. Right when I handed over the storage box."

"That Black Market merchant stuffed my storage box into a fridge and then vanished right there."

"I waited there for 12 hours, but didn't see him again, and these last few days, I've been frequently going to that spot to see if the Black Market merchant would be there waiting for me. I still have no idea what happened to that Black Market merchant."

"..."

Chen Mang's smile slowly froze on his face, then he seriously patted the dwarf man's shoulder: "Just don't think too much about it, take the 100,000 units of iron."

"Meeting each other is fate."

"Mm-hmm."

The dwarf man gratefully looked up at Chen Mang: "Master Mang, thank you. If there's ever a chance to repay you in the future, I definitely won't refuse!"

"There likely won't be an opportunity for you to repay me, and don't you want to ask me anything?"

"Uh... about the Zombie Basin crisis, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

"And, last time, spending time with you in Neon City was really fun."

"Anything else?"

"How did you get out of the Heaven-Reaching Tower in the Restricted Area?"

"Purely by chance, nothing else you want to ask?"

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