"Level... eighteen?"

The young man sitting at the stall stared at the train level on his watch, dumbfounded, and only then did he hurriedly stand up, his face filled with awe and fear, whispering, "Senior, I... I can't afford such high consultation fees."

"I'll charge you one Fixed Star Coupon. Do you have a cigarette?"

"Yes."

"Give me one."

The middle-aged man sat cross-legged on the ground, lit a cigarette, and began to reminisce. After a while, he finally spoke, "You're probably in the white zone now, right? What level is your train?"

"Level 3 train."

"Level 3 train, let me see, you should be about to start a career transition, right? My personal advice is to try to ignore the Flesh and Blood Train and choose the Mechanical Train. The S-level transition task for the Mechanical Train is extremely difficult, nearly impossible to complete."

"Unless..."

"Unless you're willing to buy a large number of Level 10 refrigerators at the Mechanical Train Accessories Store. I just checked, if you have a large number of Level 10 refrigerators, there's a chance of passing, but you need to consume a huge amount of iron ore, at least 500,000."

"For you in the white zone, it's tough to come up with 500,000; it's an astronomical figure."

"The downside of A-level difficulty is huge, B-level transition tasks are extremely difficult, and C-level transition tasks are a good choice. You just need to transfer the Train Captain to someone else and then transfer it back to complete, but you need to have a trusted relative. Don't think about controlling them and then threatening them to transfer back the Train Captain."

"It's unrealistic."

"Not many people would hand back the position of Train Captain."

"Worst case, you die together. Once the Train Captain dies, the train is scrapped, and without the train, you will also die."

"You can't transfer the position of Train Captain outside of the train."

"I recommend directly choosing a D-level transition task, don't waste too much time on this, and don't gamble, because C-level potential and D-level potential aren't much different, they're the same."

"Once the armor is upgraded to level 3, you can transition to the green zone and upgrade to a Level 4 train."

"At this time, there will be an Energy Shield; I suggest creating it without upgrading, just use Level 3 armor to resist, and if a train attacks you or if high-level monsters appear, just run."

"Upgrade as quickly as possible."

"Increase the train level."

"Then, when the train reaches Level 6, go create the 'Wealthy Energy Shield', directly skip upgrading to Level 4 train accessories 'Energy Shield'. This saves a lot of iron ore, otherwise, you'll consume a lot of iron ore upgrading the Energy Shield and still need to change to Wealthy Energy Shield at Level 6."

"Including creating the 'Hell Cannon' when the train upgrades to Level 4, just make one to meet the upgrade condition, no need to upgrade or create more, just use the 'Three-legged Cat Heavy Machine Gun'. At this stage, your copper ore is sure to be scarce, and it's unnecessary to fight monsters."

"Run if there are monsters, mine if there aren't."

"After reaching Level 6, create the 'Doomsday Cannon'. This weapon will be your mainstream weapon for quite a long time afterward."

"The highest upgrade is Level 8, and after reaching Level 5, the Supermodel Effect is half ammo consumption, which reduces your copper ore pressure, and if you have the Murphy Stone, upgrade to Level 10, the Supermodel Effect at Level 10 is also half ammo consumption."

"This weapon can basically ensure you transition to Level 10."

"Level 10 is another hurdle. At this time, you enter a firepower vacuum period. Both the Energy Shield and weapons can't keep up, and you need an upgrade, which will consume a lot of resources."

"The Level 10 Doomsday Cannon can no longer guarantee you can fight monsters in the blue zone."

"You need to create red-tier weapons and Energy Shields, during this time you need..."

The middle-aged man spoke very earnestly, almost imparting all his knowledge. Many of the pitfalls he mentioned, he himself hadn't avoided; only after he stepped into them did he know they were traps. After all, no one told him these things before.

No one knows how much time passed.

He felt a bit dry in the mouth. He spoke a lot, about how to find Adventure Maps, how to get rewards in them, and how to collect some region-specific special items.

For instance, the 'Drill' accessory, only available in a few low-level regions.

If you can obtain enough Drill Blueprints, you can sell them for a decent price in Neon City, at least he would definitely buy them; he has the 'Drill Votive Order' Special Tool but lacks the Drill accessory blueprint, having no access to acquire it.

Finally, after he finished speaking.

He suddenly noticed that a crowd had gathered around at some point, everyone quietly listening to him speak, even taking notes on their notebooks.

"This many people?"

The man was slightly surprised.

"Sir."

The young man in front of the stall got up with slightly red eyes, faced the middle-aged man, and deeply bowed, his voice trembling, "In my area, many Train Captains come to steal my iron ore, I didn't expect there to be such a good person like you in this world, no wonder you are an eighteen-level Train Captain, Sir."

"This is a great favor; if there's an opportunity in the future, I will surely repay generously."

"Not necessary."

The middle-aged man got up, waved his hand, and sighed lightly, "You're overthinking; you pose no threat to me, which is why I'm willing to tell you so much. When I was weak, it was just as you described, I climbed up like that. If you want to develop, competition is inevitable."

"Iron ore, after all, is meant to be fought over."

"Who doesn't lack iron ore? Even now, I'm short of iron ore; the consumption for upgrading my Energy Shield is an absolute astronomical figure to you. Adding up the price of everything in the Free Trade Market, all the goods combined aren't enough to upgrade my Energy Shield once."

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