10: Surpassing Ah San

(PS: Talent rewards require certain hidden conditions to trigger, such as a female spending more than 10 hours on the Train and fitting the taste. Otherwise, if it's a bug that turns them directly into a horny teddy bear after finishing the graduation project, the rewards would be too many. Even grandmothers could attend senior university. And it must ensure the female stays on the Train, preventing green hats, as no one likes a cuckold, right? If contact information is left, many would be willing to help.)

(PS: New author, first time writing, many things I don't know, please forgive me. If you don't like it, you can exit from the top left corner.)

(PS: The rewards were given in Chapter 12.)

After a nap, Luo Chen carried a treasure chest and came to the cockpit alone.

He planned to use up all the other cores to see if there were any defensive functions.

If the Train Conductor's Absolute Defense hadn't been triggered today, he might have died. And the next activation would have to wait five days. This meant that for the next five days of world exploration, he would be exposed to unknown life-or-death risks.

The past few days had been relatively smooth, so he didn't feel much urgency or crisis. But after the morning's near-death experience, he began to worry about his safety and felt a sense of urgency.

However, as long as he didn't encounter other Train Conductors who shot without a word, it should be fine!

Relaxing slightly, Luo Chen opened the treasure chest and began to count his supplies:

He stole 43 star coins, 7 train coins, and one red and one orange core from that couple.

He stripped 3 train coins, 6 star coins, and one orange core from the corpse.

Luo Wan Ning had previously given him 168 star coins and 12 train coins, plus the one orange and one yellow core she just took out of her carriage.

And the one orange core he opened at the second stop: Lihe Village.

This meant he now had 225 star coins, 24 train coins, 4 orange cores, 1 red core, and 1 yellow core.

First, let's see what the red core's function is.

Opening the Train modification module, four blocks appeared on it:

[Elementary Language Core (Blue): Grants 100 language learning opportunities, limited to Train members. (Usage count: 0)]

[Low-level Electrical Energy Conversion Core (Blue): Can provide stable power to the Train: conversion efficiency 50% (1 kWh / 1kg wood), comes with wires and sockets.]

[Train Defense Core (Yellow): Train gains 30 minutes of Absolute Defense (limited to attacks of the same level or lower), Train Conductor's Absolute Defense once. (Expired, next activation time: 5/5)]

[Train Interior Core (Orange): Can change the color of one Train wall. Carriage 1-1 already used (Pink Beauty Set)]

Two were his, and the other two were merged from Luo Wan Ning's Train.

He took out the only red core.

[Train Lighting (Red): Can install a lighting lamp in the carriage. (Independent power supply)]

Not bad!

There were no lights inside the Train, only relying on the faint light from space outside the window, so sometimes with too many things, it was easy to trip.

With a lighting lamp, the Train environment should be much better.

He would ask Luo Wan Ning later where to install it.

Luo Chen thought for a moment, put the red core aside, and took out four orange cores.

[Train Bedroom Core (Orange): Can partition a 4*5m bedroom in a designated location.]

Bedroom! This is good, finally no more sleeping in the draft at night.

A 100-square-meter bedroom always felt empty, making it hard to sleep soundly.

Luo Chen decided on a location further inside Luo Wan Ning's Train, just enough to include Luo Wan Ning's bed, saving the trouble of having to cover the bed separately. The other side would leave a one-meter-wide corridor.

[Voice Prompt Core (Orange): Gains permission to call Train voice broadcasts (e.g., Train arrival reminders, screen information voice reading, etc.)]

Voice Prompt Core! It's a bit like a morning wake-up service.

It's decent, at least he wouldn't have to set an alarm in advance at night.

[Unobstructed Core (Orange): Gains one Train-specific toilet, with one collection box, one cubicle, area 1 square meter.]

This is good! It even comes with a collection box, which can save a lot of water bottles.

Going to the toilet these past two days wasted him four or five water bottles, and if he got up to drink water at night, there was also the risk of accidentally drinking it mistaking it for iced tea.

To avoid the smell from filling the entire carriage after use, Luo Chen placed it in carriage 0-2, right next to the tricycle and other sundries, so it wouldn't have much impact if he didn't go there normally.

[Minimalist Bathroom Core (Orange): Gains one minimalist bathroom, with one wastewater collection box. 2*3m (Note: All collection boxes are located at the bottom of the Train and will not occupy carriage space)]

Minimalist Bathroom? I wonder if it has a shower and water heater.

It also comes with a collection box, so showering shouldn't make a mess all over the carriage.

He placed it between the bedroom and the cockpit, where it just fit. There was a door between the cockpit and the carriage, requiring some space, so placing the bathroom there was perfect.

The last one, the yellow core, he wondered what its function was.

[Privacy Protection Core (Yellow): Can add a bio-lock to an inner Train door or treasure chest, capable of resisting forced destruction not exceeding 2 levels of the Train's level (invalid after Train Conductor's death)]

What's the use of this? Could someone really destroy another person's Train?

After thinking about it, Luo Chen still casually installed it on the bedroom door.

He checked the time, it was past 4 PM.

It was still early, so Luo Chen opened the chat room.

Online users: 7217 people;

Over a thousand people were gone within a day. He didn't know if they had died or didn't make it onto the Train in time, as the Train's stopping time was a bit short this time.

If they didn't know the time, it was indeed possible to miss the Train.

As for starving or dying of thirst, it was unlikely; an adult could definitely survive five days with a small amount of water.

Putting those aside, Luo Chen felt the greatest possibility was due to the multi-Train world, where different Train Conductors competed for resources and treasure chests, inevitably leading to conflicts.

He almost met his end today because of a treasure chest.

He looked at the puppet store again; the number of puppets had increased to 1066. Yesterday it was 679, an increase of just over 300, meaning another 700-800 people had died directly.

There were no names in the chat room, only Train numbers, Train Conductor avatars, and Train levels.

To see other people's names, one had to become their friend to unlock it.

Searching for Luo Wan Ning's number ECB05222, he found no information, so it seemed that deregistered numbers would not appear.

Luo Chen then tried searching for his own Train number and found two people: one was him, and the other was Luo Wan Ning. Besides different avatars, there was additional identity information: Train Conductor and Vice Train Captain.

So, merging Trains was equivalent to creating an account clone!

Luo Chen also noticed that some people's avatars were gray, he didn't know what that meant!

[Damn it, I was just chased by a sow for half an hour as soon as I entered! Didn't find anything.]

[You're lucky! My Train stopped directly on a snowy mountaintop. I got off and immediately went on a big ski trip, taking over an hour to climb back up.]

Looking at others' messages, Luo Chen felt it was necessary to observe the outside situation before getting off the Train next time.

At this moment, a message caught Luo Chen's attention!

[Damn it, which bastard stole the contents of my treasure chest while my wife and I were doing things, leaving me with no coins now.]

The owner of this message was the male protagonist of the short video on Luo Chen's phone.

Looking at the familiar avatar, Luo Chen felt a faint regret in his heart.

He should have stolen their clothes too.

[Hahahaha! Do you know what I saw? I saw a handsome guy humping a hippo. I'm dying of laughter.]

[Hahahahaha!] xN

A large group of onlookers followed below.

[Men only behave when they're hung on a wall.]

[Which gentleman has such heavy tastes, even a hippo is fair game.]

[This brother has the potential to surpass Brother A-san.]

[I'm a little curious, um... what does it feel like to, you know, with a hippo.]

[Bullshit, you guys just like to slander others, I was pushing the hippo's ass.]

[Pushing the hippo's ass...]

[Brother! No need to explain, I understand! I understand!]

[You understand nothing! There's a treasure chest under the hippo's ass, with a Train head, I was taking the treasure chest.]

[Oh my god... Bronze treasure chest, brother, I understand you. If it were me, I'd push too.]

[Bronze treasure chest, what is that, and how is it different from other treasure chests?]