Chapter 309: Chapter 194: Dawn has broken, the rain has stopped, mother is getting married.
"If you don’t want to click it, you can have your train’s thug click it."
"That’s even more impossible. That would... that would... turn into... that thing!"
"So... you mean to ask me to help you click it?"
"That’s even more unthinkable!" came Er Dan’s frantic voice from the other side of the intercom: "Originally, it wasn’t a big deal, the curse isn’t too severe, but it’s quite problematic here. After thinking it over, I decided to find you. Doesn’t your train AI have its own robot body? I’d like to ask him to help me click."
"Since they’re both AI, there shouldn’t be any problem."
"Hmm... it’s not impossible, but won’t it just last three days? Since you’re so concerned, why not try to endure these three days?"
"It’s hard to explain, you’ll understand when we meet. Since you agreed, should I come to find you?"
"Alright, I sent you the coordinates, come over."
...
After the somewhat ridiculous conversation ended.
Ai’s crisp voice came through his ears: "Looks like I’m going to be Er Dan’s dad."
Chen Mang was about to say something but suddenly realized. He looked at Ai standing in the corner and said in surprise, "Your voice seems to have emotions now, it’s not just the mechanical electronic tone anymore."
"Is it?"
Ai cleared his throat a bit smugly before speaking, "How about that, my cough sounds real, I can even sigh, watch."
"Whoo-whoo-whoo..."
"Why did you modify your robot body to have the ability to sigh?"
"Because Train Captain, you often sigh, with this feature I can sigh along with you."
"That’s just a habit."
"The Train Captain’s habits are my study benchmarks."
"...Any other features?"
"Not for now, just these modifications. Oh, right, there’s one more: I stitched a piece of clothing with built-in space into my body. So, whenever you want to drink something, like mineral water, soda, or tea, I can instantly present it to you, with options for ice-cold or piping-hot. I installed a small power generator I took from the lab into my body."
"Let me show you."
"Wait—"
A thought flashed in Chen Mang’s mind, his face turned a bit unsightly just as he was about to say something, then he saw Ai take out a cup, put his finger above it, with the fingertip folding onto the back of the finger, and hot water flowed out from between the fingers.
"What’s wrong, Train Captain." Ai looked at Chen Mang with some doubtful eyes and said: "Were you about to wait for something just now?"
"Nothing, I won’t drink this hot water for now."
Chen Mang awkwardly waved his hand: "I was overthinking. Didn’t I give you a ’Robot Parts Gift Package’? Try to see if you can modify your face to make expressions. Otherwise, your voice has emotion but your face doesn’t, it’s like the sound and image are out of sync."
"Oh."
Ai nodded and soon heard the sound of gears turning between his legs. A steel pipe extended, placing the cup of hot water between his legs. The water was quickly absorbed into the inner clothing pockets: "That batch of parts..."
"Wait!"
Chen Mang took a deep breath, stood from the chair, and looked at Ai with a stoic face. "I knew it, what the hell are you doing?"
"Since Train Captain didn’t drink the hot water, wasting it would be a shame. I’m recycling it into the water bag inside the clothing pocket."
"I’m asking, what’s with the steel rod in your crotch!"
"Uh... since there’s a place for the water to come out, naturally there should be a place for the water to go in."
"Then why did you set the water outlet at your finger?"
"According to human thinking, that’s inelegant, and they might find it hard to accept drinks coming from there."
"Even you know that, but is it elegant to have the water go in from there?"
"...Well, generally speaking, the water intake process is difficult to see."
"I’m seeing it right now!"
"I’ll watch out in the future."
"Watch out your ass!"
Chen Mang sighed deeply, sat back tiredly in the chair, and after a brief silence, rubbed his temples lightly: "Ai, I bought you a ’Robot Parts Gift Package’ specifically to modify your body, but I think your direction is off."
"Those trivial life matters are handled by Fang."
"Your task is to become a researcher; shouldn’t you be modifying yourself in that direction?"
"I’m working on that."
Ai, full of seriousness, pondered briefly before speaking: "Sorry, Train Captain, I get it."
"You can go now, and dismantle that water system quickly, you don’t need to handle these matters."
"And is the cigarette-lighting system needed?"
Ai tentatively raised his left index finger; folding with the fingertips on the back, a flame suddenly appeared: "This modification was prepared to light cigarettes for Train Captain."
"This is all bullshit..."
Chen Mang, on the verge of angry laughter, started to point at Ai’s nose to scold him but suddenly thought of something else. His voice halted for a moment. After some pondering, he spoke: "Does this cigarette lighting system take much of your internal space?"
"Not much, it’s tiny."
"Then keep it, but take out the water system. Design less towards lifestyle and more towards being an engineer."
"Understood!"
"Add a command: after I snap my fingers, you come to light a cigarette."
"No problem."
"Alright, you can go."
...
After Ai left.
Chen Mang sat alone in the train chamber and started to review the gains from this time. Er Dan was quite far from him, still 2 hours away, which was just enough time for him to reflect on the transactions from the Adventure Map this time.
In terms of value.
The gains from this Adventure Map should be the largest of all his Adventure Maps so far.
Plus, there were many hidden gains.
For instance, emotional value, the rather good Qi, and the future prospects of ’Neon City,’ along with various shops inside that have unique roles.
Nothing too noteworthy about the four Map Chips.
Each Map Chip increased the Physical Comprehensive Quality equally and had similar difficulty levels, so theoretically, the first map is the hardest; with the constant increase of Physical Comprehensive Quality, the clearance becomes simpler, and things easily snowball.
Like... Zhang Yi, Zhang Er.
Directly brute-forcing through.
Of course, the prerequisite is having plenty of Map Chips, which are still quite rare. Er Dan’s ’Azure Dragon’ train to date hasn’t even gotten one Map Chip, if not for this Adventure Map, he would only have two Map Chips.
The Fixed Star now has a total of 6 Map Chips.
Theoretically, all cleared, they could increase Physical Comprehensive Quality by 12.6, equivalent to everybody having a Physical Comprehensive Quality of over 20 points, making everyone Zhang Yi.
No problem with everyone owning a ’Thunderbolt’ Mecha.
Pretty good.
And those 5 ’Random White Level Accessory Blueprints.’
Chen Mang didn’t hesitate much.
Immediately placed them all on the control platform and crafted them all, he looked with anticipation at the five accessories this time, last time the blueprints from the ’Black Market Store’ all turned out quite well.
Like the ’Cigarette Production Line,’ ’Rice Roll Production Line,’ and the like were all obtained during that time, especially the cigarette production line not only solved the train’s issue of cigarettes being non-renewable resources but also earned him quite a few units of iron ore.
Wonder what would be this time.
The next moment—
Five accessory details appeared on the control platform screen.