Chapter 63: Forging Train Ranks
“Alright, collect more ordinary general energy crystals later,” Su Huan said.
Wan Xing nodded.
The apocalypse inevitably comes with the collapse of the economy, rendering the original currency worthless, while general energy crystals, which can promote evolution, are more suitable than food to serve as a general equivalent.
This also relates to some of Su Huan’s plans for managing the passengers in the rear carriage.
At the beginning, with few people, he could only manage them loosely.
That is, only check train tickets, without managing the passengers behind.
Whether they killed each other or cooperated to collect supplies, Su Huan watched coldly from the sidelines, as long as they could get the supplies he needed, he didn’t care if they kept the excess for themselves or gave it to others.
Moreover, at that time, there were only him and Liang Kuan in the front of the train, and guarding against those passengers who wanted to replace him every day had already consumed a lot of energy.
Over the past ten days or so, Su Huan had kept killing until now to preliminarily establish authority on the train.
But this stability was only temporary.
Whether it was not classifying them and driving everyone off the train indiscriminately, or the lack of a promotion mechanism, it would cause the passengers to lose hope.
In the short term, under external pressure, they would choose to stay on the train.
Even without much time, staying on the train for three days would make their minds restless.
So he needed to use the survival resources and evolution information he had accumulated to quickly establish a new order.
Let the passengers in the rear carriage see more benefits and hope for advancement.
The final report was summarized by Liang Kuan.
After two days of continuous high-intensity travel, the armored train encountered three blockages caused by car accidents, one rail break, one twisted steel rail, two small-scale zombie tides, and one nighttime mutated beast attack, but thanks to Xiao Ba’s Level 2 metal control, there were no problems.
With the armored train’s current defense strength, unless it encounters a large-scale rail break, tier 1 zombies and zombie tides led by mutated beasts pose no threat to them at all.
Having dodged the first wave of high temperature disaster, now was Su Huan’s dividend period.
He needed to quickly acquire more resources and strength in this phase.
Su Huan’s fingers moved, his five fingers tapping on the table in sequence, making a “tap tap” light sound, as everyone waited for him to make a new decision.
“Can we use wired connections to make a full-train monitoring system? Like last time when the cockpit view was blocked, we could still observe the outside through electronic devices?”
Everyone’s gazes instinctively turned to Yu Jing.
Those who studied psychology should be able to tell fortunes, those who can pull teeth should also be able to perform surgery—dentists are doctors too.
Nowadays, all the modifications and repairs on the train, big and small, were designed by Yu Jing, so she should also know about electronic circuit modifications and renovations.
No joke, people simply thought that way.
Yu Jing’s mouth twitched. Was this man treating her like Doraemon…
“For a full-train monitoring system, I can only try simply, at most connecting the equipment. I don’t understand the complex parts, after all, my major and hobbies are not in that area.”
“Oh.”
Su Huan nodded thoughtfully.
He didn’t say any nonsense like “find time to learn it.”
The next ten to twenty years would be a period of educational gap, so they could only find ways to utilize existing talent and technology.
After pushing martial power to the extreme and seizing back control of the world, they could slowly restore those things.
Su Huan’s gaze fell on Huang Hai, who waved his hands repeatedly.
His complexion showed difficulty. “Train Conductor, I’m really not familiar with this.”
Su Huan narrowed his eyes. “I’m not asking you to do this. Aren’t you a teacher who teaches agronomy?”
“Yes, yes.”
“Today I’ll have someone go out to find some seeds. Then carriages 7, 8, and 9 will be given to you. Go plant them for me.”
Huang Hai perked up. He finally had work to do, and at least temporarily wouldn’t worry about being driven off the train.
He quickly responded, “I guarantee it’ll be done neatly for you.”
Su Huan looked at the young man behind him. “What’s your name? What can you do?”
The young man was a bit shy. “Wang Li, also a student from the College of Agriculture, just started university, worked part-time at a convenience store.”
“Perfect, then from now on, you’ll be Old Huang’s assistant.”
Su Huan said.
‘Old Huang?’
Wan Xing subtly raised her eyelids without a change in expression, noticing that Liang Kuan across from her also glanced at Huang Hai, showing no expression on his face but clearly understanding in his heart.
The other was also surprised by Su Huan’s form of address.
For a newcomer who had just boarded, this form of address was a bit too familiar.
“Yu Jing, you’ll need to cooperate with them later to modify the rear carriages,” Su Huan added.
“Mm.”
Yu Jing, who was scribbling and painting, rested her chin on her hand and softly acknowledged.
Su Huan stood up, checked the time on his wristwatch—it was already 12:58. “Then let’s move quickly.”
Everyone dispersed, and Su Huan headed to the rear carriage.
The three brothers followed behind him like bodyguards. On the way, Old San wanted to light a cigarette several times but put his hand back, hanging the cigarette on his ear, and casually said, “Train Conductor, us brothers have decided to follow you from now on.”
Su Huan found it somewhat amusing. They had come to receive a task.
“You just need to guard this group behind for now. Take turns on night watch. When something happens, don’t spare the bullets—empty the magazine for me!”
Hearing this, Old San’s complexion lit up with joy. He saw it clearly: to gain higher status on the train, he needed to do important work.
Now even Old Huang, who boarded with him, was starting to take on responsibilities. Next time, he might even get a chair to sit on.
He, Old San, had at least been on brotherly terms with the train conductor. What was it like to stand during every meeting?
Su Huan had given him the only few guns on the train, so he definitely was going to be reused.
That’s why he asked this.
“Leave it to me, just watch!”
Old San twitched his nose, lit a cigarette, took a hard drag, and said gruffly.
He gave his brothers a look. Old Da and Old Er stepped forward to open the car door, then held their guns and stood guard on both sides of the carriage bridge.
Su Huan said nothing and stood there waiting.
Soon, passengers gathered over.
“The train conductor is here!”
In a moment, a lean figure with a buzz cut and wearing work pants squeezed out from the crowd.
Lu Xiao glanced at the guns in the three brothers’ hands, his eyes flickering, then looked at Su Huan and smiled. “I thought you’d forgotten about me.”
His attitude was clearly much better than last time.
Su Huan shook his head, took out a list from the logbook, and handed it to him. “I said I’d give you a chance. As long as you can collect any kind of plant seeds listed above, you can select twenty people from the rear passengers to form a team, and you’ll get a dedicated carriage, task assignment, and priority resource exchange.”
Lu Xiao took the list, licked his somewhat chapped lips, and probed, “What resources can we exchange for? Guns?”
“Your next evolution direction.”
Lu Xiao’s eyes showed some complexity. “You’ll give me such important information?”
Bright light rose in Su Huan’s calm eyes, as if electric arcs were flickering. “The choice is yours.”
