"Hehe~ I’m speaking the truth, what woman doesn’t like a hero, right?" With that, Monica winked at Lin Xian and said with interest.
"By the way, Captain Lin, my train has encountered some minor faults. I heard you’re a Mechanical Skill User, could you lend a hand?"
"Minor faults?" Lin Xian asked upon hearing this, "If they are minor faults, is there no one else who can fix them?"
Shi Deyuan mentioned earlier that the other party’s train was a highly automated, weapon-grade train. He couldn’t believe that the person driving such a train on the road wouldn’t know how to deal with small faults. Both Dragon Mountain No.1 and Silver Star had plenty of engineers on board, and there were no environmental challenges in Xilan City like what Dragon Mountain No.1 faced before. What kind of minor faults couldn’t be fixed?
Monica placed her wine glass on the table, then snapped her fingers. At this moment, a little guy standing behind her with thick glasses quickly handed over a mobile terminal.
Lin Xian took it and looked at it. Soon, his brows slightly raised. On the mobile terminal were the status map of Monica’s train and the fault information of various systems. He was first surprised by Monica’s train, which instantly reminded him of seeing the Silver Star again.
But Monica’s train only had 8 carriages, the whole train was highly intelligent, like a land-based mobile battleship built as one entity.
Energy carriage, power carriage, integrated power system for the whole train, 42 Automatic Machine Guns, full-train status sensing, multi-band radar, fire extinguishing system, de-icing system, air defense system, all-around close defense denial electric field...
A train over 200 meters long required less than 5 people for full control. The rest were Monica’s combat personnel and logistics maintenance crew. The sturdy train interior was simply a doomsday refuge many dreamt of, even featuring an automated air circulation system, among other things.
Lin Xian’s eyes lit up at the sight of these things. He had imagined them before, but Monica’s train was manufactured as a unified whole, in stark contrast to his Infinity, which was modified from ordinary train carriages. It was clearly a costly build.
"This train seems designed specifically for the apocalypse..."
Monica seemed to decipher Lin Xian’s doubts, smiled slightly, and said directly without any concealment, "A doomsday edition made by the Cole Group, a gimmick in collaboration with the military, 2 billion per limited edition. My 18th birthday gift."
A 2 billion birthday gift?
The others immediately had strange expressions upon hearing this, while Qian Deli just threw her a faint glance, "Oh my, who used to say that was the least favorite gift, and now it’s become your life-saving treasure."
"Haha~ nothing can be done about it~ nothing can be done~"
Monica showed a helpless smile, "At this point, of course, survival is most important~"
Lin Xian came to realize that Monica used to be the daughter of a top wealthy family before the apocalypse. He knew that the rich liked to build Doomsday Fortresses and survival pods because of their strong sense of crisis. In the eyes of the wealthy, nuclear war, great floods, and the end of the world were not impossible. With endless wealth, tech companies latched onto this point, making these doomsday survival vehicles to raise funds or create gimmicks.
But unexpectedly, such things really came in handy. At this moment in Xilan City, Monica’s ’Queen Mo’ was considered a fortress-grade vehicle that everyone envied, with powerful firepower and tremendous security.
However, as Lin Xian saw the fault information on the train, he couldn’t help but frown.
The problem with the Queen Mo was similar to what Dragon Mountain No.1 faced before. The main issue was that the faults weren’t limited to just one area; they were almost all concentrated in the drive components, electrical components, and even the nuclear power core. These problems seemed to be irreversible faults caused by maintenance defects.
Simply put, many components belong to the category of issues that can only be replaced, not repaired.
However, for Lin Xian’s Mechanical superpower, although some components’ materials were quite special, it was nothing more than a matter of putting in extra effort. But this was indeed a big problem for Monica and her team.
First of all, her train was a limited edition. The Cole Group, as a tech company, went bankrupt long before Apocalypse Day. Because it was a military collaboration, there was no worry about weapon parts, as most were standard models. But as for other aspects, whether it’s the car body, the drive, or various designs, they were custom-made by many industries, meaning there were no replacements available. Furthermore, it seemed there was a lack of professional maintenance capability among the people on Monica’s train, and this situation gradually turned into irreversible deterioration.
So Monica’s train appeared actually more serious than imagined. Monica seemed to understand this point too, as while Lin Xian checked the mobile terminal, her candid and cheerful face showed an extremely subtle hint of tension.
Everyone drank quietly, while Monica kept lightly swirling her glass, quietly waiting for Lin Xian’s response, just as if what’s in her glass was actually red wine...
"It’s not a big problem."
Lin Xian’s gaze swept over Monica’s movement, then handed the mobile terminal back, "But..."
"What is it?" Monica’s eyebrows furrowed slightly, Lin Xian’s words made her involuntarily raise her heart a bit. "Don’t worry about the reward. Blood Essence is more than enough."
"That’s another matter," Lin Xian shook his head.