Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 38 Can puppets learn skills?
The journal only had three pages.

Jiang Ran flipped through it several times in disbelief before finally giving up—it really was an incomplete manuscript, and after reading it, she had even more doubts than before.

With a wry smile, she tossed the journal into her spatial storage, hoping to avoid seeing it altogether.

But the rare good mood was ultimately ruined.

Indeed, one should not be too complacent; a great rise is often followed by a great fall.

The notebook looked quite old, and Jiang Ran felt that this so-called explorer... was very likely from a different era than her.

Or perhaps... a different time and space?

Sometimes Jiang Ran doesn't know if knowing more is a good thing.

But if she had a choice, she would rather be awake and suffer than live in a daze like in her previous life, where all she could think about every day was how to survive.

Jiang Ran took a deep breath and inexplicably felt something else.

The game seemed to be constantly urging her forward, so whenever it found her complacent with her current progress, it would create something to remind her not to slack off.

Just like the golden ants that mysteriously appeared in the previous dungeon, there's also this handbook whose style is completely out of place with the other resources.

She wasn't sure if all these changes were related to her rebirth, after all, she couldn't be sure what the voice she heard before she died was all about.

"Go back...to change the inevitable outcome."

After being reborn, Jiang Ran originally thought that the so-called destined ending meant changing her own death.

But now it seems, could there be another meaning behind it?
Unable to find answers to her many questions, Jiang Ran lost interest in opening the chests and opened all the remaining silver chests in one go.

Aside from 30 health points and a potion to restore stamina, there were only some odds and ends; it seemed that all the luck had been given to that tattered scroll.

Jiang Ran entered the safe house, threw herself onto the sofa, and didn't feel like talking for a moment.

Xiao Bai obediently followed Jiang Ran into the house, still remembering Jiang Ran's instructions to give her the contents after opening the box. She presented the supplies she had obtained to Jiang Ran.

There wasn't anything good in the wooden box. Jiang Ran waved her hand and said, "You can handle it yourself."

Xiao Bai nodded, then stuffed the water and steamed buns directly into his mouth.

Jiang Ran: ?
Seeing Jiang Ran's puzzled look, Xiao Bai swallowed the steamed bun in his mouth and explained, "I need to recover my strength quickly so I can help my master."

Jiang Ran glanced at his stamina. Although he had eaten a chocolate bar, he only had 12 stamina left because he had opened several boxes and even killed a starfish.

She sighed, sat up, rubbed her face, and slowly gathered up the negative emotions caused by the journal.

Nothing to mess with.

No matter why she was reborn, no matter what the truth of the game is, nothing can stop her from trying to live on.

Having figured this out, Jiang Ran took out some steaming hot food and shared some with Xiaobai.

He ate while browsing the chat room.

Although the sun had completely set, the reflection from the snow made it not dark at all.

The temperature was lower at night than during the day. Apart from players who urgently needed supplies to withstand the cold night and were still trying to dig up more chests (like Jiang Ran in the previous life), most people stayed indoors.

Therefore, there were quite a few people chatting at this time. Jiang Ran wanted to see if anyone else had also opened the Explorer's Handbook, so she posted a complaint using Little Spinning Top's account.

Little Spinning Top: "Speechless. I finally dug up a golden chest today, thinking I might get some items or something, but I didn't expect to get a broken book. It's completely useless, and it's incomplete. I can't eat it, and I can't even look at it. Is this game targeting me?"

Immediately, a bunch of people started laughing at her, and some even asked what book it was from.

"Could it be a treasure map? Why don't you show it to us?"

"Exactly, let's brainstorm. What if it's some kind of special way to obtain this item?"

"Why don't you just say it's the way to get off the train? I think this guy is just trying to trick people into buying his stuff."

……

After looking around, it seemed that apart from those who wanted to get something for free, no one else had opened the journal like her.

Jiang Ran wasn't exactly disappointed, but she couldn't help feeling that this journal might indeed be somewhat special.

She closed the group chat and opened the trading hall, wondering if she could get some more useful items or skills.

She did find some useful things.

[Skill Card. Culinary Mastery (D-rank): Grants master-level culinary skills upon use.]

In resource-scarce dungeons, this thing is rather comical for ordinary players who can't even afford food.

Naturally, it wasn't expensive either. Jiang Ran used the account of the "Black Silk Miss" and bought it with just two self-heating hot pots.

Although she didn't like cooking, no one could predict how long she would be on the train. All the cooked food would eventually run out or she'd get tired of it, and she had dozens of warehouses full of fresh ingredients; she couldn't just waste it all with her mediocre cooking skills.

After receiving the skill card, Jiang Ran was about to bind it when she saw Xiao Bai skillfully tidying up the table, and an idea struck her.

She handed the skill card to Xiaobai: "Can you use this?"

Xiao Bai took the skill card and nodded: "Okay, Master. Besides life skills, I can also learn some combat skills."

Jiang Ran's eyes lit up.

The fact that puppets can learn skill cards is a pleasant surprise!
She said, "The skill 'Puppet' must be classified as S-level, so it must have some extraordinary features."

If she could just get another skill card like Precision Shot for Xiaobai to use, wouldn't her combat power double?!

Furthermore, since the puppets created can inherit one-third of the player's stats, is it possible that they can also use the physique modification cards?
Because Jiang Ran's stats are high, Xiao Bai's stats seem quite impressive.

But if these values ​​can be further improved, wouldn't that mean that given enough time, Jiang Ran could create a puppet squad with explosive combat power?!
But Jiang Ran quickly came to her senses from this beautiful vision.

Putting aside the fact that the puppet's cooldown is so long, the item cards needed to upgrade its stats are very hard to come by.

After all, once the closed beta ended, good items like physique modification cards couldn't be bought in the store; they could only be obtained from diamond chests, and even then, only basic cards were available.

Most people who manage to get one use it for themselves and it never ends up in the market.

Let alone building a small squad, even raising Xiaobai's stats isn't that easy.

Moreover, if Jiang Ran were to actually obtain a physique modification card, she would definitely use it on herself first. Who would complain about being too strong?
Jiang Ran sighed: Forget it, for now, Xiaobai should just stick to being a "household robot".

(End of this chapter)