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

Chapter 57 The Strange Insect Cluster
[Decomposition complete. Obtained 50g of Radiant Silver and 10g of Radiant Gold.]

[Decomposition complete. Obtained 100g of Radiant Silver, 20g of Radiant Gold, and 5 Miniature Energy Cores.]

Looking at the Radiant Gold and the Miniature Energy Core that Jiang Ran had obtained from the diamond box, she suddenly remembered something and immediately took out the blueprints for the mechanical arm.

[Automatic robotic arm *1; Radiant Silver *30g; Iron block *100; Miniature energy core *1.]

Jiang Ran didn't hesitate any longer and clicked "Make".

Two seconds later, the pile of materials transformed into a delicate and agile robotic arm.

She had Xiaobai try it on and found that the efficiency had increased by at least three times after the robotic arm was installed!
Xiao Bai was also amazed by the convenience of the robotic arm, its eyes shining: "Master, I'll go dig into the box again."

Jiang Ran originally wanted to stop it, but then she thought that if the supply boxes continued to decrease like this, the entire Snow Country would soon be in chaos. It would be good to dig more in the next two days.

After Xiaobai left, Jiang Ran considered how to get more silver chests while sending a message to Mahou Soju.

Young lady: "Do you still have the diamond box from before?"

Mahou Shōjū replied quickly: "I kept it! But I only kept one, since I don't have enough inventory space. Oh, you changed your ID."

Young lady: "I got a name change card, might as well use it. Give me the diamond box, I'll exchange it for something nice for you."

Magical Girl Shochu: "!"

Without any hesitation, she sent the diamond box directly to Jiang Ran.

One minute later, she received a robotic arm.

Magical Girl: "Am I dreaming? A robotic arm!! Ahhh, Miss, with a single command I'll swarm you to become the new train conductor!!"

Jiang Ran: ...

After chatting for a while, she got used to the magical girl's style and simply said, "You can send me any boxes of silver or higher in the future."

Mahoujo probably guessed that these boxes were related to the manufacturing station, but she refrained from asking, showing great restraint. Instead, she asked, "Should I go and collect a few more?"

Jiang Ran originally planned to use Xiao Tuoluo's account to collect the items, but after Mahou Shaojiu mentioned it, she realized that she had just received a diamond box from Mahou Shaojiu, and Xiao Tuoluo was now collecting empty boxes. If she paid attention, it would be easy to connect the two.

Although Jiang Ran had a good impression of the magical girl, she didn't intend to completely trust her.

Thinking about it that way, it's probably best to let the magical girl take the lead first.

With her initiating the activity, other players will naturally become curious, and some will also try to retrieve the boxes. At that point, having the little spinning top take action will not attract attention.

Miss: "Sure. Feel free to message me if you have any suitable manufacturing blueprints. I'll take them all."

Magical Girl: "OK!"

So, players who were complaining about the decreasing number of boxes and the increasingly cold weather, wondering how they would survive the remaining week, suddenly found that there were more people in the trading hall recycling empty boxes.

At the same time, an ID named "Miss" posted a message in the public chat.

Young Lady: "Selling automated robotic arms, limited quantity, priority will be given to players with manufacturing blueprints or special materials."

"No way, no way: Who is this? What's their relationship with the black-stockinged young lady?"

Sixteen Happy Dumplings: "This is Miss Black Silk. I have her as a friend, but I don't know why she changed her ID."

"If he's stuck, he could kill me: 'The answer is he has a lot of health points, so he's reckless. But why is he so obsessed with the 'young lady'?'"

Seeing these messages that missed the point, Jiang Ran was speechless. It wasn't because the image of the "black stockings lady" was so deeply ingrained that she only removed the first two words for the sake of recognizability.

Is an ID more important than a robotic arm?
What she didn't know was that it wasn't that people weren't interested in the robotic arm, but rather that they all had a preconceived notion that it must be very expensive.

In addition, there weren't many people who had the blueprints, which is why it looks a bit off.

But soon, more people began to pay attention to this robotic arm.

After all, the temperature at night is approaching minus thirty degrees Celsius. Let alone digging into the box, just standing outside would make you freeze.

But without digging out the boxes, there would be no supplies, and they wouldn't survive the frigid winter nights.

Having something that can speed up the process of digging for chests can also greatly increase the survival rate.

The first to inquire were mostly organized players, since the robotic arm is excellent for shoveling snow in addition to digging for chests.

Soon, Jiang Ran traded away five mechanical arms and received five diamond boxes, nine gold boxes, fifteen silver boxes, three magical ores, and a skill card in return.

As the magical girl said, most people have so many compartments in their backpacks that they feel they don't have enough to hold everything, so naturally they don't leave many empty boxes.

These boxes were mostly obtained in exchange from the convoy.

Crafting blueprints have a low drop rate, so they're not very useful to individual players. They'll probably gradually end up in the hands of larger organizations.

Jiang Ran could only try to pick up some leftovers while the team was still not fully formed.

Anyway, she has a manufacturing station, so even if the car team has manufacturing blueprints in the early stages, cooperating with her is still the best choice.

Having figured this out, Jiang Ran put away the manufacturing station.

She glanced at the time; it was already midnight. She asked Xiaobai about the situation and then prepared to rest.

However, Xiao Bai, who always prioritized Jiang Ran's words and actions, surprisingly did not answer Jiang Ran's question immediately.

Jiang Ran frowned. Had something unexpected happened?
She was just about to recall Xiaobai when she suddenly received a message from him.

It's a short video clip.

In the video, several clumps of grass, resembling swirls, appeared on the originally white snow. The yellowish-brown branches were tightly intertwined, making it look as if a gust of wind could blow them away.

But where did all these sedges come from under such a heavy snow cover?

But Jiang Ran knew that Xiao Bai wouldn't send her irrelevant things for no reason. She zoomed in on the photo and looked at it carefully for a while, then her pupils suddenly contracted!
This isn't grass at all; it's clearly a bunch of things that look like nematodes!

The insect's body is thin and long, and when it's still, it looks like real withered grass. But in the photo Xiaobai sent, a part of the insect's body has even thinner tentacles extending out, as if it's hopping and crawling forward!

In reality, a single nematode is not scary, but are swarms of nematodes in a dungeon really so harmless?

Jiang Ran frowned deeply, and the sight of so many nematodes tangled together was enough to make anyone itch from head to toe.

Xiaobai then sent a voice message: "Master, these insects are increasing in number."

As further evidence, the newly released photos show that nearly a third of the snowfield has been occupied by these strange swarms of insects!

Jiang Ran instantly got goosebumps all over her body.

There will be another update this afternoon! PK3 ended prematurely before the PK period was over, sob sob. I'll make up for the extra chapters from before.

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