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

Chapter 76 Let's build a house first

She realized how little she had when she needed the wooden crates; all her stockpiles barely amounted to 20 square meters, a significant drop in value.

After all, in the eyes of most people (including Jiang Ran herself), wooden boxes are not valuable, and no one would deliberately keep empty boxes.

Jiang Ran was able to find these empty wooden crates thanks to Xiao Bai's thriftiness; she couldn't bear to throw anything away...

She sighed silently. Oh well, it's better to have something than nothing.

After all the timber was used to expand the bamboo raft, the material of the entire raft changed. What used to be just neatly arranged bamboo stalks has now been transformed into a large piece of wood.

Jiang Ran couldn't tell for a moment which one looked more sturdy...

After completing the foundation, Jiang Ran immediately clicked on the building expertise skill.

Let the game's mechanics ensure the house's stability; she doesn't want a tragedy like "the planks are fine, but the house on top is thrown off" to happen.

[Skill. Building Specialization (Rank D, Special): Click to use. You can instantly master all building techniques. During the building process, all waiting stages will be completed faster.]

I don't know if this "special" feature is because the skill comes from that strange golden ant.

After the skill took effect, in Jiang Ran's eyes, who originally had no clue how to build a house, making a house from scratch and firmly fixed on the foundation became a piece of cake.

When we were stockpiling goods, the cement, bricks, and steel bars that were stored in the space after the houses were disassembled all came in handy.

With the help of Xiaobai and the robotic arm, a small suite appeared on the wooden plank in no time.

Thanks to their architectural expertise, the house was not only built perfectly but also quite beautiful.

The complex mortise and tenon joints connect the top and bottom of the entire wooden board, which is then reinforced with steel bars and cement. After being piled with bricks and stones, a layer of bulletproof ceramic is added to the outside.

All of this took Jiang Ran only half a day.

Cement shouldn't be able to dry this quickly, but the skill description for the Construction Specialist also applies to cement drying.

The only downside is that she always feels the current house isn't artistic enough; she'd prefer it to be built like an anthill to be perfect...

Thinking about the recipient of the skill, Jiang Ran couldn't help but feel a strange sensation. Could this kind of will be transmitted through a skill card?

Although the overall area was not enough, Jiang Ran figured the wooden planks wouldn't flip over anyway, so she built a small two-story building.

It wasn't that she didn't want to build a three-story building, but her architectural expertise seemed to be protesting, making her subconsciously feel that two stories was already the limit, and three stories would be top-heavy and unsightly.

Okay, so building three stories on a single plank is a risky business. Even if you know the plank won't tip over, you can't help but worry about whether the foundation can hold up.

Jiang Ran regretfully gave up the idea of ​​a three-story building, and even the ceiling height of the two-story building was the lowest within the standard range.

Don't ask where the "standard range" came from; it just popped into her mind the moment she used the skill...

The first floor serves as the control room, and Jiang Ran also planned a toilet, bathroom, and kitchen. The second floor consists of bedrooms and training rooms.

Yes, even though the area is so small, she managed to cram in a kitchen.

It might sound a bit provocative, but after getting used to Xiaobai's "state banquet" cuisine, Jiang Ran simply couldn't stomach the pre-made dishes she used to eat...

A small open space was specially fenced off at the entrance, with two comfortable little stools placed there for fishing boxes.

After dinner, Jiang Ran bought empty wooden crates on the world channel while fishing with Xiao Bai in the azure sea. Strangely enough, the speed of the black sea seemed to follow the players, always maintaining a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

If the player is slow, it will devour the monsters slowly. Just like in Jiang Ran's previous life, even when he was completely manual, it didn't catch up with him much.

In this life, Jiang Ran casually attached a motor and control panel to the stern of the wooden plank while building the house—thanks to the fact that the bamboo raft doesn't take the weight of the passengers, even with a house on it, a simple small boat engine can make the plank leap a long way in an instant.

When it first started, the speed far exceeded expectations, so much so that Jiang Ran almost drove the wooden planks and the house directly into the black sea.

Even at this speed, the Black Sea was not completely left behind, but merely trailed far behind.

But once the player stops, it will quickly approach, giving people an invisible sense of oppression.

Fortunately, the Black Sea usually stops encroaching after 8 p.m. and only resumes its previous actions at 20 a.m. the next morning.

Therefore, Jiang Ran simply set the speed to the slowest setting, only needing to make occasional adjustments to ensure that it wasn't heading towards the Black Sea, thus achieving a form of automation.

With the power issue resolved, she was naturally in the mood to fish for the box for a while.

But some people just can't stand her being too carefree.

Both the young lady and the little spinning top's private messages were filled with all sorts of content.

What left Jiang Ran speechless was that there were even people offering themselves as bed partners.

Hmm, it comes with photos, both male and female, both explicit and risqué, aiming to cover all interests—Jiang Ran was annoyed to learn that this game had a censorship function for the first time.

Even though the newbies filtered out a bunch of people and blocked a lot of them, the world channel was no match for the few thousand or ten thousand players on a single train.

To put it bluntly, it's all because of the Survival Ranking.

Since the Heavenly Ranking was released, the young lady's "reputation" collapsed instantly, and Little Spinning Top's status rose rapidly in its place.

These days, the train chat content always revolves around the same three things: Who is Little Spinning Top? Where is Little Spinning Top? How did Little Spinning Top get first place?

Jiang Ran declined to comment, but her only reasonable doubt was: Did this "Miss" account ever really have any reputation?
But clearly, this is thanks to those players who constantly hype up the young lady and boast about the young lady's train being number one.

New players were already dissatisfied with the original "boss" on the train, especially those who were already doing well and wanted to step on the old king to ascend the throne.

After boasting for two or three days, those people glanced at the Heavenly Ranking and laughed: Ah, the uncrowned queen of the train, the young lady, is that all?

He didn't even make it onto the top list, and he's not even in the top ten of the train section list. Is he even capable? My brother is asking you a question.

Logically speaking, someone who ranks in the top 50 of their region's leaderboard shouldn't be considered weak, but there's a saying: "their virtue doesn't match their position."

As a result, the backlash came particularly fiercely.

Those who had disliked the young lady from the start jumped out again, declaring: "In front of a true big shot like Little Spinning Top, the young lady is just a nobody on the street. Look at me, big shot! Just give the order, and I'll support you as the new young lady of the train... no, the crowned queen!"

Jiang Ran only had one thing to say: Don't get involved.

But this constant commotion couldn't go on forever, so Jiang Ran used the account of Little Spinning Top, which had been dormant for several days, to send a message on the train channel.

　Regarding building houses... think of it as the triple buff effect of Ranran's numerical value, mechanical arm, and skills, which makes it incredibly fast.

　　Please don't delve into this, okay? Don't force me to kneel down and beg you QAQ
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