Qi Xiao opened the box; inside, nestled on black velvet satin lining, twelve train coins cradled a silver metal syringe containing ten milliliters of pale red liquid.
It was a Muscle Enhancement Potion.
Qi Xiao looked at the Umbrella Corporation logo on the syringe and couldn't help but grin.
It made him a little hesitant to inject it.
He'd deal with it later.
After Qi Xiao closed the lid and put everything away, he noticed Li Huizi staring intently at him with wide eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Li Huizi shook her head, indicating she was fine.
Watching Qi Xiao's retreating back, Li Huizi's mind filled with questions.
How did those things just disappear when he touched them? How did he do it? It was truly magical.
Also, it was as if he knew there was a treasure chest here; he headed straight for it with a clear purpose.
It was the same at that strange hotel before; how did he know those peculiar rules?
...
With the treasure chest successfully acquired, there was one more task to complete.
Catch a zombie to make an automatic vegetable farming machine!
Leaving the armory, Qi Xiao immediately heard the screams of zombies.
He followed the sound and found a blonde female zombie wandering back and forth in a nearby confinement room.
This female zombie had blonde hair and clean clothes.
There were only a few purplish-red veins on her face, indicating she had only recently transformed. She was well-endowed and even had fair skin and a beautiful appearance.
Crucially, she was wearing ten-centimeter stiletto heels and bright red nail polish. She swayed as she walked, giving the impression she could fall at any moment.
What attracted Qi Xiao the most was her terrifying size; it felt as big as Liu Liu's head!
Was that really a size a human could possess?
Seeing Qi Xiao and Li Huizi, the zombie charged over, reaching its hands through the bars and scratching wildly.
Seeing Li Huizi about to draw her knife, Qi Xiao raised his hand to stop her.
Seeing Qi Xiao shake his head, Li Huizi moved her hand away from the knife hilt.
Qi Xiao then took out a pot of Peashooters with his bare hands and placed it on the ground.
The Peashooter sensed the presence of zombies nearby, opened its eyes, turned its barrel, and fired a pea, hitting the female zombie's thigh.
Excellent, it can activate the plants' combat mode!
After firing one shot, the Peashooter stopped moving, swaying its head back and forth.
"No, just one shot, buddy?"
A minute later, another pea was fired.
"Your reload time is way too long; it wasn't like this in Dawn City."
"What, you only play high-tier matches?"
Qi Xiao was speechless. He took out the remaining five potted plants, confirming that they would all enter combat mode.
It was just that the firing intervals were extremely long.
Peashooters attacked every minute, firing a thumb-sized pea.
Corn Pult attacked once every five minutes, throwing an ear of corn.
Cabbage Pult and Melon-pult attacked once every ten minutes, throwing a cabbage and a watermelon, respectively.
The attack frequency was incomparable to when they were in Dawn City.
It doesn't matter, it's better than nothing!
After Qi Xiao figured out the plants' attack frequency, he put them away, then reached his hand through the bars and slapped the female zombie's thigh.
"Get in here!"
Three seconds later, the blonde female zombie tilted her head, looking at Qi Xiao with confusion.
Damn, it has a soul?
How could a zombie have a soul?
Could it be? This thing weighs more than seventy kilograms?
Qi Xiao's jie bracelet still had seventy kilograms of carrying capacity, which he originally thought would be more than enough.
Seeing the zombie pull back its arm and reach out with both hands to grab him, Qi Xiao immediately chose to expend the seventy train coins in his jie bracelet, upgrading it to level ten.
The carrying capacity increased by another one hundred kilograms, reaching eight hundred kilograms.
He slapped the female zombie's butt and roared:
"Get in here, you!"
Whoosh! This time, the blonde female zombie vanished on the spot, successfully collected into Qi Xiao's jie bracelet.
I knew it; even Ren Laotaiye didn't have a soul, so how could a lower-grade zombie like you possibly have one?
Li Huizi, who was standing by, watched this scene with a look of utter astonishment.
...
Back in the Train, Qi Xiao released the zombie.
Qi Xiao took out a black perforated ball gag he had prepared earlier, induced the zombie to open its mouth, inserted it, and then secured it.
Looking at the zombie with the ball gag in its mouth, Qi Xiao stroked his chin. No, he had to minimize all risks!
The primary modes of zombie infection were bites and scratches.
Half a minute later, Qi Xiao wiped sweat from his brow and dropped the pliers he was holding.
The zombie had now become a 'grandma zombie'; all its white teeth had been pulled out by Qi Xiao.
Because he had activated Word Spirit · Time Zero, the process was very fast.
The biting problem was solved, next, scratches!
After pulling out her teeth, Qi Xiao began to trim her nails.
Clipping them was too much trouble, so Qi Xiao chose to pull them out directly!
Not just her fingernails, but her toenails too; all were pulled out, then she was given thick gloves and shoes.
He then put a blindfold and a collar on her, securing her firmly in the corner of the carriage with an iron chain as thick as a young girl's wrist.
Qi Xiao took out the potted plants, and they began to work, launching a fierce assault on the female zombie.
"Lighten up! Don't be so heavy-handed; don't smash her to death."
Qi Xiao quickly set up the pre-prepared transparent acrylic sheet to block the plants' attacks.
He continuously adjusted the placement and angle of the automatic compost bin, ensuring that the projectiles from the plants would accurately fall into the bin.
The automatic vegetable farming machine was successfully created!
Three pots of Peashooters, one pot of Cabbage Pult, one pot of Melon-pult, and one pot of Corn Pult could produce one hundred eighty peas, twelve ears of corn, six cabbages, and six watermelons per hour.
This totaled approximately fifteen kilograms, which would be three hundred sixty kilograms of vegetables in one day!
They couldn't possibly eat it all, absolutely couldn't! The excess would be sold, and if it couldn't be sold, it would be made into magical multi-purpose fertilizer!
Twenty-four hours a day, non-stop, work hard!
Now he only hoped that when they left this world, they would still retain their characteristics.
At this moment, Xi Jian and the others also came to observe the automatic vegetable farming machine Qi Xiao had created.
"No, with so many zombies, you just had to pick the most..."
Xi Jian didn't even know how to describe it.
"The most what?"
Xi Jian raised her hand and gestured in the air at the female zombie's chest, then looked at her own, completely speechless.
"Is this real? Did she swell up after being infected and becoming a zombie, making her that big?"
"You definitely picked this zombie for selfish reasons!"
"Doesn't she just look more comfortable?"
Qi Xiao rolled his eyes at Xi Jian.
"Look at those with bloody mouths, broken arms and legs, intestines dragging behind them—would that work? Wouldn't bringing them in lower the overall appearance of our Train?"
Liu Liu looked at the zombie, his eyes gleaming.
"I think this zombie is quite good; she doesn't look as dangerous as the others."
Qi Xiao patted Liu Liu's head and gestured with his chin towards Xi Jian.
"See, Liu Liu understands me. He truly is my Deputy Train Conductor."
Xi Jian looked speechless.
"Liu Liu, I beg you, stop licking."