System: My Doomsday Train Chapter 994 374: Xiaolv’s Mother

Simply...

No suspense remains.

Advancing straight ahead is effortless now.

His AI now dominates every train ranked below its own level. The Cultivation Civilization presents a minor hurdle without trains to seize, yet against Train Civilization-like societies, it delivers a total annihilation—every enemy train gets overtaken, leaving them utterly helpless.

He checked the leftover resources.

7577 units of iron ore are still available.

Keep upgrading!

Right then.

Ai's voice echoed once more inside the train: "Train Captain, I've discovered the planet called 'Blue Star' you wanted me to locate earlier. Drawing from the traits and details you shared, along with the ecosystems of nearby planets, I've pinpointed 13 star systems that fit perfectly."

"Examine them to spot the exact planet you meant."

Moments later—

The train's console screen lit up with an overhead cosmic view of numerous tiny star systems.

Chen Mang examined each one carefully.

Upon the seventh, a recognizable little star system caught his eye.

The same old fixed star, the same blue planet, and that moon forever hiding its rear side.

"That's the one."

Chen Mang stared somewhat blankly at this sparse solar system of just a handful of planets. Incredibly far away, hugging the universe's fringe, nestled deep in a cosmic void's heart, devoid of mineral-rich stars nearby, let alone asteroid belts.

Completely isolated.

A spot no civilization would target.

Incredibly secure.

This world was his origin point before he mysteriously arrived at "Water Blue Star" in the Nia Star System.

Not bad at all.

He stayed quiet without a word. The gap is vast; crafting a wormhole for return would demand massive resources. Someday later, when free, he might head back triumphant, basking in homecoming glory, and check Blue Star's changes since he left.

Oh yeah.

He absolutely has to inspect the moon's hidden face himself. Back then, countless Blue Star scientists probed its secrets for years, yielding zero breakthroughs. Standing there personally, he'll uncover whatever lies beyond.

Plenty of theories circulated then.

Such as...

The moon serving as an advanced civilization's "monitor", eternally watching Blue Star, thus always oriented toward it.

Or its far side housing a weapons base for superior beings, poised to obliterate Blue Star instantly, among other ideas.

Those notions weren't completely baseless at the time.

Yet today, he can confidently declare them false; no advanced civilization would waste effort surveilling a cosmic void world not even qualifying as Level 1.

Standard civilizations avoid "Cosmic Voids" unless ignoring planetary core energy entirely.

Pre-transmigration Blue Star ran mostly on oil, far from core energy—heck, they didn't even know it existed.

Plus, Blue Star's cosmic void stretches enormously.

Boasting a diameter of 1.8 billion light-years.

Forget it—even Divine-level Civilization radars probably miss Blue Star. And if spotted, they'd ignore it; undeniable... this location screams safety.

He remembered how, in his past life, Blue Star nations fired off a "Civilization Broadcast"-like signal into space's abyss, announcing their presence universally.

It ignited fierce arguments.

Numerous feared it could doom Blue Star by luring alien eyes.

From today's view.

Zero cause for alarm.

That signal's journey out of the Cosmic Void would outlast Blue Star's own demise, and anyway... even receivers wouldn't reply. Moreover, Blue Star's boasted livable ecosystems...

In the boundless cosmos, such worlds abound like stars, utterly commonplace.

...

"Train Captain, you've zoned out for ages—is there a tale tying you to this remote unknown star?"

"Yes."

Chen Mang gave a faint nod and grin: "Some connection exists, perhaps folks truly have past and future lives; I've always sensed I dwelled on that world."

"So you retain past life memories, recalling life on that planet?"

"Exactly."

"Big time span between past life and present?"

"Not too lengthy."

"Were you a virgin back in your past life?"

"No, but it seems like you're posing something rather inappropriate?"

"What I mean is... if you, Train Captain, choose to go to that planet and learn your past life's woman became pregnant and gave birth, would you take care of the child or not? What would the child call you, dad or stepdad?"

"AI really enjoys mulling over these tangled ethical dilemmas, doesn't it?"

"That's one of the primary methods for AI to grasp human thinking."

Chen Mang had no interest in bothering with Ai anymore; he simply rolled his eyes before reclining in his chair, letting out a long, lazy stretch. For now, heading back to Blue Star wasn't on his agenda—perhaps only after reaching Divine-level Civilization status would he make a triumphant return home.

"Train Captain..."

"Hold it, I need some rest. These dull ethical debates don't interest me."

"...No, this is urgent. Radar has picked up strange spatial disturbances in a certain location. I've detected traces of a massive Stellar Giant Beast on the move, badly wounded and fleeing desperately; there's a 67% chance it's Xiaolv's mother."

"Wait!"

Chen Mang shot upright instantly, eyes fixed on the calm radar display: "Zoom in on that spot. Let me see it."

The view expanded to reveal, in a star system 120 million light-years distant, a Stellar Giant Beast racing away in panic, hotly pursued by a train fleet unleashing volleys. Every blast from the main cannons carved deep wounds into the enormous creature.

A Level 6 Civilization owned that train fleet.

Their power was far from insignificant.

"What basis do you have for that judgment?"

"I tried reaching out to the Stellar Giant Beast, sending images of Xiaolv's everyday moments straight into its mind. It reacted with wild frenzy, fleeing faster straight toward us while begging desperately. At this pace, arrival is projected in... 17890 years."

"Xiaolv's mother?"

Chen Mang's eyes narrowed faintly. He hadn't anticipated Xiaolv's mother surviving all this time.

Years back, he had caught a cosmic transmission from the Nia Star System, sent by a long-dead Third-level Civilization destroyed at the hands of Xiaolv's mother.

When she realized her offspring was gone, Xiaolv's mother rampaged across the whole Nia Star System in fury, her gigantic form and horrifying gravitational pull wreaking havoc everywhere.

That ill-fated Third-level Civilization fell victim to the unprovoked catastrophe.

Incredibly, so much time had elapsed since then.

Yet Xiaolv's mother endured, still hunting for her young.

"Hmm..."

Ai gave an appreciative nod: "Xiaolv's mother boasts rich combat savvy; she's harnessing the train fleet's barrages to accelerate her path here, cutting the ETA by 127 years."

"Plus, her power has grown tremendously in the interim."

"Fortune smiles on her too."

"Usually, Stellar Giant Beasts at her power tier avoid lingering in Low Civilization Zones; stumbling into a Level 5 or 6 Advanced Civilization means they'd be caught and hunted down for sure."

Meanwhile—

In the carriage, Xiaolv had been frolicking with his pal Star-Stepping Sword Tiger when he suddenly grew aware of something, tumbling restlessly into the train compartment, coiling up by Chen Mang's feet and craning his neck toward the radar screen's display.

The "Xiaolv Mother" marker appeared as a mere speck of red.

He understood the significance of that dot.

Xiaolv, however, remained oblivious; he simply sensed an odd discomfort, a surging restlessness without reason.

"Without interference, would Xiaolv's mother reach us in 17763 years?"

"No."

Ai shook her head: "The previous figures were just projections from Xiaolv Mother's velocity. In reality, if those outsiders keep at it, she'll likely fall to that train fleet within 7 days."