Chapter 10 Upgrading to Level 3 Treasure Chest ["What bad luck! The first stop was a shabby house with nothing but garbage, damn! The second stop turned into a muddy pond. The smell was disgusting and I had no chance to get out!"]
["Don't mention it. At least you didn't encounter any monsters. I was chased by a group of wild boars all the way. The train was almost overturned and there are still several big holes. If it wasn't time to leave the station, I would have died there."]
["Sell a piece of scavenger vulture leg meat in exchange for drinking water!"]
["I didn't dare to get off the train at the first stop. I didn't dare to get off at the second stop even though I knew it was dangerous... After hearing what you said, I don't dare to get off at the third stop either..."]
["Aren't you waiting to die if you don't get off the train? You still have food and drink?"]
Not everyone starts like Ye Qiyan, who upgrades the train and then obtains the "Fork in the Road of Destiny" module, which allows them to avoid some dangers by choosing the platform level and prefix.
After quietly lurking in the chatroom for a while, Ye Qiyan's countdown to the stop was drawing to a close.
He then remembered that he still had a garbage collection system running in the first car.
Four hours in, and there was no telling what he could harvest.
In Ye Qiyan's mind, the fact that the young man had managed to collect over ten kilograms of wood in this white forest was a stroke of luck, so he gave up hope.
[Level 3 Treasure Chest: Openable]
Wait, what is this?
He rubbed his eyes, then, with a startled look, looked again.
"Holy crap!"
Everything else in the recycling bin was garbage in every sense of the word.
But amidst all that junk, a grayish-white wooden box completely overshadowed everything else.
A treasure chest! A level 3 one at that!
He hadn't thought there might be one in the white forest before, but it was vast. Besides the path to the orchard, Ye Qiyan didn't dare venture too far into the forest. If he got lost, he might never get back to the train. So, he simply didn't even think about finding the treasure chest.
He hadn't expected it.
This little robot he'd despised, the one that collected trash, had actually brought back a treasure chest from this forest!?
Ye Qiyan's gaze at the silly, cube-shaped robot was filled with admiration. He raised his hand and patted the robot's square head.
"As expected of me, I spent so many resources to build this recycling station, and it's truly the right one."
If the little robot had an expression, it would definitely be one of disdain.
After all, its owner had just been openly expressing his disdain for it.
Humans, after all, are the most adaptable creatures!
Resisting the urge to open the treasure chest, Ye Qiyan reached out and pressed it.
A level 3 treasure chest, after upgrading, would be level 4.
This guaranteed eight Train Coins plus a few other rare level 4 items.
[Physical Strength: 45] [Spirit: 92]
"Sublimate, sublime."
Ye Qiyan joyfully began the sublime process.
His physical strength faded, but his mental energy followed closely.
When the invisible force dissipated, just like the file bag before, the wooden box remained unchanged.
[Level 4 Treasure Chest: Openable]
[Physical Strength: 20] [Spirit: 62]
His body was exhausted, but his spirit was incredibly excited.
Ye Qiyan rubbed his hands, his eyes burning.
"Hehehe, let me see what's inside."
Creak—
[Open Level 4 Treasure Chest]
[Receive Train Coins: 8]
[Receive: External Alert Device (Level 4)]
[Receive: White Mori Fruit Tree]
[Receive: Off-White Train Livery]
[Receive: Advanced Ceramic Plate Bulletproof Vest]
"A Level 4 building? If those people in the chat room knew about this, wouldn't they be envious?"
Ye Qiyan muttered quietly to himself, not intending to show off.
Showing off would only lead to envy and even hatred. He just needed to do his own thing, so why bother with others?
However, this Level 4 building couldn't be upgraded for the time being. It wasn't because it lacked potential, but rather that even his combined physical and mental strength didn't seem to be enough to sustain the upgrade.
"It seems that level 4 is a watershed."
[External-mounted sentry tower device]
[Can be installed on top of any carriage and equipped with any long-range weapon]
[After installation, it will activate automatic alert attack, attack hostile threats within the visual range of 100 meters and lock onto the target to break any visual obstruction effects such as disguise/invisibility/psychedelic.]
[Note: After damage, it can be repaired using mechanical parts]
"What a good thing, it is worthy of being a level 4 treasure chest, it is really different."
The sentry tower was placed on the front of the car.
From the outside, it only had a round object with a sandwich layer on the front of the car.
When the automatic alert is turned on, a red light ball will appear in the sandwich layer and rotate 360 degrees.
Ye Qiyan still has six rifles left in his hand. Except for the one that has been sublimated, the remaining five are all equipped in the sentry tower.
"Can trees really be planted in the carriage?"
Looking at the remaining three rewards, Ye Qiyan scratched his head.
[White Forest Fruit Tree Species] (Level 3 Plant)
[Requires planting in the unique grayish-white soil of the White Forest]
[Ten days to break through the soil, ten days to become a tree, ten days to mature]
[Daily consumption of half a kilogram of fresh water] Half a
kilogram of fresh water per tree seed. Few people are capable of planting at this time,
and Ye Qiyan happens to be one of them. A full thirty-day growth period is a bit long.
Regardless of whether or not the seeds can be grown, they remind him that the soil of this white forest can be considered a special resource. There's no reason not to take some with him.
Furthermore, he can wait until his strength recovers to sublimate these seeds.
Docking Countdown [0:3:21]
Filling several wooden boxes with grayish-white soil, Ye Qiyan closed the recycling station in the final minutes before leaving the station. He patted the robot's head and dumped all the trash it had collected from the forest onto the workbench for recycling.
Although it wasn't much, he still provided him with twelve kilograms of wood, some leaves, and stones.
What Ye Qiyan didn't expect was that those leaves weren't just garbage.
[White Leaves] (Level 1)
[Can be used to make white paint]
[White Stones] (Level 1)
[Can be used to make white paint]
"Everything in this forest is really white."
"Good work, little one. Once I've rested, I'll give you the next upgrade."
He patted the little robot's head.
The countdown ended.
The train started.
A subtle push on his back hit Ye Qiyan, and he looked out the window. The white forest was receding before his eyes.
Until there was nothingness, the gray disappeared, replaced by the endless wilderness.
"I'm back."
At this moment, Ye Qiyan stretched, opened the chat room, and found that his private chat interface was flickering.
Someone had sent him a message.
Private chat reminders between train conductors only appear after adding friends.
Ordinary private chats do not trigger reminders.
In other words, there is only one person who sent the message.
Shangguan Yingxue: ["Do you need more water?"]-+ ["What do you need? Let me be clear, I don't have any firearms to trade with you."]
Ye Qiyan knocked on the light screen and sent the message.
After a long while, he didn't receive a reply. Ye Qiyan thought that the other party would not make any more transactions. Just when he was about to close the private chat, a message came from the other end.
["Sorry, I was just taking a shower."]
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Taking a shower?
Ye Qiyan silently looked in the direction of his own water tank.
How much water does this woman have? She can actually waste it like this. He doesn't even have such luxury.
["It doesn't matter. So what do you want to trade? You should have seen what I just said."]
Shangguan Yingxue was on the train.
A girl with waist-length black hair stood up from a wooden barrel that took up most of the train. She had her hair tied up, and her light blue eyes showed no emotion.
["32 kg of wood, 50 kg of metal and 40 mechanical parts, you should have these things."]
Ye Qiyan raised his eyebrows and did not answer the question, but asked:
["These materials are used to upgrade the train, how can you be so sure that I have them? What's more, even if I have them, why don't I use them to upgrade my own train?"]
["Because I hate trouble. Before contacting you again, I had already collected some materials, but it takes too much time and requires communicating with too many people. I don't like it. As for why I found you, I think you are the only one who can come up with different materials in one go. I calculated that you probably sold more than 20 rifles. Excluding food and water, the things traded are just various materials."]
This is true, but not entirely true.
Because the number of rifles Ye Qiyan sold was not just over 20, but double that, more than 40.
As for the resources she wanted, Ye Qiyan did have them.
But he was not interested in exchanging it for water. After all, the water in the reservoir was enough for the time being, and it was even drinkable.
He saw this method in the chat room.
Use wood to make fire, and then boil it. No matter how it tastes, boiled water will not kill people from diarrhea.
Of course, unless there is really no water to drink, he will not try this method.
Shangguan Yingxue was silent for a while, she dried her body, and sent a screenshot.
"This thing should be enough."
Water Purification Device (Level 1)
Filters and purifies sewage, capable of purifying one kilogram per hour.
Seeing the content in the screenshot, Ye Qiyan rubbed his eyes.
A water purification device?
What kind of thing is this?
No wonder this woman was so extravagant as to start taking showers. She must have gotten this device at the first stop. Even the water after showering can be filtered and recycled.
And there are more than one.
No, she must have the blueprint for this device, otherwise why would she be willing to trade it?
"You have the blueprint?"
"This device should be enough to exchange for the resources I need."
She neither admitted nor denied it, and
Ye Qiyan suppressed his surprise.
The blueprint for the water purification device was indeed valuable, but it also belonged to someone else.
He was already lucky enough, and there was no need to envy others.
["Yes, we can exchange."]
The two of them made a deal.
After getting the water purification device, Ye Qiyan found that this thing could be placed just between the sewage tank and the water purification tank of the reservoir.
After turning on the device, the purified water will automatically fall into the water purification tank and accumulate.
This saved him a lot of trouble.
"Sublimation."
After using sublimation so many times, Ye Qiyan roughly understood the rules of sublimation. This small first-level item does not consume too much physical strength.
[Deluxe Water Purification Device] (Level 2)
[Can purify 3 kilograms of water per hour, can purify non-fresh water]
After upgrading to a higher level, the effect has tripled, and it also has the effect of purifying non-fresh water, which means that even sea water can be purified.
Ye Qiyan's heart was filled with joy.
On a whim, he sent Shangguan Yingxue another message.
["Have you upgraded your train yet? Can you tell me what happens after upgrading?"]
He was curious about what upgrade options others would have after upgrading their trains. Would they be the same as his?
Shangguan Yingxue hesitated for a moment.
["...Okay."]
Soon, a screenshot was sent to Ye Qiyan.
The upgrade options for the Level 2 train are as follows:
[1: Low-Level Carriage Blueprint (0 Train Coins)]
[2: Welding Tool Set (2 Train Coins)]
[3: Wooden Bed Blueprint (1 Train Coin)]
[4: Increase Train Stop Time by 1 Hour (2 Train Coins)]
Options 1 and 4 were the same as when he upgraded, but the remaining two were different.
"So that's how it is. The car blueprint and stop time are fixed, while the remaining two are random, and the quality varies."
Shangguan Yingxue's two random options were still far inferior to what he had received.
Ye Qiyan nodded in understanding, then saw Shangguan Yingxue's message arrive again.
["Do you have train money?"]
["No."]
["Are you still buying water?"]
Ye Qiyan's mouth twitched. Before, he might have bought some as a backup, but now, considering she was taking a bath, and the bath water would surely be recycled in a water purification system, he'd be buying her bath water.
["Not buying"]
["Okay..."
The chat ended.
Ye Qiyan knew that the other party wanted to buy train coins from him to purchase options, but he didn't even have enough of them himself, so how could he possibly exchange them?
Besides, he already had an option that he hadn't chosen yet.
[Train Burst Accelerator Blueprint (5 Train Coins)]
One of the options that is unlocked after the train is upgraded to level 2.
For ordinary people, five train coins may have to be accumulated over several platforms.
But Ye Qiyan had saved enough money to buy all the options after just passing the second platform.
[Purchase: Train Burst Accelerator Blueprint]
[Consume 5 train coins]
[Currently remaining train coins: 4]
[Train Explosive Accelerator]
[Construction requirements: 50 kg of metal, 200 mechanical parts]
[After building the device, you can use the materials to make accelerator bullets. Using accelerator bullets, you can increase the speed of the train to three times its original speed within ten minutes.]
It's so expensive, worthy of the blueprint that requires five train coins to buy.
However, he was just missing some parts.
And he happened to be able to afford it.
After passing the second stop, the things on the trading platform have become much richer.
And now what most people need is food and water, and he happened to have food.
Ye Qiyan would be picky about those barrels of compressed cookies, but that doesn't mean they have no value.-+ It took seven cookies and a lot of talking before he finally gathered enough mechanical parts from others.
"This is really troublesome."
Looking at the resources at hand, Ye Qiyan shook his head.
It's no wonder Shangguan Yingxue hated trading; he also didn't like haggling with others. Going back and forth to change the price for a little bit of food was a waste of time.
Putting resources on the processing table, the blueprint of the acceleration device glowed with a deep blue light.
Soon, the machinery and metal merged with each other, and a complex mechanical device appeared before Ye Qiyan.
[Train Explosive Accelerator]
[Note: This can only be installed on the main body of the train. It will automatically install when placed next to the control system. Once installed, it can be used to craft accelerator bullets]
[Accelerator Bullet]: Can be used up to three times daily
[Crafting Required: 1 kg of Metal, 20 Mechanical Parts, 1 Train Coin]
"Does crafting bullets even require a Train Coin?"
Ye Qiyan said helplessly.
"I wonder what it will become after the upgrade."
[Stamina: 55] [Spirit: 70]
After consuming the White Morin Fruit, his stamina and spirit recovered somewhat, enough for another upgrade.
"Give it a try."
After consuming 30 points of stamina and 40 points of spirit, the accelerator changed.
[Red Triple Speed Train Accelerator]
[Standardized Accelerator Bullet]: Can be used up to five times daily, increasing the train's speed to three times its original speed in ten minutes.
The number of times has become five, but the speed has not changed.
However, the potential seems to have been exhausted, which means that it cannot continue to sublimate.
Following the prompts, Ye Qiyan placed the acceleration device in front of the operating system. A
silver-white aperture enveloped the device, and then a black hole rose from the operating table.
That is the location for dropping bullets.
"It's a bit expensive."
Ye Qiyan spent two train coins to make two acceleration bullets.
Looking at the silver-white bullets as thick as a baby's arm in his hand
, he felt a little painful. He put away the only two coins left. Although he really wanted to try the power of this bullet after acceleration, he thought about it and gave up.
He was not that extravagant yet.
After everything was done, the next step was to rest.
"Come to think of it, are the side effects of low spirits just empty talk? How come I've never felt them?"
——————
[Stamina: 100] [Spirit: 100]
"Finally, everything's back."
After a full night's rest, Ye Qiyan yawned and rose from the warm, constant-temperature carriage.
He washed his face, humming a little tune as he walked to the end of the carriage.
He dug a seed from the grayish-white soil, looked at its unchanged appearance, and nodded.
"Try sublimation. Hopefully, it'll speed up growth."
[Stamina: 70]
[Blessed Baisen Fruit Tree Seed]
[Break through the soil in three days, grow in three days, mature in three days, and produce a blessed Baisen fruit every day after maturity]
"Is this really working? And the fruit is also sublimated?"
Ye Qiyan felt the seeds. The potential wasn't enough to support another sublimation, but he could try again once they were bigger.
Dig a hole, cover with soil, water. Just
as Ye Qiyan was about to return to the car to enjoy breakfast, he stopped by the garbage collection device.
"Come to think of it, I thought I'd sublimate you."
Looking at the unpowered little robot, which looked like an oversized matchbox, Ye Qiyan leaned over and tapped its iron skull a few times.
Sublime.
As usual, Ye Qiyan intended to use his physical energy to sublimate, but for some reason, the energy he expended seemed to have no effect, leaving no trace.
Sublimation failed?
Ye Qiyan frowned; this was the first time this had happened.
He tried again, this time using his spirit instead of physical energy.
[Spirit: 60]
A familiar halo began to appear, and the power of sublimation enveloped the little robot.
[GT-1: Automatic Treasure Hunting Robot]
[Upon arrival at the platform, it will automatically leave the train and lock onto the treasure chests within. Any treasure chests it cannot obtain will be mapped and given to the owner to retrieve.]
[If damaged, it can be repaired using mechanical parts.]
[Each use consumes one train coin.]
[It will be forced to return to the collection station before each station ends.]
A pair of camera-like eyes rose from the matchbox, rotating 360 degrees before finally locking their gaze on Ye Qiyan's face.
[Owner information confirmed: Train conductor number E-3-1102, Ye Qiyan.]
[Please name the GT-1. If not, it will be automatically named: GT1.]
Looking at its appearance, Ye Qiyan was inexplicably reminded of an image from a movie he had seen in his previous world.
"Wall-E?"
[Name completed]
[Starts to sleep. Please consume train coins to wake him up after arriving at the platform.]
"..."
Another train coin.
Accelerator bullets cost Train Coins, as do upgraded robots.
The next time you upgrade the train, you'll need Train Coins to purchase upgrade options, and even certain upgraded items might require Train Coins.
Ye Qiyan felt like he was running out of money.
"By the way, at this point, many people probably don't know the effects of Train Coins."
He suddenly thought, trotting back to the front of the train, opening the control system and searching the chatroom for keywords.
[Train Coins.
"Have you ever opened a treasure chest? What are the train coins inside for?"
"Who knows? Maybe this world's currency can be used to buy things at some stations." "
You're so lucky to have opened a treasure chest. I don't even know what a treasure chest looks like."
"What's the point of opening one? There's not even a single thing to eat. Two stations in a row are garbage. If this continues, we'll be broke!"
As expected, they had no idea the value of train coins. They were still worried about survival.
"One compressed cookie and a bottle of water in exchange for one train coin."
He put the food and water on the trading platform. He
looked at it for a while and then ignored it.
With this kind of fixed-price transaction, it would be best if someone came to buy it, but if no one did, he wouldn't lose anything.
The train departed at 12:30 p.m.
The next station selection prompt appeared before Ye Qiyan.
[The fork in the road of fate has been triggered. Please choose between the following two stations.]
[Platform 1: Doomsday Town (Level 2 Mission Platform)]
[Platform 2: Goblin Village (Level 2 Hunting Platform)]
Mission Platform?
This was another new type of platform.
Compared to fighting goblins, which was likely to end in failure, Ye Qiyan felt that option 1 was more suitable for him.
[Platform selection completed.]
[Please sit tight. The third station the train will arrive at is...]
[Doomsday Town]
The train was accelerating.
The space ahead gradually became empty.
When the countdown reached 0, the world around him completely changed.
[Current Station: Doomsday Town]
[Dockable Countdown: 3:59:59]
[Good Luck]
[Current Station: Danger]-+ Sizzle—
the train stopped, and Ye Qiyan looked out the window.
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The world at this station wasn't as dark as the previous two. On the contrary, the sun high in the sky illuminated the entire land.
This place was completely different from the previous two stations.
The streets outside were covered in dark red marks, and abandoned cars were stuck together.
Doomsday Town.
It lived up to its name.
"Hey, Wall-E, get up and work."
[Wall-E, start.]
Ye Qiyan tossed a train coin into Wall-E's coin slot with a bit of pain in his heart.
Watching it swaying through the recycling device and going far out, Ye Qiyan wondered if this guy would be taken away by the monsters that emerged from there and used as a toy.
"By the way, what is the mission of the mission station?"
The doubt was soon answered.
Looking through the car window, Ye Qiyan saw a corpse holding a backpack, and in the backpack he could see a piece of parchment blown by the wind.
There was obviously something written on the parchment, but it was too far away to see clearly.
Standing in front of the car door, Ye Qiyan sorted out his equipment for the last time.
Food, water, a fine rifle on his back, a black light pistol and a sharp dagger on his waist, and finally put on the high-grade ceramic plate bulletproof vest obtained from the treasure chest at the previous station.
He also upgraded this bulletproof vest, from the original bulky one that looked like a bucket to a vest in the true sense without reducing its protective capabilities.
Fully armed, press the button.
The door of the train opened, get off, and close the door with your backhand.
Only the conductor himself can open the train, so he is not afraid of anything sneaking in.
The heat wave hit him in the face, and the air was filled with a strange smell, like a mixture of rotten salted fish and rotten bread for a long time.
Walking to the side of the corpse, Ye Qiyan used the barrel of his gun to pick up the backpack and saw the full picture of the parchment in the backpack.
[As you can see, I am a great courier. ]
Ye Qiyan silently looked at the corpse lying on the ground. Great? Courier? He couldn't tell at all.
[As a courier for RUN Company, I am responsible for transporting supplies in this doomsday world. Only we can walk freely in this doomsday world, but I am going to die.]
It is not difficult to imagine that this courier was quite humorous when he was alive.
[But the mission of a courier cannot be betrayed! No matter who it is, after seeing my message, please deliver the things in my backpack to the silver shop in the southeast corner of this town! ]
[As long as you deliver the things and show my RUN medal, then the reward for this courier job will be yours. ]
[Of course, it's okay if you don't want to send it, whatever. I'm going to die anyway...]
[Really not? The reward is very good~ Our RUN company is the best company in the entire wasteland~]
Courier?
In other words, this is the mission of the mission station?
"What's in the backpack?"
With curiosity, Ye Qiyan opened the backpack completely.
What caught the eye was, in addition to the parchment, there was a piece of cake that was placed in a sealed transparent box and preserved quite well.
There were four words written on it with jam.
Happy birthday.
Birthday?
Ye Qiyan picked up the backpack silently.
Judging from the rotten state of this courier, he has been dead for a long time.
"I can't celebrate my birthday, but I can still eat the cake."
He found a medal in his backpack that looked very mechanical. The image of a running courier was made of gears and metal.
On the back of the medal was a large RUN symbol.
In addition, there was a map of the town. The red dot marked on the map should be the destination.
Putting away the cake and medal, and comparing it with the map, Ye Qiyan headed towards his destination.
The road was littered with corpses that had turned into bones, and the dark red bloodstains told of the terrible events that had happened.
"What is that?"
He saw hyenas using dead bodies.
Speaking of which, this was the first time he had seen a living creature other than himself in the survival world.
Wait, is it really a living creature?
The hyena seemed to have heard the sound and turned its head to Ye Qiyan. Only then did he see that this was not a living dog. Its head was rotten and its heart was exposed. It was clearly a zombie dog!
"Roar!"
The zombie dog let out a strange roar and immediately rushed towards Ye Qiyan.
"Calm down! Calm down!"
He suppressed the fear in his heart, raised his pistol and pulled the trigger.
Bang bang bang bang bang——!
He was not a sharpshooter. Although only one of the five bullets hit the zombie dog, the powerful force was enough to blow it into meat paste.
"No, we need to leave quickly."
The gunshot was so loud that the entire town could hear it. Monsters like these zombie dogs might have already surrounded them.
Fortunately, the monsters he encountered were not very smart. After a slight detour, Ye Qiyan successfully reached his destination, the silver shop. What surprised him was that there was no trace of monsters in the vicinity.
It was a bit strange.
"Is there really someone here?"
Looking at the tightly closed door of the shop, it was hard not to suspect that the people in the shop had long been killed by the monsters outside.
Just when he was thinking about whether to pry the door open directly, the roller shutter door in front of him suddenly opened a gap.
Ye Qiyan immediately raised his gun and aimed at the gap.
"No, don't shoot! I'm a human, not a zombie!"
Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, the person inside the door hurriedly responded in a hoarse voice.
"...Are you the owner of this shop?"
Unable to see the appearance of the person inside, Ye Qiyan simply took out the medal.
"I'm a courier for RUN Company. The previous courier died on the way, so I took over his delivery job."
When you go out, you give yourself an identity. In this strange post-apocalyptic wasteland world, couriers seem to be more likely to gain respect from others.
The roller shutter door moved up a little, revealing the face of a 40-something uncle with a scruffy beard.
"Hey, I know, I know you're a courier. The only people who dare to be outside now are couriers, crazy people and monsters. Hehe, please come in."
Ye Qiyan did not move, still pointing the gun at the man's head, and took out the sealed cake from his backpack.
"Forget about going in, I'll give you the things, but where's the reward?"
The uncle stared at the cake for a while.
"What a pity, if only it had happened a while earlier, hehe... Reward, yes, reward, I'll get it for you now."
He turned and left, and not long after, a box was stretched out from under the roller shutter and opened to reveal the contents.
Ye Qiyan was very familiar with that thing.
Train coins?
Three train coins lay there quietly.
Could it be that train coins are the universal currency in all platform worlds? Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why the natives of this world also have such a thing.
Just when Ye Qiyan was about to put the train coins away, the man in the roller shutter suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed the barrel of his gun!-+ The fierceness was revealed!
Feeling the pulling force from the gun barrel, Ye Qiyan pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang! !
"Roar!"
A severed hand flew out, and the rolling shutter door was broken. Only then did he finally see clearly that the man in the door had already become bloated, with only a human face and the arm that he had just knocked away vaguely allowing people to see his original appearance.
"It's too late! Too late! Why didn't you come earlier! My daughter just wants to eat a cake! Why did you useless couriers take so long! Go to hell!"
Calmly -
Ye Qiyan took a deep breath, stared at the monster rushing towards him and continued to pull the trigger.
Bang, bang, bang, three consecutive shots hit.
Although his shooting skills were terrible, he couldn't stand up to the opponent's huge size and being so close.
But even the upgraded rifle's power could not penetrate the monster's tough body.
A punch to Ye Qiyan's chest sent him flying.
Ye Qiyan gritted his teeth and stood up, feeling his stomach churning.
If it weren't for the enhanced bulletproof vest as a buffer, he would have fainted from that blow.
The monster screamed and rushed over again.
Bang -
another shot.
"It's useless! I'm not afraid of your bullets!"
He was responded with more bullets.
Bang - bang - bang -
"Really? Do you want to look down?"
Ye Qiyan chuckled. The monster subconsciously lowered its head, but saw that its body was riddled with holes.
"How is that possible?!"
"Huh~"
After blowing on the muzzle of the gun, Ye Qiyan stood up, holding his stomach. The black light enchanted pistol in his hand was emitting a faint light.
[Black Light Enchanted Pistol] Consume physical strength to transform into armor-
piercing bullets. Ye Qiyan walked up to the monster, pointed the black muzzle of the gun at its head, and pulled the trigger.
Bang——
"Huh, no wonder there are no traces of monsters here, it's because this is the territory of big monsters."
After a short rest, Ye Qiyan walked over the monster's corpse, picked up the overturned cake on the ground, shook his head with some regret, and then put it into his backpack along with the three train coins next to it.
"What a waste."
He came to the roller shutter and opened it completely. The scene inside was unexpectedly clean.
"It really is a silver shop."
Silver crossbows, gun heads, and even crosses were placed casually.
On a cabinet, Ye Qiyan found a diary.
[March 1: My daughter's birthday is ten days away. I found three coins in a broken train engine outside the town. The old people in the town said that these coins can make the courier from RUN company deliver delicacies that we can't imagine! I want to buy a cake for my daughter. Her illness will definitely be cured if she eats the cake! After all, it is something we can't imagine!]
[March 5: My daughter's illness is getting worse... She just wants to eat a piece of cake. Great courier, please come quickly! ]
[March 9th: ...My daughter is looking forward to tomorrow's cake, but where are you, the courier? ]
[March 11th: ...My daughter died, she didn't get to eat the cake. Before she died, she asked me what the cake tasted like. I told her it was sweet, sweet. What does it taste like? Actually, I don't know. She's dead, and I can only bury her in the backyard so that she won't turn into a zombie monster. ]
[March 15th: Hehehehe...Why hasn't the courier come yet? I really want to see him, hehe...If there is a cake...]
The diary stops here, and the back is full of blood-red tear marks.
Obviously, after March 15th, this man went completely crazy and turned into such a monster.
Walking to the back door, Ye Qiyan saw a tombstone standing in the yard.
He placed the cake in front of the tombstone.
"This can be considered as completing the mission."
The reward for the mission was the three train coins in his hand.
This station seemed to end here.
But there was one thing that made Ye Qiyan a little concerned.
Outside the town, there was a broken locomotive.
Could it be something left there by a train conductor like him?
Or, was there a train conductor who also came to this station, but stayed here forever?
"Could it be that we are not the first group of survivors?"
Ye Qiyan's heart was full of doubts, but no one could answer these doubts for him.
"These silver weapons, are they not used to fight vampires?"
In the corner of the shop, he also found a crossbow.
Ye Qiyan put them all into his backpack along with the crossbow arrows.
"It's so heavy."
With one last glance at the monster corpse on the ground, Ye Qiyan set off on his return journey.
Stop countdown: [35:33]
Getting back to the train took longer than getting to the silversmith shop. There were
more monsters in the town than he'd imagined.
If it weren't for the extra hour he'd gained after the upgrade, he'd probably have had to force his way through the monster horde, instead of returning safely like he did now.
Zombie dogs, zombie chickens, zombie cats...
The only thing he didn't see were human zombies.
Wall-E hadn't returned yet, so Ye Qiyan wasn't in a hurry to leave.
He still had plenty of time, so he sorted out his gains from this stop.
[Mythril Crossbow] (Level 2)
[Causes triple damage to vampires
] [Mythril Cross] (Level 2)
[Pray, maybe it will help?]
[Mythril Ritual Sword] (Level 2)
[Causes irreversible damage to vampires]
Apart from these three items, he recycled the remaining scraps using a processing table, ultimately obtaining 10 kilograms of mithril.
With that much, in the world he'd been in, he'd probably be a relatively wealthy man.
Among the three mithril weapons, Ye Qiyan picked up the cross, thought about it, and began to upgrade it.
[Stamina: 55]
[Temple Mithril Cross] (Level 3)
[Can release holy light in darkness, with immense destructive power against vampires, demons, and other beings.]
Honestly, Ye Qiyan felt he couldn't even shoot accurately with a pistol, let alone this crossbow. As for close combat with vampires, he knew his limits.
He hung the cross on the front of the train and opened the trading platform. He was surprised to see that his initial transaction had actually been accepted.
"Someone actually bought it."
Looking at the gleaming train coin in his hand, Ye Qiyan ate a piece of fruit while opening the chat interface.
By this time, the other train conductors had already left the platform.
[Chat Room]
[Number of People: 7825/10000]
Thousands more people remained forever at their third stop.
Those who survive still face the challenge of survival.
Food, water, and medicine.
Only a small number possess these necessities.
And those who strive to upgrade their trains are even fewer among the few.-+ "Where was your third stop? I was so scared just now. The third stop was a cave full of spiders. I didn't dare get off the bus. It was so scary!"
"Hehe, I was lucky. I only encountered a few stray dogs at the third stop. I had a gun I bought from the boss, so I managed to kill them and even got some meat."
"Oh, I envy you guys for being able to buy guns from Boss Ye. Oh, and Boss Ye didn't come out to say a word. He's collected so many resources, but he still hasn't broken through to level two?"
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["What big boss? That Ye Qiyan is just a short-sighted guy! My eldest brother Li Xiaosheng is going to be upgraded to the second-class train soon, just wait and see!"]
Huh?
He saw a familiar name.
Li Xiaosheng.
Ye Qiyan remembered that he said that he would complete the upgrade within three stations.
Now it was exactly the third station.
He hasn't completed the upgrade yet?
Just when Ye Qiyan was curious, a message in the chat room suddenly caught his attention.
Li Xiaosheng: ["I have completed the train upgrade! These are the attributes of my train after the upgrade, and the upgrade options I got. As the first person to upgrade, I now invite companions who have train coins to join the alliance I created! I will provide food and water for those who join first."]
The chat room exploded.
"Oh my god! Boss, please help me!"
"I'm done. I used my train coin to buy food and water. Whoever made the deal, I'll give you the water, but can you please give me back the train coin?"
"What are train coins?"
Ye Qiyan ignored what Li Xiaosheng said. His attention was focused on the screenshots he sent, specifically the upgrade options.
[1: Low-level carriage blueprint (zero train coins)]
[2: Wooden automatic fishing rod blueprint (one train coin)]
[3: Minimum daily rations recipe (two train coins)]
[4: Increase train stop time by one hour (two train coins)]
As expected, the first and fourth options after the upgrade were the same. Ye Qiyan was completely certain of this.
"A fishing rod, and rations to survive, what a lucky guy."
Rations were useless to him, but a fishing rod wasn't. What
if one day he went to a platform where he could fish, wouldn't he be left staring blankly without a fishing rod?
But there was no need to rush, things like this could be bought when they were needed.
After all, there was a crossroads of fate, and he would always know about the platform and make his choice half an hour before everyone else.
"It's time to upgrade the train."
The reason he didn't continue upgrading the train before was not only because he had to wait for his health to recover, but also because he didn't have enough train coins to buy the upgrade items.
After building the accelerator, making two accelerator bullets, and feeding Wall-E a coin to start it, there was only one train coin left. Now he got three from the monster in the silver shop, which means there are four train coins.
If Wall-E can successfully find the treasure chest at this station, he can get more.
Ye Qiyan felt that he could give it a try.
Just as he was about to try to upgrade the train, the sound of the tracks outside the train stopped him. He
looked in the direction of the sound.
He saw Wall-E staggering into the recycling device holding a candy box stained with dark red marks.
"Injured?"
Seeing the several bite marks on Wall-E's body, the depth was obviously not something that an ordinary animal could do.
Without time to pay attention to what it was holding, Ye Qiyan looked up at the outside of the carriage.
A dozen zombie dogs appeared outside the train and were wandering slowly. Behind them, several monsters that looked somewhat similar to the zombie monster in the silver shop were limping towards the train.
Bang -
Ye Qiyan knocked on Wall-E's head helplessly.
"Stupid thing, you even attracted monsters."
Wall-E didn't understand, it just raised its hand silently and handed the candy box to Ye Qiyan.
"Forget it, for your meritorious service."
[Level 2 Treasure Chest] (Can be opened)
Ye Qiyan picked up the treasure chest with a smile on his face.
Although the outside was surrounded by monsters, he was not panicked at all.
This is just a second-level platform.
However, there was a level 4 defense building on his train.
The moment the monsters approached within a hundred meters of the train,
the red light ball in the sentry tower locked them.
Red circles formed under the monsters' feet.
The equipped long guns stretched out from the darkness.
Bullets were fired continuously, and each shot accurately hit the weak points of these monsters.
In less than ten seconds, the humanoid monsters and zombie dogs all fell down.
Ye Qiyan ate the Baisen fruit, and his expression did not look very happy when he saw all this.
[0:08:12]
There are still eight minutes left in the countdown to leaving the station.
The gunshot just now was undoubtedly louder than the one in the silver shop.
I'm afraid all the monsters in this town will come over.
As expected, more and more monsters surrounded the train from all directions.
Their bodies are fragile, and the warning device only needs one shot to smash their skulls.
Larger humanoid monsters, whose defense is not as strong as that of the silver shop owner, only need three shots.
It must be said that the warning device's shooting skills are much better than his.
[00:00:01]
The countdown is about to end.
With the monsters chasing behind, Ye Qiyan's train began to move forward.
Passing through the void space, in the blink of an eye, the scenery of the doomsday town disappeared, and the endless wilderness returned to Ye Qiyan's sight again.
Ding Dong!
The broadcast sounded at this moment.
[All survivors leave the third platform! ]
[The restrictions of the trading system have been lifted, and transactions can be conducted within the platform in the future! ]
[Novice protection period ends, survival mode opens]
[Please pay attention to night driving safety]
[Survivors whose train speed is lower than 30 kilometers per hour will enter a dangerous state! ]
[Please upgrade the train as soon as possible]
[Wish you good luck]
[Wish you]
[Survive]
The chat room exploded again.
And this time it exploded even louder.
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! What do you mean this is? Survival mode? Nighttime dangers? Monsters appear in the wilderness too!?"
"It's over, it's over! I've traded all my resources for food!" "
Ah! Help me! Someone, help me! I don't want to die!"
"Brother Li! Brother Li, help me! Please give me some upgrade materials! I've joined your alliance!"
"Tsk, you idiots! I knew this world wouldn't let us off so easily. We haven't sold any of the resources we've collected since these three stops. Isn't the real issue of time the main concern? Why is the announcement an hour late, just like at the end of the first stop?"
"Has someone upgraded the train already? Didn't that Li Xiaosheng send a screenshot? Doesn't upgrading to level two increase platform stop time?"
"That's impossible to upgrade on the first stop, right?"
"Of course. No one could upgrade on the first stop. After all, the trading system wasn't even enabled at the platform at that time."
"But didn't Li Xiaosheng just say he was the first to upgrade? It seems there are other experts out there."-+ Unlike the lively chat room,
Ye Qiyan's focus wasn't on that at the moment.
Google search for TWKAN .
[End of the third stop, Doomsday Town: Kill 11 humanoid zombies, 28 zombie dogs, and 1 zombie cat...]
[Kill rating: A-level]
[Congratulations on completing the hidden mission: Town Liberator]
[Mission reward: One carriage exchange voucher]
"So, this is the mission for the mission platform?"
He looked at the text on the screen before him, then at the bedraggled Wall-E.
"Thanks to you, I wouldn't have missed this."
He stroked Wall-E's iron skull.
"A carriage?"
He held the translucent ticket in his hand, a picture of a carriage on it.
Having enjoyed the constant temperature carriage for a few days, Ye Qiyan was eagerly anticipating the new carriage.
"Upgrade."
[Carriage Exchange Ticket → Special Carriage Exchange Ticket]
[Redeemable for a Level 2 Special Carriage.]
"Use."
The ticket burned in mid-air.
[Obtained Level 2 Carriage: Low-level Storage Carriage]
[Storage Carriage: Contains 48 storage cells. Any cell can store an unlimited number of items of a single type. Survival items cannot be stored.]
This is a good thing. Think about when he first started collecting resources. Wood and metal were piled up everywhere, and there was not even a place for him to sleep in the front of the train.
With this car, he can completely free up the space of the train to a large extent.
"I can upgrade it once more."
He couldn't wait to use his talent again.
At the end of the second section.
Through the window, he saw a car fall accurately into the track from mid-air and connect with his train.
The door at the connection opened.
Stepping inside, forty-eight storage-like units were evenly spaced on both sides of the carriage.
"Upgrade."
[Physical Strength: 55 → 30] [Spirit: 80 → 55]
Upgrading from a Level 1 Standard Carriage to a Level 2 Special Carriage consumes 20 points of physical strength, while upgrading from a Level 2 Special Carriage to a Level 3 costs a total of 50 points.
More than doubled.
Ye Qiyan's body sank into fatigue once again, but his eyes held a different spirit.
[Storage Unit Carriage] (Level 3)
[It has 51 storage units, and any unit can store unlimited items. Items placed in it will not decay or be damaged... Living creatures cannot be stored. The three units in the storage car can be taken at will by the train conductor at any location.]
The upgraded storage car only looks like it has three more units and the property of not decaying.
But these three units are not ordinary additions at all!
Can be taken at will by the train conductor? Isn't this a portable space?
He couldn't wait to put a few white sen fruits into one of the three units.
Ye Qiyan returned to the front of the train, and after a slight groping in the air, a white sen fruit appeared in his hand!
Obviously, this upgrade is a huge profit!
While eating Baisen fruit to restore his strength, Ye Qiyan threw all the resources in the carriage into ordinary units.
The space of the train instantly became cleaner and wider.
As for the three special units, one of them is naturally used to store Baisen fruit. In the other two, Ye Qiyan only put some bullets and drinking water.
In this way, when he leaves the train and enters the platform to explore, his burden will be much less.
"By the way, there is also a treasure chest."
Taking out the level 2 treasure chest that Wall-E brought back for him, Ye Qiyan did a little calculation.
It takes 55 points to upgrade a level 3 treasure chest to level 4. 1 to 2 is 37 points, so 2 to 3 is at most 40 points.
Just hold on a little, it will be enough.
"Sublime."
[Physical strength: 30→20] [Spirit: 55→20]
[Warning! [Entering depleted state]
[Warning! Entering sanity dissipation state!!]
He guessed correctly, forty-five points of spirit were depleted.
Ye Qiyan panted, his eyelids heavy as he forced his last bit of strength to look at the treasure chest in front of him.
The candy box in front of him once again determined that it had changed.
[Level 3 Treasure Chest] (Can be opened)
[Open Level 3 Treasure Chest]
[Obtain Train Coins: 6]
[Obtain: Zombie Killer (Level 3)]
[3 Virus
Serums] [Windproof Lighter]
Three rewards, neither good nor bad.
The Zombie Killer is a chain saw sword modified from an electric saw, with a triple damage bonus against zombie monsters.
The remaining two items function as their names suggest.
Serum, perhaps it'll be useful.
As for the windproof lighter from a level 3 treasure chest, it's quite valuable, in a sense.
But that's beside the point.
I got six more Train Coins from the level 3 treasure chest, which makes a total of ten Train Coins, including the previous one!
At this moment, no one can do more than him.
He has to take all the upgrade options that appear in the next train upgrade.
And before the upgrade, he has something important to do.
That is.
Sleep.
He is tired.
10 points of physical strength.
It is the first time that he has worked so hard.
He really felt the discomfort called exhaustion.
As for the loss of sanity mentioned in the warning, he didn't feel it at all.
——————
During Ye Qiyan's rest time, the chat room was still very lively.
Countless people bought materials for upgrading trains from each other.
But how many people are really qualified to buy it?
If only upgrading can guarantee survival.
Then of the remaining thousands of people, it would be lucky if one tenth can survive.
So, it soon became apparent that the train's broadcast required a speed of only 30 kilometers per hour, while the upgraded speed could reach a full 40 kilometers per hour.
Does this mean that the speed-related parts of the train, namely the wheels, can be upgraded individually?
Someone tried.
Using one-fifth of the metal and one-third of the mechanical parts from the upgraded train, they actually managed to upgrade the wheels alone, bringing the speed up to the required 30 kilometers per hour.
As soon as this news came out, metal and mechanical parts immediately became the most sought-after resources.
Almost everyone wanted to buy these two materials.
Even though doing so would consume more materials for the overall train upgrade.
But who would care about so much to survive?
Meanwhile, Li Xiaosheng, who had just mentioned forming an alliance to collect train coins, now had a rather grim expression on his face.
Who was the person who upgraded the train before him?
"How could anyone possibly gather materials faster than me? I'm the Chosen One!"
His profile displayed a row of talents.
[Resource Radar]: Before arriving at the next station, you must select a basic train resource. There's a high probability that collectible resources of that type will appear at the next station.
Metal, mechanical parts, wood.
It took Li Xiaosheng three stations to gather all the resources needed for the upgrade.
He couldn't understand who could have been faster than him.-+ Bang-bang-
"So noisy..."
Fierce gunshots echoed in the wilderness.
Ye Qiyan was awakened by the sound. He tiredly opened his eyes and looked out the window subconsciously. A pair of scarlet eyes were chasing the train under the night sky.
"What the hell is that? It scared me to death."
The horrifying sight instantly woke him up.
He hurried to the front of the train and found that the alarm device had been turned on.
"Wait, is this the night danger the radio mentioned?"
Ye Qiyan remembered what the radio said after the end of the third station.
[Gorilla Moon Wolf] (Level 1)
[Hunting speed: 25 kilometers per hour]
Looking at the monster information identified by the train, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the train will not be judged as dangerous if its speed exceeds 30 kilometers.
The second-class train even reached a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. Fortunately, he did not have to worry too much about being caught up by these monsters.
After washing his face with clean water and blowing the cold wind, Ye Qiyan was completely awake.
[01:44:13]
One o'clock in the morning.
He was no longer sleepy.
He opened the chat room and his pupils shrank when he saw the number of people.
[4130/10000]
Wait, how many people were there during the day?
He vaguely remembered that it was more than 7,000 and nearly 8,000 people?
In other words, during the time he was asleep, more than 4,000 people had died in the wilderness? And this number is still increasing.
A chill instantly made Ye Qiyan's back sweat.
If you think about it carefully, the danger at night is more ferocious than the platform.
The train speed cannot exceed 30 kilometers per hour or it will be caught up by these monsters and become their meal.
But after three stations, how many survivors can really reach level two? Only those
who survive this night of terror can be considered survivors in the true sense.
In order to stay alive, you must do your best to upgrade the train and explore the platform.
It is almost impossible to stay in the train and hide as before.
Forcing himself to calm down, the message prompt on the private chat interface attracted his attention.
Shangguan Yingxue: [Are you still alive? ]
["...Just woke up, what do you want to buy?"]
Soon, the other party replied.
["Bullets, I'm out of them."]
["This can't be sold, I don't have many left."]
Ye Qiyan rejected Shangguan Yingxue's deal.
With the warning system, his bullet consumption has skyrocketed.
The final massacre at the third station alone consumed nearly seventy bullets.
If you count carefully, Ye Qiyan only has more than three hundred bullets now, and it is impossible to sell them.
["Don't you have the blueprint for the bullet?"]
["Of course not, it would be great if you had."]
["Got it, goodbye."]
The chat ended.
Shangguan Yingxue's fierce and quick-witted personality makes it really easy to communicate.
Ye Qiyan sat on the chair and opened his personal message.
[Physical strength: 82] [Spirit: 110]
"Recovered... huh? Wait?"
The hand that closed the personal message was suspended in mid-air.
He rubbed his eyes, looked at the two crucial things, physical strength and spirit, and pinched himself.
"Hiss, the mental limit has increased? What's going on? Did I do something?"
He tried hard to recall what happened before he fell asleep. Apart from overdrawing his physical and mental strength, nothing seemed to have happened.
Ye Qiyan shook his head and hid the doubts in his heart.
In any case, mental growth is a good thing for him.
He stood up and reached out to touch the control platform.
"It's time."
After three stops, it was time to upgrade his train for the next time.
Invisible power enveloped the entire train, and physical and mental strength flowed like a lake with the gate opened.
From level 1 to level 2, he only consumed 30 points of physical strength.
But from level 2 to level 3, it will obviously not be that simple.
[Physical strength: 82→52] [Spirit: 110→50]
[Train upgrade completed! ]
[Current level: 3]
[Materials required for the next train upgrade are: 300 kg of wood, 300 mechanical parts, 450 kg of metal, 10 kg of glass, 5 kg of gold, 5 kg of mithril, and one fire stone]
[Open upgrade options]
[Congratulations on breaking the record for the fastest train at level 3! Receive a train conductor module card! ]
90 points, a full three times more than before.
Ye Qiyan rubbed his brow. What about upgrading from level 3 to level 4? That would also be three times the current amount, or even more?
But asking him to use the materials to upgrade?
Forget it. Let
's take a look at the materials needed for the next level. He has mithril, and it's possible to get gold as well.
But what the heck is that Fire Stone? I've never heard of it.
"Let's see what happens after the upgrade. Hopefully, the upgrade options aren't too bad."
First, the speed has increased from 40 km/h to 60 km/h.
Secondly, the chassis, wheels, and frame, needless to say, have all reached Level 3 strength, allowing them to withstand even more attacks.
Just like last time, the key is the upgrade options and the record-breaking module card.
The difference is, this time it's the Train Conductor module.
"View Upgrade Options"
[Opening]
[Options as follows]
[1, Train Conductor Module Card: Departure Rights, (3 Train Coins)]
[2, Bullet (Level 3) Manufacturing Blueprint (4 Train Coins)]
[3, Energy Generator Manufacturing Blueprint (Level 3) (6 Train Coins)]
[4, Increase Stop Time by 1 Hour (1 Train Coin)]
"This really is what you wish for."
Looking at the contents in the upgrade options, Ye Qiyan's heart was already beaming with joy.
Aside from the fourth option, which was most likely inherent to the upgrade, the other three undoubtedly hit his needs.
Missing bullets, he got the blueprint, and it was level 3.
More importantly, the blueprint for the generator. Although he didn't need electricity yet, he would definitely need it in the future.
The only thing that made Ye Qiyan feel a little bit of a pain in the arse was this.
He had thought that owning 10 train coins would make him a small fortune, but he never expected that he still couldn't buy all the upgrade options at once.
He had to make a choice.
"What is the departure privilege?"
[Train Conductor Module Card: Departure Privilege]
[After using, you can leave the platform one hour early]
Great stuff! With this module, if you encounter any danger, you can leave the platform early, although only one hour in advance.
After thinking for a moment, he took out eight train coins and bought options 1, 2, and 4.
Although he really wanted the generator, the other three were equally important, especially that module.
[Bullet Blueprint] (Level 3)
[Each set requires: 3 kg of metal, 500 g of gunpowder]
[Each set yields 100 bullets]
The materials needed to craft bullets aren't many, but where can I get the gunpowder?
It's available on the trading platform, but the quantity is so small that I can't even craft a single set.
Or, could I buy it in the chat room?
Ye Qiyan shook his head. Even if he did, now wasn't the time.
He had more important things to do.
Module: Departure Rights.
[Sublimation]
[Physical Strength: 32] [Spirit: 30]
[Train Conductor Module Card: Departure VIP Rights]
[After 3 hours remaining on the stop countdown, you can start the train and leave the platform at any time.]-+ With the upgrade to VIP, the time of leaving the station becomes more flexible.
Finally, there is the train conductor module card as a record-breaking reward.
"Red?"
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Unlike special module cards, the color of the train conductor module card is blood red.
The pattern on it is not a train, but an abstract eyeball shape.
"I am running out of physical strength and energy."
Resisting the urge to open it directly.
Ye Qiyan lay motionless on the cold train floor.
So tired...
It seems that he has been tired all the time since he came to this world.
However, because of this, even in this terrible wilderness, he can still sleep soundly.
Holding the Train Conductor card in his hand, Ye Qiyan fell into a deep sleep.
...
Tonight, few could sleep.
The pursuit of death plunged the chat room into boundless fear.
"They're still chasing me! What should I do? I won't be caught up, will they?!"
"Didn't they say that if you exceed the speed by more than 30 kilometers, you'll be fine? How come some of those monsters are exceeding that speed?!"
"The broadcast only said that you won't be in danger, but it doesn't mean you're truly safe. I think you can only be truly safe if you reach a speed of 40 kilometers per hour at level 2."
"Damn it! If someone hadn't bought all my resources! I would definitely be able to reach level 2!"
"I don't think those monsters can catch up. Only a few of them are fast enough. Luckily... I bought a gun from the boss and it saved my life. Alas, I only have three bullets left now."
"Stop chatting. Save your energy. There's a fourth stop tomorrow. Sigh..."
"This is only the first night. Will there be more monsters tomorrow?"
["This world doesn't want us to live…"]
["Rest early… There's a fourth stop tomorrow. I hope it's a safe platform. At least I can collect resources to strengthen the train."]
Things don't go as planned.
[06:30:00]
The train broadcast sounded at this time.
[Block E-3, the first night survival ends, number of survivors: 3825 people]
[The second night survival will start in three days. Those who travel at a speed lower than 40 kilometers per hour will enter a dangerous state]
[Please increase the speed as soon as possible]
[Warm reminder, please take precautions]
The voice of the broadcast was so gentle, but the words it said made people feel like they were falling into an ice cave.
The second night survival after three days requires a speed of 40 kilometers?
In other words, if they couldn't upgrade the train to Level 2 within the next three stops, they would be eliminated.
The survivors, already struggling to sleep, were driven into a frenzy.
"You really don't want us to live! Where can we get the materials? I only encountered a forest at one of the first three stops, and I couldn't even get off the train at the other two! It's not fair!"
"It's over, it's really over now. I've used everything I have to trade for wheel upgrade materials. There's no wood, no parts, how can I possibly get enough in three stops?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Li, Brother Li, please help me. I'm a member of your alliance, you can't just stand by and watch me die!"
"Yes, yes, Brother Li, I have train coins. I'll give them to you now. Please help me think of a solution."
Looking at the pleading words on the chat interface, Li Xiaosheng's mouth curled up.
He had no shortage of supplies. As long as he used his talents step by step to increase the resource drop rate, it would only take about three stops to upgrade again.
As long as the train upgrades are still the most basic metal, wood, and mechanical parts.
Each of his upgrades will not take more than three stations.
Although he doesn't know who the guy who upgraded before him is,
Li Xiaosheng just thinks that the other party is lucky. He is different. He has achieved it step by step with his unique abilities.
Thinking of this, Li Xiaosheng sent a message in the chat interface.
["Everyone, don't panic. For those who have joined my alliance, I will definitely find a way to help you complete your first upgrade."]
At this point, he suddenly remembered someone.
"By the way, that guy named Ye Qiyan, he shouldn't be dead, right? He sold so many guns, he should be about to complete the upgrade, could it be that he is the one who got there first?"
The more he thought about it, the more possible it was. Li Xiaosheng immediately sent a private chat invitation to Ye Qiyan.
But after sending the invitation, he suddenly realized that
he didn't have Ye Qiyan as a friend.
"This guy didn't even add me?"
"Forget it, since he has a gun, I'll give this guy another chance."
The friend request was sent.
And then, nothing happened.
————
"Ouch, my old waist."
After sleeping on the floor for most of the night, Ye Qiyan slept very uncomfortably.
He took out a white sen fruit from the storage unit in a daze, washed his face, and watered the saplings.
He glanced at the time.
[8:34:44]
"I slept for so long."
Eating the fruit, his brain cleared up.
"The next night survival in three days? 40 kilometers, it has nothing to do with me anyway, hiss, why is it so cold today?"
Ye Qiyan yawned, opened the car window, and the biting cold hit his face.
"Huh? Is the weather a little strange today?"
In the wilderness these days, the sun is shining brightly every day, and there are no clouds in the sky.
But today, the sun is covered by dark clouds, and the oppressive atmosphere seems to crush the whole world.
Ye Qiyan looked for a while and then retracted his gaze, turning his gaze to his right hand.
To be precise, it was the card held in his right hand.
[Train Conductor Module Card]
The second module of the record-breaking reward. If not for his low energy and mental state last night, Ye Qiyan wouldn't have been able to open it now.
[Stamina: 82] [Stamina: 110]
"Hasn't my stamina recovered yet? Did I use up too much?"
"Never mind, having mental state is enough."
The talent triggered.
An invisible force enveloped the red card.
"Sublime,"
he silently chanted.
A sense of passing time surged through him.
[Upgrade Completed]
[Train Conductor Module Card → Train Conductor Advanced Module Card]
[Spirit: 110 → 80]
[Unlock Train Conductor Advanced Module Card]
[Obtain Train Conductor Advanced Module: Gunfire Judgment]
[Gunfire Judgment]
[Proficient with any firearm, greatly improves shooting talent, can consume spirit to strengthen a bullet, the next shot will be based on the target, and the power will be increased according to the opponent's sin]
An inexplicable feeling flooded into his mind.
Ye Qiyan drew the black light pistol from his waist, and the original awkwardness disappeared. Holding the gun, he seemed to have become a battle-hardened gunman. A seemingly casual shot could hit the target he wanted.