Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"How is it outside?"

The tea was quite good, though he wasn't really used to drinking it.

Ye Qiyan set down the teacup and casually replied:

"Outside is chaotic. Those who were once Train Conductors but abandoned their trains are fighting over trains at the exchange, wanting to return to the wilderness. However..."

He hesitated for a moment.

Menrojina smiled slightly and finished his sentence for him.

"However, even if those people manage to get a train, they'll ultimately just end up dead in the wilderness or at some station, right?"

"Not entirely, maybe some will get lucky?"

"Heh, if there really were such people, they wouldn't have chosen to abandon their trains in the first place."

"Don't you find it strange? The city's rulers preach peace and stability, encouraging Train Conductors to abandon their trains and live as ordinary people in the city. Yet the children they raise are educated to strive for nothing but becoming Train Conductors. This strange contradiction can only mean one thing."

She rubbed the rim of her cup, her tone gradually turning playful.

"So-called identity abandonment is only a choice made by ordinary people and weaklings who fear the wilderness. None of the city's higher-ups would ever abandon their trains. They just use certain methods to keep their trains permanently stationed in their cities without having to leave. Abandoning a train doesn't mean abandoning power, nor does it mean you can't continue growing stronger. But~ without a train, you can't move forward. Those who truly have aspirations won't allow themselves to remain stagnant."

Menrojina's words echoed what Zhao Xi had said.

Joining a city didn't mean abandoning your train.

Those who made such choices did so because of their own fears and inadequacies, even with the influence of the Order Card.

For ordinary people, this choice wasn't necessarily a bad thing. However, those who start riots just because life in the city isn't good enough - such people wouldn't fare well even if they returned to the wilderness.

Hmm?

Wait.

If that's the case...

"Figured it out?"

"Exactly. In that case, what was that woman Zhu Xingshu trying to accomplish by stealing the city's Order Card?"

Ye Qiyan voiced his answer.

"To collect the Order card sequence?"

"Correct. The answer is that simple. That charlatan does everything for just one purpose - collecting card sequences, or getting those who can obtain entire sequences to join the Imperial Sequence Organization. She doesn't care who holds the card sequences, only that the sequence holders become members of the organization."

Menrojina raised her eyes to look at the sky.

At this moment, Zhu Xingshu was being pursued through the upper levels of Suoluo City.

"I only want to tell you one thing."

She paused.

"No matter when, never believe anything that charlatan says except when it's about collecting card sequences. Whether it's for righteousness, salvation, or life - it's all false."

In a certain sense, the Zhu Xingshu that Menrojina described - that woman everyone called a charlatan - had remarkably pure intentions in her actions.

For card sequences?

Ye Qiyan didn't quite understand.

"What happens if an entire card sequence is successfully collected?"

"I don't know. After all, I've never succeeded. Perhaps only that charlatan has succeeded, which is why she's so obsessed with collecting card sequences."

Menrojina sighed, propped herself up with her staff-sword, and stood up to walk toward her train.

"I need to leave now."

"Now?"

"Yes, taking those elves outside with me."

"I owe them a favor. I need to help them complete a ritual, so they'll stay on my train as assistants."

The staff-sword swung.

From that carriage, a massive goshawk flew over carrying an egg in its talons.

"This is for you."

Menrojina handed over the warm eagle egg.

"This is from my pet goshawk. Consider it a parting gift. Don't eat it - hatch it and keep it as a pet."

"If this is repayment for saving you, the Demon Card and that thing from the seal were already more than enough."

"No, it's still not enough."

Menrojina didn't explain further, firmly pressing the egg into Ye Qiyan's arms. She removed her veil, gave him a slight smile, and then her body gradually turned into bubbles and disappeared.

The train's whistle sounded.

Before Menrojina's train, the tracks extended and space distorted.

From the ruined blue elf village outside, elves carrying large and small bundles walked through the distortion.

They entered the same carriage and disappeared.

There seemed to exist an entire small world within, large enough for these hundreds of people to live in.

The whistle sounded again.

Menrojina from his friends list sent him a message.

"If you encounter something you can't handle related to mystical measurements, you can come find me. I'll find a way to help you~"

The train started moving.

Watching the entire train disappear into the distortion from behind - this was the first time he had seen someone else's train depart from a station from this perspective.

"It's time for me to leave too."

Although he had been in Suoluo City for less than a day, the gains from this trip were quite substantial.

Not to mention other things, just in Train Coins alone he now possessed over forty.

He planned to save up to a hundred before proceeding with the next train upgrade.

Additionally, he took out the cultivation carriage and virtual sandbox carriage that could undergo Sublimation, placing them in the sixth and seventh positions respectively.

He would perform the Sublimation after leaving here.

Taking out his pocket watch, the time was already 5:18 PM.

Should he leave the station now?

Ye Qiyan pondered briefly.

If he left now, he'd still have to wait on the train until tomorrow afternoon to reach the next station.

There was no particular hurry.

He could continue buying supplies in the city.

After all, he still hadn't spent the 2,000 Suoluo coins he exchanged earlier. Who knew when he would come here next? Keeping them would be pointless.

"Eh? Where's that pretty sister's train?"

Zhao Lin, who had been tinkering with something in her own train all this time, came running out.

"She left. Didn't you hear the noise?"

Zhao Lin stuck out her tongue and pointed to her second carriage.

"That carriage is completely soundproof. Hehe, I usually sleep there. Can't even hear the wheels clattering. Pretty impressive, right?"

"Not bad. Seems you have some assets after all."

"Of course!"

"Perfect timing. Sell it for money to compensate for my current streak of bad luck after catching your misfortune~"

"Th-that, I should get back now!"

Watching Zhao Lin flee in panic, Ye Qiyan couldn't help but chuckle.

To be honest, her misfortune this time was much simpler than he had imagined.

Apart from a little bit of danger, nothing unexpected had really happened.

Could it be that her misfortune wasn't actually that bad?

However, the moment this thought crossed his mind...

The violent shaking of the earth made Ye Qiyan retract that thought.

"...Haven't we encountered a bit too much trouble today?"

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