Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"Has the temperature dropped?"

Returning to the wasteland.

Ye Qiyan's gaze immediately turned to the window.

Yesterday, those fire tornadoes that had been raging across the Endless Wasteland had already vanished without a trace. The wasteland was still the same wasteland, as if nothing had ever happened.

Monsters chased after the train.

The horizon stretched on without end.

The apocalyptic scene from yesterday felt like a distant dream.

But it wasn't a dream; it was a genuine disaster.

Today's weather: clear.

This meant the weather inside the next station wouldn't be affected by the wasteland.

In the public chat room.

The Sector, which had returned to ten thousand people after the merger, now had a population of less than five thousand.

Ye Qiyan remembered that just yesterday, the number was still around seven thousand.

A single day of disastrous weather had killed nearly thirty percent of the Train Conductors who were already quite experienced with stations. How many more weather events like this would there be in the future?

"No wonder, even though one hundred eighty million Train Conductors enter every three years, the total number doesn't increase much in the end."

The city might truly be the destined end for many.

"Hmm?"

Something was nibbling on his pants leg.

He looked down.

The little goshawk that not long ago could barely walk without staggering had, after spending this time in the Breeding Car, already grown feathers.

Its body had also grown from originally the size of a palm to about the size of a three-year-old child.

"You're growing really fast, hmm..."

He picked up the little goshawk and reached out to touch it. As his spirit increased, his sense of whether an object could undergo further Sublimation became increasingly clear.

"Your potential has increased. Should I use Sublimation on you again?"

The little goshawk affectionately pecked his shoulder, as if expressing agreement.

"Then let's try."

Stroking the goshawk's feathers.

Ye Qiyan spoke, whispering softly.

"Sublimation."

Stamina and spirit were consumed simultaneously.

A brilliant blue stream of light enveloped the little goshawk.

Its body gradually grew larger. When the light faded, the goshawk let out a sharp cry, spread its wings, and strands of golden electric current circulated within its feathers.

[Stamina: 140→120] [Spirit: 150→130]

[Secret Art: Thunderclap Goshawk (Growing)]

[Awakened the thunder-attribute bloodline of the Goshawk Royal Family, can use some inherited secret arts]

[Current: Claw, Screech, Divine Bird Assault, Furious Thunder]

It gained two more abilities and grew considerably in size, though it hadn't reached full maturity yet.

Two more abilities were added to its secret arts. Disregarding the previous Claw and Screech, just looking at the names of these two new ones, their power should be decent.

He opened the train window. The goshawk, perched on Ye Qiyan's arm, flew outside.

It targeted the monsters chasing the train and used its abilities one by one.

The first ability caused the goshawk to transform into the image of a divine bird shrouded in golden thunderflames, crashing into the ground with force roughly equivalent to a single strike from the Thunderlight Spear Throw.

The latter ability, aside from coating its body in a layer of electric current, didn't seem to have any other obvious changes.

Ye Qiyan simply opened the Appraisal function to check the system's description.

[Furious Thunder]

[After its master encounters danger or it itself suffers heavy damage, it will enter this state. All abilities are enhanced threefold. After the state ends, there is a certain chance to complete a Thunder Bath Nirvana.]

A last-ditch effort move, with an additional hidden nirvana effect afterward. Not bad.

WALL-E, who was cleaning the train cars, happened to return at that moment. Seeing the now much larger goshawk, he instinctively wiped his monitor-like eyes.

"Don't recognize it? This is just that little thing all grown up."

Ye Qiyan tossed the goshawk, and it flew to perch on top of WALL-E's head.

This was its favorite spot to rest before it grew up.

He had WALL-E take the goshawk back to the Breeding Car to continue developing.

Once it reached full maturity, Ye Qiyan felt that using Sublimation on it again would surely bring him quite a few surprises.

There wasn't much else to do today.

During the wait to arrive at the next station, Ye Qiyan bought some materials from the Trading Platform for manufacturing Extermination Martyrs.

He only made thirty units. It wasn't that he didn't want to make more, but disposable thermite batteries themselves were already used by many people to make bombs. A single battery cost 300 Thousand Stars Coins, which was 0.3 Train Coins, and one Martyr required three batteries.

That meant 0.9 Train Coins per unit. Thirty units cost a full 27 Train Coins.

Their individual power wasn't immense; a single Martyr's explosion couldn't match one strike from the Thunderlight Spear Throw.

But once formed into a drone swarm, the Martyr bombs would react with each other, causing their power to increase exponentially.

If he could get one hundred and fifty units to detonate simultaneously, the resulting power would be truly spectacular.

"Sigh, you really need Train Coins everywhere."

He walked to the locomotive section and collected the five coins provided by the Great Dragon card today.

Ye Qiyan took out his pocket watch to check the time.

[12:16:33]

Less than a quarter of an hour remained until the Crossroads of Fate would trigger.

The eighteenth station was close at hand.

Ding Ding—

The system interface popped up. Someone had sent him a message via the friends list.

His gaze shifted from the pocket watch to the interface. Who could it be at this time?

Shaya: ["Be careful recently. Don't expose any connection you have with the Imperial Sequence Organization in front of outsiders, and don't let others see your Card Sequence."]

It was Shaya.

Even without her reminder, Ye Qiyan certainly wouldn't go around telling people he was a member of a terrorist organization.

But for Shaya to say this out of the blue, had something happened?

["I understand, Sister Shaya. But can you tell me the reason?"]

Shaya, who was praying in the church surrounded by several Angels, saw Ye Qiyan's question. As if recalling something quite amusing, she couldn't help but laugh.

["Some charlatan quietly stole an Order Card right from the City of a Thousand Stars. Combined with the incident in Suoluo City last time, this has made the city alliance extremely angry. So much so that they've issued a huge bounty on members of the Imperial Sequence Organization. The bounty is so high even I'm tempted. I really feel like selling that charlatan out for money."]

Huh?

Wasn't he the one who stole the Order Card?

How did Zhu Xingshu end up taking the blame for this?

He felt it necessary to ask properly.

["Don't worry, Sister Shaya, I won't reveal that I'm an organization member. But why did it turn out like this?"]

Shaya snorted lightly, a smirk playing on her lips as she continued her reply:

["Who knows? That person is always going on about fate. Yesterday, when I asked her what exactly happened in the City of a Thousand Stars, she refused to say. Hmph, still putting on an act, pretending to be pitiful, saying she wasn't the one who snatched the Order Card, that the real thief was someone else.

Hearing those words come out of her mouth... if you tried to trick a ghost with that, even the ghost wouldn't believe it! If it wasn't her, guided by fate, then who else could have taken the card from the City of a Thousand Stars without anyone knowing? And the people of the City of a Thousand Stars aren't fools; they must have found out she was there, hence the new bounty on the organization. Hmph, that charlatan has gone practically crazy for the sake of a Card Sequence."]

"......"

Ye Qiyan silently took out that Order Card and glanced at it. An image of Zhu Xingshu telling the truth but nobody believing her, leaving her frustrated, surfaced in his mind. The corners of his mouth twitched, struggling to suppress a smile. Holding back his laughter, he typed a line of text on the interface.

["Indeed, probably no one else could have done it. Maybe she just got lucky and obtained that Order Card by chance."]

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