Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

Until the docking time was nearly up, Ye Qiyan finally pressed the depart option.

The haul from this fight was decent.

Besides those items, he also obtained one hundred and twenty-two Train Coins.

Adding those to what remained before, Ye Qiyan’s total Train Coins once again rose above two hundred.

Eve used her pulse cannon to clear the road ahead.

It was time to leave; the familiar void appeared in front of the train.

Passing through that void.

The scenery outside the windows returned once more to the familiar Endless Wasteland.

Time [11:01:34]

But now, his next stop was no longer required to occur exactly at one in the afternoon.

Standing in the locomotive section, Ye Qiyan watched the world outside recede, seemingly unchanged, and a brand-new module activated on the system interface before his eyes.

[Wasteland Rest]

Since arriving in this world, this train that had always been moving through the wasteland finally slowed its pace.

A clear steam whistle sound echoed across the land.

As the world outside that had been receding began to freeze.

The white train would finally rest in this Endless Wasteland.

“Finally... stopping?”

Who had said that nothing in the Endless Wasteland could stop? Ye Qiyan couldn’t quite remember.

But it seemed that, for an existence like a Train Conductor, the wasteland would grant the greatest favor.

Stop—

In front of the carriage door, Ye Qiyan pressed the open-door option.

[Stopped in the wasteland~]

[This is the Train Conductor’s rest time~]

[Docking countdown: 00:59:59]

The monsters that had chased the train, seeing it halt, poured in like hyenas smelling carrion, rushing wildly toward it.

But every creature within a one hundred seventy meter radius of the train was locked onto by Eve.

All the weapons in his thirty-six weapon slots converged around him into semicircular displays like peacock tails.

The bullet storm cleared them out in no time.

With alert mode engaged, there was no danger around.

Ye Qiyan opened the door and looked out at the sky-churning dust and the endless rolling mists along the horizon.

He stepped down from the train and, for the first time, set foot on this wasteland.

“Looks... not much different from a normal world? Except for this soil...”

Ye Qiyan crouched and scooped up a handful of dirt at his feet.

No—this wasn’t soil.

This was...

“Ash?”

The system’s identification activated.

The interface displayed the name of this ash.

[Wasteland God’s Ashes]

[Use to, construct worlds]

[Ash commonly seen in the wasteland]

[No effect]

[Note: This is merely ash being stepped on]

“...”

Ash commonly seen everywhere?

But that name...

It included a god.

Ash of a god?

Ye Qiyan casually tossed the ash aside, climbed onto the roof of the train, and looked out in all directions.

Monsters.

A lot of monsters.

Those creatures, which for some reason kept coming endlessly and couldn’t be exhausted, were still desperately charging toward the train.

Their abilities were weak.

So weak that a single Dagger could easily open their bellies.

Their numbers were massive.

So many they resembled endlessly reproducing insects.

Ye Qiyan summoned the Raven demon, had it work with Eve to handle the monsters, and picked up several corpses.

He ran another identification.

[Wasteland Species · Blade Scrap Dog]

[Wasteland Species · Sand Elemental Person]

Wasteland species?

Wasteland race?

No, not quite.

Because wasteland races should be like Dream Eaters or the Demon God Embryos he had seen before—either powerful or possessing self-awareness.

But these monsters clearly fit none of those descriptions.

“Huh?”

Ye Qiyan suddenly noticed the hollow, shrunken state of these monsters’ abdominal cavities.

He took out the Eternal Cutter and sliced open the belly of one corpse.

The empty interior of the body was revealed to Ye Qiyan.

No heart.

As if that organ had never existed.

How were they alive?

He continued the autopsies.

Among the dozen-or-so bodies the Raven demon had brought back, not all lacked hearts.

Instead, about half looked exactly like normal monsters.

But that made things even stranger.

No...

An idea came to Ye Qiyan.

Death Omen manifested.

A demon raven appeared on Ye Qiyan’s shoulder.

“Gah!”

It let out a piercing cry.

That cry was not only directed at the dead corpses.

It was also for those monsters still charging.

Among them, the ones without hearts—

were “dead.”

Death and life running parallel.

Such a bizarre phenomenon perhaps could only appear in this strange wasteland.

He went forward.

Ye Qiyan wandered in a random direction for a while.

Until he came to a relatively intact, not completely weathered rock surface, picked up the Eternal Cutter,

and, with a wry smile, carved a line of words on it.

“Was here~”

No name, no time.

He just felt there was something commemorative about doing so.

About fifty minutes passed and Ye Qiyan returned to the train.

This trip into the wasteland yielded nothing of value—only something worth remembering.

“Next then...”

He checked his physical and mental stamina.

Not full.

Then he rested.

He needed to enter his first Level 8 station in the best mental state possible.

Resting through the day led to dawn the next day.

Ye Qiyan had made all preparations.

Time.

Morning: [8:00:00]

A coordinate carrier—like a mall voucher—appeared in Ye Qiyan’s hand.

He swiped it across the system interface.

A broadcast sounded at that moment.

[Ding dong~ Detected train choosing to enter Station Twenty-Three! Level 8 mission station: Wind Wind Shopping Mall]

[Preparing track for you]

[Ding dong~ Exclusive module! Crossroads of Fate triggered!]

[Station selected, therefore you will be able to choose your entry point from the following options.]

Similar to entering a city before.

Crossroads of Fate didn’t choose a station but rather the docking position.

[Option 1: Main Entrance]

[Option 2: Underground Docking Point]

Underground or main entrance?

When unsure, Ye Qiyan tended to pick the safer main entrance.

Selection complete.

Different from the usual void.

This time, a more brilliant radiance appeared ahead.

The warped space twisted like an endless kaleidoscope.

It seemed poised to swallow the train and everything within it, never to release them.

“Rumble rumble rumble—!”

The train rushed through!

Ahead, the station entrance!

[Ding—!]

Outside the windows, the scene changed!

[Number— E-3-1102 Train Conductor Ye Qiyan.]

[You have entered Level 8 mission station: Wind Wind Shopping Mall.]

[This station’s docking time: unlimited]

[Depart methods: 1. Spend 20 Train Coins to leave at any time. 2. Complete this station’s objectives to leave at any time. 3. Explore independently.]

[This station: Danger!]

[Good luck—]

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