Anjie's gaze followed Ye Qiyan's pointing finger to look at the box.

Inside that box was a crate of fruits and vegetables emitting a faint, fresh fragrance.

Such things, even for someone who was the administrator of an entire city, were items she hadn't seen in a long time—food this fresh.

But food was just food.

In Anjie's eyes, even though she was an administrator, she hadn't seen such fresh produce in ages.

However, for this White Snow City.

What was truly needed.

Was medicine to treat burns, not food.

"Sorry, Mr. Ye, I don't quite understand what you mean. Food is food, medicine is medicine. How can the two be conflated?"

Using food as burn medicine was still too far-fetched for other people, wasn't it?

Ye Qiyan didn't intend to prove anything either.

He took a tomato from the box and took a bite.

"Believe it or not, these foods really are medicine that can treat burns."

"Don't think it's impossible."

"In a world where even fire rain can fall, why can't fruit heal wounds?"

Hearing Ye Qiyan's words, Anjie was slightly stunned.

She lowered her eyes slightly, as if thinking about something.

Suddenly, as if she had figured something out.

Anjie smiled a relieved smile.

"You're right. The world has already become this way. There should be, at least a tiny bit of good news, right?"

"We'll take everything in this box. Whatever you need, as long as White Snow City can provide it, we will offer it."

Here it comes. Ye Qiyan had long thought about how to answer this question.

He took out a dark golden coin from his pocket.

That was a Train Coin.

"Do you have things like this?"

"This is...? A Doomsday Coin? What do you need something like this for?"

Anjie frowned, seeming very puzzled by Ye Qiyan's choice.

"...White Snow City's research institute does have such coins. Please wait a moment, we will prepare them for you."

"Having your word is enough. Take it."

Ye Qiyan pushed the box towards Anjie.

"Huh? But the transaction..."

"Heh, I believe White Snow City won't go back on its word. Moreover, in the current situation, we should help each other, shouldn't we?"

A gentle smile spread across Ye Qiyan's face.

His words, combined with his actions, caused the surrounding onlookers' favorability towards him to skyrocket.

"You can grind these foods into juice. If you want to treat burns, applying it on the wounds can achieve a soothing and healing effect. However, the quantity isn't large. How to distribute it will be up to you to decide."

Another wave of restlessness passed through the crowd.

Clearly, under that fire rain, the number of burn victims was countless.

And even if everything in this box was mashed up, it likely couldn't be evenly distributed to everyone.

Ye Qiyan wanted to see what choice this administrator named Anjie would make.

"Mr. Ye, thank you! Please rest assured, White Snow City will definitely not disappoint you."

Two soldiers lifted the box, their cautious manner making it seem as if what was inside wasn't mere fruits and vegetables, but some kind of rare treasure.

No, perhaps for them.

The value of any rare treasure.

Really wasn't half as precious as these fruits and vegetables with healing effects.

The crowd was dispersed.

Anjie enthusiastically led Ye Qiyan and Lisette into the building called the Central Research Institute.

From her mouth, Ye Qiyan learned the origin of the so-called "Doomsday Coins" she mentioned.

"You should also know, seventy-seven years ago, this world began to enter the Doomsday period. Various terrifying doomsday disasters capable of destroying the world descended."

"Since then, after the doomsday disasters temporarily left the destroyed areas, people would always discover these strange coins."

"They are engraved with a train. People believe it's a reminder from some existing deity to humanity, that it is the hope to escape the disaster."

"Only..."

When speaking about the train, Anjie's expression seemed a bit strange.

"No, let's not talk about that. I've made a fool of myself in front of you."

"White Snow City has avoided several doomsday disasters and has also collected some Doomsday Coins. They have always been stored in the research institute for study, but after all these years, there hasn't been any result to speak of."

In a certain room within the research institute.

Anjie turned on the lights here.

What met the eye.

Was a box piled high with dark golden coins.

"This box contains a total of four hundred and seventy-two Doomsday Coins. Consider them payment for those fruits and vegetables. I hope... you won't think it's too little."

"?"

Four hundred and seventy-two?

For just some fruits and vegetables that were utterly ordinary, nothing special at all to him?

To be honest.

Ye Qiyan really hadn't expected to get this many.

He was pleasantly surprised in his heart, but his face showed no expression.

He walked to the box and picked up a coin.

The system interface performed an appraisal.

Correct.

It was the real thing.

Then, why? Why would Train Coins appear after those doomsday disasters?

Through the Major Consumption Reduction, Ye Qiyan knew very well that Train Coins represented "everything."

If the doomsday disasters destroyed, crushed, and reassembled "everything"...

Could that be one of the conditions for generating Train Coins?

He had Lisette hold the box containing the Train Coins in her arms and take it back to the train.

Anjie watched all this, hesitated for a long moment, and finally asked:

"Can you tell me, what do you need these coins for?"

Ye Qiyan blinked and said in a deep voice:

"They are the remnants after the doomsday, the traces left after humanity's existence. I... want to collect these traces. Consider it... a commemoration of the world that once was."

This was a lie.

But, even though Ye Qiyan didn't use Bewitchment, Anjie would still choose to believe.

How those fruits were distributed, Ye Qiyan had no way of knowing, nor did he care.

He returned to his own train.

Within a hundred-meter radius centered on the train, White Snow City soldiers formed a human wall, performing work that could be considered either protection or surveillance.

They prevented ordinary people from coming to disturb him.

Ye Qiyan was quite happy with the peace and quiet.

Anjie didn't mention the transaction again. Probably in her eyes, what Ye Qiyan had taken out was already everything.

"Over four hundred, plus what I had left before... should be enough to make that thing."

[Pseudo·Death Refusal]

[You can use a large number of Train Coins to condense a single, consumable "Pseudo·Death Refusal"]

["This effect requires a (defensive) (protective) item to serve as a vessel."]

In this world where all kinds of doomsday disasters could appear at any moment, Ye Qiyan felt it was necessary for him to have an extra layer of insurance.

As for what to use as the vessel?

Ye Qiyan's gaze fell on his left wrist.

There, on his wrist, was an ordinary, utterly plain bracelet that had never served any function, yet he had always worn it.

[Safety Bracelet (Level 4)]

[Can block one fatal injury. Shatters after blocking.]

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