Shaya was lying.
Because the number of friends in her Friends List didn't even have a scroll bar for pulling down.
"I just didn't notice, okay? I'll definitely do it next time."
"That's what you said."
A faint smile appeared on Shaya's face before she turned serious and asked:
"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, why are you here?"
"Is it just to attend that singer Alice's concert? Do you... like her a lot?"
Ye Qiyan shook his head.
"Nothing like that. I just got a few tickets from someone else. It would be a waste not to use them. I didn't expect to run into today's events. As for why I'm in this city... well, I heard they're holding the Garden Festival here, so I came to join the fun."
Shaya silently took a sip of her coffee.
He wasn't sure if it was an illusion.
But the smile on her face seemed to have grown a bit brighter.
"Ahem, the Garden Festival. If we're talking about the past, I actually participated once before. It was quite interesting, really. But what the Garden Festival is like now, I'm not sure anymore.
However, after the Garden Festival opens, a special exchange that sells items above Level 4 will become available. Do you still have any Train Coins? Although the prices will be quite a bit more expensive than the black market.
But if you can buy a desired item or a Blueprint or something, it's still better than letting your Train Coins rot in your hands."
The Garden Festival had something like this?
Ye Qiyan pondered briefly in his heart.
The black market was good.
But it didn't have everything.
After all, no one could say for sure what kind of items Train Conductors could obtain from the various stations.
The Wasteland was infinite.
At the very least, its end could not be seen.
An infinite world held infinite possibilities.
No matter how many Train Coins he spent, as long as he could find something he desired, it didn't matter.
Shaya sipped her coffee while staring into Ye Qiyan's eyes.
"...But speaking of which, I don't know if this year's Garden Festival can proceed smoothly."
"Can't proceed smoothly?"
"Mhm."
She seemed somewhat hesitant.
"Forget it. Since you can even enter Advanced Stations now, telling you these things shouldn't be a problem."
Shaya clapped her hands.
Tina, who had been huddled near Lisette full of curiosity, ran over.
She took a white sphere from her small backpack and handed it over.
The sphere unfolded.
An invisible, transparent barrier expanded outward.
All sound transmitted to the outside world was completely isolated.
Shaya was just about to speak when she noticed Lisette, who had appeared behind Ye Qiyan the instant the barrier was deployed.
"She..."
A smile played on Lisette's face, and her Chrono-Mechanical Armament behind her had already activated the moment she saw Shaya.
"She is my companion."
"...Hehe, a mechanical maid, huh~ You better not sink into depravity~"
Shaya teased, then suddenly remembered the Card Sequence Ye Qiyan possessed and chuckled dryly.
"I almost forgot your Card Sequence is the Demon Card. Really... the complete opposite type from my Angels. Seems you're quite the bad boy at heart."
Angels, Demons.
Indeed, just from their names, these two were already set in opposition.
But...
Ye Qiyan didn't see it that way.
"You can't say that. The Card Sequence is for me to use. Whether it's good or bad should be determined by me. I just want to do what I want to do. It has nothing to do with good or evil."
Card Sequences weren't divided into good and bad.
What others thought was even less important.
"I didn't expect you to understand this so quickly~ Not surprising from the person who freed me from the seal. And... also the holder of Blasphemy."
"Alright, enough of that. Actually, when I first saw you here, I was thinking of telling you to leave as soon as possible. But looking at it now, that doesn't seem necessary."
"Zhu Xingshu, that charlatan, told me five days ago in Wasteland time that this Hanging Gardens would once again fall onto the Garden Star on the day of the Garden Festival.
And this time, all the Train Conductors in this city will die here."
"So, that charlatan asked me to come here. Oh no, not just me. Two others from the Emperor's Order came as well. You probably don't know them. I'll tell you when you see them."
Sure enough.
Just as he had initially guessed.
The reason Shaya was here was because of that charlatan Zhu Xingshu.
But, fall again? All die?
What was going to happen here was even worse than he had anticipated.
"...So what are you planning to do here?"
Shaya waved her hand casually.
"Don't know~ At least not right now. That charlatan didn't say. That guy loves doing this, creating these mysterious situations, telling half the story and hiding the rest."
"But then~ Hehe."
She gave a mysterious smile, clasped her hands together, and put on an expression of utmost piety~
"She told me that soon, traces of Gods will appear in this city~ And not just one~"
"Ah~ Wonderful, hehe. I so desperately want to see the Gods~"
Looking at the excited piety on her face.
Ye Qiyan always felt that her faith seemed...
It wasn't faith, but another kind of bizarre emotion.
"Shaya, which God do you believe in?"
Shaya blinked, and the smile on her face seemed to grow even more delighted.
"I believe in atheism~"
"?"
"Didn't expect that, did you~"
Faith, atheism.
These two words could actually be put together?
"To make sure no Gods exist in the Wasteland~ That is my faith~"
"Whether they are those False Gods, or..."
A flash of madness crossed her eyes.
The words after "or" were not spoken.
But, since there were False Gods, then True Gods must exist.
Judging from past experiences.
Ye Qiyan always felt that beings judged as True Gods by the System...
Their relationship with him was definitely not hostile.
"Ahem, let's not talk about this with you. It's still too early for you to hear about these things. Wait until your Train reaches levels twenty or thirty before you start considering deicide."
"Oh right, you also have the Blasphemy Card... Although I don't know what ability your card has, hmm... Level twenty. When you reach level twenty, I'll tell you everything I know about the Gods."
She retracted the sound-isolating barrier.
Seeming somewhat tired, she raised her arms and stretched.
"Alright, enough of that. Do you still have the Healing Lollipops I gave you before? Do you want some? If you want, I can sell you two."
"Don't misunderstand. It's not that I don't want to give them to you for free, but if I always give them to you for nothing, it's not good for your leveling choices, so..."
[As long as you don't die, you will live]
Shaya's Healing Lollipops, with this practically BUG-level effect, how could Ye Qiyan forget.
"How much?"
"Hmm... 10... no, 100! 100 Train Coins for one. At most, three."
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