Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"It's actually a treasure chest. Heh, I thought this station would come up with something else."

This was the first proper Level 9 treasure chest he had ever obtained.

Although he had gotten a Level 9 item from one before, that chest had too much randomness, and even the chest's appearance itself was an accidental gain from Sublimation.

"So heavy... Why does it feel heavier than previous treasure chests?"

Picking up this werewolf skull treasure chest, Ye Qiyan hefted it in his hand a few times.

Its weight was completely disproportionate to its size.

"I don't remember previous chests having this situation?"

"Forget it, why think so much? I'll know everything once I open it later."

"Let's go, WALL-E, we're heading back."

His Train was up ahead.

Lisette and Eve, one above and one below, welcomed their master's return.

Choo—

The steam whistle sounded, and the Train continued forward.

This tunnel was a loop.

As long as he kept moving forward, he would return to that Human·Wolf·Village.

The village was still that village, the wooden station platform still exuding a smell of decay.

What was different was that the errand runner named Jace was currently slumped on the ground not far away, watching Ye Qiyan.

"Thanks, man... I really never thought there would come a day I could be liberated from this endlessly resetting world."

His face was full of a relieved smile. He patted his clothes pocket, then shook his head regretfully.

"Damn, was hoping to have one last smoke before dying..."

"Don't have that, but want a piece of fruit?"

Ye Qiyan tossed an apple to Jace.

"This works too. As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, ha."

Jace took a bite of the apple, his gaze towards Ye Qiyan filled with appreciation.

"Man, aren't you going to ask me something? Time's running out, you know."

"Ask what?"

"Well, like who we are, why we were trapped here, and who did it? Alright... Actually, I want to talk."

Jace shifted to a more comfortable position and took another bite of the apple.

"How many years has it been? Honestly, I'm not too sure, because usually my self-consciousness was sealed deep within my mind, only getting partially liberated when I became the human tasked with killing the werewolf."

"Ha~ Don't judge by my appearance. I, or rather, all of us in the village, were actually Train Conductors.

It's just that after entering this world, we couldn't leave. When we had the werewolf identity, we failed to break the game, and then we were forever trapped here, becoming villagers~"

Train Conductors, huh?

The expression of that innkeeper woman before her death surfaced in Ye Qiyan's mind.

"How long were you in the Wasteland?"

Jace looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with nostalgic colors.

"I don't know the time flow ratio between here and the Wasteland, but before being trapped here, I had been adventuring in the Wasteland for about twenty-five years. That was truly a happy memory..."

"I used to..."

He kept talking about his past, from becoming a Train Conductor to joining a Guild, constantly leveling up and adventuring.

Until he could enter Advanced Stations, and life seemed to get better day by day.

Until he came here, failed to break this "game," died here as a werewolf, was forever trapped in this place, experiencing countless "resets" of the game.

What agonizing days those were. Jace couldn't recall how many years he had spent here.

Ye Qiyan just kept listening until the apple was eaten down to its core.

Jace's words gradually slowed down.

"...Sorry, it's been too long since I've used my own will to talk this much, to say so many boring things... Ha...

Man, be careful. You destroyed the God of Time's playground. That despicable guy will definitely mark you, and then..."

"It's dead."

"Who?"

"The God of Time. It's dead."

Jace froze in place. A single, clear tear that shouldn't exist slid from his eye...

"Dead... huh? Ha... I knew it! All those messy gods would be defeated someday!"

Dark golden points of light began to appear on his body.

His "everything" was gradually turning illusory.

"Ah... Time's up..."

Jace looked at his own nearly transparent palm and gave a wry laugh.

"Sorry, man. After I got trapped here, all my items and Train Coins were destroyed by monsters. But..."

Using his last bit of strength, he pulled out a black metal lighter from a small bag he carried.

"This isn't some valuable item... No, it doesn't even have any price at all... That's why it wasn't taken away, I guess."

"Here, man. Consider it as..."

"...lighting a fire..."

Jace's voice cut off abruptly.

His body gradually disappeared.

Along with him, the corpses of those "villagers" who were killed by Ye Qiyan, the "werewolf," also vanished.

Human·Wolf·Village.

This Station World.

Now, only Ye Qiyan, this passenger, remained.

[Relic of the Liberated (Level 1)]

[This is a lighter left behind by someone liberated from infinite resets.]

[It is nothing special.]

[Even its basic ability to produce a flame isn't very reliable.]

[Note: In the flame, perhaps there is a plea? Or perhaps hope?]

Silence, no sound...

When Lancelot led the mechanized soldiers to pour gasoline all over every corner of this village.

Flint struck, sparks turned into flames.

Sizzle—

Orange-red flames made the wooden station platform burn fiercely.

Starting from the station platform.

Every corner of this village was devoured by the flames.

"It's time to leave."

Ye Qiyan whispered softly.

The conditions for leaving the station had been fulfilled the moment he learned the complete truth of this village.

He pressed the button to depart the station. Amidst the flames, the Train slowly moved forward.

He gazed outside, then suddenly raised his hand, his five fingers forming a loose grip.

High above, even higher in the sky, the sound of mechanical drives resounded through heaven and earth.

[Major Consumption Reduction—]

Those dark golden points of light transformed from Jace and the others were absorbed by The Hunt.

[Transcend Mode—!]

A dark golden dragon spiraled in the sky. The ring on its tail was emitting an extremely dazzling radiance.

"The Hunt."

"Ring of the Hunt—"

The command was issued.

The dark golden ring continuously expanded.

The Hunt spiraled at the very center of the [Ring of the Hunt], its immense energy seemingly without any limit to its accumulation.

"Fall."

Once again, the command came.

Under the ultimate dark golden brilliance, this village filled with suffering vanished forever beneath flames and radiance.

Simultaneously, The Hunt, having released this strike, returned to the Armament Space. The Train also passed through that void, leaving Ye Qiyan's thirty-seventh station.

[Human·Wolf·Village]

"Don't worry, I'm fine. Just testing out the Ring of the Hunt's ability a little~"

"As expected... it's quite powerful..."

[Spirit: 1 (Shadow of the End)]

Ye Qiyan patted Lisette's head, smiling under her worried gaze.

"But, why has the main status of Spirit... changed to Shadow of the End?"

Meanwhile, in the second train car, the [Oil Lamp] hanging there as decoration flickered with an extremely faint, momentary glow.

This flash of light was fleeting and extremely dim.

The only one who noticed...

was Red Tears, sitting silently not far away.

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