Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

Upon hearing Ye Qiyan mention the name Nefeti, the Caravan Leader's face instantly twisted with fear.

He immediately dropped to his knees, kowtowed repeatedly towards the sky, and mumbled prayers under his breath.

After a long while, he finally rose, trembling. Seeing Ye Qiyan about to speak again, he hurriedly interrupted, "No, don't say it, don't say that name! If the Heavenly God hears, we'll be punished!"

"Is that so? Well then, let's not say the name. Tell me what you know."

It was clear the Caravan Leader didn't want to talk, but then he remembered what had happened during the day. Gritting his teeth, he cautiously looked around.

Only after confirming no one else was present did he lower his voice to a near-whisper and say, "The desert... it wasn't always called Matmu. It used to be the name you said."

"Nefeti's Garden?"

"Yes... Oh dear, please, don't just say that name out loud! If the believers who worship the Heavenly God hear it and report it to the temple, there'll be big trouble."

The Caravan Leader leaned in closer, lowering his voice even further. "I heard this from my grandfather. It seems like hundreds of years ago, the desert's guardian god was defeated by the current Heavenly God and vanished. Ever since then, the desert's name was changed to Matmu, and it became forbidden to utter those three words you just said."

The Caravan Leader pointed towards a tent in the middle of the caravan that was a different color from the others. "Look, that's the tent of the Heavenly God's believers. They're also guards I hired. Not much skill, but they charge higher prices than capable people."

Heavenly God, believers...

Could it be that at this station, he would encounter another numbered god?

Or was it, like the giant whale in the Sea of Abudo, a being simply called a god by people?

Ye Qiyan's heart leaned more towards the latter possibility.

"A temple... is there a temple in the city we're heading to?"

"Yes, and it's one of the top temples in the entire desert! It's said that temple even holds the spoils of war the Heavenly God obtained after defeating the guardian god."

"Spoils of war? What is it?"

"Uh, I think... it's a knife? Embedded with gemstones?"

"A knife..."

A bird, using a knife?

He asked a few more questions about the temple and the Heavenly God, but the Caravan Leader's knowledge was limited, and Ye Qiyan couldn't get more information out of him.

"Spoils of war? Could the key to restoring the Spirit Jade be there?"

"Heavenly God... I wonder what kind of character that is."

The temple, he would go. That "knife," he would see.

The key to breaking through this station's mission might just lie there.

At dawn, the desert temperature rose rapidly.

Ye Qiyan drove the Road Tyrant, leisurely advancing within the caravan.

He had withdrawn the storm barrier.

The strong winds outside showed no signs of weakening.

On the road, the caravan people discovered the bodies of a group of Desert Bandits. Their deaths were extremely gruesome, with most of their bodies charred to cinders.

A very few were relatively intact, but they had pecked-out holes in their chests where their hearts should be.

This led the Caravan Leader and the others to believe it was a "miracle" performed by the Heavenly God, eliminating these bandits blocking the path.

Only Ye Qiyan knew the truth.

This was all the handiwork of the Goshawk and the Demon Ravens during their patrol the previous night.

The journey proceeded smoothly and safely. Over the next few days, aside from encountering sandstorms whipped up by the strong winds, they faced no other dangers.

On the fifth day.

From atop a sand dune, they finally saw a city built near an oasis.

[Udiyales]

That was the name of this city.

After paying gold coins, they entered the city.

The first thing that caught their eye was a golden statue of a creature with a dog's head and a human body, standing right in the city center.

The inhabitants of this city were not just ordinary humans.

All sorts of half-human, half-beast hybrids were everywhere.

Like snake-people, pig-people, dog-people...

In contrast, the number of ordinary humans was very scarce. The caravan Ye Qiyan was with had no beast-people at all, which attracted quite a few stares.

"Mr. Ye, these past few days, it's all thanks to you being here. Who knows what might have happened otherwise. Please, come to our merchant guild, rest for a few days. Our boss will definitely treat you well."

Ye Qiyan didn't refuse.

He needed a suitable place to rest and, incidentally, gather more information.

However, upon arriving at the merchant guild, the scene inside was quite different from the outside, which was mostly populated by beast-people.

Here, everyone was human.

Except for the guild president, who was a cat-woman named Aishara?

He met this president during dinner time.

After the caravan's safe return, the president held a grand banquet, both to celebrate and to express gratitude to Ye Qiyan.

Compared to other beast-people, this cat-woman only had beast-like ears; the rest of her appearance was no different from a human.

Ye Qiyan wasn't particularly fond of dealing with strangers, so he simply didn't attend.

Late at night, when all was quiet, Aishara knocked on the door of Ye Qiyan's room but received no response.

"Could he already be asleep?"

Of course he wasn't asleep.

Because in the dead of night, when all was quiet...

Ye Qiyan had already arrived atop the temple beneath the golden statue at the very center of the city.

[Module · Illusory Attire]

"How is it? Handsome, right?"

Under the moonlight, Ye Qiyan used Illusory Attire to change into a set of white phantom thief garb.

Beside him, Lisette kept snapping photos with her camera and nodded. "Mhm! Master, very handsome!"

Once enough photos were taken, Ye Qiyan wasted no more time. He had Lisette temporarily return to the Armament Space.

He himself, activating Arrogance, infiltrated the temple through its main entrance.

Even at night, the temple still had many praying believers.

They were arranged in two rows, kneeling and praying towards a golden dog-headed, human-bodied statue inside the temple, slightly smaller than the one outside.

Ye Qiyan stood on a temple roof beam, observing the surroundings.

Dog heads. Dog heads everywhere.

Without a doubt.

The "Heavenly God" they worshipped had a dog's head.

"Where would that spoil of war be?"

Ye Qiyan thought for a moment, then made a decision.

"Wouldn't it be easier to just grab someone and ask?"

The so-called phantom thief is one who first gathers intelligence about a treasure, then steals it right under everyone's nose.

Ye Qiyan had no intelligence, but he could ask.

Ask who?

He'd just ask the people in this temple.

If one person doesn't know, ask two. If two don't know, ask three.

Eventually, he'd get an answer.

His luck was good.

After knocking out the sixth temple worshipper, he finally got information about the spoil of war.

"The location... the location is... behind the head of the tallest statue in the temple... there's an interstitial layer..."

"Thanks."

Having obtained the answer, he simply knocked the person out.

The so-called phantom thief... is all about being direct and straightforward~

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