The next day.
Time: [10:03:02]
Weather: [Sunny]
Awakening from sleep.
Ye Qiyan felt his body had become remarkably light.
The fatigue was gone, but something seemed to be resting against his face on his shoulder.
Looking down.
The Dream Eater Juvenile and Mingming were, at some point, sitting on his shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.
As if sensing his awakening, the two little ones also woke up simultaneously.
The jellyfish-like Dream Eater Juvenile, however, once again burrowed into the front of his garment. Clearly, it was just changing locations to continue sleeping.
[Stamina: 320] [Spirit: 300 (Witness Truth and Falsehood) (Shadow of the End)]
"Huh? The exhausted state is gone, how so quickly? Lisette, did I sleep for a full day and night again?"
The maid sitting beside him shook her head.
She extended her left hand, palm open, while her right hand held up three fingers.
"Eight hours~"
"...I thought you were going to say I slept for eight days."
Ye Qiyan looked at his fully recovered stamina and pondered briefly.
"Is it because of the Permanent Blood? No... the greater possibility is because of them."
He pinched Mingming's cheek.
Washing up, eating, everything proceeded as usual.
Time: [12:04:33]
Ye Qiyan entered the locomotive section and called up the system interface.
"Next, it's time for the next station."
[Crossroads of Fate triggered.]
[Please choose from the following Station Worlds as your fortieth station.]
[Station One: Fire Dragon Valley (Level 8 Hunting Platform)]
[Station Two: Nek Star (Level 9 Mission Platform)]
[Please, make your choice.]
"What a shame, the first one isn't a Level 9 Hunting Platform, otherwise I'd really like to choose something simpler."
Between eight and nine, there was no need for hesitation.
"I choose Station Two, Nek Star."
[Station selection complete.]
[Please remain seated and hold on.]
[The Train is about to arrive at your fortieth station: Nek Star]
Thump, thump, thump—
The familiar void manifested, the familiar tracks extended.
Accompanied by the sound of the steam whistle, the Train traversed the void.
The scenery outside the train window changed.
What met the eye was a scene composed of a massive pile of strange creature carcasses and urban ruins.
Furthermore, in the sky above, bird-beast shaped anomalies with speakers for heads and bodies wrapped in coils spotted the Train.
Human-like shouts issued from those speakers as they swarmed towards the Train.
"What the heck? Speakers fused with birds?"
[Train Armament·Airspace Purge]
With the Train as the center, a glaring red no-fly light screen materialized in the airspace above.
All those strange birds that came into contact with the prohibited zone were forcibly dragged down from high altitude, smashing onto the ground and shattering to pieces.
Those with slightly better luck who weren't killed by the fall were shot and killed by Eve standing guard on the train roof.
However, the commotion here also attracted more anomalous creatures.
Like excavators that seemed to have grown a large maw with fangs and sported human limbs on their bodies.
Or like burrowing rats that emerged from beneath the soil with dozens of small drill bits on their heads.
These strange things weren't Anomalies, but genuine... living creatures?
[Armament Hangar opening]
[Leader Unit: Lancelot]
[Endless Mech × 29]
[Scoundrel]
[the Abyss]
[Sortie]
The order was given.
The Mechanical Army in the Hangar mobilized, engaging in battle with these bizarre lifeforms.
The Wealth Protective Barrier was activated, so nothing else would come over to cause trouble for the time being.
Only then did Ye Qiyan shift his gaze to his side.
WALL-E was already itching to go.
"I know you want to go out. Same as before, be careful in all things."
He patted WALL-E's head.
He watched WALL-E's back as he left the Train, disappearing completely into some corner.
For Ye Qiyan, this signified the official start of this station.
"For a Mission Platform... logically, the mission prompt should be nearby."
Opening the train door, he stepped out of the Train.
He summoned the Demon Ravens and the Sky-Resonant Thunder Eagle, ordering them to search the area around the Train for living lifeforms other than these types of monsters.
He himself, along with Lisette and Red Tears, approached the carcasses of those anomalous creatures.
[Corpse of Audio Giant Nick (Level 7)]
[Strange Species]
[Can emit massive noise from the speaker in its head to attack]
[Inedible]
"Looks weird, name's weird too... Strange Species? Even its race is a weird thing."
Ye Qiyan drew Tianliang Moon Veil and sliced open the Strange Species' corpse.
Its body interior was pure flesh and blood. Even the speaker on its head contained no mechanical structure, but was a pure amalgamation of flesh, blood, and various filaments.
"Inedible? So that means... there are edible types of these things?"
Ye Qiyan flicked the blood off Moon Veil.
He also tried summoning Gluttony.
But even Gluttony, that gluttonous fellow, hesitated for a long time when faced with these strange monsters, ultimately expressing to Ye Qiyan a request not to eat them.
Ye Qiyan didn't force the issue.
Something even Gluttony doesn't want to eat... just how bad must it taste?
"~~"
The sound of a blade scraping against the ground came from not far away.
Eve in her new form arrived beside Ye Qiyan, a happy expression on her face.
That pair of diamond-shaped rabbit ears liquified and transformed into a chibi-style arrow.
On it, there was even a line of text.
[This way]
"You can even change into this? Well done, Eve. Let's go take a look."
Ye Qiyan patted Eve's head and headed in the direction indicated by the arrow.
The location wasn't far, just requiring them to climb over the corpse of a giant Strange Species from the Train.
Here, they could see several human corpses wearing white lab coats.
Judging by the freshness of the blood, they hadn't been dead for long.
Behind these corpses was a collapsed building.
Eve moved swiftly, fetching a projection tablet from beside one corpse's hand and bringing it to him.
Opening the tablet.
It read:
[Strange Society Branch Forty-Three]
[Account Name: B-Class Researcher Zhang Qiaohe]
[Password: ______]
Since there was a password, Ye Qiyan directly handed the thing to Lisette.
The maid smiled at Eve, then extended her hand. Data streams flashed in her eyes.
The password on the tablet was automatically entered.
"Done~"
Taking back the tablet, inside were several different folders, most of which were detailed introductions to the types of [Strange Species].
Skipping these for now, what Ye Qiyan truly needed was information about this world.
"Found it."
Near the bottom, he clicked on a folder named [Strange Society].
[The Strange Society was jointly established by all nations to resist the Strange Species that appeared on a large scale in human life one hundred and twenty-two years ago.]
[We have discovered countless traces of Strange Species throughout human history. They have interfered with everything, accomplished everything. Perhaps even humans are a member of the Strange Species.]
[No!]
[Whoever you are, please firmly believe one thing!]
[Humans are humans!]
[We...%^@]
The content in the file abruptly stopped. Everything after was covered by inexplicable symbols and bizarre distortions, as if... forcibly altered by some power.
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