Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"You didn't actually have to say that last line."

Ye Qiyan muttered in exasperation.

He shook his head and smiled as he looked at the upgrade options that had been extracted in front of him.

"Let's start with this one."

Dragon Blood · Dragon Meat Mapo Tofu.

A delicacy that could increase the stamina cap by 30 points.

If he ever had the chance, Ye Qiyan genuinely wanted to meet the person who could make such a dish.

The Mapo tofu was a bright red, steaming mess.

A rich, spicy aroma wafted throughout the carriage.

An intense, tongue-searing heat blasted through his senses.

He imagined a massive dragon made of chili peppers breathing a torrent of spicy dragon breath at him.

"Yikes! It's spicy!"

He sucked in a cool breath, which made his mouth feel significantly better.

[Stamina: 320→350]

One bite finished the stamina cap increase.

It was that simple—funny, and completely safe.

Apart from being ridiculously spicy.

"Huff... my stamina cap actually exceeded my spirit now."

Ye Qiyan clenched his fists, feeling the power the Mapo tofu had just granted him, and couldn't help but grin.

"If only every bite could increase it."

He ate a few more bites.

Still delicious, but as the description had warned, his stamina cap did not change further.

Next were the remaining upgrade options.

The first was a gem for crafting internal Dynamic Train Skins for carriages.

[Sublimation]

[Stamina: 350→330] [Spirit: 340→270]

"Not bad."

The cost was only ninety points.

But that was normal.

After all, Ye Qiyan had already performed Sublimation twice on Sublimation itself; ordinary items couldn't really consume much from his stats anymore.

[Carriage Interior Fabrication Gem · Gentle Wind Pasture] → [Gem · Gentle Wind Pasture]

[New Ability: Livestock bred in this pasture will have a certain chance to develop more tender, savory meat, and when consumed, grant increased stamina recovery speed.]

[When dishes made from such meat are prepared by chefs/high-level chef module owners, they may gain a Delicious UP↑ ability.]

Even though it only consumed a mere ninety points, the effect was genuinely good.

Especially the improved meat quality.

As for the chef module—

Ye Qiyan glanced at Lisette, who was taking pictures of him with a camera nearby.

[Absolute Supreme · Perfected World · Lisette]

[Common Modules: Photography, hacking, domestic all-rounder... cross-world master chef, superb culinary skills...]

Unconsciously, the number of common modules on Lisette had reached an astonishing twenty-plus.

A third of them were related to culinary arts.

If that were the case...

Ye Qiyan looked at the half-eaten Mapo tofu in front of him.

If Lisette could one day improve her culinary skill to the point where she could make dishes like this, wouldn't that mean...!!!

Ye Qiyan's eyes brightened, and his gaze toward Lisette was filled with new expectation.

"Lisette!"

Lisette blinked, took two steps forward, and moved closer to her master.

"Master~?"

"Try a bite. Remember this taste. If there's a chance later, recreate something similar."

Looking at the spoon that his master had used, holding a piece of tofu on it, Lisette's gentle expression deepened.

"Okay~"

She toyed with a lock of hair falling by her ear, leaned forward, and put the spoon in her mouth.

She was a mechanical lifeform, true.

But since when was there a rule that mechanical lifeforms couldn't taste food?

"Thank you, Master~"

When Lisette released the spoon and returned the now immaculately clean utensil to Ye Qiyan's hand, a flicker of light passed through her eyes.

Her culinary-related modules had begun to integrate.

Common Module: [Arena-level Rising Culinary Star!]

"I can make it now~ But I need ingredients, sorry, Master..."

Ye Qiyan put the spoon back and continued eating the Mapo tofu, reaching up to pat Lisette's head.

"There's nothing to apologize for. I didn't ask you to make this exact dish. I'll find other ingredients later to get you to make something similar~"

"Mm!"

Another small interlude passed.

Ye Qiyan then turned his attention to the third upgrade option.

[Fire Demon · Cremation Flame]

When extracted, the thing turned out to be nothing more than a real ball of fire.

As for any demon or the name Cremation, nothing about its appearance revealed that.

But that was only a matter of "appearance."

[Demon Card · Supremacy]

Ye Qiyan grinned wickedly.

This card had the power to fully control demons that did not even belong to its owner.

So he could see the "truth" hidden within that fire.

The flame trembled—

A twisted demonic eye suddenly opened, accompanied by a gaping maw lunging to bite at Ye Qiyan.

"Quite irritable. As an enhancement item, you don't need to have a will of your own."

Ye Qiyan did not dodge or flinch; not even the Wandering Star Holy Sigil activated automatically.

Because this was demon power.

A demon could not harm Ye Qiyan, not by an iota.

[Demon Card · Supremacy] appeared at his fingertips.

"Commit suicide."

The command was issued.

The Cremation Flame froze mid-air, obediently reverting to its original state.

Then—

It died.

The consciousness that resided within that flame destroyed itself and vanished.

"Master~"

Lisette called softly to Ye Qiyan.

She held a tray in her hands.

On the tray rested the soft, glutinous blob that she had just retrieved from the hot spring in the Water Storage Carriage—the little Nefeti.

"Perfect timing."

Ye Qiyan smiled.

The fire sat quietly in his palm.

[Sublimation——]

Orange-red took on a deep azure—

Sublimation made that flame unimaginably fierce.

The Nefeti on the tray seemed to sense something and leapt with effort.

So water-sparkling, it jumped straight into the ascending flame to merge with it.

"Huh?"

Ye Qiyan saw this, but he didn't stop it.

One rises as well, two likewise.

If it couldn't wait, then let it ascend together.

[Stamina: 330→240] [Spirit: 277→197]

[Nefeti × Fire Demon · Cremation Flame → Cremation Demon Fire · Nefeti (juvenile form)]

When the Sublimation finished, the intense flame surged toward the train window, and out on the wasteland, a blazing bird with seven black inverted-cross glows around its body let out an adorably undignified chirp~

"Chirp!"

Then... the big bird reverted to a flaming glutinous rice blob and fell onto the wasteland, where Ye Qiyan's train's mechanical arm picked it up as a supply item and tossed it into the storage carriage.

"...Why do I feel like the birds I raise are all kind of dumb?"

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