Train Survival: I Can Evolve Everything!

"So Bro Ye's finished over there."

Inside the Pearl Light Arena.

Menrojina, hooded and hidden, had made her way here.

She sat in a corner of the arena, legs crossed, one hand propping up her cheek.

A slight smile curved beneath her veil as her gaze landed on the demon man Daxim, who was preparing to leave the city directly.

"Heh, as a gift, you're not allowed to leave."

The other Train Conductors had long since had their trains transported into the arena via the Capsule Tunnel.

But Daxim? His train was still stored in the Capsule Tunnel.

Because his train's transport permissions had been completely locked down by Menrojina.

The Capsule Tunnel—this special device existing in every city. As its designer and original master, Menrojina had left behind hidden permissions exclusive to herself in every city.

Just like now.

"He's hiding the Demon Card deep in his soul and doesn't plan to use it, huh? Fine then, we'll wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow's Guild Tournament will still go on as scheduled. But... this is really troublesome."

Menrojina hugged her Staff-Sword, the smile on her face slowly fading.

From the moment this sudden battle had begun.

On the other three starships, the sentinels sent out by the Nation on Ships' research institute had already had their control permissions modified by some hidden figure.

And as for the sentinels bound to Joel, the City Lord of the Nation on Ships—only those he had actively shared permissions with could modify their controls.

That meant there was a mole inside the Nation on Ships.

And one in a high position.

Moreover, the powerful enemies that had appeared in the Nation on Ships were definitely not limited to just Resource Sir.

The mercenaries sent by Abukado weren't just Draken and Shanmo either.

Zhao Xi and Shaya—these two who had actively revealed their whereabouts in the Nation on Ships—had been targeted the moment the battle started.

They had each been drawn into space outside the starships to fight separate battles.

The enemies who fought them weren't weak, but they couldn't hold out long against those two either.

But that was enough.

After persisting for a while, those two enemies simply vanished into thin air.

Clearly, their only goal had been to buy time.

Why?

Menrojina found herself rarely confused.

She hadn't obtained any intelligence about this kind of thing. Using her [Ritual Card·Human Past], the two enemies she had seen weren't hard to identify—just two Level 12 puppet lifeforms.

"Is it for... Miatira? But that thing has no way of being activated without the key. Unless... they can find the key? But that's impossible..."

Menrojina silently pulled a necklace from her storage space.

The necklace's design consisted of multiple rings irregularly overlapping each other.

[Miatira·Key]

[The key to opening Miatira's central gate]

That key, which existed within the Capsule Tunnel, had been in her hands all along.

She had the key, but she didn't have the door to open.

Where exactly this so-called Miatira was—she had no idea.

Even though her infiltration of the Nation on Ships was no less thorough than in other cities.

But it seemed that information about Miatira was known only to one person.

Joel.

Even though she had calculated him into a karmic debt, he never once revealed the location of that door.

But if only Joel knew about this, how did others find out?

For some reason, the image of that charlatan Zhu Xingshu appeared in Menrojina's mind.

"Tch..."

She kept her face cold as she stood up to head back to the One Style Fortune-Telling Shop.

But just then, a voice sounded behind her.

"Oh? Big sister, are you also a Card Sequence holder? Can you tell me how to more easily get the Card Sequence I want?"

Menrojina's pupils contracted. All eight of her Ritual Cards appeared behind her instantly, as if triggered by a reflex.

An intense force of ritual magic surged around her.

Without hesitation, she swung her Staff-Sword, converting spirit into magic power, and magic power into ritual magic.

The space beneath her feet became her ritual ground.

In just that single instant, she had set up an extremely high-level defense.

Her Staff-Sword pointed at the speaker.

It was a girl with long black hair, a face full of smiles, and eyes that sparkled with black cross stars.

"Who are you?"

The girl blinked, staring enviously at the Card Sequence behind Menrojina. She took two steps back, not wanting the magic power gathering on the Staff-Sword to hurt her body.

"My name is Mo Shi. I'm a new Train Conductor. See, that's my train over there."

A new Train Conductor?

Menrojina had no intention of lowering her Staff-Sword. She stared at the girl before her but couldn't detect anything off.

This girl was human.

Even the information displayed on the System showed her as human.

And not powerful at all.

But the more that was true, the more dissonant her behavior felt.

"How... did you find me?"

Although she hadn't used her best stealth methods, she shouldn't have been discovered by a newcomer.

"Because you have a scent very similar to Ye Qiyan's."

"You know Ye Qiyan?"

"Mm, he's a really good person. My talent, my physical stats and spirit, everything about me—I've shown it all to him."

"......You've come to the wrong person. But... are you sure you want to ask me about Card Sequences?"

[Ritual Card·Karmic Retribution] floated above the Staff-Sword.

Menrojina removed her veil, revealing her beautiful face.

"Then, let the ritual begin."

The cross-shaped starlight in Mo Shi's eyes sparkled continuously. She nodded with a grin~

"Okay~ Thank you."

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"Has it quieted down?"

On the street, Ye Qiyan sat on top of his train, drinking milk tea.

The basic resources Resource Sir had left behind were truly a lot.

So he simply let Augustine and the others, after finishing their own battles, join the Raven demon and the Nano-Bee Swarm in collecting the spoils.

As for the remaining battles on the battlefield, Ye Qiyan didn't bother sending anyone specifically to deal with them.

This was a city.

There wasn't just one Train Conductor in the city.

The shaking of the Alphart had stopped.

The other three rebellious starships had also ceased their bombardment.

At this moment, the internal broadcast on the starship rang out.

["The rebels have been executed. All civilians, please return to your original posts in an orderly manner. Respected Train Conductors, please proceed to the Capsule Tunnel to store your trains. This train storage will be free of charge by the Nation on Ships. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you."]

A broadcast utterly devoid of substance or meaning.

Ye Qiyan couldn't even be bothered to pay attention to what it said after that. He put down his cup and picked up the gemstone ring he had obtained from Resource Sir, which was resting on the table.

"Not bad for an old geezer. Even a casual loot drop is pretty decent."

[Yellow Gem·IV (Level 10)]

[Consumable: 1/1]

[Crafted by a master gemstone carver]

[After use, releases a gemstone mountain to seal and suppress the enemy]

Level 10—not bad. Though it's a consumable.

Ye Qiyan pocketed it, pulled out a White Forest Fruit, and tossed it to Red Tears.

Just as he was about to stand up, Eve—who was lying beside his thigh with a heart jumping above her head—suddenly opened her eyes and locked onto a target that had entered within a 400-meter radius of the train.

The newcomer took a deep breath nervously, then stopped at the very edge of that 400-meter radius and spoke respectfully:

"M-Mr. Altos, I am Poppet. City Lord Joel would like to invite you... to a banquet!"

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