Knock knock knock—knock knock knock—
The wheels rolled forward.
The tracks stretched on without end.
The train traveled along a broad road.
The mountain of corpses and the sea of blood were already far behind.
Ye Qiyan slowly opened his eyes.
He felt both bodily fatigue and a fulfilled spirit at the same time.
Looking up at the familiar ceiling above him,
he instinctively wanted to rise.
He glanced to either side.
Lisette and Eve.
The two mechanical girls lay beside him, staring at him intently.
When their master woke up,
Eve happily pounced into his arms, rubbing her soft-or-stiff rabbit ears hard against his chest.
On the other side, Lisette still spoke with that timeless gentleness in a soft voice:
“Master, good morning~”
Ye Qiyan stroked Eve’s rabbit ears and smiled faintly.
“Morning. So, how long did I sleep this time?”
Lisette held up two fingers.
“Two days.”
“That long?”
Ye Qiyan sounded surprised.
He really hadn’t expected that after releasing that truly all-out strike, he would fall into a two-day slumber.
“Two days of sleep and I still feel tired. Looks like I’m still far from being a Top-Tier Train Conductor.”
He shook his head and brought up the system interface’s personal info.
The memories from two days ago still lingered in his mind.
He clearly remembered that after his spirit seemed to complete Sublimation,
some changes appeared.
No, it wasn’t just his spirit.
Even his stamina showed something extra.
[Stamina: 103 (genuine fatigue!) (Permanent Blood)]
[Spirit: 500 (Witness Truth and Falsehood) (Shadow of the End)]
“I slept that long and my stamina only recovered to 103? But spirit...500?”
He rubbed his eyes and pinched the ear of Eve, who was curled in his arms like a real rabbit.
“Does it hurt?”
Eve covered her ear and nodded.
“Then I must really be awake.”
Ye Qiyan let out an awkward smile.
He sat up.
His gaze lingered on the [Permanent Blood] in the stamina line.
If he remembered correctly, wasn’t this the special effect without any identifying information that he got as a reward after killing that Vampire God, the one that could increase the stamina cap?
“System, explain. What exactly does Permanent Blood mean?”
[Miatira special note: This status automatically triggers when your stamina is consumed excessively; it can increase your stamina recovery speed and reduce stamina-related negative effects.]
“So it’s like a blood-lock ability?”
[Ding dong~]
“No wonder this status is gradually becoming transparent—because it’s recovering? But I remember my spirit gained another status earlier.”
Ye Qiyan wouldn’t be mistaken.
After completing self-Sublimation, his spirit had acquired a third special status.
[Miracle Flower]
From the name alone it wasn’t hard to tell this status must be connected to Mingming.
But right now it did not exist.
[System, unable to probe your spirit]
[Reason, unknown]
Ye Qiyan frowned slightly, but didn’t say anything more.
He reached out and gently poked Mingming, who was sleeping beside his pillow.
“A miracle, huh...”
He got up, washed, and filled his growling stomach.
Ye Qiyan climbed to the roof and looked into the distance behind him.
Before, the rear and the front were no different.
The same Wasteland.
The same endless horizon.
But this time,
there was a small change.
The train had been running at normal speed for two days.
That is, its base speed of 380 kilometers per hour.
Not fast, but not slow either.
However,
Ye Qiyan could still see a tiny white dot.
A white dot that had been cut and pierced.
That white dot
was the super-giant blocker he had slain.
“Everyone always says getting bigger in the Wasteland is pointless, but that guy was clearly strong enough.”
“Huff...”
He felt a trace of tiredness.
He looked down at his hands.
There were faint cracks there.
Given his wound-healing speed, the fact those cracks could remain showed how severe his original injuries had been.
That strike, which gathered all his current power, had indeed been powerful.
But precisely because it was so powerful,
he could only release that one blow.
“Still too weak. If I weren’t so weak, I wouldn’t have ended up like this after finishing that monster.”
He shook his head, not satisfied with his current state.
Ye Qiyan turned his head.
No longer looking at the road he had already traveled.
“In any case.”
He pressed his hand to his heart.
The talent called Sublimation showed no change in the system’s personal info.
But Ye Qiyan knew very clearly.
That power
had once again surpassed before.
“Ninth-level items can be Sublimated to tenth-level now.”
“Tenth-level items have a chance to undergo Extreme Sublimation.”
“But the next self-Sublimation...”
Ye Qiyan murmured softly.
“I can’t see it yet, at least not now.”
“The required numbers for stamina and spirit will probably be very, very high, huh, hehe.”
Ye Qiyan snapped his fingers lightly.
“I can’t wait for that day to come.”
“When that time comes, Lisette, what kind of monster do you think will pop up in the Wasteland to stop me?”
Lisette, who followed silently like a shadow, stepped a little closer and met his gaze with determined eyes.
“Doesn’t matter, because I—we—will protect Master.”
The machines and demons that always guarded the train, those “monsters” belonging to Ye Qiyan, all gave him the same response.
“So, Master.”
Lisette went on.
“Please trust us. We are willing to give everything for you.”
“......”
Ye Qiyan looked at Lisette, then suddenly raised his hand and tapped the top of her head.
“Ugh...”
“You didn’t happen to read novels while I slept these two days, did you?”
Lisette covered her head and stuck out her tongue.
“These words are amusing...seem quite suitable for saying at a time like this, hehe.”
“Idiot.”
Ye Qiyan tapped her again, but halfway through he softened and patted the top of her head.
His eyes moved to the machines led by The Hunt and the demons led by Red Tears.
They carried damage.
“Thank you for your hard work. Next time, we’ll be more effortless. Next time, we won’t have to be this embarrassed.”
“Next time...”
Ye Qiyan lifted his head and looked at the blazing sun in the sky.
“I will keep moving forward.”
[Demon Card · Salvation]
A pale, sacred light.
It granted salvation to all of Ye Qiyan’s guardians.
“Next up, I need to save up money properly.”
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