"You're giving me a surprise right from the start. Interesting."

Ye Qiyan pressed the door button and stepped out of the carriage.

The swarm of skeleton monsters continuously converging around him were being annihilated under Eve's firepower.

Within the kilometer-wide surveillance range, every locked target was blasted into dust.

But perhaps the noise was too loud.

More and more skeleton monsters kept crawling out from the wasteland, endlessly.

They were like cockroaches that could never be fully killed.

Within the kilometer-wide alert range, every locked target was blasted into dust.

Just a bunch of weak skeleton monsters—she was about to get serious when

"Don't rush. Let these things gather a bit more."

He stepped onto the train roof.

Looking at the ground covered in skeleton monsters with black spots on all sides, he sighed.

"There sure are a lot of them. Feels like I'm back in the Wasteland, tsk tsk."

Eve leaned in, wrapped her arm around his, and the rabbit ears atop her head transformed into an ever-increasing number.

【92801】

That was her count of locked targets, and the number was still climbing.

"Almost there."

When the number hit one hundred thousand,

Ye Qiyan rubbed Eve's head and snapped his fingers lightly.

The【Pure Cleansing Stone】, which he had kept in the Nether Moon Garden, slowly emerged.

"Let's see just how many there are."

The Pure Cleansing Stone floated into the air.

Its gentle light overpowered the hazy yellow sun, bringing purification to this land.

And the moment that light fell,

All the skeleton monsters it touched were thrown into what seemed like a high-temperature incinerator, turning to ash.

In the blink of an eye, over one hundred thousand skeleton monsters were instantly obliterated by the Pure Cleansing Stone.

But even that wasn't the end.

The ground was collapsing.

Because beneath the wasteland,

Even more skeletons lurked.

How many exactly?

Ye Qiyan didn't know, because this entire land seemed to be made of these bones.

And the ash on the wasteland was what had once been the flesh and blood of those bones.

Melting, disintegrating...

Just a few seconds passed.

Everywhere the Pure Cleansing Stone's light touched, large and small hollows appeared.

Eve's rabbit ears drooped as she looked at the surroundings. She let go of her master's arm, feeling somewhat dejected.

She hadn't even locked onto the monsters underground.

Absolutely pathetic.

Ye Qiyan noticed her reaction, reached out, grabbed her ears, and squeezed them hard.

"What's there to be upset about? The ones underground weren't even monsters before they woke up. They were basically the foundation of this land. If you tried to lock onto the foundation itself, that would be the real problem."

Eve blinked, moved by his words, and threw herself onto Ye Qiyan.

Her body temperature kept rising, her emotional module stirring wildly.

Her rabbit ears transformed into hearts, and even her eyes had heart-shaped ripples.

"Master, I think... that's enough now."

"And also, stop clinging to the master all the time."

Lisette's gentle voice came from below.

She used a flying arrow from her Chrono-Mechanical Armament to hook Eve off Ye Qiyan.

"!?"

Eve was furious, but there was nothing she could do.

After all, she couldn't beat Lisette.

She could only silently remember this score.

And just as Lisette had said,

As the Pure Cleansing Stone's radiance spread,

The frequency of hollows appearing on the ground gradually decreased.

The skeleton monsters no longer crawled out of the wasteland.

But in their place, the ashes of bones scattered everywhere after being melted remained.

These ashes moved with the wind.

If not for the Wealth Protective Barrier blocking them outside, the train would probably have been completely covered.

The ashes fell to the ground,

But it was as if some force was pulling them back to where they originally were.

Until they filled the hollows left by the purification.

The wasteland was still the wasteland.

Only now it was even grayer, even stranger.

"What a bizarre world."

Ye Qiyan looked through the Illusory Surveillant at the Sand Table inside the carriage.

A red light point had been marked.

And that place was extremely far from his current location.

He wasn't in a hurry to set off. He had the Nano-Bee Swarm and the Demon Ravens search the surroundings for clues.

This was a mission station.

According to the pattern,

Mission stations either had a quest giver nearby,

Or the content related to a Hidden Quest was in the vicinity.

The train's stopping point in a mission station was never worthless.

This small town definitely held information about this world.

After searching for a while,

It was just as he expected.

A Demon Raven found a relatively fresh corpse in a room of the rundown town.

The body had been dead for less than a day.

Because in this environment, it hadn't rotted yet, nor had it attracted bugs, and even its clothes were relatively intact.

"No wounds on the body, but... those black spots are here too?"

Ye Qiyan put on the【Stainless·Plague Doctor Mask】.

This upgrade option item, which had been raised to Level 11 back then, was only Level 7 after Sublimation, but it was still quite useful for warding off negative effects like plague and contamination.

【Infected Human Corpse (Level 1)】

【Category: Material】

【Status: Black-Death, Contagious, Epidemic, Dormant】

"So it really is the plague, just like this station's name suggests: The Black-Death Rigid Wind... Rigid Wind? Could it be..."

He frowned slightly and snapped his fingers in front of the corpse.

"Snap—"

A crisp sound echoed through the room.

The corpse suddenly opened its eyes.

Eve's Targeting Ring also appeared on it at the same time.

"Urgh!!"

The corpse's flesh was peeling from its bones.

It lunged at Ye Qiyan, but before it could touch the Wandering Star Holy Sigil,

Eve shot its head off with a single bullet.

This was the weakness she had discovered while slaughtering those skeleton monsters.

A shattered head meant the "death" of these creatures.

【Dead Black-Death Zombie (Level 2)】

【Category: Infection Source】

【An infected being spreading the Black-Death Plague. When the Black-Death Plague senses the presence of the living, it will emerge from its dormant state to control the skull and infect others.】

"So that's what dormant means... the plague, huh... Miatira, does this station world have any traces of divinity?"

He asked the System.

【"There are some remnants of【Insufficient Authority】."】

"You didn't say whether there's divinity or not, just something you're unwilling to tell me about. That has to be at least the True God level, but it's only partial remnants. Plus, the voice I heard when I first entered this world..."

Ye Qiyan walked out of the room where the corpse was found, looked up at the hazy yellow sun, and smiled faintly.

"So, some recently-aggrieved Wasteland Species' pinnacle, a natural-born True God, are you trying to get me to come find you?"

As soon as he said that,

The sun in the sky transformed into a weave of black and red.

A door with a black frame and red edges appeared right in front of Ye Qiyan.

"Human, you, how did you find me so quickly!? Am I really as stupid as those damnable, hateful Thieves and that annoying Water Ice said I was!!??"

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