WALL-E completed his little adventure.
Ye Qiyan took out a bottle of Plasma Cola and handed it to the hardworking tiny robot.
He raised his hand and patted its iron skull.
“Good job.”
WALL-E happily lifted both of his Mechanical Claws.
The zombified skull with a missing tooth was delivered back to its owner by the robot.
The scene looked kind of grotesque.
After all, a zombie skull hardly resembled anything like the shape of "the most precious treasure of this world."
But station worlds in the Wasteland were always like this.
Like this.
This zombie skull.
[Level 9 Treasure Chest (Can Be Opened)]
Yes.
Who would have thought such an abstract thing could actually be a treasure chest?
If it hadn't been for WALL-E, even if Ye Qiyan had encountered it he would have been too lazy to even glance at it.
“Come to think of it, it's been a while since I've gotten a treasure chest.”
Ye Qiyan sighed a little.
Thinking back carefully, the last time he obtained a treasure chest was at the Red Maple Valley station.
WALL-E had found a Level 6 chest, which Ye Qiyan then sold on the black market.
And before that, it was at the Nation of Odd Laws, the station where he first met the Abyss, where he obtained that special Level 9 chest.
From it he had drawn an item that could be used to seal teleportation resonance.
He never really found a good chance to use it.
“A pure Level 9 chest, and… huh?”
Ye Qiyan stared at the tooth-missing zombie skull, a flash of surprise in his eyes.
“This chest's potential is actually pretty good.”
Whether it could Sublimate to Level 10 was uncertain, but its potential was far greater than most chests.
Might as well try.
Without hesitation, Ye Qiyan reached out and grabbed the top of the treasure chest’s head.
“Sublimate!”
Azure energy surged into his palm.
In an instant it wrapped and enveloped the chest.
Stamina and Spirit were consumed heavily and simultaneously.
Ye Qiyan felt the familiar pressure that Sublimation brought—an old sensation he had missed.
But that pressure made him feel even more satisfied.
“I want to see what you turn into in the end!”
This Sublimation lasted nearly a full minute.
When all the radiance faded,
the zombie skull still looked the same outwardly.
But Ye Qiyan could sense that the chest had changed.
[Stamina: 400→210] [Spirit: 500→180]
[Lucky Chest 9/10]
[After opening, one-third chance to obtain one Level 10 reward, two-thirds chance to obtain two Level 9 rewards]
[Open now?]
“Tsk tsk, the gap is obvious. Even with such high potential, after spending so much value it only became a one-third chance for Level 10. One-third… that's a bit low.”
Ye Qiyan frowned, thought for a moment, then took a vial from Eve's Treatment Compartment.
[Venus's Glance (Level 7)]
[After consumption, grants one stroke of good luck]
This was something he had obtained back in the Platinum Forest and then Sublimated.
However…
“Use it? Or…”
Level 10.
That was already a very powerful tier.
Even Ye Qiyan's Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon and Eve only had a normal level of 10 so far.
But there were gaps within Level 10 itself—sometimes the difference between the weakest Level 10 and the strongest Level 9 was even greater.
A single Level 7 potion that granted luck—Ye Qiyan felt that even if it did help produce a Level 10 item, if that item weren't precious enough it would be a real pity.
So… should he find someone extremely lucky to trade with, and borrow their luck?
Zhao Lin.
The girl whose luck and misfortune intertwined.
He hadn't contacted her in quite a while.
But last time he borrowed her luck, he obtained the Golden Tribe's Courage, and it had even cost her her life once.
That's why later he had used a Game Card as compensation for that trade.
This time, what should he offer in exchange?
“This potion should compensate a bit. Hmm, it's a little troublesome. I don't have a Card Sequence anymore. Forget it, leave the station first.”
The mech-soldiers returned to the Armament Hangar, and they tossed some of the collected metal to the Decisive Demon to smelt into Demon Metal.
Over these past few days, Ye Qiyan had also tried throwing some metal and tech-type materials into the Construction Sphere. The blueprints produced were, frankly, unsatisfying.
So he continued to feed in Demon Metal and GT Memory Metal, combining the two for construction.
This made construction time extremely long, but Ye Qiyan didn't care.
Time was the one thing he lacked the least of.
When the last Nano Giant Sting Bee returned to the Beehive,
Ye Qiyan pressed the leave-station button.
This station world was still in the midst of that milky-white rat's "rescue."
No one knew whether the one who saved this world and the one who destroyed the human Shelter were the same person.
Even if they did find out, it wouldn't matter.
He didn't care.
Beep—!
The Train departed the realm.
It crossed the void and returned to the Wasteland.
Just as he left,
the middle-aged man named Wang Hao, after a long and difficult journey, finally arrived here.
He looked at the ruins, then at the rat attached to him that was devouring the plague, and finally, with a complicated gaze, watched the Train pull away before lowering his head.
Perhaps,
he could guess a portion of the truth?
————
Thud thud thud, thud thud thud…
The wheels rolled forward.
Today's weather was exceptionally clear.
Just as it had been the day he first woke up in the Wasteland.
He opened the train window and let the outside wind blow into the carriage.
No matter how huge the carriage became, Ye Qiyan still liked sitting by the window to watch the scenery that seemed never to change.
“We're back.”
The harvest from the previous station had been tallied.
Now, with 7,700 Train Coins, he was 2,300 short of the 10,000 he wanted.
If luck wasn't on his side, he probably couldn't collect it in a single station.
But his next stop was the fiftieth station.
For no particularly good reason, Ye Qiyan wanted to become a Level 20 Train Conductor before the fiftieth station.
So.
Time to find someone and sell some things.
[Magic Stone · Spirit and Mana Source]
This was the item he had always planned to sell to Zhao Lin, but she probably didn't have the spare money to buy it. Rather than keep it on hand, better find a wealthier buyer.
After all, he was short on money now.
Ye Qiyan opened his Friends List, scanned the names, and finally focused on Menrojina's name.
[The Train Conductor's time flow speed differs from yours, enable permission · Time Flow Synchronization?]
“Enable.”
He took a deep breath. After opening synchronization,
Ye Qiyan typed a line of text on the Light Screen.
[“Sister Gina, selling you an item—message me when you're free.”]
Less than three seconds after sending that message,
a reply came back immediately.
[“Not busy~ Hehe, I thought Bro Ye didn't need my help with anything.”]
That response—why did it sound a little resentful?
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