"Yes, that's right! We even managed to photograph that snow monster!"
"..."
Watching the three of them pull a photograph from their pocket, Ye Qiyan narrowed his eyes slightly.
This photograph looked somewhat familiar.
Wasn't this exactly the same one he had found at the second supply point?
Aside from being slightly clearer, they were completely identical.
He suddenly thought of something.
Searching the photograph for a moment, he actually found an extremely tiny raised portion.
Tearing it open forcefully, a piece of paper larger than the photograph itself fell out.
The three heads shook in unison, indicating they knew nothing about it.
Ye Qiyan unfolded the note.
["Did you see it? You must see it! I can no longer influence the other world—this is my final message. Please, you must reach the mountain summit and shut down the reality displacement device there! Otherwise, this snow mountain will completely fall into another spacetime! I'm sorry, truly sorry!"]
"..."
Reality displacement? Another spacetime?
Wait, are Level 6 mission stations this outrageous?
They're even bringing out such high-tech concepts?
The corner of Ye Qiyan's eye twitched several times as he silently stored away this message-bearing paper.
According to the contents of this note, his next step would be to check out the summit.
But... didn't this feel somewhat wrong?
From the moment he saw the first note, he had been consistently guided toward the next destination.
It was as if every discovery was designed to lead him to the mountaintop.
Everything along the way seemed crafted to make reaching the summit appear more reasonable.
A trap?
He lifted his gaze toward the mountain.
The snow-capped peak stood right before his eyes.
"Interesting."
Ye Qiyan let out a light laugh and walked toward the door.
Seeing him about to leave, the three-headed person quickly crawled across the floor to his feet and urgently said:
"L-little brother, aren't you taking us with you?"
Ye Qiyan calmly glanced at them, then suddenly revealed a kind, brilliant smile, bending down to pat their shoulder.
"I need to deal with the trouble on the mountain. After all, that's what turned you into this state. Only by resolving that can you return to your original forms. Wait here patiently—I'll take you down the mountain."
The lie triggered.
Leaving the third supply point, Ye Qiyan boarded the Road Tyrant and continued his ascent.
There was still some distance to the endpoint ahead, and the path had become completely steep slopes where the Road Tyrant couldn't drive.
Ye Qiyan took out a White Forest Fruit and took a bite, inadvertently noticing a nearly-covered tread mark in the snow.
"This tread pattern... WALL-E's? That little guy is here too? But it disappears up ahead? So this really is the stage where this world's mission story actually takes place?"
The bizarre developments left him perplexed.
But regardless, he needed to investigate.
Caw—! Caw!
In the sky, a raven—completely black with only blood-red eyes—circled overhead.
The first ability of the Demon Card: Death Omen was summoning this raven that could predict and detect death.
When it cried out, it signified that death lay ahead.
After approximately two hours, Ye Qiyan finally reached the highest point of the snow mountain—the endpoint marked on the map.
But unlike what the three-headed brothers had described, there were no snow monsters or madmen here.
The place was completely empty.
On the vast mountain peak clearing, there was nothing but pristine white snow.
Yet, the raven was crying.
It was delivering its death omen.
"Go."
At his command, the raven descended from high altitude, swiftly hovering over a patch of snow. Before it could cry out twice, a suddenly emerging giant hand grabbed it, crushing it to pieces.
A gigantic snow monster had materialized out of thin air.
Unlike its counterparts that would ferociously charge at Ye Qiyan, it instead revealed a human-like mocking smile, as if saying:
Creak, creak, creak.
More snow monsters appeared around him, surrounding him.
These monsters that materialized from nowhere all wore that same mocking smile, treating Ye Qiyan like a lamb waiting for slaughter, completely at their mercy.
Suddenly, a voice interweavingly sounded from within the snow monsters' bodies.
Suddenly, a voice interweavingly sounded from within the snow monsters' bodies.
"Who are you?"
The voice spoke through each snow monster's body, each uttering a single word of the sentence.
"I, am, the, hero, hunting, you, outsiders! All, who, ride, that, train, come, to, this, world, only, to, plunder, and, madly, snatch! Leaving, nothing, behind! This, world, is, ours! Not, yours! Everything—you, outsiders, won't, take, anything!"
Outsiders—wasn't that referring to Train Conductors?
So that's how it was.
"So, that note about reality displacement and other spacetimes—all fake too?"
The voice continued mocking.
"Idiot, of course it's real! I might as well tell you—this place you call a station exists across two worlds. I'm right beside you, yet you can't see me, can't touch me, can't reach me! Haha!"
"These snow monsters—you summoned them? How did you manage that? Since I'm going to die anyway, enlighten me. Let me die an informed ghost."
His words made the unknown entity in the other world even more pleased with itself, completely failing to notice the card floating beside Ye Qiyan.
"Of course it's me! As long as I can picture a snow monster in my mind, I can endlessly summon them into your world! Even with your excellent marksmanship, with sufficient numbers, I'll inevitably make you my meal!"
"How terrifying. Then, what about those three fused together at the third supply point? Your doing? Were they your accomplices?"
Ye Qiyan played with the card in his hand while continuing his questions.
"Those three ate their own companions! As this world's hero, of course I had to punish them! Here, I only need to imagine to accomplish anything! What's merging three people worth!"
Ye Qiyan nodded.
"Then, one final question."
The voice's owner inexplicably felt something was wrong, yet couldn't pinpoint what.
"You ask too many questions, I—"
"Shh~ Be good and listen to my question."
The Demon Card hovered behind him.
"You can die, correct?"
"Of course I can die—wait, why should I answer you?"
Caw—!!!!
The second effect of Demon Card: Death Omen.
A raven demon the size of an adult human appeared on the snowy field.
The massive bird's claws fiercely grabbed at what appeared to be empty space, which began to distort.
"Found you."
"Since you're in another world, then..."
"Drop anchor—!"
The Anchor's third anchor point landed in that other space.
Then.
"Set sail—"
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