Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The Train is about to depart, may all of you endure for eternity.
[The Train is about to depart, may all of you endure for eternity.]
“Where is this?”
Thump thump, thump thump…
Ye Qiyan woke up inside a Train carriage, pressing his somewhat aching head as he opened his eyes.
“Carriage?”
Ye Qiyan could not remember what happened yesterday, his last memory stopped at staying up late last night watching anime when his vision suddenly went pitch black, and his memory seemed to have suffered a gap.
“Could I have died suddenly from staying up late and gone to hell?”
At this moment, the voice that had just appeared sounded again.
[All survivors have fully awakened.]
[Distributing basic Train rules.]
[1. It is forbidden to abandon your own Train!]
[2. Every 24 hours after leaving the station, all Trains will arrive at a new platform.]
[3. After arriving at the platform, you can dock for three hours and freely choose whether to get off or not.]
[4. Please collect supplies; supplies can increase the Train level, and each level increase will trigger upgrade module options.]
[5. Do not leave the Train before arriving at the platform.]
[6. Survive.]
[The above are the rules.]
[Please be sure to follow them!]
[The first station of the Train will arrive in one hour, please prepare yourselves.]
This long string of broadcast voices made Ye Qiyan subconsciously pinch his own face.
“Hiss, this really is not a dream?”
The soreness in his brain gradually dissipated, and he managed to stand up from the cold ground, observing his surroundings. Just as he saw when he first woke up, this was a Train carriage, and outside the windows on both sides, the endless wilderness continuously retreated.
The only thing worth noticing in the carriage was an oval-shaped device at the very front, above which floated a light screen clearly displaying “Train Control System”.
Without doubt, Ye Qiyan stepped forward and reached out to touch it.
[Train System at your service]
[Current operable options: Train Captain Information, Train Details, Chat Room, Trading Platform]
“Chat Room?”
[Current number of people: 10000 / 10000]
[“Y-You guys, who on earth are you, let me go quickly! I have money! My godfather is very rich! Let me go back quickly!”]
[“Medicine, where is my medicine!”]
[“Hubby, hubby, where are you, I am Xiaowen.”]
[“What on earth is going on, did I time-travel?”]
[“Hahahaha! Traveling is great! Tomorrow I finally do not have to go to work and look at the boss expression!”]
A large amount of dialogue continuously flashed past, and a line of text suddenly caught Ye Qiyan eyesight.
[“Heh, what a bunch of idiots, acting quite convincingly, do you take me for an idiot? This must be your program group wanting to record a variety show, right? I have watched documentaries before; they used to go to space, and now they are getting on a Train, how unoriginal. I am getting off the Train right now, I do not believe you dare to let me get hurt!”]
[“Big Brother, calm down! What variety show production team can kidnap ten thousand people!”]
[“Let him try, maybe it is real.”]
[“The person upstairs is idiot number two.”]
In less than a minute, that person never appeared again, except the number of people in the Chat Room changed from 10000 to 9999.
Did he die?
Ye Qiyan shook his head and stopped thinking about it.
Closing the Chat Room, he dragged the light screen to flip to the Train Details.
[Level 1 Train]
[Carriage: None]
[Speed: 20 kilometers per hour]
[Workbench: Level 1 (can recycle and decompose resource items)]
[frame: Level 1]
[Wheels: Level 1]
[Base plate: Level 1]
[Required for upgrade: 100 kg of wood, 150 kg of metal, 50 mechanical parts]
Speed?
If, according to the Train rules, the time to arrive at the platform is a fixed 24 hours, then what is the significance of the Train speed?
However, what was even stranger to him was that if they truly arrived at the same time, with ten thousand people meaning ten thousand Trains, how massive must the platform be to hold them?
Ye Qiyan sensed a trace of strangeness and subconsciously looked through the carriage window at the seemingly endless wilderness outside.
“Could it be that if the speed is too slow, something will catch up?”
Continuing to flip through, he opened the personal information interface.
[Train Captain Name: Ye Qiyan]
[ID: E-3-1102]
[Owned Train: Level 1 Train]
[Mental Power: 100 (when Mental Power is below 80, one will fall into a state of mental exhaustion; below 50, self-doubt; below 20, a state of sanity dissolution; below 10, a state of mental madness; below 1, ? ? ?)]
[Stamina: 100 (can naturally recover through eating or resting, will fall into a state of extreme Sloth when below 0)]
[Ability: None]
[Talent: Sublimation]
[Train Module: None]
“Talent, what is this?”
[Sublimation: Can consume Stamina or Mental Power to conduct Sublimation and evolution on all existences, without limit to category, level, or completeness.]
He hurriedly opened the Chat Room, using the keyword [Talent] to search, but found no one talking about it.
If the vast majority of people possessed a similar Talent, there would definitely be guys who could not control their mouths leaking it out in the Chat Room. Since there was not any, it meant that Talent owners were a minority, or even a tiny minority.
Ye Qiyan fell into deep thought, why did he possess this? His cheat?
Speaking of which, in his past world, he really was a bit different from other people. For example, a computer that was about to be scrapped would suddenly be able to play large 3A games after he touched it, or an ordinary car could be driven at the speed of a sports car, and so on.
Friends joked that he could make the machine spirit rejoice, but Ye Qiyan just regarded all of that as a coincidence.
But the Talent on this personal information seemed to be telling him that it was not a coincidence.
“Sublimate everything? How should I do it?”
Thinking, Ye Qiyan walked over to the workbench in the carriage, where a bottle of water, a piece of bread, and a knife were placed.
These were things everyone possessed, roughly considered a newbie benefit?
[Inferior Knife] Level 1
“Sublimation.”
Ye Qiyan chanted silently in his heart.
The next instant, an invisible force brushed over that Inferior Knife.
The Stamina on his personal information also dropped from 100 to 90.
[Sharpness-Enchanted Dagger] Level 2
“Success!”
Looking at the dagger in his hand flashing with a stern, cold light, Ye Qiyan eyes were filled with an excited glow.
“This Talent can actually do such a thing, and the Stamina consumption was not that much either, which is acceptable.”
Waving the dagger, the sharp blade emitted sharp whistles as it cut through the air. Clearly, after undergoing Sublimation once, the quality of this dagger far exceeded before.
It was hard to imagine what kind of junk this dagger predecessor was.
“Wait, since it is like this!”
Ye Qiyan suddenly raised his head to look around.
To be precise, he was looking at the front of this Train.
“The Train should also be able to undergo Sublimation, right?”
The introduction of the Talent said that all existences could undergo Sublimation, so the Train should also be included among them.
Ye Qiyan took a deep breath, his eyes filled with curiosity and excitement towards the unknown.
Walking in front of the console, as if some voice in his heart was telling him what to do, he pressed his hand onto that oval device.
“Sublimation.”
