Chapter 108
Chapter 108: Train Exchange
Solomon City, Train Exchange.
Following closely behind Ye Qiyan, Zhao Lin looked around curiously. Behind this building was a mountain formed by piling up countless Train carriages that billowed with thick black smoke.
The bizarre environment made her feel inexplicably uncomfortable.
This place felt like a graveyard for Trains.
Walking into the exchange, there were far more people here than imagined.
Finding a random spot to sit down, a shopping Light Screen popped up right before her eyes.
“Only ordinary carriages? Huh? They even sell Train heads here? Damn, so expensive.”
Compared to some carriages, the price of a most basic Train head could actually reach 100 Train Coins, completely unlike something that could be purchased by someone who was not a Train Captain.
Placed here, it seemed to be just for people to look at, with no intention of actually selling it.
“Do they not wish to increase the number of Train Captains?”
After flipping through for a while, he didn’t see any storage unit carriages similar to his second section here, nor did he even see types like the Temperature-controlled carriage and planting carriages.
Most of the carriages sold here only differed in appearance and internal supporting facilities, lacking the special abilities after Sublimation like his.
Rather than purchasing, this exchange was primarily for selling carriages.
Ye Qiyan’s goal in coming here was not this; ordinary carriages were not expensive to begin with, and he certainly didn’t come here to buy these low-level carriages. He took out the Judge’s badge and aimed it at the shopping Light Screen in front of him.
[Ding-ding——Identity information confirmed. Welcome, Third-rank Judge of the Inquisition. Opening special carriage purchase permissions for you.]
The content on the Light Screen continuously refreshed, and the shopping pages, which originally only had a few entries, steadily increased.
[Special carriage purchase permissions have been enabled.]
Flipping further back, some special carriages finally appeared this time.
There was a vine carriage that could summon vines, a breeding carriage specifically used for raising animals with automatic feeding and cleaning functions…
Even the Temperature-controlled carriage and planting carriage could be seen here by him.
However, still no storage units?
It seemed that thing was indeed precious enough.
Zhao Lin followed suit, taking out her own badge and scanning it.
But no changes occurred at all.
“Brother Qiyan, the carriages here are all quite ordinary, and quite expensive too. It feels even worse than just building them yourself.”
Glancing at Zhao Lin sitting opposite him and complaining about those ordinary carriages on the shopping interface, he casually tossed the badge over.
“Use this.”
“Mm… To think it can even be done like this…”
Zhao Lin rested her chin in her hand and casually glanced at a few. Although she saw a few carriages she was very interested in, she couldn’t afford them anyway. After all, Zhao Lin knew very well that after leaving this place, she still had a sum of money to hand over to Ye Qiyan.
However, she quickly thought of something, her eyes glowing as she looked at the badge Ye Qiyan had tossed to her.
“Brother Qiyan, can this thing also be bought in the trading hall!”
She didn’t continue, but Ye Qiyan knew her meaning very well.
“Don’t even think about it. How could those people leave any loopholes? If you want to get Flame Stone, you’ll still have to figure out a way yourself.”
Zhao Lin let out a disappointed ‘oh’.
“Sigh, if only I could run into a profiteer who sells Flame Stone just like Shangguan Yingxue, even if it’s a bit more expensive, that’d be fine.”
“If one is willing to sell and another is willing to buy, what kind of profiteer is that? That’s called fair trade.”
Ye Qiyan couldn’t be bothered to deal with her and searched among the vast number of carriages.
These carriages were not built by the exchange, but were left behind over the years in Solomon City by those Train Captains who chose to sell their carriages.
That was to say, the mountain behind the exchange that could truly be called a Train graveyard.
Wanting to purchase a carriage was his own proposal, and Monroe Gina had recommended this place to him.
“Hmm? This one is actually a bit interesting?”
After picking for a long time, Ye Qiyan’s gaze finally lingered on a certain carriage.
[Virtual Sandbox Carriage]
[This carriage will automatically generate a Sandbox map of the areas already opened up within the station.]
[Price: 10 Train Coins]
It wasn’t expensive, and it wasn’t very powerful either.
After all, this Sandbox of his required the Train Captain to open up the map themselves before it could automatically manufacture it.
But let’s not forget, he still had Sublimation.
If after Sublimation, it could make the creation of the Sandbox even simpler, then these ten Train Coins would definitely be worth more than their value.
“This is the one.”
Having made up his mind, Ye Qiyan pressed the purchase option.
He took out ten Train Coins and put them into the coin slot in front of him.
Soon, a black key appeared on the table in front of him.
[Disposable Unlock Key]
[Seals a carriage inside. After returning to the owned Train, it can be opened and placed to connect with the Train.]
“Pretty simple.”
Having bought his desired carriage, Ye Qiyan didn’t leave immediately and instead spent another five Train Coins to purchase a breeding carriage.
Although there was still plenty of edible meat for him, as the saying goes:
Even a mountain of wealth will be eaten away if one sits idle.
Rather than having to spend money to buy them later, if he could encounter some animals worth raising, he could raise some as reserve food.
Although this breeding carriage wasn’t as highly automated as his planting carriage and could only maintain basic automatic cleaning functions while requiring manual work for things like feeding,
it didn’t matter.
He had Wall-E.
Fifteen Train Coins were spent, but Ye Qiyan’s mood was still quite good.
Seeing him stand up, Zhao Lin, who was sitting opposite him, also followed along.
Just as the two of them were planning to leave, they suddenly heard a commotion coming from within the exchange.
“When I sold the Train head back then, you only gave me 10 Train Coins! Why! Why does it cost one hundred to buy it back now!? I, I am not buying it! I just want to redeem my former Train head! Give it back to me! Give my Train head back to me!”
A bearded, ordinary-looking man roared angrily at a staff member.
“Sir, please calm down. Trade is based on mutual consent. The selling price of 100 Train Coins for the Train head is a reasonable price. When you chose to sell the Train head back then and abandoned the identity of a Train Captain, wasn’t that also your own choice? Now that you regret it, you can only blame yourself for not having enough Train Coins.”
The staff member’s tone was filled with disdain.
In fact, many natives in this world looked down from the bottom of their hearts upon those people who abandoned the identity of a Train Captain and stayed in the city.
Because for these natives, their childhood education taught them that a Train Captain was higher than everything else. Since birth, they studied to serve Train Captains, or accumulated wealth to purchase a Train head, and passed an evaluation with a harshness rate of only one in five hundred to become one of the Train Captains.
Therefore, in their hearts, anyone who casually abandoned the identity of a Train Captain was a complete and utter failure.
