Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Transaction with Shangguan Yingxue
[ “What do you need? Fair warning, I no longer have any firearms on hand to trade with you.” ]
Ye Qiyan tapped on the Light Screen and sent the message out.
After getting no reply for a long time, Ye Qiyan thought the other party wouldn’t trade anymore. Just as he was about to close the private chat, a message came from over there.
[ “Sorry, I was just taking a bath.” ]
A bath?
Ye Qiyan silently looked in the direction of his own water reservoir.
Exactly how much water did this woman have to be able to waste it like this? He wasn’t even being this extravagant, was he?
[ “It’s fine. So what do you want to trade? You should have seen what I just said.” ]
Inside Shangguan Yingxue’s Train.
A young girl with waist-length black hair stood up from a wooden barrel that occupied most of the Train. She coiled up her long hair, her light blue eyes devoid of any visible emotion.
[ “32 kilograms of wood, 50 kilograms of Metal, and 40 mechanical parts. You should have these things.” ]
Ye Qiyan raised an eyebrow, didn’t answer the question, but instead asked in return:
[ “These materials are used to upgrade the Train, right? How are you so sure I have them? Furthermore, even if I have them, why wouldn’t I use them to upgrade my own Train?” ]
[ “Because I hate trouble. Before contacting you, I had already collected some materials, but it takes too much time and requires communicating with too many people, which I don’t like. As for why I came to you, I feel that right now you’re the only one who can pull out different materials all at once. I calculated that you’ve probably sold over twenty rifles. Aside from food and water, aren’t the traded items various materials?” ]
What she said was very right, but not entirely right.
Because the rifles Ye Qiyan sold weren’t just over twenty; they should be doubled, over forty.
As for the resources she wanted, Ye Qiyan indeed had them.
But trading just for water, he wasn’t interested. After all, the ones currently in his water reservoir were temporarily enough, and he even had a way to drink them.
This method was something he saw in the Chat Room.
Drill wood to make fire, then boil it. Never mind what it tasted like; boiled water at least wouldn’t make someone die from diarrhea.
Of course, unless there really was no water to drink, he wouldn’t try this method.
Shangguan Yingxue was silent for a moment. She dried her body and sent over a screenshot.
[ “This thing should be enough.” ]
[Water Purification Device] (Level 1)
[Can filter and purify sewage, purifying one kilogram per hour]
Seeing the contents of the screenshot, Ye Qiyan rubbed his eyes.
Water Purification Device?
It was actually this kind of thing?
No wonder this woman had become extravagant enough to start taking baths. She probably obtained this device back at the first Platform. Even the water used for bathing could likewise be filtered and recovered.
Moreover, not just one.
No, she should own the blueprint for this device; otherwise, how could she bear to take it out for trade?
[ “Do you have the blueprint?” ]
[ “This device is enough to exchange for the resources I need, right.” ]
She neither admitted nor denied it.
Ye Qiyan put away his surprise.
Although the blueprint for the Water Purification Device was precious, it was still someone else’s thing.
He was already fortunate enough; there was no need to envy others.
[ “Mm, we can trade.” ]
The two of them made the trade.
Obtaining the Water Purification Device, Ye Qiyan found that this thing could be placed right between the sewage tank and the purified water tank of the water reservoir.
After turning on the device, the purified water source would automatically fall into the purified water tank and accumulate.
This certainly saved him quite a bit of trouble.
“Sublimation.”
Having used Sublimation so many times, Ye Qiyan roughly understood the rules of Sublimation. Such small, level-one items did not consume too much Stamina.
[Deluxe Water Purification Device] (Level 2)
[Can purify 3 kilograms of water source per hour, can purify non-freshwater]
After leveling up once, the effect tripled, and it also gained the effect of purifying non-freshwater. That meant even seawater could be purified as well.
Ye Qiyan was overjoyed in his heart.
On a whim, Ye Qiyan sent another message to Shangguan Yingxue.
[ “Can you already upgrade the Train? Can you tell me what happens after upgrading?” ]
He was a bit curious about what kind of upgrade options would appear for other people after upgrading the Train, and whether they would be the same as his.
Shangguan Yingxue hesitated for a moment.
[ “… Alright.” ]
Before long, a screenshot was sent in front of Ye Qiyan.
[Level 2 Train upgrade options are as follows]
[1: Low-level Carriage Blueprint (Zero Train Coins)]
[2: Welding Tool Set (Two Train Coins)]
[3: Wooden Bed Blueprint (One Train Coin)]
[4: Train Stop Time Increased by One Hour (Two Train Coins)]
Option 1 and Option 4 were the same as when he upgraded, but the remaining two were different.
“I see. The carriage blueprint and stop time are fixed, while the remaining two items are random, and furthermore, the quality is also different.”
Shangguan Yingxue’s two random options were still much worse compared to the options he had obtained.
Ye Qiyan nodded knowingly, and then saw Shangguan Yingxue send another message.
[ “Do you have Train Coins?” ]
[ “No.” ]
[ “Then are you still buying water?” ]
Ye Qiyan’s mouth twitched twice. If it were before, he might have bought some as a backup. But now? Thinking that the other party had started taking baths, and the bathwater would definitely be recycled using the Water Purification Device—meaning if he bought more, he’d be buying her bathwater.
[ “Not buying.” ]
[ “Alright…” ]
Chat ended.
Ye Qiyan knew that the other party wanted to purchase Train Coins from him to buy the options, but he didn’t even have enough of this stuff for himself, so how could he possibly take it out to trade?
Besides, he originally still had an option he hadn’t chosen yet.
[Train Burst Acceleration Device Blueprint (Five Train Coins)]
One of the options unlocked after the Train upgraded to Level 2.
For ordinary people, five Train Coins probably required accumulating across several Platforms to possibly obtain.
But right as he had just passed the second Platform, Ye Qiyan had already saved up enough capital to buy all the options outright.
[Purchase: Train Burst Acceleration Device Blueprint]
[Consumed 5 Train Coins]
[Current Remaining Train Coins: 4]
[Train Burst Acceleration Device]
[Construction Requirements: 50 kilograms of Metal, 200 mechanical parts]
[After building the device, materials can be used to manufacture Acceleration Bullets. Using Acceleration Bullets can increase the Train’s speed to three times the original within ten minutes]
So expensive, truly worthy of a blueprint that required five Train Coins to buy.
However, he was only lacking some parts.
And he happened to be able to afford it.
Having passed the second station, the things on the Trading Platform became much richer.
And what the vast majority of people needed right now was food and water. As it happened, he had food.
Just because Ye Qiyan would be picky about those few buckets of compressed biscuits didn’t mean they had no value.
