Chapter 110

Chapter 110 Monroe Gina Leaves Station

“How is it outside?”

The tea was delicious, but he wasn’t quite used to drinking it.

Ye Qiyan put down his teacup and casually replied,

“It’s very chaotic outside. Those people who used to be a Train Captain but abandoned their Train are fighting for Trains at the exchange, wanting to step back into the wilderness, but…”

He hesitated for a moment.

Monroe Gina smiled slightly and finished the sentence for him.

“However, even if those people get a Train, they will ultimately just die in the wilderness or in some station, right?”

“Not necessarily, maybe there will be some who are lucky?”

“Hehe, if there really were such people, they wouldn’t have chosen to abandon their Train.”

Monroe Gina’s tone was unhurried.

“Don’t you find it very strange? Clearly, the Control of the city promotes Peace and stability, encouraging Train Captains to abandon their Train and live as ordinary people in the city, but the descendants they give birth to are educated to strive for everything for the sake of Train Captains. This strange contradiction can only explain one thing.”

She stroked the rim of her cup, her tone gradually becoming playful.

“As for the so-called abandonment of identity, only ordinary people and the weak who fear the wilderness would make such a choice. None of the higher-ups in the city will give up their Train; they will only use certain methods to allow themselves to stay in their own city forever without having to leave. Although discarding a Train does not mean discarding power, nor does it mean one cannot continue to grow stronger, but ~ without a Train, one cannot move forward. Truly ambitious people will not let themselves stagnate.”

Monroe Gina’s words were similar to what Zhao Xi said.

Joining the city does not mean abandoning the Train.

People who make such a choice, even with the influence of the Order Card, do so equally because of their own fear and insufficient ability.

For ordinary people, this choice is not a bad thing. However, people who riot just because they live poorly in the city—such people will not come to a good end even if they return to the wilderness.

Hm?

Wait.

If that’s the case?

“Did you notice?”

“That’s right. If so, what on earth is that woman Zhu Xingtu trying to achieve by snatching the Order Card in the city?”

Ye Qiyan stated his own answer.

“To collect the card sequence of order?”

“That’s right, the answer is just that simple. Everything that Charlatan does is for just one thing: collecting card sequences, or letting someone who has the ability to obtain an entire series of card sequences join the Emperor Sequence Organization. She doesn’t care who holds the card sequences, she only cares that the card sequence owners become members of the organization.”

Monroe Gina raised her eyes to look at the sky.

At this moment, Zhu Xingtu was being hunted down in the upper levels of Solomon City.

“There is only one thing I want to tell you.”

She paused.

“No matter when, absolutely do not listen to any words from that Charlatan other than collecting card sequences. Whether it’s for a greater cause, for salvation, or for life, they are all fake.”

In a sense, the purpose of what Zhu Xingtu—the woman everyone called a Charlatan in Monroe Gina’s words—did was truly pure enough.

For card sequences?

Ye Qiyan didn’t quite understand.

“What would happen if an entire set of card sequences were successfully collected?”

“I don’t know. After all, I’ve never succeeded. Perhaps only that Charlatan has succeeded, which is why she is so obsessed with collecting card sequences.”

Monroe Gina sighed, leaned on her Staff-Sword, stood up, and walked toward her Train.

“I’m leaving.”

“Now?”

“Yeah, leaving together with those elves outside.”

“I owe them a favor and need to help them to complete a ritual. Therefore, they will stay on the Train as my assistants.”

The Staff-Sword waved.

On that carriage, a huge Goshawk flew over holding an egg.

“This is for you.”

Monroe Gina handed over the warm eagle egg.

“This is the recent egg of my pet Goshawk. I’m giving it to you as a farewell gift. Don’t eat it; hatch it and use it as a pet.”

“If this is a reward for saving you, the previous Devil Card and the thing inside that seal are already more than enough.”

“No, it’s not enough.”

Monroe Gina didn’t explain anything, forcefully shoved the egg into Ye Qiyan’s arms, took off her veil, smiled slightly at him, and then her body gradually turned into bubbles and vanished.

The Train’s whistle sounded.

In front of Monroe Gina’s Train, tracks spread out and space distorted.

In the dilapidated cyan elf village outside, elves carrying large and small bundles walked in from the distortion.

They entered the same carriage and disappeared.

There seemed to be an entire miniature world inside, enough for these hundreds of people to survive within it.

The whistle sounded once more.

Monroe Gina in the friends list sent him a message.

“If you encounter unhandleable matters related to the occult, you can come find me. I will find a way to help you ~”

The Train started moving.

Looking at the back of the entire Train entering the distortion, this was the first time he saw someone else’s Train leaving the station from this perspective.

“It’s time for me to leave as well.”

Although he had been in Solomon City for less than a day, the harvest this time could be described as quite good.

Not to mention anything else, just the Train Coins alone—he already possessed as many as forty of them now.

He planned to save up to a hundred before continuing with the next Train upgrade.

Besides that, he took out the carriages that could undergo Sublimation—the farming carriage and the virtual Sandbox carriage—and placed them in the sixth and seventh positions respectively.

He would wait until he left this place to perform Sublimation.

Taking out his pocket watch, the time was 5:18 PM.

Should he leave the station now?

Ye Qiyan thought for a moment.

If he left now, he would still have to wait on the Train until tomorrow afternoon to enter the next station.

There was no need to rush either.

He could continue buying some supplies in the city.

After all, the 2,000 Solomon coins he exchanged earlier hadn’t been spent yet, and he didn’t know when he would come back here next time, so keeping them was useless anyway.

“Eh? Where did that pretty sister’s Train go?”

Zhao Lin, who had been staying in her own Train tinkering with who knows what, ran out.

“She left. Didn’t you hear the sound?”

Zhao Lin stuck out her tongue and pointed at her second carriage.

“That carriage is completely soundproof. Hehe, I usually sleep there, and I can’t even hear the thumping sound of the wheels. Pretty awesome, right?”

“Not bad, looks like you still have some assets.”

“Of course.”

“Right on cue, take it and sell it for money to make up for my unlucky current situation after latching onto your Bad Luck ~”

“T-That, I’ll head back first!”

Watching Zhao Lin’s fleeing figure, Ye Qiyan couldn’t help but chuckle.

To be honest, her Bad Luck this time was a lot simpler than he had imagined.

Aside from a tiny bit of danger, no unexpected accidents occurred.

Could it be that her Bad Luck wasn’t actually that bad?

However, the moment this thought appeared in his mind,

the violent shaking of the earth made Ye Qiyan take back that thought.

“…Aren’t there a bit too many troubles encountered today?”