Chapter 124
Chapter 124: Self-Defense
Winnie had possessed the ability of Bewitchment since she was a child.
She was very clear about this Talent of hers.
As the empire’s princess, all the subordinates around her had been brainwashed and were completely under her Control.
She had ambition and wanted to become the empire’s empress, but the current ruler used those magical coins to obtain treasures from some adventurers that could hinder her brainwashing.
Driven by necessity, she chose to plot slowly, coming to the front line to defeat the Goblin army and accumulate prestige.
With the fortress fallen and summoning adventurers through those magical coins, she had already entertained such thoughts from the very beginning.
That older adventurer was clearly already affected by her; in other words, her power could definitely influence these adventurers.
As long as she worked a bit harder.
With thoughts reaching this point,
Princess Winnie walked up in front of Ye Qiyan and greeted him with a smile.
“Hello, powerful adventurer, thank you for your help. You have done for the empire…”
Ye Qiyan glared with a pair of dead fish eyes, looking indifferently at the somewhat older and not-so-good-looking princess in front of him.
[Mental Power: 72 (Witnessing Truth and Falsehood)]
[Brainwashing? The gap in Mental Power is too large, the negative effect is nullified]
What did this woman want to do?
Brainwashing?
It wasn’t the large-scale inspiration from before, but a targeted brainwashing.
Wanting to Control him?
She was truly courting death.
The Raven Demon beside Ye Qiyan walked over carrying a snake-skin bag, and as if sensing something, let out a chilling and shrill cry toward that woman.
“Caw——!”
Thud——
Princess Winnie rolled her eyes and collapsed to the ground.
Dead?
Not really, it was just a state similar to being a vegetative person.
“She really is stupid enough to even want to brainwash me.”
His gaze swept around.
Those people in the army swarmed up.
“Princess!”
A knight quickly ran over, looking at the woman foaming at the mouth, convulsing, and rolling her eyes back, and immediately drew his sword to point at Ye Qiyan.
“What did you do to the Princess?”
Explanation was meaningless.
They couldn’t possibly believe it, and even if they did, they would still charge up anyway.
Ye Qiyan couldn’t be bothered to answer and simply returned to the Train.
He only left a single sentence for the Raven Demon.
“Don’t dirty my Train.”
“Caw!”
The Train door closed, and the sounds outside were completely isolated.
“So hungry.”
He grabbed a bucket of instant noodles he had previously bought in the City of a Thousand Stars from the storage carriage, added an egg and a ham sausage, and soaked it with freshly boiled hot water.
Taking advantage of the time the instant noodles were soaking, the weapon information recovered from those two Goblins was identified by the system.
[Goblin Giant Steel Fist Bones (Level 7)]
[Consumes Stamina to release a giant fist print]
[Goblin Legion Commander’s Cold Steel Greatsword (Level 4)]
[Reduces attack frequency, increases damage per attack]
One was Level 7 and the other Level 4.
Both Goblins were monsters of the same tier, yet the weapons they held were completely different.
Was there really such a gap between the royalty and non-royalty?
“Why does it feel so useless?”
He wasn’t playing melee anyway, so these two weapons were completely meaningless to Ye Qiyan.
Why play with blades and fists when he had guns?
“Might as well just sell them.”
If he wanted to sell them, he had to go to the black market.
Other places would be relatively more troublesome.
A Level 7 weapon should fetch quite a bit of money.
As for whether to Sublimate it to Level 8 before selling, forget it.
After all, having items related to a Talent held in other people’s hands would still cause some trouble to a certain extent. In the past, he would sell some Sublimated items simply because he didn’t understand this world well enough.
Certain entities could interfere with the system and make his docking time almost infinite, trapping him to death completely.
Who knows if these slightly higher-level weapons falling into certain people’s hands would allow them to deduce his Talent ability?
Therefore, Ye Qiyan would never Sublimate any items he decided to sell in the future, even if this would make him earn a little fewer Train Coins.
He pulled out the black market invitation card and opened the black market interface.
He had the two weapons appraised, and the final prices obtained were 40 Train Coins for that steel fist and 15 for the greatsword.
Unlike the Trickster Sword last time, these two items could not be sold immediately.
Ye Qiyan wasn’t in a hurry either; hanging them up there and using them as a temporary free storage jar wasn’t bad either.
Having settled these, Ye Qiyan’s instant noodles were almost ready. Eating the instant noodles, he glanced at the scene outside and casually opened a casual game to pass the time.
But this passing of time lasted for a whole afternoon.
“Damn! Who came up with this Tree Knight as a beginner BOSS?”
Annoyed, he threw away the controller. The sky outside was approaching night.
He opened the Train window, and a strong smell of rust hit his face.
The Raven Demon had returned outside the Train at some unknown time. The feathers on its body were black and shiny, and its body seemed to have grown a bit taller than before.
It was very quiet outside.
Quiet to an absurd degree.
The Raven Demon complied with his request, and no blood stains touched his Train.
Knights, army, Goblins…
Inside this fortress, no enemies of Ye Qiyan remained.
“All settled?”
“Caw.”
The Raven Demon let out a cry.
“Serve them right.”
Ye Qiyan glanced disdainfully at the princess who could no longer wake up.
“Of all things to do, you just had to come and brainwash me. This is what I call self-defense~”
Rattle rattle.
In the silent fortress, no matter what the sound was, it appeared exceptionally clear.
The sound of tracks walking on the ground drew Ye Qiyan’s attention.
Amidst that Shura-like mountain of corpses and sea of blood,
Wall-E happily ran over holding a small wooden box.
[23:01:44]
The time on the pocket watch was eleven at night.
Ye Qiyan opened the Train door, took the small wooden box handed over by Wall-E, gently stroked its tin head, and frowned when he noticed that one of its machine arms had traces of breaking, and its tracks seemed to have become even more dilapidated.
“Ran into danger?”
Wall-E nodded and gestured a few times, roughly meaning it was discovered by a few Goblins who shot an arrow at it.
As the Platform level increased, Wall-E’s survival in these places became increasingly difficult.
He had to find a way to make Wall-E continue to grow stronger.
Try Sublimating it once more? But would Wall-E after Sublimation still be the current Wall-E? Would its memories be directly overwritten and cleared to zero?
After repairing Wall-E using mechanical parts and Metal, Ye Qiyan temporarily suppressed this thought deep in his heart.
Turning his gaze back to the small wooden box in his hand,
[Level 7 Treasure Chest (Can be opened)]
As expected, it was a Treasure Chest.
Then there was only one thing to do.
“Level 8 Treasure Chest, hehe, Stamina and Mental Power have recovered quite a bit, let’s try it now.”
“Sublimation!”
Stamina and Mental Power began to drain.
His first Level 8 Treasure Chest was about to be produced.
