Chapter 132
Chapter 132: The “Fairness” of the Train System
Missions, transactions—in a certain sense, that is indeed the case.
However, if this truly is a transaction, it is not fair to both parties.
Because as he had said before, he could simply take the Train Coins and leave directly. There was no absolute necessity to complete the task, as long as he had the ability to deal with the person who issued it.
Seeing that Ye Qiyan did not speak, Altos shook his head, knowing that the other party still did not believe him. He sighed and continued:
“Still don’t believe it? Brother, don’t worry that I’m lying to you. The Train System is very fair to Train Captains, but it’s not the same for people who aren’t Train Captains.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means literally what it says. The wilderness connects countless Station Worlds, and the natives in those worlds are merely NPCs used for Train Captains’ explorations as far as the Train System is concerned. Their lives and deaths are completely meaningless. As long as the Train Captain can become stronger, whether they kill the people in the Platform or rob them, they won’t suffer any punishment.”
“Conversely, a former Train Captain like me who knows about the endless wilderness and the Train survival world, yet lost their identity due to various circumstances, will receive absolute constraints.”
Ye Qiyan understood the meaning behind Altos’s words.
In short, the Train System would only show its fair side to Train Captains; for everyone else, especially those who gave up their identity, it was completely the opposite.
“Fine, I can help you buy a Train engine.”
“Really!? Thank you, brother!”
“But before that, you need to tell me, besides you and these rotting corpses, what else is in this Ancient Battlefield ruin?”
In fact, if this fellow named Altos were a normal human, Ye Qiyan would not have acted so greedy.
It was just that this guy had changed his race.
Presumably, just like the Vampire Baron’s heart, it would instinctively cause him, as a human, to feel disgust.
This was not an impact on the mental level, but rather the feeling of a human facing a traitor.
That was why Ye Qiyan chose to give this guy a hard time.
When all was said and done, although he was greedy, he also had his own principles. He wouldn’t treat the people in the Platform as fake NPCs like Qin Qiang from the previous station.
Altos tapped his helmet and thought carefully for a moment.
“There shouldn’t be anything else, except that there is a black forest in the southeast. I’ve only been there once. That place is extremely evil; once you enter that forest, you unconsciously start wanting to hack and slash something.”
Following the direction of Altos’s finger, the southeast was precisely the location where Wall-E had gone to explore.
That place was most likely where the Devil Card was stored.
“You’ve been here for more than a decade, and you never thought about going there to explore?”
Altos shook his head.
“I didn’t dare to go. All my items were snatched away by someone. Now I can only rely on the Lich Module to control these rotting corpses. But once I arrive at that place, the rotting corpses become out of my control and attack me. The one time I went there, I was almost hacked to death by these rotting corpses.”
Was it because of the power of the Devil Card?
Or was it because there was something else there?
Ye Qiyan nodded knowingly.
He brought up the system Light Screen and swiped the Black Market Invitation Card.
He searched for the Train engine among them, and sure enough, they were for sale here. However, the price was completely identical to that of the vehicle exchange in Solomon City.
[Basic Train Engine]
[Price: 100 Train Coins]
He did not buy it immediately, but instead focused on the add-on options at the time of purchase.
“This is not bad, actually.”
The corners of Ye Qiyan’s mouth curved upward as he typed something on the Light Screen. A moment later, the price to purchase the engine changed from one hundred to one hundred and ten points.
Without hesitation, he aimed the Train Coins in the cloth bag at the Light Screen. One hundred and ten of those Train Coins transformed into dark golden light specks and merged into it.
Immediately after, amidst Altos’s dumbfounded gaze,
above the black deep pit, a grid-like distorted depression appeared.
Black tracks extended downwards, and a most basic Train engine fell from the air. Accompanied by the sound of a whistle, it entered the deep pit.
Putting away the remaining Train Coins, Ye Qiyan pointed toward the engine again.
“Not going in to take a look?”
Altos knocked hard on his helmet, as if feeling like he was dreaming.
He scanned back and forth between the Train and Ye Qiyan.
“Good grief, Big Brother, just what level of Train Captain are you? How can you directly manipulate the Train System without even going through a Train?”
“Is this very strange? You couldn’t do it before?”
“Definitely not! Being able to use the Train System without going through a Train is a Module that only Train Captains above level 30 have a chance to obtain. If I had such a Module back then, I wouldn’t have been trapped here ever since I lost my Train. If it weren’t for a few Modules and the fact that I don’t need to eat after changing my race, I would have died in this lousy place long ago…”
Seeing that Ye Qiyan couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to him, Altos chuckled with a hehe, then trotted over to the Train door. He took a deep breath, expelled a foul breath, and subsequently crashed into the door.
“Uh, Big Brother, you have to be the one to open this door.”
Altos smiled sheepishly. Compared to the beginning, his tone when speaking to Ye Qiyan had become quite respectful.
Moving his fingers, he cancelled the encapsulation of the engine.
The Train door opened, and Altos hurriedly squeezed inside, ran to the control system at the very front, stretched out his armor-wrapped palm, and pressed it down.
“Bind!”
“… Why is there no response?”
Outside the engine, Ye Qiyan walked over to the Train window. Watching Altos’s actions, he moved his fingers again, and only then did Altos complete the binding.
“?? Big Brother, what, what did you do? Why can’t I initiate the binding myself? And why does it seem like I can’t control the Train’s system?”
Ye Qiyan pulled out a White Forest Fruit and took a bite. Eating it, he calmly said:
“I didn’t do anything, just had people from the black market help me lock this Train. Once you arrive at the City of a Thousand Stars in the next station and hand over the item you mentioned to me, this lock will naturally be unlocked.”
“You!”
The pure purification stone flickered slightly.
Altos’s imposing aura hardened for less than a second before weakening.
“You really are cautious…”
“The friend request has been sent over. The next station, the City of a Thousand Stars, I will come to find you.”
Without needing Altos to choose whether to accept or not,
Ye Qiyan’s Train control system split-screen had already completed the choice for him.
Altos sat on the ground helplessly, completely resigning himself to fate, and even began to sigh with emotion.
“If I had a cautious heart like yours back then, and didn’t trust that guy who used to be my friend, perhaps I wouldn’t have ended up in my current state.”
At any rate, his identity as a Train Captain was restored. Although the Train level and devices were gone, as long as he was given enough time, he could get them all back.
