Chapter 138
Chapter 138: [Cursed Black Nether Fruit] and [Void Electric Furnace]
She didn’t want money, but instead wanted to buy special materials for upgrading from him?
The Judge’s Medal could indeed be used to purchase higher-level items, but that didn’t mean it could buy upgrade items.
However, he really did have a special item for upgrading a Level 4 Train to Level 5.
The Calculation Unit was originally prepared to be sold to Shangguan Yingxue at some point.
Since Zhao Lin took the initiative to say she wanted it, it wouldn’t hurt to sell it to her.
[“45 Train Coins. If you can cough them up, I can give it to you right now.”]
The Flame Stone sold for 30 Train Coins, so the Calculation Unit naturally couldn’t be less than that figure.
[“No rush, no rush. In a few more stations… I don’t have that much money on hand right now, and besides, I still need to buy a few carriages. It’s enough to know I can buy it from you. Heh, consider it a reward for letting you hitch a ride on my luck. Help me save it?”]
[“Alright.”]
He wasn’t in a rush to sell this item anyway.
Among the Train Captains in the same batch and block as him, besides Zhao Lin, the ones with the ability to buy it were Shangguan Yingxue, or at most Li Xiaosheng, who hadn’t appeared in the Chat Room for a long time.
With Zhao Lin’s Talent, it wouldn’t take her too long to scrape together 45 Train Coins.
Ending the conversation, Ye Qiyan prepared to freshen up and go grab some breakfast when he suddenly noticed Wall-E fiddling with a pile of black things—trash collected in the forest at the previous station while he was acquiring the Red Tears.
Originally, Ye Qiyan hadn’t paid much attention to it, but among this trash, a somewhat familiar object caught his attention.
“What is this?”
Walking forward and bending down to touch it, a tree seed was undoubtedly revealed from within that pile of trash.
[Black Nether Fruit Tree Seed (Level 3 Plant)]
[Requires planting using scorched black soil]
[Breaks ground in 10 days, becomes a tree in 10 days, matures in 10 days]
[Consumes half a kilogram of fresh water daily]
“???”
Looking at the seed’s description and then at Wall-E standing beside him, a brilliant smile appeared on Ye Qiyan’s face. He picked up Wall-E and rubbed its iron head hard.
“Wall-E, well done! Thanks to you, otherwise I really would have missed this thing!”
Apart from the name and the planting soil, it had a description nearly identical to that of the White Forest Fruit Tree seed.
Sure enough, his intuition at the previous station wasn’t wrong; that black forest shared some similarities with the White Forest he had visited before.
Wall-E didn’t understand why its master was so happy, but it just felt that as long as the master was happy, it was enough.
The small robot’s camera-like eyes curved into crescents.
This was a smile.
“Scorched black soil? Hmm… This is a bit troublesome.”
He hadn’t thought about collecting soil at the previous station, but it didn’t matter. After leaving the Ten Newbie Stations and entering the two cities of Solomon City and City of a Thousand Stars, he could buy many things on the Trading Platform.
Even if not, worst case he could just go straight to the black market to post a bounty; it would just be a bit more expensive, but he’d still be able to buy it.
Entering keywords and searching briefly, this scorched black soil wasn’t as rare as White Forest soil.
He casually bought a huge pile of it using just one Train Coin.
Putting down the soil and digging a pit, Ye Qiyan placed the seed flat in his palm and began Sublimation.
“After its first Sublimation, the White Forest tree seed gained an extra blessed affix. Will this one also be a blessing?”
[Mental Power: 150 → 140]
The consumption wasn’t much. Under the power of Sublimation, the seed in his hand emitted faint wisps of ominous aura outward.
[Cursed Black Nether Fruit Tree Seed]
[Breaks ground in 3 days, grows in 3 days, matures in 3 days. After maturity, it can produce one Cursed Black Nether Fruit daily.]
A result completely opposite to the White Forest Fruit.
The blessing had turned into a curse.
Ye Qiyan didn’t hesitate, placing the seed into the soil pit and spraying it with plant nutrient solution.
In just a short while, a black sapling broke through the soil, and then rapidly grew. In mere moments, it became a pitch-black tree of the same height as the White Forest Fruit Tree inside the carriage.
A black fruit bore. Remembering the lesson from when he first contacted the White Forest Fruit, Ye Qiyan summoned the Demon Raven, letting it fly above that fruit to pick it and bring it before him.
[Cursed Black Nether Fruit Tree]
[Produces three fruits daily.]
[Cursed Black Nether Fruit]
[Requires no processing. After consumption, it reduces the recovery speed of Stamina and Mental Power, permanently reduces resistance to hallucinations, and has a probability of falling into a cursed state, permanently lowering the upper limit of Mental Power.]
“?”
Ye Qiyan instinctively withdrew his hand.
This fruit was completely inedible; instead, it was a cursed fruit completely opposite to the White Forest Fruit.
“This thing is so toxic? If I have a grudge against someone, feeding them one of these… tsk tsk tsk.”
Though in his mind it couldn’t compare to the White Forest Fruit, this was by no means a useless item.
Picking all three fruits from the tree, he tossed them into the storage unit.
Ye Qiyan simply pulled up a carrot in this planting carriage to have as breakfast.
As long as he chose to pay Train Coins before 1 PM to enter the City of a Thousand Stars, he could change Platforms. He wasn’t in a hurry. Having agreed with Zhao Lin to enter the city at 12 o’clock, he prepared to perform Sublimation on the remaining two items among the previous Train upgrade options.
[Blueprint: Extermination Drone] [High-Energy Power Furnace]
In the heavy turret carriage, which was relatively spacious, Ye Qiyan placed the high-energy power furnace here.
Looking at the huge furnace before him that replaced the power generation device and provided electricity for the entire Train, he wondered what it would look like after Sublimation.
“Sublimation.”
An azure stream of light enveloped it.
[Stamina: 140 → 100] [Mental Power: 144 → 84]
[High-Energy Power Furnace → Void Electric Furnace]
[Can consume any basic materials thrown into the furnace to convert them into the electricity needed by the Train Captain. This electricity can be bound to any unit requiring power, thereby providing cross-space remote power supply effects.]
“Void power supply? No wonder it used up so much of my Mental Power and Stamina. This is a bit overpowered.”
The Sublimation direction of the power furnace exceeded his expectations.
Originally it could only provide remote power supply within the range of the Train. Now it was even better; even outside the Train, it could provide electricity.
Ye Qiyan was quite satisfied with this. That being said, could the Hunting Mechadragon avoid having to be recharged after use, and instead be provided with continuous power during use?
If that were really the case, logically speaking, the startup duration of the Hunting Mechadragon should increase accordingly.
“I’ll find out when I try it next time.”
With his remaining Stamina and Mental Power, Ye Qiyan felt it was enough to perform Sublimation one more time.
Taking out the drone blueprint and pondering for a moment, judging from the description, this thing’s function seemed to overlap with the Beedrills, but with the addition of self-destruction, it could be used as a controllable remote bomb.
He reached out and pressed down on it, preparing for Sublimation.
