Chapter 139
Chapter 139: The Seventeenth Station · The Second Arrival at the City of a Thousand Stars
[ Stamina: 100 → 80 ]
[ Blueprint: Annihilation Drone → Blueprint: Annihilation Martyr ]
[ Annihilation Martyr ]
[ Crafting Requirements: 50 mechanical parts, 3 kg Metal, Disposable Aluminothermic Battery × 3 ]
[ Electronic locking is available. Once locked, it can carry out three consecutive aluminothermic self-destruction bombardments. Upon the third time, a chain reaction will be triggered, causing a larger explosion. ]
[ This drone can be controlled via Mental Power, with the maximum control quantity depending on the upper limit of Mental Power. ]
The original automatic laser attack was gone, replaced instead by ultimate self-detonation capabilities.
Furthermore, each drone could continuously self-detonate three times, and the original maximum control limit was also changed to be determined based on Mental Power.
Ye Qiyan bought some drone materials on the Trading Platform and crafted them for control.
A single drone only consumed one point of Mental Power. That meant, given his current Mental Power, he could simultaneously control up to 150 drones capable of three aluminothermic bombardments for a suicide attack.
This was undeniably powerful.
If it were anyone else, they would definitely be ecstatic to obtain such powerful equipment, but Ye Qiyan merely felt that this thing was just alright.
After all, it consumed Mental Power.
His Mental Power had too many uses; normally controlling a few as bombs was fine, but among the items he possessed, it could not be considered particularly powerful.
Having completed all the Sublimation he currently wanted to carry out,
Ye Qiyan returned to the Temperature-controlled carriage, resting while waiting for the scheduled 12 o’clock time to arrive.
The fire tornadoes in the wilderness showed no signs of weakening at all.
The monsters that used to constantly chase the Train completely vanished in this disaster.
They were hiding, fleeing from the disaster.
This disaster, to them, was the true apocalypse.
“Speaking of which, I wonder if that Smiling Man has left the wilderness.”
The wilderness was endless.
This was the answer Shaya gave him.
The endless wilderness, without a Train.
To be honest, Ye Qiyan couldn’t figure out how the Smiling Man could leave that place, especially under the current apocalyptic scenery.
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The hour hand on the pocket watch pointed at twelve o’clock.
He pulled up the system Light Screen and opened the invitation email of the City of a Thousand Stars.
Three Train Coins turned into light spots in his hands and merged into it.
The sound of the Train broadcast immediately rang in his ears.
[ Platform modification completed. Next station, the Seventeenth Station, the City of a Thousand Stars. According to your current authority, you can dock in it for a maximum of three days. Do you wish to enter the city immediately? ]
“Yes.”
Voidness manifested.
He entered it.
A scenery identical to the past came into view.
The huge gates of the City of a Thousand Stars stood ahead, and that sense of Sloth intended to affect people’s hearts surged into his mind the moment he entered this world.
“The power of the Order Card, huh…”
Ye Qiyan thought of the man he had seen in Solomon City that day.
“The person who collected a full set of the card sequence is called the Sequence Master. What a truly terrible name.”
He walked to the front of the Train. The high temperature that originally existed in the exterior vanished completely within the City of a Thousand Stars.
Just as he imagined, those predecessors capable of building cities definitely possessed the power to withstand the bizarre weather in the wilderness.
Driving forward for a distance, the Crossroads of Fate quietly manifested.
It was still the same choice between two as before.
The Lower District and the Main Gate.
Ye Qiyan chose the latter.
He entered the familiar Capsule Tunnel.
The guide waiting here had yet to speak when Ye Qiyan, who had gotten off the Train, snapped his fingers.
The Module triggered, and the storage Matrix activated.
A Train Coin turned into a dark golden light spot and merged into the Train.
Following that, his entire Train disappeared within the Capsule Tunnel.
“Hmm? What a coincidence, it’s actually him again.”
That guide was the same person as when he first came to the City of a Thousand Stars.
He looked at Ye Qiyan, then looked at the empty Capsule Tunnel, smiled bitterly, and bowed respectfully.
“Hello, great Train Captain. It seems you do not need our Train preservation service.”
Ye Qiyan merely smiled without answering, walking straight toward the outside of the station.
The guide left in place fell into deep thought.
Until Ye Qiyan completely disappeared, he walked over to a machine and tapped on the keyboard.
“Eh? Blank?”
On the station entry information, there was no existence of Ye Qiyan.
“Hiss.”
He shivered, as if gazed upon by some great power, and the endless sense of oppression instantly dispelled his thoughts of continuing to investigate further.
This was a powerful Train Captain; it would be best for him not to provoke such a person.
Stepping out of the station,
Ye Qiyan headed to the Currency Exchange, which was the place where he and Zhao Lin had agreed to meet.
Not waiting for too long, a fair hand gently patted his right shoulder.
“Still trying this?”
He grabbed toward the other side, only to hear the girl’s cry.
“Ouch.”
Zhao Lin had her arm caught, and looking at Ye Qiyan who had turned around, she chuckled with a hehe.
“You caught me again.”
“Even a fool would know not to stumble twice on the same matter.”
“I—I am using two-way reverse thinking! If you thought that way too, wouldn’t I have fooled you?”
Ye Qiyan released his hand and looked Zhao Lin up and down.
Different from the first two times,
Zhao Lin’s face this time was overflowing with confidence.
Was it because she was currently in a state of good luck?
With the blessing of luck, one would feel omnipotent.
With omnipotent confidence, she would no longer cower.
Her Talent, if she were always in a state of good luck, would definitely not be much worse than his Sublimation.
Unfortunately, Bad Luck was simply too intense.
The higher the good luck today, the deeper the Bad Luck next time would be.
“Brother Qiyan, where are we going?”
“Let’s go exchange some money first, and then, aren’t you going to buy a carriage? The City of a Thousand Stars also has a Train Exchange, let’s go take a look there.”
Going to collect money was not urgent.
On the way here, he had already established contact with Altos through chat. At the same time, because of the trick played by the black market, he also knew very well where Altos’s Train was at this moment. That place was not a normal district of the City of a Thousand Stars.
Rather, it was that hidden, living graveyard of all losers.
The City of a Thousand Stars, Lower District.
Altos was right there.
The two entered the Currency Exchange, and Ye Qiyan exchanged for three thousand Star Coins.
He didn’t have anything particularly special he wanted to buy, but since they had come to the city, they could also relax properly.
After the exchange, the two found a manned flying mechanism beast and headed toward the Train Exchange.
On the way, the driver controlling the mechanism beast inexplicably said a sentence.
“You two, have you not visited the City of a Thousand Stars recently?”
Zhao Lin blinked and replied with a nod:
“Yeah, what’s wrong?”
The driver shook his head and reminded them in a very solemn tone:
“It seems a big figure has arrived in the City of a Thousand Stars. A curfew will be implemented after 10 PM recently. The two of you must be very careful; these past few days, Train Captains always seem to go missing.”
