Chapter 14
Chapter 14: The Monster’s Diary
Pure malice bared!
Feeling the pulling force coming from the barrel, Ye Qiyan pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Bang!!
“Roar!”
A severed hand flew out, and the roller shutter was breached. Only then did he finally see that the body of the man in the doorway was bloated beyond recognition, leaving only a human face and the arm he had just blasted away to vaguely reveal his original appearance.
“You’re too late! Too late! Why didn’t you come sooner? My daughter just wanted to eat a cake! Why did you useless Couriers drag this out for so long? Go to hell!”
Stay calm—
Ye Qiyan took a deep breath and continued to pull the trigger while staring at the monster rushing toward him.
Bang, bang, bang—three consecutive shots hit.
Although his marksmanship was terrible, the opponent was simply too huge, and they were at such close range.
Even so, the power of the upgraded rifle still failed to pierce the monster’s tough body.
A punch hit Ye Qiyan squarely in the chest, sending him flying backward.
Ye Qiyan gritted his teeth and got up, feeling a tumultuous churning in his stomach.
If it hadn’t been for the reinforced bulletproof vest acting as a buffer, he likely would have passed out straight away from that blow.
The monster shrieked and charged over once again.
Bang—
Another shot.
“It’s useless! I’m not afraid of your bullets!”
What answered it was even more bullets.
Bang—bang—bang—
“Is that so? Would you like to look down?”
Ye Qiyan chuckled lightly, and the monster subconsciously lowered its head, only to see that its body was already riddled with holes.
“How is that possible?!”
“Hoo~”
Blowing on the muzzle, Ye Qiyan stood up while clutching his stomach, the Black Light Enchanted Pistol in his hand exuding a faint glow.
[Black Light Enchanted Pistol] Consumes Stamina to transform into armor-piercing bullets.
Ye Qiyan walked up to the monster, aimed the pitch-black muzzle at its skull, and pulled the trigger.
Bang—
“Hoo, no wonder there are no traces of monsters here. It’s because this is the big monster’s territory, huh.”
Resting for a moment, Ye Qiyan stepped over the monster’s corpse, picked up the overturned cake on the ground, shook his head with some regret, and then packed it into his backpack along with the three Train Coins nearby.
“Such a waste.”
Coming to the roller shutter and opening it completely, the scene inside was unexpectedly clean.
“It really is a silver shop.”
Silver crossbow bolts, spearheads, and even crosses were placed around casually.
On a cabinet, Ye Qiyan found a diary.
[March 1st: There are ten days left until my daughter’s birthday. I picked up three coins inside a severed Train head outside the town. According to the old folks in the town, these coins can make the Courier of RUN Corporation deliver food beyond our imagination! I want to buy a cake for my daughter. As long as she eats the cake, her illness will definitely be cured, right? After all, that is something beyond our imagination!]
[March 5th: My daughter’s illness is getting worse and worse… She just wants to eat a piece of cake. Oh, great Courier, please hurry up and come!]
[March 9th: …My daughter is looking forward to tomorrow’s cake, but Courier, where are you?]
[March 11th: …My daughter is dead. She didn’t get to eat that piece of cake. Before she died, she asked me what the cake tasted like, and I told her it was sweet. Sweet, what does that taste like? Actually, I don’t know either. She is dead, and I can only bury her in the backyard so she won’t turn into a zombie monster.]
[March 15th: Hehehe… Why isn’t the Courier coming yet? I really want to see it, hehe… If there were only a cake…]
The diary stopped here, and the rest were all blood-red tearing marks.
Clearly, after March 15th, this man went completely mad and turned into that kind of monster.
Walking to the back door, Ye Qiyan saw a tombstone erected in the yard.
He placed that piece of cake in front of the tombstone.
“This can also be considered completing the mission, right.”
The reward for the mission was the three Train Coins in his hand.
This stop seemed to end here as well.
But there was one thing that bothered Ye Qiyan a bit.
Outside the town, the severed Train head.
Could that be something left behind there by a Train Captain like him?
Or rather, had some Train Captain also come to this stop in the past, but stayed here forever?
“Could it be that we are not the first batch of survivors?”
Ye Qiyan’s heart was filled with doubts, but no one could answer these doubts for him.
“These silver wares wouldn’t be used to deal with vampires, would they?”
In the corner of the shop, he also found a crossbow.
Along with those crossbow bolts, Ye Qiyan put them all into his backpack.
“So heavy.”
Taking one last look at the monster’s corpse on the ground, Ye Qiyan embarked on the return journey.
Parking Countdown: [35:33]
Returning to the Train took more time than heading to the silver shop.
The monsters in the town were even more numerous than he had imagined.
If it hadn’t been for the extra hour gained after the upgrade, he probably would have had to forcefully break through those monster hordes instead of returning safely like this now.
Zombie Dogs, zombie chickens, zombie cats…
The only thing he didn’t see were humanoid zombies.
Wall-E hadn’t returned yet, so Ye Qiyan was not in a hurry to leave.
Time was still quite ample, and he sorted through his current gains from this stop.
[Mithril Crossbow Bolt] (Level 2)
[Inflicts triple damage to the Kindred]
[Mithril Cross] (Level 2)
[Pray, maybe it will be useful?]
[Mithril Ritual Sword] (Level 2)
[Inflicts unrecoverable damage to the Kindred]
Except for these three items, the rest of the odds and ends were recycled by him using the Processing Table, ultimately yielding 10 kilograms of mithril.
With this much, placed in his former world, he could probably become a minor wealthy person.
Among these three mithril weapons, Ye Qiyan picked up the cross, thought for a moment, and began Sublimation.
[Stamina: 55]
[Sanctuary Mithril Cross] (Level 3)
[Can release holy light in the dark, possessing massive lethality against existences such as the Kindred/evil spirits/demons.]
As for the remaining two, to be honest, Ye Qiyan felt that he couldn’t even shoot accurately with a pistol, so this crossbow probably had even less accuracy. As for engaging in melee combat with the Kindred, he still had self-awareness.
Hanging the cross on the front of the Train, he casually opened the Trading Platform and was pleasantly surprised to see that the trade he initiated had actually been accepted by someone.
“Someone actually bought it.”
Looking at the shiny Train Coins in his hand, Ye Qiyan took a fruit, ate it, and opened the chat interface.
At this time, other Train Captains had already left the platform.
[Chat Room]
[Population: 7825 / 10000]
Once again, thousands of people remained forever at their third stop.
And those who survived still had to face the challenges of survival.
Food, water, and medicine.
People who possessed these essentials were ultimately just a minority.
As for those who wanted to work hard to upgrade the Train, they were an even rarer minority among the minority.
