Chapter 145
Chapter 145: Heading to the Lower District
“…Ah-hem… Morning, Brother Ye, and… little sister…”
Zhu Xingtu slowly stood up, grabbing her still-aching arm, and looked at Zhao Lin, who was sitting opposite Ye Qiyan, with a complex expression.
She took a bite of the remaining carrot in her mouth, her complex gaze vanishing instantly, and walked straight over with a smile.
“It seems I didn’t sleep for long. This carrot tastes pretty good. Is there any left, Brother Ye?”
“It’s gone. Do you want this?”
Ye Qiyan handed Zhu Xingtu a grilled skewer.
The other party sat down uninvited in the adjacent seat and feasted heartily.
Among the three of them, no one mentioned the matter of Talent.
Zhao Lin kept her head down in silence, while Zhu Xingtu kept smiling and said nothing.
Only Ye Qiyan was genuinely hungry.
Having eaten and drunk to her fill, Zhu Xingtu stood up, walked straight to her Train, and tapped her fingers in the air.
A message was sent before Ye Qiyan.
[ “Oh my~ I really took a huge tumble. I didn’t expect that I would also have a day of being toyed with by fate. Do you know the Talent on this little sister?” ]
[ “I don’t know. How would I know what Talent she has? Who would tell outsiders about such things?” ]
Ye Qiyan smiled at Zhu Xingtu, having no intention of telling the truth at all.
[ “…Seriously, why don’t the newcomers in the organization trust me now? Is this big sister really that untrustworthy? I don’t believe you haven’t seen that Fate Card. Seeing that card, you should also understand what I did. Stealing half of the Bad Luck almost killed me, and the remaining half… Hehe~ Fate says she possesses luck, so the remaining half must be luck, right.” ]
Zhu Xingtu opened the Train door and walked in wearily.
[ “Is that so? I don’t know, sigh.” ]
[ “Mn-hmm~ Rest assured, I won’t do anything to your little lover again, and I won’t find a way to take back that Fate Card. Sure enough, borrowing other people’s luck too much will always bring retribution. Hehe, I’m leaving. I have to find a way to get rid of the Bad Luck.” ]
Therefore, as expected, it wasn’t her first time “borrowing” other people’s luck.
It was just that this time, Zhao Lin’s Talent wasn’t limited to just luck.
[ “Look at what you’re saying. She is just a Train Captain from my same batch. As for the Fate Card you mentioned, I didn’t see it, nor do I know where it is now.” ]
[ “…” ]
Whether she believed it or not was not important.
Anyway, she wouldn’t be able to take that Fate Card back.
The Train started, and Zhu Xingtu limped back to kneel on her Astrology Platform.
Looking at the astrolabe before her, which was wrapped in a layer of eerie, ominous black aura, a sense of powerlessness welled up in her heart.
“That prop capable of stripping away Talent is in Solomon City… What a hassle. Unable to hear the voice of fate, I can only rely on the Astrologer. Should I find someone to help?”
She left.
Ye Qiyan didn’t know where Zhu Xingtu had gone either.
He only knew that if this Charlatan wanted to remove the Bad Luck, she would definitely be affected by the Bad Luck itself and face heavy difficulties.
Recently, she should have her hands full.
“Brother Qiyan, should we be leaving too?”
This was the first sentence Zhao Lin said since Zhu Xingtu woke up.
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Location: Lower District.
Entering this area was not easy.
This place was hidden by the City of a Thousand Stars.
That lich Altos told him that wanting to enter the Lower District could only be done through smuggling.
People who usually did this kind of thing were called snakeheads; most of them helped wanderers from the Lower District smuggle into the main city of the City of a Thousand Stars.
However, Ye Qiyan felt there was no need to be so troublesome or so disheveled.
He sought out the Inspector of the City of a Thousand Stars and, using the identity of a Level 3 Judge of the Inquisition in Solomon City and under the guise of pursuing a criminal, entered the Lower District through the exclusive teleportation device of the Inspectors.
This identity was even more useful than he had imagined.
Walking on the streets of the Lower District, recalling the subservient and flattering appearance of that Inspector just moments ago, a Level 3 Judge of the Inquisition seemed to be equivalent to a top-tier big shot in their eyes.
If he hadn’t refused, that guy would have even dispatched a squad of people to follow right behind him and help him catch the criminal.
The Lower District was completely different from other places in the City of a Thousand Stars.
Everywhere here were groups of ragged people with not a trace of vitality in their eyes, just like walking corpses.
They used to be Train Captains.
Abandoning their Trains to enjoy stability and Peace in the City of a Thousand Stars, but all because they spent all their wealth and couldn’t sustain a luxurious life within the City of a Thousand Stars, and because they abandoned their identity as Train Captains and had no money, they were restricted everywhere, ultimately becoming tramps and getting caught sent to this Lower District to fend for themselves.
The two cleanly dressed people appeared completely out of place coming to this Lower District.
Many gazes were cast towards them; among those gazes were greed, desire, and even gloating.
Obviously, the two of them were regarded as new wanderers.
Some people gradually gathered around.
It seemed they wanted to treat the two as a pair of fat sheep.
“This is really troublesome.”
Looking around.
The people gathering had already reached a considerable number.
They held clubs and weapons, and their greedy gazes made people feel sick.
Continuing forward until the road ahead was completely blocked.
Staring at the grinning people in front of him, before they could even speak.
A gunshot broke the silence.
The muzzle of the skyhawk emitted faint wisps of blue smoke.
A blood-red bullet hole appeared on top of the ringleader’s head.
Ye Qiyan looked indifferently at the remaining people who had been scared silly.
“Scram.”
The path was cleared.
Stepping over that corpse.
Continuing forward towards the location agreed upon with Altos.
No resistance, no anger.
Even if they once had backbone, it had long been worn away completely by the power of order.
“Is it right ahead?”
The location marked by the electronic map in the mailbox was right ahead.
Instead of heading there directly, he climbed up to a high vantage point, summoned the Raven Demon to go to the location marked on the map in his place, and opened the god’s-eye view of Demon Card: Pride to observe.
The coordinates were a house.
The Raven Demon pushed open the door with its wings and walked in hunched over. The internal environment was filthy and chaotic, with severed limbs and broken joints of various monsters everywhere. Altos was using some kind of method to sew these corpses together.
Hearing the commotion coming from outside, he turned his head to take a look, and suddenly froze when he saw the Raven Demon.
But he quickly remembered that he had seen this monster not long ago at the Ancient Battlefield ruins. He glanced behind the Raven Demon, didn’t see Ye Qiyan, and couldn’t help knocking on his own skull.
“As expected of a big shot, truly cautious enough.”
He chuckled twice and walked over to pull out an oval-shaped object not far away.
That was the device used to bind the system.
This house
was his Train head.
