Chapter 146
Chapter 146: The First One to Make a Move Was You
[ “Big Boss, why did you send a summoned beast over?” ]
Private chat interface.
[ “Give the item to it, and I will completely unlock your Train permissions.” ]
Altos’s eyes rolled around beneath his helmet, and turning his back to the Raven Demon, he took out a small box from a drawer.
[ “I trust Big Boss when it comes to doing things, but it’s best if you come and get this item yourself. Just like how Big Boss doesn’t trust me, I can’t be sure that you’ll unlock my Train System once I give you the item. Only meeting in person will work.” ]
What he said was indeed true.
However, if the space beneath this house hadn’t been piled with dozens of monsters stitched together from corpses, it might have been easier to believe.
This fellow was indeed planning to do something.
[ “Then there’s nothing to talk about.” ]
[ “How could that be? As long as you come, the item will definitely be presented to you. Please believe me, the value of this prop definitely exceeds 150 Train Coins.” ]
Altos still wanted Ye Qiyan to show himself.
The monsters beneath the house were already growing somewhat restless.
[ “Last time I’ll say it: give the item to it and unlock the Train, otherwise this transaction ends right here.” ]
[ “…” ]
Altos lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
There was no reply in the private chat interface for a long while. After a moment, Altos raised his head and handed the box to the Raven Demon.
[ “Hehe, since it has come to this, let me give you the item first.” ]
[ “Please don’t forget to unlock my Train permissions.” ]
He gave up?
Ye Qiyan controlled the Raven Demon to open the box right in front of Altos.
Inside was a white card, and the pattern on it was in the shape of a tall tower.
A card sequence? No, it shouldn’t be.
Through the Raven Demon’s touch, he directly appraised that card remotely.
[ City of a Thousand Stars · Tower of Babel · Central Gate Opening Permission ]
“?”
What is this thing?
Is there a place called the Tower of Babel in the City of a Thousand Stars?
Would an access permission card for opening a door be worth more than 150 Train Coins?
[ “The Tower of Babel? I’ve never heard of this place in the City of a Thousand Stars.” ]
[ “Hehe, that is a tall tower on the topmost layer of the City of a Thousand Stars. It is said to contain the most important treasure of the City of a Thousand Stars, though I’ve never been up there myself. This card is just something I accidentally obtained, and its value definitely exceeds 150 Train Coins.” ]
Altos actually didn’t clearly know what the Tower of Babel was.
This card was something he obtained on a Platform by backstabbing an Inspector of the City of a Thousand Stars and taking it from its hands.
Fearing discovery by the people of the City of a Thousand Stars, he had hidden it somewhere in the Lower District, originally planning to find a chance to check it out, but retribution struck him at the very next stop where he was backstabbed by someone and forced to stay behind in those Ancient Battlefield ruins.
The Raven Demon stuffed the permission card into its feathers and, under Ye Qiyan’s control, turned around and left.
Altos watched the demon’s retreating figure, and a few small bugs fell from his armor to follow behind.
At the same time.
Under his control, those stitched monsters underground also followed along through passages dug out in advance.
He considered his actions to be quite secretive.
Yet he didn’t know that all of this was seen by Ye Qiyan.
“It looks like the value of that card should be pretty good.”
Altos had to fulfill the agreement, because before the Train System was completely unlocked by Ye Qiyan, he still hadn’t obtained the complete Train Captain identity.
The Train System’s judgment of him was still half-comprised of indigenous personnel of the Train world.
In other words, the System’s constraint on him would continue until he reclaimed his identity.
[ “Big Boss, you’ve already taken the item, time to unlock the permissions, right?” ]
The Raven Demon flew back to Ye Qiyan’s side and handed the acquired card into his hands.
[ “As agreed, indeed.” ]
From a God’s-eye view, Ye Qiyan could see that those stitched monsters all around had already surrounded him and Zhao Lin tightly underground.
“Wait, don’t run too far.”
“Mm, I’ll listen to you, Brother Qiyan.”
Zhao Lin didn’t know what was going to happen; she just obediently moved a little closer to Ye Qiyan.
“You don’t have to be this close either… Whatever, suit yourself.”
Thoroughly removing those little tricks done by the black market.
Ye Qiyan had no intention of breaking his promise.
Altos obtained all the Train Captain permissions.
The System’s constraint on him was also lifted at the same moment.
Inside the house, he let out a ferocious burst of laughter.
Slapping his own armor.
Those stitched monsters hidden beneath the ground crawled out one after another, lunging and pouncing toward Ye Qiyan.
“In such a rush?”
Ye Qiyan smiled and pulled out the pure purification stone, and a soft radiance spread outward.
Those stitched monsters used their arms to shield the eyes placed in various positions, but they didn’t instantly dissipate like ordinary evil spirits.
Altos ran out of the house and laughed loudly.
[ “Kid, you really think you’re invincible? Stitched monsters! Get the card back for me! I won’t fall for the same thing twice! Even if you have that kind of light again, it’s useless, hahahaha!” ]
That the pure purification stone had no effect didn’t deviate from Ye Qiyan’s expectations.
After all, since this fellow decided to make a move, the first thing he had to do was solve the problem of the purification stone.
“You’ve learned to be smart, but unfortunately, it’s useless.”
The Raven Demon flew into the air, and a storm of pitch-black feathers swept out under the flapping of its wings.
Those stitched monsters simply couldn’t resist and were torn apart into spare parts.
Altos didn’t expect the Raven Demon to be so powerful. Seeing all the stitched monsters being routed one after another, he panicked and ran back into the house, pressing the departure option on the control system to prepare to escape.
The house emitted a roar.
Wheels emerged, propping up this Train car, and the tracks extended forward, with the void leading to the wilderness appearing ahead.
As long as he escaped and entered the wilderness.
No matter how formidable the Train Captain was, don’t even think about easily finding him!
But would Ye Qiyan let him escape?
The answer was negative.
“Red Tears, hack it apart.”
The Red Tear Demon had silently appeared behind Altos’s house-carriage at some unknown point.
The sword of carved tears was drawn from its scabbard.
It slashed.
The house-car’s head was split into two halves by a crimson sword qi.
Altos inside was greatly shocked, dodging in panic, but was still clipped and had one of his arms severed.
The void dissipated, and departure failed.
The Train head was destroyed, and the System was stripped away.
A Train Captain without a Module System Binding was equivalent to losing that identity the moment the Train head was destroyed.
Altos could not escape.
“No, don’t! How dare you do such a thing! My Train! Dammit! I clearly already gave you the item! Why won’t you let me go!?”
He roared at the top of his lungs like a madman.
Standing on high, Ye Qiyan casually crushed a few bugs underfoot. Even without using demon card: pride, he looked down at the other party, like looking at a clown in a circus.
“Don’t get it wrong.”
“The first one to make a move.”
“Was you.”
