Chapter 150
Chapter 150: Fooling Ghosts, Even Ghosts Do Not Believe It
“The temperature has dropped?”
Back in the wilderness.
The gaze of Ye Qiyan immediately turned toward the outside of the window.
Yesterday, those fire tornadoes that raged through the endless wilderness had already vanished. The wilderness was still the same wilderness, and everything was as if nothing had happened at all.
Monsters were chasing the Train.
The horizon was endless.
The apocalyptic scene of yesterday felt like a grand dream.
But that was not a dream; it was a real, tangible disaster.
The weather today was clear and sunny.
Windless and cloudless.
In other words, the weather within the next station would not be affected by the wilderness.
Inside the public Chat Room.
The sector that had returned to ten thousand people after the merger now had less than five thousand people left.
Ye Qiyan still remembered that yesterday, this number could still be maintained at around seven thousand.
A single day of disastrous weather killed nearly thirty percent of the Train Captains who already had considerable experience with the Platform. How much of this kind of weather will there be in the future?
“No wonder that every three years, one hundred and eighty million Train Captains enter, yet in the end, the number of Train Captains has not increased much.”
Cities perhaps truly were the destination many people deserved to reach.
“Hmm?”
Something was biting his trouser leg.
Lowering his head to look.
That little Goshawk that walked unsteadily not long ago had now grown feathers after staying in the breeding carriage for quite some time.
Its body had also grown from the original size of a palm to that of a three-year-old child.
“It grows fast enough, hmm…”
He picked up the little Goshawk and reached out to touch it. With the growth of Mental Power, he had become increasingly clear about whether an item could continue to undergo Sublimation.
“Its potential has increased; do you want me to Sublimate you once more?”
The little Goshawk affectionately pecked his shoulder, seemingly expressing agreement.
“Then let us try it.”
Stroking the feathers of the little Goshawk.
Ye Qiyan opened his mouth and murmured softly.
“Sublimation.”
Stamina and Mental Power were consumed synchronously.
An azure light current enveloped the little Goshawk within it.
Its figure gradually grew larger. When the light dissipated, the Goshawk let out a sharp cry, spreading its wings as wisps of golden current echoed within its feathers.
[Stamina: 140 → 120] [Mental Power: 150 → 130]
[Secret Method · Azure Thunder Hawk (Growing)]
[Awakened the thunder-attribute bloodline of the Goshawk royalty, capable of using some inherited secret methods]
[Current: Claw, Call, Divine Bird Special Attack, Fierce Thunder]
It gained two more abilities and grew quite a bit larger, though it had not yet reached full maturity.
There were two more abilities in the secret methods. Excluding the preceding Claw and Call, just looking at the names of the latter two, their power should not be bad.
Opening the Train window, the Goshawk standing on the arm of Ye Qiyan flew outside.
It used its abilities in turn against the monsters chasing the Train.
The former turned the Goshawk into the image of a divine bird shrouded in golden thunder flames. Crashing into the ground, its power was roughly comparable to a strike from that Lightning Spear.
As for the latter, besides attaching a layer of current to its body, it did not seem to have any other changes.
Ye Qiyan simply opened Appraisal to check the description of the system.
[Fierce Thunder]
[When the master encounters danger or is severely wounded, it will enter this state, all abilities will be enhanced threefold. After the state ends, there is a certain probability of completing a thunder-bathed Nirvana.]
As a desperate life-or-death method, coupled with a subsequent hidden Nirvana effect, it was not bad at all.
Wall-E, who was cleaning the Train carriage, happened to return here. Seeing the much larger Goshawk, he subconsciously wiped his monitor-like eyes.
“Do you not recognize it? This is just that little thing grown up.”
Ye Qiyan tossed the Goshawk, and it flew up onto the head of Wall-E.
This was the place it liked to stay the most before it grew up.
He had Wall-E send the Goshawk back to the breeding carriage to continue developing.
Waiting until it entered complete maturity, Ye Qiyan felt that if he Sublimated it at that time, it would definitely bring him quite a few surprises.
Today there was not much else to do.
In the gap while waiting to arrive at the next station, Ye Qiyan purchased some materials from the Trading Platform to manufacture Annihilation Self-Detonators.
He only made thirty units. It was not that he did not want to continue making them, but rather that single-use thermite batteries were already used by many people to make bombs. The price of one battery was 300 thousand Star Coins, which was 0.3 Train Coins, and one self-detonator required three batteries.
That was 0.9, and for thirty units, that was a full 27 Train Coins.
Its power was not too great; a single self-detonation could not compare to a single strike of the Lightning Spear.
But as long as they formed a drone swarm, the self-detonating bombs would trigger reactions with each other, causing their power to spiral upwards.
If one really managed to get one hundred and fifty units to detonate simultaneously, that power would definitely be fantastic.
“Sigh, Train Coins really are needed everywhere.”
Walking to the front of the Train, he put away the five provided today by the dragon card.
Ye Qiyan took out his pocket watch to check the time.
[12:16:33]
Distance to the triggering of the Crossroads of Fate left less than a quarter of an hour.
The eighteenth station was close at hand.
Ding-ding——
The system Light Screen popped up, and someone sent him a message on the friend interface.
Shifting his gaze from the pocket watch to the Light Screen, who could it be at this time?
Shaya: [“You need to be a bit careful recently. Do not expose matters related to the Emperor Sequence Organization in front of outsiders, and do not let others see your card sequence.”]
It was Shaya.
Even without her reminder, Ye Qiyan would definitely not tell others that he was a member of a terrorist organization based on what she said.
But why would Shaya unprovokedly say these things? Did something happen?
[“I know, Sister Shaya, but can you tell me the reason?”]
Shaya, who was praying in the church surrounded by several angels, saw the question sent by Ye Qiyan and could not help laughing out loud as if thinking of something quite interesting.
[“A Charlatan quietly stole an Order Card in the City of a Thousand Stars. Counting the matter of Solomon City last time, this has made those city unions quite furious, to the extent that they issued a huge bounty on the members of the Emperor Sequence Organization. Even I am tempted by that bounty; I really want to sell that Charlatan for money.”]
Hmm?
Was not he the one who stole the Order Card?
How did this stifled loss end up in the hands of Zhu Xingtu?
He felt it necessary to ask properly.
[“Rest assured, Sister Shaya, I will not tell others that I am a member of the organization. However, why did this happen?”]
Shaya let out a light hum, the arc of her lips curving up as she continued to reply:
[“Who knows? This fellow talks about fate every day. Yesterday when I asked her what on earth happened in the City of a Thousand Stars, she refused to say. Hmph, and she was still acting pitiful over there, saying that the Order Card was not snatched by her and that the snatcher was someone else. Coming from her mouth, that is fooling ghosts, even ghosts would not believe it! If it were not for her having the guidance of fate, who else could quietly take away the card in the City of a Thousand Stars without anyone knowing? Moreover, the people in the City of a Thousand Stars are not fools; they must have found out that she had been to the City of a Thousand Stars, which is why they issued a new bounty against the organization. Hmph, that Charlatan is simply going crazy for a card sequence.”]
“…”
Ye Qiyan silently took out that Order Card and glanced at it. In his mind, the image of Zhu Xingtu speaking the truth yet being disbelieved and left frustrated emerged. The corners of his mouth could not quite be suppressed from curving upward. Holding back his smile, he typed a line of text on the Light Screen.
[“Indeed, there probably is no one else who could accomplish that. Perhaps she had better luck and accidentally obtained that Order Card.”]
