Chapter 1508
Chapter 1508: Lu Jiayun and Cloud City / Mowen with the Fragment?
Ye Qiyan’s arrogant and greedy words gave Feng Feng a tremendous shock.
“Is this really okay?”
His meaning was clear beyond doubt: continue participating in the trial, obtain that power, and as for whether she wanted to become a god, it depended on her own willingness.
If she wasn’t willing, she would only gain the power and reject the so-called name of a god.
“This…”
“Is that really okay?”
Feng Feng looked at Ye Qiyan and clenched her fists.
“Big Brother… Am I really going to be alright? I’m just an ordinary person, someone who isn’t impressive at all… I…”
“Whether you can do it or not, you’ll know by trying. If you don’t even try, how can you know whether you actually can or not?
When all is said and done, I’m only telling you all this for the sake of those one thousand Train Coins.
As for what you want to do yourself, ask yourself.”
Ye Qiyan yawned, leaned back on the recliner, and cut off the topic.
“Let’s talk about something else. I didn’t come here to be some kind of heart-to-heart big brother. What is the background of those three who disappeared?”
This sudden shift in topic caught Feng Feng off guard.
She suppressed the thoughts in her heart and replied,
“They are said to be Train Captains from a guild in Cloud City. Coincidentally, they’ve been in contact with us at Libra during this period. After learning the news about my station, they sent our batch of Train Captains to participate.”
“Cloud City? What kind of place is that?”
He recalled the names of the twelve human cities.
Except for the one whose name nobody knew, the only remaining places he hadn’t been to were Baiyujing and Qingdu.
“It’s not one of the original twelve cities, but a small city established more than twenty years ago. There aren’t actually few of such small cities; in the past, people would always build cities like this, or even use them directly as guild strongholds.
In recent years, these small cities are always being destroyed due to various extreme weather events, False God invasions, and the like.
Ah, and recently even more so, the number of Zerg is too large, and their Cloud City just came to Libra to purchase aid.
Therefore, most guilds still choose to huddle together for warmth in large cities.
Even so, quite a few small cities still remain.”
“Small cities?”
Ye Qiyan remembered that he had previously visited a similar place called Sea Kite Island, where there was one and only one Top-Tier Train Captain, whose strength wasn’t even considered very strong.
A place like that was truly small beyond measure.
The positioning of small cities was actually a bit awkward.
Because a Human Train Captain guild’s own world station could basically be considered a city in a certain sense, aside from lacking the name of a city.
The actual function of a city was to allow Train Captains without coordinates to freely choose through all the city coordinates obtained in the mail after breaking through the novice 10 stations, and they would additionally receive the system’s protection.
And in this way, they could obtain a portion of the transaction volume as tax revenue from the Train Captains consuming within the city.
But then again, the system’s extra protection at most allowed one to know about certain dangers earlier, and all those taxes were entirely non-proper Train Coins.
If one truly wanted to successfully gain a foothold, one still needed to be strong enough oneself.
Therefore, aside from the initial twelve cities, the significance of other cities existing was more like open private castles.
Like Abucado, the Ancient Council, and whatever other mysterious organizations, who would care about the name of a mere city?
Even if they wanted to make money, nobody would bother with such troublesome matters.
Except for Resource Jazz.
That guy still very much liked making money from ordinary people.
Although because of him, the prices of metal, timber, and mechanical parts in the wilderness were so low that apart from the first few days when novice Train Captains just entered the city, absolutely nobody would bother to recycle them.
“A small city…”
A small city often only had that single guild, and the people who dispatched those three Train Captains here must be high-ranking members of that guild.
They were related to the City of a Thousand Stars, or to be precise, related to Lu Jiayun, the mayor of the City of a Thousand Stars.
Then this Cloud City… could it be Lu Jiayun’s contingency plan?
Thinking about it carefully, it wasn’t impossible.
After all, although Lu Jiayun was abandoned by everyone and even an annoying lunatic,
when all was said and done, he was definitely not a fool.
A fool could not climb to his position.
Moreover, according to various intelligence, he was an existence with an extremely strong desire for Control.
Watching the City of a Thousand Stars have no one available to use, it would truly be strange if Lu Jiayun didn’t prepare a backup plan.
“Hehe… This is a bit interesting.”
The friend list expanded, and Ye Qiyan brought up Monroe Gina’s private chat interface.
[ “Sister Gina, do you know about Cloud City? What relation does it have with the City of a Thousand Stars?” ]
Monroe Gina, who was taking a bath, thought for a moment upon seeing the message sent by Ye Qiyan.
[ “There used to be some karma there. During the last incident, that person already died. However, if you need it, one wilderness day from now, at this time tomorrow, I will tell you the answer~” ]
[ “Thanks.” ]
[ “Hehe~ There’s no need to say such things between you and me. You can demand anything from me as you please. Right, there is one more thing. After a while, that Charlatan Zhu Xingtu might hold another event in the Kingdom of Order.
I will participate.
What about you?” ]
Zhu Xingtu, Kingdom of Order.
Ye Qiyan could roughly guess why Zhu Xingtu wanted to do this.
[ “It’s because in less than a month, Mowen of the City of a Thousand Stars is going to meet with Lu Cangxiao (Mr. Order), right? Oh, and Alice, the big star of Abucado, will also go there.” ]
[ “Mhm~” ]
[ “Then, is there a card sequence there? I mean, besides Lu Cangxiao (Mr. Order)’s Order Card.” ]
[ “There is, and there isn’t.” ]
[ “Oh? What do you mean?” ]
Ye Qiyan’s interest was piqued.
There is and there isn’t?
[ “It’s a fragment, hmm… As for what fragment it is… Hehe~ Ye Qiyan, do you perhaps possess the fourth blasphemy card? That Charlatan told me, oh~” ]
blasphemy card? A card sequence fragment that exists and yet doesn’t?
[ “…It’s a fragment of a blasphemy card… Why is Zhu Xingtu so certain this time?” ]
[ “She only mentioned a possibility: a fragment of a blasphemy card might appear there. As for the probability, according to what she said, it’s probably only one in ten thousand? No, perhaps even lower.
I will go because I want to get that fragment for you.
Zhu Xingtu will go too, because she also wants to obtain it.
So, we and that Charlatan are going to become enemies~
Hehe, this is a very good opportunity to kill her.” ]
“A fragment…”
Ye Qiyan sensed a certain incongruity.
[ “Was that fragment brought to the Kingdom of Order by Mowen? Mowen… That guy has a fragment of a blasphemy card in his hands, am I right?” ]
[ “I don’t know, and Zhu Xingtu doesn’t either. Perhaps it’s just a scene she dreamed of in her sleep.” ]
Monroe Gina cast her gaze toward her own Subspace platform.
At this moment, Zhu Xingtu was kneeling on the Astrologer platform with a pale face, fresh blood circling around her body.
13 Fate Cards and that Astrologer surrounded her.
She slightly opened her eyes, and the river of fate turned into a thin veil pressing upon her back. Clearly, every wisp of the veil seemed devoid of any weight, yet countless strands of fate pressed together as if they were about to submerge Zhu Xingtu entirely.
Ever since the day she learned that Ye Qiyan had acquired the fourth blasphemy card,
she had been continuously doing this kind of thing.
“Heh… Hehehe…”
Zhu Xingtu lightly licked her bloodless lips and whispered softly.
“Ah~~”
“A fragment of a blasphemy card definitely exists, but will it actually appear in the Kingdom of Order~ I don’t know~ I don’t know~~”
“But only like this is it truly interesting.”
“Heehee~”
Monroe Gina disgustedly turned off the light screen monitoring Zhu Xingtu and continued sending messages to Ye Qiyan.
[ “She’s simply a lunatic.” ]
She paused, and matters concerning Arcane Academy City surfaced in her mind.
[ “However… sometimes being a bit crazy makes one even more sober.” ]
