Chapter 152
Chapter 152: The Purpose of RUN Corporation
The atmosphere was somewhat silent.
Ye Qiyan sized up the young man from head to toe.
His clothing was not much different from the clothes on the Courier’s corpse he had seen back in Doomsday Town.
Couriers? It turned out these guys were also Train Captains.
After a long moment, he finally lowered his gun.
Ye Qiyan thought of a very interesting idea.
The corners of his mouth curled up as the Demon Card: Bewitchment quietly emerged.
“You say you’re a Courier for RUN Corporation? What a coincidence, so am I.”
Ye Qiyan pulled out the RUN Courier badge.
“Huh???”
The young man rubbed his eyes, thinking he had misseen. Just as he wanted to take a closer look, Ye Qiyan had already put the badge away.
The power of words began to manifest.
In the young man’s heart, he already believed what Ye Qiyan said.
“Y-You are also from the corporation? Heavens, the corporation actually managed to send a Courier other than me into a high-level Platform! Haha, it looks like the corporation is really rising! Soon we won’t have to suffer the bullying of those outsider Train Captains anymore!”
Hmm?
outsider Train Captains?
Ye Qiyan caught this strange phrase.
To refer to Train Captains as outsiders, could the young man in front of him be a native of some Station World who became a Train Captain by purchasing a locomotive?
And it wasn’t hard to tell from this guy’s words.
It seemed that everyone in RUN Corporation was like this?
“Where is your badge? Let me see it.”
“Oh, here it is, here it is. Brother, this is my badge. By the way, my name is Russell.”
Russell took out a badge. Compared to Ye Qiyan’s, this one was more exquisite, looking like a higher-grade item at a glance.
Ye Qiyan pretended to examine it carefully, only returning the badge to Russell after a while.
He nodded, looked at the other, and extended a hand.
“I am called Zhu Xingtu, one of the corporation’s first batch of Couriers. I haven’t been back in a very long time. I really didn’t expect to run into a colleague here.”
A trace of confusion flashed through Russell’s eyes.
He felt as if he had heard the name Zhu Xingtu somewhere before.
But it was as if this memory had been forcibly erased by something, and he couldn’t recall it at all.
He could only assume that this senior “Zhu Xingtu” in front of him had probably appeared in some notebook of the corporation.
Russell excitedly shook Ye Qiyan’s hand.
“First batch of Couriers, senior?! Heavens, is this considered meeting a legend? Haha, once I finish what the boss ordered and deliver the goods to the designated location of this station, we’ll return to the corporation together. I’ll treat you to a drink.”
Goods?
Ye Qiyan’s brow twitched slightly as he asked casually:
“What goods? This is the Orcs’ Great Demon City; there shouldn’t be anyone who can spend Train Coins to have us come here to deliver a package, right?”
Russell scratched his head, remembering that the boss had said this matter could not be told to others.
But a strange voice in his heart told him that the person in front of him was his senior, so even if he spoke of it, there shouldn’t be any problem.
He was, after all, one of the corporation’s first batch of Couriers. Perhaps this was just a test for him?
Thus, Russell revealed his purpose.
“Senior, you also know that the corporation is full of people like you and me who are called natives by those outsiders. Those outsiders don’t treat us as real humans at all. Obviously, we are all the same, but just because they became Train Captains when they came to this world, they built those cities earlier!”
“They treat us as slaves, as playthings, and even take babies from various Station Worlds to raise them in those cities, brainwashing them from childhood with the concept that Train Captains are incomparably noble and that they must live for the Train Captains.”
“If this continues, we will never receive fair treatment. Fortunately, the boss appeared. She established RUN Corporation and gave us many locomotives, allowing us to become Train Captains on equal footing with those outsiders!”
“The boss also used a special ability to make us Couriers appear in low-level Platforms, replacing those outsider Train Captains to harvest the Train Coins of our fellow compatriots in those low-level Platforms! We won’t harm our own kind, let alone treat them as the NPCs they talk about.”
“And the boss also said we must find a way to let us Couriers enter Platforms above Level 5 as well, to continue snatching Train Coins from those outsiders and resist that damn system that has always been biased toward outsider Train Captains! It’s this thing!”
Russell was carrying a half-person-high box on his back.
He set the box down and opened the lid.
Revealing the item hidden inside.
This is?
Ye Qiyan reached out to touch it, and the system Light Screen materialized before his eyes.
[Replacer Rights Cube – Intermediate]
[Level 4→7]
[Enables non-Train Captain units to obtain purchases, summons, quests, etc., made using Train Coins by any target within the Station World…]
[Non-Train Captain units must carry designated items and fulfill all requirements to receive Train Coins as compensation]
[This right can only take effect within any Platform for 30 days; after 30 days, the right will automatically disappear]
So that’s how it is.
Russell had said so much, but to put it plainly, it came down to one thing.
There was a conflict between the natives and the Train Captains.
Too many Train Captains did not treat the natives as human.
Meanwhile, the existence behind RUN possessed this kind of right, which could allow Couriers to replace Train Captains, complete Platform quests, and obtain rewards like Train Coins.
Now, that boss was not satisfied with harvesting Train Coins in low-level Platforms.
She wanted her Couriers to also appear in higher-level Platforms.
Their purpose, it seemed, was to oppose the Train Captains and oppose the system.
Russell’s mouth was like a popcorn machine, continuing to chatter non-stop.
He was like a child who desperately wanted to show off his achievements in front of an elder; without Ye Qiyan even needing to ask, he blurted out everything he knew in one go.
He did not realize at all why he was saying so much, nor did he wonder how, if Ye Qiyan really were his senior, he could possibly not know about such things.
Bewitchment was influencing his heart.
“As long as we deliver it to the strongest target in this Station World, we Couriers will be able to replace the Train Captains and enter this place!”
“The only thing the boss wants is a strange kind of fragment. Brother, since you haven’t been back in so long, have you found any such fragments during this time? If you can bring a fragment back, you will definitely win the boss’s favor!”
Fragments?
When Ye Qiyan heard these words, the shape of a certain item immediately surfaced in his mind.
“A blasphemy card?”
If there was any fragment in this world worth spending an immense price to collect,
then it could only, and must be, a blasphemy card.
Russell had spoken so much of his admiration for his boss, treating her like a savior god of the natives.
But to Ye Qiyan’s ears, he understood that the boss of RUN Corporation was not resisting for the sake of the natives. That person’s purpose was to use RUN Corporation as a vehicle to find fragments of the blasphemy card.
In other words,
the boss of RUN Corporation in all probability possessed at least one-third of a blasphemy card.
