Chapter 1523
Chapter 1523 · Seventy-Sixth Station · Level 11 Ascension Platform · Kingdom of Counterfeits
Time: [08:05:26]
Today’s Weather: Sunny
An ordinary day.
Ye Qiyan sat leaning against the window, twirling the paintbrush in his hand, his gaze falling upon the screen of the Focus Guild’s live broadcast room.
“He is Mowen, huh.”
There were many people who did not know Mowen.
His external identity was the head executive of the City of a Thousand Stars.
Yet the person who originally held this position was standing beside Mowen at this moment.
People were unclear about Mowen’s situation until information regarding Mowen issued by old Train Captains appeared in some posts, letting people know that there was actually another person behind the mayor of the City of a Thousand Stars.
At a time when cities such as the Kingdom of Order were judged as evil forces by Lu Jiayun, Mowen announced on the very first day of his arrival that he represented the City of a Thousand Stars in cooperating with the Kingdom of Order.
Without a doubt, this was directly slapping Lu Jiayun in the face.
However, there was no movement from the City of a Thousand Stars side; Lu Jiayun seemed to have vanished, having not appeared for a long time.
“A bit interesting.”
The light screen switched, and in the Emperor Sequence’s public Chat Room, Stacia asked Zhu Xingtu about the next event.
After all, everyone knew that Zhu Xingtu’s next event was set in the Kingdom of Order.
[Zhu Xingtu: “Hehe, don’t be impatient. It’s not time yet, everyone just go do whatever you should do, let nature take its course, let nature take its course~ Perhaps this event won’t even exist.”]
What this Charlatan said was the truth.
However, Ye Qiyan also remembered what Monroe Gina had said.
There was a one-in-ten-thousand chance that a fragment of a blasphemy card would appear in the Kingdom of Order.
He would indeed go, but even more as Zhu Xingtu had said,
everything was fine as long as they let nature take its course.
“It is time to enter the next station.”
“As for this time, random will do.”
He brought up the system light screen and activated the button to enter the station.
The light screen appeared, and the broadcast rang out.
[Exclusive Module: Crossroads of Fate activated]
[Please choose one of the following three options as your seventy-sixth station]
[Station One: Level 11 Mission Station · Scarlet Cross Society]
[Station Two: Level 11 Hunting Station · Lurmast’s Giant Ship]
[Station Three: Level 11 Ascension Platform · Kingdom of Counterfeits]
“Three Level 11s, huh. As expected, without going to freeload on Zhao Lin’s good luck, I have no way to enter Level 12 every time.
Missions, hunting, ascension… Forget it, right here then.”
Ye Qiyan pressed the third option.
“At the very least it’s an Ascension Platform, perhaps I can wait until the ascension ends and ascend to Level 12, and… ordinary Ascension Platforms should all have a False God.”
[Selection completed, confirmed]
The whistle sounded, the Train accelerated, and the void manifested.
[Please sit tight and hold on, the Train is arriving ahead at your seventy-sixth station · Level 11 Ascension Platform · Kingdom of Counterfeits]
Passing through the void, the scenery outside the window changed instantly.
[Current Station: Simple]
There was no sudden first-encounter kill, nor were there a large number of enemies encountered right upon entering the station.
Eve, located at the top of the Train, scanned her surroundings and did not even find any malicious presence.
“There isn’t much danger this time, but still pay attention to safety.”
“Wa~”
Petting Wall-E’s iron head and watching its back until it completely disappeared, Ye Qiyan finally began to observe the scenery outside the Train window.
Here was a Train station platform with more than ten tracks on it.
Outside the Train, some personnel wearing work uniforms could be seen directing a group of ordinary humans without a shred of malicious existence.
Here, it seemed to be just an ordinary station in an ordinary human world.
The Superorder Anchor was hidden; under the power of [demon card: pride], no one could notice its existence.
“Here…”
Ye Qiyan furrowed his brows slightly, opened the Train door, and walked to the edge of the platform.
An inexplicable sense of incongruity appeared in his mind.
A flash of dark gold flickered in his eyes.
[Mental Power: 2200 (Witnessing Truth and Falsehood) (Shadow of Finality)]
This power gained from being influenced by Don Quixote played its role once again.
He saw that these “humans” had turned into ugly monsters one by one, while the other half showed no changes, indicating they were real humans.
Yet those whose true bodies were monsters were still maintaining the state of “humans,” talking to each other as if performing some kind of act, and furthermore, their existence itself did not mix with a shred of malice.
“The counterfeits of the Kingdom of Counterfeits, are they referring to these humans?”
Ye Qiyan pondered slightly.
“Let’s give it a try.”
He exerted malice toward those “humans” and actively appeared in front of them, while simultaneously using [Super Space] to blockade this station.
“Hi, hello.”
He lifted the [demon card: pride]. The moment he appeared, a slight anomaly appeared in the gazes that the maliciously eroded “humans” cast toward him.
“No reaction, huh? Then…”
Ye Qiyan raised his finger, cut his fingertip, and a drop of fresh blood fell to the ground.
Those monsters were still staring at him, yet they did not make a move.
As for the other half of the humans, they looked at him with incomprehension.
“Oh? Or is it still lacking some sort of opportunity? What could it be?”
A child suddenly walked toward him.
His tone, which had been lively before, suddenly became monotonous and dull.
“Big brother, what… what kind of person are you?”
The child’s mother was a real human, but in Ye Qiyan’s eyes, this child was a bizarre creature wrapped all over in bandages, with fresh blood flowing down from the bandages.
“Xiaoyi, come back quickly. Sorry, mister, we…”
The child’s mother walked over, intending to hug him back, but found that she couldn’t lift that usually brisk body no matter what.
Ye Qiyan’s Wandering Star Holy Mark blocked this child outside.
With a smile on his face, he equipped his title.
[Hero of My Own]
“It doesn’t matter, little brother. What kind of person do you think I am?”
The child replied:
“Are… are you a human? A human just like us.”
Ye Qiyan’s hand reached out past the Wandering Star Holy Mark and pressed onto the top of the child’s head.
“Correct, I am indeed a human, but unfortunately, I am not a human like you all.”
“Is that so…”
The child lowered his head.
“Then there’s no help for it…”
A line of tears flowed from his eyes, and he said to his mother behind him:
“I’m sorry, Mom.”
Then, a sudden mutation occurred!
Those “humans” whose true bodies were monsters seemed to have received some kind of signal, one after another revealing their original forms and launching attacks on the people around them.
As for that child, he also underwent a change, biting toward the wrist that Ye Qiyan had pressed on top of his head.
Crack—
The sound of bones shattering rang out.
This monster’s neck was forcefully snapped by Ye Qiyan, yet it did not die immediately.
The woman acting as the mother let out a piercing scream.
“Ah!!! What… what are you doing!!!”
Ye Qiyan calmly looked at this angry woman, and also saw the monster still charging toward him. He took out the Ebony and was about to shoot when the woman directly pounced over, only to be blocked by the Wandering Star Holy Mark.
“Don’t, don’t!”
She roared like a madwoman, but was directly grabbed by that monster, which bit off her neck.
Bang—!
The gunshot still rang out.
Ye Qiyan looked at the monster that was still biting the woman’s neck before its death, whispering softly.
“Resolve them all, leave none alive.”
As the order was issued, Eve’s weapon slots fully deployed at this moment.
