Chapter 155
Chapter 155: A Young Man with Potential
This Stop was indeed as ordinary as the system had judged.
Ye Qiyan returned to his Train, and there were still a full ten hours of parking time remaining.
The Raven Demon used a snakeskin bag to travel back and forth between the city and the Train.
Aside from metal and wood, the most abundant resources collected were Orc skulls and various types of animal pelts recovered from corpses by the Crafting Bench Ye Qiyan had placed there.
“Brother, this is the coordinate of the headquarters. When you return to the headquarters, you must look for me, and I’ll treat you to a drink!”
Russell’s parking time had ended.
Unlike Ye Qiyan, who could buy all the upgraded options, as a Level 7 Train, his parking time was only six hours.
However, he still had the privilege of leaving the Stop one hour early. In other words, he could leave the Stop in just five hours, which could be considered a good thing for a Train Captain whose strength was insufficient.
Before he left, Ye Qiyan used the power of Bewitchment to obtain the headquarters coordinates of RUN Corporation from him, as well as more information about that company.
For instance, that boss was a woman.
Recently, RUN Corporation had been targeted by an unknown entity. The alternative authority cubes placed in many low-level Stops had been forcibly erased, and even the core information storage inside the company had been stolen several times.
Rumor had it that there was a spy in the company, causing widespread panic.
Therefore, that female boss anxiously sent people like him to tentatively enter Level 4 to Level 7 Stops, thereby replenishing the losses in the low-level Stops.
Russell was very grateful to that female boss, completely unaware—
If he had insisted on placing that cube at this Stop, facing that Orc Great Demon, nothing awaited him but certain death.
Or rather, that female boss simply wanted to exchange the lives of native Train Captains like Russell for the alternative authority.
That fellow was indeed utilizing these natives.
It quite fit Ye Qiyan’s understanding of Train Captains.
In a sense, if he were in the other party’s position, he would probably do something similar.
However, a spy? Stealing information?
Why did this method feel a bit familiar?
Monroe Gina?
He remembered last time in Solomon City, he had brought up RUN Corporation to Monroe Gina, and at that time the other party seemed quite curious and excited. This might very well be the other party’s doing.
“So fast… Is this the power of the Ritual Card?”
Ye Qiyan pondered inwardly, but with a smile on his face, he said to Russell:
“After you go back, do not mention me to others. I am completing a task assigned by the boss. For this task, even the boss used some methods to erase the memory from her own mind just to avoid exposure. I will not tell you what your task is, but right now, only you and I know about this matter. Do you understand?”
Russell’s eyes instantly turned red.
He nodded hurriedly, clutching his chest, deeply moved.
“Rest assured, Brother Zhuxing! I will definitely not tell anyone else that I met you here!”
Actually, it didn’t matter whether he told anyone or not.
Anyway, Ye Qiyan was using the name Myriad Star Path.
Myriad Star Path had been quite famous in the Train world recently.
Headed by the City of a Thousand Stars and Solomon City, a bounty of a full 50,000 Train Coins had been placed on her.
No wonder Shaya wanted to capture Myriad Star Path to exchange for money.
If he could, Ye Qiyan would have liked to do the same.
However, that was just a thought.
A similar bounty was Shaya’s 100,000 Train Coins, with the goal of killing her.
However, if Shaya were really that easy to die, she wouldn’t have just been sealed back then.
Similarly, if Myriad Star Path were so easy to catch, she wouldn’t have such a high bounty.
A bounty was ultimately just something for people to look at.
Ye Qiyan added Russell as a friend. The system could hide one’s name or change it exclusively for others.
He directly chose to hide it. As for the reason, it still made use of that “special task”.
Russell didn’t understand what tasks or non-tasks were; he only knew that he had received the senior’s care and trust. Returning to the Train and leaving the Stop, looking at that nameless existence in his friends list, his gaze was burning.
The last sentence the senior said to him before leaving the Stop echoed in his mind.
“You are quite good. The future of the company will rely entirely on you.”
This sentence acted like a shot of adrenaline, making Russell completely unable to calm down.
After a long while, the sound of a message notification rang out, barely allowing him to regain his sanity.
Opening the System Interface and looking at the two words “Boss” on it, he hurriedly read it.
[ “Boss! I have already placed the cube into the Stop!” ]
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of RUN Corporation.
Bearing heavy, massive dark circles under her eyes, the female boss of RUN Corporation rubbed her temples and frowned as she looked at Russell’s reply in the System Interface.
“He actually didn’t die? Wasn’t the information about that Stop saying it was the territory of an Orc Great Demon? Strange.”
She had dispatched Russell to place the cube because she valued his loyalty. As long as a task was issued, even if he discovered he would die, he would definitely find a way to complete it.
Therefore, after a few hours had passed, seeing that Russell’s avatar was still lit up, she had perplexedly sent a message to him.
Unexpectedly, he had completed it?
Pondering for a moment, the woman waved her fingers, and on the Train, a new System Interface unfolded before Russell.
The woman’s image appeared there.
“Boss!”
Seeing the senior and the boss back-to-back within a day, Russell felt like he was about to fly with excitement.
“You did very well. As expected of the newbie I value. Can you tell me, how did you manage to do it?”
“I… Uh… Well, I just managed it like that! Good luck, good luck.”
Russell originally wanted to say the name “Myriad Star Path”, but suddenly remembering what the senior had said, he quickly changed his words:
“Luck…”
The woman seemed to have fallen into some kind of thought. After a long while, she showed a kindly smile toward Russell.
“You did well. Hehe, the company needs a young man with potential like you. I’ll wait for you at the company. After you return, you will be rewarded.”
The communication ended, and the smile on the woman’s face instantly vanished.
“Luck… You say, for all these years I haven’t been able to find the next Blasphemy Card Fragment, could it be simply because I lack a little bit of luck?”
The person in the shadows did not speak.
“Hmph, so among those natives I finally dispatched, how many completed the objective of placing the box?”
The person in the shadows finally spoke.
“Twelve. Counting Russell from just now, only six survived.”
The woman frowned, her face full of resentment.
“Tsk… These natives are so useless. Damn it, if it weren’t for me coming to this world too late and having no way to build my own city, how would I ever need these fellows…”
