Chapter 164
Chapter 164: Believers of the God of Machines and Flesh
The ground was shaking.
The altar was collapsing.
The man’s eyes were filled with anger.
“You are looking for death! Come out!”
He spread his arms, and machine and flesh combined behind him to form the image of a door.
A giant humanoid creature walked out from it. Upon its mechanical body were weeping human faces.
The topmost face was old and wrinkled, filled with regret.
“Kill me, kill me!”
“Shut up, old geezer. Isn’t this the eternal life you wanted?”
The man leaped onto the head of the humanoid monster, grabbed the human face, and looked at Ye Qiyan with a ferocious expression.
“Kid, look closely. He is the city lord of this city. I don’t care who you are, nor do I care how you managed to enter this sealed Station World. Since you want to disrupt my ritual, then become a part of it!”
Ritual?
Demon Card: Bewitchment~
It quietly emerged.
Just before the man could control the monster to launch an attack, Ye Qiyan spoke up:
“Sorry, sorry~ I accidentally entered this world and didn’t know what you were doing. How about this? Tell me what’s going on with this world, who you are, and what you want to do~ Tell me everything, and once you do, I’ll leave and won’t disrupt your ritual. How about it? Pretty fair, right~”
Bewitchment~
The power of lies quietly spread.
At that exact moment, everyone nearby believed Ye Qiyan’s words.
And they believed them without a shadow of a doubt.
The man’s expression shifted slightly.
The two sword strikes from the Red Tear Demon and Ye Qiyan just now had truly terrified him.
If they really fought, he wasn’t sure he could win.
The young man opposite him must have a high Train Captain level, and he seemed to be a combat specialist.
If he could exchange a few answers for peace…
The man didn’t realize how foolish his thoughts were.
“Accidentally? Damn it, has it been sealed for too long, and the Train System discovered it? Kid, I am Qiao Jie, a believer of the God of Machines and Flesh. I used to be a Train Captain. This old geezer called me to this world to help him complete the Ascension of this Station World. And I indeed did it.”
Qiao Jie looked at the nine people on the ground.
“I’ve been in this world for ten years, broadcasting many of this world’s coordinates to the outside. Those rookie Train Captains who got the coordinates only thought this was a Level 4 world. Haha, they don’t know that the world level here has actually reached Level 7!
Only ten people left, the final ten! Sacrificing them to the great God of Machines and Flesh will complete the Ascension here! It will break through the shackles of a Level 7 Station World! This is my goal. Kid, you should…”
“What are the shackles? I’m a bit curious. Tell me, and once you do, I’ll leave~ Also, what do you mean by saying you used to be a Train Captain? You aren’t one now?”
“? Why should I answer… Forget it, damn it, you’ll leave anyway after I tell you. Don’t disturb me again!”
Qiao Jie rubbed his slightly uncomfortable temples and continued to answer Ye Qiyan’s questions.
“I used to be, but after completing the last sacrifice three years ago, I rid myself of that damned identity and became a believer of the God! Haha, do you know how amazing it is to get rid of that Train Captain identity, kid? No need to keep moving forward! No need to keep risking my life! As long as I offer sacrifices to the God, I can stay in this Station World forever, living in luxury and pleasure!
Once I complete this final sacrifice, the God will make me his Apostle! In the future, even those damned Judges of Solomon City won’t be a match for me!”
“As for the shackles? It’s simple. Starting from Level 8 Station Worlds, their difficulty far exceeds the previous levels. The rewards aren’t much higher, but the danger is super-doubled! That damned Train System never intended for us Train Captains to survive! I previously reached Level 37, do you know that? Yet I couldn’t even pass the Level 9 Platform! How hateful, how hateful! It’s all the fault of this damned Train System! What’s the point of raising your level so high? Compared to those lucky bastards with Talents, I could never keep up with them!”
So there are even Judges involved.
Ye Qiyan nodded in understanding. Then, he had one final question.
“As a Train Captain, how do you enter Platforms above Level Train System”
“Huh? You have so many questions… Tsk, damn it… Why does my head hurt a bit? Why am I answering you… Fine, the last one!”
“As long as your Train’s parking time exceeds 24 hours, the Train will head towards Platforms above Level 8! Do you have any more questions? If not, get lost! Don’t disturb my sacrifice!”
A smile played on Ye Qiyan’s face.
“No more questions. As for leaving~”
Snap—
He gently snapped his fingers.
The Red Tear Demon standing beside Ye Qiyan raised the sword of carved tears.
Red raindrops fell from the sky.
A torrential downpour ensued.
The sorrow and fear of War… spread in people’s hearts.
Raising the sword, it slashed.
The red sword energy sliced through the giant mechanical monster’s body in an instant like a hot knife through butter, and the riddled altar was cut apart once again.
Rumble!
In the sky, red lightning rumbled.
Qiao Jie tumbled from the severed monster into the mud.
“What are you doing! You went back on your word! No, wait… Just now, what on earth was I doing? Why did I answer those questions? Damn it, you… what did you do?!”
The power of Bewitchment quietly dissipated.
Qiao Jie finally realized that he had actually believed a man who destroyed his altar right from the start would just leave quietly after a few answers?!
Insane, insane!
He was truly going insane!
And he was also afraid.
“I’m going to kill you!”
Qiao Jie’s body trembled with fear as he slammed his palm onto the ground.
From within the surrounding blood pools, thousands of indigenous humans who originally lived on this Platform and had been modified by machines slowly crawled out.
They let out sorrowful wails.
They were not yet dead.
Not only that.
Several humanoid figures that had clearly undergone special modifications also walked out from the flesh-and-machine gate behind Qiao Jie.
These were not indigenous people.
These people were monsters Qiao Jie had modified using the bodies of high-level Train Captains.
They, too, were still alive.
“Kill him!”
The monsters wept, yet their bodies rushed uncontrollably toward Ye Qiyan and Red Tears.
How pitiful~
To be turned into this state, what they needed was not to live, but to be set free.
“Human experimentation… I always feel like quite a few people enjoy playing with this kind of thing. It’s pretty disgusting.”
The book of reality and illusion landed in his palm.
He casually took an item out of his backpack.
“A dagger? That works too.”
Enchanted Sharp Dagger.
This was the first item he had subjected to Sublimation since arriving in this world.
He flipped open the book of reality and illusion.
Pride swirled around him.
Ye Qiyan’s figure grew increasingly blurry in the eyes of others.
No one could see, and no one was worthy of seeing, the deep blue stream of light around him merging into the dagger.
They could only see…
…purplish-red ripples spreading in all directions.
“Sublimation~”
Ye Qiyan murmured.
