Chapter 168
Chapter 168: Collecting Debts and Rice City’s Infinite Rice Bag
Inside the large Platform of Ten-Cang Rice City.
Shangguan Yingxue and the others returned here with the unconscious Zhao An.
Zhao Lin, who was hiding inside the Train, heard the noise and cautiously poked her head out. Seeing that it was Shangguan Yingxue and the others, she hesitated for a moment before stepping out.
“Didn’t you go to see the City Lord? How did it turn out like this?”
She knew very well that there was something wrong over there, but if she spoke up, it would only breed suspicion among these people.
Shangguan Yingxue sighed wearily and returned to her Train without saying a word.
“What on earth is going on?”
In the crowd, another woman approached with a tearful face and answered:
“We were tricked!”
She recounted what had happened not long ago.
Upon hearing that a mysterious Train Conductor Senior big shot had suddenly appeared, disposed of those monsters, and saved them in the process, Zhao Lin’s gaze shifted slightly.
Senior…
If she hadn’t known Ye Qiyan from very early on, she would never have imagined that he could be a Train Captain from the same batch as her.
The gap between humans can sometimes be even larger than the gap between humans and dogs.
*Cough—*
A coughing sound rang out from not far away.
Zhao An, who had been placed below the Platform, slowly woke up. He looked around, his eyes filled with confusion.
“Ugh…”
Dazed, frenzied…
Numerous bizarre voices kept echoing in his mind.
No one went to approach Zhao An.
Even though they were all members of the same guild.
And had often been looked after by him on regular days.
But…
In their hearts, if Zhao An hadn’t somehow gotten his hands on that Platform coordinate map, they wouldn’t have experienced today’s events.
It was still that same girl.
She hesitated before coming over to Zhao An’s side to look after him.
Rumble!
A loud boom echoed from afar.
People instinctively looked into the distance, where a dazzling radiance soared into the sky, its terrifying fluctuations forcing them to close their eyes.
Even after the light dissipated, the Train Captains still stood there in a daze, motionless.
After a long time…
“What… what was that just now?”
Turning toward the sound.
The person speaking was Zhao An, whose mind was on the verge of collapse.
Under that radiance, he had actually recovered a bit of his sanity.
No one could answer this question for him.
Even if she could guess that the person who did all this was Ye Qiyan, Zhao Lin could not answer.
“Are we really Train Captains from the same batch?”
This was the thought that instinctively burst into Zhao Lin’s mind.
That girl explained what had happened to Zhao An once more.
Upon learning that he had been saved by a powerful Train Conductor Senior who demanded a reward but had not yet specified a price…
Zhao An understood that how much their lives were worth in the other party’s eyes depended not on how much they wanted to give, but on how much they actually had.
“I’m sorry, everyone, it’s all my fault…”
No one listened to his apology. Everyone silently returned to their respective Trains and brought out everything they could possibly offer, only hoping to exchange it for a chance to live.
Sometime later.
Ye Qiyan leisurely arrived at the scene. Looking at the few Trains that still hadn’t left in the red rain, he snapped his fingers.
The Raven Demon let out a sharp, mournful cry.
Hearing the sound, the people inside the Trains stepped out one after another.
Standing in the pouring rain, they stared in fear at the Train Conductor Senior before them, not knowing just how powerful he was, looking like prisoners awaiting execution.
Ye Qiyan jumped onto the roof of the Train, scanning the crowd below.
His gaze lingered briefly on Zhao Lin, Zhao An, and Shangguan Yingxue.
“It seems you are all ready?”
No one dared to bargain.
Everyone handed over all the Train Coins they had on them. Not only that, but they also brought out any items that had even a slight bit of value.
They were terrified that if they gave too little, this young big shot would get angry and take their lives.
The ten of them, including Zhao Lin, only managed to scrape together twenty-six Train Coins in total.
As for the items, they were all trash tier-one and tier-two items. For him, they didn’t even trigger the desire for Sublimation.
But, whatever.
He collected the items and threw them all into the Trading Platform at the lowest price, gaining a total of twenty-two Train Coins.
Not too many, but not too few either.
Ye Qiyan was reasonably satisfied; after all, he hadn’t actually intended to take their lives.
Having collected the life-buying money, he turned to leave.
Just then, the weakened Zhao An suddenly called out loudly:
“S-Senior! Please wait a moment!”
The faces of the others, except for Zhao Lin and Shangguan Yingxue, instantly paled.
They quickly tried to stop him, but they were a step too late.
Leaning on a wooden stick, Zhao An stepped forward quickly, looked at Ye Qiyan’s back, and shouted:
“Senior! I-I am Zhao An, a Train Captain of this batch! If you ever need me to do anything in the future, Senior, this junior will definitely do whatever it takes!”
However.
Ye Qiyan had absolutely no intention of stopping.
He walked straight away, disappearing into the torrential rain.
Do things?
What could he possibly do?
Find blasphemy cards for him? Or help him obtain more card sequences?
They couldn’t do any of that.
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The heavy rain gradually subsided.
Zhao An and the others had already left this station long ago.
The massive Ten-Cang Rice City had completely become an empty city.
Ye Qiyan ate watermelon, sitting on the roof of his Train, leisurely basking in the moonlight.
Time: [22:10:31]
The Demon Raven let out a cry.
Opening his eyes to look.
Wall-E, holding a beige bag in his arms, was waddling unsteadily toward the Train.
“You’re finally back. What took you so long?”
The Demon Raven grabbed Wall-E and brought him up to the roof.
The little robot tilted his head and raised the rice bag with both hands, offering it to Ye Qiyan.
“You’re so dirty, did you go digging in the dirt?”
Patting Wall-E’s iron head, a smile appeared on Ye Qiyan’s face.
“So you’re saying this Treasure Chest was buried underground? Hmm? Wait, this isn’t a Treasure Chest?”
Touching the rice bag, the system’s appraisal Light Screen appeared before his eyes.
[Rice City’s Infinite Rice Bag]
[Consumes Stamina/Life/Flesh to convert into a large amount of clean, delicious rice.]
“…No wonder this place is called Ten-Cang Rice City, but is this thing really as valuable as a Treasure Chest? No, Wall-E shouldn’t be wrong.”
He still highly trusted Wall-E’s judgment of treasures.
Since they had come to this station and what it sought was this rice bag, its value would definitely exceed that of a Treasure Chest.
“Infinite…”
For some reason, the words the Smiling Man had said back then echoed in Ye Qiyan’s mind.
“Do not trust the infinite.”
“Tsk, whatever. At least I won’t have to buy rice to eat in the future, which saves money for the future.”
For now, he had no desire to perform Sublimation on this bag.
Performing Sublimation on a level-less item, who knows how much Mental Power and Stamina it would consume.
He would keep it for now. It wouldn’t be too late to perform Sublimation on it later when he used the book of reality and illusion.
“Phew~ What needs Sublimation right now is this.”
His Stamina and Mental Power had already fully recovered after some rest.
The Red Tear Demon handed the top-tier Module card into his hand.
“What lies beyond the top tier?”
“How exciting.”
