Chapter 169
Chapter 169 Special Module: Massive Cost Reduction!
[Top-Tier Train Captain Module Card]
[Open it?]
[No.]
Flipping over and sitting up, Ye Qiyan played with the card, taking a deep breath to gradually calm his mood.
“Sublimation~”
He murmured softly.
Streams of light surged forth.
Red and blue intertwined in one place.
The card gradually floated into the air.
The azure brilliance continuously expanded outward.
Until it reached its limit and shattered with a bang.
Blue points of light like fireflies fell from the sky.
That card also fell into Ye Qiyan’s palm.
[Stamina: 170 → 130] [Mental Power: 160 → 130]
[Top-Tier Train Captain Module Card → Special Module Card]
Did top-tier turn into special?
Huh? He remembered that the first Module card he ever obtained was a reward after completing the fastest Train upgrade record.
Back then, after undergoing Sublimation, it transformed from a special one into the exclusive “Crossroads of Fate”.
He didn’t expect that the Module card obtained by performing Sublimation on a top-tier one would be special?
“Hoo…”
“The consumption is a lot less than expected. Let me see what kind of Module I can actually get.”
Rubbing his hands, looking at the yes/no options on the Light Screen before him, he finally pressed the former.
[Use Special Module Card]
[Congratulations! You have obtained a special Module! Massive Cost Reduction!]
[Massive Cost Reduction!: Items that require Train Coins to consume will have their required consumption reduced to 0]
“Hmm… Huh?!!”
Ye Qiyan rubbed his eyes, and after making sure he hadn’t read it wrong, he was instantly overjoyed.
This Module might not be that strong for some people.
But it was completely different for him.
The Transcendent Mode of the Hunting Mechadragon cost a full 80 Train Coins to activate.
On usual days, even if he saved up 80 Train Coins, his primary consideration would be upgrading the Train and then purchasing upgrade options.
Therefore, it was hard to save them up.
But with this Module, it was different.
Not only the Transcendent Mode, but even the Hunting Mechadragon in other forms wouldn’t require extra consideration due to consuming Train Coins.
And those Train armaments and station activations—after no longer needing to consume Train Coins, many times it was precisely because they required Train Coins that he wasn’t so willing to use them.
He never expected that this single Module could solve so many problems.
“Ha, it seems my luck isn’t bad.”
Snapping his fingers to summon the Hunting Mechadragon without having to consume Train Coins, Ye Qiyan switched its forms without any hesitation at all.
“Heh, not bad. It’s a pity I couldn’t get this Module earlier; otherwise, I could have saved a lot of Train Coins.”
He thought greedily.
There was still some time before leaving the Platform.
The consumption of the Sublimation Module card was not as much as imagined.
Ye Qiyan felt that he could undergo Sublimation once more.
The target, naturally, was the newly acquired seventh carriage.
Walking inside, the water storage space inside the carriage temporarily had no water source.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of catching some when it rained outside.
It’s just that those raindrops were summoned by the Red Tear Demon, not ordinary clear water.
Even after purification, they still attached a trace of Red Tears’ power.
Basically, they couldn’t be drunk or used.
To fill this carriage, he would still have to wait for a later Platform to see if he could enter a world capable of replenishing water sources.
“Hoo~ Once more, Sublimation!”
He whispered once more~
The entire Water Storage Carriage was enveloped by an invisible force.
In just a fleeting moment, the stream of light dissipated.
Inside the carriage, the originally dim space actually became neat and bright.
[Stamina: 130 → 100] [Mental Power: 130 → 110]
[Water Storage and Aquaculture Carriage (Level 5) → Clean · Automated Water Source Carriage (Level 6)]
[Possesses a water storage capacity of two thousand five hundred cubic meters, allowing spatial division at will. The divided areas can be used for aquaculture / aquatic pet cultivation / water source preservation / swimming / bathing / hot springs…]
[Requires electricity consumption, performing an automatic cleaning every hour, and all debris will be stacked and organized.]
[The carriage has an independent light source, and can additionally consume 300 mechanical parts and 50 kilograms of Metal to build central air conditioning suitable for all divided spaces.]
[All liquids stored inside this carriage will not spoil.]
The changes after Sublimation were not too big, but they changed in the places where they were needed.
He consumed materials to build the central air conditioning and hung it right at the top.
The temperature of this entire carriage would be maintained at an appropriate level.
“Not bad, now all that’s missing is water and fish.”
Finishing all the Sublimation, this stop finally drew to a close.
He tallied all his gains here.
First, Train Coins.
Adding everything together and subtracting the consumption, his total amount of Train Coins reached one hundred and seven.
Not only that.
The item used to transform races that was hung on the black market had also completed its auction, with a final transaction price of 100 flat. Stripping away the 5% handling fee charged by the black market, that made ninety-five.
Now, his total amount of Train Coins had reached two hundred and three.
It could be considered a new high.
Other gains included a new Module, a new carriage, plus the Infinite Rice Bag brought back by Wall-E.
In addition to material gains, Ye Qiyan also gained more understanding of this world because he banished the machine-blood god.
Gods and the system opposed each other, and even fought to the death.
Gods were under the system, and even feared the system.
But they still needed to obtain Train Coins, as well as the faith of Train Captains.
Besides this, he also understood why he hadn’t yet entered the Platform above Level 8.
A Level 8 Platform required a stop of up to 24 hours.
Currently, his stop time was 17 hours, not much of a gap.
“Tomorrow, I can undergo Sublimation on the Train again.”
Two hundred and three Train Coins.
The upgrade options after Sublimation might even be more expensive than before.
However… it shouldn’t leave nothing at all left, right?
These were 200 Train Coins, after all.
Ye Qiyan thought to himself.
The time on the pocket watch reached the moment when the VIP privilege triggered.
Along with pressing the leave-station button.
Ahead of the Train, the illusory shadow returning to the endless wilderness slowly appeared.
The tracks spread forward.
Accelerating——
Moving forward——
Leaving the Platform!
The Train returned to the wilderness.
Outside the Train window.
On the horizon, it was completely gray and dim.
The Train’s broadcast suddenly sounded.
[“Please pay attention! Today’s weather! Gray Fog!”]
The broadcast only said these nine words before falling silent.
Gray Fog?
What did that mean?
It actually made the Train System’s broadcast use such a serious prompt?
Having just returned to the wilderness and originally planning to turn on his game console to slack off, Ye Qiyan looked at the Sunny Doll, which had already turned gray and inexplicably eerie.
