Chapter 197
Chapter 197: The Twenty-First Station! Stop Docked! Harvest Statistics
“Despicable…”
Zhao Xi braced herself wearily, the golden lightning already vanished.
She could barely maintain her silver state.
“Despicable? Well, indeed, but isn’t this the very nature of a Train Captain? The vast majority of people who manage to survive in this hateful wilderness—don’t they rely on being despicable?”
Grace wore a loving smile on her face.
“You take things too seriously. If you were willing to use your full power, what would it matter even if the people below were caught in the crossfire and died? To defeat the enemy, those are all necessary sacrifices~ Hehe, however…”
“The people below don’t know what you are actually doing, nor do they know that you have endured so much for their safety. As long as I tell a lie, they will believe that you are the one who caused today’s situation. If you don’t believe me, listen~”
Grace tapped her staff.
A huge screen of light emerged above the third layer.
Grace’s voice resounded in the air.
“Everyone! Our war with the City of Eternal Night is about to be won! In this battle, Zhao Xi, the Grand Judge of the Inquisition, colluded secretly with the City of Eternal Night! She murdered Simark, the head of the Monitorial Department, but now, she has been defeated by me!”
On the light screen, Zhao Xi’s appearance surfaced, and then vanished.
Cheers?
Or…
Anger?
For a moment, the people of Solomon City didn’t know how to face this.
Solomon City’s Grand Judge colluded with outsiders?
How did this feel somewhat unreal?
“How is it? Do you want to hear their cheers?”
“Hehe~ There were simply too many variables today, forcing my purge plan to end prematurely. However, little Xi, I’m sorry~ I need your life.”
A sharp blade made of ice extended from the tail end of the staff.
Grace walked up to Zhao Xi, smiled, raised her staff, and prepared to thrust it toward her heart.
However.
A sudden change occurred.
“Hmph…”
Golden radiance attached itself to Zhao Xi once again.
A playful smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.
Her figure flickered, and Grace failed to react in time.
A spear pierced through her heart.
“Have you forgotten? I used to be that despicable, selfish, and crazy Train Captain in your words… Ha~ People like us, even if we lose, have to pull the grenade pin and take someone down with us, isn’t that right, Madam Mayor?”
“…Frozen… Mausoleum…”
Blood spewed out, and Grace used her last ounce of strength to push Zhao Xi away.
Immediately afterward, dark ice completely enveloped her.
Deprived of power support,
the Colorless platform also vanished.
The ice plummeted into the earth and disappeared.
Grace truly hadn’t expected this to happen.
Twice now, Zhao Xi had actually been concealing her strength all along.
“Truly… a despicable little girl…”
And Zhao Xi… plummeted as well.
[Stamina: 1 / 30] [Mental Power: 15 / 30]
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been in such a miserable state…”
After the duration of that potion ended, her maximum Mental Power and Stamina would be permanently reduced by 20 points, and for one day, the upper limits of both would be locked.
In this state, she wasn’t even as good as an ordinary person who had just entered the Train world.
Falling, falling.
Zhao Xi closed her eyes.
She was no longer capable of doing anything.
Right now, what she needed was help from others.
Who would come?
People she knew surfaced in Zhao Xi’s mind.
Pathetically, she couldn’t think of anyone who could help her.
In her friend list, apart from a few gray portraits and some Judges from the Inquisition, it seemed…
“…I might as well just die.”
“Yo, what a coincidence.”
The sudden voice made Zhao Xi barely open her eyes.
Who did she see?
Ye Qiyan.
That young man whom she paid special attention to because he possessed one of the only two Hunting Mechadragons in the world.
Was it him?
How come she felt she couldn’t see clearly again?
Held by her clothes by a Demon Raven, Zhao Xi followed behind Ye Qiyan.
To that uninhabited guild outpost used by Monroe Gina to set up the teleportation ritual.
Ye Qiyan summoned his Train.
Inside the Train, Eve flew out at the first moment.
“I’ll take you along next time; this time really didn’t give me much chance to call out the Train.”
Zhao Xi sat silently to the side and closed her eyes.
When she woke up again, she felt as if there was some foreign object in her mouth.
A bit sweet?
“Mm…”
This taste… was it a carrot?
Opening her eyes, she only saw a masked woman sitting elegantly opposite her.
“Hello, Judge Zhao Xi~ I am Monroe Gina. Hehe, now, shall we have a talk?”
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wilderness.
“Finally back, ha~ so sleepy.”
After greeting Monroe Gina, Ye Qiyan started the Train and left Solomon City.
Ding-ding——
A message sound came from the friend list.
It was Zhu Xingtu.
This Charlatan had sent over his reward.
[“As for the coordinates, you can only use them after your Train’s docking time reaches 24 hours. As for the secret… hehe.”]
[“card sequences are not all of the same grade. Your Devil Card is among the most precious batch aside from the blasphemy card. But if you want to collect all the Devil Cards… you must be careful. As the number of your card sequences increases, someone will want to take your life and sacrifice it to the gods.”]
Was this the secret?
Well, it was still somewhat useful.
As for wanting to take his life to sacrifice to the gods?
Then let’s give it a try! In the end, who on earth would be the prey being hunted?
Extract coordinates.
[Fengfeng Shopping Mall (Level 8 Mission Station)]
Sure enough, these coordinates were above level eight.
“Hoo…”
Putting away the coordinates, Ye Qiyan lay down on his dream big bed.
A bit tired… wanted to sleep, but before that—
He perked up and organized all the harvests he had obtained this time in Solomon City.
Deducting the consumed Train Coins, plus the acquisition of the dragon card over the past two days,
Ye Qiyan’s current number of Train Coins was ninety-two.
Looking at other harvests.
First were the items obtained from the monthly salary of the Solomon City Inquisition.
Two standard-issue weapons and a standard-issue recovery potion.
More important were the two disposable Modules. He planned to try Sublimation after recovering his Stamina and Mental Power later, which might allow the disposable ones to turn permanent.
Besides those, there were the two items obtained in the interlayer gray world.
He hadn’t had time to identify them yet.
First, the fragments of the black stone tablet.
These remaining fragments could still survive under that warhead of the Hunting Mechadragon’s Transcendent Mode.
This showed how extraordinary they were.
[Fragment of the Demon God’s Seed Stone Tablet × 3]
[Extremely rare material, can be used to make clothing and equipment, or through potion refinement, create a potion that can increase the maximum limit of Mental Power.]
Everything else in the description wasn’t important.
Ye Qiyan’s attention was fixed on the last sentence.
“A potion that increases the maximum Mental Power? Potion refinement… I actually do know someone who can refine potions.”
