Chapter 31
Chapter 31: I Want to Sublimate My Sublimation!
[Binding Successful]
[Available to Open]
[Opened, the current items in the safe box are]
[First slot: Flame Stone: 1]
[Second slot: Gold: 10 kg]
[Third slot: Mithril: 10 kg]
[Fourth slot: Healing Lollipop × 3]
“Turns out these are upgrade materials for level 4, and also, candy?”
The safe box was similar to a storage unit, and the items placed inside were calculated by category rather than quantity.
Looking at the items inside, Ye Qiyan could not be considered disappointed. After all, as an essential item for upgrading the Train to level 4, the Flame Stone had no way of being obtained until now. For someone who had just upgraded not long ago, without the “Sublimation” Talent, this was undoubtedly an extremely important item for him at present.
Shaya didn’t know what his Talent was, so it made sense that she chose these materials as a gift.
Just what was the candy in the last slot?
[Shaya’s Healing Lollipop] (Level 8)
[After eating, it can form a protective film to ward off external damage, and the protective film will continuously restore Stamina and treat injuries.]
[Note: The masterpiece of a certain dark nun; as long as you are not dead, eating it will definitely keep you alive.]
[Ding-dong, ding-dong!]
[(Bad Woman) Big Golden Retriever sent a message.]
[“Checked it? How is it? Sister is very good to you, right? Level 3 to Level 4 is a small threshold. Only after passing this threshold can you truly be considered to have passed the beginner stage.”]
[“It is very troublesome for newbies like you to obtain a Flame Stone. It only has an extremely small probability of appearing in a station after experiencing the tenth station. You are currently level 3. No matter how good your luck is, when you reach Mystery Bell Town, it should be around the eighth station or so. Having this will help you avoid taking a lot of detours across many stations oh.”]
[“As for those three pieces of candy, eat them when you get injured. Don’t be greedy.”]
[“Better thank Sister properly in your heart, go find the remaining things yourself, upgrade earlier, and live well. Also, when you gather that card, remember to tell me.”]
The remark had not been changed back yet when her message was sent over.
Seeing this long string of text above.
Ye Qiyan didn’t know what to say, and his complicated emotions could only condense into one sentence.
“Thank you.”
“Although I won’t be able to use it.”
The rest of the words were hidden in his heart, unsaid.
This gratitude was not mixed with hypocrisy. Although Shaya giving him that one-third of the blasphemy card definitely had her own purpose, he also learned many things from her words. Furthermore, even if Shaya didn’t give it to him, wouldn’t he collect it himself?
Impossible.
If he encountered the next one-third, he would definitely find a way to get it.
“blasphemy card…”
“What would happen if they are really gathered together?”
—-
“Long time no see.”
The night angel was driving in the wilderness. Shaya stood in front of the prayer platform, eating the blessed White Forest Fruit snatched from Tina’s hands, gazing beyond the horizon, and whispering to herself.
“There really isn’t any change at all. This world is truly boring.”
Ding-dong—
The notification sound of a message entered her ears.
[“You’re back.”]
[“Aren’t you surprised?”]
[“Not really. This world is infinite. Since it is infinite, there will definitely be an exception within the infinity to free you from the seal. However, it’s only been fifteen years, much faster than I imagined. So, is the person who opened the world the other one-third?”]
[“Now it’s two-thirds.”]
[“…”]
[“What? Finding it very strange? I was sealed for fifteen years for that card, which shows it truly shouldn’t belong to me. Yet the person who helped me open the world obtained what I almost lost my life for in just a few days. Don’t you think he is the one who should own that card even more?”]
[“Fate dictates it, such a possibility naturally exists within infinity, so it’s not surprising. Therefore, what do you plan to do next?”]
Shaya’s gaze was indifferent as she typed a line of text on the light screen.
[“Vengeance for wrongs, enmity for grudges.”]
The person on the other side of the chat box was silent for a long time.
Shaya’s emotions gradually recovered, and she suddenly thought of what Ye Qiyan had asked her not long ago.
[“By the way, what kind of thing is RUN Corporation? How could any faction extend their reach to newcomer stations below level Celestial Organization What about the inspectors of the Celestial Organization? Why didn’t they make a move?”]
[“…”]
[“Hey, where is everyone? Dead? Why aren’t you speaking?”]
[“It’s just an unimportant courier company, no need to pay attention to it. As for the Celestial Organization… those pathetic good guys have already disappeared.”]
——–
Docking countdown [00:22:48]
Under Ye Qiyan’s efforts, through disassembling the houses transformed from carriages in the town, he actually harvested quite a few resources.
Most of these carriages were damaged, and when recycling them, at most one-tenth of the materials used for construction could be obtained.
Moreover, disassembling these things still required him to transport them. The only fortunate thing was that Shaya seemed to have anticipated this point, and the safe box she gave Ye Qiyan could actually store an entire carriage inside.
Compared to storage units, the storage standards of this level 9 safe box were much more lenient, except that these carriages could not be treated as the same thing and placed in the same grid. Otherwise, Ye Qiyan really wanted to take all the carriage houses in the town away.
Another regret was that recycling with the Processing Table took time. In nearly four hours, only nine carriages were recycled.
As the docking countdown was about to end, he had no choice but to give up the rest in the town.
Putting the resources into the storage unit, up to now, Ye Qiyan sorted out the materials he possessed.
[Wood: 645 kg]
[metal: 770 kg]
[mechanical parts: 505 pieces]
[Glass: 180 kg]
[Rubber: 35 kg]
[Fiber: 60 kg]
[Gold: 10 kg]
[Mithril: 10 kg]
[Flame Stone: 1]
These resources were already enough to upgrade his Train to level 4. However, with the Sublimation Talent existing, Ye Qiyan wouldn’t just do that.
“Swish, swish—”
The sound made by the treads passing over the ground made Ye Qiyan, who was half-lying on a chair waiting for recycling and playing dead like a salted fish, raise his eyelids.
Wall-E, whom he had almost forgotten, was wobbling over in his direction.
“Almost forgot about you little guy. But there shouldn’t be any treasure chests at this station either. After all, this is a town created by Sister Shaya herself, and she has no need to place any treasure chests.”
Tapping Wall-E’s iron skull a few times, Ye Qiyan noticed that his mechanical arm was grasping an iron lump.
“What is this?”
Ye Qiyan took the iron block and looked at it for a few glances, unable to see anything special.
“It doesn’t look like ordinary iron either. What the heck?”
Curiosity overcame laziness. Ye Qiyan returned to the Train and used the control system to appraise the iron lump in his hand.
[Level 4 treasure chest] (Can be opened)
“Huh? A treasure chest? Wait, aren’t the things in this station created by Shaya? Could it be that she placed this treasure chest?”
“Could it be intentional? That doesn’t seem right either. Didn’t she say she wanted me to burn this place down…”
Ye Qiyan stroked the outer shell of the treasure chest, not planning to ask.
Anyway, she didn’t want it, nor did she say otherwise—leaving it here and not opening it would be a waste.
“Should I wait?”
A level 4 treasure chest meant that after performing one Sublimation, he could reach level 5.
It was just the same question: could he really Sublimate this level 4 treasure chest?
His current Stamina and Mental Power fully recovered to a maximum of 210 points. Upgrading a level 3 treasure chest to level 4 required 55 points. Upgrading from level 4 to level 5, would it increase by severalfold?
Ye Qiyan casually took out a White Forest Fruit and took a bite, suddenly noticing something wrong.
“Strange, why do I always have this feeling of being unable to reach level Slaughter Station”
This feeling wasn’t the first time.
If it were before, he might have thought that the points required for 4 to 5 were too large, and his Stamina and Mental Power were insufficient to support it.
Yet now he learned from Shaya that treasure chests exist up to level 12.
If he couldn’t Sublimate a level 4 treasure chest right now, what about later? Wouldn’t the required points turn into astronomical figures?
This was not right.
“Should I give it a try?”
Ye Qiyan’s heartbeat was accelerating.
How would you know if it works unless you try?
Feeling was ultimately just a feeling; humans were the animals most adept at deceiving themselves.
Having made his decision, Ye Qiyan didn’t start immediately.
He had to finish what he promised others.
Buying that barrel of diesel from the Trading Platform with a few biscuits, he had already connected several parts of the town with wood beforehand.
The icy atmosphere and the smell of diesel intermingled.
The last ten minutes of the docking countdown.
Standing at the door of the Train.
Ye Qiyan pulled out the windproof lighter he had obtained earlier.
Click—
Whoosh—
The flame followed the wooden plank-paved road toward the center of the town.
Breeze mixed with snow, fire aided by the wind, instantly starting from this humble station and burning everything within Mystery Bell Town.
In front of the Train, the twisted void of leaving the station appeared.
Ye Qiyan stood in front of the console and pressed the start button.
[Rights effective]
[Leave station early]
In a flash, the world changed.
Ye Qiyan subconsciously covered his eyes. The soaring temperature all around reminded him that the wilderness’s tropical weather was still continuing.
“After so long, the temperature actually hasn’t dropped at all?”
Returning to the Temperature-controlled carriage, the surrounding temperature returned to the human comfort zone.
Placing the safe box in the corner of the carriage, three of its slots were used to store the carriages from Mystery Bell Town.
The remaining slot was naturally the position for the blasphemy card.
The original items in the safe box were thrown into the storage unit.
“Another station ended, the broadcast didn’t speak this time.”
Throwing himself onto the bed and staring at the ceiling overhead, Ye Qiyan raised his hand to lift that level 4 treasure chest into mid-air, smiling inexplicably.
“I didn’t expect that the level 4 treasure chest obtained without Sublimation for the first time wouldn’t actually be the biggest harvest of this station. If others found out, they’d probably die of envy.”
At this station, Ye Qiyan learned a lot of things about this world. Although not much, when encountering certain things in the future, he wouldn’t run around blindly like a headless fly.
There was also the blasphemy card.
Shaya never told him what this card was until the end, but Ye Qiyan could roughly guess that her being sealed in Mystery Bell Town was probably related to the blasphemy card.
The things he knew had increased, but the things he wanted to know had become even more.
A bit tired.
In fact, from the very beginning of choosing to run away until now, even though Shaya showed her goodwill, the tension in the deepest part of Ye Qiyan’s heart had never dissipated.
Until now, returning to his own Train, that tension finally vanished.
Body and mind relaxed simultaneously. Ye Qiyan really wanted to treat himself like a salted fish, never having to worry about the next station’s matters again, and just rot away like this.
Unfortunately, no.
Sublimation had to continue.
The station wouldn’t stop and wait for him.
Tossing the level 4 treasure chest back and forth in his hands, Ye Qiyan gazed at the box, even though a strange feeling inside his body told him that his Sublimation could not succeed.
But he just wanted to try.
[Stamina: 89] [Mental Power: 110]
Stamina was not full, but it didn’t matter.
Ye Qiyan took out the healing lollipop given by Shaya and put it into his mouth.
The sweet fragrance filled his nasal cavity, and his Stamina was continuously recovering at a rapid speed.
In just one second, it went from 89 points to 100.
This speed guaranteed that his Stamina would recover ten points per second.
Without wasting time, Ye Qiyan pressed his hand onto the level 4 treasure chest.
Sublimation—
In an instant, Stamina and Mental Power drained crazily like a sluice gate being opened.
The power of the healing lollipop continuously replenished it.
Yet it was still just a drop in the bucket.
It felt as if the Talent of Sublimation was never meant to reach the height of level 5.
At this moment, Ye Qiyan finally understood what he had been feeling all along.
It wasn’t that his Stamina and Mental Power were insufficient, but that above level 4, whether it was treasure chests, buildings, or anything else,
they were all resisting Sublimation.
If so, should he give up?
Giving up now was still in time.
Otherwise, his Stamina and Mental Power would likely be completely sucked dry.
Yet conversely, if he truly gave up, wouldn’t his Sublimation Talent end right here?
Shaya had said that once a Talent was possessed, it was absolutely unchangeable.
If he stopped here, Sublimation would also stagnate at the threshold of level 4.
He was unwilling and unsatisfied.
“Unchangeable, huh?”
Ye Qiyan was smiling, his other hand pressed against his chest, where his heart was located.
“Then I’ll just have to try it out.”
“I want to Sublimate my own Sublimation Talent!”
This crazy action seemed to trigger some kind of switch.
Countless dazzling red light screens constantly appeared. If viewed from the outside, his Train was shrouded in red at this moment.
Everyone in the entire Train world felt an unspeakable terror at this moment.
And the instigator of all this fell unconscious, surrounded by the red light screen.
——
“Mm…”
[About to arrive at the sixth station]
[Crossroads of Fate triggered, please choose to dock between the following two stations]
[Station One: …]
[Station Two: …]
[Error occurred, correcting.]
[Correction failed.]
“What sound?”
[Crossroads of Fate triggering, please select a station within five seconds, otherwise the station will be automatically updated]
[Can’t wake up…]
[Selection countdown: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1]
[Timed out, Module: Crossroads of Fate re-randomized station]
[Station selection complete]
[Please sit tight and hold on, the sixth station arriving ahead of the Train is…]
[Hope Valley (Level 4 Slaughter Station)]
The Train was accelerating.
The environment was changing.
Passing through the void, the wilderness outside the window turned into a forest.
[Leave station countdown: ∞]
[Error!!]
[Clear interference!]
[Revision complete, correct!]
[Leave station countdown: …]
[System forcibly revises! Intervenor obliterated!]
[Obliteration successful!!!]
[Leave station countdown: 09:59:59!]
[This station: Extremely dangerous!]
[Please be careful, wish you survive.]
[Special reminder: After this station ends, there will be special rewards, please strive to survive until the leaving time]
In the quiet Train, Ye Qiyan’s consciousness gradually returned.
