Chapter 32
Chapter 32 Slaughter Station! Opening the Level 5 Chest
The tenth minute of the station stop.
In the bright sky, sunlight shone through the Train window onto Ye Qiyan’s face.
The dazzling light woke him up.
He looked around dazedly.
Outside the Train window, vast stretches of forest came into view.
Here, this was not the wilderness, but a station?
He sobered up, and the memories before his coma surged forth like a tide…
Looking down, that iron lump of a chest lay quietly at his feet.
[Level 5 Chest] (Can be opened)
Success! He had truly completed this Sublimation!
That means!
He looked at the Talent column in his personal interface.
[Sublimation: Can consume Stamina or Mental Power to sublimate and evolve any existence, regardless of category, level, or completeness, ignoring resistance.]
Only four characters were added to the description.
Ignoring resistance.
It was enough.
He succeeded.
“It actually worked.”
A smile appeared on Ye Qiyan’s face.
He looked directly above the Train, at the warning watchtower device; the original feeling of being unable to perform Sublimation had vanished, and there were no more obstacles above Level 4.
The shackles of his Talent were successfully broken after completing self Sublimation.
Amidst his excitement, Ye Qiyan began to observe his surroundings.
When he was unconscious, he vaguely heard some sounds.
This randomly selected Slaughter Station was the kind he least wanted to enter.
Slaughter Station.
Slaughter and hunting, where is the difference between the two? Ye Qiyan had no idea at all.
After all, he hadn’t even entered a hunting station before.
“These are…”
Opening the records of the Train System and seeing that long string of entries, his initial good mood gradually vanished, replaced by heaviness.
“Interference? Someone interfered with my stopping station and time? But they were obliterated by the Train System? And what about this countdown? Damn it! Ten hours?”
Rubbing his eyes, Ye Qiyan made sure he hadn’t misread.
What the hell kind of thing was this? The Train System was warning of an extremely dangerous station, yet it actually wanted him to stop for ten hours? He clearly remembered that his Train’s stopping time was only 5 hours.
Without a doubt, this was also the result of interference by that unknown entity.
Even worse, that entity wanted to keep him here forever, but in the end, it was forcibly obliterated by the Train System.
From this perspective, the Train System was relatively fair and trustworthy.
One fortunate thing was that the VIP departure privilege Module could still be used, but he still had to stay here for seven hours.
Ye Qiyan took a deep breath, calming the emotions in his heart.
Although he didn’t know why things had turned out this way, no matter what, he should open the chest first.
Logically speaking, the things inside a Level 5 Chest should be able to crush a Level 4 station.
As long as it didn’t open too badly, there shouldn’t be any problems.
[Open Level 5 Chest]
[Obtained Train Coins: 10]
[Obtained: Module: System Binding]
[Obtained: Module: In-Station Startup]
[Obtained: Golden Strike Card (Level 5)]
[Obtained: ever-precise pocket watch (Level 5)]
Aside from Train Coins, there were four types of rewards: two Modules and two Level 5 items.
[Module: System Binding]
[After using this Module, the Train System will permanently change the bound target to the Train Captain himself rather than the Train control base station.]
[Module: In-Station Startup]
[After using this Module, you can start the Train inside the station to head to the target location, consuming one Train Coin per hour.]
The two Modules were used directly.
They were not cards; after being used in the system, they would directly manifest on Ye Qiyan himself without a tangible physical body that could be touched, so they could not undergo Sublimation.
This was different from Talents.
Talents themselves represented him; sublimating a Talent was equivalent to completing a Sublimation on himself.
Among these two Modules, Ye Qiyan especially liked the first one.
Many times he had been troubled by the fact that the Train’s control system could only be used in the front carriage.
Now, even outside, he could use the system. Whether identifying items or checking personal information, he no longer needed to run back and forth between the two ends.
[Golden Strike Card (Level 5)]
[After use, consume 20 points of Mental Power, and any of your next attacks will cause a Golden Strike effect, increasing power by 5 times.]
[Number of uses: 3 / 3]
“Sublimation.”
[Stamina: 100 → 80] [Mental Power: 120 → 90]
After completing self Sublimation, the points consumed were also fewer than before.
[Golden Critical Strike Card (Level 6)]
[Consume 20 points of Mental Power, the next attack is attached with a Golden Critical Strike effect, increasing power by 50 times.]
[Number of uses: 3 / 3]
“It actually doubled directly by ten times? Heh, if this hit someone, it would definitely feel great.”
Potential exhausted, Ye Qiyan put it into his pocket.
With this thing, if he had to face some powerful monsters, he wouldn’t be completely devoid of any ability to resist.
Unfortunately, it could only be used three times.
[ever-precise pocket watch (Level 5)]
[A pocket watch whose time is never wrong; no matter what kind of spacetime you are in, it will provide you with the most precise time.]
“Uh… Whatever, it’s alright.”
Although he really wanted to complain about why a watch could count as a Level 5 item, the harvest from this chest wasn’t bad either; he could just consider it a bonus.
“It’s quite pretty.”
The pocket watch was entirely white, with golden lines outlining various incomprehensible advanced patterns on it.
The dial and hands were entirely carved from some kind of gemstone.
No matter from which aspect you looked at it, this was simply a good-looking pocket watch.
Ye Qiyan also put it into his pocket; checking the time with it wasn’t bad either.
Bang————!
Suddenly, a gunshot broke the silence.
Looking toward the sound.
In a clearing in the forest, crimson blood gathered in a pool, and the corpse of a dog-shaped monster with a dagger in its mouth slowly materialized.
The gunshot just now came from the warning watchtower!
It was its stealth-breaking ability that spotted that monster.
However, the death of a single monster was not the end.
The warning watchtower flashed with a bright red light, and locking red rings appeared on the ground one after another.
Monster after monster killed their way out of the forest toward the Train.
Bang—— Bang——!
Gunshots were endless.
The warning watchtower activated full power, continuously pouring out Level 3 bullets as if they were free.
Every single shot could precisely aim at the vital points of these monsters and kill them.
The one-hundred-meter warning range became a forbidden zone for these monsters.
Ye Qiyan breathed a slight sigh of relief, but his heart became increasingly heavy.
If he hadn’t obtained the warning watchtower, if the warning watchtower didn’t have the stealth-breaking ability, he was afraid that by now he would have been caught by the monsters that sneaked into the Train and decapitated.
“What on earth is going on with this station?”
Hunting… Slaughter…
Separated by just a single word.
The former acts as a hunter, hunting enemies.
While the slaughter of the latter can be explained in two directions.
First, slaughtering enemies, but this obviously overlaps with hunting.
Second, being slaughtered by enemies, waiting, constantly hiding and struggling in fear and despair until the stopping time ends.
In other words, the encirclement and slaughter by these monsters were the way Slaughter Station was constituted.
That entity that interfered with his station selection wanted to trap him in this slaughterhouse to die.
