Chapter 39
Chapter 39 Sublimation Once Again, Advancing to Level 4 Train
“Don’t come over!”
“Help, I was just a little short, just a little short of being able to upgrade! Why won’t you lend me materials!”
“Get away from me! You monsters!”
“I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die!”
On an ordinary night, those Train Captains who failed to upgrade to Level 2 became food for the monsters.
Even among those who had upgraded, there were still some unlucky bastards whose Trains were damaged, causing their speed to slow down, and they ultimately met a miserable end.
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The next morning.
Gentle sunlight shone into the Train.
Wash face, brush teeth, set up the stove fire, and prepare breakfast.
“The weather is nice.”
The Sunny Doll had predicted today’s weather last night.
Gentle sunny day.
It was the most suitable weather for human survival.
Opening the window, letting the cool breeze from outside the Train blow in, the wilderness outside had not changed in the slightest.
“Seventy bullets consumed in one night? That’s fewer than I imagined.”
Checking the Sentinel’s consumption, last night was, after all, nighttime survival time. Although this batch of monsters couldn’t catch up to his Level 3 Train, some still came from both sides to damage the sides of the Train.
He didn’t want the Train to be damaged; after all, repairing it would cost materials.
[Stamina: 100] [Mental Power: 120]
Pulling up the system light screen, on the personal page, Mental Power and attributes had already recovered to maximum values.
Ye Qiyan swallowed the White Forest Fruit pulp in his mouth, ended his breakfast time, and began rubbing his palms together.
“I wonder what the Train options will be like this time.”
Walking into the driver’s cab, he reached out and pressed down on the main body of the original control system.
Even though he didn’t need to do this after the system bound the Module, he liked this sense of ritual.
“Sublimation”
[Stamina: 100 → 70] [Mental Power: 120 → 50]
[Train upgrade complete!]
[Current Level: 4]
[Materials required for the Train’s next upgrade: 500 kg of wood, 500 mechanical parts, 850 kg of metal, 40 kg of glass, 200 electronic components, 10 kg of gold, 15 kg of mithril, and 1 calculation unit × 1]
[Upgrade options unlocked]
[Congratulations on becoming the first Train Captain in this sector to upgrade the Train to Level 4]
[Obtained Title: Upgrade Expert]
[Congratulations on breaking the record for the fastest Level 4 Train! Obtained one Train Captain enhancement card]
100 points. Compared to the 90 points consumed by Sublimation from Level 2 to Level 3, it was merely 10 points more.
After performing self Sublimation, his Sublimation Talent really reduced a lot of consumption. If not for this, the consumption points for going from Level 3 to Level 4 would probably have drained him completely in one go.
However, breaking the record with this upgrade also surprised Ye Qiyan a little.
After all, Shaya gave him a Flame Stone. Even without going through Sublimation, he could still upgrade to Level 4 in this short period of time.
Since Shaya could give it, perhaps other senior survivors could also do such a thing?
It seemed Ye Qiyan had guessed wrong.
Those survivors who came to this world earlier than him didn’t seem so easily able to interfere with a newcomer like him; Shaya’s situation was just a special exception.
After the upgrade, he first opened the Train details.
There’s no need to mention the old three things that made up the Train, and the speed still increased by 20 kilometers per hour.
The focus wasn’t here.
[Upgrade options unlocked]
[Upgrade options unlocked]
[Level 4 Train upgrade options are as follows]
[1: Luxury Sweet Dream Big Bed (5 Train Coins)]
[2: Train Space Enhancement (8 Train Coins)]
[3: Train Module: Train Anywhere Door (6 Train Coins)]
[4: Smart Chip (10 Train Coins)]
“???”
After reading these four upgrade options, Ye Qiyan’s face was filled with question marks.
Five, eight, six, ten—wanting to buy all of them would cost a full twenty-nine Train Coins?
Are these upgrade options really not determined based on the number of Train Coins he possessed?
He only had 39 in total right now. After buying these upgrade options, he would only have the ten obtained from opening the Level 5 treasure chest left.
“Isn’t this too expensive?”
Ye Qiyan felt a bit of heartache and speechlessly muttered a couple of complaints.
However, Train Coins could still be obtained, but if he missed the upgrade options, he would truly miss them.
But he still needed to check the quality of these four options before deciding whether to buy them now.
Touching the light screen floating in front of him, he pulled up the details of all four upgrade rewards.
[Luxury Sweet Dream Big Bed]
[On this bed, you can get the best rest. The recovery speed of Stamina/Mental Power while lying on it will be enhanced, and furthermore, you won’t have nightmares.]
Good stuff! He was just feeling that sleeping on the current iron plate bed made his waist hurt, and it could also restore Stamina and Mental Power. Wasn’t this exactly what he needed most?
“Bought.”
[Train Space Enhancement]
[All carriage/driver cab spaces inside the Train will have their length, width, and height increased by one meter each.]
This upgrade option immediately reminded Ye Qiyan of Shaya’s church carriage. Without a doubt, this had to be bought too.
“Bought, bought.”
[Train Module: Train Anywhere Door]
[Through the carriage partition door, you can freely choose to enter any carriage in the Train.]
“This also seems very useful, buy!”
[Smart Chip]
[Needs to be installed on a machine creation. After installation, it can make it develop low-level intelligence.]
“Hiss, if this were installed inside Wall-E’s skull…”
“I… uh… I’d better wait.”
Ye Qiyan held back the hand that wanted to make an impulse purchase.
After buying the first three options, only the final twenty Train Coins were left.
He hadn’t forgotten what the broadcast said yesterday; today’s platforms for everyone would all be trading platforms that required consuming Train Coins.
If he spent all his Train Coins now, what if he encountered something he wanted later and didn’t have any Train Coins? Wouldn’t he just be left staring blankly?
Make Wall-E suffer a little, save the Train Coins.
Ye Qiyan chose to retain the final Smart Chip.
Three stations’ worth of time—even if he spent all his Train Coins at the trading station, he was confident he could collect them again.
After the purchase ended, the Train’s space became much more spacious after being enhanced.
Putting that bed in the Temperature-controlled carriage that was already being used as a bedroom—say, if he hadn’t upgraded the Train space, putting this bed down really would have become quite crowded.
“Woohoo… I haven’t slept on such a comfortable bed in so long… No, my previous bed wasn’t even this comfortable…”
Throwing himself onto the bed, Ye Qiyan narrowed his eyes, his body enveloped by the soft and elastic mattress. His whole person became extremely relaxed, and the fatigue of his body was relieved at this moment.
Pulling up the personal interface.
Stamina and Mental Power were also recovering at an even faster speed.
As expected, making Wall-E suffer a little was the right choice.
