Chapter 42
Chapter 42: Do me a favor and let me die
“As you wish.”
18 Train Coins turned into specks of golden light in Ye Qiyan’s hands, merging into the display case.
Accompanying a soft glow, the dark golden Great Compassion Heavy Machine Gun perfectly presented itself before his eyes.
So big! So thick! So handsome!!
And…
“So heavy.”
Ye Qiyan tried to pick it up, and its heavy weight made him understand why this thing was called a heavy machine gun.
If not for the 20 points of Stamina he had previously increased, which also raised his strength along with it, it would probably have been very difficult to pick up.
Moreover, seeing that the Smiling Man had no intention of helping at all, he had to take this gun back himself.
Fortunately, he had prepared in advance for buying large items, and took out a safety box from the backpack on his back to store this heavy machine gun directly inside.
“…”
The Smiling Man didn’t speak, but his eyes beneath the mask kept rolling, and he remained speechless until Ye Qiyan put the safety box back into his backpack.
It wasn’t until he saw that Ye Qiyan intended to leave directly without waking him up that he finally spoke:
“You truly are a formidable Train Captain.”
“Could you do me a favor?”
“Although this favor is not something you can accomplish right now.”
“If you agree, I will give you another Level 6 item for free.”
Hearing what the Smiling Man said, Ye Qiyan stopped in his tracks.
“What favor?”
Seeing that he didn’t leave, the Smiling Man shattered the glass of another Level 6 item and took it out from inside.
“It’s very simple.”
“Let me die.”
The Trickster Sword was handed before his eyes.
An ominous purple aura spread outward from the sword body, and faint whispers echoed in his ears from time to time.
“If you want to die, just commit suicide. Why look for me? Besides, I don’t think I can kill… a person who can repair severed limbs in a few seconds?”
The Smiling Man shook his head.
“I cannot kill myself, and no guides can kill themselves. Hehe… Rest assured, whether you agree or not doesn’t matter. As you said, your current self truly cannot kill me.”
“Then why?”
“I am gambling, gambling that you will come here again, gambling that by then you will have the ability to grant me release.”
The Smiling Man took off his mask.
A face full of distorted wrinkles and abstract facial features was exposed.
“Actually, I used to be a Train Captain too, but I was forced to stay here due to some reasons. Hehe, this is the curse that kept me here. Terrifying, isn’t it?”
The Smiling Man put his mask back on.
“This item has been taken out by me and can never be put back. This sword is already yours. Even if you forget about this matter in the future, just pretend I never said anything.”
The Trickster Sword fell at Ye Qiyan’s feet.
Should he accept it?
Why not?
“I cannot guarantee whether I can do it, nor when I will do it. If you are willing to give it a try under these conditions, I promise you.”
“Thank you, that is enough.”
Bowing slightly, the Smiling Man returned to his initial state.
“Your purchases at this station are over. However, this station also has some characteristic human society food, which can be purchased by consuming Train Coins. Would you like to try?”
“Uh, never mind, I don’t lack…”
“Steamed buns, dumplings, hot pot, everything is available. It only costs one Train Coin. This is an exclusive benefit specially provided to the first Train Captain who enters the station. Are you sure you don’t need it?”
“…”
A few minutes later, when Ye Qiyan sat down in a restaurant, looking at the dazzling array of delicious food before him, while recalling the messy barbecues he had made these past few days that were either too salty or too bland, he swallowed his disobedient saliva and began to feast heartily.
—-
Five hours and thirty minutes after the public platform opened.
A battered Train entered the Traveling Station from afar.
The Train stopped, and Li Xiaosheng ran out of the Train in a disheveled state.
“Cough, cough cough, damn it, these damned monsters actually set fire to the Train! Fortunately, the speed was fast enough, otherwise I would have been done for there. Damn it, my carriages were all ruined.”
Now his Train only had a locomotive left. The two carriages that originally stored a lot of resources were ambushed by monsters on the way here. If not for the speed being fast enough, he would have been blown to pieces along with his Train carriages.
He punched the ground, calming his anger after a while, and looking at the empty platform, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl upwards again.
“I really am the first! Hahahahaha!”
“This time I must buy a blueprint that can make weapons, and then use the blueprint to exchange for a Flame Stone with others. By then I can still stay ahead!”
“Huh? Permanent docking? Who wants to dock? I am a man who is going to become the protagonist!”
Li Xiaosheng stood up, looked around, saw the building ahead, and walked over in big strides.
“Baby, I’m coming!”
He didn’t know that everything he did was being watched by someone at this moment.
Ordinary Trading Area.
There was only one Train on the empty platform, and Ye Qiyan sat leisurely on top of the Train, enjoying this peaceful sunbath.
The Smiling Man stood silently beside him without a word.
“I say, are you sure they can’t see here from over there?”
“Of course, the levels of trading areas have extremely strict rules. Lower-level trading areas are absolutely unable to see anything in higher-level trading areas.”
“In other words, maybe someone is watching us from a higher trading area right now?”
“No, the Traveling Station only has two types: novice and ordinary trading areas.”
“Oh.”
Eating peanuts, Ye Qiyan watched Li Xiaosheng’s actions in the novice trading area with great interest.
“Speaking of which, doesn’t the novice trading area have a guide like you? This guy looks like he’s lost.”
The Smiling Man shook his head, then nodded.
“There used to be one, but later he died. I really envy him.”
“I now moonlight as a guide for both novice and ordinary trading areas. I should have appeared in the novice trading area, but compared to guiding a group of novices, you are much more important to me.”
“What’s more, this trade is just a lesson to let novice Train Captains understand this world as much as possible within ten stations. In fact, the ordinary trading area shouldn’t have opened today, but you barged in. The ordinary trading area was forcibly opened, and this situation has only happened once in decades.”
There was a strange look in the Smiling Man’s eyes as he looked at Ye Qiyan. To be honest, he didn’t understand why someone could upgrade their Train to Level 4 before 10 stations, nor did he understand why Ye Qiyan could barge into the ordinary trading area.
Moreover, there was no mistake. What he saw earlier was a Level 9 safety box, which was even more impossible for a novice Train Captain to obtain.
This was unreasonable.
Yet precisely because of this unreasonableness, he developed expectations that Ye Qiyan could kill him.
“Oh, so I should be a bit proud then. Anyway, do you want to eat?”
Ye Qiyan handed the last peanut over, but the Smiling Man didn’t speak, just silently turned his head away.
“…”
“Sorry, haha, forgot you can’t eat.”
Tossing the last peanut into his mouth and clapping his hands, Ye Qiyan called up the light screen, raised his eyes, and gazed at the Smiling Man.
“So, the infinite docking time displayed by the system really is problematic, right?”
The Smiling Man chose silence.
“Mm, understood.”
Ye Qiyan nodded and stopped asking, because he had already gotten the answer.
There was a message notification in the chat backend, sent by Zhao Lin.
If he remembered correctly, this woman’s luck was conserved, and she should be in a state of bad luck right now.
However, her avatar wasn’t gray yet, meaning she was still alive. But given her good luck in the previous station and bad luck in this station, could she really make it to this station alive?
40 minutes ago: [“Brother Ye, when we reach the station, should we meet up? How about I bring you some snacks and wine?”]
9 minutes ago: [“Oh no… There are many mummies blocking the front of my Train, but they are moving so slowly, like snails. Haha, it seems my bad luck isn’t that severe after all. It’s just that the wine I prepared for you all shattered, sorry about that.”]
Now: [“Fine, Brother Ye, I’m really starting to have bad luck. The wheels got tangled with the corpses of mummies, and the Train speed has dropped a lot. Can you sell me some repair materials… You know from my previous station, the things I hung on the Trading Platform, I don’t know why, but except for you, no one bought them at all…”]
Sure enough, she began to have bad luck.
