Chapter 60
Chapter 60: Seeing RUN Again
Ye Qiyan narrowed his eyes slightly, sat next to Donald, opened a bottle of beer, handed it to Donald, and asked with a curious smile:
“What is this RUN Corporation you guys are talking about?”
As soon as these words were spoken, Donald and the others cast puzzled glances at him.
Donald scratched his head.
“Brother Ye Qiyan, your words have me stumped. You’re already someone who owns a Train, how could you possibly not know about RUN Corporation?”
“I didn’t buy this Train.”
“… I see.”
Donald smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“I knew it. You’re so young, how could you gather enough coins to buy a Train? And you don’t look like an adventurer either. Sigh, it’s great to be a noble; you can get what we want without having to risk your life fighting outside.”
“Having said that, you mentioned earlier that your target is the Goblin General. Do you want to kill that monster to make a name for yourself?”
Donald had already imagined a story where Ye Qiyan was the descendant of some royalty or nobility, driving a Train provided by his family to have adventures on the frontier.
Ye Qiyan forced an awkward smile, which made Donald even more convinced of his idea, and then he continued to ask with a curious expression:
“So, what is RUN Corporation? What are the coins? What do they have to do with the Train?”
Donald took a sip of beer, leaned against his huge cross, pulled a cloth bag from his bosom, and took out something quite familiar to Ye Qiyan from it.
Train Coins.
“As for RUN Corporation, it suddenly appeared on the continent more than two hundred years ago. Those people called Couriers brought a lot of magical gadgets. The countries on the continent at that time wanted to buy those things, but were told that only transactions using this kind of mysterious coin would be accepted.”
“This kind of coin is very hard to find, and it’s completely impossible to forge. You can only get them in some dangerous places or in the chests within some mysterious ruins.”
“An empire at that time wanted to seize those magical items by force, but overnight, that empire’s imperial capital was instantly erased, just as if it had never existed…”
“An advanced adventurer team like ours has collected them for more than ten years and only found a dozen or so.”
“We are still three short of wanting to buy a Train…”
Speaking of this, Donald looked at Ye Qiyan’s Train with envy again, lamenting the unfairness of fate.
Ye Qiyan stroked his chin slightly.
The appearance time of RUN Corporation was more than 200 years ago.
But Shaya had said that she had never heard of the existence of RUN Corporation 15 years ago.
That being the case, the time of the Train in the Platform and the time in the wilderness are not synchronized?
And… the chest he mentioned that could yield Train Coins is a Treasure Chest, right? But why are there only coins?
“There are only these coins in the chest? Are there no other things?”
Donald looked at him in puzzlement.
“Of course, what else could there be?”
Ye Qiyan didn’t ask any further.
“Then, how do we contact RUN Corporation once we have the coins?”
“You brat, you really have a lot of questions. Forget it, considering this alcohol…”
Having obtained the answer, he made an excuse of being drunk and returned to the Train.
Sitting in the chair, he fell into deep thought.
“Can only the Train Captain open things other than Train Coins from a Treasure Chest? Or… is all of this just Donald’s setting in this Platform?”
Ye Qiyan was getting more and more confused about these Platforms.
Often, the background setting of a Platform showed a complete world, while at other times, a Platform only had that fixed space, with endless darkness and nothingness everywhere outside.
So, is the world inside the Platform real or not?
“Hoo… Why am I thinking about this? What does this kind of thing have to do with me? Just focus on doing my own thing.”
Ye Qiyan shook his head, casting the wild thoughts in his mind to the back of his head.
He took out his remaining few Train Coins and chanted silently in his heart according to the usage method Donald told him.
“Summon the Courier of RUN Corporation to conduct purchasing business.”
There was no response.
Within reason.
The customers of RUN Corporation didn’t seem to be Train Captains like him, but the natives in the Platform.
“Collecting Train Coins through the natives in the Platform, right? Then why won’t they trade with the Train Captain? This RUN Corporation… seems to be hiding itself?”
After a while, the Goblin vanguard arrived.
These green-skinned monsters wore standard leather armor and held wooden spears. Compared to the low-level Goblins seen at the very beginning, they looked much more elite at a glance.
Ye Qiyan did not make a move, and even turned off the Sentry, putting on a show of having consumed a large amount of ammunition during the first wave.
After hearing this news, Donald and his team members looked at him with a bit more disgust in their eyes.
These people completely regarded him as a young master out on an adventure, completely powerless except for the Train and the sentries on the Train.
“So this is magic? It really is cool. What a pity, it would be great if I could learn it.”
Staying inside the Train, looking through the car window, Ye Qiyan ate melon seeds bought from Zhao Lin while watching that squad fight.
“No wonder it needs such a huge cross; it turns out it’s used to smash people? A violent cleric, ew, was he smashed directly into meat paste?”
The battle lasted for a long time, and finally, with the team members injured, they eliminated the vanguard force composed of more than one hundred elite Goblins.
Although no one died, with everyone in an injured state, they could only rely on Donald’s healing to slowly recover.
But the Goblins obviously wouldn’t give them this time.
Another batch of elite Goblins climbed over the hill and immediately rushed over.
The scout ahead also brought back bad news: the main force of the Goblin army was only 10 minutes away from this village.
However, the combat effectiveness of this squad was truly hard to agree with.
The mage in the team was actually kidney-stabbed by an elite Goblin Slayer, almost dying a tragic death.
The battle ended. Donald panted heavily and gritted his teeth as he looked at the pale-faced mage beside him.
“We can’t wait anymore. Quickly open the barrier. If this goes on, before we even wait for the Goblin’s main force, we’ll be ambushed to death by these assassins.”
Donald gritted his teeth and calculated the time.
“Open the barrier! Drive those lowly Goblins out!”
The translucent light film was like an upside-down bowl covering the village.
Outside the bowl, the Goblins were blocked out.
They hammered desperately, but simply couldn’t shake this light film in the slightest.
Donald was right; this thing could indeed block the attacks of ordinary Goblins.
But what if the ones coming weren’t ordinary Goblins?
Thunder flashed.
In the sky, a spear wrapped in thunder hit the barrier at an extremely fast speed.
Cracks began to spread from that tip.
“Crack, crackle!”
The barrier shattered.
