Chapter 62
Chapter 62: Berserk · Lightning Spear
One shot, and the world fell silent.
“Whew~”
Blowing away the blue smoke from Ebony’s muzzle and humming a cheerful tune, Ye Qiyan walked straight to the corpse of the Goblin General, whose head had completely exploded, and kicked it aside.
This was his first time using the active ability of Trial by Gunfire.
As expected.
It was incredibly strong.
He picked up the spear that had rolled onto the ground.
Summoning the Light Screen, he appraised it.
[Lightning Spear] (Level 5)
[Consumes Stamina to throw a powerful lightning attack]
[Matching Equipment: Spear Retriever]
The Spear Retriever must be the thing the Goblin General was using earlier.
Taking it off its wrist and examining this exceptionally high-tech item, Ye Qiyan fell into thought.
“Could a Goblin really obtain something like this? Or did it open a Treasure Chest somewhere else? No, there’s no reason for Donald to lie to me. Natives in a Station World like them should only get Train Coins from opening Treasure Chests, not other rewards. Then… is it the RUN Corporation?”
Whether it was this Spear Retriever or the spear itself, Ye Qiyan felt that these things were all bought from the RUN Corporation.
It wasn’t hard to tell from how specifically the Goblin General had targeted his Train.
This monster had clearly scavenged other Trains before, and not the kind bought by natives, but those owned by actual Train Captains.
“Is the RUN Corporation also a faction established by Train Captains? They sell items to the natives, and then what these natives do becomes a new Platform?”
Without seeing the RUN Corporation itself, none of Ye Qiyan’s conjectures could be verified.
However, it should be soon.
According to the broadcast, after completing the tenth Platform, their batch of Train Captains would pass the novice period.
When that time came, there would definitely be a chance to meet Train Captains from earlier batches.
Their understanding of the RUN Corporation would absolutely be greater than his own. Perhaps he would encounter people from the RUN Corporation at some station.
Putting away the spear, Ye Qiyan hesitated for a moment before stripping the iron armor off the Goblin General.
This guy probably hadn’t bathed in years; the stench on the iron armor was unbearably foul.
However, it would be a waste to throw it away, and recycling it wouldn’t yield many materials. It would be better to put it on the Trading Platform; someone who didn’t care about the stench would definitely pay to buy it.
Since taking it back was a hassle, Ye Qiyan simply listed the iron armor on the Trading Platform for a price of 8 Train Coins.
“Where else would you find an honest merchant like me.”
Selling a Level 3 iron armor for 8 Train Coins.
This didn’t seem to have anything to do with being honest.
Bringing his spoils, he returned to the Train.
Looking at Donald and the adventurers beside him again, their eyes were now filled with awe and fear.
If the sentry’s attacks could still make these adventurers think it was just because the weapon was powerful…
…then Ye Qiyan’s single shot just now, which instantly killed the Goblin General, was enough to make all doubts completely vanish.
“Lord, Lord Ye, thank you for your help! We will definitely spread the word of how you single-handedly repelled a Goblin army of 5,000! In the name of the Holy Lord, I, Donald, will absolutely not hide these achievements.”
“That doesn’t matter, but your mission is considered complete now, right? I still need to stay here for a while. What about you?”
“We’ll leave right away!”
Catching the subtle hint of expulsion in his words, Donald led his team of adventurers away without hesitation.
Just as they were about to leave, he suddenly thought of something, pulled a silver-white statue of a female pray-er with her face covered by a hood out of his backpack, and presented it.
“Lord Ye, you’ve helped us so much and even saved all of our lives. We don’t have anything precious, so please take this. With it, the Holy Lord will bless you.”
The figures of the adventurer team gradually receded.
Ye Qiyan looked at the statue in his hand and pondered slightly.
“Does this world really have gods? No, what am I thinking? It would actually be strange if there weren’t any.”
[Saint Statue]
[Pray and be full of hope. Perhaps, the Holy Lord will cast His gaze upon you.]
[Not necessarily useful.]
To be able to make countless people continuously enter this world of Train survival to explore with their lives on the line, who else could do it besides a “god”?
No.
Or to put it another way.
Anyone who could achieve such a thing…
…must, and can only, be referred to as a “god”.
Ye Qiyan suddenly thought of Shaya.
Wasn’t that woman dressed just like a nun?
What kind of god did she believe in?
“I’ll ask her when I get the chance.”
Setting down the statue, his gaze fell upon his hunt reward for this station.
“Sublimation.”
[Stamina: 117 → 73]
[Sublimation Successful]
[Lightning Spear → Berserk · Lightning Spear (Level 6)]
[Violent Thunder Throw: Consumes Stamina to 0 to throw an incredibly powerful strike]
[Equippable: Spear Retriever]
Incredibly powerful? How powerful?
Ye Qiyan didn’t try it recklessly.
After all, this side effect seemed a bit too severe.
One had to know that after Stamina was consumed to 0, they would enter an extreme state of Sloth. Normally, when he had only twenty or thirty points left, he already felt quite miserable. It was hard to imagine what it would be like at 0.
However… he didn’t want to consume his own Stamina to use it, but what about the sentry?
The sentry didn’t have such a thing as Stamina.
Thinking of this, Ye Qiyan climbed onto the roof of the Train in a hurry and directly equipped this throwing spear, along with the retriever, onto the vigilant sentry.
Right after, he issued an order.
“Switch weapon, Berserk · Lightning Spear.”
“Activate, Violent Thunder Throw.”
The order was issued.
The sentry activated.
Atop the spear, golden lightning continuously gathered, forming a spiraling, spinning tip of thunder.
After reaching a certain threshold, it shot out violently, turning into a golden meteor that plunged from the sky into the earth.
Then—
“Boom!!!”
A massive explosion, accompanied by a powerful shockwave, rippled outward.
“Shoot.”
Sensing the violent shockwave, Ye Qiyan quickly ducked into the Train to avoid being blown away.
As the lightning dissipated, he looked at the massive, spiraling, crater-like ground that had appeared ahead.
“Not bad.”
Ye Qiyan was very satisfied with the power of the spear after its Sublimation.
Furthermore, after the sentry used the ability carried by the spear, it didn’t consume Stamina as described. It only needed a minute to recharge before it could be used again.
By continuously recalling it with the Spear Retriever, it was completely another ultimate weapon, no less powerful than the Great Compassion Heavy Machine Gun.
Not only that, but the sentry could also use this spear for melee attacks, which greatly made up for its lack of close-quarters combat capabilities.
Just imagine: if an enemy got close to the sentry, they would be shot in their vitals by the machine gun on one hand, and harassed by the spear on the other.
Even if they ran far away, they would still be pursued by violent thunder.
Before reaching a higher level, the sentry would not have any rivals.
Its 150-meter alert range was destined to become the enemy’s nightmare.
