Chapter 64
Chapter 64: Leaving the Tenth Stop! newbie Privileges Disabled!
“Finally, it’s finally open!”
Underground world.
The princess looked at the dog-hole-like opening that appeared before her and immediately bent down to crawl inside.
The guards behind her wanted to follow, but she glared at them viciously, forcing them back.
“Commoners, do you even deserve to come in? Stay there and wait obediently! Once this princess gets that thing, this world will be mine!”
She lifted her heavy skirt and climbed up towards the Inverted Cross Altar in two steps instead of three.
After climbing for a long time, she reached the top layer. Seeing the smaller Inverted Cross Altar, the princess rushed over with a burning gaze.
“This is… a bullet? A single bullet? Is this what RUN Corporation asked me to get?”
Picking up the bullet lying flat on the Altar, the princess looked puzzled.
“Whatever, as long as I get it, that’s fine.”
She took a hairpin from her head and threw it on the ground.
Revealing a small crystal inside.
The crystal emitted a faint blue light.
A woman wearing a RUN Corporation badge sat in an executive chair, sporting huge dark circles under her eyes, and said in an extremely lazy tone:
“Who are you? Oh, I remember, that princess from the great world with a maximum level 5 Stop. What, have you gotten the thing I asked you to find? Hand it over to me now.”
“I got it, I’ll give it to you right now.”
A platform-shaped object appeared out of thin air above the crystal.
The princess obediently placed the bullet on it.
Before long, that bullet appeared in the hand of the woman on the other side.
Looking at this level 3 bullet, which couldn’t be more ordinary, she fell into silence.
After a good while, the woman raised her head and stared coldly at the princess.
“You’re playing with me.”
The old princess’s expression turned startled, and she hurriedly shook her head and waved her hands.
“How, how could that be? How dare I deceive the adults of RUN Corporation? Didn’t you tell me to take that key and find an underground ruin in the border region of the kingdom? I spent a whole year searching before I found this ruin where that key could be inserted. There was only a bullet on the Altar of the ruin! There really was nothing else!”
The woman still stared at her with a Cold gaze.
It was clearly a pair of dead fish eyes, yet it terrified the old princess so much that she collapsed to the ground.
“Enough! What should exist there is a card, not a bullet! Where on earth is the item? I’ll give you one last chance to tell the truth.”
“I r-really don’t know. There really was only this single bullet. I’m not lying to you, truly!”
Zzt——
The blue crystal burst open.
A sharp fragment grazed the princess’s neck.
Dripping with blood, she reached out despairingly to seek help, but the darkness had already surged like a tide, completely drowning her.
The dead-fish-eyed woman.
She looked at this level 3 bullet in her hand and fell into thought.
“That native wasn’t lying. However, the barrier where the Devil Card resides can only be opened with the key. Why would there be a bullet inside?”
“Could someone have swapped away that card in advance?”
“No, this is absolutely impossible. If the ruins had been opened by someone, they wouldn’t need a key to be opened again afterwards. So what on earth is this…”
She put the bullet aside and spoke to some living creature in the darkness:
“Go investigate which Train Captain over level 30 has recently visited that Stop.”
“Yes.”
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Docking countdown [1:33:45]
“Wall-E, come back.”
Roof of the Train.
Ye Qiyan lay on top, soaking up the sunshine.
Wall-E continuously pulled their weapons and leather armor off the dead Goblins.
Then, through the Crafting Bench placed outside by Ye Qiyan, they were recycled, ultimately forming one resource block after another to be put into the storage carriage.
“Ha~ It’s almost time to go.”
Letting out a yawn, Ye Qiyan called Wall-E back.
Putting the last batch of resources into the storage unit.
The harvest of this Stop ends here.
Returning to the Train, Wall-E anxiously circled back and forth between Ye Qiyan and the charger.
The monitor’s large eyes blinked and blinked, surprisingly appearing a bit stupidly cute.
“Go on. Considering how hard you’ve worked, I’ll reward you with a full charge today.”
Even though it got fully charged every day.
But receiving Ye Qiyan’s praise made Wall-E incomparably happy.
Returning to the Temperature-controlled carriage, this place had gradually been remodeled by Ye Qiyan into the appearance of a real room.
He even bought a dining table specifically for eating on the Trading Platform, along with a bookshelf holding a few comic books and the game console he had obtained earlier.
It could be said that this carriage could completely be considered a shut-in’s paradise.
“OK, time to set off.”
The departure privilege had already changed color.
Raising his hand, he slapped it down.
The privilege triggered.
[Departure]
The tracks moved forward.
The void manifested.
Passing through, returning.
Outside the window, it once again restored to that familiar endless wilderness.
At the exact same time Ye Qiyan returned to the wilderness.
All the Train Conductors in this block raised their heads to look at the broadcast, because it made a sound.
[Congratulations, all Train Conductors have left the tenth Stop.]
[Starting tomorrow, you will no longer be protected by newbie protection privileges.]
[Inside the wilderness, the weather will change daily and will no longer be the same]
[Cross-block friend adding enabled]
[Multiplayer Stops enabled]
[Guilds enabled]
[Team mode enabled]
[The Trading Platform will no longer be restricted to this block]
[The minimum Train speed requirement has been increased to 60 kilometers per hour. Trains below this speed will enter a dangerous state]
[Train]
[Good luck to you all]
[May you survive]
[Remember, do not abandon your Train!]
This long series of rapid-fire announcements left everyone somewhat dazed.
[6831 / 10000]
[“What the heck, why is this broadcast getting less and less punctual? We left the station ages ago, and it’s only announcing it now. I was almost falling asleep.”]
[“How strange, I heard people from E-3 Block say before that the broadcast announcement times occasionally differ from ours. I didn’t expect that after merging with them, the broadcast isn’t punctual anymore either. Hey, is there something wrong with you guys in E-City of a Thousand Stars”]
[“What? Are you trying to say someone can stay in the Stop for nearly nine hours? That requires upgrading to level 4, oh no, level 5, right?”]
[“Is that really what you guys are focusing on? The main point is the stuff the broadcast talked about!”]
[“What on earth do multiplayer Stops, guilds, and the complete opening of the Trading Platform mean? Weren’t there multiplayer Stops before?”]
[“The previous ones were public trading Stops. You obviously didn’t listen carefully to the broadcast’s speech. As for guilds, haven’t you played games before?”]
[“Huh? Look at the mail section, who is this sending a mass message inviting us to head to… City of a Thousand Stars?”]
[“There are other mails too. Damn, why are there more and more of them?”]
The Chat Room was bustling with activity.
Ye Qiyan had also received the mails they were talking about.
