Chapter 69
Chapter 69: Muku Yuren’s Teachings
“Brother Qiyan, I wanted to ask you just now, aren’t you afraid that your Train will be stolen if you just leave it parked at that church like that?”
Weaving through the vendors in the square.
Hearing Zhao Lin’s question, Ye Qiyan, who was examining a silver-white Desert Eagle pistol, answered without turning his head:
“It’s fine, I’ve been keeping an eye on it.”
“Keeping an eye on it?”
Zhao Lin was puzzled, as she could not see Ye Qiyan’s system Light Screen.
Therefore, she also didn’t know that the images transmitted by the running Monitor inside Ye Qiyan’s Train were always under his Control.
“This gun is only Level 2, right? Are there any higher-level ones?”
The wanderer stared with dead fish eyes and replied in a lazy voice that made people wonder if he would fall asleep standing up:
“You’re a newcomer, right?”
“So what if I am?”
“Oh, no wonder. You don’t know the rules of the City of a Thousand Stars yet.”
The wanderer yawned and scratched himself a few times through his clothes.
“The props sold externally in the City of a Thousand Stars only go up to Level 3 at most. If you want to get higher-level props, you have to join a major guild to buy them. Other than those guilds, selling props above Level 3 anywhere else is illegal.”
“Why is there such a rule? Level 3 props aren’t that hard to obtain, right?”
The wanderer’s scratching movement paused for a moment, and he cast a somewhat strange look at Ye Qiyan.
“You brat, your luck must be quite good to actually think Level 3 props are easy to get? Forget it, are you buying or not? If you buy this gun, I’ll impart some senior experience to you.”
“How much?”
“4 Train Coins, very cheap.”
With money and goods exchanged on the spot, a bit of a smile finally appeared on the wanderer’s lazy face.
“Finally sold it. 4 Train Coins, heh, I can go find Technician No. 8 to relax and enjoy myself properly again.”
He turned around to leave, but his shoulder was directly pressed down by a hand.
“Senior, did you forget something?”
Knowing he couldn’t dodge it, the wanderer sighed helplessly and pointed to a teppanyaki stall not far away.
“Let’s talk over there and grab some food along the way.”
Following him to sit in front of the teppanyaki stall, the boss winked and made faces at the wanderer for a while.
“Alright, alright, I didn’t bring him here for you to fleece. Bring three cups of… Oh, do the two of you drink alcohol?”
Zhao Lin shook her head politely.
“Let’s get down to business instead.”
“Tch, no fun. Then just one cup, remember to make it warm.”
While waiting for the alcohol, the wanderer spat out the piece of straw in his mouth and swiped his fingers through the empty air.
A friend request appeared in Ye Qiyan’s eyes.
“I’ve added the two of you as friends, when you go back you can… Uh, you have a Module with System Binding?”
Looking at the accepted friend request, the wanderer froze for a moment.
“Incredible, are you really a newcomer? No, you must be, otherwise you wouldn’t not know the rules of the City of a Thousand Stars. Tsk tsk tsk, this is my first time seeing a newcomer able to own a Module, and such a rare thing as System Binding at that. Back then, I…”
“Senior Muku Yuren, you’d better get down to business.”
Muku Yuren—that was precisely the name on the friend request.
“Just call me Muku. Sigh, what a hassle. If it weren’t for the gun I sold you…”
A cup of warm wine was delivered by the stall owner. Taking the cup and draining it in one gulp, he—who had been depressed to the absolute extreme—actually looked much more spirited.
“Cough, you’re also a Train Captain, don’t you know just how abstract the Treasure Chests hidden in those Platforms really are? It’s fine when the level is low, but as the Train level increases, the Platforms we need to reach will also become more dangerous. Relatively speaking, the probability of finding a Treasure Chest is also lower. Moreover, Train levels aren’t that easy to raise. Newcomers like you should have some who reached Level 3, right? Did you see the upgrade requirements for the next level?”
“Flame Stone?”
Zhao Lin, standing at the side, chimed in first.
“Correct, Flame Stone. That thing can only be obtained in Platforms above Level 4, while newcomer Train Captains can only reach Level 3 at most. So where on earth are we supposed to get a Flame Stone?”
Muku pointed to the top of his head.
“Heh, so you see, newcomers like you have to obediently find a guild to join, then obey their arrangements, exchanging resources and contributions exceeding the Flame Stone for a single Flame Stone in order to upgrade the Train. Then, the next level will have other rigid requirements, and on and on it goes. In the end, you just become beasts of burden working for those big shots up top, hehe heh.”
“…”
“Where there are people, there is jianghu; where there is jianghu, there are unscrupulous corporations.”
That statement is really spot on.
But wouldn’t doing it this way be a bit unreasonable?
“Then how did the very first batch of Train Captains upgrade to Level Train Coins They didn’t have things like exchanging for a Flame Stone from others, did they?”
“How would I know that? However, Flame Stones aren’t completely only exchangeable from them; that’s just the simplest method. When a Train upgrades to Level 3, there is a very small probability of entering a higher-level Platform. If you can find a Treasure Chest there, there is still a chance to open one and get a Flame Stone.”
Speaking of this, Muku Yuren suddenly gave a self-deprecating smile.
“But then again, Level 3 Train Captains struggle just to stay alive in higher-level Platforms, let alone finding a Treasure Chest. That’s completely daydreaming.”
Downing the wine in his cup in one gulp, Muku Yuren slumped over the table and fell fast asleep.
Ye Qiyan didn’t care whether he was feigning sleep or not; he paid for the wine for him and got up to leave.
Not long after the two left, the teppanyaki stall owner patted Muku Yuren on the head.
“Wake up, they’ve already left. Stop pretending.”
Muku Yuren sat up, completely lacking his previous drunken posture; instead, he looked even more depressed.
“Another batch of new Train Captains… Come to think of it, how many years have we stayed here?”
The boss handed over a portion of fried pork liver and answered calmly:
“Ever since the day we abandoned our Train and bought permanent residency permits, a total of nine years.”
“…”
“What? Seeing the newcomers made you want to continue adventuring again? Don’t forget why we chose to run away back then. To continue entering that wilderness, do you have that kind of guts? Give up, we’re all afraid of death.”
“Tch…”
Dropping a handful of Thousand Star Coins, Muku Yuren turned and left.
It’s just that his figure seemed a bit more hunched over.
“Brother Qiyan, does that mean we really have no way to upgrade to Level Train Coins Or do we have to find a guild to join?”
Leaving that stall, Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin walked out of the square.
Just as Muku Yuren said, there were no props above Level 3 here.
“Didn’t he say that even without joining a guild, there’s still a chance to find a Flame Stone in a Treasure Chest? With your luck, you might just find one at the next stop.”
“Hehe, that’s true.”
Thinking that her luck would recover at the next stop, Zhao Lin instantly felt much less sad.
“Rest assured, Brother Qiyan, if I find two Flame Stones, I’ll sell you one at a friendly price.”
“Then should I thank you very much?”
“That works too.”
