Chapter 70
Chapter 70 The Ruin of Li Xiaosheng
In the square, Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin, who had no intention of joining a guild, prepared to leave and stroll around elsewhere.
But just because they weren’t joining didn’t mean others would make the same choice.
Li Xiaosheng.
This man, who fancied himself the protagonist, was currently standing in front of a man in a white suit with a pale and flushed face.
“Your Resource Radar Talent is pretty decent. You’re the third Resource Radar today, pretty good luck. Join our guild and become a member of the resource team, and you’ll have it made.”
“…Resource Radar, there are a lot of them?”
Amidst the envious gazes of others, Li Xiaosheng asked this question with difficulty.
“It’s alright, considered one of the most common among Talents. You kid are really lucky; ordinary people don’t even have the ability to get a Talent when they want one.”
The man in the white suit didn’t notice that Li Xiaosheng’s expression at the moment was as painful as an otaku whose fantasies had been shattered.
He clenched his fists tightly, and emotions of unwillingness and incomprehension lingered in his heart.
“Why? Shouldn’t this Talent belong to me alone?! Why do others have it too!? This isn’t fair! Clearly I’m the most special one!”
His heart was screaming, while the man in the white suit looked at him suspiciously and casually patted his head.
“There’s no need to be so excited about joining the guild. Work hard, I’m counting on you.”
“…B-Big Brother, can we also buy Flame Stone in the guild, right? I heard from others that only in the guild can you… I was wondering if I could get it in advance…”
“There is, but you don’t need to be in such a hurry.”
The man in the white suit waved his hand.
“A Train Captain with the Resource Radar Talent cannot upgrade for at least ten stations after joining the guild. This is to protect you from dying somewhere because you can’t bring out the effect of your Talent when reaching higher-level stations. Of course, the guild will also provide you with some advanced props to protect you. It won’t be too late to upgrade to level 4 once your strength matures and your foundation is solid. Also, your upcoming Platform will have a Train assistant following you to collect resources, and the guild will also provide props for collecting resources…”
Li Xiaosheng could no longer hear the rest of the words.
He only felt a chill run through him.
What do you mean you can’t upgrade within ten stations?
He has to stay at a level 3 Train for a full ten stations? What right do they have?
This was clearly an attempt to squeeze dry the value of his Resource Radar and get enough materials before he died.
And he had to bring an assistant?
Assistant? Monitor is more like it!?
Li Xiaosheng slapped the table angrily with one hand.
“Bang——!”
“Sorry, it seems I’m not suited for your guild. I want to speed up my upgrade pace and don’t intend to stay at level 3…”
Before his voice faded, the man in the white suit spoke with a chuckle:
“Yo, so you have some ambition. Too bad it’s useless. Friend, even if you go to another guild, it’ll be the same. For Resource Radar Talents, leaving the novice area and joining a guild, a 10-station collection period is the consensus of all guilds in the City of a Thousand Stars. Even if you go to another guild, it’s still the same.”
“Then at worst I will just!”
“At worst not join a guild?”
The commotion here attracted the attention of many people.
After learning the cause and effect, the members of those other guilds cast mocking glances at Li Xiaosheng.
“Without joining a guild, you have no chance of upgrading to level 4 in your lifetime~ Flame Stone is only in our hands. A Resource Radar Talent, once past the novice area, is completely a negative Talent. With such trash Talent, you won’t be able to enter many excellent Platforms. Do you think you’re amazing?”
Li Xiaosheng stopped in his tracks, his back trembling.
The truth he least wanted to know had finally appeared.
After passing the novice period, Resource Radar truly became a negative Talent in every sense.
He had to head to Platforms possessing large amounts of timber, Metal, and mechanical parts.
And these Platforms often wouldn’t have many other rewards.
One step slow, every step slow.
Li Xiaosheng felt as if he had fallen into a cage woven by others, feeling like a goat walking into a tiger’s den.
——
“That person seems to be Li Xiaosheng?”
Zhao Lin pointed at Li Xiaosheng, who had slinked back to the man in the white suit in the center of the crowd and silently chosen to join the guild.
“You know him?”
“This guy posted his photo in the Chat Room before, and he posted it many times. This guy is narcissistic to the extreme. Some girls I’ve traded with said they even received friend requests from Li Xiaosheng, wanting them to be his girlfriend without even meeting once.”
Watching Li Xiaosheng in the crowd, Ye Qiyan heard more of their conversation.
Resource Radar—Li Xiaosheng indeed possessed his own Talent, but it was a not-so-rare Talent.
From beginning to end, he could sense that Li Xiaosheng had an extremely strong sense of self-identity.
Or rather, he was convinced that he was the most special one.
Now discovering that he wasn’t that special, and even unable to upgrade because of this specialness, his heart was probably quite broken.
“Boring, let’s go.”
“Wait for me, Brother Qiyan, where are we going?”
“Did you forget what we said when we came to this city?”
“What?”
“To enjoy.”
Ye Qiyan snapped his fingers, and a stack of Thousand Star Coins neatly appeared in his hand.
“Since we’re already here and have nothing else to do, don’t you plan to recall past Memory of modern life?”
Zhao Lin blinked.
“Then can we go karaoke?”
Throughout the whole day, Ye Qiyan came to appreciate just how much this city pursued entertainment.
Eating, drinking, and making merry; everywhere there were shops and indigenous people who were extremely respectful and enthusiastic towards the presence of the Train Captain.
Various entertainment facilities, even in the past world, were hard to encounter all in one place.
Even at night, the lives of the Train Captains not only didn’t stop, but became even more intense.
For pleasure, some people would even ignore their own lives.
In the hot spring of a certain Hot Spring Inn.
Ye Qiyan’s entire body was soaked in it, faint milky-white radiance drifting outward from the hot spring. The feeling of soaking here was as comfortable as being immersed in a mother’s amniotic fluid.
His brain emptied out, and there was no need to think about anything further.
It was a pity that this hot spring wasn’t something only he could enjoy alone.
Splash, a middle-aged man with black hair, a weary gaze, and scars all over his body sat in.
Ye Qiyan didn’t care at first, but that middle-aged uncle suddenly spoke:
“Young man, do you want to join our organization?”
“?”
An organization, not a guild.
The inexplicable invitation instantly woke him up from that vacant state, subconsciously making the Ebony appear in his hand, its dark muzzle aimed at this scarred uncle.
“It seems we don’t know each other, uncle. You must have invited the wrong person.”
The middle-aged uncle took a fierce puff of the cigar in his hand.
“I didn’t invite the wrong person. The smiling tiger in the church sent me. Oh right, it’s Shaya. She asked me to tell you that we and Shaya are people from the same organization.”
