Chapter 77

Chapter 77: The Eleventh Station · Bewildered Snowy Mountain

The Chat Room remained silent for a long time.

[ “Alright. After the next station ends, I will bring out the equivalent of 30 Train Coins to purchase the Flame Stone. Before that, do not sell it to anyone else.” ]

[ “Of course.” ]

Upgrading was a bottomless pit.

After buying the Flame Stone, the next thing needed was a calculation unit.

Ye Qiyan curled the corners of his mouth, looking at Shangguan Yingxue’s name as if he were looking at a cash cow.

Once she reached level 4, he would find a suitable time to pull out the calculation unit.

He didn’t believe this woman wouldn’t want it.

The Train continued moving forward.

Time passed.

[ 12:30:00 ]

The Module activated at this moment.

The eleventh station was about to arrive.

[ Crossroads of Fate triggered. Please make a docking choice between the following two Platforms ]

[ Platform One: Phoenix Wolf Valley (Level 5 Hunting Platform) ]

[ Platform Two: Bewildered Snowy Mountain (Level 6 Mission Platform) ]

“I choose Platform Two.”

Ye Qiyan chose the higher-level Platform.

Even though that would entail more danger.

But.

Now that he possessed a large amount of equipment and items that surpassed ordinary Train Captains, why should he be timid and overly cautious?

Rather than choosing a safer Platform, it was better to push harder.

[ Platform selection completed ]

[ Please sit tight and hold on securely. The eleventh station arriving ahead of the Train is… ]

[ Bewildered Snowy Mountain ]

The final 30-minute countdown gradually returned to zero.

As the speed of the Train began to increase, it passed through the distorted nothingness.

Accompanied by the roar of the whistle, outside the Train windows was already a sheet of pure white.

[ Current Platform: Bewildered Snowy Mountain ]

[ Docking Countdown: 09:59:59 ]

[ Good luck ]

[ This Station: High Risk! ]

As usual, before getting off, he took out a Train Coin and tossed it onto the head of Wall-E, who was spinning around his feet.

“When you encounter danger, remember to hide a bit.”

Wall-E nodded in gratitude, passing through the connecting small door of the recycling device and speeding forward into the snow.

After Wall-E left, Ye Qiyan stood by the window and looked around.

According to past experience, the mission targets of a Mission Platform would always appear near where the Train docked.

Sure enough, in the distance, a small black dot caught Ye Qiyan’s attention.

After observing carefully for a moment, it seemed to be a small wooden cabin nestled in the wind and snow.

“So that’s the place. It’s a bit far. Oh right, how could I have forgotten that thing.”

CVO Roadhog.

Ever since buying it from the upgrade options, he hadn’t found a chance to use it.

Now it was finally coming in handy.

“Can this thing drive in the snow?”

Transported to the turret carriage in the very last section, Roadhog had always been placed here by him.

Patting those thick rubber tires and thinking for a moment, he bought a few thin iron chains on the Trading Platform and tied them onto it to use as snow anti-skid measures.

“There shouldn’t be a problem.”

Opening the door, closing the door.

Dressed neatly and with his backpack on his back, Ye Qiyan mounted Roadhog and twisted the throttle in the snow, which wasn’t particularly thick before him.

Accompanied by a roar, the silver-gray motorcycle cut through the wind and snow, heading straight towards the distant wooden cabin.

It took him about ten minutes before he finally arrived at the wooden cabin.

“Good thing I have a vehicle, otherwise how long would it take to walk on two legs.”

Ye Qiyan patted his slightly frost-reddened cheeks, took out the pure purification stone from his pocket, held Ebony in his other hand, and kicked open the wooden cabin door with one kick as the fierce wind and snow instantly surged inside.

There was no one in the wooden cabin, but there were traces of human habitation.

The facilities in the room were few: a bed, a table, and a stove.

Placed on the table were a few cans of unknown expiration status and a diary.

Picking up the diary, Ye Qiyan turned to the first page.

[ March 12, Weather: Sunny. Today the scientific expedition team arrived at the first supply point of the snowy mountain. Strange, where did the Guide who was supposed to be waiting for us here go? ]

[ March 14, waited for two days, the Guide still hasn’t returned. Without a Guide, we have no way to continue moving up the mountain. But everyone has prepared for this scientific expedition for a long time and is unwilling to give up. Therefore, we decided to go up the mountain ourselves. No problem, with my years of mountaineering experience, a mere snowy mountain is a piece of cake~ ]

[ March 16, someone got sick. How unlucky, I actually drew the wooden stick to stay behind and take care of her. If I had known, I should have chosen the one next to it. ]

[ March 18, he… he died. I don’t know why he died, but! ! # ! $ ! ]

[ March ?, ha ha, hahahaha! Died well, died well! Once he died, I could catch up with the main group. I arrived at the second supply point. Where are the people, where are the people?! ]

[ What was I doing when I came here? ]

“…”

Ye Qiyan squeezed the pure purification stone in his hand, took a deep breath, and put down the diary.

Here should be the second supply point mentioned in the diary.

And the person who wrote the diary seemed to be close to madness by March 18.

By the end, they were completely crazy, which was why they wrote such a bizarre diary entry.

But where was everyone?

They left the diary behind, yet vanished here themselves.

Did they run into a monster, or something else?

And what was the mission of this station?

Ye Qiyan continued searching in the room and found a photograph in a corner. The moment he picked up the photograph, a monster’s roar came from outside the house.

Running out of the wooden cabin, he saw that at some point, a white-furred snow monster had appeared in the wind and snow.

The snow monster’s foul-smelling mouth spat out a disgusting fishy wind, waving its fists as it came towards the direction where Ye Qiyan was located.

Bang——

A gunshot hit the monster’s forehead, but it continued charging as if it felt nothing at all.

This didn’t make sense.

How could a strike from Ebony be ineffective?

Right, it simply didn’t make sense.

Ye Qiyan felt a strong sense of incongruity.

Suddenly, the pure purification stone emitted a soft glow.

Even in this snow-white world, this light still enveloped the surroundings.

When the light passed, the snow monster disappeared, as if everything was just an illusion.

But Ye Qiyan knew very well that it wasn’t an illusion.

Moreover, this feeling was somewhat familiar to him.

“It’s somewhat similar to back then with Don Quixote… This photograph…”

On the photograph just obtained from the wooden cabin was precisely that suddenly appearing snow monster.

“So that’s why I felt a sense of incongruity.”

In the Mental Power column, Witnessing Truth and Falsehood was being triggered.

The snow monster from just now wasn’t real, nor was it fake.

Rather, the moment Ye Qiyan saw this photograph, he believed that a snow monster existed in this world.

Therefore, that snow monster appeared outside the house.

“So, what on earth is the mission?”

This was the first time he was so baffled by a Mission Platform.

“Hmm?”

A corner of the photograph had slight traces of curling up.

Without hesitation, he tore it open forcefully, and from the hidden interlayer within, a thin slip of paper fell into his hand.