Survive on the train, I can sublimate everything! Chapter 132

Task, transaction, in a sense, it was indeed so.

However, if this was truly a transaction, it was unfair to both parties.

Because, as he had said before, he could have directly taken the train coins and left, there was no need to complete the task, as long as he had the ability to deal with the task issuer.

Seeing Ye Qiyan didn’t speak, Altus shook his head, knowing that the other party still didn’t believe him, sighed, and continued:

“Still don’t believe me? Brother, don’t worry, I’m not lying to you. The train system is very fair to train conductors, but it’s different for those who aren’t train conductors.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s literal. The Wasteland connects countless platform worlds, and the natives in those worlds are nothing more than NPCs for train conductors to explore. Their lives and deaths are meaningless. As long as the train conductor can become stronger, whether they kill the people in the platform or rob them, they won’t receive any punishment.”

“Conversely, former train conductors like me, who know about the Endless Wasteland and the Train Survival World but lost their identities due to various circumstances, will receive absolute restraint.”

Ye Qiyan understood the meaning of Altus’s words.

In short, the train system would only show its fair side to train conductors. For others, especially those who abandoned their identities, it was the exact opposite.

“Okay, I can help you buy a train head.”

“Really!? Thank you, brother!”

“But before that, you have to tell me, besides you and these rotting corpses, what else is in this ancient battlefield ruin?”

In fact, if this guy named Altus was a normal human, Ye Qiyan wouldn’t have appeared so greedy.

It was just that this guy had changed his race.

It was probably like that Vampire Baron’s heart, which would instinctively cause him, as a human, to feel disgust.

This was not an influence on the spiritual level, but the feeling of a human facing a betrayer.

That’s why Ye Qiyan chose to make things difficult for this guy.

After all, although he was greedy, he also had his own principles, and would not treat the people on the platform as fake NPCs like Qin Qiang from the previous station.

Altus tapped his helmet, thinking carefully for a while.

“There shouldn’t be anything else, but there’s a black forest in the southeast. I’ve only been there once. That place is very evil. Once you enter that forest, you’ll unconsciously want to cut something.”

According to the direction Altus pointed, the southeast was exactly where Wally had gone to explore.

That was most likely where the demon cards were stored.

“You’ve been here for more than ten years, haven’t you thought about going there to explore?”

Altus shook his head.

“I don’t dare to go. All my props were stolen by someone. Now I can only control these rotting corpses with the Lich Man’s module, but once I get to that place, the rotting corpses will become uncontrollable and attack me. The one time I went, I was almost hacked to death by these rotting corpses.”

Is it because of the power of the demon card?

Or is it because there’s something else there?

Ye Qiyan nodded understandingly.

He brought up the system light screen and swiped the black market invitation card.

He searched for train heads, and sure enough, they were sold here, but the price was exactly the same as at the Solomon City Vehicle Exchange.

[Basic Train Head]

[Price: 100 Train Coins]

He didn’t buy it immediately, but instead focused on the additional options that came with the purchase.

“This is not bad.”

The corner of Ye Qiyan’s mouth curved into an arc. He typed something on the light screen, and a moment later, the price of buying the train head changed from one hundred to one hundred and ten.

Without hesitation, he aimed the cloth bag of train coins at the light screen, and one hundred and ten train coins transformed into dark golden light spots and merged into it.

Immediately, under Altus’s bewildered gaze.

Above this black deep pit, a grid-like distorted depression appeared.

A black track extended downwards, and a most basic train head fell from the sky, accompanied by the sound of a whistle, entering the deep pit.

Putting away the remaining train coins, Ye Qiyan pointed at the train head again.

“Aren’t you going in to take a look?”

Altus tried hard to tap his helmet, as if he felt he was dreaming.

He scanned back and forth between the train and Ye Qiyan.

“My goodness, big brother, what level of train conductor are you? How can you directly control the train system without going through the train?”

“Is that strange? You couldn’t do it before?”

“Of course not. Being able to use the train system without going through the train is a module that only train conductors above level 30 have a chance to get. If I had such a module back then, I wouldn’t have been trapped here after losing my train. If it weren’t for a few modules and the fact that I don’t need to eat after changing my race, I would have died in this damn place long ago…”

Seeing that Ye Qiyan was too lazy to bother with him, Altus chuckled, then trotted to the train door, took a deep breath, exhaled a cloudy breath, and then bumped into the door.

“Uh, big brother, you have to open this door.”

Altus smiled awkwardly. Compared to the beginning, his tone when speaking to Ye Qiyan had become quite respectful.

He moved his finger, canceling the train head’s encapsulation.

The train door opened, and Altus quickly squeezed in and ran to the control system at the very front, extending his armored hand and pressing it down.

“Bind!”

“…Why is there no response?”

Outside the train head, Ye Qiyan walked to the window and watched Altus’s actions, then moved his finger again, and only then did Altus complete the binding.

“?? Big brother, what did you do? Why can’t I actively bind? And, why does it seem like I can’t control the train’s system?”

Ye Qiyan took out a White Thorn Fruit and took a bite, eating it while calmly saying:

“Didn’t do anything, just had someone from the black market help me lock this train. When you arrive at the City of A Thousand Stars at the next station and hand over the props you mentioned, this lock will naturally unlock.”

“You!”

The Pure Purification Stone flickered slightly.

Altus’s momentum only hardened for less than a second before weakening.

“You are truly cautious…”

“The friend request has been sent. Next station, City of A Thousand Stars, I will come find you.”

There was no need for Altus to choose whether to accept.

Ye Qiyan’s train control system’s split screen had already completed the choice for him.

Altus sat on the ground helplessly, completely resigned to his fate, and even sighed.

“If I had been as cautious as you back then and hadn’t trusted the guy who used to be my friend, maybe I wouldn’t have ended up like this.”

At least he had regained his identity as a train conductor. Although his train level and equipment were gone, as long as he was given enough time, he could get them all back.