"Damn, the first stop was a rundown shack, nothing but trash everywhere, mmp, and the second stop was a stinking mud pit, the smell was disgusting, I didn't even have a chance to get out!"
"Don't even mention it, at least you didn't run into any monsters. I got chased by a herd of wild boars, the train almost got flipped over, and now there are several big holes. If it weren't for the departure time, I'd be done for."
"Selling a piece of carrion vulture leg meat, willing to trade for drinking water!"
"I didn't dare to get off at the first stop, and knowing there was danger at the second stop, I still didn't dare to go down... Hearing you guys talk, I'm not too keen on getting off at the third stop either..."
"If you don't get off the train, aren't you just waiting to die? Do you still have food and water?"
Not everyone was like Ye Qiyan, who started by upgrading the train through sublimation and then obtained the "Fork of Fate" module, allowing him to choose platform levels and prefixes to avoid some dangers.
After lurking silently in the chat room for a while, Ye Qiyan's docking countdown was about to end.
He suddenly remembered that he had a garbage recycling unit still running in the first carriage.
Four hours, who knows what it might have collected.
In Ye Qiyan's mind, if that little guy could gather a dozen kilograms of wood from this Baisen forest, it would be a blessing, so he didn't hold much hope.
Level 3 Treasure Chest: Can be opened
Wait, what's this?
He rubbed his eyes, startled, and looked again.
"Damn!"
Everything else in the recycling station was essentially garbage.
But among this trash, a gray-white wooden box outshone everything else.
A treasure chest! And a Level 3 one at that!
He had considered the possibility of treasure chests existing in the Baisen forest, but the place was too vast. Apart from the path to the orchard, Ye Qiyan didn't dare venture too deep into the forest. Getting lost could mean never finding his way back to the train, so he simply dismissed the idea of finding a treasure chest.
Who would have thought?
The little robot he dismissed as a garbage collector actually brought back a treasure chest from the forest!?
Now, Ye Qiyan looked at the clumsy-looking cube robot with admiration, patting its square head.
"No wonder, the recycling station I built with so many resources was indeed worth it."
If the little robot had expressions, it would surely be one of disdain right now.
After all, its owner had just been openly expressing disdain for it.
Humans, truly the most changeable creatures!
Suppressing the urge to open the treasure chest, Ye Qiyan reached out and pressed on it.
A Level 3 Treasure Chest, after sublimation, becomes Level 4.
It should at least contain eight Train Coins and other Level 4 rare items.
Stamina: 45 Mental Energy: 92
"Sublimation, sublimation."
Ye Qiyan began the sublimation process in high spirits. Follow the newest chapters on novelping.com.
Stamina drained, followed closely by mental energy.
When the invisible force dissipated, like the previous file folder, the wooden box remained unchanged.
Level 4 Treasure Chest: Can be opened
Stamina: 20 Mental Energy: 62
His body was exhausted, but mentally he was exhilarated.
Ye Qiyan rubbed his hands together, eyes gleaming.
"Hehehe, let's see what's inside."
Creak—
Opening Level 4 Treasure Chest
Obtained Train Coins: 8
Obtained: External Alert Device (Level 4)
Obtained: Baisen Fruit Tree Seeds
Obtained: Gray-White Train Paintjob
Obtained: Advanced Ceramic Plate Body Armor
"A Level 4 building, if the people in the chat room knew, would they die of envy?"
Ye Qiyan murmured to himself, without any intention of showing off.
Showing off would only invite others' jealousy and even resentment. He just needed to focus on his own affairs, why bother with others?
However, this Level 4 building couldn't be sublimated for now, not due to lack of potential, but because his combined stamina and mental energy seemed insufficient to meet the sublimation cost.
"Looks like Level 4 is a watershed."
External Sentry Turret Device
Can be installed on top of any carriage, can be equipped with any ranged weapon
Once installed, it will activate automatic alert and attack, targeting and attacking hostile threats within a 100-meter visible range, and locking onto targets to break through disguise/invisibility/illusion or any visual obstruction effects.
Note: Can be repaired with mechanical parts if damaged
"Good stuff, as expected from a Level 4 Treasure Chest, truly different."
He placed the sentry turret atop the train's front.
From the outside, it looked like a circular object with a layer added to the train's front.
Activating automatic alert, a red light orb would rotate 360 degrees within the layer.
Ye Qiyan still had six rifles, aside from the one already sublimated, he equipped the remaining five into the turret.
"Can trees really be grown inside a carriage?"
Looking at the remaining three rewards, Ye Qiyan scratched his head.
Requires Baisen's unique gray-white soil for planting
Ten days to sprout, ten days to grow, ten days to mature
Consumes half a kilogram of fresh water daily
A tree seed requiring half a kilogram of fresh water, not many people could afford to plant it now, but Ye Qiyan was one of them.
And a full thirty-day growth period seemed a bit long.
Whether or not it could be grown, these seeds reminded him that the soil of this white forest could also be considered a special resource, no reason not to take some along.
Moreover, he could wait until his stamina recovered to sublimate this seed.
Docking countdown 0:3:21
Filling several wooden boxes with gray-white soil, in the last few minutes before departure, Ye Qiyan shut down the garbage recycling station, patted the little robot's head, and threw all the garbage it had collected from the forest into the workbench for recycling.
Though not much, it still provided him with twelve kilograms of wood, some leaves, and stones.
What surprised Ye Qiyan was that those leaves weren't entirely useless.
White Leaves (Level 1)
Can be used to make white paint
White Stones (Level 1)
Can be used to make white paint
"Everything in this forest really has something to do with white."
"Little guy, well done, once I rest up, you'll be the next to be sublimated."
He patted the little robot's head.
The countdown ended.
The train started.
A slight pushback sensation came, and Ye Qiyan looked out the window as the white forest receded from view.
Until after a void, the gray-white was gone, replaced by the endless wilderness.
"I'm back."
Only then did Ye Qiyan stretch lazily, opened the chat room, and noticed his private chat interface was blinking with a faint light.
Someone had sent him a message.
Private chat reminders between train conductors only appear after adding friends.
Ordinary private chats do not trigger reminders.
Which meant the sender could only be one person.
Shangguan Yingxue: "Do you still need water?"