Above the Mandate of Heaven
Chapter 1019

The Web

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As the saying went, bakeries had bread, cake shops sold cakes. Since this was a station, having a train timetable like this was hardly unusual.

The strange part was...

"Isn't the number of trains a little too high?"

Ji Jue examined the densely packed departure records and instinctively grew suspicious.

There were so many that it defied common sense.

With one glance at the sheet, he saw that eleven trains had departed yesterday alone!

He began calculating.

Based on the capacity of the trains he had seen before, even without being fully loaded, just half-loaded, four trains would have been enough to supply all of Triple Station's consumption, with more than enough to spare.

So were the remaining seven or more trains all hauling goods for the Original Vow Lineage?

The depth of the cooperation and the tightness of the alliance between the Worm—no, the Spider—and the Original Vow Lineage were plain to see.

But that was wrong...

Still wrong!

Because it made no sense.

Friendship, bonds, whatever—those were easy enough to talk about. But if they truly wanted to put them into practice, the first thing they had to face was cost.

The matter of cost was bigger than the sky.

You never knew how expensive rice and firewood were until you ran the household. Even if they were giving their all to help, this was no way to go about it.

The Spiritual Substance consumed by one run of this knockoff train was probably more outrageous than the fuel costs of a normal train making ten round trips.

What was more, the Worm was not the Sky Rail. To play tricks with spatial Teleportation like this, it would ultimately have to pay a price. Saving one minute meant paying back at least five.

Unless every train was fully

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