For many people, the City was a warm haven.
Even though, ordinarily, entering the City cost Train Coins, and all the money spent here ended up in the hands of those at the top.
Yet this was the home of countless people in the Wasteland.
Not everyone lived aboard a train every day like Ye Qiyan and the people of Imperial Sequence.
Some Train Conductors treated conquering Platforms as a job.
They joined guilds and went along whenever their guilds conducted large-scale hunts, with everything they gained ultimately becoming the wages their guilds paid them.
Once they had money, these people did not spend it on food, drink, and pleasure. Instead, they saved it until they could buy property in the City and obtain permanent residency.
They established homes of their own in the Wasteland.
Many of these people were Indigenous People who had been relocated from the Wasteland into the City, then gradually established families of their own through generations of growth and accumulated resources.
Even though their strength grew slowly, and they were not free of concerns about lifespan like those truly powerful Train Conductors, this was still the choice many people made.
Li Xiang was one example.
His parents had been Indigenous People in a Platform World. After Martial Might City conquered it and liberated them from a False God, they chose to move their entire family here, and generation after generation had chosen to join Martial Might City's army.
Few Train Conductors emerged among them, because Martial Might City did not sell locomotives at all. To obtain one, they either had to go to another City and find a way to spend a hundred Train Coins-an astronomical sum to ordinary people.
Then they had to enter low-level Platforms more difficult than the Newbie Ten Stations and