That bad feeling had come true.
"..."
Ye Qiyan fell silent.
"Look, I could even accept you taking every Train Coin in my black card..."
He looked at the System Light Screen and pressed a hand to his forehead, speechless.
"Twenty thousand and one? You've got some nerve asking for that!"
Ye Qiyan had a total of 47,314 Train Coins in his black card. Apart from the amount needed for the option Miatila had prepared for him, he had exactly twenty thousand left.
And the upgrade option the Main System had come up with just happened to cost one more than that.
One Train Coin.
Of course he could afford it. Selling a few materials would get him one easily.
Or he could wait until tomorrow, when the Dragon Card would generate five more.
But...
Something suddenly occurred to Ye Qiyan. He reached into his jacket pocket and took out the bloodstained Train Coin he had received when he first made a deal with that little girl at the previous stop.
"Is this what you want?"
The Main System's light screen silently moved closer, changing its shape into something like the coin slot of a piggy bank.
"Ha, hahaha..."
Ye Qiyan laughed. He was so angry he laughed.
He understood.
Correct Train Coins could no longer satisfy the Train System's needs. Beyond being correct, what it wanted even more were Train Coins with special significance.
Or, to put it another way.
The Train System wanted the [bonds] that Train Conductors forged in Platform Worlds.
"Fuck... if this one coin was what you wanted, couldn't you have made something cheaper and just told me? Or how about changing that twenty thousand and one to one Train Coin?"
His eyes lit up as he looked expectantly at the Main System.
But he