With his hunger and thirst satisfied, Ye Qiyan's mind started working again.
This Slaughter Platform seemed to force him onto the defensive, but that did not mean there was nothing he could do.
If he could collect the corpses left behind by the monsters the Security Sentry picked off one by one and recycle them at the processing table, that would count as a gain.
He got straight to work.
Ye Qiyan bought a large Bamboo Basket on the trading platform, threaded a few ropes through it, and strapped it to his back.
He also tied a dagger to the end of a wooden stick, making a crude Hook Sickle.
During the gaps after the monsters were dealt with, Ye Qiyan rushed over to their corpses and dragged them back.
[Black-Horned Hound] Level 2 [Swift Viper] Level 3 [Assassin Lizard] Level 3
He brought the monster corpses onto the Train Processing Table one after another and began recycling them.
[Obtained: Black-Horned Hound meat ×10] [Swift Viper meat ×5] [Lizard meat ×10] [Obtained: Assassin Lizard skin ×1] [Carrying it can slightly reduce your presence] [Obtained: Black-Horned Hound's fang dagger ×1] [Fang dagger] [A dagger used by Black-Toothed Hounds. Has corrosive properties]
Aside from assorted cuts of meat, recycling monster corpses also yielded special materials related to their traits.
Ye Qiyan quickened his pace, collecting freely within the 150-meter safe radius.
As long as he stayed within that range, these monsters had no way to hurt him under the sentry's lock-on.
So far, this Slaughter Platform had not caused Ye Qiyan much trouble. Instead, it had brought him considerable gains.
The level 5 Security Sentry completely outclassed monsters whose highest level was only 4.
Even on the few occasions when an excessively large beast tide breached the 150-meter safe distance, he only needed to activate the sentry's overlimit mode to drive them back.
What was more, Ye Qiyan's Gunfire Judgment Module had made him a sharpshooter too.
With the Blacklight Pistol paired with the effects of Armor-Piercing Rounds, he could penetrate even Shaya's Puppets' defenses, let alone those of a bunch of flesh-and-blood monsters.
Five hours had turned this place into a slaughterhouse where he could take his pick.
As for danger...
If he had to name something, the ammunition consumption really did hurt a little.
His original stock of nearly a thousand rounds had dwindled to fewer than four hundred after five hours, even with both him and the sentry hitting every shot.
Was that all there was to the Slaughter Platform?
Though the monsters were brainless, the corpses littering the ground and the smell of blood in the air made their instincts warn them not to enter that area.
The monsters stopped attacking and wandered around the perimeter instead.
They seemed to be waiting for something?
The sky gradually darkened.
Ye Qiyan took out his pocket watch. It read 18:12.
It was getting dark, and he did not plan to keep taking risks.
He lit a campfire with his lighter, took out a strip of snake meat, washed it with water, threaded it onto a wooden stick, and set it over the fire to roast.
Over five hours, he had collected a total of 810 kilograms of assorted beast meat, occupying four Storage Units.
Thanks to the Storage Carriage's properties, he did not have to worry about it rotting and stinking after being left too long.
While the meat roasted, Ye Qiyan summoned the system screen in front of him.
Chatroom [2044/10000]
Everyone except him should have already left the sixth station.
Just as before, quite a few people had remained there forever.
["Is it nighttime survival again tonight?"]
["Yeah, the last broadcast said the next nighttime survival would be three days later, meaning three platforms later. Isn't that now? What? You haven't reached level 2 yet? Then you're dead. Those monsters almost caught up to me last time."]
["I need resources! Metal! I'm only 30 kilograms of metal short! I'll trade food! Water! Everything I have!"]
["Save it. At a time like this, upgrade resources matter more than anything. After tonight, who knows what speed we'll need next time? Who would trade away upgrade resources?"]
["Friend, why don't you try joining the Alliance? The Alliance's Li Xiaosheng seems to have plenty of upgrade resources."]
["You're dreaming, person above. That bastard Li Xiaosheng is selfish as hell. Buying resources from him now costs a fortune. One Train Coin for just 15 kilograms of metal? Fuck that. I'd rather die than buy from him!!"]
["Why get so worked up? Go die, then. Besides, the prices have already changed. One Train Coin only gets you 10 kilograms of materials or 10 Mechanical Parts now. If you don't buy now, it'll cost even more when nighttime survival starts. Let me tell you, Brother Li is the only one who dares offer materials for sale right now."]
The person who said that was probably a member of Li Xiaosheng's Alliance.
Only a little over two thousand people remained in the Chatroom. After watching for a while, Ye Qiyan found that roughly one-tenth of the train conductors still had not completed their first upgrade.
Some of them had missed out on resources because they had not gotten off at certain platforms.
Others had simply been impossibly unlucky. In six stations, they had never entered a platform with basic resources. Staying alive until now had already taken everything they had.
It was only the hurdle from level 1 to level 2, yet eight thousand people had already been eliminated by it.
At a time like this, they probably would not hold back their Train Coins or certain special items when exchanging them for resources.
Li Xiaosheng seemed to be selling them too, but his prices were so high that not everyone could afford them. Moreover, the man seemed to be deliberately preventing some people from completing their upgrades.
Ye Qiyan currently had 16 Train Coins. That seemed like a lot, but there was no telling how many the upgrade options would cost after his next train upgrade.
If there was a chance to earn more Train Coins, Ye Qiyan would not pass it up.
He thought for a moment, then sent a message to the Chatroom.
["Selling upgrade materials. One Train Coin gets you 30 kilograms of metal, 30 kilograms of wood, or 20 Mechanical Parts. Limited stock, first come, first served. No bargaining."]
["!! Boss, I want to buy!"]
["Holy shit, isn't that the gun seller? The gun seller's selling resources now too? Heh, those prices are quite a bit cheaper than Li Xiaosheng and his bunch."]
["I'm saved, I'm saved! Boss, I have Train Coins. I sent you a private message. Please reply quickly!"]
["What a rip-off. Only idiots would buy."]
["Fuck, you're all a bunch of bloodsucking vultures. A pile of trash resources is worth a whole Train Coin? If you buy now, what are you going to do when you upgrade and have no Train Coins to buy options?"]
["What are you barking for? Jealous that someone else has resources to sell while you're useless? Keep barking and I'll blow your head off!"]
["Aren't you just Li Xiaosheng's dog? Someone's selling cheaper than your master, and now you're pissed. I'm buying from Boss Ye!"]
["Who are you calling a dog!? Fuck your mother! I'll remember you. When we meet, I'll hack you to death!"]
The Chatroom erupted.
Some people who had paid higher prices for materials from Li Xiaosheng felt wronged when they saw Ye Qiyan's posted prices and started arguing with the others in the Chatroom.
Ye Qiyan ignored their squabbling. The materials he listed on the trading interface sold out in an instant, turning into 10 Train Coins in his hands.
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