Inside the Café.
Fengfeng sat stiffly upright across from Ye Qiyan.
Lisette smiled as she brought over a cup of coffee and set it in front of her.
"Thank you... So, big brother, the one who set up this platform trial was actually... you..."
"More or less. I was going to ask you how you ended up becoming a Newbie Train Conductor."
Fengfeng gave a bitter laugh. As though she had finally found a friend she knew, she told him everything that had happened to her lately, hiding nothing.
From the extinguishing of [Wind], to being forcibly transported onto a train, to exchanging information with the people in her block afterward, her account taught Ye Qiyan a great deal about what made this batch of Train Conductors unusual.
For instance, from the very first stop on their Newcomer Platforms, many platform worlds required the Newbie Train Conductors to form teams to clear them.
And those teams were not restricted to the newcomers' original blocks. One million people across one hundred blocks had gained more opportunities to interact because of this cross-block teaming.
Through this, she had also learned that many, many Newbie Train Conductors in other blocks were powerful enough to seem nothing like newcomers at all.
One example was a mysterious figure in black robes and a smiling mask from this batch's A-9 Block. His name was unknown, but every Train Conductor he encountered received his help. Even when the Train Conductors in his block lacked sufficient resources, he never hesitated to share his own.
Another example was a strange old man riding a scrawny old horse, accompanied by a short, fat man riding a gray donkey.
It was said that when those two entered a certain team platform, what had originally been a broken-down wooden hut suddenly turned