"It was time to leave this Platform World."
Five days after obtaining the Calamity Card.
Outside the City of Eternity.
After Lancelot led Endless in bringing the fourth Well of Night to Ye Qiyan and its recycling was complete.
Ye Qiyan opened his eyes as he sat within Hunt's Red-and-White Cloud Pattern barrier, enjoying a leisurely afternoon.
"A few more wells recycled. Too bad their levels were all too low. So there really was only that one level 9 well."
Recycling the new wells had only earned him a little over six hundred Train Coins.
That was because the materials obtained from dismantling level 8 wells could only be used to craft level 7 items.
Seven and eight marked the dividing line between ordinary and high-grade.
The difference was naturally enormous.
Some of the wells were even just level 7.
They were worth even less after recycling.
But counting the initial level 9 well, he had earned a total of eleven hundred Train Coins from the settlements of the People of Night.
Along with Fang Cheng's twenty-five hundred.
And the thirty-three hundred he had talked the Resource Baron out of.
The total number of Train Coins in Ye Qiyan's possession had now reached the milestone of sixty-nine hundred.
He was only thirty-one hundred short of the ten-thousand target he had set for himself.
If his luck at the next stop was as good as it had been here, he should be able to scrape together enough.
"Speaking of which, Fang Cheng's leaving today too, isn't he?"
Ye Qiyan took off his sunglasses, and Lisette, who was mixing juice beside him, nodded.
"Yes. In another ten minutes."
"Ah, seriously, Top-Level Train Conductors really are impressive. That whole city was actually the result of him combining every carriage of his entire train,