Early the next morning.
Outside Uto City's Capsule Tunnels.
A large number of Train Conductors had gathered here, hoping to retrieve their trains and leave.
Last night's battle had frightened those who had clung to the hope that they could simply collect their Train Coins and remain spectators.
The Top-Level Train Conductors were far more terrifyingly powerful than they had imagined.
Were those really things humans could do?
Making the moon fall.
Bringing ten thousand ghosts into the world.
With their strength alone, they could unleash a terrifying war.
But even then, they still had no idea.
Last night's battle had merely been a small appetizer.
Neither Ye Qiyan, A Chuan, nor Uto City's side had shown their true strength.
So wanting to leave Uto City was indeed the right choice.
It was just that the path to that choice seemed to have already been blocked.
"Let us in! Give us back our trains!"
"What right do you have to stop us?"
"We want to leave!"
At the entrance leading to the Capsule Tunnels, Uto City's residents stood hand in hand, blocking the Train Conductors.
They said nothing, merely greeting everyone with smiles.
And only at this moment did those smiles, which had felt comforting in the past, begin to strike the Train Conductors as eerie.
Why were they smiling?
Why were these citizens, clearly nothing more than ordinary humans, here blocking their way?
Negative emotions lingered among the Train Conductors.
If they had System Binding, they would have been able to see it by opening their Personal Interfaces now.
Every person's individual status bar carried different negative emotions.
Agitation, fear, unease...
These negative emotions were constantly being guided and stirred up, growing from tiny sparks.
"Fucking hell! Get out of my way!"
At last, those sparks blazed into flames.