Li Xiaosheng

Biodata

Power Progression

Li Xiaosheng’s documented progression concerns his train rather than a personal combat level.

Personality

Li Xiaosheng is initially guarded and willing to negotiate. During his first trade with Ye Qiyan, he questions the price of a rifle, attempts to bargain, and asks whether Ye Qiyan possesses a firearm blueprint. He also recognizes the value of repeat business and offers to help promote future weapon sales 5.

His confidence develops into a conviction that he deserves to lead the other survivors. He considers himself the “chosen one,” attributes an unknown rival’s faster upgrade to luck, and repeatedly claims first-place achievements without knowing whether others have surpassed him 16 18 40.

He responds poorly to rejection and competition. Ye Qiyan’s lower material prices and removal of him from his friends list become, in Li Xiaosheng’s eyes, deliberate acts of hostility. His resentment escalates into threats, while his attempt to control station access shows his willingness to exploit survivors exposed to monster attacks 37 45.

Abilities & Skills

Resource Radar

Resource Radar increases the likelihood of finding a selected basic train resource at the next platform 16.

• Selection timing: He must choose the resource before reaching the next platform 16.
• Supported resources: Metal, wood, and Mechanical Parts 16 37.
• Effect: Creates a high probability of gatherable resources of the selected type appearing; it does not guarantee them 16.
• Limitation: Cannot select flame stone, gold, mithril, or other materials outside its basic-resource category 37.

Crafting and Resource Trading

• Survival rations: Can manufacture them after reaching train level 2 19.
• Fishing rods: Offers them alongside rations as an Alliance recruitment incentive 19.
• Upgrade-material sales: Sells basic resources for Train Coins. Before nighttime survival, his quoted metal price is one Train Coin per 15 kilograms—twice Ye Qiyan’s later price 34.

Background / History

First Trade with Ye Qiyan

At his first stop, Li Xiaosheng obtains more than 300 kilograms of metal and a chest. He advertises metal for trade, prioritizing weapons over other supplies. Ye Qiyan contacts him and offers a low-level rifle with twenty rounds for 150 kilograms of metal 5.

Li Xiaosheng initially calls the price excessive and attempts to reduce it to 100 kilograms. He eventually accepts the original offer through the Train System. Before completing the transaction, he predicts that he can upgrade his train within three stops and proposes future cooperation in firearm sales 5.

Founding the Alliance

Li Xiaosheng fulfills his three-stop upgrade prediction and publicly announces his level 2 train. Claiming to be the first conductor to upgrade, he establishes an Alliance and recruits companions with Train Coins, offering food and water to early members 15.

When the survival requirements become more demanding, he promises to help Alliance members complete their first upgrades. He also begins to suspect that Ye Qiyan might be the conductor who upgraded before him 18.

His recruitment offer to Ye Qiyan combines practical benefits with a larger ambition: members can contribute five kilograms of wood or one Train Coin for a day’s rations and a fishing rod, while Ye Qiyan would supply firearms. Li Xiaosheng argues that they could become the largest faction once conductors can meet. Ye Qiyan declines to engage with the proposal and buys a mechanical fishing rod from Zhao Lin instead 19.

Rivalry and the Limits of His Talent

Li Xiaosheng continues proposing cooperation, offering gunpowder in exchange for a partnership built around Ye Qiyan’s weapon production. Ye Qiyan ignores him and eventually removes him from his friends list 23 33.

Their commercial rivalry becomes public when Ye Qiyan sells upgrade materials below Li Xiaosheng’s prices. Buyers and Alliance supporters argue in the chatroom, and Li Xiaosheng interprets the competition as a personal challenge 34 37.

After reaching train level 3, he expects Resource Radar to preserve his lead. The next upgrade requirements expose its limitation: the talent cannot target the advanced materials he now needs 37.

Arrival at the Public Trading Platform

Li Xiaosheng predicts that his level 3 train will reach the seventh station first. During the journey, monsters set his train on fire and destroy both resource-carrying carriages. He reaches the Newbie Trading Area with only his engine remaining 40 42.

Seeing the apparently empty platform, he assumes he has won the race. Ye Qiyan has actually arrived earlier in the Regular Trading Area, which cannot be seen from the lower-level area. Li Xiaosheng plans to purchase a weapon blueprint and use blueprint trades to obtain flame stones 42.

At the Shopping Hall, Shangguan Yingxue holds him at gunpoint. He invokes the station’s prohibition on killing, then attempts to introduce himself and recruit her. She fires a warning shot at his feet, forcing him to retreat 43.

Failed Station Blockade

Li Xiaosheng uses the station’s unlimited docking time to organize a toll scheme. Having supplied materials to improve Alliance members’ wheel speeds, he gathers them early enough to occupy the twenty docking tracks and demands one Train Coin from outsiders seeking entry. Some conductors pay because monsters are attacking them outside 45.

He also threatens to deny Ye Qiyan entry unless he hands over his rifle blueprint, then admits that he intends to leave him outside regardless. Unaware that Ye Qiyan has already departed, he receives only “Oh” before being blocked and muted 45.

The blockade fails because each paying outsider requires an Alliance train to vacate a track. Incoming conductors do not follow Li Xiaosheng’s orders, and some Alliance members refuse to leave at all. The scheme earns less than he spent preparing it. As others begin viewing his advertised wealth as a target, he leaves the station before its midnight destruction 45.

Newcomer Survival Incentive

Li Xiaosheng receives three Train Coins from the Newcomer Survival Incentive, compared with Ye Qiyan’s four for arriving first. He disputes the result, insisting that he was the first arrival. The Train System confirms the ranking and issues a warning that another offense will send him to the Punishment Platform 46.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Low-level rifle and twenty rounds — Purchased from Ye Qiyan for 150 kilograms of metal during their first trade 5.
• Level 3 train engine — Survives the monster attacks on the route to the seventh station 37 42.
• Two resource carriages — Destroyed during those attacks, leaving him with only the engine 42.
• Gunpowder — Offered as his contribution to a proposed weapons partnership with Ye Qiyan 23.
• Unidentified level 3 item — Purchased from one of the Shopping Hall’s two level 3 display cases 46.

Relationships

• Ye Qiyan — First documented trading partner and later rival. Li Xiaosheng repeatedly seeks access to his weapon production, then becomes hostile after rejection and price competition 5 19 23 37 45.
• Shangguan Yingxue — Potential recruit who rejects his approach at gunpoint and mocks his claim to have arrived first 43.
• Alliance members — Receive resources and upgrade assistance in exchange for participation in his organization. Their unwillingness to follow orders undermines his station blockade 18 45.

Notable Quotes

“How could anyone gather the materials faster than me? I'm the chosen one!” 16

“Huh? Permanent stop? Who wants to stop? I'm the man who's going to be the protagonist!” 42