Recaps

Ye Qiyan used a Mechanical Structure Enhancement Core to turn WALL-E into a Mechanical Lifeform, giving it unlimited energy and making it unobservable to anyone but him while treasure hunting. With his stamina and spirit restored and 137 Train Coins on hand, he prepared to upgrade his train from level 6 to level 7.

• Ye Qiyan woke to Solar Flare Wind and learned that the 50°C heat was making station visits dangerous for other train conductors.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the Mechanical Structure Enhancement Core into a Limit · Mechanical Life Core.
• Ye Qiyan used the core on WALL-E, transforming it into a Mechanical Lifeform with unlimited energy and enhanced treasure-hunting abilities.
• Ye Qiyan realized that WALL-E could now search stations without being observed by anyone but him and would return safely with treasure.
• Ye Qiyan counted his 137 Train Coins and prepared to upgrade his train from level 6 to level 7.

Ye Qiyan ascended his train to level 7 and bought all four upgrade options, leaving him with only seven Train Coins. As he prepared to rest before the next station, Zhuxing Tu sent him coordinates for a platform with a Demon Card.

• Ye Qiyan used the Ice Vein Pearl to endure the heat and ascended the train to level 7, raising its speed to 140 kilometers per hour.
• Ye Qiyan reviewed the upgrade options and spent Train Coins on the High-Energy Electric Furnace, Storage Matrix, Self-Purification module, and Train Space Expansion.
• Ye Qiyan considered using Self-Purification with the Book of the Unreal and the Real to reduce other Train Conductors' Spirit twice in succession.
• Ye Qiyan decided to postpone ascending the furnace and Annihilation Drone blueprint until after the next station, then planned to rest.
• Zhuxing Tu messaged Ye Qiyan that he had coordinates for a platform with a Demon Card.

Ye Qiyan accepted Zhuxing Tu’s coordinates for a Demon Card and redirected the train to the level 7 Ancient Battlefield Ruins. After trading with Zhao Lin and choosing to stop at the ruins’ center, he arrived at a platform marked dangerous.

• Zhuxing Tu told Ye Qiyan that the Demon Card she had promised was lost and sent him coordinates to find another one, which he accepted.
• Ye Qiyan used the Blade That Tears the Battlefield to set Ancient Battlefield Ruins as his next stop and planned to rely on WALL-E to search for the card.
• Zhao Lin offered Ye Qiyan several barrels of alcohol, and he bought a barrel of aged dark beer for two Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan chose the center of the Ancient Battlefield Ruins when the Fork in Destiny offered the center or the edge.
• Ye Qiyan arrived at the sixteenth stop, where the system classified the Ancient Battlefield Ruins as dangerous.

Ye Qiyan followed a broken dagger’s trail through the scorching wasteland to a deep pit, where Pride revealed a mass of rotting corpses and an armored figure. He prepared the Pure Purification Stone and sent the Raven Demon down first, leaving the danger below unexplored.

• Ye Qiyan used the Ice Vein Pearl and Astral Sacred Crest to protect himself from the fierce heat outside the train.
• He joined a broken blade to Zhuxing Tu’s dagger, revealing a trail of lights that matched a marked point on the train’s map.
• Ye Qiyan followed the trail with the Raven Demon and Road Hog until he reached a mist-shrouded deep pit.
• He used Pride’s God's-eye view to see rotting corpses below and an armored humanoid seated among them.
• Ye Qiyan took out the Pure Purification Stone, put Road Hog away, and sent the Raven Demon into the pit.

Ye Qiyan met an armored man in the pit who claimed to be a Train Conductor from twenty-seven years ago. The man introduced himself as Altos, a prisoner with a level 27 train, leaving Ye Qiyan unsure how much to trust him.

• The armored figure stopped the rotting corpses from attacking the Raven Demon and tried to communicate with it.
• Ye Qiyan entered the pit and heard the armored man speak, confirming that he was human.
• The man explained that he had arrived in the world twenty-seven years earlier and described how Train Conductors were eliminated over time.
• Ye Qiyan questioned the man's identity and used Bewitchment, briefly making him doubt whether he was human.
• The man said his name was Altos, called himself a prisoner trapped there, and revealed that his train was level 27.

Ye Qiyan found Altos, a former Train Conductor trapped in the station world, and learned that Altos wanted help buying a locomotive so he could escape. Altos turned the request into a binding quest-trade, promising Ye Qiyan a valuable item stored in the City of a Thousand Stars.

• Ye Qiyan questioned Altos in the pit and learned that he had lost his train and been trapped for twelve years.
• Altos reacted violently to the short knife, but Ye Qiyan used the Pure Purification Stone to subdue him and learned he had become one of the Lichfolk.
• Altos explained that he wanted Ye Qiyan to buy him a locomotive with 150 Train Coins so he could return to the Wasteland, rather than board Ye Qiyan's train.
• Ye Qiyan refused to help without a convincing reason or greater reward, pointing out that he could keep the coins and leave Altos behind.
• Altos promised an item worth more than 150 Train Coins and explained that the Train System made his quest a binding trade, payable when they reached the City of a Thousand Stars.

Ye Qiyan agreed to give Altos a train engine after learning how the Train System treated former conductors, but secured it with a lock to ensure Altos would deliver the promised items. Altos regained his Train Conductor status and was set to meet Ye Qiyan at the City of a Thousand Stars.

• Altos explained that the Train System protected Train Conductors but imposed absolute restrictions on former conductors and treated platform natives as expendable.
• Ye Qiyan agreed to buy Altos an engine in exchange for information about the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, and Altos warned him about a sinister black forest to the southeast.
• Ye Qiyan bought a Basic Train Engine with an added lock and summoned it into the pit for Altos.
• Altos entered the engine and bound it after Ye Qiyan removed its seal, but found he could not fully control the train system.
• Ye Qiyan told Altos the lock would be lifted when he delivered the promised items at the City of a Thousand Stars, then sent him a friend request and arranged to meet there.

Ye Qiyan recycled the corpses and mist at the station, then upgraded his Ice Vein Pearl to withstand the extreme heat. He reached the Black Forest and found that it resembled the White Forest, while his Demon Cards began to react strangely.

• Altos left the station with a small load of corpses, and Ye Qiyan recycled the remaining dead, collecting Rotten Flesh and Rotting Souls.
• Ye Qiyan used the Processing Table to collect the pit’s cooling mist and obtained a Purpleheart Mist Orb.
• With the temperature reaching 56°C, Ye Qiyan spent forty spirit to upgrade his Ice Vein Pearl into a Level 5 Ice Vein Heart Pearl.
• Ye Qiyan rode Road Hog southeast toward WALL-E and reached the Black Forest, whose trees reminded him of the White Forest.
• The Demon Raven shrieked and charged into the forest as Ye Qiyan felt the other Demon Cards trembling with apparent anger.

Ye Qiyan entered the Altar Platform and claimed the Demon Card Red Tears, whose power explained why his other demons feared it. After waiting for the Anchor to recover, he spotted WALL-E back on the train and returned to ask what treasure it had found.

• Ye Qiyan followed the Raven Demon's trail through the black forest to a lake and used the Anchor to cross the Altar Platform's Light Screen.
• Ye Qiyan climbed the platform and claimed the Red Tears Demon Card, awakening the hooded female demon and learning her abilities.
• Ye Qiyan sensed that the Raven Demon and his other demons feared Red Tears, then recalled both demons and stored Red Tears in his Armed Space.
• Ye Qiyan waited for Voyage to recover and saw WALL-E wandering inside the train on the illusory Watcher's feed.
• Ye Qiyan used the Anchor to return to the locomotive and asked WALL-E whether it had found treasure.

Ye Qiyan found a sword embedded in a boulder in the black forest and learned that only someone who understood the true meaning of war could draw it. Red Tears pulled it free, transforming it into a level 13 Tear-Engraved Sword as red rain swept across the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.

• WALL-E led Ye Qiyan into the black forest, where they found a red sword embedded in a boulder beside a black skeleton.
• Red Tears and the Raven Demon destroyed the skeleton, and Ye Qiyan’s appraisal identified the sword as the level 12 Tear of War, which could only be drawn by someone who understood war.
• Ye Qiyan tried to draw the sword, but its mental influence made him relive a battlefield and lowered his mental stat; he used the Purpleheart Mist Orb to end the effect.
• Ye Qiyan realized Red Tears understood war and had her grasp the hilt; she easily drew the sword, causing the boulder to crumble.
• The sword became the level 13 Tear-Engraved Sword, and its red radiance brought torrential rain across the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.

Ye Qiyan secured the Tear-Carving Sword and Red Tears Demon, then prepared his train for worsening heat as the station’s weather escalated into a Firestorm. He learned Zhao Lin had barely survived her stop and invited her to travel with him to the City of a Thousand Stars, while she revealed her next stop was the Good Luck Platform.

• Ye Qiyan gave the Tear-Carving Sword to the Red Tears Demon, awakening her true form and changing her Card Sequence.
• Ye Qiyan returned to his train and used the Ice Vein Pearl to protect its carriages from the Solar Flare Wind.
• The weather changed from Solar Flare Wind to Firestorm, and a fire tornado tore through the nearby forest.
• Ye Qiyan messaged Zhao Lin and learned she had escaped a volcanic stop after sacrificing her train carriages as bait.
• Ye Qiyan invited Zhao Lin to join him on the route toward the City of a Thousand Stars, and she told him her next stop was the Good Luck Platform.

After the Sixteenth Station, Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland amid Fire Tornadoes and prepared to travel to the City of a Thousand Stars with Zhao Lin. Zhuxing Tu observed his recent gains and became interested in a lucky girl, while Zhao Lin asked Ye Qiyan to reserve materials for upgrading her train.

• Zhao Lin considered Ye Qiyan’s suggestion to head to the City of a Thousand Stars and agreed to give him her decision the next morning.
• Ye Qiyan returned to the Wasteland, saw Fire Tornadoes crossing it, and stationed the Raven Demon, the Red Tears Demon, and WALL-E around his train for protection.
• Ye Qiyan checked why his Black Market weapons had not sold and learned that buyers could use brain-damaged indigenous slaves to avoid the Deceptive Play Sword’s negative effect.
• Zhuxing Tu wondered how Ye Qiyan had obtained a Demon Card and noted his Pride and level 12 sword, then became excited about someone blessed with luck.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan she would go to the City of a Thousand Stars and asked whether he could reserve special materials for upgrading her train to level 5.

Ye Qiyan acquired and Ascended a Dark Netherfruit seed, then upgraded the train’s electric furnace into a device capable of supplying power across space. He began Ascending an Annihilation Drone blueprint.

• Zhao Lin asked Ye Qiyan to save her a Calculation Unit for 45 Train Coins, and he agreed.
• WALL-E found a Dark Netherfruit Tree Seed among the forest trash, and Ye Qiyan bought scorched black soil to plant it.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the seed into a Cursed Dark Netherfruit Tree, which produced three poisonous fruits that he stored.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the High-Energy Electric Furnace into a Void Electric Furnace that could remotely power units across space.
• Ye Qiyan took out the Annihilation Drone blueprint and began to Ascend it.

Ye Qiyan returned to the City of a Thousand Stars, met Zhao Lin, and learned that Train Conductors had been disappearing there. He planned to visit the Train Exchange before seeking Altos in the Lower City.

• Ye Qiyan crafted Annihilation Chain-Exploders and discovered that his mental energy could control up to 150 of them at once.
• At noon, Ye Qiyan used an invitation and three Train Coins to travel to the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Ye Qiyan chose the main gate, stored his train with the Storage Matrix, and left the Capsule Tunnel without appearing in its arrival records.
• Ye Qiyan met Zhao Lin at the currency exchange, exchanged three thousand Thousand Stars Coins, and set off with her for the Train Exchange.
• The driver warned Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin that a curfew had been imposed and Train Conductors had been disappearing.

At the City of a Thousand Stars Train Exchange, Ye Qiyan encountered Zhuxing Tu, who had come to give Zhao Lin a dark gold card. Zhao Lin took it, and Zhuxing Tu called the exchange fair before leaving, while Zhao Lin was left confused about what had happened.

• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin visited the Train Exchange, where Ye Qiyan confirmed his Solo City Judgment Court medal still worked and Zhao Lin browsed for carriages.
• Zhuxing Tu recognized Ye Qiyan through his Death Omen card’s aura and told him fate had revealed a demon inside him.
• Zhuxing Tu asked to meet Zhao Lin, and Ye Qiyan suspected she had come because of Zhao Lin’s talent.
• Zhuxing Tu offered Zhao Lin a dark gold card depicting a hooded woman with scales, and Zhao Lin felt compelled to take it.
• A deafening sound rang out that only Zhao Lin seemed to hear, and Zhuxing Tu thanked Ye Qiyan for the treat, calling the exchange fair before leaving.

Zhuxing Tu traded Zhao Lin’s talent for what she believed was good luck, but gained only bad luck and lost her ability to hear fate. When she ran into the Order Card Master in the City of a Thousand Stars, he attacked her, while Ye Qiyan realized the trade had taken Zhao Lin’s bad-luck half.

• Zhuxing Tu gave Zhao Lin a Fate Card for half her talent, and Ye Qiyan appraised the card as a means to trade for talent.
• Ye Qiyan concluded Zhuxing Tu had taken Zhao Lin’s bad luck, while Zhao Lin believed the card was a gift and felt safe at her Lucky Station.
• Zhuxing Tu’s car broke down in the City of a Thousand Stars, where she encountered the Order Card Master and was attacked.
• Zhuxing Tu discovered her talent now contained only bad luck, which suppressed fate’s voice as the Order Card Master continued attacking her.
• Ye Qiyan watched the fight from the station and guessed that Zhuxing Tu might die from her newfound bad luck.

Ye Qiyan agreed to help Zhuxing Tu activate a device on her train at the Church on 44 Nakolo Street, bringing Zhao Lin with him. They reached the Church amid destruction across the City of a Thousand Stars, and Ye Qiyan prepared to have Zhao Lin teleport her train there.

• Zhuxing Tu urgently asked Ye Qiyan to find her train at 44 Nakolo Street and turn on a device, giving him the key's location.
• Ye Qiyan decided to help Zhuxing Tu and let Zhao Lin accompany him after she insisted on coming.
• A taxi driven by Muxiang Youren picked them up, and he described how the city's powerful treated its poorer districts as disposable.
• Ye Qiyan paid Muxiang Youren, found the key beneath the fifth flowerpot, and entered the Church, where the city's oppressive atmosphere vanished.
• Ye Qiyan told Zhao Lin they were there to help with someone's train and asked her to teleport hers over from the Capsule Tunnel.

Ye Qiyan used the Star Pulse Device to help Zhuxing Tu escape her attacker and return to him, then revealed that she had stolen half of Zhao Lin’s talent. Zhao Lin offered Ye Qiyan the Fate Card in exchange for resources, believing she needed no talent besides luck.

• Ye Qiyan activated the Star Pulse Device, giving Zhuxing Tu a beam of starlight that restored her ability to hear fate and escape the man pursuing her.
• Zhuxing Tu emerged from the shattered device at 44 Nakolo Street and collapsed, so Ye Qiyan had the Red Tears Demon carry her to a clean spot.
• Ye Qiyan asked Zhao Lin to check her personal information and explained that Zhuxing Tu had used the Fate Card to steal half her talent, but taken the bad-luck half.
• Monrojina posted surveillance screenshots of Zhuxing Tu being pursued in the Imperial Sequence Organization chatroom, and Shaya mocked her.
• Zhao Lin offered Ye Qiyan the Fate Card in exchange for resources, saying she expected Zhuxing Tu to try to reclaim it and that luck was the only talent she needed.

Ye Qiyan traded with Zhao Lin for the Fate Card · Unequal Heavenly Gift and agreed to give her an Upgrade Item. After his equipment sold, he prepared to collect a debt in the City of a Thousand Stars, and Zhuxing Tu woke up while he and Zhao Lin waited.

• Ye Qiyan accepted the Fate Card · Unequal Heavenly Gift from Zhao Lin in exchange for an Upgrade Item that would raise her to level five.
• Zhao Lin thanked Ye Qiyan and clasped his hand to wish him luck as he went to collect an item worth 150 Train Coins.
• Ye Qiyan discovered that two pieces of equipment had sold for 55 Train Coins and explained why he had come to the city.
• Ye Qiyan fed an injured Zhuxing Tu a healing carrot, then grilled meat with Zhao Lin while they waited for her to wake.
• Zhuxing Tu recovered and sat up, and Ye Qiyan offered her a skewer of meat.

Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin left Zhuxing Tu behind and entered the Lower City, where he used his Adjudicator identity to bypass the usual smuggling route. After killing a gang leader who blocked their way, Ye Qiyan sent the Raven Demon to investigate his meeting with Altos and discovered that Altos’s filthy house was a locomotive.

• Zhuxing Tu admitted she had stolen Zhao Lin’s bad luck and left to seek a way to remove the curse affecting her Astrology Platform.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin traveled to the Lower City through the Inspectors’ teleportation device using Ye Qiyan’s identity as a Third-Rank Adjudicator.
• A gang of Lower City residents surrounded Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin, and Ye Qiyan shot their leader to clear the road.
• Ye Qiyan sent the Raven Demon ahead to inspect the meeting place while he watched through Pride’s God's-eye view.
• Altos recognized the Raven Demon and took out a device for binding the system, revealing that the house was his locomotive.

Ye Qiyan took the Tower of Babel access card from Altos and honored his promise to restore Altos’s Train Conductor permissions. Altos immediately attacked, but Ye Qiyan defeated his monsters and destroyed his locomotive, leaving him unable to escape.

• Altos handed Ye Qiyan’s Raven Demon a card granting access to the Tower of Babel in exchange for the return of his Train Conductor permissions.
• The Raven Demon brought the card back, and Ye Qiyan removed the Black Market’s restrictions from Altos’s Train System.
• Altos released his stitched monsters to attack Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin, but Ye Qiyan’s Raven Demon tore the creatures apart.
• Altos tried to flee into the Wasteland, but Red Tears cut his locomotive in two and severed one of his arms.
• Ye Qiyan told Altos that he was the one who had attacked first.

Ye Qiyan killed Altos and learned that the Lower City was about to be sacrificed by the injured Order Card Master. He escaped to the City of a Thousand Stars’ topmost level, where he discovered that its headquarters had once been called the Tower of Babel.

• Ye Qiyan used Gunfire Judgment to kill Altos, a level 27 Train Conductor, and appraised Altos’s armor, which could transform its wearer into a Corpse Witch.
• Ye Qiyan left the Lower City with Zhao Lin as the Order Card Master appeared in the sky, and an Inspector warned them that the man intended to kill everyone there as a sacrifice.
• The Order Card Master noticed the aura of a Card Sequence but, in pain, abandoned his search and used Order Card · Sacrifice to strike at the Lower City.
• An Inspector guided Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin through a teleportation passage to the City of a Thousand Stars’ topmost level, where they found an enormous tower.
• Ye Qiyan used Demon Card · Bewitchment to ask the Inspector about the tower, learned that it had once been called the Tower of Babel, and left with Zhao Lin.

Ye Qiyan entered the Tower of Babel’s Central Gate and took the Order Card Sloth, then escaped the City of a Thousand Stars before the golden man could catch him. The golden man arrived after Ye Qiyan vanished and could not find the thief.

• Ye Qiyan sent Zhao Lin down to a lower level and entered the Tower of Babel alone.
• Ye Qiyan used Pride to blend in with the Inspectors, learned from a cleaning lady that the Central Gate was on basement level three, and found it.
• Ye Qiyan used the access card to open the Central Gate and discovered an altar holding the Order Card Sloth.
• Ye Qiyan took Sloth, fled through the elevator, and teleported away from the City of a Thousand Stars.
• The golden man appeared above the Tower of Babel, sensed that his Order Card was gone, and failed to locate Ye Qiyan.

Ye Qiyan returned safely from the Tower of Babel with the Order Card: Sloth, while the card’s loss and the growing number of people returning to the Wasteland alarmed the City of a Thousand Stars. After gathering supplies and arranging to auction valuable armor, he and Zhao Lin left the city aboard his train.

• Ye Qiyan returned to the station behind the Church at 44 Nakolo Street with the Order Card: Sloth and noticed Zhao Lin had bandaged her ankle.
• After Sloth vanished, Muxiang Youren and other Train Conductors used their savings to buy a locomotive and set out for the Wasteland.
• Mr. Order confronted Lu Jiayun over the stolen Order Card, and Lu Jiayun ordered the Train Exchange sealed after learning dozens had gone there.
• Ye Qiyan sorted his gains, listed his race-conversion armor for auction, and gave Zhao Lin a Calculation Unit.
• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin stocked up on supplies, then departed the City of a Thousand Stars aboard his train.

Ye Qiyan ascended the little Giant Eagle into an Azure Thunder Eagle and prepared for the Eighteenth Station. Shaya warned him about new bounties on the Imperial Sequence Organization, while blaming Zhuxing Tu for the Order Card Ye Qiyan had stolen.

• Ye Qiyan noticed the Fire Tornadoes had vanished and saw that the Public Chatroom had lost nearly thirty percent of its Train Conductors.
• Ye Qiyan ascended the little Giant Eagle, which gained lightning abilities and the Fierce Thunder state, then sent it to keep growing in the Livestock Carriage.
• Ye Qiyan made thirty Annihilation Chain-Exploders and collected five Train Coins from the Dragon Card as the Eighteenth Station approached.
• Shaya warned Ye Qiyan to hide his connection to the Imperial Sequence Organization because the city alliances had placed bounties on its members after an Order Card disappeared from the City of a Thousand Stars.
• Shaya blamed Zhuxing Tu for stealing the Order Card, and Ye Qiyan privately checked the card he had taken before agreeing with Shaya's suspicion.