Chapter Summaries

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.

After Shaya warned Ye Qiyan about a destiny card that could steal Talents, he chose Orc Great Demon City as his eighteenth stop. He arrived at the cooperative hunting platform and prepared to pursue its target, but a RUN Company courier warned him that the stop was dangerous and asked him to work together.

• Shaya told Ye Qiyan to beware of a dark gold destiny card that could steal Talents, then chatted happily with Little Tina.
• Ye Qiyan chose the level-seven Orc Great Demon City platform over Raging Sea Ghost Island.
• Ye Qiyan recognized the RUN Company emblem on his partner’s train, sent WALL-E treasure hunting, and prepared to hunt the target shown on his sand table.
• Ye Qiyan left the train with his guards and summoned the Road Hog to head for the target.
• A RUN Company courier approached Ye Qiyan, who aimed his gun at him, and warned that the stop was dangerous and they needed to cooperate.

Ye Qiyan used Bewitchment to convince Russell that he was a veteran RUN Company courier and learned about the company’s efforts to replace Train Conductors on higher-level platforms. Russell revealed that his delivery involved a Substitute Rights Cube and that the RUN boss was seeking fragments, which Ye Qiyan suspected were Blasphemy Card fragments.

• Ye Qiyan used his RUN Courier Badge and Bewitchment to persuade Russell that he was a veteran courier named Zhuxing Tu.
• Russell explained that the RUN Company was founded by a boss who gave native couriers locomotives so they could compete with outsider Train Conductors.
• Russell revealed a Substitute Rights Cube that could let non-Train Conductors receive Train Coin purchases, summons, and missions on platforms from level 4 to 7 for 30 days.
• Russell said he had to deliver the cube to the most powerful target in the Platform World so RUN couriers could enter in Train Conductors’ stead.
• Russell told Ye Qiyan that the boss wanted a strange kind of fragment, and Ye Qiyan suspected she was seeking Blasphemy Card fragments and already possessed at least one-third of the card.

Ye Qiyan met Russell, a level-seven Train Conductor working for RUN Company, and learned that they shared a destination: a city occupied by hundreds of orcs. He launched a full assault on the city and advanced toward his hunting target as the orcs’ attacks failed.

• Under Bewitchment, Russell told Ye Qiyan how RUN Company had saved him and why he had become a Train Conductor despite hating them.
• Russell showed Ye Qiyan a map marking the same dangerous destination that Ye Qiyan had been assigned to clear, and they agreed to head there together.
• Ye Qiyan reached the black city and used Pride to estimate that more than five hundred orcs guarded it.
• Ye Qiyan summoned his demons and activated the Hunt Mecha-Dragon, then ordered them to attack the city.
• The Hunt Mecha-Dragon bombarded the city, the Raven Demon attacked the walls, and Red Tears cut through the gate and wall with a sword strike.
• Ye Qiyan put away his Road Hog and advanced toward his target while the orcs’ assassins, priests, and archers fell to gunfire.

Ye Qiyan found and killed the orc great demon hiding in the underground fortress, then looted its corpse and cleared the city. Russell arrived after the battle and, shaken by the destruction, placed his cube with Ye Qiyan’s help.

• Russell reached the ruined orc city and cautiously entered, hoping to learn whether Ye Qiyan had caused the destruction.
• Ye Qiyan found the orc great demon hiding underground and lured it outside, where Red Tears killed it.
• Ye Qiyan had the Raven Demon and Red Tears slaughter the remaining orcs, then salvaged a level-seven Demonized Beast Ancestor Bone from the great demon’s corpse.
• The Raven Demon ignored Russell and continued collecting resources, leaving Russell terrified beneath the red rain.
• Ye Qiyan found Russell, reassured him that the orcs were dead, and guided him to a spot where he placed his cube.

Ye Qiyan learned about RUN Company's secret mission and sent Russell away with a false story that protected his identity. Russell survived and earned his boss's praise, while she learned that only six of the twelve conductors she sent to place boxes had survived.

• Ye Qiyan obtained RUN Company's headquarters coordinates and learned that its female boss had sent native conductors to place Replacement Permission Blocks after the company suffered losses to a suspected spy.
• Ye Qiyan used the name Zhuxing Tu and convinced Russell to keep their meeting secret by claiming it was part of a confidential mission.
• Russell returned to his train, left the station, and received a message from his boss confirming that he had placed the block.
• RUN Company's boss questioned how Russell had survived an Orc Demon's territory, then praised him after he avoided naming Zhuxing Tu.
• After ending the call, the boss learned that twelve conductors had completed the objective and only six had survived, and she complained that the natives were useless.

While resting during a stopover, Ye Qiyan received messages from Shangguan Yingxue and Zhao An, who tried to recruit him into a guild and invite him to a level 4 cooperative platform. Ye Qiyan rejected both offers as WALL-E returned carrying a spherical object.

• Ye Qiyan woke to a message from Shangguan Yingxue and learned that Zhao An wanted him to accept a friend request.
• Shangguan Yingxue showed Ye Qiyan details of Zhao An's E-D Mutual Aid Association, but Ye Qiyan said he was not interested in joining.
• Shangguan Yingxue asked whether Ye Qiyan could obtain a Special Item to upgrade a train to level 5, and he said he could not.
• Ye Qiyan accepted Zhao An's friend request, then rejected his guild invitation and offer to visit Ten Warehouse Rice City, a level 4 cooperative Quest Platform.
• As Ye Qiyan ended the conversation, WALL-E ran over carrying a spherical object.

Ye Qiyan opened an Ascended Level 8 Treasure Chest and gained tradable stopover time, a clothing Module Card, Beast Emperor's Boiling Blood, and a Beast King Inner Armor Blueprint. After Ascending the card into a Simulated Outfit Module, he bought expensive Dream Silk to craft the armor.

• WALL-E retrieved a Level 7 Treasure Chest, which Ye Qiyan Ascended into a Level 8 chest.
• Ye Qiyan opened the chest and received two hours of tradable stopover time, a Clothing Creation Module Card, Beast Emperor's Boiling Blood, and a Beast King Inner Armor Blueprint.
• Ye Qiyan used the stopover time to extend his train's stop from 15 hours to 17 hours.
• Ye Qiyan Ascended the Clothing Creation card into a Simulated Outfit Module and tested its ability to change his clothing's appearance.
• Ye Qiyan sent the Raven Demon to retrieve an Orc Great Demon Staff and gather orc hide for the armor blueprint.
• Ye Qiyan bought Dream Silk for 30 Train Coins from the Black Market so he could craft the Beast King Inner Armor.

Ye Qiyan crafted and bound the Beast King Inner Armor, raising his stamina cap and greatly increasing his physical strength. After returning to the Wasteland, he learned from Zhao Lin that her good luck now needed time to accumulate.

• Ye Qiyan crafted the Beast King Inner Armor and ascended it into Glorious · Beast King Inner Armor, which boosted nearby allies' stamina.
• Ye Qiyan bound the armor, permanently increasing his stamina cap from 140 to 170, and discovered that his physical abilities had risen with it.
• Ye Qiyan finished processing the stop's spoils, noted that he was running out of Storage Units, and considered synchronizing his storage carriage to restore its potential.
• Ye Qiyan departed for the Wasteland, played a game, and received a message from Zhao Lin saying something felt wrong with her.
• Zhao Lin told Ye Qiyan that she had found no Treasure Chests at her last stop and sensed that her good luck now needed time to accumulate.

Ye Qiyan spoke with Zhao Lin about her next platform and then wondered whether his own next stop would be a level-eight platform. In Solo City, Zhuxing Tu asked Monrojina to remove her Bad Luck, which she had gained after stealing the wrong item, while Monrojina agreed to help in exchange for Ritual Card coordinates.

• Ye Qiyan and Zhao Lin discussed her invitation to a Cooperative Level 4 Platform, and Ye Qiyan reminded her not to reveal her Talent.
• Ye Qiyan wondered whether his next stop could be a level-eight platform and decided to go back to sleep.
• Zhuxing Tu visited Monrojina in Solo City and denied stealing the City of a Thousand Stars' Order Card, but Monrojina did not believe her.
• Zhuxing Tu offered Monrojina coordinates to a Ritual Card in exchange for help removing her Bad Luck, and Monrojina accepted after asking where the Bad Luck came from.
• Zhuxing Tu admitted she had played the thief and stolen the wrong thing, and Monrojina concluded that she had stolen the Order Card and incurred the Bad Luck because of it.

Ye Qiyan chose the level 7 Ascension Platform called Ten Warehouse Rice City and found that Zhao Lin had arrived at a similar-looking platform with ten trains. As he prepared to explore, a disheveled man in a lab coat approached and asked if Ye Qiyan was the Train Conductor he had summoned.

• Ye Qiyan noticed that his spirit had risen to 160 and chose Ten Warehouse Rice City after recognizing its name from Zhao An's earlier invitation.
• Ye Qiyan warned Zhao Lin to stay safe, and she sent him a photo showing a similar moonlit station with ten trains and people dressed in white.
• Ye Qiyan and WALL-E entered Ten Warehouse Rice City, where the station notice described the stop as slightly dangerous.
• A man in a tattered lab coat ran to Ye Qiyan's train, saying that Magical Coins had summoned it, and asked if Ye Qiyan was the Train Conductor.