Chapter 878: Let Me Help You Remember~

What kind of place was this?

A place overflowing with hope and anticipation.

"You have to push through! We're all counting on you!"

【No, don't, don't rely on me...】

"We'll handle the energy problem ourselves. It's just a few dozen worlds, right? I'll go get it sorted for you right now."

【It's fake! I said the energy is fake! There's no need for dozens of worlds as fuel at all! Don't!】

"These potions are for you, all freshly made. Each bottle can restore twenty percent of your spirit at maximum capacity. Pretty good, right? Sorry, this is all we could produce. Hope it's enough."

【No, don't give it to me... Please, I don't deserve this, I don't want...】

"Mm, your talent really is quite remarkable. Once you succeed, come find me. Abukado's doors will always be open for you. I'll even give you a vice leader position~"

【Don't... I can't possibly succeed...】

"Keep going!" "Don't fail!" "Don't put pressure on yourself, just do your best." "You can definitely do it."

BOOM!

Night fell.

Thunder roared.

The old beggar was jolted awake by a deafening crack of thunder.

His body trembled ceaselessly, the dream in his mind lingering for only a moment before vanishing, yet that bone-deep agony and terror had seared itself into his heart, impossible to shake off.

Dreaming again.

How long had this nightmare been repeating itself, every single day?

Seemed like from the moment he had memory, to now, several decades? Over a century? Or perhaps, even longer?

He couldn't even remember how many Train Conductors he had wished into this world with those coins in his heart, sending them to defeat exploiter after exploiter.

Though he didn't know why, after a few decades, those lords would always transform from brilliant and ambitious rulers into greedy madmen.

But it didn't matter.

Call someone over, kill them, then switch to the next brilliant and ambitious one.

Someone had discovered his existence before, only, that incident yesterday where he inexplicably recalled his own name and answered that young man, that was the first time.

So it turned out, his surname was Zhou.

This time... seemed like it would also be his last time calling a Train Conductor.

Those coins, he had used them all up.

If another exploiter appeared in the future, there seemed to be no other way.

RUMBLE RUMBLE!

The ground was shaking.

The old beggar dumbly raised his head and saw an eighty-meter-tall dark gold mech exchange a punch with a clock tower that had stood up.

"How about it? My partner's pretty cool, right?"

A voice sounded leisurely from above him.

The old beggar slowly looked up.

At that moment, Ye Qiyan sat on the rooftop, with Lisette beside him holding an umbrella.

"Yo, we meet again."

This City-State had fallen into chaos, and the culprit behind the chaos was none other than someone else.

He had obtained Train Coins from this old beggar surnamed Zhou. Though not many, at least it counted as a transaction.

Originally, Ye Qiyan had planned to take Lisette around this world for a couple of days, at least to let her learn some of the delicious cuisines unique to this world.

But over the course of several days, in the best restaurants of this City-State, he had respectively tasted Star-Gazing Dead Fish Pie, Chocolate-Braised Chicken, Garlic Lava Black Cocoa Cake... and a whole assortment. He couldn't even call them exotic, only completely inedible!

He thoroughly rejected that immature idea of his.

These foods, better not to learn them at all!

Moreover, his Train had also welcomed some uninvited guests~

The lord of this City-State was a native Human who knew of the existence of Train Conductors.

The ability he possessed was very similar to the Fog Nation's Steam King from back then, and this was an enhanced version.

Using steam ability, he could directly transform buildings into steam machinery.

That lord learned that Ye Qiyan's Train was parked at the station platform.

So he thought to take advantage of Ye Qiyan's absence and attempt to directly hijack Ye Qiyan's Train through that steam machinery conversion ability.

And when they harbored malice toward Ye Qiyan.

Eve, who had been guarding the top of the Train all along, also locked onto every enemy unit within the entire station at the same moment.

Under this rainy night, the entire station had become a living hell on earth.

Only that city lord, because he ran fast enough and was far enough away, barely survived, returning to the City Lord's mansion where he caused towering buildings to rise from the ground one after another, wanting to capture Eve and the Train together.

The city was moving.

All the buildings had been turned into enemies by him.

That lord didn't care at all about the living people inside the buildings, nor about the dead trampled into meat paste.

He greedily wanted to obtain what belonged to Ye Qiyan.

Then regardless of whether he was the station's true hunting target or not, Ye Qiyan could no longer let him live.

Armament Hangar Deploying.

All the mech-soldiers catapulted out one after another.

And that largest steam clock tower in the city, Ye Qiyan had assigned to Armed Fear, who could match its size.

It had lost too many times, and it was time to find some confidence.

Ye Qiyan had also installed a flight backpack and prism armor on Armed Fear.

And because its frame was too massive, the backpack and armor were equipped at the equivalent of three mech-soldiers' worth.

Armed Fear didn't disappoint him.

That confidence, completely lost from failing too many consecutive times, was restored in the very first all-out collision with the giant steam clock tower, with the result of the first exchange being the opponent's thrown fist brutally shattered.

It suddenly discovered a fact.

Perhaps it wasn't that it was weak, but that all those mechanical lifeforms around the Overlord were just too monstrously overpowered?

With its confidence restored, Armed Fear once again recovered that arrogant posture.

Wielding that ultra-gigantic Fangtian Halberd, it launched attack after attack without pause.

"Trash should go to the trash heap. A Thief who dares to covet our Master's possessions cannot be forgiven even if killed a thousand times over!"

Mm... It still loved taunting opponents just as much.

Battles elsewhere were also proceeding methodically.

After going through that battle at the Golden Tribe's Treasure Vault, all of Ye Qiyan's Mechanical Army had obtained decent improvements.

This level 10 Station World, aside from this old beggar, could completely be counted as the most ordinary, most simple category.

It didn't even need Ye Qiyan's Demons to make an appearance.

Even Frost Sky White Bear could find plenty of suitable opponents here, and from this one could see, the level of this Station World was indeed nothing impressive.

So the station name for this stop wasn't something like Steam City, but rather this old beggar surnamed Zhou's 【Escape】, huh.

Ye Qiyan smiled as he looked at the old beggar sitting in the mud, but within his eyes, there was not a trace of a smile.

"You know, if I finish off that lord and then discover this station still can't be considered fully cleared, Senior Zhou, do you think I should try some other things too?"

The old beggar still disliked speaking just as much, and Ye Qiyan had never thought that this kind of questioning would get him the truth.

Lisette's Skull-Piercing Thorns appeared above his head.

Demon Ravens circled in the pouring rain.

He opened the Book of Reality and Illusion, a purple-red ring of light spreading outward beneath him.

"I'm very curious, just what kind of person are you? Though you don't wish to remember the past, what does that have to do with me?"

The smile on Ye Qiyan's face became quite sinister.

From his Storage Unit, he took out that unused item.

【Memories' Obelisk】

"Let me help you remember the past, Senior Zhou."