Chapter 890: Fan Huo's Execution

The wind and snow in the Wasteland continued for a long time.

Inside the warm carriage.

Ye Qiyan savored a cup of coffee made from ordinary fruit.

Very sweet, like milk tea.

Not exactly good, because it still carried coffee's inherent bitterness.

But this coffee had something special about it.

[Status: Purification]

[Special effect brought by coffee brewed by a mysterious barista, can cleanse impurities from the body]

That was right.

That barista's Module allowed Lisette to fuse all sorts of things into a single cup of coffee.

Depending on the different blends, the effects varied accordingly.

Over the past few days, Ye Qiyan had drunk no fewer than a hundred cups of coffee in various flavors. Fortunately, Lisette understood his tastes very well, so none of them were particularly bitter.

Of course, aside from him.

There were also Eve and Augustine, who had become victims.

Those coffees, dissolved and blended from all kinds of materials, would taste bitter and undrinkable even to Mechanical Lifeforms.

And the one who drank the most was Armed Fear.

The other mech-soldiers could still somewhat hide from Lisette, but Armed Fear's massive body had nowhere to hide, and moreover, it was filled with terror toward Lisette.

Under Lisette's gentle smile, it became a dutiful little guinea pig.

"Phew~"

Ye Qiyan set down the cup and reached out to catch snowflakes outside the train window.

The road ahead had been sealed off by heavy snow.

The Imminent Demise Drill was summoned to clear the path.

This blizzard covered the entire Wasteland.

Whether High-Level Train Conductors or ordinary Train Conductors, all were affected.

But one thing was quite strange.

Within the Station Worlds, wind and snow had surprisingly not appeared.

Such unusual weather failing to affect the stations was clearly even more abnormal.

Ye Qiyan knew that many of the extreme weather phenomena in the Wasteland were connected to certain pinnacles among the Wasteland Species.

This frost, could it be that the pinnacle called Water Ice had done something?

[Beep beep]

The System's alert tone rang out.

Collecting his thoughts, Ye Qiyan brought up the system interface.

In the Emperor's Order's Public Chat Room, Zhu Xingshu had @'d all members.

And the moment he saw the message she sent, Ye Qiyan's brow furrowed slightly.

Zhu Xingshu: ["Oh my~ Fan Huo has been captured."]

Achuan: ["? Senior Fan Huo was captured?! How? He's really strong! Who did it?"]

["Utopia City~ Hmm, actually, even if I didn't say anything, you'd all find out soon enough. Those guys have already decided to execute Fan Huo, under the label of Emperor's Order terrorists."]

Zhu Xingshu was right.

Not long after she sent the message.

In the same Sector's Public Chat Room where Ye Qiyan was, it suddenly bustled with activity after a long silence.

[7490/10000]

["Holy crap, did you guys hear? Emperor's Order's War got caught!"]

["Emperor's Order? The organization that Lord Altos belongs to? Hiss, who's that powerful to actually catch one of their people?"]

["Right? Isn't that a top-tier organization in the Wasteland? I saw on the Wanted Poster that War is a renowned top-tier powerhouse. How could he be captured?"]

["Hell if I know, but I heard Utopia City is going to execute him in ten Wasteland days! They say after the execution, that Emperor's Order's War Card Sequence will be taken entirely by another War Card holder."]

["Top-Tier Train Conductors can be killed too?"]

["They sent out emails inviting many Train Conductors to watch. Huh, I think I heard from our Guild that basically everyone invited is from our generation of Train Conductors? What does that mean?"]

["No idea, but I heard as long as you go, you get 10 Train Coins, plus travel expenses and food and entertainment covered. Hehe, I want to go check it out."]

["Count me in, count me in! The more Top-Tier Train Conductors die, the better. That way we'll have more chances to rise up, hahahaha!"]

Ye Qiyan had also received the invitation email.

This was clearly someone's System privilege, sending invitations to their entire batch of Train Conductors.

If Utopia City wanted to kill Fan Huo, they could just do it directly. Why wait ten days, and why make such a spectacle?

Something was wrong.

And it was extremely obvious.

They were provoking Emperor's Order, and wanted to do something to Ye Qiyan's generation of Train Conductors.

Utopia City, huh?

The Homeward-bound Souls, their goal was far too obvious.

Strike at Emperor's Order to reduce the number of Top-Tier Train Conductors, then lure this batch of Golden Age Train Conductors over and subject them to some kind of processing as well.

But where did this confidence come from?

Zhu Xingshu: ["So~ are we going to rescue him? I'm going, of course. After all, if Fan Huo dies, we'll be missing a full nine War Cards. Though in this era, they're a bit easier to find than before, it'll still take a lot of time.

Anyone else going?"]

Lin You: ["Damn, I can't go. Ten Wasteland days isn't enough. I'm still clearing this station. Can old Fan Huo hold out a few more days?"]

Achuan: ["I'm going! Senior Fan Huo is a good person. I want to help him."]

Stacia: ["I can't, I'm stuck. This station is really troublesome right now, and the world is locked down too, so I can't spend Train Coins to leave. Ten days... probably isn't enough."]

Among the people speaking in the Chat Room, only Achuan could go to the rescue.

The others were either clearing stations or had other matters tying them down.

As for Menrojina and Shaya, they hadn't responded at all.

Coincidence?

Or... intentional?

No...

Ye Qiyan sensed a thick dissonance.

He searched for the source of that dissonance, and ultimately fixed his gaze on Zhu Xingshu's name.

"...Tsk."

He didn't speak in the private chat, but sent a message directly in the Public Chat Room.

Ye Qiyan: ["Was it you?"]

The Chat Room fell into a momentary dead silence.

Zhu Xingshu: ["Bro Ye~ So sharp. Mm-hmm, indeed, I was the one who told Fan Huo there was a War Card there. I also knew clearly that Fan Huo would be captured. Even he himself knew clearly, but he still went.

Fate hasn't changed. That's his tenth War Card.

Ten is perfection, you see.

Bro Ye, collecting the tenth Card Sequence is destined to be a difficult thing.

So, this was Fan Huo's own choice.

As for why Utopia City wants to execute him in ten days.

That's not because they want to do something, but because they need those ten days to crack Fan Huo's undying mechanism.

So~ that's why I wanted to make a little use of this matter, and invite everyone to participate in the event~ hehe."]

Sure enough, she knew everything.

This Charlatan, still as infuriating as ever.

No wonder Shaya and the others hadn't responded. They'd probably guessed it long ago.