[Hearing your inquiry, Jade took the Train Core and gave it a try, using her Equivalent Exchange innate talent again to exchange for a Train Core.]
[In the end, Jade stored the Train Core into her item inventory and shook her head, "I still can’t exchange for them. The Train Survival World should have highly regulated the Train Core, and it’s impossible for it not to know what my innate talent is."]
["Not only me, but other Train Conductors should have similar talents to mine, even if they’re of lower rank. Because of that, the Train Survival World’s Will must have imposed restrictions on those items that are unique and crucial to the Train Survival World."]
["Perhaps, the only reason I can exchange for those resources from station worlds was due to them not having problems when they’re duplicated. I haven’t encountered that many items with restrictions on having multiple copies like the Train Core and Train Coins, so I can’t figure it out with a limited sample size."]
[Faced with Jade’s response, you signaled for them to return inside the train while sighing, "Then we can only kill every train conductor we encounter."]
["Train Coins might not be a problem for us as we can acquire them from the next stations’ Treasure Chests, but it isn’t the same for Train Cores that are exclusive to the trains owned by Train Conductors."]
["I figured Train Cores are finite resources and will only renew when there are new batches of Train Conductors after the Terran Train Conductors. But that’s assuming my conspiracy theory of the existence of Train Conductors from previous batches is true."]
[When you posed the possibility of previous batch Train Conductors, Jade and Scarlet were no longer worried compared to before. ]
[Even if there were previous batch Train Conductors, the Zenith Train Crew had progressed so much that the batch before Terrans could no longer pose a threat to you. Only those from the earliest batches were what threatened Zenith.]
[’If I’m not mistaken, while the newbie period for Terran Train Conductors had been lifted, that’s only for the contention between Terran Train Conductors. It should still be very unlikely to encounter Train Conductors from previous batches.’]
[’At least, it’s unlikely for those weak Terran Train Conductors. But for Zenith, I’m not certain, as we already way ahead of most Train Conductors. Even if there are chosen ones with protagonist-like templates among the Terran Train Conductors, I doubt they have surpassed or even reached Jade and my Train Conductor Level.’]
[While you were pondering over that matter, after the three of you returned to the living room, Jade gave you a possible solution to solve that dilemma, "How about we just kill a Wild God’s Avatar?"]
["Previously, the World Will gave us information about the first Extreme Event in advance due to accepting its commission to kill a Wild God’s avatar."]
["We can already guess that the World Will and the Wild Gods are hostile to each other. So how about we enter a station that has the means of summoning a Wild God’s Avatar or even its main body, and then we’ll use that to negotiate with the World Will?"]
[Hearing Jade’s suggestion, you were undoubtedly tempted. After all, that was indeed the fastest way to inquire to the World Will whether there were truly previous batch Train Conductors or not.]
[So, you agreed but not entirely, "I don’t mind since the Zenith Train Crew can already deal with most Wild God Avatars. However, our power isn’t enough yet to deal with the main bodies of Wild Gods."]
["The weakest, from what I know, are at Platinum rank. Those at the Initial and Mid stage of Platinum rank might not be an issue for us if we work together... but those at Diamond rank will make it even more difficult for us to escape with our bodies intact."]
["The benefits don’t outweigh the risk. However, it’s not like we can’t consider it since I can still use my Hint Prompt to check the information of each station choice. If there are Wild Gods that we couldn’t deal with, I definitely won’t choose that station."]
[After your agreement, Jade, Scarlet, and you started waiting in the living room.]
[While waiting for trains to appear near the Zenith Train within the endless barren wasteland, the three of you either played video games or watched anime.]
[Soon enough, an hour since midnight, which was the time since the Random Train Encounter Extreme Event had commenced, Jade, Scarlet, and you heard a notification sound.]
[-Ding!]
{The regional merge is finished!}
{There will be ten regions merged together, but it can be fewer or more, as the goal of the regional merge is to ensure that the population for each region will return to a minimum of 100,000 people.}
[After the world announcement of the regional merge was sent to all Terran Train Conductors and their train crewmates, Jade, Scarlet, and you soon heard another notification sound.]
[But unlike the previous world announcement, this notification was only seen by Train Conductors whose region was mentioned.]
[-Ding!]
{Nine regions will merge with Region 69. The following regions are: Region 70, Region 71, Region 72, Region 239, Region 240, Region 787, Region 788, Region 992, and Region 993.}
{Collectively, all of those merged regions will be referred to as Region 69. Region 69 has become the main region to be merged into as it has been detected that the Train Conductor among all ten regions is within Region 69.}
{Moreover, during the Random Train Encounter Extreme Event, it’s more likely to encounter trains from the same region. In this case, it’s very likely to encounter trains from the new Region 69 compared to other regions.}
[With all the regions merging, you saw that the previous ten thousand population in the regional chat group increased to 115,587.]
[As soon as you saw the increased population, you couldn’t help but look forward to making them all your debtors via the Loan Shark’s Ledger.]
[’For them to live to this day, they are either lucky or have high-ranking innate talents. Hopefully, the next Extreme Event will allow me to make them all my debtors just like in the previous one.’]