[After several hours had passed, it was now 8 in the morning.]
[Waking up, you stretched your body and felt as good as new.]
[Technically, while you didn’t need long hours of sleep due to the physiology of High Humans and being at Peak Gold rank, you were just too used to sleeping that it became a habit.]
[So whether it was just seven hours of sleep or four hours, it didn’t make much difference to you.]
[You didn’t just wake up earlier since neither Scarlet nor Old MacDonald needed your assistance during the time you were asleep, so you never woke up.]
[After waking up, you immediately woke up Jade and took a bath with her. Afterwards, eating breakfast in the dining room with Jade, you checked the zenith chat group.]
[Reading the past messages sent by Old MacDonald and Scarlet while you and Jade were asleep, you noticed that Scarlet and Old MacDonald had kept track of the trains that strayed near Zenith and were captured by them using the Psychic Holder Turret.]
[So far, they captured nine trains during the past seven hours when you were asleep.]
[’According to them, there didn’t seem to be any pattern for the Random Train Encounter to occur. There was a time when there weren’t any trains that strayed for the past two hours, and then in the next hour, three trains suddenly appeared beside Zenith.’]
[’It truly is random, as what was labeled in the name of the Extreme Event.’]
[For other Train Conductors, encountering other Train Conductors might be a nightmare due to not knowing the other party’s intentions. But in your case, you welcomed them with open arms.]
[Anyway, you had already checked the regional chat group, and none of them could pose a threat to you and the Zenith Train Crew. The only exception would be those Train Conductors who hadn’t chatted yet in the chat group, as you haven’t used Hint Prompt on them yet.]
[However, there were only approximately two weeks since the Train Survival Era started, so you doubt anyone has even reached Level 11 Train and unlocked train upgrade paths.]
[After eating breakfast with Jade, you used Train Conductor Authority to open a portal that led to the train roof.]
[Entering the portal, you stepped out of it on the other side. Standing on the roof, you saw exactly nine trains floating beside Zenith on both sides.]
[Using Hint Prompt, you discovered that they were all asleep, making it more convenient for you to check their information without any futile resistance or moral blackmail.]
[’From what Old MacDonald said, he used his turkey to release a sleeping gas that made every train conductor inside those trains fall asleep.’]
[’He truly has a lot of animals, ready for almost any occasion.’]
[While thinking of that, you summoned Order King to your side and started using World Order to extract their innate talents and turn them into innate talent crystals.]
[This time, you weren’t so lucky and only got a B-rank innate talent as the highest, with the rest not being worthy of being mentioned.]
[However, for you, the innate talent crystals were only a bonus, so you weren’t disappointed. What you were truly after were the Train Cores, which you obtained after dismantling the nine trains, acquiring nine Train Cores in the process.]
[You disposed of their corpses after killing them, returning to Zenith’s interior afterwards.]
[Just in time, you heard a notification sound in your mind.]
[-Ding!]
{There’s only 3 minutes left before the mandatory station stop. Please prepare to disembark.}
[-Ding!]
{Station Pathways Ability activated!}
{The train is about to arrive at a station world. Please choose one of these three stations.}
<{Station 1: Monster Tavern}>
{Description: A tavern filled with different monsters. There aren’t many resources as most of them are owned by those monsters, but the question is, can you defeat them?}
{Resources Available: Monster Meat, the items owned by the monsters in the tavern (highest grade is Initial Crystal-grade)}
{Danger Rating: Certain Death}
<{Station 2: Rule Horror Maze (Multiplayer-type)}>
{Description: A maze with rule horrors, bizarre creatures that defy logic and have abnormal physiology with anomalous rule-based abilities. Reach the end of this maze to wish for any item you want, with its limit being Peak Platinum-grade. There can only be one winner, and there’s only one wish.}
{Resources Available: Item Wish (Limit to Peak Platinum-grade), Rule Fragments, Rule-Based Items, etc.}
{Danger Rating: High - Certain Death}
<{Station 3: Vast Rice Fields}>
{Description: It’s just a vast field planted with tons of rice crops, what do you expect?}
{Resources Available: Fertile Soil, Dirt, Grass, Stone, Rice Crops, etc.}
{Danger Rating: None}
[When you finished reading all the station descriptions, you were quite conflicted on what to choose.]
[Station 3 was essentially skipping the station exploration for this day since it didn’t grant any useful or new items.]
[However, Station 1 and Station 2 weren’t really something you and the Zenith Train Crew could easily deal with.]
[After Jade finished reading all the station descriptions, she relayed them to the zenith chat group for Old MacDonald and Scarlet to see.]
[Jade commented, "I don’t think we should choose Station 1 unless we have a death wish. Even the highest item grade they have is Initial Crystal. For them to possess such a powerful item, they are at least Peak Diamond rank or even at Initial Crystal rank."]
["Even the main bodies of weaker Wild Gods aren’t as powerful as these monsters. If we were also at Diamond rank, we might be able to take the risk, but since we’re only at Peak Gold rank, they are way out of our league."]
["I’d presume only Scarlet can mingle with the monsters there since she’s a pure-blooded werewolf. However, Old MacDonald, you, and I will be heavily discriminated against by those monsters for being humans."]
["We also aren’t certain if they love eating human meat or not, which might fuel their desires to slaughter us. No matter what, the judgment of the Train Pathways for labeling that station with a Certain Death danger rating means we truly have no chance for survival there."]