Chapter 73 [Two-in-One] A Day on the Train...
The Star Train looks like a train that does not need tracks, or in other words, it is an interstellar train that uses the power of pioneering as its tracks.
When you enter the train compartment, you can see red decorations everywhere. Even the carpet on the ground is a beautiful red, which is very festive.
After Lu Qi entered, he first looked out of the window of the carriage and could see the entire entrance to the Luofu Fairy Boat.
She had seen it countless times, and every time she returned from a hunting patrol, she could see the huge docking port from the fighting ship.
Today's Luofu is more prosperous than it was hundreds of years ago, and the number of foreigners is frighteningly high.
"Lu Qi, come here quickly," Qiong said as he returned to the Starry Sky Train. He was like a wild monkey that had broken free from its reins, quite casual. "Let me introduce you to our train crew, Pam!"
"Dome passengers, don't drag Pam away!"
The voice came before the person arrived.
Lu Qi turned his head and his gaze moved, finally landing on the gray rabbit in front of the gray-haired young man.
It's not quite accurate to call him a rabbit. He is more like a doll that has become a spirit. The beautiful, fluffy rabbit has a pair of eyes as blue as the sea. He wears a red and black uniform, and his three-petal lips are cutely curved.
"Hi," Lu Qi was the first to greet, and she happily waved at the little rabbit she had never seen before. "Hello, my name is Lu Qi."
The little gray rabbit raised its head and showed a shocked expression when it saw Lu Qi.
"Passenger Lu Qi?"
"So you two know each other?" Qiong touched the back of his head in confusion, "I even lied to her and told her that Pam could do a backflip..."
"I don't know her," Lu Qi said, "Is this the first time I see Pam? You're so cute!"
She gave the gray rabbit conductor a thumbs-up.
Unexpectedly, she did nothing, but the train conductor, who had a delicate, cute and unique appearance and could speak, burst into tears.
Tears fell like pearls, and it cried and hiccuped at the same time. Its long drooping ears overlapped, burying its entire face.
Lu Qi: “……?”
"I made it cry..." Lu Qi looked at Qiong in shock, raising his hands in surrender. "You, you have to testify for me. I didn't do anything."
"Could it be me?" Qiong squatted down in front of Pam cautiously, "Pam...did you find out that I stole your cookies?"
"I, I'm not crying, Pam!" Pam's little face lifted from her ears, sniffling and beginning to criticize Qiong's self-destructive chat in a tearful voice, "You actually stole my cookies... I'm going to punish you by not allowing you to have afternoon tea."
The mature and lovely train conductor calmed himself down, wiped the tears from his cheeks with his round little hands, and secretly went to see Lu Qi.
It was trying its best to maintain its dignity as a train conductor, but its body was out of control and it unconsciously moved closer to her.
Passenger Lu Qi doesn't remember himself.
This is normal. In the universe, anything can happen. Just like what it thinks will always come to an end.
Akivalli is gone, and the people who knew him are slowly leaving him. It is normal to lose control of your emotions when you see familiar people again and hear familiar names.
"It's okay if you don't remember me," Pam raised her head, her clear blue eyes looking at her seriously. "Let me introduce myself again. I'm Pam, the conductor of the Starry Sky Train. Welcome to the train."
"Thank you..." Lu Qi was still confused. She thought about it for a while and thought it might be the game's automatic completion.
It was as if after she completed the previous task and restarted and exited the game, the game would automatically give her the ending.
Maybe Pam knew her the same way.
Well, she couldn't make it up anymore, she was extremely curious now.
Qiong, who was equally curious, was also staring at it. Unfortunately, Pam kept her mouth shut. After learning that Lu Qi didn't recognize it at all, she didn't say a word.
Even when Lu Qi asked it himself, it didn't respond.
Tired of asking questions, the conductor drove the two men away and told them not to disturb his work.
As Pam said, the conductor is very busy.
The two of them could only sit on the sofa and watch Pam carrying a small broom to clean the places she didn't like.
The train floor is so shiny and bright that it can almost be used as a mirror, but it still feels that is not enough and its sharp eyes can spot any dirty places.
Lu Qi sighed softly.
"It's all your fault. I'm really curious now," she said, holding her chin and looking out the window at the boundless universe. "Where is the conductor's cabin? Can we steal his logbook?"
Lu Qi was very brave, and Qiong was very moved when he heard it.
Unfortunately, Pam was not easy to deal with, and she was not allowed to enter the conductor's room casually. Qiong could only sigh and shake her head, looking helpless.
"Pam's going to be mad, don't do it."
"Okay," Lu Qi compromised, "then let's forget about this for now. Speaking of which, from the outside, there aren't that many train cars. Do you all have your own rooms?"
"There's not enough room in the carriage," Qiong said nonchalantly, "so I'm staying in the utility room for now."
"What about Dan Heng?"
"Dan Heng sleeps in the think tank."
"So if I join the train and travel with you temporarily... do I have to sleep in the utility room too?"
The gray-haired young man blinked and stared at Lu Qi for a long time before realizing what she was saying.
"Wait, you mean you want to come home with me? I'm going to have a dragon!"
"Could you please not fast forward so much, and how did I become your dragon?"
Although he was reprimanded, Lu Qi sounded as if he really wanted to go with him. Qiong's eyes were as bright as stars, and she offered to show Lu Qi around the rooms of the people on the train.
After the incident in Luofu, the people on the train no longer stayed in the inn in Luofu, and would only enter the Luofu Fairy Boat when they were free.
As distinguished guests of Luofu, most of their requests could be met. Many of the boundary anchors previously stored in Luofu were also activated, and several people on the Starry Sky Train who wanted to enter the Immortal Boat could even be directly teleported there.
Lu Qi was very envious.
Isn't this the unique teleportation in the game... It's so exciting. She began to wonder if there was something wrong with the order of her strategy.
Wouldn’t it be much more convenient if the first Star God chosen was the Pioneer Star God?
Unfortunately, it was useless to think too much. Lu Qi had no way to go back in time to before the strategy began, so he could only listen to Qiong's introduction sadly.
Currently, this domain anchoring can only be used by people on the Starry Sky Train, and it is also limited to a certain range, and will consume a certain amount of energy in the process.
As for what kind of energy it is, that is Pam's responsibility and others are not quite sure.
"You said that other people don't know much...but it's really because you, Qiong, don't know anything about it, right?"
The young man touched the back of his head shyly and smiled reluctantly.
"Why don't we ask Pam?" Qiong suggested.
"Let's take a look around your room first... I'd also like to know how someone lives in the utility room."
Qiong's room is on the second floor of the carriage. The Starry Sky Train looks of ordinary size from the outside, and the inside is the same as the Luofu Fairy Boat. It is estimated that some space technology has been used to make the inside look bigger.
The gray-haired young man took Lu Qi upstairs, pushed the door open, and turned on the light in the utility room first.
When Lu Qi saw it, he opened his eyes wide and started to gasp in amazement.
"It really is a storage room?" she said in shock. "There's not even a bed?"
"I haven't had time to buy it yet?" Qiong said confidently, "Besides, I don't have any money."
This gives rise to a new problem.
"Then how do you make money by traveling on the Starry Sky Train?"
"I don't know. You'll have to ask Himeko."
There were few passengers on the train, but the expenses were substantial. The cost of the jump alone was enormous, plus the cost of maintaining the train and feeding the passengers.
"Let's talk about it later... Speaking of which, do you want to clean up the utility room? I can help!" Lu Qi was eager to try. "You've seen Dan Heng in his dragon form before, right? I can do what he does. I can use the Cloud Chant technique to clean it for you!"
The two hit it off immediately and were very excited.
Lu Qi no longer maintained the appearance of an ordinary human being, and revealed the appearance of a dragon in front of Qiong.
Dragon horns condensed and formed on the forehead like particles of light, the long pointed ears moved slightly, and water droplets suddenly appeared around the clothes.
When the Frost White Dragon uses her magic power, a golden bead will not appear on her palm like Dan Heng. Her movements are more casual and her control ability is more precise than Dan Heng.
In Qiong's eyes, she almost merged with the water at this moment, and the water droplets kept blowing away the dust on the ground.
Those corners that had never been taken care of became unusually clean, and the gray floor became brighter.
"That's amazing!" Qiong cheered enthusiastically, "Coach, I want to learn this too!"
"Coach, this is innate. There's no way to teach you," Lu Qi said, his hands on his hips. "But there's too much trash in this cardboard box. Is it all yours?"
After she finished speaking, she wanted to clean up those things, but unexpectedly Qiong jumped in and stopped her.
"These are all my treasures!" These are the things he dug out from the trash can with great difficulty!
"Throw away the useless things quickly and I'll give you something new."
"Really? But I don't have the money to return the gift!"
Lu Qi thought that she was already the most powerful among the local tyrants. After all, it was not easy to be her friend. It was harder than heaven to get benefits from her. Most of the time, she had to ask her friends for help.
At the beginning of the month, she would ask Danfeng for pocket money. If she spent all of it, she would ask Master Tengxiao for help. If the master kicked her out, she would ask for help from Sister Baiheng and Sister Jingliu. As for Ren, she used her labor for free and never paid for the handicrafts she made.
Thinking of this, Lu Qi felt a little guilty.
But now she has changed. She is no longer the stingy and penniless Lu Qi.
She is super rich now!
If she was short of money, she would transform into a dragon, pluck out her scales and sell them. Surely someone would be willing to pay a high price for the body parts of the descendant of an immortal dragon...
"Don't worry, I have plenty of money," Lu Qi said without blinking, "I won't sell you for money."
Two pairs of eyes of similar colors stared at each other. After a while, the gray-haired young man got up from the ground and nodded solemnly.
"Don't worry, I won't sell you out."
"...You, you didn't really want to sell me out before?!"
Qiong whistled guiltily.
"How, how could that be?" he said stubbornly. "You still have two legs, so just run."
"You better not let me catch you, kid. If you're wanted, I'll sell you for money."
***
While performing the Cloud Chant for Qiong and cleaning the room, Pam heard a noise upstairs and immediately went upstairs.
The little gray rabbit walking upright saw the two of them and asked dissatisfiedly.
"Passenger Lu Qi, Passenger Qiong, what the hell are you two doing?" Pam asked. "I can hear the clatter of your voices from downstairs."
"I'm helping to clean Qiong's room," Lu Qi said proudly, hands on his hips, "Do you want to come and take a look?"
"I know, you are using cloud chanting to clean the room!" Pam directly exposed it, and facing Lu Qi's shocked eyes, she raised her little head proudly.
The drooping ears moved happily a few times.
Lu Qi and Qiong were both very curious as they didn't expect Pam to be able to guess it.
Then Pam told them that in fact the passengers of Danheng had done this before.
But before this, it had seen it countless times, so there was no need to mention this distant memory.
Just then, Pam came up to the utility room assigned to Qiong. She had never come up to check it out, nor had she seen any of Qiong's passengers come to request decoration and furniture, so she didn't know how he was doing with it.
The little gray rabbit peeked out of the door and saw cardboard boxes piled high up, as well as a "bed" made of cardboard boxes that looked like a doghouse.
Pam: “…………”
Pam: “????”
"You, you, you, is this how you sleep, Pa?!" Pam asked in shock, "Where's the money I allocated to you? Why didn't you even buy a bed?"
Qiong scratched his head innocently.
"Hehe...I spent it all accidentally."
The matter was of great importance, and the train conductor Pam immediately started an emergency meeting. No matter what the group was doing, they were notified by the train-wide broadcast and asked to gather in Qiong's room.
Lu Qi finally saw all the people on the Starry Sky Train.
Navigator Miss Ji Zi is a beautiful and charming mature woman with long wavy bright red hair. When she saw Lu Qi, she greeted Lu Qi warmly.
Passenger Walter Yang, called Uncle Yang by San Yueqi, wore a pair of glasses, had a mature face and a decent temperament, and looked very normal.
The rest were San Yueqi who was organizing photos in the room, Dan Heng who was organizing materials in the think tank, and she and Qiong who were doing nothing.
...Why does it feel like she and Qiong are both freeloaders?
"What's wrong, Pam?" March Seven asked first. "A sudden emergency meeting? Is there something to announce? But why are we here... Is this Qiong's room?"
"Ahem," Pam coughed twice before delivering an important speech. "The train cars are severely insufficient, so when we allocated the rooms, we assigned the utility room to the passenger in the Dome area and put him in charge."
"but!"
"Pam originally thought that even if it was a temporary stay, the passengers of the Qiong would at least buy themselves a bed like the passengers of the Danheng."
"As a result, he spent all his money on shopping."
"Look at those nests made of cardboard!"
"Wow...it looks quite like Qiong's style," Sanyueqi said subconsciously, and after being glared at by Pam, he immediately changed his words, "How can people sleep on cardboard? Qiong, you too, if you don't have money, you can ask me for a loan!"
Lu Qi interrupted silently.
"Are you sure you can pay it back if you borrow it?"
San Yueqi's words were cut in her throat, and she rummaged through her small wallet.
"Forget it then..."
In short, because of Qiong's tragic experience, Pam immediately began to arrange duty, allowing several passengers to receive rewards based on their contribution points, which can be exchanged for room decoration or pocket money.
No one else's room had what they needed, so this simple activity was just for Qiong.
only--
Lu Qi raised his hand and said, "Conductor Pam, I have something to say!"
"Speaking."
"Why am I on the duty roster?"
She asked a question that others were also curious about.
"I was just saying something felt strange," Sanyueqi whispered to Qiong, "and Pam's way of addressing Lu Qi was also strange... Lu Qi wasn't a passenger on the train, was he?"
Qiong immediately told March 7 a piece of bombshell news.
"And Pam started crying as soon as she saw Lu Qi."
March Seven screamed, "What?! Pam is crying!"
"No whispering in private! Pam wasn't crying! She just had sand in her eye!"
As Pam spoke, she reluctantly prepared to cross out Lu Qi's name.
"Wait a minute——" Lu Qi leaned over and stopped Pam's action.
The little gray lop-eared rabbit raised its fluffy little face and looked at her, its sapphire-like eyes filled with incomprehensible hope.
"Passenger Lu Qi..."
"If I do duty, can my contribution points be added to Qiong's?"
Before Pam could answer, March 7th next to her expressed her opinion.
"You're biased! Why are you only giving contribution points to Qiong?"
"Then, you and Qiong will split it equally?"
Dan Heng said coldly, "What about me?"
Everyone present, including Pam, turned their gazes on him, and he realized that he had uttered a sour rhetorical question.
“…I’m sorry, I’m not—”
"Of course Dan Heng has it too!" Lu Qi was stunned for a moment, then flew over happily.
Dan Heng subconsciously opened his arms and caught her steadily.
His body reacted before he could even think, as if it had happened countless times before.
Lu Qi hugged him happily, then quickly let go and started chattering with the others about the specific operations.
Some people are born to fit in easily with the group. Even Ji Zi and Walter Yang forgot that she was not actually a member of the train.
After the chat, Lu Qi was contentedly assigned the task of purchasing snacks. She had to collect the preferences of everyone on the train and then go to Luofu to purchase the necessary food.
This was the most suitable task for her. After all, she was familiar enough with Luofu and naturally knew how to buy the items she wanted.
When Lu Qi heard that Dan Heng's task today was to clean the carriage, her eyes lit up. She and Qiong exchanged a glance, then both dropped their tasks and quietly followed Dan Heng.
The young man with black hair and green eyes sighed helplessly.
"If you want to see, just follow me." The young man turned sideways, revealing a hint of red under the corner of his eye. "No need to hide."
And he didn't hide very well, with half of his body exposed. He was talking loudly and his movements were quite loud.
The two of them popped their heads out from behind the flowerpot, like playing Jenga, with Qiong's chin resting on Lu Qi's head.
Only the two heads looked very strange, but the two stood there motionless, unaware of anything.
"It's like this," Lu Qi said excitedly, "Pam said you used Cloud Chanting when you were cleaning. Can you let me see it?"
Dan Heng: “…”
What are you looking at? Watching him clean up the water stains left behind after his brilliant move?
Seeing him being scolded by Pam, will he be told not to do it again?
Just saying this didn't seem to make the two people in front of him give up. Facing two pairs of bright eyes of similar colors, Dan Heng compromised softly.
"Just this once."
"Yeah!"
When Dan Heng used the Cloud Chant technique, his dragon form would appear, and his dark green pupils would glow with a strange light. He held the golden Heavy Abyss Pearl in one hand, his fingers pressed together without changing his expression.
The water column rolled across the ground like a small whirlwind, and indeed took away the dust on it, but some water droplets remained on the ground, making it wet.
After finishing, Danheng skillfully used the mop in his hand to clean the wet floor with light movements.
After watching it, the two little bastards behind me started clapping.
“A feast for the eyes!”
"Out of 100, I'll only give you 99. One point less is for fear that you might become proud."
"..." Dan Heng closed his eyes, his dragon form faded, and his long hair became shorter. "You don't have anything of your own to do, right?"
"Yes, I'm here to ask you." Lu Qi tilted her head back, shaking it off. She then stepped out from behind the potted plant, holding a screen-projecting electronic board in her left hand and a pen in her right. "Interview, what are Mr. Danheng's current snack preferences?"
"I'm fine with either."
"Well, okay, less sugar and lighter."
Qiong came over and saw the words Lu Qi wrote on the electronic board, and was confused.
"So you can translate Danheng language?"
"What the hell is Dan Hengyu..." Lu Qi complained, explaining casually, "Not really. He's always like this, saying he's fine with anything, but actually his taste is pretty bland. I like to eat sweet food, and he frowns every time he takes a bite. I figured it out after hearing this many times."
After finishing speaking, Lu Qi raised his eyes and glanced at Dan Heng.
"I didn't mean to treat you as him, don't be angry."
“…I’m not angry.”
"Oh... then how about I give you something sweeter, like chocolate?"
Lu Qi is very good at pushing his luck, and it was the same at this moment. His golden eyes expected him to give a completely different reaction.
He stood opposite her, and only needed to lower his eyelids slightly to see her upturned face. She was not exactly the same as she was in his dream, but her expression seemed to have never changed.
Dan Heng reached out and gently pushed Lu Qi's forehead.
"Stop it."
"If you do this, I'll fall down next time and try to scam you, do you know that?"
Lu Qi reached out and rubbed the area that had been poked. It didn't hurt, but there was a strange tingling sensation. Her expression made Qiong raise his hand as well. The gray-haired young man was eager to try, ready to poke her forehead furiously.
Lu Qi: “?”
"You'd better put your hands down, otherwise I will tie you up and hang you from my back when we go to Luofu." She threatened vigilantly.
Qiong could only let go of her hand with regret.
After watching Dan Heng's performance and asking for the necessary information, the two finally decided to leave.
The black-haired young man who stayed where he was lowered his head and glanced at the fingers that had acted without permission.
The fingertips seemed to still have the scent of that man, as well as a scent of the ocean that was almost identical to his.
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