Chapter 433: Battle Royale Variety Show: A Battle of the Noobs? Superstar Alice

The arena opened, and the earlier matches felt more like performance shows.

Like some Train Conductors with culinary-type modules being recruited by certain guilds to become chefs.

Or simply having a good singing voice, or possessing some talents they could showcase from before coming to this world.

These people went on stage not for the final reward; they wanted to be seen by the guilds watching the live broadcast from the various cities, in order to secure a relatively stable job.

Finally, after several hours of performances, the main event arrived.

"Oh!! Audience members! Next up, is the highly anticipated Train Conductor, Life-and-Death Combat!!"

The stage transformed, beginning to sink.

All the various performance facilities that were on it vanished.

A special platform with buildings appeared at the center of the arena.

As the host standing atop a flying magical beast kept hyping up the atmosphere.

Over a thousand Train Conductors walked out from the gates opening all around.

The crowd cheered jubilantly, reaching a climax the moment these thousand-plus individuals signed the life-and-death contract!

"A few of these... I actually recognize some."

In a small private box, Ye Qiyan looked at the Train Conductor names displayed on the screen before him.

Zhao An, Shangguan Yingxue, Li Xiaosheng, and Zhao Lin.

They all came from the same combination Sector batch of Train Conductors.

"Logically speaking, Zhao Lin should win, right?"

Ye Qiyan clasped his hands behind his head, thinking it over briefly.

"After all, she still has two Card Sequences, but if she wants to hide them, that's hard to say."

Although Card Sequences have the mechanism of disappearing upon the holder's death.

But if someone possesses a Card Sequence of the same type, that's a different story.

For example.

That Laine from the Imperial Sequence Organization.

Although Ye Qiyan didn't know much about Laine, he could sense that guy was no pushover.

If he noticed Zhao Lin possessed a Game Card, he would definitely try every means to find Zhao Lin and seize the Game Card in her possession.

No, this was something that would definitely happen.

Holders of the same type of Card Sequence would always encounter each other under various circumstances.

It's just unknown whether that would be Misfortune or luck for Zhao Lin.

If it was luck, Ye Qiyan felt Laine might not necessarily have a guaranteed win against Zhao Lin.

The competition began.

Due to the number of participants, this thousand people were to undergo a battle royale-style selection within this arena, which was about the size of four football fields.

Only the final sixty-four survivors could advance to the next stage.

After the host announced the start, the thousand-plus people were teleported to different locations.

Among them, the most attention-grabbing Train Conductor was none other than Li Xiaosheng.

As for the reason?

"Hehe... human, where do you think you're running?"

"I surrender, I surrender!"

Li Xiaosheng's hand pierced through an opponent's heart, gripping it in his palm and raising it overhead.

Scalding heartblood dripped into his mouth, his frenzied demeanor not causing panic among the audience.

Instead, it made the crowd's cheers grow even louder.

Li Xiaosheng was a race converter.

Train Conductors who underwent race conversion were much stronger than ordinary people during the Novice Period.

Li Xiaosheng grinned wildly, completely unconcerned about exposing himself.

In his heart, he believed himself to be the strongest.

Although the Resource Radar module meant he hadn't experienced many Station Worlds, in the City of Eternal Night, he was the only newcomer who could meet the City Lord.

It was also because he still had ambition.

Otherwise, he would have long been forcibly boosted in Train level through gifting.

Time passed quickly, and as most people were eliminated, the final sixty-four contestants were determined.

Aside from Li Xiaosheng, the most eye-catching was the Tranquil Association president, Zhao An.

This guy had a talent that could accelerate plant growth and forcibly turn seeds into plants within a short time, coupled with a decent appearance, attracting the attention of many native humans.

As for Zhao Lin, she found a place to hide from the very beginning.

She wasn't discovered until the end, easily entering the top sixty-four.

"Kind of boring..."

In the private box, Ye Qiyan stared with dead-fish eyes, casually waved his hand, constantly switching between the competitors' perspectives.

Perhaps it was because he had experienced and witnessed too many battle scenes in his daily life.

Ordinary Train Conductors fighting in such a plain, unadorned manner wasn't very interesting to him.

Chickens pecking at each other?

Pretty much.

It wasn't as exciting as letting the Scoundrel and the Abyss Mech-soldier have a fight.

It was called Life-and-Death Combat.

But for Train Conductors of slightly higher levels.

It really was purely an entertainment variety show.

Deaths?

In the Wasteland world, where didn't people die?

Li Xiaosheng's brutality was, for many, just an appetizer.

Therefore, the true audience for this live broadcast should be those native humans and low-level Train Conductors.

"The match schedule... looks pretty uninteresting. Whatever, I'll go out for a stroll. Heard there's a burger shop outside that sells pretty good burgers. Let's go, Lisette, let's try it."

Ye Qiyan sat up and walked straight out of the private box.

Arriving at the burger shop he mentioned, it also had a TV screen broadcasting the arena footage.

There were very few people in the shop.

Apart from the staff, there were only Ye Qiyan and another woman wearing a baseball cap, a mask, and Sunglasses sitting in the corner.

Ordering, sitting down, eating the burger that wasn't as delicious as imagined.

The woman in the corner kept casting glances his way.

"...Excuse me... may I sit here?"

"?"

Looking up in confusion, Ye Qiyan glanced around but didn't speak.

The shop had plenty of empty seats.

This person... had something to say?

Perhaps sensing her own strangeness, this woman took off her mask and Sunglasses, revealing the beautiful face beneath.

"It's... it's me.."

"?"

Who?

Ye Qiyan examined her appearance but didn't recall her identity.

"Do I know you? Miss, you've got the wrong person."

"Ah? N-no, that... I'm Alice, do you really not remember me?"

Ye Qiyan raised an eyebrow slightly; he remembered that name.

The woman who could become a big singing star even in this Wasteland.

Also a traitor to the terrorist organization, Abukado.

"Oh, what's the matter?"

He wasn't pleased just because she was a celebrity; in fact, he wished this troublesome woman would stay far away.

"May I sit..."

"No, that's my maid's seat. Besides, do I know you?"

Lisette, carrying a plate of fries, blinked, walked around Alice, and sat opposite Ye Qiyan.

"Ketchup, they're out."

Ye Qiyan took back his earlier statement.

This was a garbage shop.

Alice was extremely awkward, standing there not knowing what to do for a moment.

But she remembered the matter that had been troubling her, preventing her from resting these past few days.

Gritting her teeth, she simply sat down nearby and whispered:

"You... you are Altos, right... Although your face isn't clear on the Wanted Poster... but... this maid beside you... I can sense, she has a very pleasant... scent of time, the same scent as back then."