Stellar Train: I Open a Small Shop on the Train-Chapter 175

As soon as Little Evil God said that, the room fell completely silent.

She looked around at the silent crowd, feeling confused—what was going on?

Why wasn't anyone bidding? Just moments ago, everyone seemed so eager to win.

"Uh... why aren't you bidding?" she asked.

Ye Yun chuckled.

"Jammy-chan, your starting price is way too high—1 million. Everyone here can afford it, but if they did, they'd barely have anything left in their wallets."

Upon hearing that, Little Evil God looked around. The crowd remained silent.

Seeing their expressions, she finally understood.

At that moment, Lily Bell spoke up.

"Jammy-chan, lower the price. Start from 100,000. We don't really use star coins on a daily basis—no need to go that high."

Little Evil God thought for a moment.

"Alrighty~ Let's start at 100,000 then. But! Each raise must be no less than 50,000!"

Though Little Evil God was a bit greedy and cheeky, she still knew when not to mess around with serious matters.

She clearly understood how much people like Ei, Zhongli, and Theresa wanted this resurrection card.

If she didn't have any sense, would she lower the price? Not a chance. In fact, she'd probably raise it even higher.

She chose the auction format for two reasons:

First, to respect everyone's feelings—if she gave it away directly, others might not accept it. After all, this resurrection card was extremely valuable.

Second, mostly just for fun. Auctions are entertaining—that's the whole point.

Suddenly, Little Evil God pulled out a small wooden gavel from who-knows-where and tapped it twice on the table.

"Alright, everyone! First resurrection card, starting price: 100,000 star coins! Let the auction begin! Any bids?"

Zhongli immediately placed a bid.

"150,000."

Hearing someone bid, Little Evil God was overjoyed.

"Wonderful! Mr. Zhongli has placed a bid of 150,000 star coins! Anyone else?"

Theresa raised the stakes.

"200,000!"

The price reaching 200,000 made Little Evil God even happier—200,000! She could try the golden garbage can 20 times!

She'd heard from Stelle that the golden trash bin was super fun—the prizes depended entirely on luck.

With good luck, you could even get something worth 5 million star coins.

"Masaka! Theresa-chan bids 200,000! As expected of the headmistress—so rich! Any higher offers?

Going once for 200,000!"

Just after the first call, Ei made her move.

"250,000 star coins."

Little Evil God was just about to praise her when Zhongli raised again.

"300,000 star coins."

Little Evil God was stunned, dramatically turning to Zhongli.

"Whoa!!! 300,000 star coins! Mr. Zhongli bids 300,000! Going once! Going twice! Going three times!

Sold!

Congratulations to Mr. Zhongli for winning the first resurrection card at 300,000 star coins!"

Little Evil God brought the card over to Zhongli and held out her hand for payment.

Zhongli handed over 300,000 star coins. Instead of giving him the card right away, she tucked it under her arm and counted the money several times to confirm it was all there. Only then did she hand it over.

Zhongli stored the card without using it immediately. He still had over 400,000 star coins left and planned to bid on another.

Soon, the second auction began.

This time, Ei successfully won the second resurrection card with a bid of 280,000 star coins.

She had brought 310,000 with her. When Theresa called out 200,000, Ei instantly jumped to 280,000 to show her determination.

Venti and Theresa had no choice but to give up, having brought even less money—Venti had 210,000, and Theresa had 200,000.

The third and fourth resurrection cards were eventually won by Venti and Theresa, one each.

The final two cards were both claimed by the wealthy crew from the Xianzhou ship.

Jing Yuan held the two cards and looked at Feixiao and Huaiyan.

"These should be left for the Marshal to decide."

Feixiao shrugged.

"Fine by me."

Huaiyan stroked his beard.

"I agree. These are serious items. The Marshal should make the call."

Jing Yuan stored the two cards in his spatial ring.

"Alright, I'll hold onto them for now."

After the auction, Little Evil God was happily hugging the over 1.5 million star coins, ready to go spend it all at a bar.

Suddenly, two evil hands appeared and snatched all the star coins out of her arms.

"Who dares to rob me, Jammy-chan?! Huh?! Do you have a death wish?!" she shouted, looking around furiously.

Her eyes locked on Lily Bell.

Calmly, Yurine packed the coins into a box and slowly picked it up.

"Jammy-chan, you spend money way too recklessly. I'll keep it for you. You'll get 100 star coins in pocket money per day."

Little Evil God, of course, couldn't accept this and immediately tried to take the money back.

Suddenly, she froze and slowly withdrew her hand.

Yurine looked at her with a "nuclear-level kindness" expression.

"Jammy-chan, you're not trying to take it back, are you?"

Not wanting to suffer, Little Evil God immediately gave up.

"Who, me? Nah~ I was just trying to help you carry it. That's a lot of money—must be heavy, right?"

Yurine handed her the box of coins.

"Okay, then you carry it. It is pretty heavy."

With that, Yurine and Little Evil God left Ye Yun's shop and returned to their apartment.

With Jammy-chan's interlude over, everyone turned their attention to the next prize.

[Next Prize: One item of your choice from the Little Doraemon Treasure Bag.]

Description: A treasure bag filled with many magical items.

Next Draw Time: 6d 23h 59m 59s

After reading the next prize info, Lumine turned to Ye Yun with a puzzled look.

"Ye Yun, what exactly is in that treasure bag?"

Ye Yun answered:

"A ton of stuff—like the big-small light, Anywhere Door, Time Machine, Bamboo-Copter, Gourmet Tablecloth, and more.

A lot of them are pretty practical. If you're interested, you can buy a couple of tickets."

Hearing that, Lumine decided to buy two tickets. Some of those items did sound really interesting.

Like the Time Machine—just from the name, you could tell it had something to do with time.

If she actually won it, maybe she could travel to the past.

She flipped the tickets a few times and tucked them into her storage ring.

At that moment, Paimon flew over.

"Lumine, can you give me 30 star coins? I'm just 30 short of getting a ticket~"

Lumine looked at her.

"You want to buy a lottery ticket? That's rare. Don't you usually spend all your coins on snacks?"

Paimon giggled.

"I want to win! Ye Yun just secretly told me that the Gourmet Tablecloth can conjure up any food I want!"

***

Stelle, Jing Yuan, and Welt each bought a few lottery tickets.

Afterward, everyone went to their QQ farms to harvest crops. Once done, they got ready to participate in today's spirit competition.

Stelle arrived at her QQ farm. Her farm level was about to reach level 3.

As long as she harvested the pasture grass in front of her, she would level up to 3 and unlock the farm's sub-module—the QQ Ranch.

Stelle entered the two acres of land planted with pasture grass and clicked the sickle button in the shop to harvest them.

The moment the grass was harvested, a notification sounded in her mind.

[Congratulations! Farm level has reached 3. Ranch space unlocked. You can enter through the portal next to your farm.]

After hearing the message, Stelle looked at the ranch portal nearby.

Without hesitation, she darted in, curious to see what this QQ Ranch was all about.

Passing through the portal...

Stelle found herself in a space with blue skies and white clouds.

Inside was a single ranch with a patch of empty land.

Stelle walked onto the empty patch, and another notification sounded in her mind:

[QQ Ranch allows you to raise small animals, which can produce different items daily—Star Coins, Enhancement Stones, and more.]

Following the prompts, Stelle opened the Ranch Shop to check the animals she could buy.

At first, it was normal—chickens, ducks, geese, cows, pigs, etc.

But later it got ridiculous—phoenixes, qilins, and the like showed up.

And they could produce some wild things.

For instance, a White Tiger could produce a celestial sword each month.

A Phoenix could produce one drop of Phoenix True Blood per month.

An Undying Phoenix could produce a resurrection card monthly.

Seeing this, Stelle instantly got interested—this ranch was no joke.

With things like celestial swords and resurrection cards being producible, she realized it was worth investing more time into the QQ Farm and Ranch.

Currently, her ranch was only level 1, so she could only buy one baby chick that produced one Enhancement Stone per day.

Also, at level 1, only one animal could be raised.

Stelle bought a chick and placed it on the empty land.

The chick immediately started running around with its tiny legs.

Stelle looked at the nearby feed processor, which could convert pasture grass into animal feed.

She checked her inventory—30 units of pasture grass.

Stelle converted 10 units into chicken feed.

Once the feed was ready, the processor detected the chick and dropped a pack of feed in front of it.

After eating the feed, the chick's spot suddenly produced an Enhancement Stone encased in a bubble.

Stelle walked over, picked it up, and happily stored it in her storage ring.

After playing with the chick for a while, she left the ranch.

Meanwhile—

Xiangling was arguing with the system.

"Why does the chick produce an Enhancement Stone and not an egg? I want eggs! Change it to eggs!"

[Notice: In QQ Ranch, baby chicks only produce Enhancement Stones.Eggs require Ranch Level 6 and unlocking the egg-laying hen.]

Xiangling shook her head.

"No! That makes no sense! It's a chicken! Why is it producing stones instead of eggs? That's totally unreasonable!"

The system had had enough and fell silent.

It had been arguing with Xiangling for over ten minutes, but she wouldn't listen—she just wanted eggs, not stones.

At first, Xiangling had been thrilled to see animals could be raised—she thought she could go straight from ranch to table.

But to her dismay, she got hit with this nonsense.

Xiangling was furious! She didn't want Enhancement Stones! She just wanted eggs!

"Don't ignore me! Let me ask you—

Why can't this chick lay eggs? Is it a fake?!"

The system was speechless.

[...]

Zhongli, Jing Yuan, and the others, upon seeing the absurd animals in the ranch shop, also decided they'd be spending more time there in the future.

The ranch's yields were seriously good, and those future items were incredibly tempting.

After finishing up with their QQ Farm and Ranch tasks, the group headed to Joyous Small Broken Planet to participate in today's preliminary matches.

Welt brought Bubu Flower and Younas to the competition venue. When the other contestants saw him with Bubu Flower, it was like they'd seen a demon—everyone steered clear.

And it wasn't just Welt.

Jing Yuan, Himeko, Stelle, Firefly, Amber—all of them had the same effect. Many competitors were terrified of going up against them.

Himeko shook her head at the scene.

"Looks like we're pretty famous now."

Jing Yuan nodded.

"Yes, someone likely gathered data on us.But it doesn't matter. Contestants without three wins can't refuse a challenge—refusal means forfeit."

Upon hearing this, Stelle felt a surge of confidence rising within her.

With hands on her hips, she scanned the crowd and smirked.

"Heh, nobody move! If anyone runs, I'll challenge them by name!"

The competitors who were just about to run froze instantly, terrified of being singled out.

Stelle swaggered up to a young boy, who panicked, clutched his name tag, and bolted.

Run! If he didn't run, he'd be eliminated! He wanted to go further in the tournament!

Stelle let out a villainous laugh and chased after him.

Firefly quickly followed her.

Welt led Bubu Flower off in another direction to look for six opponents to win against for the day.

If there was still time, he planned to wander around a bit like yesterday.

As he walked, a young boy stepped in front of him.

At the boy's feet stood a sky-blue, muscular, bipedal mouse.

Yes—it was the contestant Jing Yuan had mentioned yesterday.

The boy looked at Welt.

"I heard you're strong. I want to challenge you."

Welt responded calmly.

"Do you want to fight my Younas, or my companion's Bubu Flower?"

The boy thought for a moment.

"I'll start with Bubu Flower."

Bubu Flower stepped in front of Welt, full of fighting spirit. novelbuddy.cσ๓

The boy gave his command.

"Thunder Mouse! Use Charge, then Spark!"

Thunder Mouse crackled with electricity as it charged up.

Then it fired a Spark attack at Bubu Flower.

Bubu Flower quickly used the "Withdraw" skill, doubling its defense.

The Spark only did minor damage.

Bubu Flower tanked the hit, used "Photosynthesis" to heal up, then pointed both hands at Thunder Mouse—

Countless petals and leaves shot out toward it.