Chapter 299: Thinking Too Much

"Bye-bye. If you change your mind, you can contact me anytime~"

Jumping three hours forward in time, Vivian waved at Yun Mu and the other with a smile: "Just use the Personal Terminal in your hands."

"Understood." Hearing her words, Brenna nodded in response: "If there is a need, we will contact you."

"Hehehe, then it's a deal." Vivian chuckled twice.

At this moment, Talitaluosi, who was standing beside her, suddenly cast his gaze toward Yun Mu: "We will meet again."

"Apostle of Pleasure, I wish for you to be able to accomplish what you desire to do."

Hearing his words, Yun Mu was slightly stunned, but she quickly regained her composure and, out of politeness, responded to him: "Thank you, I wish you all the best as well."

"Mm."

Talitaluosi nodded imperceptibly, then turned and left toward the distance with Vivian, without any lingering attachment.

"I thought they would pester us for a while longer; I didn't expect them to just give up like this." After Vivian and Talitaluosi disappeared from view, Brenna said with a slightly surprised tone.

After all, that cyborg named Talitaluosi was related to Pleasure, and Miss Yun happened to have received a Mask gifted by the Faceless Fool—though that mask of hers was probably just to make up the numbers and had no supernatural abilities at all, Miss Yun was the main point, but that wasn't important!

What was important was that if she were that Talitaluosi, upon learning this news, she probably wouldn't have given up so easily.

Could it be that the other party had already anticipated it would be like this?

Or perhaps... Recalling the last sentence Talitaluosi said to Yun Mu before leaving, Brenna was lost in thought.

The meaning of "we will meet again"... Was it just a simple blessing out of etiquette, or was it implying something? Could it be that he believed she and Miss Yun would end up contacting the other party in the end?

This was truly boring to the extreme; she did not want to be dragged into the internal trivialities of the Federation.

"Let's go, Miss Yun." Brenna looked at Yun Mu: "We still have important things to do."

"Mm, that's true, let's hurry." Hearing her words, Yun Mu nodded in agreement.

The two returned along the path they had come: they passed through towering high-rises and narrow blocks, avoiding the Magic Vehicles speeding on the road, until a large number of busy dock workers appeared within their field of vision.

The Xiangyang was docked here at this time.

Earlier, the staff at the dock had come by once and registered all the crew members on the ship.

Except for a few patient ones who remained on the ship, the vast majority of the crew had already begun to enjoy their long-lost time on shore at this moment.

"Let them mess around as they please, as long as the Xiangyang is fine." Yun Mu was not very surprised after learning this.

After all, having spent so many days together, she basically knew all the crew members on the Xiangyang, so she naturally knew what these guys were like.

To put it bluntly, those crew members were just working for her; it wasn't a Pirate ship or a warship that needed to worry about so-called crew obedience.

That kind of thing had no meaning for the Ghost Ship Xiangyang, and besides, even on a real Pirate ship, once they docked, they would need to let the sailors spend money at entertainment venues.

Otherwise, wouldn't the money they worked so hard to plunder be all for nothing? If any Pirate Captain forbade the crew from doing such things after docking, they would certainly not be far from being ousted.

Mm... doing such things could also effectively reduce stress and treat various symptoms brought about by long voyages at sea; it was actually quite necessary.

And there was one more point.

Yun Mu and the others needed to head to the Federal Capital, and that capital was not a coastal city, so they could only transfer to the Federation's Magic Train halfway.

By then, the Xiangyang would have to stay here.

Taking advantage of the fact that she and Brenna hadn't left yet, letting the crew relax more—after they left, Yun Mu would still be counting on these crew members to take good care of the Xiangyang! Mm... this logic was actually a bit strange, but for some reason, the thought in her mind at this moment was roughly like this.

"It's getting late, let's get some rest early, Miss Yun." Standing on the deck of the Xiangyang, Brenna said while looking at the darkening sky.

"Sleeping on the Xiangyang tonight as well?" Relying on the effect of the Reversing Pocket Watch, Yun Mu precisely felt time passing second by second, and she raised an eyebrow.

"Finding an inn is a bit troublesome, and the cabins of the Xiangyang are very comfortable, not a bit worse than an inn on land. It's also closer to my Laboratory, so I have no intention of finding an inn to stay in." Brenna explained to Yun Mu with clear logic, and after a pause, she added:

"Once we leave here by Magic Train, we won't even have the chance to sleep on the Xiangyang even if we wanted to."

"Mm..." Listening to her words, Yun Mu pondered briefly, and finally had to admit that Brenna was right.

The accommodation environment of an inn might not necessarily be better than the Xiangyang; after all, when Edward handed the Xiangyang to her, the various furniture in the cabins had long been corroded by seawater or smashed.

Therefore, the brand-new furniture inside was basically high-end goods purchased by Brenna, paired with the cabins inside the Xiangyang that were neither cold nor hot, and where one couldn't even feel the Dampness—perhaps it really was more comfortable inside the Xiangyang? "Wow~" The sky gradually turned dim, and before long, it reached the point where one couldn't see anyone's figure clearly.

However, the next second, the lights of the entire city suddenly lit up, dispelling the Darkness completely in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, a very special emotion welled up in Yun Mu's heart; such a scene made her unable to help but recall the sights from before she transmigrated.

【While watching Falanaka, a port city of the Orc Federation, you see the scene of the city brightly lit at night and are moved; Destiny Points for Path of Civilization +10.】 【Current Destiny Points: Scarlet lv4 (197/300), Cat lv3 (5/80), Oil Painting/Manga lv3 (47/80), Civilization lv3 (74/80), Desire lv2 (1/30), Nuclear Fusion lv1 (cannot be upgraded)】 Hm? The points for the Civilization Path actually increased! And it increased by 10 points at once! Yun Mu was a bit surprised, but also felt it was within reason.

After all, she had encountered something similar before at the Kingdom capital.

Triggering it again at this time only made her feel slightly surprised.

She looked at the message notification popped up by the Game Panel.

Only six more Destiny Points, and the level of the Path of Civilization could be upgraded to lv4! By then, she would gain a large amount of character attributes, as well as a new trait related to a domain.

To say she wasn't tempted would be completely impossible, but to increase the Destiny Points of Civilization, other than watching Wonders related to civilization like just now, only reading books would work. Yun Mu had once guessed whether reading every book could increase one Civilization point.

Later, facts proved that she had overthought it.

Because she had read many books, but in the end, none of them increased her Destiny Points.

Only the book Elena gave her—the one with a very long title, "The Art of Elegant Communication and Speech: Daily Etiquette Suitable for Various Occasions"—provided her with one point of Civilization Destiny.

If there was anything special, it would probably just be that when she was reading this book at the time, she had triggered Accelerated Eureka.

Intuition told her that this matter probably had nothing to do with Accelerated Eureka; perhaps it was the volume of reading?

Or was it that there was a probability of obtaining one Destiny Point every time one finished a book? It was completely incomprehensible; if only there were some hints.

Yun Mu thought to herself.

Heral Calendar year 4243, November 20th, weather: snow.

Today was the second day of Yun Mu's arrival at the Federal port city of Falanaka, and also the day she, Lita, Brenna, and Iliyasi planned to take the Magic Train to the Federal Capital.

Last night, because of the Path of Civilization, she had researched for a long time on how to obtain points for the Path of Civilization, but unfortunately, there were no reliable ideas for upgrading the Civilization Path for the time being.

In the end, she could only choose to give up for now, or rather, leave it to fate.

Casually taking out a few classic published books from the Divine Blood Pendant, Yun Mu began to read the contents of the books carefully and earnestly, just like last night, attempting to replicate the situation of gaining Civilization points from reading.

As for the Magic Train?

No need to rush; that thing is still a full half-hour away from its usual arrival time, enough time for her to finish reading a book she hadn't finished last night.

Taking out her Personal Terminal, Yun Mu walked behind Brenna and lightly scanned it beside the entrance of the train station, and the metal Gate blocking their path opened automatically.

This familiar feeling—if the architectural style weren't different from her memories, she might truly have had the illusion of having returned to Earth.

As for those without a Personal Terminal, namely Lita and Iliyasi who were following behind them, they only needed to take out the procedure certificates they had processed at the port earlier and have them scanned by the machine.

"A pity, there are no massage chairs."

The train had not yet arrived, so the four of them, Yun Mu included, could only sit on the chairs laid out near the tracks to Wait.

During the time they were waiting, Yun Mu tried to strike a comfortable pose, holding the paper book in her hands and sighing with emotion.

Of course, only in her heart.

【You have finished reading the book "The Birth of the Federation", Path of Civilization points +1.】 About twenty minutes later, Yun Mu closed the book in her hands, and a message notification from the Game Panel suddenly popped up in her mind.

Seeing this message, she was so excited that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.

Reading books really could increase the Destiny Points of the Path of Civilization; the only problem was that she didn't know what the specific details were.

Or rather, perhaps there were no details at all; as long as one read, there was a probability of obtaining them, it was just that others didn't have a Game Panel on them, so they couldn't clearly manifest it.

If one looked at this current efficiency, she was confident that in about half a month, she could raise the level of the Path of Civilization to lv4!

By then, what kind of trait would she be able to obtain? Just thinking about it was truly something to look forward to.

"The train is here, the train is here!"

Bursts of shouts came from both sides of the Magic Train tracks; no, to be precise, it was the shouts of Lita and Iliyasi.

As for the locals in the station, they were clearly already accustomed to this scene, so even though the train was speeding toward them, the expressions on their faces did not change much.

On the contrary, Yun Mu was somewhat surprised after seeing the appearance of the approaching train.

It was a high-speed train with a streamlined shell and a silver-white body; what surprised Yun Mu was not its somewhat familiar appearance, but that there were absolutely no wheels underneath the train! Only then did she notice that those tracks laid inside the station were not meant for wheels to run on at all!

Almost subconsciously, driven by curiosity, Yun Mu directly cast an 【Appraisal Technique】 at the train.

Excuse me, it was 【Appraisal Eye】, I got the lines mixed up.

【Zhuifengzhe T18, this is the name of this Magic Train, meaning a train capable of chasing the Wind; however, in fact, the train itself actually has no means of propulsion; what truly allows it to move forward or Retreat are those Magic Rails laid on the ground.

Using Magic Energy to form a powerful Magnetic field to lock the train on top of the rails firmly so it would not easily derail, and then using the powerful suction of the rails to continuously push the train forward—this is the underlying principle of the Magic Train.】

Isn't this just magnetic levitation?

It's too outrageous; when the Frost Kingdom is still using steam trains, the neighboring Federation is already running magnetic levitation!?

I have to say, as Pure Ether, Magic Energy indeed possesses quite powerful strength; the Federation people, by utilizing the properties of Magic Energy, easily conjured up a level of technology far exceeding that of the Kingdom.

If one day these guys were to attack, Yun Mu couldn't even imagine what kind of scene that would be.

First, insert a conduit (a device Yun Mu imagined herself), continuously extract Ether from the air, weaken the Kingdom's Transcendental, and at the same time store the absorbed Ether as Magic Energy, then erect a signal tower to implement tactical crushing through remote communication far beyond the era—Magic Energy is just a black box; in the whole world, besides the Federation, no other country has mastered the power of Magic Energy.

Logically speaking, the Federation uses so many devices with Magic Energy that even with the strictest defenses, there would definitely be leaks, but it's useless! No matter how much one studies it, one cannot figure out how it works; even, everyone knows that Magic Energy is energy after Ether is purified, but the problem is how to purify it? And how to ensure the purified Ether won't be contaminated by information and become impure Ether? These are all problems, yet these problems are only understood by the Federation itself.

That mage who created Magic Energy, the God of Decay and Necromancy Fen Yege, is truly an out-and-out genius!

(End of this chapter)