Stellar Train: I Open a Small Shop on the Train-Chapter 149

Clara, upon hearing this, told Ruan Mei about Rimuru.

"A talking slime?"

When Ruan Mei heard Clara's description of Rimuru, she immediately lost interest in the magic crystal ore and instead became very curious about Rimuru himself.

"Clara, is that Rimuru still on the train?"

Clara scratched the back of her head and thought for a moment.

"Clara isn't sure. Mr. Rimuru seemed to have left already. He said he wanted to find the exit of some cave and then take Sister Stelle and Sister Kiana to play."

Ruan Mei pondered for a moment.

"Clara, let's go check out the train."

Ruan Mei wanted to wait for Rimuru to come over. As a biotechnology enthusiast, she could not miss such a novel experimental subject.

After bidding farewell to Asta, Ruan Mei led Clara through the teleportation gate back to the train.

The next day arrived.

Early in the morning, Rimuru ran out of the teleportation gate.

Last night, he had organized the Goblin tribe and the Ranga wolf pack and announced several rules he established.

At the same time, Rimuru learned from Ranga and the village chief that he had given names to the goblins.

Rimuru jumped out of the portal and found Ye Yun's shop quiet. Seeing the wall clock, he realized he had arrived way too early.

It was only 3 AM!!!

Just as Rimuru was about to leave, the door opened and a woman Rimuru didn't know came in.

The newcomer was Ruan Mei. Since last night, she had been sitting in Clara's exclusive laboratory and also answered a few questions from Clara.

After asking about Rimuru's teleportation gate, Ruan Mei installed a monitoring device beside the portal.

After seeing Rimuru come over, Ruan Mei quickly returned to the shop.

Rimuru looked at Ruan Mei curiously.

"Um... who are you, ma'am?"

Ruan Mei didn't answer Rimuru's question but picked him up and curiously poked his body with a finger.

Rimuru was a bit confused.

"Hello, I'm Rimuru. Are you friends with Ye Yun and the others?"

Rimuru thought that since this woman appeared in Ye Yun's shop, she must know them.

Ruan Mei lifted Rimuru and spun him around.

"A talking slime indeed.

Hmm, I'm Ruan Mei, and I know Ye Yun and the others.

Rimuru, right? Would you like to be my experimental subject?"

Upon hearing this, a big question mark appeared above Rimuru's head.

Experimental subject?

Rimuru suddenly became alarmed and jumped down with a "hey-yo" sound.

Their noise woke Ye Yun, who sleepily walked out of his room.

"Rimuru? Ruan Mei? Why are you two here so early? Aren't you supposed to be sleeping?"

Rimuru hopped onto Ye Yun's shoulder and whispered into his ear.

"Who is this woman? Ye Yun, is she some kind of experiment fanatic? She just asked me to be her experimental subject!"

Ye Yun smiled when he heard Rimuru.

"Let me introduce you, this is Ms. Ruan Mei, a member of our world's Genius Club."

A question mark appeared above Rimuru's head.

"Genius Club?"

Ye Yun explained.

"The Genius Club was founded by the Aeos of Erudition, Nous. Only geniuses invited by it can join. You could say the people in this club are the smartest in our universe."

Rimuru naturally knew the Aeons, having heard about her from Stelle and the others yesterday.

He hadn't expected this experiment fanatic to be such an impressive figure.

Ruan Mei noticed she had scared Rimuru.

"Sorry, I really love biotechnology. It's hard not to get excited when I see a talking slime for the first time."

Hearing this, Rimuru waved a short hand.

"No worries, no worries."

Ye Yun looked at Ruan Mei.

"Ruan Mei, if you want to research strange creatures, you can cooperate with Rimuru. He has many weird and wonderful beasts."

Ruan Mei looked at Rimuru.

"Rimuru, could you help me collect some monsters? I can pay you."

Rimuru thought for a moment.

"I think I can, but forget about the money."

Ruan Mei nodded slightly.

"Thank you. Let's exchange contact info. If you catch any new species later, you can contact me."

Rimuru scratched his head awkwardly.

"Uh, I don't have a phone."

Ye Yun smiled and went to the small bar's storage cabinet to get a phone.

The cabinet held hundreds of unopened new phones.

Ye Yun prepared many phones because many guests might not have seen electronic products before.

He intended to give these phones as gifts to such guests.

Rimuru happily took the phone, thanked them, and added Ruan Mei and Ye Yun as friends. freēwēbnovel.com

Ye Yun pulled Rimuru into a big group chat.

Soon, a new message appeared in the group.

Invincible Silver Wolf Lord: ??? Newbie? Send a red packet to show your strength.

Rimuru: [Red packet]

Invincible Silver Wolf Lord: Perfect~ Now go lurk.

Galaxy Fire Hero: That little? No strength!

Rimuru: That's all the credit points I have in this phone.

Ye Yun: @Galaxy Fire hero, not asleep yet? Staying up again?

Galaxy Fire Hero: Slept already. This is the special ringtone for receiving red packets. Got up to grab a red packet and going back to sleep. [Peaceful sleep.JPG]

Ye Yun: ...

Rimuru: ...

After chatting for a while in the shop, Rimuru took Ruan Mei to his world to collect samples.

Ye Yun looked around the now quiet, empty shop, thought for a moment, and began making breakfast since everyone was up. Today he'd make some soup.

Rimuru and Ruan Mei arrived in his world.

After landing, Ruan Mei took out her equipment and began collecting samples of the surrounding plants, creatures, soil, and air.

Rimuru called over a Ranga wolf and a goblin. Ruan Mei took blood and hair samples from them respectively.

Watching Ruan Mei work seriously, Rimuru suddenly thought of something.

"Um... Ms. Ruan Mei, sorry to bother you, could you help me with something?"

Ruan Mei replied.

"What is it, Rimuru?"

Rimuru said,

"You're from the Genius Club, so you must have access to lots of advanced equipment, right? I want to improve the village a bit. Could you help me get some equipment?"

Ruan Mei agreed immediately.

"No problem, I'll help you with this once I return."

Rimuru smiled happily and jumped onto the console in front of Ruan Mei, curiously looking at the display.

As someone who came from a technological world, Rimuru could barely understand some things.

Like this — isn't this a picture of DNA?

The sample collection went quickly, and Ruan Mei's robots soon captured many live monsters.

She planned to bring these monsters back for research — all new and interesting experimental samples.

***

Rimuru hopped over to a combat drone, eyeing the thick gun barrel on it and the blade-like wings that reflected light, looking very envious.

In the end, Rimuru boldly asked Ruan Mei for one to play with — something that had always existed only in his imagination.

Rimuru piloted the combat drone, flying it around the goblin village, having a lot of fun.

Inside Ye Yun's shop,

Ye Yun was simmering soup, and soon, Little Evil God and Xiangling arrived to help prepare breakfast.

Before long, the aroma of food filled the entire train carriage.

The portal flickered, and Calestia and Silver Wolf stepped out.

Both had dark circles under their eyes.

Silver Wolf sniffed sharply.

"I knew there was food here."

Calestia gave Silver Wolf a thumbs-up.

"You're the best."

The two had stayed up all night playing battle royale games and hadn't eaten much, so they were very hungry.

They had planned to buy food at Liyue Harbor, but it was too early and nowhere was open.

So they decided to try their luck at the train.

Under the supervision of Himeko and Ye Yun, the six little ones maintained a regular routine, waking up at six every morning to exercise.

Correspondingly, Ye Yun and others started preparing breakfast early.

Silver Wolf and Calestia dashed into the kitchen.

Silver Wolf stood beside Ye Yun, eyes constantly glancing at the pot of stew.

Ye Yun rolled his eyes and ladled a small bowl of soup for Silver Wolf.

Ye Yun was making mushroom chicken soup.

Silver Wolf happily took the bowl and sat down at the table to drink.

Soon, Calestia also got three pancakes and two tea eggs from Xiangling.

They exchanged half of their food with each other.

Calestia took a sip of the chicken soup and immediately felt revitalized; after another bite of the tea egg, she was thoroughly satisfied.

At the hollow treehouse,

Stelle's little wolf pup woke up and licked Stelle's face, waking her up.

Stelle opened her sleepy eyes and the pup hugged her tightly.

"Lightning Wolf, stop messing around, sleep a bit more."

"Lightning Wolf" was the name Stelle had given her little wolf pup.

During yesterday's fight with the Tempest Wolf, although the Tempest Wolf wasn't very strong, its thunder skill was quite cool.

The name "Lightning Wolf" was inspired by that.

Lightning Wolf called a few more times as Stelle was still asleep.

Stelle had no choice but to get up, wash up, and take Lightning Wolf to the shop for breakfast.

After breakfast, Stelle, March 7th, and others prepared to visit Rimuru.

Ye Yun took the six little ones to Mondstadt.

Upon landing, the six little ones immediately clamored to go catch slimes.

More than half an hour later,

At the Stormterror's Lair,

Dvalin looked at the six slimes in front of him with a blank expression.

The six little ones looked at him expectantly.

What the heck? Dragons can teach slimes to talk? Where did this rumor come from?

Dvalin decided to try anyway under their expectant gazes.

"Come on, repeat after me: Thank you, benefactor."

The six slimes stared blankly with no reaction.

Dvalin was speechless and laughed at himself.

These slimes were mindless monsters; how could they learn to talk?

The six little ones felt a bit disappointed.

"What? It doesn't work?"

Ye Yun comforted them.

"Maybe it's because the worlds are different. Rimuru is a slime from another world.

Alright, alright, don't be upset, cuties. Come on, let's have Dvalin take us flying high!"

The six little ones brightened up after hearing they could ride the dragon.

"Yay! Ride the dragon and fly high!"

The six little ones and Ye Yun sat on Dvalin's back.

Dvalin flapped his wings and soared through the clouds.

At the foot of Mt. Narukami, Inazuma,

Kokomi Sangonomiya and Gorou arrived.

They had been invited by the Shrine Maiden to discuss peace negotiations.

Gorou looked worried.

"Divine Priestess, what if this is a trap?"

Kokomi looked at Gorou reassuringly.

"No, the Shrine Maiden is the Shogun's retainer and a great youkai. If she wanted to deal with me, she wouldn't need to go to such lengths."

Gorou thought about it and agreed — the Shrine Maiden was a close friend of the Shogun.

At that moment, a voice came from nearby.

"You must be Miss Kokomi Sangonomiya and Mr. Gorou. Hello, I'm Kamisato Ayaka. Guuji Yae sent me to escort you up."

Kokomi and Gorou looked at Ayaka.

"Hello, Ayaka. Thank you for your help."

Ayaka smiled and shook her head.

"No trouble at all."

She then led them to a stone platform and infused it with elemental energy.

The platform glowed faintly and slowly rose.

This platform was purchased by the Guuji Yae from the Liyue Adepti; it only required elemental energy to operate.

Kokomi looked curiously at the platform.

"What is this platform?"

Ayaka said,

"This was bought by Guuji Yae from the Liyue Adepti."

Kokomi was a bit surprised.

She had heard of the Liyue Adepti, legendary powerful beings who survived the Archon War.

Gorou looked at the platform.

"I wish we had one of these. It would be easier for villagers to collect pearls from the valley."

Ayaka smiled.

"This platform is hard to get — there's only one, and it was sold out of respect for the Guuji Yae.

You probably didn't know — Guuji Yae studied under the Liyue Adepti during her childhood."

Kokomi and Gorou felt a bit regretful.

This platform was very convenient; the income of Watatsumi Island mainly relied on pearl trade, but the land there was salty and barren, unsuitable for farming.

They basically had to import food.

Soon, the three arrived at Narukami Shrine.

Ayaka led Kokomi and Gorou to the Shrine Maiden.

Yae Miko gently waved her fan.

"Oh my~ isn't this Kokomi and Gorou? Finally, you've arrived."

Kokomi bowed slightly.

"Sorry, Yae Miko. You invited me days ago, but I could only come today; there were many things to handle on Watatsumi Island."

Yae Miko smiled.

"No problem, please sit."

Kokomi, Gorou, and Ayaka sat down.

Yae Miko said,

"I invited you to discuss peace talks. The Shogun has left the Tenshukaku, the eye-hunting order has been abolished, the seclusion policy lifted — how about a ceasefire?"

Kokomi replied,

"Of course. We are, after all, people of Inazuma. Our rebellion was just to make our voices heard to the Shogun."