Afternoon.
Mu Bai woke up and let go of the hands she had wrapped around the body pillow.
The two stood up and looked at each other, neither saying a word in a moment of tacit understanding. She glanced at the time; it was already two o’clock.
Time for a nap (not really).
Ye Yuan had just recovered from a fever, and Mu Bai had exerted herself quite a bit in the morning, so both were hungry and wanted a big meal.
“Now that the train has been upgraded, there’s a Power System, so we can cook normally,” Mu Bai spoke first.
“What would you like to eat?”
She was, of course, referring to steamed rice paired with heated canned food.
Even if a pressure cooker could replace a stove for making stews, she still needed the ingredients, right?
Speaking of which, why didn’t that family in the Zombie Apocalypse Station stock up on some instant noodles…
Braised beef noodles with canned luncheon meat wouldn’t be bad either.
“I want that canned food we had this morning… it would be great if we had some rice with it.”
Seeing that Mu Bai was taking charge of the cooking, Ye Yuan followed up with her request.
She had only managed a few bites of the Beef Hotpot Canned Food that morning and hadn’t had enough; she just remembered it tasted very good.
Mu Bai nodded.
Under Ye Yuan’s gaze, she first checked the touch screen.
Seeing that enough materials had been traded, she built the restroom and bathroom.
She took the inner pot of the rice cooker to the bathroom to wash the rice.
Don’t ask why the bathroom; wouldn’t it be weird to wash rice in the restroom?
After returning, she started steaming the rice and used a portable stove to heat the canned food, while also mentioning to Ye Yuan that there was now a restroom and a bathroom in the new carriage.
Ye Yuan gave a soft “Mm” to show she understood.
“How is your recovery coming along?”
Mu Bai asked.
Ye Yuan looked to be in good shape, and it felt like her fever had broken.
It seemed her talent was working, though she didn’t know the specific effects.
She had to ask for the person’s own perspective on this.
“I’m very healthy now. For some reason, I felt like the fever was mostly gone when I woke up. Even though I was hungry, I actually felt better after resting in bed for a while longer,” Ye Yuan explained.
“Oh, I see… It seems like the effect of my new talent is actually quite good.”
“What new talent?”
Ye Yuan’s brow arched.
When she saw the train upgrade, she had remembered Mu Bai’s Chosen of Heaven.
However, Ye Yuan wasn’t that curious and had originally planned to ask before they left for the next Station anyway.
She hadn’t expected it to be related to her physical recovery.
If it could speed up her recovery, could it be some kind of healing talent?
“This…”
Mu Bai had already mentally prepared herself to reveal the new talent, but when the time actually came to tell Ye Yuan, she couldn’t help but feel a lingering sense of shame.
Power Bank Constitution…
Telling someone about something like this of her own accord was just too embarrassing.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Mu Bai ultimately didn’t say it out loud.
Instead, she displayed her personal panel to Ye Yuan.
“…”
But as Ye Yuan leaned in to look, Mu Bai started to regret it.
Great, now this had turned into some kind of exposure play.
“It’s so practical. No wonder I felt mostly recovered after a nap; it was the effect of your talent.”
Ye Yuan didn’t overthink it.
From a utilitarian standpoint, since sleeping while holding each other was effective, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to sleep even more intimately every day from now on.
Ye Yuan thought seriously and looked up, just about to voice her thoughts.
“Hmm? Why is your face so red?”
***
The rice would take a while to finish steaming, so both Mu Bai and Ye Yuan spent the time lurking in the Chat Room.
— Chatroom c0721 (8917) —
[User A: Brothers, I’m starving to death. Are there any kind souls who can give me something to eat? Even bread is fine…]
[User B: How many people have been begging here lately? Why didn’t you go out and explore the last few days? You want to get supplies that others risked their lives for without giving anything in return? How can you be so thick-skinned?]
[User C: I’m really out of options. My teammate ate all the supplies behind my back. What can I do? I’m in despair too.]
[User D: Holy crap, people like that actually exist? Keep them around for New Year’s? Next time, leave them in the Station forever so they can’t backstab you again.]
[User E: What a waste. That’s over a hundred pounds of meat.]
[User F: Speaking of that, my teammate and I were cutting it close returning to the train this morning. I made it on, but they didn’t—missed it by just two seconds… It was a Weirdness Type Station, too. They’re likely done for.]
[User G: Damn, you guys are actually brave. You dared to get off at a Weirdness Type Station?]
[User H: No choice, we were too desperate for water. The train just happened to stop by a lake, but we didn’t expect to run into a ghost wall…]
[User I: How are your random teammates doing? My teammate was a random match, but I feel like he’s a pretty good guy. Even though he’s a muscle man, he’s quite gentle. He lets me have whatever food we find. As a grown man, I’m almost embarrassed.]
[User J: That sounds nice. Ask him if his hometown is Shucheng.]
[User I: ?]
***
Mu Bai fell into deep thought.
The messages in the Chat Room had given her an idea.
Naturally, it was about water resources.
Currently, the vast majority of people didn’t have a Level 1 train yet.
The few teams that had upgraded to Level 1 hadn’t revealed the changes that came with it, and water was currently extremely precious.
Didn’t that mean she could use this time gap, while Level 1 trains were still rare, to trade water for items?
Holy crap, she was a total genius!
She shared her inspiration with Ye Yuan.
After getting her approval, Mu Bai filled two empty mineral water bottles from her Beginner Supplies with water from the bathroom and placed them in the Trading Area.
“Huh? Why is it potable water…”
Mu Bai hadn’t used the electric kettle to boil it because it was too much trouble.
The value of raw water was lower than potable water, but not by much.
She hadn’t expected the screen to label it as potable water.
Could it be that the water provided by the train didn’t have any natural bacteria or parasites, so it could be drunk directly?
What a stroke of luck.
Very quickly, the two bottles of water were traded away, turning into ten pounds of wood.
Not bad…
If she traded water a few more times, the resource gap for upgrading to a Level 2 train would be filled.
However, the upgrade also required two Train Coins, and she didn’t know how to get those yet.
Mu Bai browsed the Trading Area again and suddenly saw a seller offering a watch.
Thinking that it was quite dangerous not knowing the train’s time while inside a Station, as one could easily miss the departure time, she wanted to trade for a timekeeping tool.
The other party likely intended to negotiate, as they had set the price of the watch at 100 kilograms of iron and left a private chat ID in the product description.
Mu Bai didn’t want the hassle and kept scrolling, but unfortunately, there was only this one seller of portable timekeeping tools in the entire Trading Area.
With no other choice, she searched for the UID in the system and sent a request.
In the chat function, whether it was the Chat Room or private messages, you could see a profile picture of the person’s real photo, and their name was fixed as their real name.
This was why Mu Bai and Ye Yuan had always stayed quiet in the Chat Room.
With their looks, they wouldn’t be able to get any useful information; they would likely be chased by a crowd of people sending private chat requests as soon as they appeared.
The moment she saw the other person’s profile picture, Mu Bai froze for a moment.
Pink, shoulder-length short hair that looked like silk, an exceptionally striking face, and a gaze carrying a faint smile—her features alone gave off an energetic vibe.
What was impossible to ignore were those bright yellow pupils; they seemed full of power.
In the real world, she would definitely be a girl whose beauty was on par with Ye Yuan’s.
Tang Shifu…
Was her luck really this good, that the first person she messaged privately was such a beautiful girl?
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