The Desert Eagle was already fully loaded.
With the spare magazine, there were fourteen bullets in total, which was worth more than two Train Coins.
After checking to ensure the safety was engaged, Mu Bai put the Desert Eagle away.
Seeing that the reward was secured, Ye Yuan followed Mu Bai out of the stairwell.
Zheng Mingyuan hesitated for a few seconds before saying, “Mu Bai… and Ye Yuan, I’m so sorry about earlier. I’m truly sorry…”
Hearing Zheng Mingyuan speak, Mu Bai initially thought he was curious about the station’s rewards.
She didn’t expect him to apologize for the earlier incident with the spider silk.
To be honest, Mu Bai’s impression of the man was mostly negative.
He was careless and lacked combat skills.
Being a diligent worker was a plus, but it was hard to say if that was only because she had decided to share some resources.
While he knew how to adapt to the situation, his mind didn’t work as fast as his girlfriend, Su Wan.
However, his proactive apology and upright attitude made Mu Bai think a bit more highly of him.
Although they were close, Mu Bai still tossed the spear through the air toward him, and Zheng Mingyuan nearly failed to catch it.
“You seem very sincere. I’ll forgive you if you help us move all the resources into the train,” Mu Bai said with a light snort.
“I’ll definitely work hard,” Zheng Mingyuan replied awkwardly.
As long as they didn’t touch the spider silk, the spiders wouldn’t track them.
Besides, the spiders’ attacks took time, giving them enough room to react.
One could say the dangers of this station had been fully identified; constant vigilance was no longer necessary.
The four of them set to work hauling the upgrade materials.
They moved everything near the trains first, then waited for the final tenth of the remaining time when the doors opened to push everything inside all at once.
Mu Bai returned to the train and stood by the touch screen.
The materials were pushed into the Yellow Line Area, and Mu Bai used the screen to store them in the Material Stacking Area.
After finishing their side, about ten minutes remained.
Seeing that Su Wan and Zheng Mingyuan likely couldn’t finish moving their resources in time, Mu Bai took the lead and helped them along with Ye Yuan.
These two had decent characters.
Su Wan’s combat strength was adequate, and her intelligence was fine.
Mu Bai didn’t mind building some goodwill; she might need them in the future.
They finished collecting all the supplies with only two minutes left on the clock.
The two teams returned to their respective trains.
***
Inside their train, Su Wan’s expression suddenly turned cold.
“Tell me, what were you thinking when you called out to them for help?”
“I felt like you were about to reach your limit…”
“How did you know those spiders didn’t track targets by sound? What if your shouting had attracted every bug in the station?”
“I was wrong.”
“As long as you understand. Misjudging the difficulty of this station was my fault. We’ve been comfortable for a while and forgot how dangerous these stations can be… This time, we were lucky those two girls were strong and still held onto their moral compass from human society. They carried us through this station and were even willing to give us some resources.”
Su Wan felt a wave of lingering fear as she recalled their initial encounter in the station.
She only had a few arrows left.
If Mu Bai and the others hadn’t needed Zheng Mingyuan’s labor and her own scouting skills—and if they hadn’t been willing to expend bullets to save them—things would have ended badly.
“They have two guns, and that black-haired girl is such a good shot… No one in the Chat Room would believe a team of two girls could be this strong,” Zheng Mingyuan remarked.
“…Did you notice? The girl named Ye Yuan is injured.”
“Huh?”
“Not at this station. I mean, there were bandages wrapped under her collar. The light was dim, but I don’t think I saw it wrong,” Su Wan recalled carefully.
“You mean she dared to enter a station while wounded? They shouldn’t be short on resources…”
Zheng Mingyuan said in disbelief.
Su Wan analyzed, “An injury requiring bandages around the torso definitely isn’t light. It wouldn’t heal in just ten days or so. I don’t think they entered a Level 3 Doomsday Station because they lacked resources… In the station, Mu Bai was always the one in charge. Ye Yuan rarely spoke and never contradicted her… Judging by their height difference, they likely weren’t friends of the same age before the Survival Game, and they don’t look like blood relatives. What do you think would make a powerful person that submissive?”
“Intelligence?”
Zheng Mingyuan guessed.
“Considering they entered a station while injured, the only possibility is that Mu Bai is stronger than Ye Yuan, or she has a very powerful combat Talent.”
Su Wan stared at her boyfriend as if he were an idiot.
“She doesn’t look like it, though…”
Zheng Mingyuan scratched his head.
That frail Little White-Haired One didn’t have much strength when working and didn’t give off the vibe of a powerhouse at all.
He really didn’t want to think in that direction.
“But it’s the most logical answer. Your attitude wasn’t exactly proper at first. You should be grateful that little girl has a maturity that doesn’t match her appearance. She has a big heart. Otherwise, after you touched the spider silk and made them waste thirty bullets, she wouldn’t have accepted your apology so easily,” Su Wan said, waving her hand.
Zheng Mingyuan started to break into a cold sweat.
In the Survival Game, after nearly twenty days of collapsed order, the relationships between Players had gradually regressed to the primal law of the jungle.
As the stronger party, it was already kind enough of them to generously share resources, yet he had ended up being a burden.
The value of bullets was obviously precious, yet the other party had forgiven him so easily.
Calling them beautiful and kind-hearted was no exaggeration.
“Alright, let this be a lesson. We have so many upgrade materials now; it’s enough to upgrade the train.”
Seeing her point had hit home, Su Wan changed the subject.
“Oh, right, right! Let’s upgrade and see what new functions there are.”
***
At the touch screen, Mu Bai constructed the Third Carriage and the Cultivation Device.
She wasn’t in a hurry to plant vegetables because there were more pressing matters to attend to.
With the materials ready, she only needed one more Train Coin to upgrade the train.
The Golden Desert Eagle was a white elephant.
It was powerful, but difficult to use.
Never mind her, even Ye Yuan probably couldn’t handle the recoil.
It was said that this handgun required a trained adult to steady it with both hands to fire.
‘It would definitely sell on the market. Two Train Coins isn’t impossible, but with the Slaughter Station approaching, Players might have to kill each other. Selling it to someone in the same Chat Room might be akin to arming an enemy…’
Mu Bai pondered as she opened her private messages.
After thinking it over, selling it to an acquaintance was best.
Tang Shifu and her group had likely sold their gun because they were just short of a train upgrade, not necessarily because they didn’t need a firearm.
After all, when encountering hostile Players with guns, it was always more reassuring to have one yourself.
No matter how strong one’s melee combat skills were, they couldn’t stop a single lethal shot.
However, as she clicked on Tang Shifu’s private message page, Mu Bai hesitated again.
She had a feeling that the Slaughter Station wouldn’t simply be about Players killing one another.
After all, no Trial Station had ever completely cut off the path of cooperation and mutual benefit.
Of course, such killing-oriented stations might exist, and Mu Bai just didn’t know about them, but she trusted her intuition.
‘If the Slaughter Station is a large-scale Trial Station, then there’s a better way to use this Golden Desert Eagle…’