Train Time, Night.
After dinner, Mu Bai finished bathing and came to the screen to check the trading situation.
Over the past few hours, most of the fresh meat had been traded away, with the majority exchanged for supplies and silver.
As for gold, not a single trade had occurred…
Well, that was within expectations.
Their train had already stockpiled over two hundred kilograms of silver.
Adding the nearly one hundred kilograms from this trade, they now had a full three hundred kilograms in silver reserves.
If she only considered silver, Mu Bai felt it could sustain them all the way to the late stages of a train upgrade.
As for gold, there was the fifty-kilogram suitcase Mo Cha had brought back.
Given that the resources needed for train upgrades increased exponentially, it should only last until level six.
Gold was still a bit lacking.
She continued exchanging silver for gold, raising the ratio a little to make players with gold reserves feel it was worth it.
Settings done.
Next, she took the piled-up hunters’ heads from the trading area and placed them in the trading market at a high price, using the market as storage.
They weren’t short on basic supplies anyway.
After this evacuation, combining the food they’d previously obtained with the hunters’ heads from trades, they had enough to sustain the four of them for over a month.
And that was with balanced nutrition and eating freely.
If they only considered survival, they could last half a year.
However, the train system wouldn’t allow them to just hole up in the train forever.
The trial stations and Killing Stations were still blades hanging over their heads.
“Alas, if only we could enter a trading station one more time,” Mu Bai couldn’t help but sigh.
Even though the four of them were pretty strong—she could cling to three powerful allies by herself—it still wasn’t steady enough.
What if a station scattered everyone upon entry?
With over a hundred and fifty silver coins, entering a trading station would definitely let them buy plenty of good stuff.
They could also find Talina to exchange for gold coins.
That NPC big sister was pretty nice and wouldn’t cheat them.
Train upgrade, then awaken a new talent… Even if it was just purple quality, please, give her a talent that offered some sense of security.
Please!
Hmm… Next time they reached a trading station, she’d use the space anchor there.
“18? A private message?”
Mu Bai opened the system interface.
An Lan: [Big shot, I entered a trading station again!]
Mu Bai: [?]
Coming right at her with that, huh?
Wait, she remembered this person had just upgraded to level two not long ago, and now she was already level three.
An Lan: [I just suddenly thought of you, big shot. I didn’t expect you’d already reached level four. So impressive OvO]
Mu Bai: [Is there something?]
An Lan: [Well… actually, there is something. I just wanted to ask, are you still looking for teammates?]
An Lan had originally wanted to ask Mu Bai how she had gathered the train coins to level up to four so quickly.
She knew that she herself had worked her ass off, gone through a Killing Station, then another station, and killed a whole team to finally scrape together the resources to upgrade to a level three train.
Ten train coins didn’t seem like much now, but back then they were incredibly precious.
And the other party, after just one Killing Station, had reached level four in a few days!
An Lan thought that Mu Bai, being beautiful and in control of the economy, must hold a strong position in the team.
Such a team probably wouldn’t become bandit cultivators, right?
That evil little white-haired one?
She couldn’t imagine that scene at all!
Besides, asking how to get train coins fast was both rude and likely to go unanswered.
So, she decided to change her angle.
Coincidentally, she noticed the team size on Mu Bai’s profile had changed from two to four.
An Lan had a brainwave and directly asked if she could join the other’s team.
She and Luo Huang both had golden talents and were high-level players on a level three train.
Surely they had the qualifications to at least ask to join, right?
Mu Bai: [Well…]
An Lan: [My teammate and I both have gold-quality talents, and they’re combat-type. Really strong ones!]
Mu Bai: [Even so, I don’t need more teammates.]
An Lan’s eyes lit up instead.
Although Mu Bai had refused, the implication was that even after merging teams, the initiative to expand the team still lay with Mu Bai.
It was highly possible she was the captain!
An Lan felt she was absolutely a genius of world-stunning wisdom—just expressing her intention to join and reading so much from the other’s brief reply.
“Why are you so excited?”
Luo Huang sat to the side, the corner of her mouth twitching.
Normally, if a teammate suddenly got hyped, she’d assume something good had happened.
But An Lan wasn’t normal.
“Last time I saw her team only had two people. Now it’s four. I feel like we have a chance too…”
An Lan replied with a grin.
“Actually, I’ve already scouted a target. Their team is good in all aspects, but they’re still hesitating about letting us join. The next Killing Station will be our cooperation with them. I think it’s a kind of assessment,” Luo Huang said after hesitating a few seconds.
She had told An Lan about the need to cooperate with others at the Killing Station.
But at the time, she felt that Mu Bai had immediately lost interest in merging when she heard Luo Huang had a new teammate, so she hadn’t discussed it with An Lan.
She understood Mu Bai’s concerns—she herself hadn’t earned the other’s trust and understanding, and adding someone completely unknown naturally created more resistance.
This matter wasn’t even set in stone yet.
If it failed, she’d have gotten An Lan’s hopes up for nothing.
Unexpectedly, An Lan had already gone off to scout new teammates.
To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings that could affect the rare trust between them, Luo Huang felt she should tell An Lan about this.
“It’s fine… Strike from both sides, eat from both ends! No need to hang oneself from one tree. More opportunities are always better~”
An Lan hummed lightly while sending messages on the private chat interface.
“Alright…”
Luo Huang thought it made sense, so she didn’t stop her.
In truth, given their strength, they were more than capable of forming their own team.
But An Lan shared her thought—in this survival game, recruiting was impossible to screen properly.
The system also required two teams to be together to use a team merge card, making it even harder to judge new recruits.
They might end up getting backstabbed by new teammates after all that trouble.
So they needed to find a team they knew, where the members’ character and strength could withstand scrutiny, and seek to join.
Mu Bai had originally wanted to end the private chat, but the other party wasn’t a complete stranger.
Not only was she a pretty girl, she had also voluntarily bought a pistol in exchange for information.
Her intelligence was definitely up to par, and they had a foundation of cooperation.
Plus, An Lan’s sweet talk easily hooked Mu Bai, who had nothing much to do and was a bit idle.
Speaking of which…
How was it that she’d run into two golden talents in one day?
Damn, could it be that Luo Huang’s new teammate was An Lan?