[The three-day period has ended. Newbie Protection has been deactivated.]
[When a player chooses to leave the Train, if there are still players inside after one minute, the Train will initiate its Self-destruct Program. After all players have left the Train, the doors will remain closed until the final tenth of the stay duration.]
[Trial Stations may appear among the upcoming Stations where the Train stops. Trial Stations must be entered; they will contain Treasure and players will inevitably encounter other teams. Please work hard to become stronger to survive~]
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Since the Extreme Cold Apocalypse station ended, Mu Bai had indeed caught a cold.
Because this body was too weak, even a cold was a form of torture, causing Mu Bai’s physical strength and energy to drop significantly.
Mu Bai believed she could still enter the Stations, but Ye Yuan refused to let her explore in such a state no matter what.
If they encountered a Station with a small map and low danger, Ye Yuan would pull Mu Bai along for a quick lap to confirm there were no other survival teams.
Then, she would leave Mu Bai and the Compound Crossbow inside the Train while she scavenged for supplies alone, checking for any treasure chests along the way.
If the Station’s difficulty was high or resources were too scarce, they simply didn’t go out.
Regardless, they were quite wealthy now.
Their most urgent need was Train Coins, and currently, the only way to obtain Train Coins was through treasure chests.
After three days of recuperation supplemented by cold medicine, Mu Bai was almost fully recovered.
She got up early this morning to start reselling water.
“Another 10 kilograms of rubber… Now all the resources for the Train Upgrade have been gathered. Only one Train Coin is left as a gap,” Mu Bai muttered to herself in front of the touch screen.
Over the past few days, the number of players with a Level 1 Train in the Chat Room had clearly increased.
Although they were still rare, they weren’t exactly one in a million anymore.
There were clearly several people competing with her in the trading market, and water was becoming less and less valuable.
Although she wasn’t lacking any resources now, Mu Bai still wanted to take the last opportunity to trade for more upgrade resources to maintain her lead in upgrade speed as much as possible.
Unfortunately, no one had been trading Train Coins in the market.
It made sense; players who could obtain Train Coins didn’t lack survival supplies.
They would definitely keep such a precious necessity for the Train Upgrade for their own use.
There was someone trying to sell a handgun for two Train Coins, but no one had bought it yet.
…Wait, why did this seller look so familiar?
Opening the System Interface, she clicked on private chat.
Mu Bai: [Are you there?]
Tang Shifu: [What’s up? Do you need something?]
Mu Bai: [Is that you selling the handgun on the trading market?]
Tang Shifu: [Yep. But I’m not accepting price negotiations this time~]
Mu Bai: [I’m not trying to haggle. I just wanted to ask, if your team is even selling handguns, do you all have one each already?]
Tang Shifu: [Our situation is a bit special. Handguns aren’t a big help to us. Compared to that, the Train Upgrade is more important qwq]
Well then.
Mu Bai didn’t understand, but she was greatly shocked.
For some reason, she felt like the other person sounded like they were subtly flexing.
Mu Bai was truly just curious.
A handgun would be a massive upgrade to their team’s strength.
If Ye Yuan had been holding a handgun instead of a Compound Crossbow at the Extreme Cold Station, she could have just taken out the attackers with two shots.
However, let alone the price of two Train Coins, even trading one for a handgun wasn’t worth it.
Extreme conditions with total darkness had only occurred once in all these days.
As a lower-tier substitute for a handgun, the Compound Crossbow was sufficient.
Most importantly, the arrows for the Compound Crossbow could be recovered, while handgun bullets could not.
Out of ten arrows, one was lost at the Level 3 Eerie Station, and two more were accidentally damaged beyond repair later.
She still had seven usable arrows left.
Tang Shifu: [By the way, if you don’t want to trade using Train Coins, items that permanently increase constitution are also exchangeable. Even one or two points of strength would work.]
Mu Bai: [Sorry, goodbye.]
She obviously didn’t have anything like that, and even if she did, she would give it to Ye Yuan.
“The canned food is heated. You finally recovered today, so let’s eat a bit better,”
Ye Yuan called out from beside the bed.
“Coming,” Mu Bai replied.
She wasn’t sure if it was just her imagination, but Mu Bai felt that Ye Yuan had been talking much more lately.
When they first met, Ye Yuan didn’t talk very little, but that was mostly to maintain consensus for the sake of survival; there was a sense of distance.
Later, as they became more familiar, the other party showed her true self.
She would use short sentences whenever possible, and her voice was indifferent and devoid of much emotion.
These past few days…
It felt like Ye Yuan had flipped some strange switch.
She was a bit excessively gentle, yet her personality remained very cool and aloof.
Many times, she gave off the vibe of an Overbearing President.
Mu Bai felt that this was probably due to her own personal charm.
Hmph, a mere pure high school girl, easily handled~
She took her can, which had been filled to the brim by Ye Yuan.
Mu Bai buried her head in her breakfast.
Ye Yuan, on the other hand, was looking at the System Interface while eating, but it didn’t look like the Chat Room or the announcements.
Every few moments, a message would pop up, and Ye Yuan would then provide a reply.
Was this a private chat?
“Ye Yuan, what are you doing?”
Mu Bai asked curiously.
Could it be that she had established contact with someone she knew?
Private chat friends could only be added from the same Chat Room.
The trading market worked on a similar principle.
Mu Bai didn’t know how many of these Chat Rooms existed, but the probability of running into an acquaintance likely depended on the location the player was in before they crossed over.
Mu Bai had no family, so she had only searched for the names of her few friends, but it turned up nothing.
It was obvious they either hadn’t been chosen for this Survival Game or were in other Chat Rooms.
There was also the possibility that they were already dead.
However, even if she did find them, Mu Bai wouldn’t dare recognize them in her current state.
At most… if she met them in the future and had the chance, she would give them a few tips.
“Exchanging information with someone… someone I know. She just reached out to me,”
Ye Yuan said after a brief hesitation.
They were quite familiar, but it was limited to being classmates.
The other person was one of the few people who could chat with her for a bit.
She was quite sunny and cheerful and liked to show off some niche, special hobbies.
Because she was a beautiful girl, even her strange hobbies became charms, making her very popular at school.
Most memorable was the other person’s very eye-catching yellow hair.
Yes, even though she looked quite sunny on the outside.
“A guy or a girl?”
Mu Bai wanted to confirm.
“A girl.”
Ye Yuan didn’t pause for a second, and her tone was very decisive, as if she didn’t want Mu Bai to misunderstand anything.
Mu Bai felt a sudden sense of respect.
For a girl to be able to get along with Ye Yuan well enough to be considered an acquaintance, she must be very good at socializing.
“How is she doing?”
“She’s still on a Level Zero Train, but she’s alone. Her situation was similar to ours at the beginning. It’s already quite good that she doesn’t lack food or water now.”
“Why is she alone?”
“According to her, she ran into a teammate who was a perverted shut-in on the first day. He kept verbally harassing her inside the Train and even tried to get physical. She simply made sure he stayed at the Beginner Station forever.”
“Well then.”
That was quite unlucky.
In every sense.