“Aaaagh!!!”
An exquisite dagger stabbed diagonally into Scarface’s neck.
Blood sprayed everywhere, and in his intense agony, the assault rifle slipped from his hands and crashed to the ground.
Mo Cha’s figure materialized as she immediately retreated to prevent a counterattack.
Ever since they entered the Research Base, she had erased her presence.
Unless someone was familiar with her Talent, they wouldn’t even notice a person was missing when looking at the remaining three.
She had done this not only to provide cover for her teammates and the escorts but also to guard against a backstab from Scarface!
Inside a Station, everyone except teammates was a potential enemy.
When Mo Cha quietly vanished, the other three certainly noticed, but none of them felt surprised or curious.
They all knew exactly what Mo Cha was guarding against.
As expected, Scarface failed the test.
Scarface stared in horror at the suddenly appearing Mo Cha, finally realizing he had miscalculated by one person…
It turned out these four girls had been on guard against him from the very beginning.
He tried to say something, but his throat could only produce a wheezing sound like a leaking bellows as blood foam sprayed out.
The scene was too bloody, and Ye Yuan instinctively covered Mu Bai’s eyes.
Mu Bai: “…”
‘Actually, you don’t have to treat me like a child, really.’
Scarface tried to plug the wound, but he couldn’t stop the flow at all.
The blood even began to choke his lungs through his windpipe.
He glanced desperately at the M4A1 on the ground; his condition was essentially a death sentence.
Even in the modern society of a peaceful era, let alone inside a Station, he would be beyond saving.
Adrenaline kicked in, and in a daze, Scarface felt his pain subside slightly.
He knew the people beside him were staring at him.
Even if he wanted to take a few of them down with him before he died, he wouldn’t get another chance to touch the M4A1.
He feigned weakness, leaning his body against the wall, while a blood-stained arm secretly reached behind him…
The faint sound of a Nagant Revolver’s cylinder turning clicked.
The moment Scarface rapidly raised his arm, Ye Yuan moved.
Bang!
A precise bullet struck Scarface’s gun hand.
The Nagant Revolver slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.
Scarface’s eyes widened with rage as he looked at Ye Yuan.
His vision began to turn black, and he slumped down powerlessly.
Having lost too much blood and with his last hope severed, he didn’t even have the strength to lift his hand.
He was dead.
Ye Yuan turned Mu Bai’s body around before releasing her left hand, ensuring Mu Bai wouldn’t see the scene the moment she opened her eyes.
“Actually, I’m fine… It’s not like I haven’t seen zombies with their heads blown off on the road,” Mu Bai grumbled.
However, she obediently didn’t turn around to insist on looking.
While Mu Bai had relaxed her guard, Ye Yuan had no intention of putting the safety on her gun.
She remained ready to fire at any moment, preventing Tang Shifu and Mo Cha from turning traitor in the final moments before leaving the Station.
Mu Bai weighed the money bag in her hand, feeling that it should contain quite a few Silver Train Coins.
She opened it and counted nineteen coins in total.
These belonged to her and Ye Yuan.
Man, what a harvest.
Furthermore, the small golden box containing the serum seemed quite heavy; it was very likely made of real gold.
While this was a good thing, she hoped that gold wasn’t something only found in Slaughter Stations and Trading Stations…
Wasn’t there a jewelry store on the first floor of the Shopping Mall in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse?
‘I was too careless. If I had known, I should have gathered some gold jewelry earlier; I could have finished the gold collection progress sooner.’
“Tang Shifu, Mo Cha, how many Train Coins did you get?”
Mu Bai asked curiously.
She wasn’t sure how the contribution points were calculated.
If it was related to the number of zombie kills, then the other two shouldn’t have few…
“Eleven,” Tang Shifu replied after counting.
“We got nineteen…”
Mu Bai said, feeling a bit embarrassed.
This was almost double the other team’s amount.
It was likely because most of the Variants were killed by Ye Yuan.
If the other two weren’t trustworthy… she actually had some intention of merging the teams if possible.
Otherwise, she understood the principle of not flaunting one’s wealth.
“Little Mu Bai, do you have any thoughts about merging teams?”
Mo Cha stepped closer and asked.
Ye Yuan looked at Mo Cha, her eyes narrowing slightly.
Regarding Tang Shifu and Mo Cha… especially after learning about the possibility of merging teams in the future, she had maintained a wary attitude.
However, she had to admit to herself that the two of them were indeed trustworthy.
The reason she was unwilling to let down her guard was also because of Mu Bai…
Perhaps it was out of a desire not to share her bond with Mu Bai, or perhaps she didn’t want the environment where she and Mu Bai were alone to be disrupted, but Ye Yuan secretly hoped they wouldn’t merge.
But no matter what, the benefits of merging far outweighed the drawbacks.
Currently, for her and Mu Bai’s team, the issue was no longer about having enough resources to share.
Four people would always be more stable and safer, especially since the other two were combat experts.
As the difficulty of the Stations gradually increased, Ye Yuan fully felt that she couldn’t perfectly shield Mu Bai from every danger…
The conflict between emotion and logic left Ye Yuan’s thoughts in a mess and her mood complicated.
“Merge the teams?”
Mu Bai was somewhat surprised.
She hadn’t expected the other two to bring this up first.
The four of them could almost certainly confirm they would survive to obtain a Team Merge Card.
Discussing it now wasn’t too early, but Mo Cha and Tang Shifu didn’t know about the upgrade requirements for a Level 3 Train.
Fifty Train Coins was a lot!
Mu Bai had considered merging the teams precisely because of this point.
While having four people together wouldn’t increase the efficiency of collecting Train Coins, adding their totals together could greatly shorten the time it took to upgrade!
She just didn’t know if a Level 2 Train could merge with a Level 3 Train…
“Yeah,” Mo Cha said persuasively.
“Look at Fufu and me. Our combat power isn’t low, right? And our Talents have their own special uses. You and Ye Yuan are one support and one long-range attacker. With the two of us added, a four-person team would have no weaknesses from any angle!”
They had seen Mu Bai’s support and logistics capabilities for themselves.
Tang Shifu had even experienced them personally; they were indeed smooth.
Ye Yuan’s marksmanship was incredible, and the [Weapon Master] Talent would never go out of style.
Although Tang Shifu was a melee fighter and couldn’t pull off sneak attacks, she could destroy terrain and had special uses like breaking through walls.
As for Mo Cha, she could gather intelligence and hide as an assassin.
If this were a game, wasn’t this a perfect lineup?
“Yuan-yuan, what do you think?”
Mu Bai was very tempted.
She had been eyeing the other two’s abilities for a long time, wishing their Talents were her own.
But she still had to respect the opinion of her original teammate.
Mu Bai looked expectantly at Ye Yuan, waiting for a response.
“The decision is yours,” Ye Yuan said, her voice indifferent.
As she said this, Ye Yuan didn’t look at Mu Bai, fearing she wouldn’t be rational enough.
Since Ye Yuan’s usual tone was like this, Mu Bai didn’t notice anything wrong.
She only felt that she had received Ye Yuan’s unconditional support and said joyfully, “I agree!”