Chapter 43
Chapter 43: Stopping Trap
[ “Stuck by a mummy’s wheels, truly your style.” ]
Holding her gun and nervously hiding in a corner, occasionally glancing outside to check if any monsters were blocking the way ahead, Zhao Lin saw this message and instantly grasped it like a lifeline.
[ “I didn’t want to either. Brother Ye, you know my Talent. The things I got at the previous station were supposed to be sold for resources, but no one bought them. I really don’t understand why?” ]
It seemed that her bad luck didn’t just start inside the platform; it had already begun the moment her good luck ended.
As for why nobody bought her snacks, it wasn’t hard to understand.
Among the people still alive today, except for a very few, who could spare extra resources just to satisfy their appetite?
[ “Too bad.” ]
[ “It’s not just ‘too bad’! I’ll give you all my snacks, just sell me the repair materials.” ]
Behind the dialogue box was also a chibi emoji of a character kneeling and crying, which was genuinely amusing.
Although it was quite interesting, Ye Qiyan had no intention of acting as her savior.
[ “You should have opened a treasure chest at the previous station, right? I want the Train Coins inside your chest, use them to exchange for materials.” ]
The Chat Room fell into silence.
Ye Qiyan wasn’t in a hurry either. In less than a minute, Zhao Lin sent a response.
[ “Okay.” ]
Following that was the list of materials she needed.
There weren’t many items, merely 42 mechanical parts. If it were any other time, Zhao Lin certainly wouldn’t have been willing to take out two Train Coins for trade.
But now, she had no choice.
“Profiteer! Now even if I reach the trading platform, I won’t be able to buy anything at all. You really know how to bully people…”
After obtaining the materials from Ye Qiyan and before being caught up by the monsters, Zhao Lin repaired the Train. With a crying face, she patted her shriveled wallet.
“I sold him so many snacks for nothing, and he doesn’t know how to cherish a tender maiden at all, wuwu… All my money is gone…”
[ Ding-dong, you have a new friend message. ]
[ “Right, a friendly reminder about something, do you want to hear it?” ]
“Want to cheat me of my money again? This big profiteer, I won’t fall for it.”
That being said…
[ “I want to hear it, I want to hear it! Brother Ye, please speak.” ]
[ “The stopping time of this trading platform is infinite.” ]
[ “Eh?? Really or fake? Doesn’t that mean!!” ]
The moment she saw the message, Zhao Lin stood up straight with excitement, her head hitting the wooden cabinet beside her right on target, and the items inside spilled down onto her head.
“Wuwu, so painful…”
She couldn’t care less about that and continued tapping the light screen.
[ “If I can stay here forever, does that mean I won’t have to keep taking risks!” ]
Sure enough, if she hadn’t been reminded, Zhao Lin probably would have chosen to stop here.
Her Talent kept her constantly cycling between danger and happiness.
Especially when facing enormous good luck, she wouldn’t feel pleasantly surprised; instead, she would be even more terrified of the next wave of bad luck arriving.
This was terrifying.
[ “… However, this is a trap, right? Otherwise you wouldn’t need to tell me in advance, I would definitely discover this matter once I arrived…” ]
Zhao Lin took a deep breath, her excited mood gradually fading, replaced by a sense of helplessness and lingering fear.
[ “That’s right, how could this world let us off? Even if I really stayed there, I would definitely face things even more terrifying than inside the Train, especially since… my stop is bad luck, how could good things possibly happen… Thank you, I understand.” ]
She was very smart.
She got the answer from just a single sentence.
Ye Qiyan didn’t say anything more. Reminding Zhao Lin was simply because this little hen occasionally laid some golden eggs; living a bit longer wouldn’t hurt him.
As for whether Zhao Lin would die in some bad luck, it would only be a bit regrettable.
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Rumble——
The second Train entered the platform.
A woman with waist-length, smooth black hair stepped down from the Train.
The woman looked around, frowned slightly upon seeing only one other Train in the platform besides her own, and took out a light-blue Japanese flip phone.
[ “You haven’t arrived at the station yet? Aren’t you already level Li Xiaosheng This Train isn’t yours, is it?” ]
Ye Qiyan, who was playing Gomoku with the Smiling Man, heard the system prompt and looked over in confusion.
“Did that unlucky girl get into trouble again?”
He thought it was Zhao Lin, but unexpectedly, when he brought up the light screen, the person sending him a message turned out to be Shangguan Yingxue.
“Eh? This Train is hers? She arrived quite fast, but how is she talking to me from outside using a mobile phone?”
Ye Qiyan noticed the extra Train in the beginner trading area, never expecting that woman to be Shangguan Yingxue, whom he usually traded with.
That made sense. After all, besides him and Li Xiaosheng, she was the most outstanding among the remaining Train Captains, so arriving here third wasn’t anything strange.
[ “I’m not there.” ]
[ “?” ]
Shangguan Yingxue wondered if she hadn’t woken up yet. Seeing the dialog box on the light screen, she rubbed her eyes.
[ “You’ve already left this station? How could that be? Li Xiaosheng said in the public Chat Room that he was the fastest and hadn’t seen anyone else. Unless, are you already level Train Coins” ]
[ “Guess.” ]
[ “… Boring.” ]
Shangguan Yingxue annoyedly closed the chat interface and took a deep breath, unable to suppress the confusion and shock in her heart.
“How on earth did he do it? Why is he leveling up so fast?”
Since she couldn’t understand it, she could only accept it.
Switching the screen page, the system’s station introduction popped up above.
“Stopping time infinite?”
“A boring trap.”
Shangguan Yingxue had no intention of staying here at all and found the shopping hall by relying on the indicator signs in the station.
There were also three paths here.
From Roman numerals one to three, she chose the third one without hesitation.
Just as she was about to enter, she happened to see Li Xiaosheng walking out from inside. An exquisite marksman rifle emerged from her phone, its pitch-black muzzle pointing directly at Li Xiaosheng’s head.
“You? Don’t! Don’t shoot! I’m Li Xiaosheng! Here, killing people is not allowed here!”
Li Xiaosheng swallowed his saliva in fear, raised both hands, and tremblingly pointed at a warning sign not far away.
On it were brightly written four large characters: “No killing”.
“Move aside.”
“I, I’ll leave right now, please don’t shoot.”
Stepping around the gun barrel and running outward a couple of steps while still shaken, Li Xiaosheng suddenly realized something.
“I am Li Xiaosheng, the first person to arrive at this station among everyone, and also the president of the Alliance. Since you were able to arrive after me, it shows you also have great strength. Can we invi…”
Bang——
The bullet landed right at his feet.
Just a little bit more, and it would have pierced through his thigh.
“The first?”
Shangguan Yingxue blew out the wisps of smoke from the muzzle, looking at Li Xiaosheng as if she were looking at an idiot.
“Heh…”
Feeling the other person’s naked mockery, Li Xiaosheng’s face turned the color of pig liver.
If not for the fear of that gun, he would have left long ago.
Slinking out of the shopping hall in a dejected manner, Li Xiaosheng finally dared to speak loudly.
“Damn it, you’ll regret this!”
