“Why isn’t this guy replying to my message?” The girl whose ID was Dawn Wind and Waning Moon felt somewhat frustrated.
She was still one iron block short of upgrading her train, and the Survivor trading with her was willing to exchange an iron block for salt peach.
However, the only five Salt Peaches had either been eaten by her or used in trades with others.
“Could he be deliberately ignoring me?” Although she really wanted to calm down and stop thinking about something that had not happened,
those thoughts wriggled through her mind like countless nimble worms.
“This is so annoying!” She collapsed helplessly onto the bed, defeated by her own anxiety.
After an unknown amount of time, the manual’s beeping finally sounded beside her ear.
She hurriedly opened the manual. Sure enough, it was him.
“I’m not selling salt peach!” An Bai’s first words were those four.
There was nothing he could do about it; An Bai was irritable after waking up.
Li Zhiluò: “We can trade. I don’t need that much, either.”
“What good stuff do you have?”
Li Zhiluò relaxed slightly at this. Judging from his tone, there was still room for negotiation.
“Would you trade for a scroll?” She was determined to get the salt peach.
An Bai was silent for a while. Lying on the bed, he stared blankly at the chat records on the manual and did not reply immediately.
Trading was not merely a battle of words; it was also a contest of wits.
Seeing that An Bai still had not replied, Li Zhiluò also became uncertain.
Could he really not know the value of this scroll?
“You haven’t been checking the chat channel, have you? Quite a few people have obtained scrolls already. Scrolls are extremely useful!”
An Bai still did not reply.
Li Zhiluò was grinding her teeth in anger. This time, he was definitely ignoring her on purpose.
“Of course I know the value of scrolls.” Only after quite a while did An Bai reply.
Li Zhiluò felt that he had her completely figured out, and her earlier urge to flip the table vanished instantly.
“Twenty Salt Peaches! Take the scroll.” She hurriedly replied.
“Who knows what this scroll is for? What if it makes something useless to me?” An Bai said.
“Impossible!” Li Zhiluò said firmly.
“I saw someone in the chat channel obtain a Toothpick crafting scroll.”
Li Zhiluò: “......”
“Does your scroll only reveal its function after the train upgrade?” An Bai interjected at just the right moment.
Li Zhiluò did not refute him. He had guessed correctly.
Some scrolls only worked when paired with specific conditions.
Moreover, what she had obtained during the daytime was merely a silver treasure chest. Many people who obtained silver treasure chests received scrolls whose functions were rather underwhelming.
Someone had even obtained a crafting scroll for a charger, which was completely useless in this world.
“I just obtained a scroll too, and its function is quite significant,” An Bai continued.
“You’ve already completed the train upgrade?” Li Zhiluò was somewhat surprised.
“I upgraded it during the daytime.”
“I see!” Li Zhiluò’s heart sank.
“Fifteen Salt Peaches? That’s my absolute limit.” Li Zhiluò also added a smiling-through-death emoticon.
“Ten Salt Peaches. If the tool made from this scroll is highly useful, then afterward, as long as you provide the materials, I’ll make one for you as well.”
An Bai also made a small concession. He did not want to inexplicably gain someone who held a grudge against him.
Li Zhiluò hesitated for a while. She felt an urge to abandon the trade, but her instincts told her that the journey ahead would become extremely dangerous if she did not complete the train upgrade.
“Deal!”
“How refreshing!” An Bai chuckled and sent over ten Salt Peaches.
In return, he also received that scroll.
As soon as the scroll was Teleported onto An Bai’s train, words began to appear on its surface.
A line of regular script entered An Bai’s view: Simple athletic shoe crafting scroll.
Materials required: five cotton, three rubber, two high-quality beast hide, and one grass fiber.
Description: “The feeling of flying.”
“Sports shoes? That’s a little abstract.” An Bai had expected something better, such as a Trap crafting scroll or something similar.
Still, he had not changed his shoes for three days, and gathering supplies in the wilderness really did require a new pair of sports shoes as a spare.
At the very least, they would help him evade beasts and prevent athlete’s foot.
After thinking for a while, An Bai told Dawn Wind and Waning Moon about the information.
Andersen: “Do you need sports shoes?”
“Sports shoes? Do you mean the scroll you obtained was an athletic shoe crafting scroll?” There was a trace of disbelief in Li Zhiluò’s voice.
“Correction: it was a Simple athletic shoe crafting scroll.”
Li Zhiluò: “......”
“Do you want it?” An Bai sent another message.
“I can obtain cotton, rubber, and beast hide, but what is this grass fiber?”
“A herbaceous plant that grows with relatively tough fibers.”
“Okay. When the time comes, I’ll give you the materials I collect so you can make them.”
“Can you obtain beast hide, cotton, and rubber by yourself?” An Bai asked.
“That’s not something you need to worry about.” Li Zhiluò curled her lips, thinking to herself that he would have his “suffering” later.
【The third Polar Night arrived, and the train began to depart】
【There are currently 2.9 billion survivors remaining, which is a fairly good number. It seems humanity’s desire to live far surpasses that of other species. Good luck on the journey ahead】
【On the fourth daytime, the survivors will be Rated based on their performance during these three days. Outstanding individuals will receive additional rewards】
As An Bai and Li Zhiluò clashed verbally, the gears affecting 2.9 billion survivors began turning once more.
He opened the chat channel, and sure enough, it was filled with another chorus of wailing.
“I hate this! Why didn’t they say so earlier?”
“If they had told you earlier, could you really have outperformed those people?”
“I couldn’t have outperformed them, but at least I could have been mentally prepared to fail.”
“You’re pretty good at comforting yourself.”
“Quite a few people have probably already upgraded their trains,” someone said.
“I’m only one iron block short. Which big brother has an iron block?”
“Trying to get something for free? Keep dreaming!”
“There’s no way this thing can circulate. Supply simply can’t meet demand.”
“Exactly. The Survivor Alliance rarely provides them to its allies, either.”
“Don’t even mention the Survivor Alliance. Aside from a few reliable ones, the rest either ignore you completely or trick you out of your resources.”
An Bai frowned upon seeing this. After only a few days, had the so-called Survivor Alliance already begun to suffer a “collapse of credibility”?
Yet he always felt that things were not so simple.
Could Dawn Wind and Waning Moon’s claim that she could obtain those things also be because she had joined the Survivor Alliance?
An Bai had thought that this so-called Survivor Alliance would only reveal its fangs later on, but wasn’t this progression happening far too quickly?
“That’s not right!” An Bai’s gaze sharpened.
“They’re probably trying to undermine the trust of those still observing the Survivor Alliance. They don’t want to see these people grow stronger!”
Sure enough, someone began to refute them.
“Nonsense! I only managed to upgrade my train because I joined a Survivor Alliance. The alliance leader is a wonderful person!”
As soon as those words were spoken, a large number of people immediately came out to echo them, drowning out the earlier opposing voices.
“Hired posters?” An Bai was somewhat shocked. They had only been in this world for a few days, and there were already hired posters?
He did not believe anyone would really provide iron blocks for free. Iron blocks were not beasts, plants, or anything like that; they were not so easy to obtain in nature.
This atmosphere also placed an invisible pressure on An Bai. He reckoned that the outstanding individuals in the upcoming rating would be these alliance leaders.
“Looks like I’ll have to work twice as hard from now on!” An Bai made up his mind.
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