Depart early!
Qi Xiao, who had narrowly escaped death, leaned against the Train car, panting heavily.
He slammed his fist on the ground. "Damn it! Ren Laotaiye is inside."
I didn't even open the door to 401. Did she turn into a spirit and open the door herself?
And she could even find the invisible Train.
Besides the adrenaline rush from escaping death, Qi Xiao also felt hot all over and mentally stimulated.
His mind was currently filled with that woman's body.
Was it the influence of that fragrance?
Qi Xiao went to the bathroom and stripped off his clothes.
Finally, under the cold water, Qi Xiao calmed down and stopped thinking about those images.
Wiping the water from his face, Qi Xiao summoned the light screen to check the messages Xi Jian had sent him that morning:
"Three si snake silver coins, how do we split them? I get two, you get one."
"Reply, hey! You get two, I get one, that works, right?"
"Giving them all to you is impossible! Don't even think about it!"
"Where are you, where are you, where are you, where are you, where are you, where are you, where are you, where are you."
"Don't tell me again that I drank your drink; you weren't here yourself."
Ten minutes earlier, just as the Train was about to be thrown to the ground by the tentacles, Qi Xiao took out the three train coins from Xi Jian's drink trade.
After gathering eight, he immediately modified the Train to depart early.
He managed to escape just in time.
......
Qi Xiao dried his body and changed into new clothes.
Many things in the Train were scattered everywhere, and Qi Xiao shook his head helplessly.
He moved the furnace to the kitchen and steamed two bowls of rice.
After tidying up the scattered items, Qi Xiao set up the frying pan, turned on the range hood, and began to cook.
The stove consumed wood, and the range hood consumed metal.
Fortunately, the consumption was not high, and he could afford it.
With the seasonings and vegetables he had just scavenged, Qi Xiao made cauliflower stir-fried with cured meat and cucumber stir-fried with eggs.
The dishes were cooked, and the rice was also steamed.
Qi Xiao sent a message to Xi Jian:
"Time for lunch."
"You finally replied! I finished the drink, don't ask me for more!"
"Today, I stopped in the forest, and there are two bears with chainsaws outside; they scared me so much I didn't even go out."
"Where did you get the plates? Are the tin cans already obsolete?"
"The food is pretty good today, and there's even yogurt."
"Hmm, good cooking, the eggs are quite tender."
"I praised you for nothing, the cured meat is tough."
Watching Xi Jian's barrage of messages, Qi Xiao smiled, closed the light screen, and began to eat.
After lunch, Qi Xiao checked his remaining supplies:
【Metal: 300 kg \ 320 kg】
【Plastic: 150 kg \ 317 kg】
【Wood: 100 kg \ 380 kg】
He pondered for a moment, then opened his private chat with Xi Jian:
"I'll transfer supplies to you to help you upgrade to a Level 4 Train."
"Huh?"
"A weasel paying respects to a chicken certainly has no good intentions."
"You give me three train coins every day; I can't let my good ally have none left, can I?"
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! I knew it! Don't talk nonsense, who said I have to give you three every day?"
"It's decided then, my good ally."
【300 kg of metal, 150 kg of plastic, and 100 kg of wood have been transferred to Train Conductor Xi Jian, Train No. 19999999.】
"Aren't you afraid I'll take the stuff and just delete you and run away?"
"How could that be? You're not the kind of person who would betray an ally."
"I wouldn't betray an ally either. I certainly wouldn't go to the chat room and shout that you have the Arrival Reward module."
"......Despicable! Insidious! Cunning villain!"
Qi Xiao watched the number on Xi Jian's avatar jump from three to four, a smile playing on his lips.
With today's incident, Qi Xiao deeply understood the importance of train coins.
Helping Xi Jian upgrade was definitely not a loss.
This hen that lays train coins must be well-kept.
He closed the light screen and began to organize the supplies he had collected today.
In the fifth car, Qi Xiao set down the large bed, spring mattress, made the bed with a quilt and pillows, and placed a nightstand next to it.
It perfectly replicated the 201 master bedroom, with a festive red color.
Across from the bed, Qi Xiao placed the modular sofa set, then threw all the collected clothes onto it.
When it was cold, he could sleep there.
After arranging everything, Qi Xiao went to the initial car and began to chop wood.
He chopped all the chairs and tables without tops into small pieces and stacked them together.
Busy until seven in the evening, Qi Xiao finished processing the wood.
After taking a cool shower, Qi Xiao boiled a bag of frozen dumplings, three-delicacy filling.
Twenty-four dumplings went down before he even realized it; he was really hungry after working all afternoon.
The Black Wind Monster drooled all over the floor, watching Qi Xiao eat dumplings.
"Black Wind Monster, you're disgusting."
"Woof!"
After dinner, Qi Xiao lay on the blanket, staring blankly at the car ceiling.
That si snake silver coin had already been activated by Qi Xiao.
Of the twelve zodiac patterns, three were now lit.
Dragon, Snake, Rooster.
It was a pity that Ren Laotaiye was just gone like that.
From now on, everything would have to rely on himself.
...
The next day, seven fifty-five.
"Isn't this just a pumpkin?"
Qi Xiao used a machete to cut the vine and picked a pumpkin, about the size of his hand.
It was a golden hammer, similar to a mini pumpkin.
He wondered if it tasted as good as a mini pumpkin.
Qi Xiao looked around, and there were pumpkins everywhere, at least five or six hundred of them.
Qi Xiao glanced around and found the unripe green pumpkin.
The Station Announcement said that an unripe golden hammer had a Level 1 treasure chest buried beneath it.
He took out his entrenching tool, and after a few shovels, there was a thud, the sound of a wooden box colliding.
He found it.
Qi Xiao opened the treasure chest.
【magical multi-purpose fertilizer: Promotes plant growth, has a chance to ripen directly (5 kg)】
Ripen directly? It sounds quite impressive.
He would try its specific effects later when he could plant vegetables.
Kong You's vegetable-planting modification was quite good; he would get one if he ever came across it.
The sixth car was still empty, after all.
Qi Xiao glanced at the time; it was eight o'clock. He returned to the car and summoned the light screen.
Xi Jian: "Tianmu Station."
"Never been there."
"Alright."
This was what Qi Xiao had instructed Xi Jian to do: always send him the station she was stopped at.
If he had stopped there before, he could share the station information with her.
After hanging a bottle of milk and a bread, a flash of light appeared, and Qi Xiao received three train coins.
This was the real treasure chest, and it was a growing one.
Qi Xiao continued to pick pumpkins.
The Black Wind Monster followed Qi Xiao, scurrying around the pumpkin patch, not helping at all, and even peeing on a pumpkin.
"You little rascal, I'll pick this one for you to eat!"
"Woof woof woof!"
Four and a half hours later, Qi Xiao had picked every single pumpkin in the field.
He harvested over five hundred in total, each weighing about a pound.
Qi Xiao piled them in the refrigerated car, selected two, washed them clean, removed the pumpkin seeds, and put them in the furnace to roast.
Qi Xiao didn't throw away the removed pumpkin seeds; he washed them clean and set them aside to dry.
After doing all this, Qi Xiao sat by the car door, drinking water and basking in the sun.
Qi Xiao took a deep breath. "Mmm, the smell of nature."
Beside him, the Black Wind Monster had just taken a dump.
......
At one o'clock, the Train departed.
The pumpkins were also roasted.
Qi Xiao took a bite; it was soft, sticky, and sweet, with a taste and texture comparable to a mini pumpkin.
He sent a message to Xi Jian, telling her to come get lunch.
【You have traded with Train Conductor Xi Jian, Train No. 19999999, over thirty times, indicating frequent trade. A special trade relationship can be established. After establishment, items can be directly transferred.】
There's a hidden mechanism like this?
Qi Xiao clicked to establish, and Xi Jian confirmed on her end.
【Special trade relationship established. Items not confirmed received within eight hours will be returned to the sender.】
【A maximum of five unconfirmed received items can exist simultaneously.】
Qi Xiao directly transferred one of the roasted pumpkins to Xi Jian to test the new function.
Nice, very convenient.
No more having to set up a trade and select what to trade.
"You transfer something to me too to try out the new function, like train coins or something, not forcing it, though."
"Get lost! If you want a hen to lay eggs, at least leave one in the nest; what the hell is it with taking everything out every time?"
"I advise you not to be too ruthless."
"Just a broken pumpkin, trying to fob off a beggar."
"Did the food supply become bad after just one day?"
Qi Xiao recalled the transfer.
Xi Jian: "Don't! I was just kidding. The pumpkin is good, it's sticky and soft, I love pumpkins."
......
Seven more bottles of iced drinks were traded out, and Qi Xiao restocked the link.
Qi Xiao then used ten train coins to upgrade the jie bracelet, increasing its storage weight to two hundred kilograms.
The next upgrade would require twenty train coins.
If he had upgraded the jie bracelet to Level 4 earlier, he probably could have moved everything before the tentacle monster arrived.
What a pity.
Qi Xiao threw the remaining half of the pumpkin into the Black Wind Monster's dog bowl and unscrewed a bottle of water, taking two gulps.
This pumpkin, if eaten too fast, could be a bit choking.
【This stop: Dave's Backyard (Single-person station)】
【This station is from Plants vs. Zombies, Danger Level: 3.】
【Dr. Zomboss's controlled mech has one Level 1 treasure chest. It can contain: 3 train coins, one pressure cooker.】
Another game world?
It wouldn't be the recently popular hybrid version, would it?
......
Dave, wearing a frying pan on his head and holding a shotgun, fired a shot at a zombie's head as it crawled into the front yard.
The zombie's head exploded like a watermelon, and Dave let out a triumphant "Oh, oh!" cheer.
All the zombies directly in front were dealt with by Dave, but what he didn't notice was a zombie sneaking in from the backyard.
It waved its rotten arms, opened its rotten mouth, and pounced on Dave.
Just as it grabbed Dave's neck and was about to bite down, Qi Xiao swung his entrenching tool, and with a thud, knocked its head off.
"Oh, man! Crab meat!"
Dave kicked away the headless zombie, patted the frying pan on his head, and grinned at Qi Xiao in thanks.
He reached into his pants, pulled out a flattened corn roll, and handed it to Qi Xiao.
"Bro, corn roll."
Qi Xiao looked at the white, sticky sauce and politely declined.
Dave wasn't polite either and ate it himself.
"It tastes really good." Dave sucked on his fingers. "Bro, how can I thank you?"
Suddenly, a bungee zombie jumped down from the sky. It grabbed Dave by the neck, trying to pull him away.
Qi Xiao took out his machete, and with one swing, cut the bungee zombie's rope.
The bungee zombie, without its rope, fell face-first, and Dave sat on its head, successfully delivering the finishing blow.
A note was left on the ground.
Qi Xiao picked up the note:
"Neighbor, tonight, barbecue, rooftop, waiting for you."
"Bro! Don't pick it up, it'll summon the old Zombie King! I was tricked before!"
The next second, Qi Xiao and Dave appeared on the rooftop, and day turned into night.
Dr. Zomboss, in his mech, appeared in front of them.
He was exactly who Qi Xiao wanted; what would he do about the treasure chest if he didn't show up?
"WTF, man!"
Dave raised his shotgun and fired a shot at the Zombie King's mech.
"It's useless, you need to plant plants." Qi Xiao said calmly, "Where are the plants?"
"What plants? Peas? They're in the lamb stew!"
Qi Xiao turned to look at Dave, a look of surprise on his face:
"Where's the cabbage?"
"Made into hamburgers."
"Where's the corn thrower?"
Dave pulled out another corn roll from his pants.
"No plants, what do I use to fight the Zombie King?"
"Guns!"
With that, Dave tossed Qi Xiao a shotgun and adjusted the frying pan on his head:
"Bro, let's just do it!"
Dave pulled out another shotgun and started firing at the zombies.
Qi Xiao grinned. After taking down a zombie with two shots, he was surprised to find that the gun didn't need reloading.
Good heavens, infinite bullets!
The Zombie King extended his hand, picked up a white car, and hurled it at Qi Xiao and Dave.
"Fuck! My car!"
Qi Xiao dodged nimbly, and the car tumbled off the rooftop.
In a game world with infinite bullets, no recoil, no overheating guns, those zombies were no match at all.
Qi Xiao even got so into it that he resorted to close combat with his machete.
With their combined efforts, they quickly made the Zombie King wave the white flag.
Qi Xiao blasted the Zombie King's swollen head with a shot and retrieved the treasure chest from the cockpit.
The next second, because the Zombie King was defeated, the two flashed back to the front yard.
Dave stared at Qi Xiao, who had taken the treasure chest, and was stunned:
"Bro, you want this box? I have lots in my car!"