Chapter 165: Barbecue
He had thought her room would be in a warm and cozy style.
Unexpectedly, it was prison style.
There were no decorations in the room, including cabinets and other unnecessary furniture.
There were even very few personal belongings. The bed had the train’s own white quilt, neatly folded there. The wall had an assault rifle and tactical vest hanging on it.
The magazine was inserted inside, ensuring it could be fully loaded and ready for task at any time.
The cold-colored emergency light shone down, carrying a sense of oppression as if a biochemical outbreak could happen at any moment.
Jiang Rong showed no hesitation and said softly, “I want to exchange for a Tier 1 profession recipe for ‘Energizer’.”
This was not beyond Su Huan’s expectations.
“For a normal exchange, your points are definitely not enough, but this time consider it a gift from the Train Conductor. What skills do you currently have?”
Jiang Rong thought for a moment and answered, “lv2 ‘General Energy Conversion’, lv1 ‘Energy Fusion’, lv1 ‘General Energy Absorption’.”
Su Huan rested his elbows on the small table, a glint in his eyes.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Rong had quietly awakened two skills. Among them, ‘Energy Fusion’ was to rub together various energies that had been converted.
He often used electric spear or fire spear, but never used them at the same time, precisely because he lacked this skill.
As for ‘General Energy Absorption’, it was a necessary skill for his Tier 2 ‘Circulating Vortex’.
As far as he knew, these two skills could not form any profession, meaning that to promote to Tier 1, one skill would inevitably be discarded and shelved.
“I have quite a few Tier 1 promotion recipes for ‘Energizer’ here, some biased toward detection, some toward charging, and also combat and energy reserve ones. Which one do you need?”
“Combat.”
Jiang Rong quickly gave her answer.
Su Huan said gravely, “Not all types have complete recipes from Tier 1 to Tier 5. Some can only go up to Tier 1 or 2.”
The woman in front of him gently shook her head. Her gaze was calm like a pond at the village entrance, without anything complex or treacherous.
“Thank you for the Train Conductor’s kindness, but I don’t have that many opportunities to evolve other abilities. Just the combat type.”
“Even if it’s the same profession as mine?”
“No.”
Perhaps polished smooth by reality, Jiang Rong refused very straightforwardly.
The rejected Su Huan was instead even happier. He clapped his hands and praised, “You are absolutely the captain who can live the longest among all captains.”
“Thank you for the Train Conductor’s blessing.”
“Tsk.”
……
After resolving Jiang Rong’s Tier 1 profession issue, Su Huan came to Carriage 19, the independent carriage of the armored train’s third combat team.
The last exoskeleton was also given to Tong Zizhan. Although the quantity was insufficient, the sincerity was there.
Subsequent rewards would also be supplemented one after another.
“These points are still very useful. Basically everything you want can be found in the exchange list. If not, you can also mention it to Senior Attendant Elder Hu, ways to obtain points besides doing tasks include exchanging some supplies and such.”
Su Huan explained with a smile.
Gao Yuan blurted out from the side, “Can intelligence be exchanged?”
“Of course! As long as it’s valuable intelligence, I will definitely give you a satisfactory price.”
Su Huan went along with it.
Seeing Tong Zizhan’s unkind gaze, Gao Yuan’s face twitched, and he said awkwardly, “I was just saying…”
“Alright, if there’s anything, communicate with Logistics Group Purser Hu Shuo.”
Su Huan stretched lazily, turned, and left. Yu Yue recorded the main content of today’s conversation and quickly followed behind him.
Watching the two leave, Tong Zizhan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he glared fiercely at Gao Yuan, “You are now just a survivor who got lucky with dog shit luck. What blockbuster news do you have?”
Gao Yuan awkwardly turned his ring, “Didn’t you say you wanted to find an opportunity to come clean with the Train Conductor?”
“That also depends on the timing.” Tong Zizhan pointed at the exoskeleton on the carriage floor, irritably saying, “The rewards just arrived, and then you reveal yourself as an undercover agent. Even seeking death isn’t done this way.”
“Then should we use these equipment and points?”
“Of course we should use them. Not only use the equipment, but also use the points, and recruit a few trusted aides from the rear passengers, pretend to make it look real.”
“Hiss, why do I always feel something is off…”
“Go check tomorrow what good things the armored train has, and spend the points first.”
……
These two capturing Li Tao was a great merit, answering the key doubt from his previous life’s chase and kill.
Plus the existence of Deep Blue Data, stabilizing these two was more beneficial than harmful to the armored train.
By the time the two returned to the dining car, it was already nine o’clock at night.
Going around this circle, Su Huan had resolved almost all the accumulated issues on the train. The only blind spot in his vision was the ordinary passengers in the rear.
On the train, the Train Conductor was equivalent to the emperor, Xiao Ba and others were his ministers, the crew were his grassroots officials, and the ordinary passengers in the rear carriage were those common people.
For them, Su Huan’s previous attitude was to let them go their own way, appropriately keeping them in chaos.
Because without a solid “official foundation”, he could not manage the grassroots in depth.
Even if he had some ideas, they could not be implemented.
Now that the front had stabilized, it was time to reap the population dividend from the rear. Over a thousand people refitting the train would definitely be much faster than a few hundred.
The points trading system had not had any issues so far, and it was time to open it up.
Even if loopholes appeared, they could be adjusted slowly.
There were quite a few in the crew who were good at designing rules.
By the time he came back to his senses, the train had entered low-speed driving state. Liang Kuan sitting in the dining car only needed to glance at the railway track status on the monitor from time to time.
Xiao Zhao’s drones were all equipped with night vision goggles; looking at the screen was more accurate than his naked eye observation.
Professor Ma, Director Xu, Xiao Zhao, and others also arrived at the dining car one after another.
Because this was the first important gathering meal after the Battle of New City, even the limping Qu Hang was dragged over by He Jie, with Goat following behind.
Lin Jin stood by the car window, leaning against the wall, his eyes always fixed on the cabinet edge. There, on the bar stool, sat a petite figure. The warm yellow kitchen light fell on that silver hair, as if sliding off, swaying and dyeing the hair tips golden.
Everyone passing by would subconsciously lighten their steps and pay a bit more attention to her.
Yu Yue busied herself behind the cabinet preparing seasoning. Eating barbecue was a troublesome thing, and serving the Train Conductor was an even more troublesome thing. Su Huan not only ate dry ingredients, but also needed a portion of wet ingredients.
In the latter half, he would add some vinegar to stimulate the taste buds masked by the greasy barbecue.
However, the pretty little girl Su Huan brought back was strange, always staring at her.
Yu Yue smoothed a stray strand of hair from her temple, took a piece of pork belly rolled with pickled vegetables from the plate, dipped it in some honey barbecue sauce, held it to the little girl’s mouth, and said gently, “Want to try?”
