Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 706: Purchasing a Quota

Chapter 706: Chapter 706: Purchasing a Quota

Xu Huo had learned before that many people were sponsored by the welfare institute in Zone 011, but few would directly adopt children to take back home. Usually, they would just offer financial aid for their living and education until they grew up.

"Mr. Dong, do you know why it’s recently become fashionable among the nobles to adopt orphans?" he asked.

"This is a charitable activity initiated by a noble lady," Mr. Dong said. "Most of those who adopt orphans are player families, who also own properties in the subordinate districts of 011, so they usually take the children away after adoption."

"By taking non-player trains?"

"Yes," Mr. Dong replied. "Game districts can apply for non-player train tickets in the name of an individual or a group. Players generally can’t ride these trains, but if possible, player relatives often choose this mode of passage."

"There have been past news about a large number of orphans being adopted, but later those kids basically all left Zone 011 and never came back."

Xu Huo looked at the photos in the news. A noble or two being kindhearted was plausible, but so many displaying charity all at once seemed a bit strange.

"Are you also thinking of adopting a child?" Mr. Dong added water to his cup. "If you’re interested, I can contact the orphanage today. You are now a baron, and the procedure would be very simple."

"I have no plans to adopt," Xu Huo said, closing the news and heading out to report to the game base.

Compared with yesterday’s busyness, today the department had much more downtime. Once the analysis report came out, all that was left was to deliver the samples to Director San Yang.

Xu Huo again brought up the matter of purchasing props with Shi Youzhi.

"You’re buying props quite frequently," Shi Youzhi remarked, looking at him with new respect. "Did you make a good haul in the instances?"

"Not bad," Xu Huo said with a smile. "Are there purchase restrictions for affiliated personnel?"

"Kind of," Shi Youzhi replied. "Applying too frequently isn’t allowed either. Each gaming base has certain indicators, and high-level props have fixed quotas."

While saying this, Shi Youzhi looked at him and smiled. "The one you bought last time was a high-level prop, it’s the same this time, right?"

Xu Huo had just nodded when Wan Tingfang and Cai Xiangxiang entered the room. The former heard that he wanted to buy a prop and immediately gave a thumbs-up, "Brother Xu is really impressive, I haven’t even saved up enough for prop money yet!"

Wan Tingfang had also looked at props but hadn’t made a purchase due to a lack of funds.

"She could buy," Shi Youzhi pointed at her. "You could discuss with her about using her quota. After all, she doesn’t have the money to buy props right now."

Xu Huo looked at Wan Tingfang, who wasn’t coy and rubbed her fingers together. "You know the deal."

"A flat rate, two hundred thousand White Notes," Xu Huo said. "That’s my limit. Anything beyond that, I won’t take it."

Wan Tingfang clapped her hands, "Deal!"

Xu Huo handed over the money, and Shi Youzhi opened the internal system for them to select together.

"These props really look great." Wan Tingfang eyed them enviously, then sighed, "Too bad I don’t have the money... What do you plan to buy?"

Xu Huo had previously taken a liking to "Reversed Space," but now that he opened up the list, it was gone. He asked Shi Youzhi, "Is the prop catalog in the game base updated in real-time?"

Shi Youzhi nodded. "They can be requisitioned or bought, and new ones also come in, so it’s not set in stone. Sometimes there are particularly few high-level props."

Xu Huo scrolled through the display and soon found another Rank-B prop:

[Concentrated Air: Everything can be compressed, including air, but this is not like filling a ball with air. A scientist has experimented, showing that if you compress the air from a three-dimensional space repeatedly, once it reaches a certain level, it will act similarly to a space-time item and can block certain properties and prop effects.]

[Imagine instantly compressing the air within a ten-meter interval into one centimeter. The ten-meter distance doesn’t disappear. As is well known, many properties and props have range limitations, so whether used for prevention or as a defense prop, this is a very good item.]

Not only could this prevent properties and props, but using it was just like an "Air Barrier," and it wouldn’t become unusable after a single blow like other defense props.

Xu Huo saw the price listed below, fifteen million White Notes, which was still an internal price.

"Just a defense prop, and it’s so expensive!" Wan Tingfang exclaimed in surprise. "Other Rank-B props aren’t this costly!"

"Props with space-time attributes are all more expensive than ordinary ones. Not only expensive, they might come with additional conditions." Shi Youzhi scrolled down further. "Look, this prop also has a condition for purchase; you need one piece of valuable information that the game recognizes."

"Ordinary information won’t do," Shi Youzhi patted Xu Huo on the shoulder. "It’s up to you what information you use to exchange; not even Director San Yang can make the decision, only the system grants you the purchasing qualification."

"What level of information is considered valuable?" Wan Tingfang asked Xu Huo’s question for him. "Mineral resources? Wanted players? Or methods for passing levels?"

"The system decides that. However, it’s best if it’s related to hot news," Shi Youzhi said. "Keep an eye on recent game news; information related to major events usually has a high pass rate."

"That’s difficult," Wan Tingfang lamented. "A lot of the news reports are about high-level players and gaming districts. We at our level can’t even get in touch with major or minor affairs."

"You can buy it on the bounty platform. If you’re lucky, you might find something useful," Shi Youzhi suggested, before She Ping called him away.

Seeing Xu Huo still staring at "Concentrated Air" without moving, Wan Tingfang said, "Try the captain’s method. If that doesn’t work, look at others."

Xu Huo continued to browse downward until Wan Tingfang called out to stop at something, "This one looks good!"

[Storm Blade: A small body with a big impact. A short dagger, not more than thirty centimeters in full length, can create a cut over six meters with full-force swing, although it has a cooling-off period of three seconds.]

"The cooldown is too long," Xu Huo said. Three seconds was enough time to be killed back and forth.

"If it’s for dealing with lower-level players, this time isn’t considered long," Wan Tingfang analyzed. "If the evolution rate isn’t high, players’ speed is just so-so, plus this is a Rank-B prop, you wouldn’t fear close combat."

Xu Huo shook his head and kept scrolling.

The number of high-level props this time was much less than what he had seen before. Just as he had finished looking and hadn’t selected any prop he liked, the catalog suddenly updated with a new Rank-B prop:

[Eye of the Deceased: A longsword that has killed countless, with an eye that remains tightly shut where the hilt meets the blade. It is said that it only opens during a massacre and once it does, everyone who sees it becomes its target, including the wielder.]

[Therefore, this prop is also referred to as "the Cursed Sword."]