"Does this mean we won't have anything to worry about tonight?" Brother Yang asked from up ahead.
"They're actually negotiating. This sounds more like doing business than holding us up," the hat-wearing Player said with a grin.
"No, he's suspicious too." Spiky Braid suddenly pointed at Xu Huo. "If he hadn't said anything about sticking cloth to the wall, I wouldn't have touched the water droplets. And he actually negotiated with that inflatable doll—and the inflatable doll agreed!"
The Player with the lighter scoffed. "Could this be some trick to lull us into a false sense of security?"
"Stop looking for trouble," Shirt Woman cut in. "Can't you see? It's not that the train robbers have suddenly taken pity on us. They just don't have enough manpower."
"I doubt many of them are actually willing to hand over items. Even if they destroy one carriage tonight to threaten the others, what will they do if nobody pays up tomorrow? Are they going to blow up every carriage overnight?"
"We offered to pay with items tomorrow, so they can conveniently skip our carriage tonight. Then tomorrow, people will start wondering if delaying the payment worked."
"Destroying carriages at night to draw in Aliens is the only trick they have."
So whether they used items in place of themselves, extorted people in advance, or threatened them as a warning, it all meant the same thing: the train robbers couldn't keep that many Players under control.
"Looks like there aren't any A-class players on the train," the hat-wearing Player said.
If there were an A-class player, they might be able to control the whole situation. Since there wasn't, the strongest among the train robbers could only be B-level, and most were probably C-level. Considering how difficult it would be to tamper with the