Extortionate Prices

Extortionate Prices

The tickets were traded through a designated drop-off system. Xu Huo paid, and the seller left the ticket somewhere and sent him the address. The buyer could then go collect it with the password.

It was a fairly convenient and secure way to trade. Places like behind a station sign or beneath a trash can were common hiding spots.

Xu Huo left Xiao Yuan at the hotel and went to collect the ticket himself.

Non-player tickets looked much like player tickets, but instead of listing a dungeon location or name as the destination, they specified a station in a particular game sub-district. The departure point was also not a player platform nearby.

On his way back, he picked up two sets of clothes for the child, along with a backpack and a hat.

She was nearly ten, but short for her age. Xu Huo took one of the item dresses he had bought for Pink Hat and gave it to her to wear.

Clothing items of this kind usually offered protection against corrosion and poison. If they were made of better materials, even ordinary sharp weapons could not cut through them, giving them decent defensive properties.

Besides regular passengers, non-player trains could also carry players who had suspended their player status. While their status was suspended, they could not use the items on their game panels unless they activated their tickets again. But the items themselves still had defensive and offensive properties, so they could wear them and use them as ordinary tools.

So the people on the train were not entirely harmless. Still, travel was broadly similar to long-distance journeys before the game appeared, and unlike player trains, non-player trains explicitly prohibited fighting.

Xu Huo prepared a child's wallet for Xiao Yuan, then tucked some extra money