It should have been used first to repay genuine kindness, or exchanged for the vital resources and technical support Amphoreus needed for reconstruction after its devastation.
After listening to Kryudera and Aglaea's clear, well-reasoned words and distinct positions, March 7th scratched her cheek.
"Uh, well... the Express Crew didn't help because we wanted a reward or anything."
"But you two have a point. Golden Blood was something Phainon worked hard to obtain. Giving it to strangers for free would be too hasty." She nodded to show that she understood.
After thinking for a moment, she added, trying to put in a good word for the Xianzhou:
"As for the Xianzhou... uh."
March 7th had wanted to cite things that had actually happened in the past—such as fighting Huanlong together and resolving the Stellaron crisis—to say something favorable about the Xianzhou and prove that they could be trusted allies too.
But after carefully considering the Xianzhou Alliance's usual conduct and complicated internal power structure, then recalling the Express Crew's actual dealings with the Luofu, she fell silent.
Those memories were not all warm, pleasant cooperation.
When the Star Rail Express had received Kafka's vague message, everyone had been so worried that they had temporarily set aside even the upcoming Penacony celebration.
They had rushed, at all costs, to the Xianzhou Luofu, then shrouded by the Stellaron and crisis, with the original intention of carrying out a possible rescue.
Yet after arriving at the Luofu, their initial contact had not exactly been friendly.
She still remembered Jing Yuan and Yukong's good-cop, bad-cop probing and wariness with perfect clarity.
It was not the complete trust one would show a lifesaving straw. It was more like the standard procedure for dealing with a group of outsiders of unknown origin who might bring unpredictable variables.