While the two captains talked, Chu Sheng and the others kept busy too.
Between the two convoys, there were eighteen or nineteen Sequence Adepts altogether-the perfect opportunity to trade.
Chu Sheng immediately suggested, "Why don't we hold a trading session? We can exchange whatever we need!"
He wasn't scheming against them. Although he was no saint, he had long since drawn a line he wouldn't cross.
Besides, these people looked thoroughly upright, so he wouldn't have much to worry about when trading with them.
Hearing Chu Sheng's suggestion, the Sequence Adepts from the train exchanged glances, then nodded. The man who had stood behind Xu Aiguo spoke.
"In that case, we'll need to go back and fetch our trading goods. How about we start in half an hour?"
"Sure!" Chu Sheng readily agreed.
The two groups then parted ways.
Only after they had separated did An Xi glance at A Xin, who stood beside her looking bewildered, and say, "A Xin's Sequence ability is good news for us."
"What good news?" Old Man Li sat straight down on the ground, not caring whether it was clean.
"How did A Xin suddenly awaken?!"
Zhu Qing was just as puzzled.
Neither of them had noticed A Xin's awakening.
An Xi made no attempt to clear up their confusion, instead saying directly, "A Xin's Sequence is called Protection."
"Protection?" Chu Sheng frowned slightly, puzzled.
Wasn't protection a concept?
Elders protecting their juniors, old people protecting children and younger generations, the strong protecting the weak, and so on.
Still, although he didn't quite understand, his own Sequence ability was even more unreasonable. Chu Sheng didn't dwell on it and instead asked, "So what kind of ability does she have?"
An Xi took a deep breath, glanced at the still-bewildered A Xin, and explained, "Her