"So you came for the money? I thought you were here to save people."
"Am I that kindhearted?"
The wind and snow in the capital were far fiercer than elsewhere.
Inside the hollow that had been excavated.
The Resource Baron paced back and forth, eager to fly up and take a look right away. But with Ye Qiyan here, he kept agonizing over whether to say something.
Ye Qiyan knew exactly what this fellow wanted to say.
But he simply continued thawing the entire bank.
Most of the people inside the bank had already disappeared.
Only a handful of Train Conductors were barely clinging to life within Icebound.
But Icebound drained more than just their stamina. It drained their maximum stamina.
[Reaching zero] meant disappearing.
Even after they were thawed, their maximum would remain permanently reduced.
Such a reduction could only be reversed with high-rank recovery items or a powerful individual's recovery modules.
But neither was something an ordinary Train Conductor could afford.
In truth, they were already lucky enough.
The Resource Baron might have spoken harshly, but his actions were more than a little loyal.
Before he himself was frozen, he had actually dispatched tens of thousands of Gemstone People to seal off whatever parts of the capital they could reach in advance.
Powerful Extraordinaries still had some ways to cope, and could even escape before being completely frozen.
But weak Train Conductors and ordinary people could not.
Some people might die inside the seals, and there were nowhere near enough Gemstone People to seal everyone away.
But at least while he could still hold out.
Most people would not be frozen down to zero by the cold end.
But...
That was all he could do.
Order Heaven was not his home ground, after all.
With spatial teleportation frozen,