Chapter 20: Late-Night Transaction

“Oh, I swear Sister Mo will always be number one in my heart!” Zhu Ou raised her hand to take an oath.

After they finished laughing and playing around, a robot waiter came to clear the dishes.

Mo Yubai sent a message to A1, mentioning that she wanted Chinese food for breakfast tomorrow, and added that she hoped to check out the training grounds in the Service Area.

During her battle with the gray wolf today, she could clearly feel that her speed was still not agile enough.

It was not just her defensive speed; her offensive speed was also too slow, which was why her Bird-head Staff had missed its mark.

Pulling herself out of her thoughts, Mo Yubai said goodbye to her companion, and they headed to their respective rooms.

Lying in the high-tech indoor hot spring, she felt the comfortable massaging pressure working over her body.

Mo Yubai relaxed completely, the exhaustion of the past two days swept away in an instant.

From the shower outlet next to the tub, pure water flowed continuously from the pipe into a bucket.

The surrounding area was filled with plastic buckets, crowded and huddled pitifully together.

Mo Yubai took out the merged backpack from the Workbench and clicked to check her loot.

The backpack’s capacity had expanded by five slots. It seemed Zhang Bowen had kept his starting backpack without ever expanding it.

Since only a portion of the materials would carry over, there probably wouldn’t be much good stuff!

Bread x8, Quilt x1, Sportswear x2, Tracking Gold Coin x1

Mo Yubai’s eyes lit up. She had not expected him to have a Tracking Gold Coin. It looked like she had made a profit after all.

And he had quite a lot of bread. She wondered if he only had eight to begin with, or if only eight had randomly remained.

He had so much bread, yet he still scammed that fool who only had half a piece of bread?

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Society was really going downhill, and people’s hearts were no longer what they used to be.

After her hypocritical lament, Mo Yubai happily accepted all the resources.

Next, she began to check the contents of the Silver Treasure Chest. Her arm had been too badly injured earlier, so she had simply swept the items into her backpack without looking closely.

Metal Armor x3, Cooling Cloak x3, Foldable Tent x3, Bandage x12, Hemostatic Medicine x1, Wooden Bucket x2, Disinfectant x6, Pig-driving Stick x3, Professional Combat Suit x3, Sanitary Pad x12, Sand of Time x3, Nail x3, Glass x9, Rubber x16, Iron Block x29, Battery x6, Plastic x11.

“This is definitely a win!” Mo Yubai was thrilled as she looked at the Professional Combat Suit and Metal Armor in her backpack, as well as the speed-boosting Gray Wolf Boots.

“Fortune favors the bold. I’m definitely doing this again next time!”

Closing her backpack, Mo Yubai nodded as she watched the Smart Water Pipe obediently swapping out the plastic buckets to fill them.

“You’re doing great. Keep it up. I’m going to sleep now. Just shut down automatically once you’re done filling them.”

Mo Yubai got up, put on the silk pajamas A1 had prepared, and praised the little Smart Water Pipe.

The little pipe was so happy that its flow rate increased, and it even wiggled its body.

Lying on the soft, comfortable bed and wrapped in a light, warm quilt made of an unknown material, Mo Yubai opened her chat with the player who wanted to trade the Plastic Bucket Blueprint.

She wanted to take advantage of the free pure water while she still could and trade for more containers, just in case.

It was already almost four in the morning, but the player replied incredibly fast.

“I’m here! Big Boss Mo, what are your orders?” Yang Yangyang was boredly browsing the chat channel, completely dismissing the various praises for Zhao Facai. He had traded with Zhao Facai before and knew the man was a total cheapskate. How could someone like that possibly let anyone else get the better end of a deal?

Mo Yubai’s lips twitched slightly at the sycophantic message. “Do you still have the Plastic Bucket Blueprint?”

“Yes, Big Boss! I have one more. If you want it, I’ll send it to you right away!”

Yang Yangyang’s eyes lit up. The generous Big Boss Mo had come to trade with him again. Indeed, a hardworking guy’s luck was never too bad. The three blueprints he had obtained from the night chest were incredibly useful!

“What do you want to trade for?” Mo Yubai wanted to see if the price was reasonable.

“Big Boss Mo, I just asked someone to craft my twenty plastic buckets. Could you help me fill two of them with water?”

Yang Yangyang felt nervous. The capacity of these buckets was actually quite large, and his request was indeed a bit much.

But since the boss still wanted blueprints, she must have found another source of water. He wanted to see if he could hitch a ride on the boss’s water-filling wagon.

He might as well ask first. If she refused, he could always ask for something else!

Although it seemed like a lot, this was a zero-cost deal for Mo Yubai anyway. She did not mind and replied in a good mood:

“Sure, send them over. Do you have any other container blueprints? I can trade pure water for them.”

“Yes! Yes! My friend has a Stone Jar Blueprint! If you want it, Big Boss, I’ll go trade with him for it right now!”

Yang Yangyang jumped up in excitement upon reading the boss’s message, then immediately began to spam his deskmate without hesitation.

“Alright, same old rules. Send over your blueprint and plastic buckets first!

If you can really get me five container blueprints, I can fill all twenty of your buckets with pure water.”

“Don’t worry, Big Boss! Even if I don’t sleep tonight, I’ll get them all for you!”

Yang Yangyang eagerly pledged his loyalty to the boss while urging his childhood friend, Tian Cai, to send the blueprints quickly.

“I look forward to your results.”

Mo Yubai opened her Game Backpack, took out the Workbench, put the newly received blueprint inside, and selected the maximum limit: thirty plastic buckets.

She ordered the small robot vacuum by the bed to take the plastic buckets into the bathroom so the Smart Water Pipe could keep working!

Mo Yubai rubbed her temples as she looked at her material reserves. It wasn’t enough, not nearly enough!

Looking at the 120 unpurified bottles of mineral water in her backpack, a mischievous idea came to Mo Yubai’s mind.

She got up and walked guiltily to the bathroom door. Before she even stepped inside, she saw the little Smart Water Pipe working busily.

Feeling a slight twinge of conscience, Mo Yubai decided to let this little pipe off the hook for now.

She pushed open the door, walked to the living room, chose an empty guest room, and gave the guest room’s little water pipe a thorough round of manipulation!

In the end, the task of replacing the river water in the 120 plastic bottles with pure water was successfully assigned!

Relieved of her burdens, Mo Yubai strolled back to her room and flopped comfortably onto the bed.

“Big Boss Mo, I got six Stone Jar Blueprints! Should I send them to you now?”

Having just pried the blueprints from his grumbling deskmate, Yang Yangyang immediately offered them to the boss.

“Send them over. Send the remaining eighteen plastic buckets too. In fact, send whatever containers you have. I’ll fill them all up for you as a reward for going above and beyond.”

“Ahhh! Thank you, Big Boss Mo! I’ll send them right away!”

With trembling fingers, he clicked send, then began pacing in circles as he anxiously awaited his bottled water.

He had no idea how long it would take the boss to fill them. He just hoped she wasn’t a scammer. It wouldn’t matter much if he got scammed, but if that kid Tian Cai found out, he would never hear the end of it!

Mo Yubai went to the bathroom before accepting the messy assortment of containers he had sent. She handed the eighteen plastic buckets to the Smart Water Pipe and sent him the twenty buckets she had already filled.

Since he trusted her, she couldn’t leave him hanging in suspense all night.

Since the plastic buckets had arrived, she might as well send him the ones she had already filled to put his mind at ease.

Five minutes later, after filling the containers and sending them back to him, Mo Yubai walked over to the Workbench.

Seeing that the plastic buckets were all finished, she placed the Stone Jar Blueprint onto it.

Stone Jar Blueprint: One Stone Jar x3 Stone Blocks. One blueprint can produce twenty Stone Jars.

Mo Yubai selected the maximum quantity without hesitation. Looking at the forty-five-minute countdown, she sighed helplessly. It was so slow.

Handing the thirty crafted plastic buckets to the little Smart Water Pipe, Mo Yubai opened her chat box and sent a message.

“Ou Ou, are you asleep?”

“No! Ahhh, Sister Mo, this place is amazing! There are so many novel things, I’m too excited to sleep!”

“Can’t sleep? Great! Then don’t sleep just yet.”