Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

After much hesitation, Su Li still didn't eat the seafood.

The main issue is that these crab-people are clearly intelligent beings. In Zuli's opinion, eating intelligent beings is quite unsettling. Besides, she's not without food.

However, we should still take the spoils we're entitled to.

The giant crab-man's claws are magical artifacts, but they're unsuitable for Earthlings. Earthlings don't have claws that big.

Su Li searched for a long time but only found two potions, which were useless.

[Shell growth agent: Repairing damaged shells]

【Cheek Activating Agent: Activates the cheeks and enhances the effects of body training】

Neither of these two are usable by Zuli, a human.

After searching high and low, the only useful items were the props in the hands of the two crab-men.

【Water-Sea Conch: When infused with magical energy, it can continuously release water projectiles to attack enemies. It also contains a space that can store water】

【Water-Storing Conch: When infused with magical energy and fully charged, it will unleash a stream of water to attack enemies. It contains a space that can store water】

The first one is a distraction tool in the hand of the giant crabman, and the second one is a tool used by the skinny crabman to release water blades.

Of course, there is one more item you are guaranteed to get after the killing.

[Bloody Conch: A conch that can open up a certain space]

After putting away the three props, Zuli and Ivan went to the conch shell.

Su Li tapped the conch shell with her hand and found it to be extremely hard. It felt like tapping on steel.

This must be the 'train' of their civilization. Their civilization should be called the Eternal Conch Game, shouldn't it?

Zuli and Ivan carefully approached the entrance to the conch shell. Zuli used the Blood Conch on the conch shell, and a red light flashed on it, as if some kind of change had occurred.

Then Ivan grabbed the conch's operculum and pulled hard. The operculum was easily pulled open, and the conch meat, which had been tightly attached to it, was now completely powerless.

Zuli and Ivan exchanged a glance and made a few hand gestures. Ivan took the lead and stepped into the conch shell.

Then Zuli also entered.

Upon entering, Su Li discovered that the conch shell's interior space was enormous. It was 5 meters high and at least 300 square meters. Furthermore, there was a staircase inside, suggesting it was a two-story structure.

Zuli and Ivan searched the entire place thoroughly, and only after confirming that there were no living creatures inside did they begin to plunder the supplies.

The storage containers used by this civilization weren't the treasure chests that Su Li and his companions used, but rather giant sea clams. Su Li scavenged around and obtained quite a bit of seafood, but all of it was fermented, since these crab-people were scavengers.

Besides the seafood, there were some tools that Zuli and the others couldn't use, such as a bed for polishing carapaces and air bubbles for cleaning gills. After some picking and choosing, the two of them finally managed to sort out some tools that they could use.

First, there are common resources like iron and copper ingots, about 500 units of each. There are also about 30 silver ingots and 10 water elemental shards, which are better than nothing.

Then there are a few more practical props.

【Water Flow Protection: When activated, it creates a water flow around the vehicle, reducing water resistance】

This prop is a fist-sized white pearl, shimmering with iridescent light, like a celestial object. If this pearl were placed on Earth before the apocalypse, countless people would go crazy for it, with a starting bid of hundreds of millions.

[Sun Pearl: After charging, it continuously releases sunlight to provide crops with the sunlight they need to grow] *5

These golden sun pearls were placed in an indoor space on the second floor, resembling a cultivation room. Inside the cultivation room, a large amount of algae was being grown.

Nutrient-rich algae: a favorite food of a certain type of shellfish, highly nutritious.

Without a doubt, this is the food for this conch.

Zurich also roughly outlined the vehicle configuration of this civilization.

They control a type of conch with spatial abilities, allowing it to move freely in the sea. The conch needs to feed on nutrient-rich algae.

It sounds wonderful, but Zurich doesn't think highly of this civilization.

This type of vehicle has significant drawbacks. First, our train only requires wood to move. Wood is readily available and easy to obtain; if wood is unavailable, there's coal, or even just some combustibles. When not in operation, there's virtually no consumption of fuel.

These conches eat seaweed every day, and this special seaweed requires a lot of effort to cultivate.

In the early stages of survival, food is much harder to gather than fuel.

Secondly, if vehicles with spatial capabilities are used in the initial stages, then space-related materials will inevitably be needed for upgrades. If space-related materials were so easy to collect, they wouldn't be scarce.

The most common spatial resources they might encounter are probably other players' seashells. Isn't this encouraging infighting?

This shows that their civilized thinking is flawed.

It sounds great that everyone uses space vehicles, but can you actually afford to supply them? You need space materials every time you upgrade, can you collect them all?

Or consider a planet like Earth, which initially has almost no overpowered abilities. As the train upgrades, the path of gradual enhancement is more stable and consumes less of the civilization's resources.

Zuli carefully put away all the props except for the seaweed. Seaweed cannot be stored in the space; once stored, it will become inactive and cannot be planted.

Zurich and Ivan emerged from the conch shell, each carrying a large bunch of seaweed.

Su Li was still very interested in the space inside the conch shell and wanted to drag it away. However, after using an appraisal spell, Su Li was rendered useless.

[The Dead Space Conch: It will turn to light and disappear after 72 hours.]

There was nothing she could do; it seemed the system had blocked that path. With tears in her eyes, Su Li could only use her disintegration skill on the conch shell.

The skill's radiance enveloped the entire conch shell, then the conch shell turned into points of light and disappeared, leaving behind a large amount of materials on the ground.

Delicious conch meat

[Uncarved Conch Shell: Using a certain secret method, conch shells can be crafted into special equipment]

Seeing this prop, Su Li guessed that the two magical conch shells in her hands were props made by the crab people after they killed their own kind.

[Space Pearl: A pearl containing the power of space. Can be used as an upgrade material.]

【Conch Core · Sersi Tribe Union: The Foundation of Civilization】

After packing her things away, Su Li inspected the damage to her carriage.

The roof of the carriage had been blasted open by the ramming head of the conch shell. The carriage was now filled with seawater.

Zu Li swam into the interior through the gap to inspect the damage to the vehicles inside.

After looking around, Su Li found that the damage inside the car wasn't serious; only the floor had been punched through. The workshop's walls had also been breached, and it was temporarily unusable until repairs were made.

Su Li returned to the operations room, picked up the high-speed repair materials given to her by the God of Pioneers, and then went back to the breach.

Zuli poured the green bucket over the gap. The gel-like liquid inside touched the damaged train and quickly enveloped the gap. Then Zuli received a clue.

Please provide 100 units of wood and 50 units of iron ingots.

Zu Li swam to the back of the train, took out the materials from the storage room, and then clicked submit.

After the materials were submitted, the gels glowed, and their colors gradually blended into the colors of the carriage. In just 10 minutes, the damage to the carriage was repaired.

After confirming that the repairs were complete, Zurich began using the disinfection room to drain the seawater from inside the carriage.

This process lasted a full 20 minutes before it ended.

Only then did Su Li return to the operations room.

When Sophia saw Su Li come in, she carefully dried Su Li's body with a towel and asked, "Are you done?"

"Yes, the carriage has been repaired and re-aired." Su Li used her magic to dry her wet hair, then shook off the salt with her hands. "I've acquired some items."

Su Li placed the props on the table.

The moment the enormous pearl appeared, it caught Sofia's eye. "So beautiful!"

"Indeed, it's quite dreamy. If I were 10 years younger, I would definitely go crazy for it," Song Mingyu said weakly.

Ivan picked up the five sun pearls. "Brother-in-law, I'll go see if the operations room can recharge these devices."

"Okay, go ahead and give it a try." Su Li nodded, then picked up a piece of seaweed that was still alive. She then opened the trade window and found Zheng Hongyuan.

Su Li and his group don't plan to cultivate this nutrient-rich seaweed. However, they can trade it with the Blue Star government. Cultivating this seaweed can be used to feed some Black Iron-level monsters.

Zheng Hongyuan seemed to be online 24/7, like a miserable customer service representative. Seeing the seaweed in the Su Li trading list, he immediately placed a piece of paper there.

Su Li traded a piece of timber for the notebook, then opened it and found Zheng Hongyuan's handwriting inside.

This seaweed is very interesting. We're planning to create some worlds with water resources, and this seaweed can be grown in those worlds; it's excellent food and fodder. Please keep it safe. We can trade it when we return to Blue Star City.

Also, please keep an eye out for similar things; our rear areas desperately need all sorts of amazing crops.

Speaking of seaweed, Zuli suddenly remembered that she still had a living salt plant. She had brought it from the first world, from the saline-alkali land. Later, Ivan managed to grow it.

Zuli then put the salt grass in the trading section.

Zheng Hongyuan immediately made another transaction.

This saltwort is also very useful; it can be rotated with crops to inhibit soil salinization and also provides salt. Please protect it; we'll come back to trade.

Zuli happily harvested both crops. Trading with the Blue Star United Government was definitely profitable. They were very generous to Zuli and other excellent explorers.

Ivan walked in with a regretful expression and placed the golden sun pearl on the table. "I've tried, but the power supply in the operations room can't power these pearls. However, the sun crystals in the cultivation room can."

"These pearls can store sunlight and release it when there is no sunlight, providing sunlight for plants."

Su Li understood. "That's good too. Our solar crystals will be damaged after the next exploration, right? We can use these solar pearls to replace them then."