Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Upon entering the ruins, Su Li's first impression of this attack was that it felt a bit like entering a school's laboratory building.

Behind the main gate was a spacious hall, with a small building on the left that looked like a guardhouse and a reception desk on the right.

This place should have originally contained a lot of furniture and decorations, but under the dual pressure of time and seawater corrosion, it has become a pile of waste materials whose materials are no longer recognizable.

After glancing around, Sophia pointed to the wall beside her and said, "There seems to be something wrong over there."

Qi Guohui followed Sophia's finger to the wall and found that it was indeed a little different.

Qi Guohui made a hand gesture, indicating to be on guard, and then walked to the wall.

He touched the wall with his hand, and a large, somewhat faded picture appeared in front of everyone. After looking at it, it seemed to be a floor plan of the place.

Thanks to the system's translation service, everyone was able to understand the text on the image.

Qi Guohui read out the name of the building from the "Seventh Royal Research Institute." "Look at the diagram," he said, "there's a very large underground structure here. Where is our target?"

"I don't know... If it's a game, it should be on the lowest level." Jingzhe gestured towards Xiaogao with her eyes. "Did the giant snake say what it was?"

"It's a golden jewel. It's about as tall as a person."

Qi Guohui wiped the entire wall clean, then took a picture of the floor plan, and said, "Let's go straight down. The map shows that the upper part is mostly the auditorium and reception area, with only one sacrificial area, which is right on the way down the stairs."

"We'll search slowly and steadily; there's no rush."

After saying that, he turned to Su Li and asked, "What do you think?"

“Okay,” Su Li replied.

The group slowly made their way into the ruins, gaining some understanding of this destroyed civilization.

The people of this civilization should be a bit taller than the people of Earth, because their doors are generally 3 meters high, and the lighting equipment they use, besides the luminous pearls that Su Li had seen before, also includes some kind of prop similar to a light bulb.

Through the transparent windows, one could see some mechanical constructs inside the office, their outer shells long since detached. Zulido glanced at them a few times, sensing their extraordinary complexity; it seemed this civilization's technological level was quite high.

This is quite remarkable, because it is extremely difficult to develop flame smelting in the ocean.

As they walked, Qi Guohui stopped, and Su Li, understanding his intention, stood to his side and behind him.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Qi Guohui used his left hand, which was covered by a shield, to slowly push open the door in front of him.

The stone door rubbed against the floor, producing a low thud.

Pushing open the door, Su Li and the others entered a hall with a strong theological atmosphere.

In the hall, the most eye-catching thing is naturally the statue of the god in the center.

It was a three-in-one statue. It consisted of a giant abyss serpent, a huge turtle, and a monster whose lower body was a storm and whose upper body was somewhat like a horse.

The tortoise and the horse guarding the serpent indicate that the three gods are led by the serpent.

After confirming there was no threat, they split into pairs and began searching the hall, but found nothing except a crystal book.

This hall is the core part of the building above ground. To the left of this hall is the passage leading to the underground core area.

And that passageway is also very interesting.

This passageway is just like an elevator on Earth.

After examining the passage, the group discovered that it had long been broken due to a lack of maintenance and energy supply.

There was no other way but to have Qi Guohui open the 'elevator door', and the group floated down the 'elevator shaft'.

According to the diagram, this place has a total of 5 floors, and each floor is tens of meters high except for the underground floor.

The group arrived at the basement level.

After forcefully pulling open the elevator door, Su Li and the others filed in.

Upon entering the basement, you see a long corridor with closed metal doors on both sides.

"Let's go, let's search them one by one."

The group searched all the rooms one by one.

Most of these rooms were very dirty, with piles of unknown decaying matter on metal tables and floors. Su Li observed that the shapes of these piles actually resembled books.

In other words, are all of this research data?

Su Li guessed to herself.

In addition to these, there are many other unidentified crystals.

These crystals are placed on a metal table, and there is some kind of clip on the back of the crystals that connects them to the wall.

At Qi Guohui's instruction, Jingzhe disassembled a crystal and discovered that it was just an outer shell; inside was a depleted crystal core and a large amount of metal equipment.

Qi Guohui picked up the broken crystal core, thought for a moment, and then took out a magic crystal from his inventory.

Next, he placed the magic crystal into the core of the machine.

After the crystal was placed inside, the unknown machine immediately emitted a faint glow, and the group of people were overjoyed.

But then, the machine emitted blue electric light and stopped moving.

"It seems to use magic energy, but it looks broken. I don't know if it's the wrong specifications or if it's been stored for too long," the nanny, Xiao Gao, concluded regretfully.

As Sophia looked at the depleted crystal core, an idea popped into her mind.

She picked up another crystal ball, opened it, and took out the depleted crystal core inside.

A magical glow appeared on Sophia's hands.

As a class whose core combat tactic is enchanting, she has a strong ability to sense various materials. After sensing them, she discovered that the material of this crystal core was similar to the magic energy crystal cores they usually use.

The interior is engraved with some intricate circuits, similar to those used in enchantments.

Sofia used her experience to deduce this response and found that it had the effect of storing and receiving energy.

In other words, this is a battery.

"I'll give it a try; maybe I can power this crystal."

Qi Guohui's team looked at Qi Guohui, who nodded. "It's worth a try; maybe we can get more information. But time is of the essence. If we don't get results within an hour, we'll have to move on."

"It won't take an hour." Sophia closed her eyes and began to adjust the fluctuations of magical energy within her body.

Three minutes later, the crystal in Sophia's hand emitted a magical glow, and then, with a crack, it shattered into two pieces.

Sofia opened her eyes, looking somewhat tired. "I typed a little too fast. Let me try again."

Xiao Gao handed another crystal to Sophia.

This time, it lasted for 5 minutes, and the crystal in Sophia's hand gradually became brighter.

Sophia opened her eyes again and handed the glowing crystal to Su Li. "It's done. It's not fully charged, but this amount of energy should be enough."

"Thank you for your hard work." Su Li took the crystal and handed it to Qi Guohui.

Qi Guohui embedded the crystal into the crystal.

Then, the crystal emitted a light. The white radiance was exceptionally dazzling in the dark office.