Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

With this relaxation, Zuli grimaced and lay down, startling Ivan who was standing next to her.

Song Mingyu hurriedly came to Su Li's side and began to examine Su Li's body.

"Cough cough cough!" Su Li coughed violently, and then vomited a mouthful of blood.

Song Mingyu was surprised to find that the blood Su Li vomited was dark in color and contained some small crystals.

“The elemental bacteria have broken out.” Su Li gasped for breath. “I feel like there’s something wrong with my lungs and stomach.”

"Ivan, help him onto the sled," Song Mingyu instructed.

As soon as he finished speaking, the numerous ice feathers surrounding them instantly vanished, and the golden light inside turned into firefly-like specks of light and disappeared.

Ivan helped Zuli onto the sled, and then the two siblings pulled the sled together, rushing quickly toward the train.

Once inside the train, with its protective features, even if the eagle were to launch a surprise attack, the train could be used to deal with it.

The journey was uneventful, and the group successfully carried Su Li into the train.

Song Mingyu placed one hand on Su Li's chest and the other on Su Li's lower abdomen. The energy core of Earthlings is primarily located in the upper, middle, and lower dantian. Song Mingyu was currently focusing on the middle and lower dantian as she tended to Su Li's wounds.

After a long while, Song Mingyu released her hand and used her finger-pointing technique to press several meridians on Su Li's body. "How does it feel?"

"I feel much better. The bone-chilling coldness in my abdomen has started to disappear."

Song Mingyu nodded. "That's good."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Su Li was safe.

Ivan finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Brother-in-law, what happened to you? Why did you suddenly collapse?"

Su Li lay on the ground, looking up at the ceiling, and replied, "It was a feather dropped by an eagle. I was hit by a feather, and the energy inside the feather actually entered my body through the wound, instantly detonating the elemental bacteria inside me."

"Luckily, I have high resistance and fire-type abilities, and very few elemental bacteria in my body, otherwise I would have been killed in one move."

Song Mingyu added, "After the elemental bacteria in Su Li's body erupted, they turned into ice crystals between her lungs and stomach, damaging Su Li's lungs and stomach. However, because the amount was small, and because Su Li's magical energy transformed into the Sun Wheel mode after she swung that sword, the damage was not significant."

“If it were the three of us…” Song Mingyu glanced at Ivan, who could use the power of the sun to cast spells. Then she looked at Sophia, whose internal organs possessed the attributes of the five elements and whose resistance was quite high. After considering all this, and adhering to the rigor of a doctor, she changed her words, “If it were me, I would be unconscious by now.”

After resting for a while, Su Li felt that she was almost recovered, so she got up from the ground.

I moved around a little and could feel some pain in my internal organs, but it wasn't very noticeable. "A miracle worker, doctor!"

"It's good that you're alright." Song Mingyu had the composure of an attending physician.

Since there was nothing else to do, Su Li decided to hold a short meeting to discuss the next steps.

Su Li first honestly reflected on his own problems: "I made some mistakes. First, I didn't expect to encounter a silver-level monster so soon. Second, I didn't expect that this eagle would hunt again today after hunting just yesterday."

Under normal circumstances, this kind of monster doesn't come out to hunt every day. After succeeding once, it will stay quiet for several days.

"So our plan is to set off now to the designated forest and start logging."

"The forest helps us avoid enemy attacks. On the snowfield, there's no cover at all, which puts us at a significant disadvantage."

With no objections from his teammates, Zuli started the boiler and began driving towards the distant woods.

Because of the snow outside, the train could not increase its speed, and Zuli was also afraid of the train derailing, so it would take them at least several hours to reach their destination.

The group of people simply sat in the duty room reading and chatting.

Ivan naturally asked the question he was curious about, "Brother-in-law, why did that eagle ultimately give up attacking us?"

Su Li glanced at her two remaining teammates. Sophia showed no curiosity and continued looking at the recipe, while Song Mingyu put down her notes and looked at Su Li. It seemed she wasn't quite sure either.

Su Li didn't keep them in suspense and said directly, "Because for that silver-level Flying Eagle, the risk outweighs the reward."

"How so?" Ivan continued to ask.

“Let’s talk about the risks first.” Su Li was happy to take this opportunity to teach her younger brother. “First of all, we need to understand that the monster is here to hunt. This is a hunting war, not a territorial dispute or the defense of a lair.”

"Therefore, the monsters won't fight us to the death. It's just going out for a meal; they won't risk their lives."

"The monster launched several probing attacks against us, including stealth attacks and feather attacks, but they were all ineffective. Instead, I managed to deflect them with a sword aura, along with Sophia's soul attack. Sophia's attacks, in particular, were extremely threatening."

"That monster didn't know that we could only use these attacks once. After taking these attacks, and seeing Sophia condense [Dream] again, it naturally felt that the risk was very high."

Ivan nodded. "I understand."

Su Li then explained, "And then there's the profit."

“At the beginning, we were dressed in very, very thick clothing, with black iron-level equipment on top. Look at our equipment, Sophia, Mingyu and I are wearing leather armor, and you are wearing armor. All of these pieces of equipment retain the original material’s appearance.”

"From the perspective of a monster that has never seen equipment before, it will only see leather armor and armor as our skin. Underneath the skin is flesh. From this perspective, the fact that we are dressed like jelly beans means that we have a lot of flesh."

Ivan thought about how everyone looked before, and they did indeed seem quite fat and fleshy. In the freezing cold, fat is a good thing.

"So in the end, I said to put all the warm clothes we were wearing underneath into our inventory." Su Li said this with a hint of pride. "From the monster's perspective, our meat volume suddenly dropped to only one-third of what it used to be."

"Silver-level monsters already have brains. Compared to other types, they have no territorial conflicts, no hatred, and their meat yields little profit, but they can damage your soul. Hunting this kind of prey is not worthwhile."

So in the end, the eagle took the remaining half of the weasel and went to find other prey.

These eagle-like monsters can hunt over distances of hundreds of kilometers and never lack prey.

"If you were a hunter, would you rather run a few more steps to hunt prey like rabbits or deer, or fight to the death with prey like wolves, which have little meat and are dangerous?" Su Li asked Ivan in return.

“Of course it’s a rabbit,” Ivan answered instantly.

"That's the truth."