Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Cold, shaking

The moment he woke up, Su Li suddenly... well, he couldn't suddenly get up.

He felt pain all over his body, and a burning sensation kept coming from his hands and feet.

It felt like someone had drilled a hole in my brain and then churned it up with a blender; the pain was so intense it made my spine go numb.

Of course, there was also a bone-chilling cold, but only the back of my head felt warm.

Su Li opened her eyes, only to find a smooth, moist object obscuring her vision. In the dim light, this object emitted a faint glow. Su Li patted it irritably.

Hey, you know what, it feels really good.

"Hiss~ It's so cold." Song Mingyu's tired voice rang out, "You're awake?"

Su Li immediately realized what this was.

Yes, it's the elbow (upright face).

"Sister Mingyu?"

"Hmm... bear with it for a moment. We've been poisoned, and I'm using a breathing technique to help you detoxify."

Su Li then felt hands on her stomach and temples.

"Hey...it's so cold."

"There's nothing I can do about the cold. I've already taken off my clothes, and my cotton-padded coat is soaked with sweat. If I keep wearing it, the temperature will keep dropping, so it's better to just take it off... Okay, the poison should be mostly gone by now."

Song Mingyu withdrew her hand from Su Li's body, and the two separated. The skin beneath her suddenly lost the other's body heat, making Su Li feel a chill.

Su Li struggled to get up from the ground, then felt nauseous. "Ugh... I don't feel well. Ugh~ It's so cold, where's our insulation stone?"

"I don't know, I couldn't find it."

"...What time is it?" Su Li took out the manual and noticed that the time option was just two horizontal lines. "Not showing up?"

The manual didn't display the time at first. Zuli and his team found a clock in the town of Howling Valley and hung it in the duty room before the manual started displaying the time.

Su Li flipped through the manual again. The member interface was fine; all the avatars were in color, indicating they were still alive. She then turned to the chat interface.

The pinned message is from my teammate.

Ivan—Brother-in-law, I can't find your trail here, so I'll take my sister back to Blue Star City first. Once we've fixed the car and found someone who can perform wide-area searches, we'll come back to find you.

Ivan—I've hidden some supplies near the pit where you fell in [photo]. If you're not in a hurry, go get them. If you are, I can trade them to you directly.

Su Li checked the time; the message was sent around 5 o'clock.

Then there was no further news.

The latest message in the public chat room was at 7:59:59 this morning, and there's nothing after that.

"This is impossible... This is a group of 10 people."

Su Li had a bad feeling.

He opened the trading interface, which only contained a prompt box.

[No communication nodes for Earth civilization have been detected in this world. You are no longer in the service area.]

“?” Zu Li looked confused.

What the hell is this?

Then, Su Li suddenly thought of the crystal that had been destroyed when her train engine exploded.

"What's wrong?" Song Mingyu sensed that Su Li's mood was off, so she asked.

"Tsk, something's wrong." Su Li closed the manual in anguish. "Our train is the communication node for Earth. Now, our train should have left this world. So our communication and trading functions are unusable."

"Damn, I should have thought of that earlier. In the previous Civilization Fire, cross-world transactions required Civilization Fire to unlock, which means that the supporter of this function is Civilization Fire. The power of Civilization Fire is limited, so it certainly cannot cover all the worlds. So how does it usually help us with transactions? It probably uses the civilization foundation inside the train as a coordinate."

It's all hindsight now. Before something like this happens, you can come up with a dozen different theories. Now we only know the outcome, and we're working backward from it.

Su Li pounded the ground in regret. Without the trading function, surviving in this world had suddenly become much more difficult.

Putting everything else aside, they can't even trade for a clean set of clothes now.

After pounding the ground, Su Li took a deep breath. "Calm down, don't rush. If rushing would be useful, I would have become a god by now."

The problems were solved one by one.

Let's solve the temperature problem first.

Su Li immediately asked Song Mingyu, "Sister Mingyu, what's in your inventory?"

"Let me see... I only have 5 personal inventory slots, which contain the Staff of Blossoms, 2 oxygen tanks, 10 bottles of water, 5 bottles of Red Plum Fruit Tea, and 1 set of 10 pieces of wood."

The Staff of Prosperity was originally where she kept her concocted potions, but those potions had already been used by Axe Icefish.

Timber is used to pay transaction taxes.

Su Li checked his personal inventory. His personal inventory had been expanded twice and now had 15 slots, but he hadn't filled it up.

A set of iron, a set of wood, two iron pickaxes, one iron axe, a spare greatsword, two oxygen cylinders, two bottles of fruit tea, ten bottles of water, a mountain slope, and a thick blanket.

Su Li quickly took out a blanket, hugged Song Mingyu, and the two of them wrapped themselves in the blanket to keep warm.

Song Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "How lucky you are to have such a thick blanket with you."

Su Li fell silent for a moment. He couldn't very well say that he had used this blanket to put Sophia's bottom down last night... Because of its excellent results, Su Li had put it in his spatial storage and planned to wash it tonight. "I used it to keep warm while I was on duty."

Song Mingyu sniffed it. "It has a strange smell."

"Hmm... I found it in an abandoned shop. It must have smelled after being left out for so long." Su Li's eyes darted around, and she thanked her wife, saying, "Thanks to your help, I now have a blanket to cover myself with."

Su Li and Song Mingyu hugged each other. It was dozens of degrees below zero, so there was no need to worry about little Su Li. Little Su Li had also started to hibernate and couldn't get excited.

"What do we do next?" Song Mingyu leaned her head against Su Li's chest and asked in a low voice.

"Find a way to get out." Su Li lowered her head and rested her chin on the top of Song Mingyu's head. "Is your blessing still there?"

“The blessing is gone. Once an exploration cycle ends, the blessing is gone,” Song Mingyu said.

"Is that so... My blessing is gone too, and so is the insulation stone. It wasn't lost, it just vanished. The items provided by the operations room can only last for one cycle."

Su Li hugged Song Mingyu tightly, "The problem we're facing now is survival. As long as we survive, we'll get help from Ivan and the others."

"Survival... means facing four problems: food, water, warmth, and elemental erosion."

Speaking of food, Su Li remembered the deer she had killed earlier. The room still smelled of blood because of those deer. "Where are those deer?"

“I left it in a corner,” Song Mingyu replied.

"Let's butcher the two deer first; their pelts can be used for warmth. We'll butcher the rest by hand over the rest of the day. We can get over ten kilograms of meat from them."