Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Upon reaching the top of the hill, Zuli finally saw their current location.

They are now around a frozen lake. This lake is surrounded by mountains.

Zuli determined the direction: east was the direction of sunrise, northeast was the lake's inlet, and rivers flowed out to the southwest and northwest.

"This is bad..." After looking around, he concluded with a grim expression. "There are many mountains in the northeast that have experienced landslides... but this area is too large. There are traces of landslides everywhere within our field of vision. How are we supposed to find the original locations?"

This place is a godforsaken spot where temperatures can drop to tens of degrees below zero; it's not suitable for wandering around outside.

Besides, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death." These mountains only look close; in reality, they are very far away, and Su Li and the others really can't run them.

“…What should we do?” Song Mingyu looked at Su Li, waiting for her man to make a decision.

"Give up and wait for them to come to our rescue." Su Li decisively abandoned her decision to go back to the original location.

“Okay.” Song Mingyu agreed to Su Li’s decision. “However, the power of this landslide is really great. It’s so far away, yet it has affected this place and caused the ground to crack.”

“It’s probably a groundwater issue,” Su Li said, scratching his head. “The distribution of groundwater has been altered, leading to changes in the terrain. Perhaps a large new lake has formed somewhere…”

Su Li didn't want to dwell on the more specific details. Anyway, it was none of his business.

Right now, all he wants to do is hurry up and build a shelter.

"Let me see……"

Su Li looked around at the surrounding mountains. Many of the mountains to the northeast were not very stable. As Su Li was observing, she saw that one of the mountains had triggered another landslide.

"Considering that carbon dioxide rains down here at night, our shelter should be located in a high-altitude area."

After looking around, Su Li chose the southeast direction, to a mountain peak that didn't look very high.

Then comes the arduous journey.

The surrounding area is all snowfield; it would be a waste not to ski.

They only have two portions of wood, which isn't enough to make a sled.

"Let's go to the woods a kilometer away and cut down some trees to make a sled or something. It's too tiring to walk on foot."

The snow in this place was only half a meter deep, and the two of them walked through the snow, one foot in the snow and the other in the water.

They arrived at a small grove of trees. Zuli glanced at it and saw that the grove only had about 20 trees in total.

Su Li took out her spare iron double-handed sword, aimed it at a tree, and slashed down fiercely.

"Magic Slash"

The magic swept across, and the ordinary tree was directly cut down by Su Li. The 7-meter-tall trunk creaked as it slowly fell to the ground, accumulating a large amount of snow.

Upon landing, the tree was directly transformed into finished timber by the system's power.

Zuli picked it up and obtained a total of 5 units of wood, 2 units of branches, and 1 unit of bark fiber.

Su Li took out a piece of wood, reactivated her magic, chopped the wood into four pieces, and then sat on the ground to start carving skis.

Song Mingyu wasn't idle either. Among these 20-odd trees, there was one of those brown ice trees with cloud-like patterns on its roots.

Song Mingyu collected all the cloud fragments before starting to cut down trees with a stone axe.

As Song Mingyu chopped wood, making a rhythmic thumping sound, Su Li finally finished carving four skis. He made the kind of double skis that would be powered by poles.

"They seem to be roughly the same shape, so they should work, right?" Su Li held up four skis, somewhat uncertain.

last step.

Su Li ignited a sunfire in her hand, "Too big, smaller, smaller~"

The flames gradually shrank, eventually becoming a small ball. Su Li looked at the familiar flames, and a flash of inspiration struck her. She held the flames on her index finger and exclaimed, "Orochi Nagi!"

As Su Li waved his arm, a fire dragon appeared in front of him.

"Wow, that's awesome! I used to practice that move a lot when I was a kid."

Having fulfilled her childhood dream, Su Li couldn't stop smiling.

However, this move has little practical value, because its destructive power relies entirely on the intensity of Su Li's flames, and he has never actually learned the Great Serpent's Nagi technique.

The boy, beaming with delight, picked up the four skis and started to heat them with the flame in his hand. In no time, the bottom of the skis was charred.

Putting everything else aside, as someone who works with temperature control, his ability to control the heat is consistently excellent.

Carbonized skis are more robust, durable, and waterproof.

I learned this trick from a home renovation video.

After finishing the baseboard, Su Li took out a piece of wood and whittled two blocks of wood.

[I don't know anything about mortise and tenon joints, so I'll just make one up myself.]

He had left four small vertical wooden stakes on the skis he had made. Now he dug two holes in the wooden block and inserted the stakes to secure them.

Su Li tried them on and they fit perfectly. The other pair was for Song Mingyu, and it also fit perfectly. Thanks to spending the last two days together, he had gathered a lot of body data.

Just as Su Li was feeling smug, a pair of icy little hands suddenly grabbed her face, slipped down her collar, and reached into her chest. The cold, jarring touch made Su Li yell, "What are you doing?!"

"Warm my hands..." Song Mingyu unceremoniously placed her hands inside Su Li's clothes. "It's freezing."

"Is it that cold?"

"Yes, my body isn't that cold, but my hands and feet are freezing. You're a guy, so you don't understand. Girls' hands and feet get cold very easily."

Su Li was genuinely confused, because Sophia had never mentioned it to him before. But thinking back, Sophia did indeed like to put her feet on her body while sleeping. Oh, so that's how she kept warm.

Fine, let her keep warm then. She's my wife, shouldn't I pamper her?

Fortunately, Song Mingyu only warmed up for a short while, and after getting her hands on the tree, she went back to chopping it down.

Su Li was speechless. Song Mingyu felt that she was very different from Sophia. Sophia was a python, and after she was full, she was too lazy to move. She was usually in a dormant state. Song Mingyu was different. She would come over and tease her from time to time.

[Is it really because I'm getting old?] Su Li thought to herself, thankful that she was a warrior, otherwise she really wouldn't have been able to handle it.

After finishing the skis, Su Li took out two tree branches, trimmed the small forks on them, tried them out, and found they were fine.

Then attach bark fibers to the skis, put them on your feet, and tie your feet with the bark fibers.

Su Li stood up and walked around in the snow.

"It's alright, but it's a bit heavy. The skis are big and heavy, but luckily we're superhumans."