Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

For Su Li and his team, the 6-meter-deep cave was enough. They didn't need to stay there forever; they just needed to wait for their teammates to rejoin them.

"Next, all we need to do is block the door."

At this point, Su Li felt her hands itching to get to work. "I'll go cut down some trees and drag some logs over. Mingyu, could you clean up the things in this cave a bit?"

Song Mingyu realized that Su Li seemed a little off. To put it another way, he was visibly excited, like a primary school student who was going to the amusement park the next day.

There was a grove of trees not far away, and Su Li, carrying a stone axe, hurried toward it.

"Anyway, there's nothing else to do, so let it be."

Song Mingyu began tidying up the clutter in the cave... some branches and animal hair.

On the other side, Zuli glided a short distance and arrived at this grove of trees.

Su Li looked up and observed the forest. The leaves of these trees were very small, looking just like the coniferous forests common in the northern part of Earth.

He placed his hand on the tree and could sense the presence of magical energy, but it wasn't at the Black Iron level.

"It seems that this kind of tree cannot be used to collect black iron-grade materials, no wonder it is so dense."

Zurich looked inside and found some brown ice trees, but there were very few of them.

"But it would be quite good for building a log cabin."

Zuli gestured to indicate the size of the trees; these conifers were about 20-30 centimeters in diameter and 10-15 meters tall.

In addition, in the heart of the forest, Zuli found an open-pit iron ore deposit. Upon closer inspection, Zuli observed that it consisted mostly of iron ore, copper ore, and stone.

Overall, this forest appears to be rich in resources, but in reality, the quality of those resources is very poor.

[Could it be related to the level of danger in the surroundings?] Su Li wondered, and prayed that it was true. He didn't need high-level materials at all right now.

The discovered cave has an entrance that is approximately 4x4 meters wide and high. Zuli calculated that she would need about 50-60 trees.

Su Li silently closed the system material, and after confirming that the function was off, Su Li chopped down the tree in front of her.

Three blows in total, and the tree fell down.

Zuli ignored this and walked to another tree, brandishing his axe.

Three strokes, three strokes, and three more strokes. In no time, Su Li had chopped enough wood to meet her needs.

Then, Zurich began pruning the trees, removing any branches and needles that were not currently needed.

Before long, these trees transformed into the round logs that Zuli remembered.

Su Li took out a rope made of tree bark fibers, tied several logs together, and then pulled the logs toward the cave.

After several trips back and forth, Su Li had moved all the logs over.

After setting down the logs, Su Li took a deep breath.

"Here, have some hot water."

Song Mingyu promptly brought out a cup of hot water and handed it to Su Li.

Su Li picked up the hot water, blew on it twice, and then drank it all up little by little.

Song Mingyu glanced at Su Li's work and asked curiously, "Why did you bring so many logs? Do we need so many logs?"

“I want to build a small log cabin,” Su Li replied.

Song Mingyu's expression was a bit strange. If it were up to her, a wooden retaining wall would have been enough. Was it really necessary to make such a big fuss?

But what could Su Li do? Song Mingyu stretched her shoulders. "Let me help you. How do we do it?"

"No, no, I'll do it myself." Su Li quickly refused. If you help me, what am I supposed to do?

Seeing that Su Li refused, Song Mingyu could only shrug and say, "Then I'll go into the cave. Be careful about your erosion."

Song Mingyu picked up a stone pickaxe and went into the cave. She wanted to dig a ventilation shaft to alleviate the ventilation problem inside the cave.

After drinking the hot water, Su Li put the cup in her inventory and then started drawing on the ground.

He needed to determine the location of the cabin first.

This time, he made some stone shovels and dug holes at the locations he had planned.

He first dug four pits on the ground as positioning points, and then dug through the four pits except for the side facing the cave, forming three ditches.

Then he took the logs and began to process them.

He first selected some logs and cut them into 5-meter-long logs.

Then, the logs were inserted into the trench and then buried.

The most troublesome part of this step was actually digging. The frozen soil was as hard as stone, and Su Li had to use her magic to warm it up before she could start digging.

Of course, he didn't leave a spot for a door.

After finishing, Zurich compacted the soil.

That does the trick of fixing three walls.

Subsequently, Zuli laid a layer of system stone on the ground as flooring.

By the time all this was done, the sun had just passed its highest point and was beginning to set in another direction.

Zurich then proceeded to build a wooden roof according to his own ideas.

The house he built was 5x5 meters in size and 4 meters high. On the roof, he first put up a few beams, and then began to lay logs on top according to his own ideas.

As a result, not long after, because the beams were not installed correctly, the logs on the roof suddenly fell down, and Zuli's work for half a day was wasted.

"Hey, you really can't build this without some technical skills."

When Su Li saw the house collapse, she wasn't angry at all; instead, she laughed happily.

After a short while, Su Li thought about it and figured out a kind of mortise and tenon structure based on the building blocks she used to play with. Then she began to modify the log.

Song Mingyu dug through the ventilation structure inside the cave and came out covered in dust. What he saw was Su Li on the half-finished wooden house, hammering wood to fit the mortise and tenon joints while softly singing, "We workers have strength, hey! We workers have strength."

"So happy?" Song Mingyu asked Su Li with a smile.

“Of course, that’s my dream.” Su Li replied without stopping her hands or turning her head. “When I was a kid, I loved reading Robinson Crusoe.”

"I only read Robinson Crusoe's account of what happened before and after he was stranded on the island once, but I read the account of his life on the island many times."

Su Li has been interested in this kind of thing since he was a child. When he used to read novels, his favorite kind of novels were about wilderness survival. In the wilderness, he would rely on his own efforts to accumulate wealth little by little, and finally build a small home in the wild with his own strength and wisdom. He was very fascinated by this sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

So, when he arrived at this survival game, although he didn't say it, he was secretly delighted.

What made him happy wasn't any extraordinary power; what made him happy was being able to personally participate in a survival game he had always dreamed of.

"Let me tell you, I used to dream that when I grew up, I would write novels, novels about surviving on a deserted island, and share them with everyone. Not for making money or anything, just to fulfill my own fantasy." Su Li said, a happy smile on her face, about her past dream. "Now, that dream has become a reality."