Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Su Li and Liu Wenbin chatted for a while, gaining a better understanding of the current Blue Star government.

The Blue Star government is now implementing various plans in a down-to-earth manner, step by step improving Blue Star City's logistical support to better assist explorers.

After discussing the Blue Star government, Liu Wenbin moved on to another matter.

Liu Wenbin looked troubled. "Recently, due to the instability of energy levels, many promising teams have encountered accidents."

“The instability of energy level is indeed a big problem.” Su Li also sighed. “At this stage, it is too difficult to deal with silver-level monsters.”

“It’s not just silver-level.” Liu Wenbin revealed some bad news. “As far as I know, three teams encountered worlds with an energy level of 3.0 or higher. One team was wiped out by the extreme environment, and two others were killed by gold-level monsters.”

"Energy level 3.0." Just thinking about it sent chills down Su Li's spine. That would truly be a world where silver coins were everywhere. At energy levels above 3.0, legendary monsters would appear. Those powerful figures were ruthless characters who could change the landscape with a flick of their wrist.

"Suddenly, I don't think the 1.7 level I went to last time was so difficult after all," Su Li joked to herself. "Could we stabilize the energy level?"

"It's very difficult. The function of stabilizing energy levels requires too much civilizational foundation, and it's hard to achieve in a short time. All we can do now is pray, pray that everyone won't encounter this kind of thing." Liu Wenbin said this in a very dejected tone. "If there is an opportunity, try to choose a world that has already been explored."

"I understand." Su Li clenched his fist. Civilizational foundations are hard to come by. He had only obtained one such foundation after exploring several worlds.

"Based on our experience, worlds with major events are relatively easy to obtain. As long as you confront and resolve the major events, there is a high probability that you will obtain some of the civilization's foundation. However, worlds with major events are much more difficult than those of the same level."

After finishing this matter, Liu Wenbin added, "Also, be careful of Lin Feng."

"Lin Feng?" Su Li was puzzled. Why was this person being mentioned again? The last time she thought of him was when she encountered the headhunter of the Tide.

"Yes, our spy tricked Lin Feng, and he's planning to retaliate against Blue Star Civilization."

Liu Wenbin slowly recounted what had happened.

After Lin Feng left the Hai Chao people, he took some Blue Star people with him and they went to join him.

Among these Earthlings were some spies sent by the Earth government to gather intelligence on the enemy.

Later, in order to please the Tide People, Lin Feng consumed the cultural heritage of Blue Star and developed a power system for them that combined sacrifice, blood sacrifice, and the raising of Gu, thus enhancing the potential of the Tide People's unique profession, the Headhunter.

Lin Feng is a very selfish person, as can be seen from his past transactions.

He'd trade even 5g of bread or 10ml of water, and his demands were outrageous. He consumed vast amounts of resources but rarely traded with others. He was like a greedy, voracious eater, devouring everything without ever giving anything back.

Such a person must be heartbroken to have squandered what he considers to be part of the civilization he has built.

The undercover agents grasped Lin Feng's thoughts and began to instill in him the idea that "the profound cultural heritage of Blue Star is extremely valuable. Lord Lin, it's enough to let them taste a little sweetness. We'll wait for the best price to go around."

The Sea Tide People chose Lin Feng through the Greedy Pearl bestowed by the Evil God. They then pretended to be part of a sign-in system to get in touch with Lin Feng.

They sandwiched the contract within the user agreement. Lin Feng, having obtained what he considered a cheat code, a golden finger, signed the agreement without even looking at it, unaware that he had signed an investment agreement with an extremely high cost.

According to the agreement, the Hai Chao people would provide Lin Feng with a small amount of supplies and a mentally challenged halo. In return, Lin Feng would cooperate with the Hai Chao people to obtain the origin of Blue Star civilization at the appropriate time.

The original source obtained belongs to the Hai Chao people.

However, without external interference, the Blue Star civilization would at most give Lin Feng about 5% of its civilizational heritage, and the Hai Chao people would certainly not be satisfied with that 5%.

Using the power of the Greedy Pearl bestowed by the evil god, and through Lin Feng as a medium, they forcibly extracted the essence of Blue Star's civilization.

This method has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the income has increased from 5% to 20%, but the disadvantage is that the cultural heritage of these civilizations is too deeply connected with Lin Feng. Forced extraction will result in significant losses.

The best solution is for Lin Feng to voluntarily pass on the essence of civilization to the Hai Chao people and ignite their civilizational flame.

This outcome was naturally the work of the evil god, who wanted to watch the Sea Tide People and the traitors from other civilizations scheme against each other for his own amusement. What kind of bottom line can you expect from the evil god?

The Desire Orb draws upon the world's essence, but this process incurs losses. The closer one is to the Desire Orb, the lower the losses. However, the higher the compatibility, the more wicked the person becomes. The more wicked they are, the more they can rely on their deep connection to the civilization's essence to manipulate the civilization behind the scenes and extract benefits.

What's even more ingenious is that these settings are revealed to the chosen traitor when the Desire Orb extracts the essence of civilization.

Now even the deception is no longer convincing.

Others include the Jade Orb, the Slaughter Orb, and the Arrogance Orb. The more compatible a person is with an orb, the more likely they are to betray their original civilization, and the greater their success rate in seizing the essence of other civilizations with the lower the losses. However, the more compatible they are, the more wicked their character becomes, and the more difficult it is to persuade them to relinquish their resources after they succeed.

Maintaining this balance requires considerable wisdom from those behind the scenes. A lack of intelligence can easily lead to disastrous consequences.

This time, the Blue Star civilization had a mastermind who went too far – the Baal who found Li Fan using the Jade Pearl.

The Bal people never expected that Li Fanxin wasn't completely evil, but rather a perverted anime/manga fan who was attracted to his fictional wife.

Is it arousing? Yes, it is, but it's arousing when looking at a two-dimensional character.

Later, at the debriefing meeting, the project leader of the Baal people repeatedly shouted: "Beware of the two-dimensional world!"

This can be considered a unique way for anime characters to save the world.

Let's get back to Lin Feng's question.

The undercover agents kept telling Lin Feng, both openly and subtly, that he'd lost out. Lin Feng believed them completely, feeling he'd suffered a huge loss. Given Lin Feng's greed, he was completely susceptible to this kind of talk.

As a result, communication between Lin Feng and the Tide People suddenly stalled. The Tide People also stopped supplying Lin Feng with resources. They had experience dealing with these people who were greedy for the chosen ones. Giving them benefits incessantly would be a bottomless pit. It was better to let things linger for a while.

Lin Feng was naturally very uncomfortable, and he adopted an attitude that his things were always in demand.

With just a few words, the undercover agents temporarily severed the cooperation between the two sides, thus preserving the cultural heritage from further depletion.

The undercover agents hoped that relations between the two sides would continue to deteriorate.

So, they took Lin Feng to a certain market. Under the arrangement of the undercover agent, Lin Feng 'picked up' a set of silver-level equipment from this explorer's market.

After one exploration cycle, when Lin Feng went to meet the contact person of the Hai Chao people, something terrible happened.

That night, Lin Feng's limbs were broken, and he was stripped naked and hung in the square all night. He was only healed and released the next morning.

Upon hearing this, Su Li couldn't help but interject, "How did you manage that?"

"Because of Lin Feng's bargain-hunting equipment. We spent a lot of money to customize it." Liu Wenbin sneered. "The style of that equipment is the classic style of the Luo Luo people, the mortal enemies of the Hai Chao people. It also has the family crest of the Luo Luo people's chief commander who killed the most Hai Chao people. And the material of that equipment is Hai Chao people's skin."

"The place where they met was the Haichao people's memorial hall, to commemorate the victims in the war against the Luoluo people."

Su Li gasped. What the hell does this mean?

This matter was so egregious that Su Li dared not use any countries on Earth as examples, for fear of being reported and bombed.

The fact that the Hai Chao people didn't kill Lin Feng shows that they still have some redeeming qualities; they didn't let their emotions control them.

“Our undercover agent went to that world and began to investigate the history of the Haichao people, and finally devised this plan.”

"Our plan is to provoke the Tide People and make them kill Lin Feng. Once Lin Feng is dead, the depleted civilization's essence will naturally attach itself to the nearby Blue Star people. There are only our undercover agents nearby, and we can use the tools to teleport the civilization's essence back."

Although this would severely damage the foundation of our civilization, at least we could still gain something, instead of helplessly watching the Sea Tide People swallow it up.

"Unexpectedly, Hai Chaoren controlled his anger. He only tortured Lin Feng and then healed him. When Lin Feng came back, he was furious and killed the undercover agents who had taken him to pick up the scraps."

"The relationship between the two sides has now reached a freezing point. The Hai Chao people have warned Lin Feng that if he still doesn't know what's good for him, they won't hesitate to kill him, even if they only get less than 5%."

"Lin Feng also realized something was wrong and guessed that it might be our doing, so he prepared to launch a retaliation against us."

Liu Wenbing looked at Su Li and said seriously, "I was originally going to tell you this news through Zheng Hongyuan, but I just happened to be looking out the window in my office and saw you, so I came over to tell you."

"We must be careful of Lin Feng's retaliation. He is now at the Silver level, and in a one-on-one fight, no one in the Blue Star civilization can match him."