Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Before setting off, Su Li checked the support items available for this exploration cycle.

[Concentration Elixir] *4

[Calm your mind and solidify your mental state]

"With a relevant major, you can always trust Kaituo."

The calming liquid was given to Song Mingyu; this kind of medicine is better suited for someone with the right expertise.

The teams set off.

Su Li first went to a gold shop and exchanged some of this world's currency. The prices were probably lowered, but Su Li didn't care.

Su Li picked up a banknote that read "Red Summer Currency." It seemed that the city's prototype came from a country called Red Summer.

After trading the paper and pen for Sophia and the others, Su Li led Song Mingyu to a mobile phone shop.

Yes, this is a modern society, and we still have cell phones.

She opened her phone and bought several anonymous SIM cards. Su Li then opened her phone and began searching for pharmaceutical company laboratories on a map.

One of the laboratories was located nearby, so Su Li and Song Mingyu took a taxi together and headed towards the laboratory.

On the way, Su Li kept checking her phone and occasionally looking at the outside.

Suddenly, Su Li noticed something was wrong: a middle-aged man had suddenly collapsed on the pedestrian crossing outside the car.

Su Li leaned against the window, looked at the man, and called out, "Master, stop for a moment."

The taxi stopped beside me, suddenly changing lanes at an angle. If this happened on Earth, the people behind would have started cursing.

Su Li glanced back at the car behind her and found that the driver's expression was normal, showing no sign of anger.

[Goodness, he doesn't even get road rage?] Su Li thought in surprise.

He then looked at the person who had fallen to the ground. The people around him glanced at him as he fell, and then went about their own business.

Everyone's behavior was strange.

Song Mingyu did not step forward to provide assistance. The mission was paramount. Besides, these were all illusions of the past; there was no need for further treatment.

However, Song Mingyu couldn't help but ask the driver, "Aren't you all being a little too indifferent?"

"Huh? It's just a coma, isn't it? He's just unlucky, it has nothing to do with passersby," the driver said calmly.

Su Li glanced at the fallen man, then at her master. [Is this what Sun Keke described? It's more serious than I imagined. Their desires have been completely drained by the Shadow Perception Entity.]

They arrived at the pharmaceutical company in silence. Su Li paid and got out of the car. The driver glanced at the hundred-yuan bill Su Li handed him, "Paper money... I don't have any change. Never mind, don't worry about it."

Finished talking and left.

Su Li and Song Mingyu looked at each other in bewilderment.

"He doesn't even want the money, what a kind person," Song Mingyu muttered.

It's only 7 o'clock, not yet time for workers to start work. Inside the pharmaceutical company, there are only security guards and the miserable overnight workers.

No, given the situation of this group, I don't think there are any people working all night.

After observing the surveillance footage from a distance, Song Mingyu tapped her fingers a few times, using her pointer technique to disable the cameras. Then, the two of them climbed through the window into the building.

After entering the building, Su Li forced her way through the doors until she found an empty laboratory filled with various instruments. Su Li couldn't understand them either, so she let Song Mingyu collect several experimental machines and a large amount of consumables.

Su Li touched the table next to her and found that it was covered in dust, indicating that no one had used it for a long time.

"Alright, no need for large machinery. It's too big and won't fit in the vehicle. I'll just use magic energy; it'll be more tiring, but it'll be more convenient."

The two people returned the way they came after collecting the equipment, and the journey went very smoothly.

After leaving the pharmaceutical company, Su Li and the others headed towards the train, and Su Li also began to gather information using her mobile phone.

On the local internet, the most popular news was about an unknown coma.

The first case of the disease appeared four years ago.

The patient initially experienced loss of appetite, poor mental state, lack of motivation, and indifference to everything, eventually falling into a coma.

[Patients will become brain dead after being in a coma for two weeks to a month.]

The cause of the illness remains unknown. The authorities can only advise everyone to take precautions. While the internet is full of mystical methods, these methods have become less discussed in the last two years.

High-risk groups include artists, entertainment workers, police officers, rescue workers, and prisoners.

Seeing the high-risk groups, Su Li naturally understood their commonalities: they were people with strong desires or prone to psychological trauma, who were the favorite food of the Shadow Cognitive Entity.

Su Li took a taxi back to the train and went to check on Sun Lili's condition.

The result is not clear even if you look at it, and you will be shocked when you look at it.

Sun Lili, lying on the bed, began to convulse, like a broken TV drama, her body covered in various mosaics and colored lines. It swung back and forth between high-definition 3D, simple line drawings, 2D, and Picasso-esque styles.

[Poch-chan? No, at this point she should be called Sani Tower (Medic)]

Su Li yelled, "Mingyu! First aid! Get the calming potion!"

Upon hearing Su Li's roar, Song Mingyu threw down her things, retrieved the Concentration Liquid from a storage compartment, and ran towards Sun Lili's dormitory.

With a bang, Song Mingyu kicked the door open and sped to Sun Lili's side, quickly switching into doctor mode.

"Mental interference? No, her body is turning into light? How is that possible? This isn't her original body?"

Song Mingyu's dark-circled eyes shone with a terrifying light, and her hands glowed green as she unleashed a series of finger techniques on Sun Lili's body. Then she fed Sun Lili some calming liquid.

"Activate magical energy, strengthen your own resistance. Soothe the brain, calm your mind... Okay, that's about it."

Song Mingyu discovered that Sun Lili's problem was essentially a change in her mental state that disrupted her bodily functions, leading to a chain reaction.

Song Mingyu told Su Li about her illness: "Her body seems to have some problems, but it's not harmful to her. This change is closely related to her magical abilities, so it should be a problem with her skills, which doesn't need to be addressed. The main problem is still in the mental realm."

Song Mingyu kept her hand on Sun Lili's head to help stabilize her condition. "It should be the shadowy cognitive entity possessing Sun Lili's body acting up. Returning to their familiar mental realm from the outside world has accelerated their soul-devouring speed."

"It accelerated the absorption rate?" Su Li hurriedly asked, "Mingyu, how much longer does she have?"

Song Mingyu calculated, "At this rate, the calming liquid will run out on the fifth day, and she will have a hard time holding on. She will be brain dead at 3 pm on the fifth day."

Su Li touched her forehead. "Then we need to speed things up. I don't want my new teammates to disappear without even having introduced themselves."

"Should we call Sophia and the others back?" Song Mingyu asked.

Su Li thought for a moment, then shook her head. "No need. We'll just watch over things here. They won't be of much help anyway. Let them do what they need to do."

"also."

And so, Su Li and Song Mingyu stayed there reading and taking care of Sun Lili until the appointed time arrived and Sophia and the others returned.

After putting the things away, I told Sophia and the others about Sun Lili's situation. Sun Keke visibly became anxious: "Sister..."

Su Li patted the little girl's head. "Don't rush. If rushing would help, I would have rushed already. Eat your food first, get ready, and we'll go to that otherworld tonight to solve this problem."

"Phew~ I got it."

After calming the little girl down, Su Li methodically prepared for battle.