Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Zuli was very satisfied with this transaction.

What they traded away were mostly items that Su Li's team wouldn't really need. Neither the mechanical half-body fragments nor the enchanting crystals were of much use to Su Li and his group.

However, this Coordination Crystal can be a real help when they upgrade the train to level 6.

After finishing, Su Li, along with Sun Keke and Ivan, separated from the team. The team went to trade with Shi Lei. Su Li, on the other hand, went to the Blue Star government and donated the spoils of this mission to the Flame of Civilization.

Besides the civilizational foundation of the Platinum Civilization obtained from killing the Platinum People, there is also the world's origin obtained by solving the world's final test.

After putting these in, the progress went a little further.

Then, using his contribution, he helped Sun Keke and Ivan buy two Insights.

After returning to his train, Su Li first checked his main supplies.

Titanium ingot 364][Platinum ingot 338

The quantity is enough for Zurich to create level 6 upgrade plugins and high-performance internal combustion engines.

Then there are the attribute materials.

【属性木材·金·木·水·火·土：300·0·71·271·300】

【属性石材·金·木·水·火·土：300·0·81·476·300】

The only missing attributes for the materials are water and wood.

Su Li decided to rely on luck when it came to water-attribute materials. If she could collect all the wood-attribute materials but not enough water-attribute materials, she would find someone to exchange them for materials of other attributes.

After inspecting the supplies, Su Li began repairing the train.

This train doesn't need any additional parts, just some repairs. It doesn't require many materials, and only 100 survival coins were used.

Su Li checked their Survival Coin inventory and found they had 20480 Survival Coins left, enough for them to splurge after upgrading.

Back on the train, Sophia was cooking. Ivan and Sun Keke, who had just experienced the power of the Blue Star Civilization, were now absorbing its insights in the house. Song Mingyu had probably gone to check on her experimental subjects again. Sun Lili was looking at the Forty-Eight Techniques for Bending People left behind by the Goddess of Beauty.

Su Li glanced at Sun Lili, the only one not doing anything productive, and found that she looked serious as if she were reading some profound book.

Zuli was also impressed.

Su Li sat down in front of Sun Lili, but Sun Lili didn't react. Su Li could only pour herself a glass of water and look outside.

His sharp eyesight allowed him to spot a group of young people surrounding a middle-aged man in a distant alley. That middle-aged man was the same one who had helped Su Li and the others clean the train and replenish their water.

After Su Li returned, she settled the relevant payments for this person using Blue Star Coins.

Unexpectedly, the man was cornered shortly after receiving the money.

Su Li stepped off the train, leaped a few times, and arrived at the entrance of the alley. From there, she could hear people shouting inside.

"Is this all the money you have? Lord Cohen provided you with food, and this is how you repay his kindness?"

The Western-looking thug kicked the kneeling middle-aged man, "You..."

"What favor?" Su Li walked in, staring at the thug with his heterochromatic eyes.

The thug noticed Su Li's eyes, and his expression changed instantly. "Oh, it's you. It's alright, we're just here to collect a debt."

"Collecting debts?" Su Li sneered. "You mean that Cohen provided food for the people? I seem to remember that the food was provided uniformly by the Blue Star government."

To ensure food production and conserve resources, the Blue Star government now uses machinery to cultivate all the crops; it's not contracted out to private individuals.

"Sir, you don't know this, but while the planting is indeed done uniformly, the water resources and seeds are owned by someone else." The thug chuckled. "Alright, we'll give you face and let it go this time."

After saying that, the thug prepared to leave.

Su Li narrowed her eyes, and with a flash of her sword, severed their right hands. "Get lost!"

The thugs screamed and ran away, clutching their hands.

Su Li helped the middle-aged man up and brushed the dust off his clothes. "What happened?"

"Sigh~" The middle-aged man sighed, "It's all because of Cohen. They contributed a lot to the construction of Blue Star City and became high-ranking officials. Then he provided Blue Star City with a large number of seeds, and in return, he obtained a large amount of grain. He monopolized the grain prices in several regions."

"Can't you go to other areas?" Su Li asked, somewhat puzzled.

"The household registration policy has been implemented. The entire Blue Star City is divided into several areas, each managed by a high-level official. The area we are currently in is managed by the Cohen family. Without a reason, we cannot move to other areas."

Su Li frowned. What were these managers up to? Weren't they trying to create division?

He was truly exasperated. What kind of time is this to be doing this? He thought Blue Star City was bound to cause trouble sooner or later.

After seeing the middle-aged man off, Su Li's mood soured.

Back on the train, the door slammed shut with a bit more force, startling Sun Lili, who was reading a book.

"Sigh~" Su Li sat down on the sofa and sighed.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Sun Lili came over with a book in hand. "What happened?"

Su Li recounted what had just happened.

Sun Lili also looked distressed. "It feels like a storm is brewing... This patched-up, dilapidated ship, is it going to sink? Oh well, even if it does sink, we can still rely on the God of Pioneers and relax."

Sun Lili's mood changed in an instant. She took the skill book of the Goddess of Beauty, moved closer to Su Li, pried Su Li's hands apart, sat on Su Li's lap, and placed the book in front of Su Li. "Darling, take a look at this."

"What are you doing in broad daylight?" Su Li asked, speechless.

"Oh dear, take a good look." Sun Lili twisted her body and said coquettishly.

“…Alright then.” Su Li turned her attention to the skill book.

The skill book contains a series of drawings. The drawings that appear in this book are naturally not good drawings; they are simply too explicit.

[But the drawing skills are amazing! There's even a matching muscle energy analysis diagram; every single muscle and energy flow is depicted. What's so special about that? You get really into it, and then use these diagrams to cool down?]

Su Li was still complaining in her heart, but as she looked at it, her expression became serious and she sat up straight.

“This book…” Su Li picked up the book from Sun Lili’s hand and started flipping through it from the first page.

This book looks like a textbook on sexual techniques. It's all about how to force love and how to bend over.

But upon closer inspection, these techniques seem rather profound.

This book teaches how to forcefully bend someone, explaining how to conserve one's energy, how to use an opponent's force against them, how to discern their intentions, muscle movements, energy flow, and how to exploit their weaknesses.

Fighting techniques, anticipation techniques, energy manipulation, combat prediction, and stamina management in intense battles are all concealed within a series of explicit images.

It may seem like you're talking about beating people up, but if you learn these techniques, you'll become a master fighter.

Su Li could already imagine how powerless and desperate she would feel if she were caught by someone who was proficient in this kind of skill.

Su Li flipped to the cover, looked at the words "Forty-Eight Techniques to Break a Person," and was speechless.

Goddess of Beauty, with such skills, why do you have to use them to bend people over?!

Su Li now understood why the goddess of beauty had a god of war among her divine duties.

The official explanation is that mortals waged countless wars for the goddess of beauty, which is why she was given this divine position.

However, according to unofficial historical records, the goddess of beauty earned her divine position by fighting her way up with unparalleled skills, one punch at a time.

So it turns out it was because it was so outrageous that it was mistaken for official history despite being considered unofficial history!