Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

After collecting their spoils, Su Li and his group drove the transport vehicle back to the train, fully loaded. They carefully organized the collected items before entering the train. This time, Su Li specifically placed the Supreme Delicious Mushrooms in a specially made bag before initiating the disinfection process.

As the disinfectant sprayed out, Su Li felt a stinging sensation on his skin. He scratched his scalp and found it itchy after the disinfection, so he couldn't help but ask, "Does it hurt a little this time?"

While tidying up the items in her hands, Song Mingyu explained, "We were out for a relatively long time this time, and we dug in the soil and waded through water, so we picked up more germs than usual. After some of the germs died, the corpses left behind irritated the skin, which is why it felt stinging and itchy."

“Okay.” Su Li nodded, accepting Song Mingyu’s professional assessment.

After boarding the train, Zurich went straight to the biology laboratory.

He first used wood with the wood element to make a fine mushroom-shaped tree stump.

Once finished, a tree stump full of tropical rainforest vibes appeared in front of him.

Zuli carefully placed the tree stump into the isolation chamber of the biological laboratory, and then placed the Supreme Delicious Mushroom on the tree stump.

Su Li gently patted the mushroom head, and some purple smoke fell from the mushroom and landed on the mushroom stump.

As the spores fell, the mushroom stump flickered.

Su Li laughed, "It's quite intelligent."

But Su Li checked again and found that the growth time was actually a slash.

"What does that mean?" Su Li looked at the slash in confusion. "None? No way to survive?"

This discovery greatly disappointed Zuli. She had finally obtained such a valuable resource, only to find it couldn't be grown?

"Why can't it grow?" Su Li was very puzzled.

Following behind Su Li, Song Mingyu guessed, "Maybe the conditions aren't right? I'll ask my teacher for the reason when I get back."

"Alright."

Su Li closed the isolation chamber, and then the two of them ran a virus scan of the route they had taken.

When Su Li returned to the conference room, Sophia had already prepared dinner. Su Li glanced at the time and was surprised to find it was already 11 p.m.

The rain was so heavy outside and the sky was so dark that they had no idea it was already midnight.

"No wonder I've been feeling really hungry since earlier." Su Li rubbed her stomach and sat down at the dining table.

At the dinner table, Sofia was taken aback by their appetites. Apart from Sun Keke, Su Li, Song Mingyu, and Ivan ate the amount they usually ate in two meals. Sofia had to cook more for them halfway through their meal.

After finishing her meal, Su Li patted her stomach, but her expression seemed a little off. "Something didn't feel right! I couldn't possibly be this hungry."

After finishing her meal, Su Li patted her stomach, but her expression was a little off. "Something didn't feel right just now! I couldn't possibly be this hungry."

Ivan nodded in agreement, saying, "The hunger I felt earlier was abnormal. Our battle today wasn't intense, so we didn't have such a large energy deficit."

Song Mingyu was about to say something when she suddenly coughed a few times. The cough caused her expression to change drastically. "No, don't cough!"

The others immediately noticed something was wrong. Song Mingyu's cough wasn't the usual light cough to ease embarrassment; it sounded like there was something stuck in her throat.

As a player at the Iron rank who is about to break through to the Silver rank, Song Mingyu's physique should not have resulted in a sore throat.

"Everyone, follow me to the biology lab!" Song Mingyu immediately stood up, her voice, which had been weak before, now sounded exceptionally decisive and serious.

The group rushed into the laboratory in a flurry of activity.

Song Mingyu took out a cotton swab and poked it into her throat. After a while, she took out the cotton swab, put the mucus on it into a petri dish, and then began to pour several kinds of medicine into the petri dish.

Su Li couldn't understand it, so he could only wait on the sidelines. He also guessed that he and his group had probably been infected with something.

A moment later, Song Mingyu began to observe using a high-powered microscope. After observing for a few seconds, Song Mingyu removed the microscope.

Next, Song Mingyu asked Su Li and the others to open their mouths.

With the sales point in hand, Song Mingyu began examining Su Li and the others' respiratory tracts and throats.

“There’s bad news,” Song Mingyu said. “We’ve all been infected.”

The sound of breathing could be clearly heard inside the room.

"Didn't we say before that we weren't afraid of viruses and fungi in this world?" Su Li asked.

“Yes, my judgment was correct. Our enhanced resistance is sufficient to resist ordinary elemental bacteria. Elemental bacteria have no will, and their magical energy is like a loose pile of sand, small in quantity and not cohesive. As long as our magical energy is of high quality, we can easily defeat them.”

"What we've been infected with this time is a magical plant. No, strictly speaking, we've been parasitized."

Song Mingyu projected what she observed under the microscope onto the wall next to her.

Su Li also saw the root of the problem.

The image shows tiny tentacles, with a cactus-like plant mass at the center of each tentacle.

"This is an extremely tiny plant that clings to our esophagus, just like sea anemones on the seabed, intercepting the food we eat."

"We weren't full just now because all the nutrients were absorbed by these plants." Song Mingyu looked at the plants, her voice filled with excitement: "Their absorption and conversion efficiency is truly astonishing."

“Ivan’s esophagus has been covered with a layer of this plant, and these plants have begun to eat the cells in Ivan’s esophagus.”

Upon hearing this, Ivan touched his neck uncomfortably, feeling as if something was eating him up in his throat; the thought alone made him feel nauseous.

"What should we do then?" Sun Lili asked nervously.