Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

After the team got off the bus, everyone split up and acted according to the original plan.

During this break, Su Li extended the stay to 7 days to give everyone time to handle their personal matters.

Sophia planned to return to the Food Association first to gather some information. Her culinary skills were progressing well, and she had some ideas about banquets. Next, she planned to start researching banquets.

A banquet, generally speaking, is divided into appetizers, main courses, and desserts. Chinese banquets are similar, consisting of an overture, mainly tea, appetizers, small plates of dried fruit, and a first course of tea; followed by various main dishes and hot dishes; and finally, staple foods and fruits. Both are roughly the same.

This also means that a proper banquet requires more dishes and a wider variety of ingredients.

[Our family's secret recipe mainly consists of snake meat. Although we have the option of a full snake feast, everyone gets tired of eating it every day.] Sophia pondered the dishes she had prepared. [We should have everything—things that fly, run, and swim.]

[Now there's a small world in our home, which combines the original planting and breeding rooms. With the system's support, planting and breeding are much faster. We can raise some monsters there and be self-sufficient.]

At the same time, she also plans to learn some publicly available and unpublished recipes.

The Food Association is a new association that integrates the former chefs' association, brewers' association, beverage association, dessert association, and so on. It can basically manage everything related to the processing of food and beverages.

Within the Food Association, there are many former chefs from Earth, some of whom survived, and others who were resurrected using invitations from the Underworld. They have mostly given up their player identities and become culinary researchers.

They contributed a wealth of Earthly culinary techniques, including those for food preparation, brewing, bartending, and beverage making. These techniques, sometimes their most closely guarded secrets on Earth, are now all open for learning here.

Meanwhile, with the food association and the agricultural products association side by side, Sophia could look at the recipes and also see what new usable ingredients had appeared on Earth.

The Agricultural Products Association has been seeking to purchase various edible plants and tamable monsters from players in order to expand its livestock industry.

[Keep an eye on livestock for meat farming, silkworms and fur-producing animals that Lily needs, as well as some effective plants and flowers. Oh, and Zuli likes mangoes, so look for similar fruits.]

After mentally reviewing the tasks she needed to complete, Sophia began to busy herself with the association.

Song Mingyu also came to the Medical Association.

She recalled that when she discussed things with some players before, a few of them formed a discussion group, and they all wanted to develop in the direction of gene and superpower modification.

After finding a staff member in the association, Song Mingyu inquired about this group.

The receptionist gave a rather peculiar look: "Miss, the group you're looking for has been identified as part of the Blue Star civilization, and they are currently exiled in the void."

"Huh?" Song Mingyu's mouth dropped open, but then she realized that these people all wanted to play with viruses and genetic weapons. It really wasn't safe for them to be on Earth.

Somewhat dejected, Song Mingyu walked to the nearby rest area, ordered a coffee, and wondered if they still had any.

After much deliberation, I realized that several talented individuals I knew in this field had all left. There was nothing I could do; their leader had taken the lead in fleeing, wiping out his followers and all his disciples along with him.

Song Mingyu suddenly remembered that she still had one of the people's contact numbers.

She hurried back to the train and retrieved the GX virus stock solution. This stock solution did not contain the various supernatural gene maps.

She sent the description of the virus stock solution to the other party.

Song Mingyu—the originator of the virus, a race of viruses that have become sentient, reaped the lives of an entire civilization, and nearly achieved Gold-level status. Want her?

Zhao Heping—Boss, I'm bowing down! This stuff is exactly what we need. Let's make a deal. What do you want?

Song Mingyu – Your information regarding the extraction, application, and genetic modification of supernatural abilities.

Zhao Heping: Okay! Let's go get ready.

A short while later, Song Mingyu and Zhao Heping completed their transaction, the original virus solution in her hand disappeared, and a hard drive appeared in front of her.

Song Mingyu connected the hard drive to her computer and began reading the data inside. After leaving the Blue Star civilization, the moral standards of this group of people had clearly plummeted. The data contained numerous cruel experiments, with the subjects being people from the five civilizations they had captured, as well as various monsters.

"It seems they haven't lost their minds yet, haven't attacked their own people or other races, and haven't made enemies everywhere."

After settling the vehicle with supplies and cleaning up the ash buckets and other logistical issues, Ivan arrived at the Manufacturing Association.

This time, his goal was clear: to use the team's contribution points to exchange for some Qilin Zun products.

The Qilin is an earth-attribute divine beast, and under its influence, some mineral veins were born around its habitat.

In a world without magic, ores are non-renewable resources, but with the intervention of magic, magic can be transformed from energy into matter. This has led to the creation of some wondrous items.

For example, spring water seeds, mineral vein seeds.

Although called a seed, it is actually a source of information radiation. It can continuously generate corresponding products.

In the game world, most ores are uniformly converted into gold, silver, copper, and iron by the system. Metals like aluminum and tin, which are frequently used in modern industry, become secondary ores, which have a chance to drop when mining mainstream ores.

[I'll exchange some metal ore seeds from the Blue Star government and place them in the small world, letting them grow there.] Ivan was calculating his goal. [The small world has great potential; with more variety, and with the combined blessing of the World Flower and the small world itself, there's a high probability that some derivative magical energy ores will be born.]

These things are all precedents. When Ivan learned forging from his master, he also learned about ores and mineral veins.

According to his master, there were iron ore veins in the planetary space he created, which gradually grew into the Orichalcos mine, making him a fortune.

Ivan found the trading window, browsed through it for a while, selected several mineral veins, and spent a considerable amount of contribution points.

After receiving several orbs of light from the trader and verifying their authenticity, Ivan hurriedly returned to the train.

A couple of days ago, his brother-in-law contacted him, wanting to work together to develop a new type of alloy that responds well to enchantments. He's very busy right now.