Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Beach, lover, barbecue, chilled juice.

Zurich and his friends thoroughly enjoyed their rare beach vacation.

Of course. Time is limited to this morning only.

Lunch was eaten on the beach. No secret recipe was considered, and the team members each used their own culinary skills.

Zuli, being skilled with fire, had a good grasp of temperature. The meat she grilled didn't taste particularly special, but its texture was amazing, which led Sofia to learn how to grill it.

Deal with Sun Lili.

Su Li forked a piece of grilled meat, dipped it in Sofia's special grilled meat sauce on the plate, held a glass of chilled juice, and stood with her friends, watching Sun Lili fight with the sandcastle she had made on the distant beach.

"How did she do that?" Su Li asked, her words mumbled.

“She probably had another sudden inspiration.” Sun Keke sighed, her voice full of vicissitudes. “The liberationists in the spiritual field are too unconventional. Nine times out of ten, she thought it was interesting to do it, so she did it.”

Ivan nudged Coco with his elbow. "Sister Lily is pretty amazing. She can actually transform inanimate objects into living beings. In the heat of summer, wouldn't that be called 'becoming a spirit'?"

"No, my sister definitely doesn't have that ability. She probably just dredged something from her own well of the soul and attached it to the sandcastle." At this point, Sun Keke felt a real headache coming on. Why was her older sister becoming more and more like a child as she got older?

Generally, this kind of thing happens when people are in their seventies or eighties, right? Therefore, we can infer that my sister has entered menopause early. Congratulations!

Sun Lili, who was pinning the sandcastle to the ground and beating it, suddenly realized something was wrong. She looked around and thought, "That's strange. There's a huge amount of harmless malice in this."

The poor sandcastle, whose prototype was unknown, was beaten by Sun Lili for more than ten minutes before finally letting out a muffled roar and collapsing. Sun Lili raised her right hand and, like a victorious King of Fighters, let out a cheer like a gorilla.

After waiting for a while without hearing any cheers, Sun Lili quickly looked at her friends and found that they had already started packing up their things.

Sun Lili's figure flashed and appeared behind Su Li, hugging Su Li's body like an octopus. White tears instantly flowed like a waterfall. "How awful! I saved everyone from the monsters of Sandcastle, and everyone is having a barbecue, but you didn't even leave me a share. Our friendship has faded!"

As for why there are sandcastle monsters, and why they are trapped in water and fire, such details are not important.

"Okay, you can go on duty tonight, I'll sleep with Sophia."

"Just kidding, honey~" Sun Lili's smile instantly turned into a grin as Su Li stuffed a meat chop into her mouth.

"Eat yours." "Okay, honey." "Stay away from me, that seashell swimsuit is killing me."

Carrying an octopus on her back, Zuli returned to the train.

By this time, the satellite had already sent over the scan results.

Upon arriving at the operations command center, Su Li projected the scan results onto the projector.

The team members, who had already changed their clothes, were watching from the sidelines.

Ivan glanced at the map and uttered his first thought: "So many islands."

That's right, there are an extraordinary number of islands in this world.

Zuli glanced at the map, which was densely covered with islands, with an island every 40-70 kilometers.

“These islands are a bit strange.” Sun Lili glanced at the props and expressed her observation. “I can’t quite explain why, but it just feels odd.”

“I can’t see the seabed,” Ivan said, pointing out the oddity.

Normally, with so many islands here, the seabed should resemble a mountain range, stretching out in undulating waves. Private satellites can scan down to 200 meters below the surface, so they should be able to detect a significant portion of the seabed.

However, on this map, the edge of the island extends several hundred meters into the sea, followed by a mass of deep blue.

This means that the depth here exceeds 200 meters, and such terrain can only mean that there is a cliff here.

This is the case for the vast majority of islands.

“This isn’t normal,” Su Li said, tapping the back of her hand with her fingers as she habitually did. “Is this unique to this world? Or is it some kind of supernatural force at work?”

Sofia, who had been silent all along, suddenly pointed to a location on the map and exclaimed, "Look here!"

Following Sophia's directions, Su Li looked in that direction. Then she frowned.

This is an island map, but there's a problem with the topographical map. The terrain colors are blurry, as if the layers are misaligned.

Zuli retrieved the system records and focused on this area.

"Wow, this place has two depths. One is above the sea surface, and the other is below the sea surface."

Zurich retrieved more scan records.

"Our map was first scanned to get a general overview, which took about 10 minutes. Then we started a more detailed scan. These two depth records are from the first scan and the second scan. There was a 4-hour gap between the two scans."

That makes the problem very clear.

The island is sinking.

"Could it be a coincidence?" Sun Keke asked.

Su Li shook her head. "My intuition tells me that this is unlikely to be a coincidence."

At this moment, Song Mingyu spoke up, saying, "I also think this is not a coincidence."

Everyone looked at Song Mingyu.

With her hands tucked inside her white lab coat, Song Mingyu leaned against the wall and said softly, "My slime brought a lot of plant information about this island, and I've discovered something very interesting."

Song Mingyu took out several seeds, "These plants are producing seeds."

Su Li immediately thought of the acid rain from the previous tropical rainforest world. "Similar to the rainforest plants from before? Is another major event about to happen?"

“It looks somewhat like it.” Song Mingyu nodded. “I found some plant remains. Based on the marks on them, these plants must have died from being submerged in seawater.”

"And now, the way native plants on these islands reproduce is also very strange. Most of the seeds they produce do not fall to the ground, but are stored inside the plant. Or they simply produce seeds with hard shells like coconuts."

"I cracked open a hard-shelled seed and found that it was very sweet inside, and also contained some stones. This made the seed very dense, so it couldn't float when dropped into water."

"In conclusion, I believe that the islands in this world will most likely rise and sink periodically. When they rise, these plants thrive and multiply, and when they sink, the corals awaken again and devour the decaying corpses of these plants."