Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

The countless flying insects and Sophia were temporarily locked in a stalemate. The crows that had taken flight again hovered aimlessly in the sky, not using their space-splitting power.

Seeing this, Su Li felt reassured. [The deduction was correct; the enemy's rationality still prevails. If they were purely chaotic monsters, these things wouldn't have a concept of friend or foe. Preparations for spatial exile have already begun.]

At this moment, reason became the guarantee of Su Li and the others' safety.

The contingency plan to target the crows does not need to be activated.

Suddenly, a sensation that seemed to draw out her very soul came from all directions, making Su Li feel like she was about to roll her eyes.

The magical energy within his body continued to dissipate into the surrounding area.

Su Li looked at the greatsword in her hand. The freezing energy on the greatsword was being continuously broken down, while the decomposition rate within her body was several times slower.

The magical energy released to the outside is less resistant.

[Such a powerful energy-draining spell.] Su Li compressed the greatsword in his hand, condensing the magical energy even more solidly. He didn't have much magical energy left, so he had to use it sparingly. [Our magical energy is of very high quality. Only a silver-level monster specializing in this area could have an effect on it.]

Su Li glanced around and saw that the others also had their magical energy dissipating. The elemental terrain created by Sophia's grenade launcher was the worst affected area, visibly shrinking.

The elemental terrain shrank, the blocked exits were opened, and the number of mosquitoes increased significantly.

"[Sister Mingyu!]" Su Li shouted in the mental link.

"They're here!" Song Mingyu's calm voice gave Su Li a sense of relief that the overall situation was settled.

She stood on the somewhat twisted and deformed carriage, her white coat fluttering in the strong wind, her pupils reflecting a green light like a stream of data, and in her hands she held a constantly pulsating seed.

The sea cucumber seemed to sense the threat, and its three tentacles, each over two meters in diameter, tore through its flesh and slammed towards Song Mingyu with a pungent stench!

"Don't even think about it!" Ivan roared from behind, his shield slamming into the deck and unleashing a powerful gravitational field that twisted the tentacles' trajectory.

Sun Keke threw out the prepared golden apple, which was extremely effective in dealing with these confused minds.

They grazed Song Mingyu's body and slammed into the metal floor, corroding deep pits that hissed and crackled.

Song Mingyu's eyelashes didn't even tremble; she remained calm as if what she had just thrown wasn't a deadly tentacle, but a carrot.

She caught the seed and gently tossed it forward. "Go."

The seed was launched by Song Mingyu using a finger-pointing technique onto the sea cucumber battleship. The sea cucumber, still retaining some semblance of rationality, instantly unleashed a barrage of sharp spikes from its surrounding muscles, dripping corrosive liquid that pierced the entire seed.

The seeds were destroyed, but Song Mingyu simply watched indifferently.

The next second, the seed exploded, and a large number of even smaller seeds pierced into the sea cucumber's body.

Then, these seeds sprouted instantly, their dark green roots emerging like venomous snakes, piercing the sea cucumber's mucus layer. Fine barbs appeared on the surface of the roots, each frantically drawing out the black substance, while the roots themselves swelled and branched at a visible speed, transforming in the blink of an eye into a menacing forest of thorns!

The sea cucumber emitted a deafening, mournful cry. Its body began to shrivel, and its skin faded from a glossy dark brown to grayish-white. The impure energy that had been absorbed coalesced into vesicle-like structures that floated to the ground.

The sea cucumber's own vitality condenses into glistening green droplets inside the thorn bushes—this is purified vitality!

[The results are not bad, but there is still room for improvement.] Song Mingyu snapped her fingers.

Thorns, like snakes, snaked their way up to Song Mingyu and formed several thorny rings.

[Everyone, catch this!]

With a flick of her wrist, Song Mingyu sent several thorny rings to her teammates.

Su Li took the Ring of Thorns and put it on her wrist.

The thorn ring glowed with a green light, and the life force contained within it was transformed into magical energy, replenishing the magical energy within Su Li's body.

The sea cucumber sensed its body being plundered. It let out a cry that was not that of a living creature, wriggled and rolled all over, increased its absorption of external magical energy, and tried to break off the thorns on its body.

Countless flying insects in the sky also changed their targets and began attacking the thorns on the sea cucumbers.

Hiding behind Ivan, Song Mingyu calmly manipulated the thorns, plundering life and converting magical energy.

This seed is the result of Song Mingyu's work over the past few days.

The samples were biological tissues that Su Li and Sun Lili obtained on the seabed under high pressure. These included energy-storing vesicles (plankton), energy-transmitting stems (transmitters), and energy-generating structures buried on the seabed that utilize geothermal energy to generate electricity (energy producers).

Especially the last one, because the seabed was quite deep and the situation was unclear, Su Li and his team went through a lot of trouble to cut off a section of the Transporter and slowly pulled it up like pulling up garlic scapes. Finally, they obtained a fragment of the organization containing some of the [Production Capacitors].

After Song Mingyu spared no expense and spent a lot of resources to modify and cultivate the seed, it finally produced this Energy-Devouring Thorn.

It embodies a path for sorcerers—plundering the life force of their enemies to heal and strengthen themselves.

The Energy-Devouring Thorns can grow rapidly, drawing life force and mana from enemies, and then, under the user's guidance, converting it into life force or mana capable of healing allies. It can also temporarily seal unmanageable energy within fruits with a structure similar to that of the Floating Beings.

This plant can be described as extremely evil. Its original purpose was to combat monsters with exceptionally strong vitality.

This suggestion was actually brought up by Su Li, inspired by Leech Seed. Su Li immediately thought of this strategy after seeing the Levitate set. Back in the day, he had been thoroughly annoyed by Pokémon's Leech Seed tactics several times.

Moreover, at the time he judged that this world might be a Kreece world.

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the K-pop series?

A monster with high sanity, flesh and blood, tentacles, numerous eyeballs, and incredible vitality.

He thought about it and realized that his team, because of its strong offensive capabilities, didn't really have any tactics for a prolonged battle.

What kind of person can withstand being slashed around by a greatsword with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees?

Feeling the magical energy within his body being gradually replenished, Su Li's greatsword reignited with icy flames.