Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Sofia took several bullets from Zuli's hand and examined them carefully.

Su Li introduced the metal with some pride.

"This is our masterpiece, a harmonious blend of elements, type I."

"This metal is made with enchanted copper as a base. It is a special metal made by mixing enchanted copper of five elements with a small amount of enchanted silver, adding a certain amount of fusion agent, and most importantly, beeswax from golden velvet bees."

"Beeswax?" Sofia said in surprise.

“Yes, beeswax.” Su Li smiled slightly. “Our golden velvet bees are very interesting. The places they live in are where the plants are too wild, including pollen and nectar. These overly wild materials are not conducive to them feeding their larvae. So they evolved a special ability.”

"The beeswax they secrete has the effect of calming and inertizing elements. They store the finished honey in a grid made of beeswax and wait for a period of time. The elements contained in the honey in the grid will slowly calm down and become more suitable for larvae to absorb."

“I used this beeswax to create an elemental modifier, which I added during Ivan’s forging process, and successfully created this elementally balanced gold.”

【Elemental Harmonized Gold Type I】

[Iron Grade]

[Elemental Harmony: Increases stability and elemental damage when applying elemental enchantments.]

[A special metal created by Zuli and Ivan specifically for elemental enchanting.]

Sophia picked up a bullet and enchanted it.

The use of magic tricks was so smooth and fluid, giving Sophia a silky feeling.

"It feels wonderful." Sophia said with a satisfied expression. "Thank you so much."

"Hehe~" Ivan chuckled smugly, "Impressive, right?"

"Wow, that's amazing!" Sophia stood on tiptoe and patted her younger brother's head.

Su Li took out a large pile of bullets and handed them to Sophia, while also instructing her, "Use less of the howitzer-type ammunition. One howitzer can produce more than a dozen bullets of other types. The manufacturing cost of this ammunition is a bit high."

To create elemental gold, you need to enchant copper, iron, and silver, consuming not only materials but also elemental fragments. The interior is filled with crystalline gunpowder.

Crystal gunpowder requires elemental crystals, and general-purpose gunpowder is quite expensive.

Sofia loaded all the bullets and then went to the training ground; she needed to get used to the new bullets.

After making all the preparations, Su Li sat down on the sofa at the front of the car.

By this time, it was getting dark outside.

Today is the seventh day of this exploration. Su Li and his group chose a small island and stopped there, awaiting the arrival of the beast tide tonight.

Su Li closed her eyes to rest and slowly adjusted her state to ensure that she would be in peak condition when the enemy arrived.

Finally, it was almost 8 p.m., and Sofia returned to the operations command center.

A moment later, Su Li heard a sound that sounded like a whale's cry.

"Waaaaah! ~~~~~~"

The voice was powerful and incredibly penetrating. It also contained a suffocating anger.

Su Li and the others quickly got off the train.

At this moment, the calm sea seemed to be about to unleash a storm that could destroy the world.

Dark clouds covered the entire sky, and not a trace of the moon could be found.

The sea suddenly became as viscous as melted asphalt, and the waves surged, crashing onto the beach and onto the train, causing the train tracks to emit a teeth-grinding friction sound.

Su Li steadied herself on the train and gazed into the distance, towards the direction from which the whale song was coming.

The whale song coming from afar is undergoing a strange change—the originally long call is now mixed with a sharp shriek like fingernails scraping a blackboard, and dense, luminous patterns are emerging in the waves, as if millions of eyes are opening at the same time on the distant seabed.

"Watch the sky, there's something in the sky too!" Sophia, whose senses were now more acute, looked up at the sky and warned everyone.

Su Li looked up at the sky, where thick, suffocating clouds seemed to be tilting down. The clouds churned and rolled, as if brewing some kind of monster.

Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed through the dark clouds.

This blue lightning bolt provided a brief illumination to the interior of the dark clouds, and also projected the monster hidden inside the clouds into them.

It was a bird with outstretched wings, a sharp beak, and its split beak looked like it was smiling.

Sofia fired three grenades into the sky. The moment the grenades exploded, they created a white storm, radiating light and dispersing the dark clouds in the sky.

Only then did everyone see the shadow swirling in the clouds—a bony wing with a wingspan of over ten meters, covered with barbs, each feather looking as if it were pieced together from a human spine, with bluish-gray winds swirling between its wing membranes.

This is a silver-level bird-like monster.

The swirling whirlwind seemed to have angered the strange bird, which was wrapped in a storm. It shrieked and flapped its wings down at Su Li and the others.

The hurricane stirred up by the dark clouds and strange birds was faster than a bullet.

"Get down!"

The entire train was thrown sideways for thirty meters, pots and pans in the kitchen crashed against the bulkhead like a metal storm, and spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the glass.

Su Li lunged forward, dodging the tumbling train. The fleeting image she had just glimpsed remained on her retina: a shadow hundreds of meters long was rising from the sea, its crimson veins like flowing lava, the seawater boiling and vaporizing in its path, revealing countless faces below.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, the entire sea bulged upwards into the sky, and a water column with a diameter of a kilometer shot into the air. Amidst the mist, the head of a giant worm slowly emerged from the water, its mouthparts consisting of seven layers of spiral-shaped teeth, each one burning.

Without a doubt, these two are the test of this beast tide. Su Li cast an Appraisal spell on them and simultaneously activated Monster Studies to gather information.

The system's assessment was the first to come back.

Jealousy - Gray Wind Hurricane Eagle

[Wrath of the Titan Worm]

Su Li knew without even thinking that these two demons must be related to that evil god.

Information from monster studies is still limited. These psycho-type monsters' abilities follow psycho-based rules, largely manifesting according to local stereotypes and myths. This contradicts much of the objective monster studies learned in Zurich.

Unfortunately, Zuli and his team couldn't find any information about the folk legends from before the apocalypse, otherwise they could have analyzed them.

Zuli can only wait for the other side to launch an attack and then judge the enemy's capabilities based on the attack's effects.

As the Titan Worm rose from the sea, the Graywind Hurricane Eagle radiated a green glow, while the Titan Worm radiated a red glow. Their powers resonated with each other like the pulse of a heart.

"It's resonance!" Sun Lili's voice came through. "These two monsters are amplifying each other!"