Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Su Li and his men quickly prepared for battle.

Almost the instant Ivan's voice fell, the center of the distant asphalt lake erupted in a frenzy.

&34;BOOM!!!&34;

In the center of the distant asphalt lake, it suddenly erupted like a volcano.

A giant wave, thirty meters in diameter, burst open on the dark lake surface, throwing countless viscous asphalt particles high into the air, where they then poured down like a torrential rain under the force of gravity.

Ivan tapped his shield, and a shield of light blocked out all the scorching asphalt.

Zuli looked up and stared at the flying object in the sky.

A huge black shadow is falling from the asphalt rain.

It was a gigantic creature shaped like a conch shell, over ten meters long. Its spiral shell was covered with mysterious dark gold patterns that gleamed with a metallic sheen in the sunlight. Several thick tentacles extended from its shell opening, flailing wildly in an attempt to maintain its balance.

No matter how you look at it, this guy doesn't seem like he can fly; it looks more like he was thrown up by something.

Sure enough, the next second, the surface of the asphalt lake exploded again in the center.

A colossal creature burst forth from the lake.

Its head resembles that of a giant catfish, with two fleshy whiskers, each four meters long, hanging from the edge of its wide, flat mouth, their tips shimmering with an eerie purple glow. However, its body structure is more akin to that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex—its powerful hind limbs are muscular and bulging, while its forelimbs are a pair of short, sharp claws. Most bizarrely, its back is a massive, raised tumor, bulging like a camel's hump, its surface covered with writhing blood vessels.

The newly appeared monster is about 15 meters long.

Based on the monster's physical characteristics, Su Li gave it a temporary name. "Let's call it the Camel-Humped Catfish Dragon for now."

Su Li commented, "It feels like an AI artwork. Like one of those AI images that merges two things together."

The camel-humped catfish below swung its claws, causing the asphalt in the lake to surge and churn as if alive, winding up its forelimbs and instantly covering its torso and arms in a jet-black armor. Only its head, hump, and hind legs remained exposed. Even more astonishingly, the asphalt flowed and deformed between its claws, eventually coalescing into a gigantic warhammer five meters long.

"The ability to manipulate asphalt?"

At this moment, the giant conch shell in the sky finally began to fall.

The camel-humped catfish opened its massive jaws and spewed out a pale blue mist. The instant the mist touched the lake's surface, the boiling asphalt solidified at a visible speed, transforming into a black platform fifteen meters in diameter, appearing precisely beneath the giant conch's landing point!

boom--! ! !

The giant conch slammed heavily onto the asphalt platform, the deafening crash of its shell against the hardened asphalt making everyone's eardrums ache.

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the conch shell as the camel-humped catfish pressed its advantage, giving it no chance to breathe. The giant asphalt hammer was raised high and smashed down on the cracks in the shell again and again with a whooshing sound, until the shell was completely smashed open!

"Click——"

The sound of the shell shattering was clearly audible. Spiderweb-like cracks spread from the point of impact, and the giant snail's tentacles twitched wildly, trying to entangle the attacker. But the Humped Catfish Dragon was faster—it bit into the thickest tentacle, tearing off a large chunk of glistening white flesh with a "rip," and swallowed it whole.

After swallowing the tentacles in a few bites, the Humped Catfish suddenly shoved its entire head into the giant snail's shell. A chilling chewing sound came from inside the shell, and viscous fluid seeped out from the cracks.

But what alarmed Su Li even more was—

Those green, fish-like eyes were staring straight in their direction.

To be precise, they were staring at the train behind them.

The familiar shell made it start to wonder, could this be some new kind of delicious food?

On the train's exterior, the living barnacle armor was wriggling slightly.

The whiskers of the camel-humped catfish suddenly began to throb violently.

It slowly, almost as if in thought, tilted its head, and then—

"Roar--!!!"

With a deafening roar, its massive body shot out like a cannonball, hurtling towards the train. The solidified asphalt beneath its feet supported it, while the still-wet asphalt beneath its feet, as if manipulated by an invisible hand, instantly coalesced into a five-meter-high black wave!

The Camelback Catfish used surfing!

"You're quite the player." Su Li smiled confidently and drew her greatsword.

"Prepare for battle!" Red flames crackled around Su Li's greatsword. "It has taken the train as its new prey!"

Less than a hundred meters from the train, the Humped Catfish suddenly leaped into the air! The asphalt beneath its feet instantly solidified into a launch pad, giving it a terrifying initial velocity. Even more terrifying—the liquid asphalt coiled around its right claw like a living thing, twisting in the air into a twenty-meter-long, pitch-black whip, its end expanding into a spiked meteor hammer!

"Get down here!" Ivan's shield erupted with a dark, black-hole-like light. His seemingly effortless tapping of his sword against the shield triggered a visible ripple of gravity. A pale black force field spread out from him, sweeping across the catfish dragon.

The Humped Catfish Dragon's body suddenly froze, as if gripped by an unseen giant hand. It flailed its whiskers in alarm and anger, but could not break free from the suddenly intensified gravity, and plummeted like a meteorite toward Ivan's location.

At the same time as "Ember Shadow," Ivan leaped into the air, and a phantom of a planet appeared above his body. When the phantom dissipated, a small portal appeared in Ivan's body, and Ember Shadow jumped out of the portal, catching Ivan safely.

"Well done, partner!" Ivan patted Ember Shadow's neck with delight.

"Ugh! Ugh!"

The joy on Jin Ying's face vanished completely as his face was covered in the stench of this world. His long, horse-like face stretched even longer as he began to consider how to throw the weight off.

Damn it, I finally got out for some fresh air, and I ended up being dragged into a cesspool!

Ivan, you little rascal!

Although he was very dissatisfied, Ember Shadow dutifully carried Ivan and ran to the side.

At the same time, the catfish dragon, which had been captured by Ivan's power, also landed.

Its trajectory was completely altered by Ivan, and it crashed down in Ivan's direction.

Facing the overwhelming attack, Ivan wasn't worried at all. He simply raised his shield, becoming one with his horse, and met the attack head-on.

With a loud boom, the gel-like ground shook like a pudding.

At the center of the attack, Ivan remained calm, using his shield to withstand the catfish dragon's attack, except that he now had a shattered light shield around him.

Celestial and planetary morphology.

Its defensive capabilities are second only to the immobile star form, sacrificing most of its defensive capabilities, but it is not completely unable to move.

At this moment, he was surrounded by miniature star rings, which trailed comet-like streaks of light in the air as he moved.

To compensate for the lack of defense, Ivan's mount, Ember, came in handy, helping Ivan with his movement.

The shattered star rings beside Ivan represent the abilities he developed in his planetary form.

Starlight - Defense Planetary Ring.

A light shield made of starlight forms outside the body. When attacked, the light shield shatters instantly, negating all the damage from the attack.

According to the game, it's a shield that can be used multiple times!