Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

I took a puff of steam and felt nothing.

Su Li then took a deep breath for a while.

After inhaling deeply for half an hour, Su Li first opened her own panel, took a screenshot, and sent it to Sophia and Ivan. Then she reached out and picked her nose.

There was no dust in my nose, and my body didn't feel damp from the moisture. It was as if the fog was just a visual effect.

Su Li began recalling plots from books like "Metamorphosis," and suddenly flew into a rage, but that was it. There was no emotional breakdown as expected.

Zuli closed the door and looked through the window at Sophia, who was watching her with concern in the hallway.

Sofia opened her mouth and said something, and Zuli immediately replied, "You didn't make a sound."

“Two branches can be burned to make one piece of charcoal,” Sofia said this time.

Su Li then repeated it.

What is 4 plus 4 plus 4 multiplied by 2?

"16. Perform multiplication first, then addition."

The two checked a few more times and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming there were no problems.

Su Li closed the car window, opened the door, and the three of them sat down together on the sofa inside the planter's room.

"Short-term inhalation has not caused hallucinations or poisoning, and there are no abnormalities in the status bar. Moreover, this mist is neither smoke nor water vapor," Su Li concluded.

This half hour is necessary; they are still very weak and must be careful.

"Next up is the long-term intake experiment. But we'll hold off for now. Visibility will be better during the day, so let's hurry up and gather some supplies. We'll do it tonight."

There are some houses and a convenience store in their vicinity.

The three maintained their combat formation and carefully made their way towards the residential area.

Approaching a two-story house painted white, Su Li leaned close to the window and peered inside.

The room was very messy, with dirty newspapers and books scattered on the dining table, and no one was in the room.

Su Li glanced at the window; it wasn't locked.

Zuli opened the window, and Ivan, shield in hand, climbed in first. Then Sofia, and then Zuli.

The three people opened the doors one by one. On the first floor, there was a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a toilet, a laundry room, a storage room, and a garage.

The place was cluttered, especially the garage, which was piled with all sorts of odds and ends, turning it into a garbage dump.

The entire house was filled with a foul, fishy stench, which was coming from the stairs, clearly indicating that something was rotting on the second floor.

The three of them went up to the second floor and found an open door covered with black bloodstains and suspicious hard lumps.

Zuli gripped his two-handed sword tightly. Then Ivan was the first to step forward.

Having prepared, Ivan charged into the room, shield in hand. Then Zuli entered, sword in hand. The two stood guard, one after the other.

Once inside, there were no monsters, only a disgusting scene of someone having eaten.

This should have been the master bedroom, but now all that's left are chewed-up bones. Judging from the two pools of blood, there were probably two people here originally.

Su Li looked at the ceiling, where there was a hole, which looked like it had been forced in from the outside.

“There’s no one here. The owner of this place has been eaten.” Su Li lowered her guard and stared at the hole in the ceiling. “Judging from this damage, the intruder was about 2 meters tall. They broke through the ceiling from the roof and ate the owner.”

"Tsk, fog and monsters, this is tough." Su Li scratched his head helplessly. "Let's look for supplies."

Some batteries were found in the room, but they were too small, only the size of AAA batteries, and the system didn't recognize them as usable. Su Li thought they might be useful later, so she decided to keep them.

Then came all sorts of clothes and shoes. They had previously robbed a clothing store, so they didn't care for these secondhand clothes.

All the food in the room had been eaten. Zuli and the others collected the remaining salt, black pepper, and other items, as well as some tableware and pots.

Holding half a bag of salt, Su Li suddenly remembered something, "I remember I left a salt plant before, but it turned out to be useless in the end."

It wasn't a complete waste of effort; at the time, it was a good idea. Who knows what the future holds? It's always good to be prepared.

They did find an opened bottle of ketchup, which was already finished, with only a few traces remaining. Su Li picked it up and smelled it; it hadn't spoiled yet, and the ketchup hadn't lost any moisture, indicating that the incident hadn't been long ago.

I turned on the tap, but there was no water. I turned on the light switch, but there was no electricity either.

"The furniture here looks so old-fashioned...it feels like the end of the 20th century," Su Li said, glancing at the furniture around her.

There were no computers inside, and even the television was one of those bulky, antenna-equipped devices. There were no cell phones in sight; only a landline phone was available.

After searching around, I really couldn't find anything useful.

Zuli could only move the washing machine, dryer, electric oven, induction cooker, and refrigerator. They'd all be useful in the future when we enter the electrical age, saving her the trouble of buying them from stores. Anyway, they'd only take up a few spaces in the warehouse.

After searching the house, Sofia said regretfully, "We didn't find any guns either."

“Maybe it really is a country that bans guns,” Su Li said. “But looking at the family photo, it’s clearly a Western country, oh well… it’s another world.”

The writing here is some kind of symbolic script. Although he can understand it, it is with the help of the system. In his mind, these characters are not the writing of any country on Earth or the planet Blue Star.

There are also three residential houses and a convenience store nearby.

Zurich and his team continued searching the surrounding houses.

The houses were all very similar; the walls had been broken down and the owners' families had been eaten.

The supplies found were mostly household appliances and seasonings.

As Su Li was about to leave the last bedroom, she noticed that one of the posters on the wall looked familiar.

"Nuclear Monster - Fusion Titan, now showing."

Su Li stared at the poster, which depicted a giant monster spewing lightning. It really looked like Godzilla.

What's going on? Su Li couldn't help but fall into thought.

"What's wrong?" Sophia noticed that Su Li hadn't come down yet, so she came over to check and found Su Li staring blankly at the poster.

There were several posters of bikini-clad beauties on the wall, but Sofia immediately realized that Zuli was looking at the monster.

“…It really does look like that monster outside,” Sophia mused. “But isn’t that one destroying houses? Would anyone film a movie about a monster while it’s wreaking havoc outside?”

No normal person would do that.

Having barely read any novels or played any games, Sofia's imagination was far from wild. She first saw the monsters outside and prejudicially assumed they were real. Then, for some reason, people created movies based on them.

Based on her extensive experience writing novels, Su Li had an idea. "One hypothesis is that the monsters outside are actually imitating this movie."

"Dreams, thoughts, recurrences, resentment, and fear-related monsters are all possibilities. For example, mirror monsters, painted skin monsters, and Esod mimics. More information is needed to confirm."

After listening to Su Li's words, Sofia showed an expression of admiration.

Zuli saw Sophia's expression and felt a little smug.

He has read the entire beginner's monster encyclopedia from beginning to end and is now starting to memorize its contents.

Because this is all information about monsters, life-saving knowledge, memorizing it won't hurt. Besides, it'll make you look cool.

Young people of this age love to show off in front of the opposite sex, and dream of awakening superpowers, with the awakening scene always taking place in their own classroom.

After showing off, Su Li was in a particularly good mood. Humming a little tune, she collected the most valuable radio in the room and then went back downstairs to meet up with Ivan.

Immediately afterwards, I went to that small shop.

The convenience store was a complete mess; all the food and drinks were gone. Zuli was hoping to get some sparkling water to satisfy her craving.

The three of them searched inside for a while and found some toiletries, towels, basins, kettles, toothbrushes, and toothpaste, which they took with them. Especially the toothbrush; they had been using it in a house that had been burned down in Howling Valley, and the handle of the toothbrush was deformed from the heat.

Besides toothbrushes, there were all sorts of seasonings. Then there were mops, brooms, and other similar items.

There was also toilet paper, socks, underwear, screws, and pens and paper.

A whole bunch of random things were packed up and taken inside the train.

However, besides these, there are some other things...

Sofia casually put the several black pantyhose into her backpack. Then, after looking around and making sure no one was around, she stared at the few small boxes labeled 003 with a complicated expression, gritted her teeth, and took the remaining ten or so boxes.

When he turned around, he saw his younger brother with a strange smile on his face.

Sofia blushed and kicked Ivan in the backside. "Run!"

"Oh, okay, sister." Ivan rubbed his bottom and walked ahead.

He dared not walk behind, or his enraged older sister would beat him.