Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Su Li returned to the front of the vehicle and sat down at the workbench. During her break, Su Li planned to craft some equipment.

Let's take it one step at a time.

Su Li first opened the workbench's work page and found the manufacturing page for the Magic Energy Forging Furnace.

[Magic Forging Furnace: An essential facility for crafting extraordinary equipment.]

【Consumables: 1 Forging Table, 100 Iron Ingots, 200 Silver Ingots, 50 Gold Ingots, 3 Elemental Crystals of 5 Attributes, 20 Lower-Grade Magic Crystals, 1 Forging Rune】

The hardest-to-obtain forging runes have already been found in the treasure chest, and the elemental crystals with 5 attributes have also been processed through the enchanting table.

Zuli took out all the materials and then clicked "Create".

Then, the workbench automatically started working and processed the materials.

Su Li checked the time and it showed that it would take 30 minutes to process.

Su Li ignored everything and walked to the chemical furnace. Sophia's ammunition was nearly depleted in this battle; it was time to make some new bullets. The gunpowder and bullet blueprints she had bought a long time ago could finally be put to use with the chemical furnace.

Zuli turned on the chemical furnace, which can process some common chemical products, such as nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and alcohol.

Su Li recalled her warehouse, which contained a considerable amount of alcohol she had scavenged from pharmacies, as well as sulfur ore, nitrate ore, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid that she had just moved from the factory. It was enough for the time being.

Su Li scrolled down the list and opened the blueprints for general-purpose gunpowder.

[General-purpose gunpowder]

[Consumables: 1 nitric acid, 1 cotton, 2 alcohols, 1 sulfuric acid; requires a chemical furnace]

Su Li first stuffed a low-grade magic energy crystal into the chemical furnace. These higher-level workbenches all require magic energy to operate.

Don't want to use magic energy? You can synthesize it yourself. It saves materials, but you need to have the skill.

Using a crafting table guarantees a high success rate and is fast, but the downside is that it consumes a lot of resources.

Good heavens, even survival games make more money from platforms, it's infuriating!

Zuli clicked on the next option. The recipes in the game aren't unique; other materials can be used as substitutes. For example, when crafting an iron axe, the handle can be made from a stick or wood.

The same applies to general-purpose gunpowder, which can also be synthesized from a mixture of nitrocellulose and ethanol-ether.

Su Li recalled some chemistry problems she had done before and figured out the principle: "Nitric acid and cotton make nitrocellulose, alcohol and sulfuric acid make ether, and then the mixture of ethanol and ether makes gunpowder from the nitrocellulose, right?"

Su Li flipped through the synthesis table of the chemical furnace. It contained ether, but not nitrocellulose.

"If this were a chemistry expert, they could probably make the most of this chemical furnace. It's a pity I only have a little high school knowledge," Su Li said with some regret.

After synthesizing the general-purpose gunpowder, Zurich then proceeded to synthesize rifle bullets.

Rifle bullets

[Consumables: 1 Copper Ingot, 1 General Gunpowder]

Su Li made more, and soon she had a box of rifle bullets in her hand.

Each box of rifle bullets contained 20 rounds. Su Li took them out and examined them, finding that they were similar to those made by the old headmaster. "However, this manufacturing process seems to have been simplified; they didn't even ask me to provide the primer material. That's fine, though. If they had asked me to provide the primer, I would have had to find lead ore, which would have been a real nightmare."

Zurich manufactured 200 rifle bullets and set them aside.

Next are the materials needed to upgrade the train to level 4. Last time, because I was short of money, and upgrading to level 4 only added a power system to make life easier, without any other improvements, and the beginner's help stopped at level 3, making it seem like a useless level just to fill the gap, Su Li didn't buy the blueprint, but she did write down the materials required for the blueprint.

This includes 10 batteries and 30 plastic components.

Both of these can be made using a workbench and a chemical furnace.

【Battery】

[Consumables: 5 Iron Ingots, 1 Electrolyte, 2 Gold Ingots, crafted at a basic workbench]

Electrolyte

[Consumables: 5 parts sulfuric acid, 1 part water, manufactured in a chemical furnace]

【plastic】

[Consumable: 5 Resin, crafted in a chemical furnace]

Su Li hung the electrolyte and plastic on the chemical furnace work list and then left them there, returning to her workbench.

At this point, the crafting process at the workbench had finished. Zuli clicked on the list to claim the Magic Forge.

The magic-powered forging furnace was 2x2 in size, and it took Su Li a while to make room for the workbench at the front of the vehicle.

Zuli put the forge down and then examined it.

The new forge has a magical feel to it, with various square, unknown characters that look somewhat like Chinese on it, and various rune effects constantly appearing around it.

Su Li opened the Magic Energy Forging Furnace and went to the Magic Energy Equipment page. There were only a few recipes there, all of which were originally unworkable gray, but now three of them had turned into a colorful black.

These are four Black Iron-grade magical equipment items: [Crystal Feather Serpent Boots], [Crystal Feather Serpent Lower Body Armor], [Crystal Feather Serpent Leather Armor], and [Scorpion Claw Shield].

The scorpion's pincers were still gray. Su Li looked at the required materials; they were all materials for the spear-tailed scorpion, which he didn't have on hand. He casually flipped through the manual but didn't see any materials for sale. It seemed the spear-tailed scorpion was still in a dormant state.

"We have all the materials for the Crystal Feather Serpent equipment. We replaced the five Storm Crystal Feather Serpent cores that were missing before. Let's start making it."

[Crystal Feather Serpent Hide Armor: Crystal Feather Serpent Core*1, Complete Crystal Feather Serpent Head Crystal*2, Crystal Feather Serpent Fine Crystal Hide*15, Lower Grade Magic Energy Crystal*5, Gold Ingot*10, Requires Magic Energy Forging Furnace]

【Crystal Feather Serpent Boots: Crystal Feather Serpent Core*1, Broken Crystal Feather Serpent Head Crystal*5, Crystal Feather Serpent Fine Crystal Skin*10, Lower Grade Magic Energy Crystal*5, Silver Ingot*10, Requires Magic Energy Forging Furnace】

[Crystal Feather Serpent Lower Armor: Crystal Feather Serpent Core*1, Broken Crystal Feather Serpent Head Crystal*10, Crystal Feather Serpent Fine Crystal Skin*15, Lower Grade Magic Energy Crystal*5, Silver Ingot*10, Requires Magic Energy Forging Furnace]

Su Li took out the materials, forged three of each type of equipment, and then clicked confirm.

Numerous materials are placed into the magic furnace to begin the process, which takes 15 minutes.

What's needed in large quantities here is the fine crystalline skin of the Crystal Feather Serpent. This skin comes from the belly of the Crystal Feather Serpent, making it more flexible and with better extensibility. It's an excellent material for equipment, but the downside is that each serpent only has a small piece.

Forty-five minutes later, Su Li took three pieces of equipment out of the furnace and examined them.

【Crystal Feather Serpent Armor - Storm】

The fine snakeskin provides excellent protection and can deflect attacks. It also possesses a certain level of magic resistance, making it particularly effective against wind-attribute attacks.

【Sudden Storm: When activated, unleashes a storm around the area, blowing away enemies. Cooldown: 12 hours】

【Crystal Feather Serpent Bottoms - Storm】

Same as above

【Swift Dash: When activated, grants a burst of speed for 30 seconds. Cooldown: 2 hours】

【Crystal Feather Serpent Boots - Storm】

Same as above

【Windwalker: Wind Rider: Increases agility and speed by 10%, allows flight in strong winds】

These three pieces of equipment are all made using materials from the Storm Crystal Feather Serpent, so they all have the suffix "Storm".

The Crystal Feather Serpent is a type of monster, and besides the Storm Serpent, there are also subspecies such as Lava Serpent and Water Serpent. Different subspecies produce equipment with different inherent skills.

Su Li put on the three-piece set, and then he had an epiphany and gained a set skill.

[Storm: This characteristic is obtained because all materials used are from the Storm Crystal Feather Serpent. Three pieces can form a set, which can be used with the active skill Storm Ring.]

[Storm Ring: When activated, a storm ring forms around the user, providing defense against projectiles and harmful gases.]