Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Su Li continued searching through the transaction information. In addition to the blueprints, some people also sent selfies and skill books. Su Li flipped through more than a dozen skill books and found a very useful one.

[Magic Stomp: Uses magic energy to shake the surrounding ground, causing a stun effect on enemies. If the target is an underground unit, it will deal damage.]

This skill is perfect for dealing with monsters like the Guntail Scorpion that can burrow underground.

Su Li opened the interface and started communicating with this person.

Zurich—Hello, how would you like to trade this skill book?

Qiu Cheng—I'll trade two guns for one.

Zuli—that's a bit pricey. According to the description, your skill doesn't deal damage unless it's an underground unit. It can only be used as a control skill.

Zuli—Currently, control skills are useless. Your skill can only control enemies for a second at most. What can you do in a second when dealing with monsters?

Qiu Cheng—You can deal with humans.

Zurich—I have a gun. Why run up to someone, stomp on them, and then try to kill them? Wouldn't it be better to shoot them from a hundred meters away?

Qiu Cheng—Then you should make an offer.

Zurich—a gun. At this stage, a magic-powered weapon that can be continuously charged with magic energy and deal elemental damage is definitely worth trading for a skill book.

Qiu Cheng – This is a god-tier skill in PvP!

Zurich—I have a gun.

This time, the other side remained silent for a long time. Just when Su Li thought the other side was not going to change, he spoke up.

Qiu Cheng – Okay. Let's make a deal then.

Zuli initiated a private deal. She successfully traded a gun for someone else's skill book.

Su Li called out to the dormitory, "Ivan! Here's a skill book for you, learn from it!"

Ivan was given the opportunity to learn first, while Zuli continued trading.

Then, he used another gun to trade another skill with a player.

[Powerful Kick: Gather magical energy at your feet and deliver a swift kick to the enemy, with a chance to interrupt their attack.]

Having learned a great deal, Zuli closed the manual and began to learn how to perform a powerful kick.

A morning passed, and Su Li easily learned the Explosive Kick. The magical energy usage of this skill was mentioned in the basic book she had bought earlier. With the help of the "tutorial," Su Li quickly got the hang of it.

Su Li touched her head excitedly, "I feel like my brain is much smarter than before, it must be because of the increased comprehension from the upgrade."

On the other side, Ivan also learned the Magic Stomp very quickly, and when he used it, it was extremely powerful.

When Zuli learned this move and compared it with Ivan's, the difference was obvious. Ivan's move had a larger area of ​​impact and a longer duration of stun.

"It seems this move is perfect for Ivan to learn. The explosive kick is the same; it's more powerful when I use it than Ivan does."

This is the difference caused by an individual's magical attributes and training methods.

As for Sophia? She can learn the Explosive Kick, which is faster than Su Li's, but less powerful. As for Magic Stomp, she struggled to learn it, spending an entire morning without success. The skill itself isn't difficult; it simply involves channeling magical energy at a certain frequency, guiding it into the ground with each stomp, causing the surrounding area to tremble.

Sophia is just missing that final step of pouring her magic into the surrounding land. She has great magical resilience and flexibility, but lacks rigidity.

If we were to use weapons as metaphors, Zuli's magic power is like a sword, full of aggression; Ivan's magic power is like a heavy, solid hammer; and Sophia's magic power is like a whip, flexible and resilient.

This also leads to a bias when learning skills. Some skills are better suited to heavier, more solid magical energy, but not so good for more fluid magical energy. Of course, you can still learn them by force, but they will be difficult.

After lunch, Ivan did some exercise, and Su Li took a shower and then put a few eggs into the fermentation tank. Turning around, she found that Sophia wasn't taking a shower as usual, but was waiting beside her.

"What's wrong? Is something the matter?" Su Li asked Sophia.

“Hmm.” Sophia nodded. “Just now, while I was cooking, I heard strange noises coming from inside the tunnel walls.”

"Hmm?" Su Li frowned. "Are you sure?"

“Confirmed, I can hear a rustling crawling sound,” Sofia said with certainty. “It’s inside the left wall.”

"...It could be a spear-tailed scorpion. Call Ivan, let's get out of the car."

Zuli and her siblings got off the train and came to the tunnel on the left.

Su Li tapped on the wall to his left and felt that it was solid. But he trusted Sophia.

So Su Li took out the mining steam robot, equipped it with a pickaxe, and sent it to dig into the left wall.

After the robot broke through the wall, Su Li and the other two took shovels and began digging inside, following the directions given by Sofia.

The three of them dug for a while, and suddenly felt that they had dug into a hole. Upon closer inspection, they found that they had actually dug into a long underground tunnel.

Su Li remembered that Sophia had mentioned hearing strange noises here. So they didn't light torches and quietly entered the tunnel.

Zuli channeled her magical energy into her eyes, examining the outlines of the surrounding elements.

This tunnel was wider than a subway tunnel. The ceiling was a layer of solid rock, which Su Li immediately recognized as not being natural. It must have been shaped by some kind of magical power.

Su Li poked the ground with her foot. There were many traces of insects crawling on the ground, matching the tracks of the Mountain Scorpion.

“There’s a faint echo,” Sofia said softly. “It’s far away.”

"Are there many?" Su Li asked.

"...I can't hear clearly. I'm not familiar with the sounds of insects, so it's hard to identify them, but the sounds aren't loud, so there probably aren't many."

“The Guntail Scorpion is very sensitive to smell, so we can’t ambush it. Let’s try to fight it head-on. If we can’t win, we’ll use Magic Charge and equipment skills to run away.” Su Li said in a low voice, “The Guntail Scorpion’s tail attack range is about 10 meters, and its Fossil Mud burrowing speed is not fast, so watch your step. Remember to attach Magic Power to your eyes so you can see the gathering elemental flow.”

“If you come from underground, Ivan, remember to use magic to trample it.”

"learn."

The three first set up torches around the area, and then waited for the spear-tailed scorpion to arrive.

Soon, the sound of the insects moving became clearer. Sophia also used the sound to locate the enemy's position.

"Prepare," Su Li commanded.

Sophia didn't take out her rifle; using a rifle inside the tunnel would be too loud, and Su Li and the others were afraid of attracting more monsters. So Sophia used the Light-Sweeping Gun and a bow and arrow that she hadn't used in a long time.

After a few seconds of silence, the Guntail Scorpion suddenly stopped walking, and then its footsteps became chaotic.

Guntail Scorpions are territorial monsters, and Su Li and her group who entered their tunnel were undoubtedly regarded as intruders.