Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Ivan put down the manual and said to Su Li, "Brother-in-law, a large number of Guntail Scorpions have appeared on the edge of the city and are fighting with the players hiding there."

“It seems we’re safe here,” Sofia concluded. “But this may be temporary.”

The city's outskirts were teeming with guntail scorpions, while the interior was a place of radiant, blood-burning radiation. The place they were staying in, on the outskirts of the city, seemed to be the safest, and the radiation was completely negligible for Su Li and his companions.

"It looks like that, but something doesn't feel right." Su Li pointed to the big fat guy in the distance. "You don't actually think that thing only emits radiation, do you?"

Ivan added, "Looking at the poster, it releases beams of light and can cause widespread thunderstorms."

"Yes, I'm inclined to think this is just the appetizer. Next, this behemoth will definitely start moving."

As they were talking, a portion of the blue lines on the back of the enormous nuclear-exploded beast turned purple.

"It changed color." Ivan was somewhat taken aback, then realized some bad news: "On the poster, the nuclear behemoth spitting out beams of light has purple lines on its body."

“It seems his abilities haven’t fully developed yet.” Su Li stroked her chin, suddenly having an idea: “The news says that the population is about to fall below the critical point of 1%, and a drastic change is about to occur. I don’t know what will happen, but I’m sure the game’s difficulty will increase.”

"So, I think we should give it one last shot. Before he develops his beam ability, let's go to the central square and take down the Koss Dream Worm that created this Godzilla!"

Sofia looked worried. "Isn't this too risky?"

"The heavily armored Guntail Scorpion has left the city center. The city center only has the Koss Dream Bugs, which are fully powered by Godzilla. It's worth a try."

"Moreover, we now have so many items and equipment targeting the Kosmon bugs. I think we should take a gamble and see if we can take down the culprit in the city center. Of course, if it's not feasible, we'll just run away."

"The risks are huge, but the rewards will be equally huge. So how do we fight Godzilla?" Sofia raised the key question.

“It’s a weakened Godzilla.” Su Li sent two pictures to the siblings. “These are pictures sent by players. Look at the Godzilla in other cities and the Godzilla in our city.”

"Did you notice the difference?"

Sofia immediately noticed the difference: "Our city's Godzilla is a bit unrealistic."

“Yes. By eliminating the enhanced monsters from four directions ahead of time, Godzilla in our city didn’t accumulate enough power to materialize.” Su Li summarized, “Those four pillars of light, and the pillar-like light emanating from Godzilla, are clearly reminding you that these four pillars of light are related to Godzilla. Anyone with a brain can deduce that destroying the four pillars of light was advantageous.”

"This is the way the game explicitly tells us to complete the game. Three of our city's Godzillas were destroyed before the light pillars rose, and the fourth was quickly dealt with as well. So our city's Godzillas are definitely not very strong."

Many players have already deduced this conclusion. Therefore, Norfolk is currently very lively, with players from the surrounding four cities flocking here.

"Let's take a gamble. If things don't work out, we can't back down now. Just waiting like this is too passive! Are we betting that Godzilla won't evolve a beam ability? Or are we betting that Godzilla's attack power is insufficient, and the beam can't kill us?"

"Don't forget, there's one last wave of beasts. During the beast tide, we have to deal with it, and then we can only leave this world at midnight. When the beast tide starts, the train can only travel 100 kilometers per hour. We can't even run very far!"

The siblings exchanged glances and finally agreed with Su Li's idea.

After making the decision, the three returned to the car, started the train, and sped towards the city center.

The train sped up to its maximum speed, and before long, they arrived near the city center.

Because of their fear of Godzilla in the city center, no players had ever entered within a 5-kilometer radius of the city center. Su Li and his group were among the first players to enter this distance.

A few kilometers from their destination, Zuli suddenly discovered a large hole dug in the tunnel. Judging from the style, it was probably dug by a spear-tailed scorpion.

Su Li immediately braked.

The three began to gather all the usable equipment, including various tools and several cans of gasoline. They then entered the cave.

Upon entering the cave, Su Li was immediately struck by the pungent stench of blood. Looking closer, she realized this was no cave, but a den of iniquity. The ground was littered with rotting chunks of flesh and bones—the remains of the original inhabitants.

The three of them almost threw up, but thankfully the masks blocked some of the stench, though the visual impact was still strong.

Su Li walked carefully inside, the sticky feeling under her feet making her feel extremely nauseous.

Inside the cave, there were numerous traces of spear-tailed scorpions, and the walls were covered with messy sword marks, all caused by the tails of the spear-tailed scorpions.

After walking several hundred meters, Zuli noticed a light ahead.

After confirming that there were no monsters around, Su Li and the other two carefully approached the direction from which the light came.

Then, they discovered a huge, deep pit. The pit was about 1 kilometer in diameter and tens of meters deep. The cave where Su Li and his companions were lying was on the wall of the pit. Su Li looked around; there were many more caves nearby, leading in all directions.

Below the pit lay a dense, nauseating sight that would trigger trypophobia. A massive number of meter-long, worm-like Kosmos worms were swarming inside, constantly wriggling and emitting points of light.

In the middle of the deep pit, there was a huge purple fleshy egg, which was constantly wriggling, beating like a heart, and continuously absorbing the light spots emitted by the Kosmon Worm.

Zuli didn't recognize this monster, but it was closely related to the Kosmon Bug. There was no reason why the encyclopedia would include the Kosmon Bug but not this one.

Therefore, Zu Li boldly speculates that this should be a superior individual of the Kosmonid, such as the insect king.

Around the Insect King, Su Li also saw some other people. Although these people still maintained human form, their appearance had deviated from that of humans. They had four Kosmon insect claws on their backs, and their eyes had turned into insect compound eyes. Su Li even experienced the uncanny valley effect.

[It looks like some kind of ceremony is going on. Shouldn't we find a way to take him down?!]

Su Li took out the hand grenade that the old principal had made before, as well as the remote-controlled bombs that were left over.

Zuli and Ivan each threw several of these things forcefully toward the large egg in the center.

Then, Sophia picked up the Light-Sweeping Gun, aimed, fired the Enchanted Fireball, and pulled the trigger.

With a loud "boom," followed by a piercing scream.