Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Chapter 48 Inspecting the Changes in the Train Car

On the morning of the departure day.

Zuli woke up naturally in the morning.

I opened my eyes, glanced at my watch, and saw it was 5 a.m., not yet time for my alarm to go off.

Get out of bed and put on casual clothes.

Because the train was being renovated, they took out their beds and slept in the square.

After taking a few steps, Zuli saw Sophia and Ivan, who had just gotten up, washing up.

"Good morning~" Su Li greeted him and couldn't help but yawn.

Sofia put the towel back in the basin and said, "Good morning, Zuli. Breakfast is ready: snake soup, some vegetables, and some strawberries."

Upon hearing the word "snake soup," Su Li clicked her tongue in annoyance. "Snake soup again... I'm getting nauseous from eating snake soup every meal."

“Me too, Brother Su,” Ivan said with a wry smile. “Sigh, but eating snake soup helps our strength, so even if we don’t like it, we still have to eat it… Sister, I’m not saying snake soup is bad, it’s just that we’ve eaten too much of it.”

“I understand. Actually, I’m tired of making snake soup too.” Sophia looked a little distressed. “Just think of it as taking medicine.”

“How about we swap our secret food with the others?” Ivan suggested a very feasible solution. “The secret food we eat mainly enhances agility and perception, right? Wouldn’t it be a bit unbalanced to eat it all the time?”

Sophia replied in a cool voice, "I've asked in the chat room several times, but all I get are scammers. I was planning to tell you after I've got results."

Su Li nodded. It was good that her teammate was taking initiative. He couldn't possibly consider everything himself.

The siblings were also very particular; they would always inform him before making any transaction. Su Li also gave them the right to buy anything they saw that was valuable and report it later. This was because some good items were snapped up almost immediately after being listed.

The train was now complete. After finishing their meal, the three of them folded up their bedding and went to the factory.

Inside the factory, a brand-new train is waiting to be delivered.

"Oh, that's interesting." Su Li exclaimed, looking at the train in amazement.

The train's exterior remained largely unchanged, but in the middle of the carriages, a roughly 10-meter-long, matte black glass enclosure appeared, perfectly complementing the equally black carriages.

No, it should be called a one-way glass room, meaning you can't see inside from the outside, but you can see outside from the inside.

Su Li walked around the train, taking a good look at the new train, then looked at the trailer with disdain, "This thing doesn't fit the style of a train."

The all-black train didn't match the simple wooden trailer at all.

“Let’s remove this when the storage room is upgraded,” Sophia said. “An extra section increases the chance of being attacked; enemies could climb onto the trailer and attack.”

Compared to the carriages, which have few points of climbing, this trailer is much easier to grab.

After the three people boarded the train, they carefully observed it.

In the locomotive carriage, there was a simple workbench and a few chairs.

The items that were previously placed in the first carriage at the back have been moved to a temporary inventory that only lasts for 2 hours and need to be moved again.

Su Li also took this opportunity to rearrange the vehicle's functional space, placing the processing workbench at the front of the vehicle.

This place is only 30 square meters in total, and it needs to accommodate 2 water purifiers, 1 basic forging furnace, 5 basic smelting furnaces, 1 basic workbench, 1 basic magic stove, and 1 ordinary stove for burning firewood, which takes up more than ten square meters. So the space is quite cramped.

After Zuli entered the front compartment, he first replaced the floor with stone flooring and stone walls.

There's a furnace, a forging furnace, and a stove. The previous wooden interior was all charred black. Zurich was also worried that it would catch fire, so he simply replaced it with stone.

Su Li stepped on the ground and felt that the stone floor was of good quality, just like the marble flooring commonly used in rural areas.

The three of them worked for a while and put the floor and equipment in place.

Zuli then entered the first carriage.

Upon entering the first carriage, the first thing you see is the cultivation room. After the dazzling, bulky front of the train, the cultivation room gives a very pleasant impression.

The planting room, which is 10 meters long and 3 meters wide, already contains 10 primary planting boxes. Each planting box has a sprinkler head that can add water to the planting box at specific points according to the user's settings.

Sofia stepped forward and turned on a sprinkler. The water sprayed from the sprinkler enveloped the mango tree below, but a lot of water sprayed directly onto the floor.

Sofia shook her head in dissatisfaction. "Using this function wastes a bit of water. We need to conserve water, so it's best to water it ourselves."

“I’ll do it,” Ivan said readily.

“Okay.” Su Li agreed. Ivan was a reliable minor and wouldn’t forget to water the plants.

Moreover, this task is actually not difficult at all. The seeds produced by the system are free of diseases and insect eggs, and the planting pots produced by the system are free of fungal infections.

Therefore, as long as there is no external pollution, there will basically be no germs or pests here.

Of course, if you overwater and the roots get suffocated, there's nothing you can do about it.

This growing room also has an internal circulation ventilation system to help the plants simulate the ventilation in the wild.

Su Li looked around the planting room and said with some emotion, "Actually, the space here is quite large. We can eat here. The walls and roof are all made of one-way glass. People outside can't see us, but we can see outside. Eating here and enjoying the scenery is awesome."

Su Li's suggestion tempted the siblings, and the three of them discussed it and decided to bring both the magic stove and the regular stove over. They then placed a table in the middle of the room as a dining table.

This way, the locomotive will serve as the duty room. While on duty, one can keep an eye on the workbench where work is being done. The planting room and the locomotive are right next to each other, so it's not difficult to walk back and forth.

After finishing, Su Li continued to check the functions of the planting room. After spending so many supplies, she couldn't just give me a glass room, could she?

[Planting Room lv1: Eliminates low-level external pests and diseases, slightly increases plant yield]

"It's alright, better than nothing," Su Li clicked her tongue.

After the planting room, there is the dormitory. There is a metal partition between the dormitory and the planting room.

Open the door on the partition, and you'll see a wall in front of you, with a passageway about 1 meter wide. Turn the passageway to the left.

Entering the passageway on the left, you will see a passageway that is 10 meters long and 0.5 meters wide. On the right side of the passageway is a wooden wall with two doors and two windows that can be opened.

This is the dormitory.

Su Li opened one of the doors and entered the dormitory.

Inside is a space measuring 2.3 meters by 5 meters. There is also a tiny toilet, about one square meter in size, which can be used for showering and squatting.

This place seems okay for one person, but it's a bit cramped for two.

"My goodness, it looks like a hamster cage," Su Li complained.

But there's nothing we can do about it; the space inside the car is just that small.

There are two dorm rooms; Zurich and Ivan share one room, and Sofia shares another.

Sofia wanted to share a room with her brother, but Ivan refused, saying he was already too old for that.

Zuli and the others have 1*2 beds, which, when placed side by side, still leave 30 centimeters of walking space.

In addition, Su Li also discovered the reason for the newly added storage space when the carriage evolved.

On both sides of the train's ceiling, there are storage compartments like those on airplanes. They can't hold much, but they can at least hold some odds and ends.

To Zuli's surprise, the storage box had a basic preservation function that could slow down the spoilage of meat.

This is great news! Su Li and the others eat three meals a day, each person receiving a serving of snake soup, totaling nine servings of snake meat per day. They only ate 63 servings of meat in seven days. But they had 485 servings of snake meat! After a week, even monster meat, preserved with ice, started to lose its freshness.

Su Li and the others quickly moved the ice and meat into these refrigerated storage cabinets.

After finishing, Zuli and Ivan continued tidying up their dorm room.

The train's interior was quite tall, so Zuli simply piled up six pull-out storage boxes along the wall to store Zuli and Ivan's personal belongings.

Finally, we have a toilet and some private space.

Previously, there were no toilets, so Su Li and her companions had to relieve themselves on the train. It was always quite awkward, to be honest.

Especially before there was a first carriage, only the locomotive, you could hear it no matter how you hid!

"Alas, the past is too painful to recall," Su Li sighed. "But with our hard work, life has gradually improved."

The toilet was a squat toilet, which Su Li was already used to. The siblings were Russian, so the Asian squatting style was no problem for them. Ivan even squatted down and performed a Russian leg-kicking dance for Su Li – he's quite the character!

Finally, there's the storage space at the very back of the carriage.

[Vehicle Storage Space lv1: Can store 2 units of materials, no slot limit]

This grid-free design caught Su Li's eye.

There are slot limitations. For example, a certain piece of equipment may only have 3 slots, and each slot can hold 5 materials. Theoretically, it can hold 15 materials.

However, in actual use, a pickaxe, a hammer, and an axe are enough to fill up all the storage slots. Theoretically, there are 15 storage spaces, but only 3 are actually used.

Removing the grid restriction means you can place things anywhere, which is great!