Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Chapter 337 The Traitor's Attack

During a break in their exploration, Su Li chose to extend their rest period to seven days. During these seven days, Su Li and his team focused on developing their miniature world. Following their plan, they spent several days planting various plants, transforming the once barren land into a vibrant oasis.

To establish a temporary base in the small world, Zuli even spent money to purchase a prefabricated house. These houses have all their components prefabricated, allowing for quick assembly like building blocks once transported to the site – very convenient. Soon, a three-story hut stood in the center of the small world, filled with tools and equipment needed for farming and animal husbandry.

Su Li stood in front of the small house, looking at the neatly planted land before her. She patted the dirt off her hands with satisfaction and said with a smile, "When we enter a modern world in the future, we must bring back some agricultural machinery. That will make farming much easier."

If it weren't for the various perks of the train dormitory, Su Li would have even wanted to live in this little world. The tranquility and freedom here made him feel incredibly comfortable.

Just as Su Li and the others finished their day's farm work and were about to sit down for a meal, a message suddenly appeared in Su Li's handbook. Su Li opened the handbook and found it was an invitation.

"This invitation is of a very high standard," Su Li murmured to herself.

This invitation is like a work of art. Its cover radiates a silvery glow, made from the skin of a deep red silver-level monster, smooth and delicate to the touch, with fine gold patterns inlaid along the edges, like stars scattered across the night sky.

In the center, a griffin with outstretched wings is outlined using a gold foil technique. Every line of its feathers is clearly visible, making it lifelike and as if it is about to take flight from the paper at any moment.

Su Li opened the invitation and read, "Aba aba, aba aba, I see, it's an invitation to participate in the ceremony of the Crimson Kite Lord merging into the Blue Star the day after tomorrow."

After the exploration team's diligent search, and with the assistance of some prophetic items, the Blue Star civilization finally found another fire-type divine beast and successfully negotiated terms. This great deity, who will soon become the pillar of the fire element in the Blue Star world, the Crimson Phoenix Lord, will soon be integrated into Blue Star City and become part of the Blue Star civilization.

This matter had already spread among the higher-ups; it had caused quite a stir. They had even invited Su Li and his group to provide protection, but Su Li and his team were busy upgrading the train and didn't participate.

Su Li and her group decided to extend their rest time, partly because they wanted to witness the ceremony. After all, this was a momentous event that would be recorded in the annals of Earth's civilization.

Su Li and her team discussed it and contacted a few friends, discovering that many people had received the invitation. However, since everyone's exploration schedules overlapped, not many people could attend.

Su Li gently stroked the griffin emblem on the invitation with her fingers and muttered to herself, "Family emblem? Is this something that existed on Blue Star, or is it a new design? The background of this emblem seems to be a symbol of some religious sect."

He felt a vague unease. None of these things were good; they represented the growing influence of religions and families in Blue Star City.

Just then, Sun Keke sensed something and took out a crystal ball from her inventory. She chanted a spell into the crystal ball, and dark magical energy rapidly gathered around her. After a long while, a snake coiled with flames appeared in the crystal ball. The snake raised its head and flicked its tongue, its gaze icy, as if foreshadowing something.

The crystal ball in Sun Keke's hand gradually dimmed, and she collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. Despite this, she still managed to utter her prophecy with difficulty: "The burning serpent, the flames of revenge are spreading, danger is imminent."

Su Li held the invitation in her hand, lost in thought.

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Meanwhile, in the train's control room, Shirahoshi was listening to his subordinates' report.

"All the invitations have been sent out, and more than half of them have replied that they can make it."

"Very good." Bai Xing slammed his hand on the table, a cold glint in his eyes. "Get ready, this time, we'll wipe them out completely."

"Yes, Lord Shirahoshi!" the subordinate replied respectfully, then tapped his heart with his hand and withdrew.

After his subordinates left, only the hum of the instruments remained in the control room. Bai Xing leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and his thoughts drifted back to many years ago.

Bai Xing, whose real name is Su Xing, is one of the four traitors who defected to the alien civilization. He was born into an ordinary family; his parents were laid-off workers on Blue Star who made a living by running a small business. Bai Xing was exceptionally intelligent from a young age, but he was also aloof, always comparing himself to others and preferring to be alone.

During his youth, he lived in a small town with a chaotic crime rate. His home was near the city's third-largest entertainment district, where he witnessed the arrogance of many criminal gangs and the decadent lifestyles of the wealthy. These experiences gradually shaped his extreme worldview: "might makes right." He believed that only through violence and plunder could one obtain true freedom and power in this world.

After reaching adulthood, Bai Xing joined a criminal organization, using violence to get what he wanted. However, his good fortune didn't last long; with a large-scale crackdown on organized crime, his gang was quickly apprehended. Because his crimes were relatively minor, Bai Xing only served three years in prison before being released.

Bai Xing didn't think it was anything he deserved; he only felt that a greater, stronger being had set the rules, which proved that his worldview was correct.

After his release from prison, Bai Xing, with nothing to do, started working odd jobs. In his spare time, he became engrossed in some novels from Sojing.com, especially gangster and apocalyptic stories, which were his favorites. He always felt that the protagonists who were involved in gangsters were like his original future. He was just unlucky.

His favorite phrase is "Kill the saints first in the apocalypse," believing that these people are a burden on society and hinder the development of the strong.

Then, the Eternal Train game began. At first, Shirahoshi was terrified, but soon he couldn't help but burst into laughter in the rudimentary train. He felt that good days for people like him were finally coming.

Even more remarkably, he also acquired a cheat code that only protagonists in novels could obtain—the ultimate hint system. Little did he know, this ultimate hint system was merely a silver-level team from the Platinum Civilization providing him with prophecies.

With the help of the notification system, Bai Xing could easily locate various resources and treasures, and even locate the surface merchants—who were actually field agents of the Platinum Civilization—thereby obtaining a large amount of resources.

As resources increased and strength grew, Bai Xing's behavior became increasingly extreme. Shouting "Kill the saints first in the apocalypse," he systematically located and slaughtered those who shared survival tips in the chat, reveling in the pleasure of slaughtering the 'weak'. He also used the notification system to find several prominent merchants on Earth, enslaving them with contracts and secretly forming a massive conglomerate.

All the powerful figures within this conglomerate have contractual relationships with Shirahoshi. He has finally become the person he dreamed of being.