Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Chapter 305 The first clues appear

This gland was the same one they had encountered before, the gland of a tortoise that could control insects to help it hunt.

That tortoise is fire-elemental and can secrete pheromones that attract insects. Furthermore, the effect of these pheromones can be controlled by temperature.

Coincidentally, this tortoise is also listed in the bestiary. The oily substance secreted by its glands is an excellent insect repellent that can repel most insects.

After killing the tortoise, Su Li kept many glands, waiting for the day they would come in handy.

Zuli took out a gland, cut it open with a knife, heated it in a water bath, and added oil extracted from the Tianyuan fruit to extract its components.

After soaking for a period of time, Zurich chopped up the soaked glands and put them into a centrifuge for further processing.

Finally, the extracted essential oil is mixed with wood shavings scraped from earth-element wood, stirred, shaped, and placed into a small bottle.

"Okay, after contact with oxygen, it will emit an insect-repelling scent, which is expected to last for 10 hours."

Ten hours later, it will have to be remade, or another solution will have to be found.

This process took Zuli an hour to complete.

By this time, the train had stopped. Su Li and Song Mingyu arrived at the operations room at the same time and found that everyone had already gathered there.

"Let's go!"

Several people got off the train.

This time, they ventured even deeper into the rainforest.

Following the radar's instructions, they needed to travel 6 kilometers to the east, where there were large quantities of unknown wood-attribute items.

But those 6 kilometers were a real ordeal for Zuli and his companions.

Traversing the dense rainforest, the ground beneath their feet was slippery and soft, each step feeling like a struggle against mud. Vines and bushes frequently blocked their path, forcing Ivan and Zurich to wield their longswords and carve out a barely passable trail.

The air was filled with the smell of rotting plants and damp earth, and occasionally a faint fishy odor could be detected, as if some creature was watching them from not far away.

They couldn't just charge through using magic power. Such recklessness would only cause more trouble if they encountered some monster or natural trap.

Not to mention, there are also plant-based monsters.

In a place like this, there's a 100% chance there will be plant-based monsters. Su Li recalled the plant-based monsters she had seen in the monster encyclopedia and felt a chill run down her spine.

Many plant-based monsters are particularly cunning and adept at using parasitism, toxins, and corrosion to attack their enemies.

"This place... is breathtakingly beautiful, and terrifyingly dangerous," Su Li murmured.

His palm gently stroked a huge fern, and water droplets on the leaves slid down his fingers without feeling any coolness.

Then, a sweet aroma caught Su Li's attention. He looked ahead and saw a plant that looked like a half-peeled banana.

The aroma comes from the banana part of this plant. It smells like freshly baked honey bread, with a wonderfully sweet scent that makes your mouth water.

Zuli's attention was drawn to the peculiar plant. Without turning around, she asked Sophia directly, "Is this edible?"

“It looks edible, it’s quite sweet,” Sofia glanced at it and then replied, “Let’s collect some seeds.”

Along the way, they had already seen several kinds of tropical fruits, and Sofia had gotten used to it.

The cautious group naturally didn't collect the seeds directly; they had Song Mingyu's slime collect them instead.

The slime, whose body was faintly green, heard that it had been given a call to action and began to bounce around.

However, before the slime could collect the seeds, an accident occurred.

With a "click," Su Li suddenly felt her feet sink into the ground.

Then came the sound of something flying through the air. The sound came from right beneath Su Li's feet.

Before Su Li could retreat, she unleashed a burst of intense magical energy from beneath her feet.

With a hiss, the moisture in the air was instantly evaporated, and the high-temperature magic energy dried out the plants that had started to move under Su Li's feet!

Then, Su Li saw the peeled banana suddenly twist and turn, and countless leaves with tips like ginkgo leaves and extremely long stems stretched out from the ground, fanning towards Su Li.

It's a plant monster!

Ivan instantly swept his sword in a circle. The battle had begun, and he needed to create a suitable fighting environment. The surrounding vegetation was too dense; who knew if he'd be ambushed by something else during the fight?

Sure enough, after Ivan's sword swept across, the surrounding noise increased significantly.

Four more plant-like monsters, resembling peeled bananas, darted out from the side. Then, two snakes suddenly attacked them from a nearby tree.

With one swift movement, Sun Lili split the two snakes in two, then stomped on the ground, crushing the head of a newly emerged insect.

These three are all low-level monsters, having just broken through to the Iron rank. They're not difficult to deal with.

Sophia's approach was much simpler; she simply took out Lion's Roar and fired a grenade at the several active plant monsters.

With a loud bang, the howitzer exploded, sending up a cloud of red smoke. When the smoke cleared, a mass of lava was left on the ground.

Several plant monsters were blasted apart, with some lava residue still on their bodies, making them look like they had Parkinson's disease.

Su Li swung her greatsword, cleaving the plant monster that had started moving in half at the waist.

However, after the monster was cut in half at the waist, several nematodes suddenly sprang out from its banana-like body.

Su Li quickly swung her sword again, burning the nematodes to death.

With a hiss, a large, fat tree next to the lava suddenly sprayed out a large amount of green sap, which sprayed onto the lava formation and extinguished it, turning it into a piece of black obsidian.

These liquids also extinguished the fires on those monsters.

"Shadow Entanglement!" Sun Keke shouted in a low voice.

Sun Keke's shadow spread out in an instant, and a large number of arms appeared in the shadow, firmly grasping the bodies of the banana monsters. Then, Sun Lili bent over and gripped the staff in her hands.

"Magic Planetary Rings!"

In a flash, the monsters were all split open, and a large number of nematodes poured out of their wounds.

Su Li jumped up when Sun Lili used 'Slaughtering All Sides', and immediately followed up with an attack after Sun Lili cut the monster apart.

A ring of fire swept across again in an instant, burning the nematodes to ashes.

With a few whooshing sounds, a large number of fan-shaped blades swept towards Su Li. Su Li stepped on Ivan's raised shield and repeated, "Four-Directional Slash."

The fire ring reappears, completely severing the fan-shaped blades.

Sofia pulled the trigger, and the grenade launcher engulfed the plant monster in flames.