【Welcome to the Train Survival World with a population of three billion!】
【From today onward, the train before you will be your partner in survival.】
【There are no skyscrapers here, nor is this an amusement park, and there certainly is no silver party!】
【There is only the invisible, layers upon layers of mist and the endless railway track.】
【Survivors, do your very best to upgrade your trains and stay alive!】
An Bai was awakened by these five sentences. The Mechanical Voice had sounded directly inside his head, and his head hurt a little!
He had clearly been drinking at a bar before this. How had he ended up here after sleeping?
“I remember Old Fan was beside me, wasn’t he?” An Bai stood up in confusion.
Yet all around him was forest; there was not even a trace of a bar.
“Huh? Why is there also a train?”
About ten meters in front of An Bai was a railway track, and on it sat a train that was nearly ready for the scrapyard.
He walked over to examine the train. Its surface had some dents, but it was largely undamaged.
The exterior was covered in yellowish-red rust, and there were scratches on the train’s wheels. It looked as though this train had been “retired” for many years.
Indeed, a historical scroll seemed to be unfolding before An Bai’s eyes.
An Bai tentatively reached out and touched the train, and his head began hurting again.
【Survivor detected. Train No. 1567 requests binding with Survivor An Bai. Please answer “yes” or “no.”】
It was that familiar Mechanical Voice again.
After shaking his head, An Bai finally remembered what the Mechanical Voice had said earlier.
Train Survival? And endless railway tracks?
Could I really have transmigrated into some kind of Train Survival World?
An Bai pinched his own face hard.
“That really hurts!” An Bai cried out.
It seemed this was not a dream. He touched the metal exterior of the train before him.
This rough texture and this faintly unpleasant rust odor—however he looked at it, it did not seem like a dream!
【Survivor detected. Train No. 1567 requests binding with Survivor An Bai. Please answer “yes” or “no.”】
The Mechanical Voice sounded in An Bai’s mind again as a cold wind blew past.
An Bai shuddered and immediately answered, “Yes!”
【Train No. 1567 is beginning binding with Survivor An Bai. Checking whether the Survivor’s health indicators meet the requirements...】
【Race: Chinese】
【Sex: Male】
【Height: 179 cm】
【Weight: 70 kg】
【Age: 20】
【Heart rate: 65 beats per minute】
【Length: 17 cm】
【......】
【Survivor An Bai is in excellent health. Binding successful. Train No. 1567 has successfully bound with Survivor An Bai.】
Once the Mechanical Voice finished speaking, the train’s iron door slowly opened as well.
The “creak, creak” sound clearly revealed just how badly rusted the train was.
An Bai walked inside. The conditions within were a little better than outside; at least, it looked clean and tidy.
Looking around, he found a sealed space measuring only eight square meters and three meters high.
Naturally, there was no driver’s cabin in such a cramped space. At the very front of the carriage, there was only a control lever.
The control lever’s placement looked highly impractical. It was mounted on a section of sheet metal protruding into the carriage beneath the train’s windshield.
At the very back of the carriage was a steam engine, used to drive the train forward.
Apart from that, there was only a table and a bed in the middle. Both were timber furniture and looked extremely crude.
“Huh? What’s that?” An Bai’s sharp eyes quickly spotted a book in the corner of the bed.
The cover bore six large characters: Railway Survival Manual.
When he opened it, he found: Several precautions for Railway Survival.
【1. The train is your partner. Unless you are a super Saiyan, do not abandon it.】
【2. One day in this world is divided into 24 hours: eight hours of daytime, eight hours of night, and eight hours of Polar Night.】
（PS: Polar Night is a concept created by the author. It is much darker than night. Dear readers, please do not confuse it with the real-world polar night. Finally, I wish you all an enjoyable reading experience.）
【3. During the daytime, search for useful supplies as soon as possible, such as carrying food, timber, stones, and metal ore to exchange for rare resources in the System Shop.】
Note: There is a limit to the quantity that can be exchanged!
【4. The train will set out when tonight’s Polar Night begins, and will only move during Polar Night. It will stop during daytime and night. The train’s initial energy is enough to power it for only three days.】
【5. Newcomer protection will end on the second day, and Mist Mode will activate on the second day.】
【6. The initial distance between survivor trains is 500 kilometers.】
【7. The extra tracks that appear at night will be a surprise.】
【8. Advance! Advance! Advance by any means necessary!】
The precautions had been introduced. Please turn to the next page.
An Bai turned to the next page. These two pages were the World Chat Channel and the regional chat channel, respectively.
Ignoring the rapidly refreshing chat messages, An Bai turned another page.
Sure enough, this page contained the System Shop and the player trading channel.
An Bai tried to enter the System Shop, but he was informed that his wealth and supplies were at zero, so he could not enter.
Helpless, he returned to the second page. It was still packed with dense chat records.
The World Channel was simply impossible to read!
An Bai entered the regional chat channel. The Regional Channel was named Code Name 1733 and had 1,000 people.
There were approximately three million regional channels like this!
“Good grief! Nearly half the people in the world have come to this Train Survival World.” A person whose Regional Channel name was 8848 Titanium Alloy Phone spoke.
“We can change our names too?” An Bai’s gaze sharpened as he continued observing the Regional Channel’s chat.
“Is anyone there?” said a person named Zhao Dahu.
“What kind of place is this? I’m so scared,” said Strawberry Soft Candy.
“Don’t be afraid, little girl. Add me as a friend and let Uncle love and caress you properly.” Zhao Dahu sent a wicked grin.
“You filthy pervert! Have you no shame?”
“I haven’t seen a single person outside. There are trees everywhere!”
“Hey, at least you can still see trees. I ended up in the desert, where there isn’t a thing.”
“Doesn’t the Survival Manual say so? Everyone is 500 kilometers apart at the beginning. It’s a long way.”
“No! I just took the medicine and then got separated from my girlfriend. How am I supposed to live?” A person named Gao Zhuangfu even sent a crying emoji.
“Just handle it yourself,” someone said gleefully.
“You think that’s bad? I just put on a chastity lock and got separated from my girlfriend, and she has the key.” Another person, named King M, spoke.
“Then you’re a little worse off. You can’t even use your hands.”
“They’re all wonderfully talented people!” someone summarized.
As people gradually bound themselves to their trains and discovered the Railway Survival Manual, they slowly calmed down after their brief confusion and fear.
The chat gradually returned to normal.
An Bai changed his ID to Andersen.
Andersen: “It’s daytime now. We need to go outside and gather supplies.”
“Do we have to gather supplies on the first day? Wasn’t this supposed to be the newcomer protection area?” someone asked.
“That’s exactly why we need to gather supplies on the first day. Once the newcomer protection period ends, you won’t even know how you died!”
“How are we supposed to gather supplies? Do you expect me to collect sand?”
“It can’t hurt to collect more!”
Most people agreed that An Bai was right.
After taking a deep breath, An Bai rubbed his temples and closed the Railway Survival Manual.
Only one hour of daytime had passed, with seven hours remaining before nightfall, but he estimated that many people had already gone outside to gather supplies.
It was time for him to set out as well. Otherwise, once Mist Mode arrived on the second day, gathering supplies would become even more difficult.
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