There is only an extremely small chance that the train will arrive at the platform during the daytime.
As for what will happen when it reaches the platform, only Heaven knows!
【Upon arriving at the platform, the train door will be forcibly opened. Please face everything you must overcome with a positive and courageous attitude】
“This is troublesome!”
An Bai felt a headache coming on. This time, he could be one hundred percent certain that something big was waiting for him at the platform.
At that moment, the manual began beeping. Someone else had come looking for him.
ID Strange Man: “Bro, do you have any flesh essence that can improve your strength? I’ll trade for it at a high price.”
“I used it all myself.”
Even if An Bai had some, he would not admit it now. After all, improving his own strength had to remain his priority.
“It’s fine if you don’t have any. I’ll give you an iron block for free, just consider it a gesture of friendship.”
As he spoke, he sent An Bai a friend request.
“He’s the person who spoke up for me before.” An Bai had some impression of this ID.
An Bai accepted his friend request but refused to accept his iron block.
“One should not accept a reward without contributing. I won’t take your iron block, but I appreciate the gesture,” he explained.
“Brother Andersen really is a strange person. You haven’t joined any Survival Alliance, have you?” Strange Man smoothly skipped over the previous topic.
“To be honest, I don’t really trust this kind of unrestricted Survival Alliance.”
On earth, many people had suffered from online scams, so An Bai had an instinctive distrust of such things.
“What do you consider to be properly regulated?”
“At the very least, we’d have to meet in person.”
“Haha, then I estimate we’ll meet before long.”
“The distance between adjacent survivors is still 450 kilometers. No matter how you look at it, it’ll take more than a month for us to meet,” An Bai countered.
The person on the other end fell silent for a while, seemingly making some decision.
Just when An Bai thought he had logged off, he spoke again: “Since Brother Andersen regards me as a friend, I’ll tell you some news I managed to find out.”
“Perhaps we’ll meet when we reach the platform.”
An Bai’s heart jolted, and he hurriedly asked, “How do you know?”
“Don’t ask. Just start preparing early.”
“Regardless, I still have to thank you for the warning, Brother Strange Man.”
“Haha, perhaps I’ll have to rely on you then, Brother Andersen?” Strange Man sent a self-mocking expression.
“You’re too kind. You’re being too modest, Brother.”
“I hope we’ll be at the same platform. All right, I’ll log off first.” After Strange Man said this, he immediately logged off.
“Goodbye!” An Bai replied.
“It seems there are truly many hidden talents among all these survivors.” An Bai could not help but marvel at their ability to obtain information.
This also gave him a faint sense of urgency.
“For now, improving my own strength remains the priority.” An Bai took out some honey and began eating it.
The honey mixed with water and went down his throat, immediately making it feel much more comfortable.
After swallowing approximately half of the honey, An Bai’s strength improved once again!
【Level: first tier（Close to second tier）】
【Stamina: 22→25】
【Strength: 24→28】
【Agility: 20→24】
【Sanity tolerance: 21→22】
【Intelligence: 15】
【Defense: 5→6】
This improvement was somewhat beyond An Bai’s expectations. The honey made from Spider-Binding Flower had brought him an even greater improvement than the giant python flesh essence!
As for why he did not finish the remaining honey, it was mainly because his strength had grown too quickly over the past two days, and he had consumed quite a few extraordinary items.
After consuming five pounds of honey, An Bai felt a faint pain in his meridians. It seemed that his body had already reached its limit for improvement in such a short time.
“I’ve done everything I can. Now we’ll see what move you make next.” An Bai silently encouraged himself.
Thus, An Bai spent the rest of the time lying on the bed and resting. When he truly could not sleep, he would open the manual and look at the people chatting nonsense.
By today, the vast majority of survivors had basically solved their problems of food and clothing. Of course, those who had died were not included in the statistics.
For one thing, there was the “help” from the System Shop, and for another, the novice chest. These two major factors were the lifelines that allowed most survivors to survive the early difficulties.
Those who had landed in the desert could still live quite well, even if they lacked water and food.
As a result, the chat channel was no longer as full of hostility as it had been during the first few days.
In other words, the seeds of humanity can only take root and sprout when food is plentiful.
An Bai did not participate. He was an introverted person to begin with, and after the incident with Zhong Yasong, he was even less willing to speak in the chat channel.
As night fell, An Bai skillfully closed the manual and drifted off to sleep.
In the dreamscape, he once again saw the scene from yesterday during the Polar Night.
Countless shadowy hands held one another and circled around a humanoid statue. The palms of the various ghost hands each had different things growing from them.
Some palms had an eye growing from them, some had an ear, while others had mouths filled with fangs.
They resembled an aberration creature pieced together from countless corpses.
An Bai’s focus was the statue surrounded by the ghost hands. Resisting the dreamscape’s pull, he opened his eyes wide and desperately stared at the statue’s head.
He wanted to see the statue’s human face clearly, but it was concealed by a blanket of dense fog. No matter how hard An Bai tried, he could not see the slightest bit of it.
He wanted to approach the statue, but his body was as if filled with lead, nailed firmly in place.
The ghost hands not far away also noticed him. As if they had discovered some treasure, they interrupted the ritual, bringing a sky full of black shadows rushing toward An Bai.
“Ghosts!” An Bai suddenly jolted awake and shouted.
But there were no ghost hands around him. There was only the somewhat cramped carriage.
“It was a dream!” An Bai exhaled a breath of stale air. The ghost hands in the dream had given him quite a fright.
It was already the Polar Night. The train was slowly traveling along the railway track at a speed of 8 m/s, and the sound of the train rubbing against the railway track sounded like heavenly music to An Bai.
“There are still four hours until dawn. Haven’t we reached the station yet?” An Bai checked the time, only to realize that the Polar Night had already lasted for a long time.
Naturally, he hoped the arrival would be as late as possible—ideally, when daytime was about to arrive.
However, An Bai clearly did not have such good luck.
【Train No. 1567 is two kilometers from the station and will begin deceleration. Survivor Andersen, please prepare yourself】
“Does even this speed require deceleration two kilometers in advance?” An Bai was in a rather bad mood and could not help complaining.
As soon as An Bai finished speaking, a mass of light appeared ahead of the train. He hurriedly looked forward along the light.
He saw a tunnel appear 500 meters ahead. The light was coming from inside the tunnel.
The train soon entered the tunnel. The instant An Bai entered it, he felt something tearing at his body. The discomfort made him dizzy and disoriented.
His plan to observe the structure of the tunnel also came to nothing.
【Survivor Andersen, please note: train No. 1567 has arrived at the station. The train door will be forcibly opened in three minutes. Please prepare yourself】
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