Train Survival: Can I get a treasure chest by touching my goddess?

Shen Wen and the others stood outside a huge pit.

The corpses of giant beasts lay scattered all around, their dark red blood seeping into the sandy soil and forming sticky puddles.

Spiders scurried among the corpses, their silk spraying from their abdomens, wrapping the giants, many times their size, into white cocoons.

Then it lay on top of it, its mouthparts piercing into the cocoon, making a soft "gurgling" sound.

Jiang Youchu jumped off the back of the Fallen Spider and yawned.

"Even the bronze level isn't that strong."

Su Mu rode on the back of the Greedy Wolf Star, holding a shield in his left hand and a warhammer in his right.

"Your attributes are already approaching Bronze level, plus your various abilities, and Lydia's Holy Light spells."

She paused.

"You don't need to worry about getting hurt or losing sanity; it's only a waste if we can't kill you."

Jiang Youchu puffed out her cheeks, like a punctured balloon.

"Can you please not be so hurtful with your words? I'm a key damage dealer, after all."

"Main damage dealer?" Su Mu glanced at her. "You could say that."

"Whatever you call it, it's good or bad!"

Shen Wen jumped off the back of the last Fallen Spider, his boots making a dull thud on the sandy ground.

He glanced at the two of them and interrupted.

"Alright, stop arguing."

He gestured with his chin toward the pit, "This should be the granary."

Get it done quickly, then head to the next location.

The more you destroy, and the higher the rank of the target, the greater the reward.

The five people walked towards the pit.

The spider army followed behind, rustling and whispering, like a moving dark carpet.

The pit was very large.

Looking inward from the edge, it's at least as wide as two or three basketball courts, and the depth is estimated to be seven or eight meters.

The pit walls were made of loose sand, with rough drag marks on the surface, as if something had been dragged in.

A huge creature was lying at the bottom of the pit.

Like a whale.

But it's much uglier than a whale.

His skin was grayish-white, wrinkled and drooping, like an oversized sweater.

His body had several festering sores, with dark red flesh rolled up and emitting a strong stench.

It lay on its side, its belly swollen like a small mountain, and with each breath, its whole body rose and fell slightly.

Rotting corpses were scattered all around, some humanoid and some animaloid, all so rotten that their original forms were no longer recognizable.

Shen Wen stood at the edge of the pit, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Is this the whale-like beast?"

Lydia, holding the three-tailed fox, stood at the back of the group, peeked down halfway, then withdrew, whispering, "Is...is it still alive?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the whale-like beast opened its eyes.

There are no eyelids, or rather, the eyelids and eyeballs are fused together. The moment it opens, it reveals cloudy pupils with a dark yellow glow.

It saw five people at the edge of the pit.

Then it opened its mouth.

The mouth was opened to an absurdly large extent, splitting from the head all the way to the abdomen, like a zipper torn in half.

A dark yellow light condensed deep in his throat, like a miniature star burning.

A long whistle.

It didn't come through my ears; it exploded directly in my brain.

The sound was incredibly sharp, like someone scraping the inside of a skull with an iron nail, or like countless ants crawling on nerve endings.

Shen Wen's killing intent activated automatically, and that invisible force exploded in his sea of ​​consciousness, like a wall, blocking the long cry from the outside.

But the other four women weren't so lucky.

Su Mu's face paled for a moment, and he almost dropped the warhammer in his hand.

Jiang Youchu hissed and covered her temple.

Su Qingxuan frowned, and the ancient locust wood coffin emerged from his palm. The coffin lid automatically popped open a crack, and an uneasy buzzing sound came from inside.

Lydia's face was the palest, and the color had completely faded from her lips.

But the priest's staff in her hand was still planted on the ground. After the holy light at the tip of the staff flickered violently, it stabilized again, and the pale golden light spread out, enveloping the four women.

The invisible oppressive feeling was blocked by the holy light, and the four women's complexions slowly returned to normal.

"This thing can use psychological attacks?"

"Why didn't the officer say so sooner? Even we were almost stunned. What about the rest of us?"

Jiang Youchu shook her head to shake off the dizziness.

Su Qingxuan said, "Those who receive missions are all bronze-level, so they must all have ways to resist mental attacks. That's normal."

"And it seems quite normal that this granary has the ability to protect itself."

Shen Wen didn't waste any words.

Draw your sword.

The moment the butcher's knife was drawn, its dark red blade gleamed with a blood-red light in the sunlight.

He leaped from the edge of the pit, landing seven or eight meters high like a cannonball. His boots slammed into the sandy ground at the bottom of the pit, creating a shallow crater.

The whale-like beast's long cry continued, and the dark yellow orb deep in its throat grew brighter and brighter.

Shen Wen's killing intent erupted once again, this time not in defense, but in attack.

An invisible mental shock, like a hammer, smashed out from the sea of ​​consciousness, striking the whale beast squarely on the head.

"Die!"

Shen Wen snorted coldly, and then struck with a single blow that affected more than two thousand people.

The long cry abruptly stopped.

The whale beast's body stiffened abruptly, its gaping maw still open, but the sound was stuck in its throat, as if it were being choked.

Shen Wen did not give it a second chance.

He took a step forward, his boots thudding on the sandy ground. He raised the butcher's knife, its dark red blade gleaming with blood.

The blade flashed.

"Pfft—!"

The blade sliced ​​into the whale-like creature's head and traveled down its spine.

The grayish-white skin was cut open, revealing dark red muscle and white fat underneath.

Blood gushed out of the incision, like a tap being turned on.

A knife.

The whale-like beast twitched twice and then remained still.

Shen Wen sheathed his knife, squatted down, and reached into the cut on the whale-like beast's head, feeling around inside for a while.

It felt sticky and warm to the touch, like touching a pig's stomach that had been sitting out for too long. His fingers touched something hard, he grabbed it, and started pulling it out.

A rhombus-shaped crystal nucleus.

It's about the size of a palm, dark yellow all over, with a faint glimmer flowing inside, like solidified amber.

Its surface is smooth and it feels cool to the touch, completely different from the sticky flesh of the whale beast.

Shen Wen wiped the crystal core on his clothes, then held it up and glanced at it.

Jiang Youchu slid down from the edge of the pit, her boots leaving a trail in the soft sand.

She leaned closer and touched the crystal core.

A semi-transparent light screen popped up.

Jiang Youchu's eyes lit up, the light spreading from the crystal core to Shen Wen's face, and then back to the crystal core.

"Shen Wen, this looks like something good."

"What?" Shen Wen handed over the crystal core.

Jiang Youchu took the crystal core and scanned it again with her detection ability, her tone full of surprise: "This thing is called the Terror Whale Core. It contains a space of one hundred cubic meters, but it can only store flesh and blood."

Shen Wen's eyes lit up.

One hundred cubic meters.

It can only store flesh and blood.

Isn't this just a mobile cold storage?

"I thought it was just quest materials, but I didn't expect it to be a special item."

He took the crystal core back from Jiang Youchu's hand and tossed it in his palm. "Even if it can only store flesh and blood, this thing is still very valuable."

In this way, the space backpack can store a lot of other things.

"It seems this time it's not just about completing the mission."

Shen Wen was thinking that he should just take one to complete the mission and bring the rest back with him.

They can collect all kinds of flesh and blood at any time, since that's what they're lacking right now.

It's not just them who want to eat.

The little spiders also need to eat, and the potion-making process requires corresponding flesh and blood. It's very likely that Su Qingxuan will also need to raise corpses later.

"We can keep two or three." Su Qingxuan also realized the usefulness of this thing.

Although they now have a silver-level spatial pocket, 1000 cubic meters is not particularly large.

If they were to actually release them, there would be the corpses of several giant beasts.

At the rate at which these spiders eat, it probably won't be enough!

Not to mention that various cubs may be raised in the breeding farm later, and these cubs will also need to eat various things to grow.

The other three women also agreed with Su Qingxuan's statement.

Su Qingxuan put it into her spatial pocket, and Shen Wen said, "In that case, we need to speed things up."

"If all else fails, we can just use delayed docking. This place is much more valuable than the Fallen Crypt!"

Shen Wen said that he would definitely complete the advancement task on this platform; if he was quick in one step, he would be quick in every step.

What if there aren't enough things for him to kill at the next station?

When you're certain you can kill them, you should kill them all, leaving no one alive.

"That's also acceptable."

The five of them climbed back onto the pit, mounted the Fallen Spider, and headed towards another granary on the map.

……

the other side.

A series of pale white beams of light from Huo Mengjiao's hand fell onto the corpses on the ground, instantly melting away the flesh and blood of these Black Iron Mountain-Splitting Oxen.

Four enormous skeletal mountain bulls charged toward the surrounding mountain bulls.

Han Wu wielded his two short axes with great force, cleaving a bronze-level Mountain-Splitting Ox in two.

"As long as you don't charge into battle, that's about it. Slow-moving, at most just a bit tough."

Han Wu landed next to Huo Mengjiao and spoke.

"Our scores should be about the same as Shen Wen's now, right?"

"Uh, it's even further now."

Huo Mengjiao opened the leaderboard, and their score was only 3600, with two bronze and sixteen iron.

Shen Wen and his team have already reached 8900 points.

"Huh? How could they be so fast? Even if they started a little earlier than us, we still have so many guys for our team to finish off!"

Han Wu's eyes widened. They weren't just a group of five; there were also two other groups of people from the White Tower helping out.

As long as the final blow is delivered by their train, the points will be credited to them.

Huo Mengjiao shook her head and said, "I'm afraid their speed will get faster and faster from now on, since their strength is already higher than ours."

"Not to mention, they even have spiders as mounts."

Huo Mengjiao shook her head, "They lack nothing, so it's simply impossible for them to take first place."

Han Wu gritted his teeth and said, "I don't believe it!"