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

Having an extra buff is good, but this upgrade has completely depleted all three of their basic resources.

After all, they were only focused on acquiring abilities and special items on the platform and didn't move many basic resources.

"I need to sell some things." He glanced at the inventory in the storage room. "SKS can be listed, and I can also craft black iron-grade scimitars and spears. I have the blueprints, and I can still gather some materials."

Su Qingxuan and Jiang Youchu woke up after sleeping for two or three hours, and Shen Wen handed the matter over to them to handle.

"I'll handle it." Su Qingxuan took over the transaction, glanced at the platform, and noticed that "Black Iron-grade weapons are scarce and expensive right now."

Jiang Youchu squatted in front of the worktable, pulled up the blueprint for the refined iron spear, and glanced at the materials list.

Refined iron requires steel to manufacture. Their current steel inventory is not large, but it's enough to make a few and sell them.

Shen Wen ignored all of that and walked toward the second carriage.

Su Mu followed behind him.

Traces of Su Qingxuan and Jiang Youchu's sleep remained on the soft mattress, the blankets crumpled into a ball.

Shen Wen lay down, and Su Mu lay down next to him, with a fist's distance between them.

Shen Wen didn't feel sleepy.

After his physical fitness level rose to over ninety, he had the energy of an ox, and could keep going for a whole day and night without getting tired.

But Su Mu needed to rest, so he lay down with her.

Su Mu lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.

She was exhausted.

It wasn't physical exhaustion, it was mental.

The Hundred Fiends Armor requires a continuous drain on mental energy to maintain. Every minute that the Fiends Armor is active, it reduces her sanity by one point. In the Greenskin Forest, it was almost always active, and her sanity dropped below the danger line.

The base is slowly recovering, but not quickly enough.

Shen Wen lay on his side, staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.

When the Butcher advances to the second tier, the kill limit increases from ten to fifty.

Most of the goblins killed in the Green Forest were of the Rotten Wood level and did not count; only the few of the Black Iron level counted towards the progress.

And then there are the platforms we might have to deal with next...

Just then, a hand reached out.

It was cool and slightly trembling, and it slipped under the hem of his clothes, downwards.

Shen Wen froze.

He turned his head to the side. Su Mu's eyes were closed, her eyelashes were trembling slightly, and her breathing was a little more rapid than before.

Her face was expressionless, but the tips of her ears were so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

"Sister Mu..."

"Mmm." Her voice was muffled under the covers, as faint as a mosquito's hum. "I saw it just now."

Shen Wen paused for a second before realizing she was referring to the moment when she took off her clothes.

"I'll help you with this." Su Mu's voice trailed off, but her fingers didn't stop. "It's not good to hold it in."

She paused, her voice almost inaudible: "Keep your voice down."

Shen Wen fell silent.

He turned his head and looked towards the entrance of the second carriage.

Su Qingxuan and Jiang Youchu were busy with their transaction over there, their backs to this side, so no one paid them any attention.

He closed his eyes.

Su Mu's hands were icy cold, and her movements were clumsy, but she was very serious.

The carriage was so quiet that only the rhythmic sound of wheels rolling over the rails and the occasional bartering from Jiang Youchu in the distance could be heard.

An unknown amount of time passed.

Su Mu withdrew her hand, took out a few sheets of toilet paper from the bedside table, wiped herself, crumpled the paper into a ball, and threw it into the trash heap where they kept it.

They'll just throw them out at the next station.

Shen Wen opened his eyes and exhaled.

Su Mu pulled the blanket up to her chin, turned her back to him, and said in her usual cool voice, "Rest first, don't think too much."

Shen Wen's previously chaotic mind was mostly cleared up by what just happened, and his thoughts about attributes, advancement, resources, and the next platform were temporarily relegated to the background.

He closed his eyes.

His breathing gradually became steady.

Fall asleep.

When I woke up again, the light in the carriage was still so pale that I couldn't tell day from night.

Su Mu is no longer by my side.

The quilt was folded neatly, and the pillow still carried the scent of her hair and a faint fragrance of magnolia.

Shen Wen sat up and stretched his neck.

Jiang Youchu's voice came from the main carriage: "The sales clerk has arrived!"

He walked over quickly.

The old man in the blue Mao suit reappeared, his back hunched, standing behind the wooden cart with a kind smile on his face.

"Good afternoon, esteemed conductor and passengers." He shook the brass bell in his hand. "It's me again, old man."

Su Qingxuan was prepared.

She walked to the cart, took out a stack of talismans from her spatial backpack, and placed them on the cart one by one.

Fifty thunder-expelling talismans and fifty Vajra talismans.

[Lightning Repelling Talisman (Rotten Wood Grade) → 50 Yuan]

[Diamond Talisman (Rotten Wood Grade) → 50 Yuan]

One hundred talismans, and five thousand yuan arrived in my account.

Shen Wen glanced at the balance and then looked at the shelves on the cart.

There's a lot more stuff this time than last time.

He looked at each item one by one.

[Sequence Guide - Arcanist (Iron Grade): 1000 Gold. Use to accept the class change quest and become an Arcanist.]

Shen Wen said, "We can keep this. If the treasure chest doesn't have a sequence card, then let Youchu use this..."

The three women nodded and bought it.

【Spirit Stone (Special Material): 500 yuan. Used for upgrading the base plate.】

[Thunderstone (Special Material): 500 yuan. Used for wheel upgrades.]

These two stones are essential; we were missing them when upgrading the train.

Bought it.

[Ability Book - Swift Step (Iron Grade): 1000 Gold. Passively increases movement speed; when actively activated, speed is greatly increased for a short period.]

Shen Wen glanced at it, then turned to Su Mu: "You can use this."

Su Mu did not refuse and nodded.

[Ability Book - Meditation (Iron Grade): 1000 gold. Passively increases sanity recovery speed.]

Shen Wen looked at Su Qingxuan and Jiang Youchu: "Which of you wants it?"

Su Qingxuan spoke first: "Give it to Youchu. I have the Sequence buff, so my sanity recovers faster than all of yours."

Jiang Youchu didn't stand on ceremony, took the ability book and opened it, a pale blue light entering her brow.

The last thing.

【Space Backpack (Iron Grade): 1000 RMB. Includes 1×1×1 meter independent storage space.】

Su Qingxuan only has one spatial backpack, and the four of them have to constantly rummage through it.

Buy one more, that'll be just right.

Shen Wen clicked "buy".

Five thousand yuan, spent cleanly.

There were still quite a few items left on the shelves, but they were either things they didn't need for the time being, or things that weren't reasonably priced.

Shen Wen did not buy any more.

The sales clerk pushed the cart with a smile to the door of the carriage, glanced back at them, and said, "Next time, old man, I'll bring even better stuff."

After saying that, his figure flashed and disappeared into thin air.

Su Qingxuan handed the newly bought space backpack to Jiang Youchu: "Here you go."

From now on, you and I will pack our backpacks separately. You will pack food and water, and I will pack equipment, weapons, and medicine.

Jiang Youchu took it, carried it on her back, and patted it: "Okay."

Shen Wen handed the book on Swift Step ability to Su Mu.

Su Mu opened the book, and a pale blue light entered her brow.

She closed her eyes and sensed it for a moment. When she opened them again, there was a very faint bluish light around her eyes, which disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Give it a try," Shen Wen said.

Su Mu took a few steps to the other end of the carriage. Her speed was not fast, but she landed almost silently, as light as a cat.

She suddenly accelerated, her whole body flashing like a shadow from one end of the carriage to the other, creating a gust of wind.

"The passive effect is quite noticeable." She walked back, her tone calm. "Active activation is about twice as fast."

Shen Wen nodded and put the two stones into the storage room.

Spirit Stone, Thunder Stone.

The need to upgrade the deck and wheels is now met, but we don't have enough wood and metal, so we still need to collect more.

"We're starting to run out of basic resources now," Shen Wen said, looking at Su Qingxuan.

This was the first time they had encountered this problem.

In the previous stations, resources were always plentiful, and there was never any worry about timber and steel in terms of upgrading, manufacturing, and trading.

But this time is different.

In the Green Forest, they only focused on acquiring abilities and special items, neglecting to move any basic resources.

Upgrading the trains after returning consumed a huge amount of resources, and the inventory was completely depleted.

Su Qingxuan hesitated for two seconds: "If all else fails, we can use the Kingdom Medal to access resource-related platforms."

Shen Wen shook his head: "It's best to keep the Kingdom Medal and use it in conjunction with the sequence guide."

These sequence guides will likely require you to go to specific platforms; being able to choose the type of medal is better than blindly trying your luck.

Su Qingxuan thought for a moment and nodded: "That's true."

"Let's wait for the treasure chest." Shen Wen glanced at the time.

The talent refresh will take less than an hour.

Two silver treasure chests and two bronze treasure chests.

It will contain at least a large amount of basic resources.

I don't know if it's enough, but it can at least solve the immediate problem.

As time goes by.

Before Shen Wen could even speak, his talent had already cooled down.

Su Mu had already kissed him.

It wasn't the fleeting, superficial touches of before, but a real, tangible kiss.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed herself against him, the movement more natural than ever before.

Shen Wen was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening, placed his hand on her lower back, and pulled her closer to him.

Su Qingxuan and Jiang Youchu stood not far away, watching this scene, and exchanged a glance.

Jiang Youchu raised an eyebrow and silently mouthed: This is too proactive.

Su Qingxuan didn't respond, but her lips curved slightly before she looked away and pretended to tidy up the things in her spatial backpack.

She could understand.

In this world where death could come at any moment, four people depend on each other for survival, each being the other's only support.

Those worldly, reserved, and coy things have no meaning here.

Living is already exhausting enough; there's no energy left to hide anything.

Su Mu clearly thought so too.

So she stopped hiding.

One minute later, the two separated.

Su Mu took a half step back, her eyelashes lowered, her lips still glistening with moisture, but her face no longer showed the expression of wanting to disappear into a crack.

She simply raised her hand to wipe the corner of her mouth, her voice very soft: "It's done."

Shen Wen looked at her, his throat moved, but he didn't say anything. He just nodded and brought up the system panel.

[Intimate contact progress is full! Current total attempts: 2/5, accumulate 3 more to upgrade the treasure chest level!]

Today's available treasure chests: 2/2 (Silver Tier)

[Claim or not?]

The first treasure chest is opened.

A burst of light illuminated the entire carriage.

[Obtained: Ability Book - Shield Control (Bronze Level)]

[Acquired: Sequence Paladin (Bronze Rank)]

[Received: 1000 kg of timber]

[Obtained: 800 kg of metal]

[Received: 200 kg of mechanical parts]

[Obtained: Ability Book - Peerless Enchantment (Silver Grade)]