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

"Are you alright?"

Su Mu's voice came from behind, filled with barely concealed nervousness.

Shen Wen turned around.

The three women stood at the entrance of the stone chamber, and Su Mu's hand holding the shield turned slightly white.

The staff of Su Qingxuan still had lingering arcs of electricity.

The icy blue light at Jiang Youchu's fingertips had not yet completely faded.

Even Lydia held up the priest's staff, with holy light flickering at its tip.

They all stared at him, their eyes scanning his face as if trying to confirm whether he was still the same person.

"fine."

He sheathed his sword and stuffed the statue of the Mother Goddess with Ten Thousand Limbs into his spatial pocket. "That thing is a bit strange; it wants me to become some kind of Ten Thousand Limbs Believer."

Su Mu frowned deeply: "The Believer of Ten Thousand Limbs?"

"That doesn't sound like a proper training program," Jiang Youchu pouted. "It's just as bad as your butcher."

Shen Wen didn't continue the topic and glanced at the time.

[Distance until end of stop: 01:23:45]

The docking delay hasn't even been used yet; with the additional delay, it will take at least another five hours.

"We don't need to rush anymore."

He took out the ice-blue arcane core from his pocket and handed it to Jiang Youchu, "Use this first."

Jiang Youchu took the core, and the cool touch made her shiver.

The starlight inside the core flowed slowly in her palm, as if it were alive.

She took a deep breath and focused her mind on the core.

An icy blue light exploded from the core surface, enveloping her entirely.

The light lasted for five or six seconds, then gradually subsided, its core transforming into a point of light that disappeared into her brow.

Jiang Youchu closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and her lips were pressed into a line.

Three seconds later, she opened her eyes, and a pale blue halo appeared in the depths of her eyes, like solidified starlight.

"It's done!" Her voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement.

Shen Wen nodded: "How are your abilities?"

Jiang Youchu counted on her fingers, speaking rapidly.

"The first passive is called Arcane Affinity, which increases the damage of all spells by 20% and reduces the cost of spells by 15%."

"The second one is called Omnipotence, which allows you to learn skills of any attribute, without being restricted by any element. Fire, ice, lightning, you can learn anything."

"The third one is called Instant Cast, which allows you to select a skill as an instant cast spell without a cast time. I chose Frost Impact."

After she finished speaking, she couldn't help but jump, causing the anime T-shirt on her chest to sway.

Its size was particularly striking in the dimly lit stone chamber.

Shen Wen's gaze was involuntarily drawn away for a moment.

Jiang Youchu noticed this, but instead of dodging, she straightened her chest and smiled mischievously.

Then she took a step forward, stood on tiptoe, and kissed Shen Wen on the cheek.

"Pop".

The sound was crisp and clear, echoing in the empty stone chamber.

Su Mu's hand had already reached out, grabbing Jiang Youchu by the back of her collar and pulling her backward.

"What are you doing?" Su Mu asked expressionlessly, but the tips of her ears turned red.

Jiang Youchu stumbled a step after being pulled, steadied herself, straightened her collar, and said with a smile, "Don't be so stingy."

She put her hands behind her back, tilted her head to look at Su Mu, and said in a light tone, "Anyway, we'll all belong to Shen Wen from now on."

Su Mu's face flushed red instantly, the blush spreading from the tips of her ears to her neck, making her look like a boiled shrimp.

Jiang Youchu chuckled, stopped teasing her, turned and walked to the corner of the stone chamber, beginning to search for the corpses of the fallen elves.

Shen Wenqian coughed and looked away.

"Clean it up."

"Those fallen elf weapons should work, take them all. Tell me about anything you don't understand first, don't touch it randomly."

The three women nodded and dispersed.

Su Mu carried his battle axe to the other side, his shield slung over his back, and walked faster than usual.

Su Qingxuan didn't move, standing next to Shen Wen, her gaze sweeping across the entire stone chamber.

Lydia stood still, clutching the priest's staff in her hand, her fingers turning white from the force.

She watched as Shen Wen and the other three dispersed to search for their spoils, observing them expertly examining every corpse and every corner, as if they had done it countless times before.

She herself stood at the edge of the stone chamber, unsure of what to do.

The bodies of their teammates remained in that stone chamber: Delia, Dipsy, Eren, Hit, and Captain Eren.

She didn't even have time to collect their bodies.

Lydia lowered her head, her eyes stinging.

She remembered Delia's dying words—"Kill us."

I remember the relieved smile on Dipsy's lips when he closed his eyes.

I remember when Captain Allen was torn apart by the spider, he didn't even have time to scream.

Thinking of Hitler...

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to banish the image from her mind.

Then she looked up at Shen Wen's back.

He was squatting on the ground, picking up a staff from beside the corpse of a fallen elf, weighing it in his hand, and tossing it to Jiang Youchu.

The movements were swift and decisive, without the slightest hesitation.

Lydia gripped her staff tightly, took a deep breath, and walked over.

"that……"

Her voice was very soft, almost drowned out by the echo in the empty stone chamber.

Shen Wen turned to look at her.

Lydia felt a chill run down her spine as he stared at her with those dark red eyes, but she gritted her teeth and finished speaking.

"Can I join your adventurer's party?"

The stone chamber fell silent for a moment.

Su Qingxuan stopped searching and looked up at Lydia.

Su Mu straightened up, his curved sword held horizontally at his side, his gaze falling on Lydia's face.

Jiang Youchu peeked out from the corner, clutching a pile of spoils, and blinked.

Shen Wen stared at Lydia for two seconds, his brows furrowing slightly.

He had thought about this issue.

Lydia is a priest, and her healing abilities are visibly strong.

During that chaotic battle just now, her holy light sustained her from beginning to end.

Although they didn't say much, their role was no less important than anyone else's. Right now, they don't lack output, but they lack sustainability.

With such a dedicated healer, Su Mu would no longer need to be distracted by taking drugs, Su Qingxuan could focus more on controlling the spirit body, and Jiang Youchu could unleash her full potential.

But he wasn't sure about one thing.

She's indigenous; is she allowed on the train?

"There's something I need to make clear to you first," Shen Wen said calmly. "We're not an adventure team sent by the kingdom."

Lydia was stunned.

Shen Wen looked at her and continued, "What I said in the tunnel before was a lie."

We are not from the Griffin Kingdom, nor even from this world.

He sheathed his scimitar back into his belt, his voice unhurried: "We come from... how should I put it, a team that travels to various places by train."

Each station is a separate world for us. Once we've done what we're supposed to do, we leave and move on to the next one.

"If you come with us, you will leave this world."

He paused, then added, "If you have relatives here, it's best not to come with us. Once they leave, they may never come back."

Su Qingxuan stopped searching, looked up at Shen Wen, and said nothing.

Su Mu straightened up, his curved sword held horizontally at his side, his gaze falling on Lydia's face.

Jiang Youchu peeked out from the corner, clutching a pile of spoils, and blinked.

None of the three stopped Shen Wen.

The train rules don't say you can't reveal your identity, so there's no need to hide it.

Moreover, since we're going to recruit people, we'll have to make things clear sooner or later; keeping it a secret will only cause more trouble.

Lydia stood still, clutching the priest's staff in her hand, her fingers turning white from the force.

She stared at Shen Wen for several seconds, her expression shifting from confusion to contemplation, and then from contemplation to a complex, indescribable look.

Then her eyes reddened.

It wasn't fear, it was excitement.

"You...you are exorcists?"

The stone chamber fell silent for a moment.

"Exorcist Guardian?" Shen Wen repeated the word, a certain string in his mind being plucked.

Back in Ghost Town, Wang Erniu said that he and his group were exorcists.

At that time, they readily accepted this identity, thinking it was just a temporary label given by the system.

But now, Lydia knows the word too.

"You know about the Exorcist Guard?" Shen Wen asked in a low voice.

Lydia nodded, tears already streaming down her face.

She raised her hand to wipe her nose, sniffed, and her voice was still nasal, but it was a bit more steady than before: "I've seen it in the church's ancient books."

When the Griffin Kingdom was founded, it received assistance from a mysterious organization.

"At that time, humanity was surrounded by hundreds of races and struggled to survive in the cracks. It was that organization that helped humanity expand the territory of the kingdom."

Ancient texts refer to them as "Spirit Exorcists".

She paused, looked into Shen Wen's eyes, and softened her voice: "I always thought it was just a legend..."

Shen Wen did not respond.

His mind was racing.

Exorcising spirits.

These are not identities temporarily created by the system, but rather identities from real organizations that exist in this world.

No one knows when those "predecessors" arrived here, nor how long they stayed.

But they left behind a name.

A name that the kingdom has remembered for countless years.

Su Qingxuan walked over and stood beside Shen Wen, her gaze fixed on Lydia's face. Her tone was calm: "Does any ancient text describe what kind of people the Exorcists are?"

Lydia shook her head: "It only says that their origins are a mystery. They came silently and left without a trace."

The church tried to track them down, but found nothing.

She looked at Shen Wen, her eyes still red, but her gaze was much firmer than before: "But many people speculate that they are not actually from this world, because there is a sentence in the original records."

"They came in iron boxes, carrying thunder and fire, and all tribes fled in terror."

The stone chamber was silent for a few seconds.

Jiang Youchu muttered softly, "The iron box...you mean the train, right?"

Su Qingxuan nodded without saying anything.

Shen Wen withdrew his gaze and looked at Lydia again.

He didn't know which organization those "predecessors" belonged to, or even whether they were still alive.

"We are considered new members of the Exorcism Guard," Shen Wen said calmly.

Lydia's eyes lit up for a moment, but quickly dimmed again.

"I have no family left." Her voice was very soft, as if afraid of disturbing something. "Captain Allen and the others... are my family."

"I am very useful. I know many holy light spells that can heal wounds, dispel poisons, and purify curses."

I can cast Holy Light twenty times in a row without rest, my group healing has a range of fifteen meters, and I've also studied first aid and herbalism—”

She spoke faster and faster, as if she were reciting a resume during an interview, afraid of missing any skill.

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