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

Chapter 77 An Unbearable Sequence Quest: The Cave Spider's Nest

[Sequence: Butcher Tier 2 → Tier 3 Advancement Conditions]

[1. Decapitate 500 Black Iron-level lifeforms (Current progress: 0/500)]

2. Slay at least one Bronze-level life form (Current progress: 0/1)

3. Participate in at least one war with a thousand-strong population and survive (Current progress: 0/1)

Shen Wen stared at the three lines of text, his brows furrowed into a knot.

Isn't this a bit too outrageous?

Previously, it was only killing 100 life forms, but now it's directly killing 500 black iron life forms.

There is also a bronze level.

The first two are manageable.

But the third point...

A war involving thousands of people.

This isn't something he can just touch whenever he wants.

It depends on whether the platform is cooperative or not; it's purely a matter of luck. If you keep having bad luck, you might get stuck here forever.

"What's wrong?" Su Qingxuan walked over.

Shen Wen shared the panel with her.

Su Qingxuan glanced at it and frowned: "A war of a thousand people... this is indeed difficult to handle."

"A war involving a thousand people?"

Su Mu and Jiang Youchu exchanged a glance, wondering if this was going too far.

"Things will work themselves out. We'll see how things go when the time comes. The train can't give us tasks that are impossible to complete."

The three girls nodded, while Lydia listened in silence. If you don't understand, don't speak; this was something she had known since she was a child.

Shen Wen glanced at the darkness deep inside the tunnel, then at the time.

[Distance until end of stop: 03:15:00 (Delayed stop in effect)]

The delay was still more than three hours away, but he didn't plan to continue.

"Retreat." Shen Wen sheathed his sword. "We're not going any further."

Su Qingxuan nodded: "The deeper we go, the farther apart the nests become, and the more branching paths there are."

In the last half hour or so, we encountered two waves of monsters; it wasn't worth it.

Jiang Youchu nodded: "The biggest gain was from the ancestral land. All the other scattered gains combined don't even amount to what the High Priest gave us."

Shen Wen turned and walked back, with Su Mu following beside him, her shield slung over her back.

Jiang Youchu walked in the middle, the icy blue light on her staff dimmed, only enough to illuminate her feet.

Su Qingxuan walked at the back, with the Blood Bride floating beside her, the red light on the dark red skull flashing on and off.

Lydia jogged to catch up, clutching the priest's staff in her hand, her long, silvery-white hair gleaming faintly in the dim tunnel.

It's much faster to go back than to come.

When we arrived, we had to scout ahead, be on guard, and be ready to fight at any time. We took every step with utmost care.

They had already retraced their steps and marked the forks in the road. Xiaoqian and the Blood Bride scouted ahead, clearing out any stray monsters they encountered.

In less than an hour, the five of them returned to the fork in the road where they had previously met the Brilliant Adventurers.

After walking for another ten minutes or so, a grayish-white light appeared at the end of the tunnel.

That was the unique lighting in the train station area; it wasn't natural light, but it was much brighter than the torches in the underground cave.

Shen Wen quickened his pace and walked out of the tunnel.

The train remained stationary, its doors open, the lights inside standing out starkly against the dim underground space.

Then he stopped.

Something was wriggling in the shadows around the train.

Not just one or two, but more than a dozen.

Those half-human-sized cave spiders huddled in the crevices of the rocks and hid behind stone pillars, their eight legs curled up, their mouthparts opening and closing, yet they dared not approach.

They stared at the train, at the light shining through the doors, as if they were looking at some kind of natural enemy.

Shen Wen raised an eyebrow.

He remembered the effect of the Beast God's protection.

When creatures of silver level or below actively approach within 100 meters of the train, they will be subjected to mental suppression and will most likely actively avoid it.

"I haven't encountered this situation at the previous stations."

Su Qingxuan walked over, her gaze sweeping over the spiders huddled in the shadows. "It seems that it's not that no monsters approached the train, but rather that the spot where we stopped earlier just happened to be free of them."

Shen Wen nodded.

There were only two wolfhounds at the armory platform.

The polluters at the abandoned hospital platform are all inside the hospital.

The spirits in Ghost Town are blocked by the talismans and water bowls in the town, while the goblins in Green Forest are in the village.

We only encountered a monster that would actively approach the train at this station.

"Hey, that before?"

Lydia stepped out from the back of the line and stood behind Shen Wen, her gaze fixed on the silver-white train.

The car door was open, and the warm lighting inside contrasted sharply with the cold and damp atmosphere of the cave.

She could see the neatly stacked supply boxes inside the carriage, the water level gauge in the reservoir was fluctuating slightly, and the faint light remaining on the worktable.

This is the "iron box" of the exorcist.

She gripped the priest's staff tightly.

Shen Wen turned around and looked at Lydia.

"This is the last chance."

His voice wasn't loud, but it was exceptionally clear in the empty cave space: "Do you want to get on our bus? You're about to leave your familiar surroundings and embark on a different journey."

Lydia looked up and met Shen Wen's eyes.

She had had enough of the adventures in this world.

These four people in front of us killed the Fallen High Priest, more than a dozen Fallen Elves, and hundreds of Demon Spiders and Crypt Goblins. They fought their way out from the deepest part of the cave, and not one of them fell.

She wants to be with someone like that.

Lydia nodded, her voice soft but firm: "I'll go with you."

Shen Wen looked at her for two seconds and said, "Get in the car."

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Then he turned and walked toward the train.

He paused when he reached the car door.

A semi-transparent light screen floated in the air next to the car door, displaying several lines of text.

[Warning: The minimum speed requirement for the next leg of the journey is 40 km/h]

Current train speed: 60 km/h

[Speed meets standard, safe to drive]

Shen Wen glanced at it and frowned slightly.

40 kilometers per hour.

This number is exactly the maximum speed of a level 2 wheel.

Shen Wen thought of those monsters that would lower one's sanity with just one glance. If that were the case, wouldn't it mean that if it were a level 2 wheel...

Does that mean we have to remain relatively still relative to these monsters?

Having to endure this situation for another 24 hours would be unbearable.

Lydia boarded the train, her boots making a crisp sound as they hit the metal floor.

She looked down at the dark gray metal floor beneath her feet, noticing the anti-slip texture, then looked up, her gaze sweeping across the entire carriage.

Water tank, storage boxes, worktable, soft mattress, small mountain of supplies, warm light shining from the greenhouse, and silver-white walls of the kitchen.

It wasn't what she had imagined.

She had imagined the Exorcist's "Iron Box" to be a cold, menacing war machine. But this place felt more like... a home.

Shen Wen closed the car door.

The train slowly started moving.

The rhythmic sound of wheels rolling over the rails echoed through the carriage, and the greyish-white light outside the porthole began to move, leaving the spiders huddled in the shadows behind, farther and farther away.

A mechanical voice simultaneously rang in the minds of the five people.

[Has left the Killing Platform: Fallen Crypt]

The points leaderboard is now locked; you can use your points to redeem resources on the redemption page.

[The redemption channel will close before reaching the next station, please use it in time.]

Four semi-transparent exchange panels appeared in front of the four people at the same time, and each person could see their own points and the items they could exchange.

Shen Wen glanced at his points.

4780.

He glanced at the three women's scores again. Su Qingxuan 1640, Su Mu 1120, Jiang Youchu 1320.

"Qingxuan's score is higher than Mu's?" Jiang Youchu leaned over for a glance, her tone filled with surprise.

Su Qingxuan laughed and said, "All the kills by the Blood Bride are mine. She killed more than I did."

Jiang Youchu realized what was happening and nodded.

Su Mu didn't speak, looking down at his panel, his fingers swiping across the screen.

"The exchange list is almost entirely filled with items from the Fallen Crypt."

Shen Wen glanced at it.

【bronze】

Sequence Relics: Cultist of Ten Thousand Limbs (2000), Fallen Archer (2000), Crypt Warrior (2000), High Priest (2000).

Equipment: Corrupted Staff (1800), Shadow Longbow (1800).

Ability Book:

Prayer to the Mother Goddess – Praying to the Mother Goddess of Ten Thousand Limbs can amplify one's attributes; (2000)

Spider Incarnation – Briefly transforms into a half-human, half-spider form, gaining increased attributes and temporary mastery of certain abilities. (2000)

Items: Bronze Attribute Potion (2000), Fallen Gem (1800), Space Crystal (1000)

Facility: Cave Spider Nest (2000) - Can breed Black Iron-grade Cave Spiders.

[Black Iron]

Sequence guide: Knight (800), Mage (800), Swordsman (800), Shieldbearer (800).

Equipment: Crypt Scimitar (500), Shadow Staff (500).

Mount: Cave Spider (800).

Ability Book: Shadow Bolt (500), Zealous Call (500), Night Vision (500).

Items: Kingdom Medal (300), Thunderstone (200), Starstone (200), Spirit Stone (200)

As for the rotten wood level, there are tons of them: wood, metal, fresh water, all kinds of food, and even baby cave goblins.

1 kg of wood and metal (1), 1 kg of mechanical parts (5).

Shen Wen frowned; these things were of little use to him.

The prayer to the Mother Goddess seemed somewhat effective, but after experiencing the hallucination of the statue, it still felt strange.

He first swapped out the available Zealot Call and Night Vision, spending a thousand points.

Frenzy Call - Increases movement speed and attack speed upon use, while also blocking pain.

Night Vision – Seeing in the dark.

Two beams of light entered between his eyebrows, and a system notification popped up immediately.

[The Dark Vision has been integrated into the Executioner's Eye, expanding its perception range to 120 meters.]

[Frenzied Call has been integrated into Bloodlust Berserk. During Berserk mode, movement speed is increased by an additional 30%, and pain shielding covers the entire body.]

He looked at the three women; they still had over three thousand points left.

"What do you think? Should we replace this underground spider nest?" Shen Wen stroked his chin. "Doesn't the High Priest's scepter control the spiders?"

Su Qingxuan stopped scrolling through the panel and looked up at him: "Okay. But we don't know how long the training will take."

"The only ones who can use a staff are me and Youchu. Youchu's class doesn't allow her to use skills while controlling the spider." She paused, "So it's just me who has to use it."

Shen Wen's lips curled up: "Then Sister Qingxuan will become a summoner? She can summon spirits and spiders."

Su Qingxuan rolled her eyes at him.

"I feel like it's worth switching, after all, compared to other options, this offers the greatest long-term benefit..."

Jiang Youchu whispered to herself.

In fact, ability books should be able to immediately increase combat power, but both Mother Goddess Prayer and Spider Incarnation are strange.