Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 98: Pleasing Results
The originally lively atmosphere instantly turned cold because of the God of Wealth's words.

Everyone suddenly realized that the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads had never been removed.

It's now the afternoon of the third day since the start of the third instance, and two days have passed since the last time on the leaderboard.

In other words, the first update to the Heavenly Ranking will take place in two days.

Similarly, the first liquidation will also take place.

Although the rules state that the cleanup is only for the bottom 0.01% of the train's ranking list, it may mean that only one person will be eliminated per train.

But one train carries one passenger, so 100,000 trains carry 100,000 passengers...

Even in the first or second liquidation, they can rank in the middle or even the top.

But what about the tenth time, the hundredth time?
After countless rounds of elimination, the remaining players will only become stronger. At that point, how can ordinary players guarantee they won't end up last?
This seems to have become a dead end.

To avoid being eliminated, you not only need to strive to survive in the dungeon, but you should also ensure that you are always at the top of the regional leaderboard, or even number one.

In extreme cases, if all players worldwide were to merge onto the same train, then as long as the game continues, even a top player like Little Spinning Top, who is ranked number one on the leaderboard, would face an unsolvable situation.

—Will the game eliminate the last player when only one player remains on the train?
If we delve deeper into this line of thought, it seems that all their current efforts are meaningless.

Just as the atmosphere became tense, an ID that Jiang Ran was quite familiar with suddenly spoke up.

Whirlwind Slash: "Fun fact: The ranking on the survival leaderboard is not only based on your health points, but also on the resources you have. Resources obtained by spending health points will also be counted as your score."

Whirlwind Slash successfully drew everyone's attention back, and they began to discuss how the rankings were actually compiled.

Even though the future may seem bleak, we still have to live through the present. As long as we can't eliminate ourselves for now, we should try our best to survive.

The most urgent thing now is to focus on the last few people on the regional rankings updated early yesterday morning.

Many people tagged Whirlwind Slash, asking if she knew any more information, but Whirlwind Slash didn't reply and instead messaged Jiang Ran privately.

Whirlwind Slash: "Young Miss, do you have any powerful items or weapons? Preferably the kind that can kill in one hit."

Young lady: "A gun?"

Whirlwind Slash: "A gun won't work; the opponent seems to have special protection against guns. A poisoned dagger or a hidden weapon would be best, something that can kill someone by surprise."

It has to be said that Whirlwind Slash is a bit lucky.

She successfully survived both the previous nematode riot and the sea storm in this instance.

Jiang Ran naturally had more patience for such "long-term customers".

I just didn't expect that the Whirlwind Slash either doesn't appear at all, or when it does, it's a powerful punch. This mental state is definitely worthy of being called "good".

But for Jiang Ran, she was more concerned about the details of the transaction than the mental journey of Whirlwind Slash, so she asked directly, "When do you need it? What will you give in exchange?"

Whirlwind Slash readily agreed: "The faster the better. If you're looking for a replacement, how about this one?"

[Whirlwind Slash has sent a trade request. Trade details: Crafting blueprint *2.]

Among them was even a blueprint for creating a tracking item card, which suddenly made Jiang Ran curious about what Whirlwind Slash had gone through during this time.

Although the tracking item can only track players contacted within half an hour and lasts for only two hours, it can be made infinitely as long as there are blank item cards, so there should be no shortage of market demand. The other crafting blueprint is for an exquisite hidden blade.

Jiang Ran looked at the hidden sword and had an idea in her mind.

Miss: "I think the best way to meet your conditions is to poison it. And the hidden arrow manufacturing diagram you provided happens to have an unexpected effect."

"But the basic crafting station I have can't make these buff-granting items right now, so I can only entrust it to the crafting master I mentioned before..."

That's the price, hopefully Whirlwind Slash can understand her subtext.

Fortunately, Whirlwind Slash was very understanding: "Master, what other reward do you need? Just name your price. As long as it can be made, I can prepare the materials myself. But... could you give me one of those item cards after it's finished?"

Jiang Ran didn't mind this, since it was essentially a case of the wool coming from the sheep's back. The blueprints and materials for the hidden blade were provided by Whirlwind Slash, and all she had to do was provide some free poison.

Since Whirlwind Slash was so "sensible," Jiang Ran wouldn't ask for an exorbitant amount. He symbolically accepted 100 life points, which was a way of justifying the appearance fee for Zhe Zhou, the newly introduced "master of manufacturing."

After receiving the necessary materials, Jiang Ran prepared a set herself. Then, she placed both sets of materials, the manufacturing diagram, and dozens of drops of dark blue liquid onto the manufacturing table and clicked to manufacture two sets.

Soon, two exquisitely crafted hidden arrows appeared on the manufacturing table.

As expected, the system prompted for a new manufacturing blueprint again.

Jiang Ran ignored it for the time being and instead admired for a while the sleeve dart, which had a low-key matte finish and only had a small arrow embedded in the mechanism that shimmered with a dark blue light.

She didn't rush to hand the hidden blade to Whirlwind Slash; instead, she wanted to test the poison's power first.

Although I had witnessed it turn the giants on the island into Smurfs in an instant, I had never tested how it would work on players.

Jiang Ran planned to fish for a while in the box so that she could randomly draw a lucky audience member.

Unexpectedly, it happened just like that. She had barely stepped out of the cabin when Xiaobai, who was fishing for boxes, loaded them with cargo.

Although Hawkeye had already realized it was a rather large creature, Jiang Ran stopped Xiaobai from cutting the line and instead pointed her wrist, which was already strapped with a hidden dart, directly at the dark figure that was getting closer and closer to the sea.

Suddenly, a fish as long as an arm leaped out of the water and tried to bite Jiang Ran and the other person!

Jiang Ran narrowed her eyes. It was a familiar fish—this one looked exactly like the skeleton fish that had almost bitten off her entire arm.

She didn't know if there were two identical fish in this sea area, but it didn't matter; Jiang Ran would take her anger out on her.

With a barely audible whooshing sound, the skeleton fish didn't even reach its highest point before everything came to an abrupt end.

Almost the instant Jiang Ran fired the hidden arrow, the originally pure white skeleton fish was instantly corroded by blue rust.

Soon, even the bones were burned away.

Jiang Ran clicked her tongue softly; the effect was even better than she had imagined.

If even a hidden blade has this much power, then a damn bullet must be...

She was eagerly anticipating having Majik receive her Tiffany Blue package.

There will be an extra chapter today to make up for the previous PK2 update~ There will also be another chapter at 4 PM this afternoon, mwah~