Death Train: SSS-level talent right from the start!

Chen Ye's gaze fell on the body.

There, a hemispherical transparent light shield was placed on the ground, and inside the light shield, a palm-sized silver box lay quietly.

Another silver treasure chest.

Chen Ye bent down, picked up the treasure chest, weighed it in his hand, and then put it into his storage space.

He turned around and looked in the direction of the other scorpion.

Wen Ning and Su Jin's battle has also ended.

Su Jin pulled her long knife out of the scorpion's head, took two steps back to create distance between herself and the scorpion's corpse, and adjusted her breathing.

Wen Ning also stood up, her gaze fixed on Chen Ye's direction.

"Chen Ye!"

She called out and quickly walked towards Chen Ye.

Su Jin followed behind her, her pace slightly slower than Wen Ning's.

Wen Ning noticed Chen Ye's gaze, stepped aside to let Su Jin stand in front of her: "Su Jin, you should know who's in carriage number one."

"Know."

Chen Ye nodded slightly.

Su Jin stood in front of Chen Ye. She was about half a head shorter than Chen Ye. She had distinct facial features, high brow bones, and narrow eyes. Her short hair, which reached her neck, made her face look even more angular.

"Thank you for your help, otherwise my teammates would have been injured or killed."

Su Jin's voice was not loud, but his tone was sincere.

Chen Ye smiled and said, "It's just a small thing. As long as you don't mind me taking your elite monster, it's fine."

Su Jin smiled and said, "Of course not."

Their tactic was for her and Wen Ning to quickly take down the smaller one, and then return to join the team to kill the larger one.

However, it took them a little longer than expected to kill the scorpion.

Su Jin glanced at the scorpion's corpse on the ground, then looked back at Chen Ye: "Your weapon is blue quality, right? Did you get it down here?"

"It's blue quality, so I guess you could say it was obtained from below."

Su Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, but did not ask for details about the source.

Wen Ning glanced at the spear in Chen Ye's hand, then asked, "Why are you alone? Where are Zhao Hai and the others?"

"There's no one there." Chen Ye glanced at the cave wall. "They're behind us."

Wen Ning followed Chen Ye's gaze and saw Zhao Hai and the others walking towards them.

The six people reunited and stood in front of Su Jin's group.

Su Jin's gaze lingered on Zhao Hai for a moment, then swept over Wang Shuo, Li Zheng, Zhou Yating, and Qin Zhaoyang before finally looking away.

Chen Ye turned to look at Wen Ning: "Why are you with Su Jin and the others?"

"We met down there, so we're traveling together for now, it's a win-win situation. I'm having a hard time killing elite monsters by myself." After saying this, Wen Ning's gaze fell on the spear in Chen Ye's hand: "Your strength is much greater than I imagined."

When Chen Ye treated her to that meal at the hotel in Infinite City, she just thought he was alright, but that was all.

Now she saw Chen Ye make a move, and it wasn't just strong, it was ridiculously strong.

It took her and Su Jin almost ten minutes to kill that scorpion.

Chen Ye, alone with a gun, killed the enemy in less than two minutes.

There are no skills, no bursts of power, just the most basic thrusts and overwhelming strength, cleanly and decisively ending the battle.

Chen Ye didn't respond to that question, but instead looked at Su Jin: "Did you leave any marks when you came down? We're lost and looking for another exit."

Su Jin nodded: "We did it. We left marks along the way, and it's about time. We're getting ready to go up."

"That's great, let's go out together."

Chen Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Jin nodded slightly: "Okay."

Wen Ning leaned closer from the side: "Didn't you... encounter Tang Jingxin's group down there?"

Chen Ye glanced at her sideways and shook his head: "No."

Standing next to Chen Ye, Zhao Hai was filled with admiration as he watched Chen Ye's lies flow so easily and convincingly.

Wen Ning gave Chen Ye a meaningful look, but she didn't ask any further questions.

Then the two teams, a total of twelve people, began to return along the same route under Su Jin's leadership.

……

5 points in the early hours.

Chen Ye and his group emerged from an abandoned house covered in thick vines.

The pale sunlight pressed down from overhead, and the long-lost open view made everyone squint slightly.

After spending nearly two days in the underground insect nest, the blue-green fluorescent light, while not dim, was still far inferior to natural light.

The feeling of being trapped underground and unable to see the sky can instinctively make one feel depressed over time.

"They're finally out."

Qin Zhaoyang took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.

Chen Ye glanced around at his surroundings.

This area was completely different from where they had come down; the buildings were lower, the streets were narrower, and the roads were littered with the remains of burst cocoons.

Dark red fragments of cocoon shells, grayish-white pieces of insect body, and black traces left by dried body fluids.

The fragments of insect cocoons stretched from one end of the street to the other, forming a thick layer that crunched underfoot.

"Looks like things are getting pretty heated up there too."

Zhao Hai walked to Chen Ye's side, bent down and used his toe to pry open a fragment of a cocoon shell. Underneath was a pool of dried, dark red blood, with blackened edges. It was unclear whether it was human or insect blood.

Su Jin glanced around and then looked away: "The trial will end in half an hour. Let's go back to the station."

Chen Ye nodded.

Su Jin walked at the front of the group, with her four teammates following behind her.

Chen Ye's group and Wen Ning walked behind.

The group of twelve people walked through the ruined streets toward the station.

Most of the cocoons along the way had broken open, and the corpses of facehuggers were scattered all over the ground.

Occasionally, the bodies of other passengers could be seen, their faces corroded beyond recognition by the liquid secreted by facehuggers.

Zhao Hai withdrew his gaze from a corpse, his brows furrowing slightly: "It seems quite a few people have died in this trial."

Chen Ye glanced at Zhao Hai and said, "People die in every trial. Those with high talent and high level should have gone to the underground insect nest to farm points. Those who stayed up there can only earn points by killing these facehuggers. Each facehugger is worth 10 points. If you kill enough, the profit is still quite considerable. Maybe these cocoons were deliberately broken."

"Too."

Zhao Hai nodded and said nothing more.

Su Jin walked at the front of the group. Hearing Chen Ye and Zhao Hai's words, he paused slightly: "The next trial will be two-star. I don't know how many people will die then. If everyone listens to me and keeps their levels down, so that the overall strength of the passengers on the train can be improved, there will be fewer casualties in the two-star trial."

Wen Ning glanced at Su Jin: "It's useless. Slow leveling up is naturally due to low talent. Even if they catch up in level, the talent gap will still exist. The rule of this death game is that the strong survive and the weak are eliminated. You can't defy the rules."

Chen Ye turned his head to look at Wen Ning, his gaze lingering on her face for a moment: "You see things very clearly."

Wen Ning smiled gently, a smile that carried the clarity that only comes from being beaten down by life. She then said slowly, "That's natural. It's just like the workplace. Those who are capable stay, and those who are not are fired. It's a very simple principle. If the capable deliberately slow down the progress to wait for the incapable, then the company is not far from going bankrupt."

Su Jin's lips moved slightly, but she didn't say anything. Her pace quickened, whether she was persuaded by Wen Ning's words or simply didn't want to continue the topic.

As they were talking, they had already entered the station.

The cocoons inside the station were also cleaned up, leaving only some dark red liquid traces and scattered cocoon fragments on the ground.

The platform was crowded with people, who stood in small groups of two or three.

Based on the current number of participants, the casualties in this survival trial are not too high.