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

Chen Ye looked at the leather-clad man's corpse and said calmly, "He thought we were also going to kill him to get the survival mark. Facing our team, he had no chance. He thought he was going to die for sure, so naturally he didn't want anyone else to get his survival mark and live on."

Zhao Hai's gaze swept over the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, and he shook his head slightly: "There should be two teams here. Only the one in the gray windbreaker escaped. The others are all dead. Ten people died for a survival mark, and in the end, no one got it."

"The survival mark is the ticket to survival. Without this ticket, you will still die when the trial ends. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you must fight for it."

Chen Ye paused for a moment and continued, "They're just too impatient. It's only the second day. That man in the leather jacket is quite strong, probably level 9. It's not impossible for them to get a few more survival marks by working together as a team."

"The numbers on that big mirror have changed."

Wen Ning's voice came from Chen Ye's right.

Chen Ye turned his head to look.

The row of silver-white numbers on the huge oval mirror in the center of the square had indeed changed.

[22/100]

It used to be 23, now it's 22.

One less.

Chen Ye stared at the line of numbers for two seconds, his mind racing: "I think I know what these numbers mean."

All eyes turned to him.

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze and swept it over the people present: "100 represents the total number of survival marks, and 22 represents the number of passengers who have already obtained survival marks."

Zhou Yating continued, "If that's the case, the man in the leather jacket committed suicide. His survival mark didn't disappear; it returned to the trial grounds. The total number of survival marks hasn't changed."

Chen Ye nodded: "That's roughly the idea."

Wen Ning frowned slightly and tapped her chin twice with her fingers: "That means if the inheritance conditions are not met, the mark will return to the trial grounds. If the person with the mark commits suicide or is killed by a monster, or is killed by someone who already has the mark, the mark will return and need to be acquired again."

"That's right." Chen Ye glanced at Wen Ning. "Killing someone to steal the mark isn't that easy. Unless you can control them instantly, making it impossible for the person with the mark to even commit suicide."

Qin Zhaoyang stood at the back, listening to their analysis, his gaze shifting from the enormous mirror: "This mirror is almost identical in design to the one that spawns elite monsters, only several times larger. Do you think... if the number on it becomes 100/100, something might emerge from this mirror?"

The square fell silent for a moment.

All eyes turned back to the huge oval mirror.

The mirror remained a chaotic gray, with a line of silver-white numbers floating above it, quietly displaying [22/100].

Chen Ye stared at the mirror for a few seconds, then said, "That's possible. If something comes out of this mirror, it's a monster higher than an elite, very likely a BOSS."

Qin Zhaoyang shrank his neck and subconsciously took half a step back.

"Zhaoyang, go pick up these weapons. We can exchange them for some potions next time we go to Infinite City. Just pick the green quality ones."

Chen Ye pointed around the corpses in the square.

"Okay!"

Qin Zhaoyang ran over excitedly.

Just then, Chen Ye's system panel popped up automatically; it was a message from Su Jin.

[Su Jin: Chen Ye, I have a lot of mirrors here that can spawn elite monsters, do you want to come?]

Chen Ye raised an eyebrow; just as he had thought of, his reply came immediately.

[Chen Ye: Come on, where are you? We should be in the center of the city right now. Do you have any landmarks?]

[Su Jin: We should be to the north of Mirror City. If we look north from where you are, can we see a clock tower?]

Chen Ye looked up and gazed northward.

There is indeed a clock tower, much taller than the average building, with its gray-white exterior standing out prominently among the mirrored buildings, making it easy to spot.

Chen Ye: Yes, wait for us, we'll be right there.

Chen Ye closed the system chat panel, a slight smile playing on his lips: "The survival mark is settled."

Everyone was overjoyed.

Qin Zhaoyang had also finished looting the equipment and ran back, standing panting in front of Chen Ye: "Brother Ye, I picked it all up, five pieces of green gear!"

"Let's go to that clock tower."

After Chen Ye finished speaking, he took the lead and walked towards the north.

Zhao Hai, Wen Ning, and the others quickly followed.

The group of seven moved quickly, navigating the mirror-covered streets for an hour before finally arriving at the clock tower Su Jin had mentioned.

Su Jin's team was already waiting in the open space below the clock tower.

Su Jin also had a survival mark on her head, a silver six-pointed star slowly rotating above her head. Her four teammates stood behind her.

The two teams met.

Without exchanging pleasantries, Chen Ye went straight to the point: "Where's the mirror?"

Su Jin turned and pointed to a street north of the clock tower: "It's just ahead, there are more than a dozen of them. You should have found those mirrors in the city before, right? As long as you get within ten meters, the elite monsters in the mirrors will come out."

Chen Ye nodded: "We found one. That's where Hai Ge's mark came from."

Su Jin frowned slightly: "The problem now is that the mirrors are too close together. Once we get close, we might have to deal with several elite monsters at the same time. Should we find some more people? I haven't notified Lei Xing and the others yet."

Chen Ye thought for a moment: "Take us there and let's talk about it first."

Su Jin nodded slightly and led the two teams into the street north of the clock tower.

After walking several hundred meters, a relatively open area appeared ahead.

Those mirrors stood on the ground.

They are exactly the same shape as the oval mirrors we've seen before, and the closest ones are less than two meters apart.

The team stopped fifty meters away from the mirror.

Chen Ye counted them briefly; there were twelve mirrors in total. If all twelve elite monsters rushed out when they got close, the scene would indeed be very chaotic.

"Call for backup."

He quickly made a decision: the mark could only be obtained in the chaos. Qin Zhaoyang and Zhou Yating could both attack from a distance, so there were still some opportunities in the melee.

If only those two teams go up, most of them will die.

"Okay, I'll call for help in the main chat group."

Su Jin brought up the system group chat interface and quickly sent a message.

Chen Ye turned around and looked at Qin Zhaoyang: "Zhaoyang, you're a ranged attacker, so you need to be quick to get kills when the fight starts. Be alert and shoot whichever enemy is dying. If necessary, you can also shoot anyone who gets a mark in the chaos of battle."

"This...this is asking me to kill someone?"

Qin Zhaoyang's expression changed slightly. He knew that this was a death game with no laws, but he still felt some psychological burden about killing someone.

From the beginning until now, he has only ever seen the death game as a game of killing monsters, and has never thought about killing people.