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

Jian Lan also stopped in her tracks. She had already seen Jiang Ning's intentions in his eyes. Now that the two of them only had one survival mark, it was obvious who was most qualified to live.

She drew the dagger from her waist, walked up to Jiang Ning, and handed the dagger to him: "Brother Ning, if you can return to your original world and return to Yuncheng, please take care of my mother for me. My home is at No. 43 Wutong Street, old town of Yuncheng."

Her voice was calm, so calm that it didn't sound like someone about to die.

Jiang Ning stared at the short knife being handed to her and remained silent for a moment.

His gaze lingered on the hilt of the knife for a moment, then he reached out and took it: "I promise you, if I can return to Yuncheng, I will take care of your mother in her old age and see her off in her final days."

Jian Lan nodded. She and Jiang Ning were classmates. She came from a single-parent family and had relied on her mother since she was a child. Jiang Ning knew all of this.

Along the way, from Corpse City to Ghost City, Insect Nest, Mirror City, and Blood Mist Forest, she had always followed Jiang Ning. She had also thought that she might die in some survival trial.

"Thanks, let's get started."

Jian Lan closed her eyes. It wasn't that she didn't want to live, but if Jiang Ning died in this trial, she wasn't confident she could survive the next one. Besides, if Jiang Ning wanted to kill her, she wouldn't have the power to resist.

Jiang Ning held the short knife, standing still, his gaze fixed on Jian Lan's closed face. Zhu Peng had died long ago in Guidu, and now Jian Lan was also sacrificing herself to let him live.

He gave a bitter laugh, and suddenly slashed the dagger across Jian Lan's neck.

The blade entered Jian Lan's neck from the left side, precisely slicing through the skin, muscles, and trachea. The blade then slid out from the right side, the entire process clean and efficient.

Jian Lan's body stiffened slightly. She opened her eyes, the light in her pupils flashing rapidly, and her lips moved slightly.

After the blade swept past, Jiang Ning loosened his grip on the hilt with his right hand, and at the same moment, his left hand reached out and caught Jian Lan's body as she was leaning backward.

Jian Lan leaned against his arm, blood from her neck trickling down his sleeve, pooling into a drop at the cuff before falling to the ground.

As Jian Lan lay dying, her eyes focused one last time, and Jiang Ning's face was reflected in her already blurred pupils.

Her lips moved slightly again: "Jiang Ning... I..."

Before she could finish speaking, the silver six-pointed star above her head began to shatter, turning into countless tiny points of light. At the same time, the starlight above Jiang Ning's head began to condense.

A new six-pointed star cursor appeared above Jiang Ning's head, its silvery-white light illuminating half of his profile.

Jiang Ning remained silent.

He lowered his head, looking at the face in his arms that had completely lost its color, and stood there in that position for a long time.

The only sound on the street was the whistling of the wind as it passed through the gaps in the metal buildings.

……

Six o'clock in the morning.

The sky was bright.

The system panel automatically popped up at the same time for everyone inside the West Station of the Mechanical City.

Chen Ye glanced down at his own control panel.

[This trial has ended!]

Name: Chen Ye

Survival Rating: S

[Kill Points: 9980]

Survival Points: 500

The Death Train will depart in 2 hours. Please return to the train in time to claim your reward!

Countdown: 1:59:59

I earned 10,000 points in just one Samsung Trial. I had accumulated them all the way from Corpse Capital to Blood Mist Forest, going through five trials before I finally had enough points to exchange for an S-level skill selection chest.

He has now earned 10,000 points in a single game.

In other words, the S-level skill chests that are limited to purchase in the store can be obtained by other passengers after participating in two or three three-star trials.

S-rank skills will soon become commonplace, and their advantage will quickly disappear, unless you can get your hands on an SS-rank skill.

Now points can only be exchanged for potions as the currency for trading, and the Mechanical City raid on Tu Honglie's team also yielded a large number of potions.

He suddenly remembered the S-rank defensive skill [Black Tortoise Armor] he had seen in Infinite City. To obtain S-rank or higher skills in the future, he could only rely on killing BOSS-level monsters as drops or spending a lot of potions to buy them from other passengers.

Chen Ye turned off the control panel and turned his head to look at Qin Zhaoyang next to him.

Qin Zhaoyang was staring at his system panel, his mouth slightly open, as if he had been stunned by the number.

Then he suddenly looked up: "Brother Ye! I got over 3000 points! Over 3000! I've never gotten so many points before!"

"Yes, I saw it."

Chen Ye nodded slightly.

Wen Ning added, "I also got more than 5000 points. 10000 points only requires two rounds of the three-star survival trial."

"Chen Ye, Jiang Ning is back."

Zhao Hai's gaze turned toward the platform entrance.

Chen Ye followed his gaze and saw Jiang Ning walking in from the platform entrance, his clothes stained with blood. Above his head, a silver six-pointed star was slowly rotating in the morning light.

Qin Zhaoyang's gaze lingered on the entrance behind Jiang Ning for a long time. Only after confirming that there was really no one else there did he whisper, "Jian Lan... hasn't come back?"

Chen Ye didn't respond, his gaze remaining fixed on Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning met his gaze for a moment, then looked away, her eyes suddenly darkening.

Chen Ye followed his gaze and saw that the person he was staring at was Li Jiahao. However, he didn't care what had happened between the two of them before. The road ahead was still bumpy, and there were still one survival trial after another waiting for him.

He looked away and glanced again at the number of passengers in the station. There were only a little over thirty people who had returned to the station.

Of the 320 faculty and students of Yuncheng University, only nine have survived, and only twelve of the original passengers on train G5002 remain.

With two trains competing for 100 survival tokens, the elimination rate is already extremely high.

There were 100 marks, but not all 100 survived. Many passengers who had obtained survival marks died during their tower push.

"At this rate of attrition, the trains will probably have to be merged again after the two trials."

Gu Qinghuan's gaze swept over the crowd in the station as well, her tone remaining calm.

Chen Ye glanced at her sideways and said, "That depends on what happens in the next survival trial."

Qin Zhaoyang, who was squatting on the ground, looked up when he heard this: "When will this end? How many survival trials do we have to participate in before it's over?"

His voice wasn't loud, as if he were talking to himself, or as if he were asking Chen Ye a question.

Chen Ye did not answer immediately. His gaze fell on the gray-white sky in the distance, and he recalled the words of the tree bark man.

That tree-skin man clearly knows a lot about the death game. Perhaps the seed Qin Zhaoyang ate is the key to breaking the deadlock. The tree-skin man will definitely reappear.

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze and looked at Qin Zhaoyang again.

Qin Zhaoyang was still squatting there, his hands on his knees, looking somewhat dazed, lost in thought.

"What's wrong, Brother Ye?"

Qin Zhaoyang noticed Chen Ye's gaze, looked up and asked a question.

"It's nothing."

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze.

Several more people returned to the station one after another. They walked onto the platform and stood in the open space in front of their respective carriages.

No one spoke, no one talked; everyone stood silently in their places.

Five days ago, when they entered the Mechanical City, their train was full. Now, only 42 passengers are standing on the platform. This trial has eliminated as many as 278 people.

Time passed slowly in silence. About an hour later, the doors of all eight carriages slid open at the same time, the metal doors retracting to the sides with a crisp "click" sound.