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

Lu Qingchuan took out a wine flask from his storage space, took a big gulp, and then handed the flask to Chen Ye: "Want some?"

Chen Ye waved his hand.

Lu Qingchuan put away the wine flask: "That Yang Zhen shouldn't be among the strongest people on train G4921. He's a bit too weak. No wonder he didn't dare to chase the monster."

Chen Ye nodded slightly: "It's definitely not that. His combat strength is not even as high as Gulina's in your team. He's probably here to gather intelligence for their boss on the train."

"So when it came time to kill the BOSS, neither you nor Gu Qinghuan participated?"

As he spoke, Lu Qingchuan took another gulp of strong liquor.

Chen Ye smiled and said, "If you don't make a move, then either Gu Qinghuan or I will have to. After all, we can't let the benefits fall into the hands of other train engines."

Lu Qingchuan smiled and didn't continue the topic, thinking to himself that this kid was so young, yet so shrewd.

Zhao Hai sat down next to Chen Ye, munching on a compressed biscuit as he said, "A whole day has passed, and we still have no clue where the Ice Lord is. What are we going to do tomorrow?"

Chen Ye's gaze fell on the mountain range shrouded in night: "Let's head towards the central area of ​​this mountain range. The giant bear we killed today was also heading towards the center. Perhaps we can find some clues by following its activity patterns."

Zhao Hai nodded, stuffed the remaining compressed biscuits into his mouth, and clapped his hands.

Then, heavy snow began to fall from above, the cold wind howled, the tent fabric fluttered in the wind, and the light from the lamp became blurry and hazy in the falling snowflakes.

Chen Ye looked up at the night sky: "It's getting late, you should all go and get some rest. I'll keep watch for the first half of the night."

"Then we'll do it in the latter half of the night."

After Lu Qingchuan finished speaking, he crawled into the tent behind him, and Wang Zekai, Shen Nanxing, and Gulina also stood up.

When Wang Zekai lifted the tent flap, he turned around and grinned at Chen Ye: "You've had a hard night."

Chen Ye watched as the curtains of the four tents fell one by one, and couldn't help but smile. These four people had actually gone to sleep, leaving none of them behind. They really trusted him.

"Brother Ye, I'm going to rest too, I can't take it anymore."

Qin Zhaoyang was squatting at the tent entrance, rubbing his hands and stamping his feet. His face was already red from the cold, and his lips were a little white. He was curled up in a ball, and even his voice was squeezed out from between his teeth, with obvious trembling.

Chen Ye nodded: "Go ahead."

Qin Zhaoyang felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He rushed into the tent, zipped it up from the inside, and moved as fast as if he were dodging a pursuer.

The rest of the team also crawled into their respective tents one after another. After the sound of zippers, the basin fell silent again, with only the sound of the wind and the soft rustling of snowflakes falling on the tent fabric.

Zhao Hai paused before entering the tent, turning his head to look at Chen Ye: "How about I come with you?"

Chen Ye shook his head: "No need, Hai-ge, you should go and rest too."

Zhao Hai glanced at him, said nothing more, nodded, and turned to go back to the tent.

The sound of a tent zipper came from behind me, followed by the soft tug of fabric being pulled, and then it quickly became completely quiet.

Chen Ye sat alone outside the tent, pulling up the collar of his down jacket to block the cold wind, and then looked up at the two campsites not far away.

Yang Zhen was keeping watch by himself. He sat at the tent entrance, his hands in his jacket pockets, curled up in a ball.

A blue light screen of the system floats in front of me, and I occasionally reach out and swipe it a couple of times.

On Zhong Xiu's side, Yang Lan was sitting in front of the tent with a young team member. The dim yellow light from the lamp fell on the snow, sometimes bright and sometimes blurry in the swirling snowflakes.

Yang Lan's gaze would occasionally sweep towards Chen Ye's camp, but each time it was only a brief glance before she looked away.

Chen Ye withdrew his gaze, leaned against the tent, and let the wind and snow hit his cheeks.

……

Another location in the Ice Abyss Mountains.

When Li Jiahao climbed over an ice ridge, he had completely lost feeling in his legs.

He collapsed onto the snow, completely exhausted, and didn't even have the strength to get up.

He remained in that position for about half a minute, then lifted his face from the snow and looked back at the icy plain swallowed by the night.

Jiang Ning's heartbeat indeed stopped catching up; behind her, there was only the sound of the wind and the rustling of snowflakes falling to the ground.

Li Jiahao propped himself up from the snow and sat down against a rock covered in ice, panting heavily.

His hands and feet were numb from the cold, and he clenched and unclenched his fingers several times before regaining some feeling.

He lowered his head, brought up the system panel, and glanced at his potion reserves.

He only had five stamina potions and one recovery potion left. That was all he had.

Li Jiahao turned off the control panel, leaned back against the ice rock, looked up at the night sky obscured by wind and snow, and exhaled a long breath of white air.

The wind and snow gradually subsided. He raised his head, scanned the surrounding terrain, chose a direction, and started walking again.

He has to keep going.

Jiang Ning has only temporarily stopped the pursuit; it doesn't mean he has given up.

He served as Jiang Ning's guide dog all day, nearly dying several times from the monster's claws. The thought of facing Jiang Ning's endless pursuit filled him with despair.

But he was unwilling to die like that.

at the same time

Several kilometers away.

Jiang Ning stood on a rock several meters high, her gaze fixed on the huge figure slowly moving ahead.

It was a humanoid monster, enormous in size, its every step sinking deep into the snow.

Its body was covered with a thick layer of ice crystal armor, which shimmered with an icy blue luster in the night.

Jiang Ning stopped pursuing Li Jiahao because she discovered this monster.

He's currently weighing whether or not to kill that monster. He has an S-rank skill, is a ranged attacker, and has decent agility.

After a moment's thought, he leaped off the rock, his feet landing with a dull thud, splashing a white cloud of snow around his feet. As he landed, he was already chasing after the humanoid monster.

The roar of the Emperor Engine gradually rose within him, and a pale red halo emerged around his body.

He moved extremely fast, leaving two evenly spaced shallow pits in the snow beneath his feet. These pits were visibly filled back in by falling snowflakes.

The distance between him and the humanoid monster was rapidly decreasing.

The monster didn't immediately notice him. It maintained its original walking rhythm, and the ice crystal armor made a soft friction sound as it moved, causing the ground to tremble slightly with each step.

Jiang Ning slowed down when she was about fifty meters away from the monster.

Instead of attacking directly, he took an arc, approaching the behemoth from its flank, while simultaneously drawing a longbow from his storage space.

He stopped about thirty meters away from the monster and drew his bow.