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

"Well done!" Zhao Hai roared, charging towards the lizard's head. "Ranged shots, aim for its eyes!"

The boy in the gray hoodie drew back the compound bow, aimed, and released it.

The arrow shot through the air, aiming straight for the lizard's right eye.

The lizard tilted its head slightly, and the arrow grazed its eye, leaving a shallow scratch on its nose without harming its eye.

"Again!"

The boy in the gray hoodie drew another arrow, nocked it on the bowstring, drew the bow, and aimed.

This time he aimed for a longer time, his hands trembling slightly, but he gritted his teeth and kept steady.

Let go.

This time, the arrow struck the lizard's head precisely three centimeters below the right eye, penetrating about two centimeters into the flesh, and black liquid gushed from the wound.

The lizard head was completely enraged.

It gave up chasing those who couldn't fight, turned around, and stared intently at the boy with the compound bow through its scarlet vertical pupils.

"run!"

As Zhao Hai roared, he charged toward the lizard's head, gathering his strength in his right fist to smash into its left ribs.

"boom--!"

Another heavy punch landed, and the lizard-headed man's body swayed slightly, but he didn't turn towards Zhao Hai; he kept staring at the boy with the compound bow.

It pawed at the ground with its four paws and charged toward the boy.

The short-haired girl rushed out from the side and slashed at the lizard's neck with a kitchen knife.

The blade grazed the gray-black armor plates, leaving a shallow white mark, but it didn't cut in.

"Its neck plates are too thick! I can't cut them with my strength!"

The short-haired girl shouted as she backed away. The lizard's tail swept towards her, and she suddenly crouched down. The tail grazed the top of her head, and the wind it created made her hair fly wildly.

Zhao Hai chased after the lizard's head, punching it repeatedly in the hind legs, tail, and back.

Each punch made the lizard's head pause, but each punch couldn't stop it.

Its target was clearly the boy with the compound bow.

The boy in the gray hoodie had already shot his last arrow. He threw the composite bow on the ground and turned to run.

But he was too slow.

The lizard head caught up with him in a few steps, and swatted him away from the side with its right claw, like swatting a fly.

The boy's body tumbled several times in the air before crashing heavily against the barrier wall. The blue light screen trembled, and his body slid down the screen to the ground, where he remained motionless.

"Remote control is down!"

The invisible boy's voice came from the air, tinged with obvious tension.

Zhao Hai's heart sank.

Of the eight combat talents, one has already fallen.

His gaze swept across the barrier; those who were unable to fight were still screaming, crying, and trembling, but it was completely futile.

The lizard-headed creature turned around, its scarlet vertical pupils locking onto Zhao Hai once again.

"Damn it, come on!"

Zhao Hai roared and clashed his fists together, the silver-gray luster exploding under the blue light screen.

The lizard head lunged forward.

Zhao Hai also rushed over.

The human and the beast clashed in the center of the barrier, their fists and claws intersecting, producing a dense metallic clang.

Zhao Hai's punches landed on the lizard head's claws, head, and neck. The burst of power, three times stronger than usual, caused the lizard head to pause for a moment each time it was hit.

But every claw strike, every bite, and every sweep of its tail from the lizard head forced Zhao Hai back several steps, and more and more white marks appeared on his metallic skin.

Zhao Hai's strength was decreasing at a visible rate.

He glanced at the system panel; his stamina had dropped from 100 to 67.

The barrier had only been in place for less than ten minutes.

The invisible boy stabbed the lizard's head twice more from the side, once in its left foreleg and once in its abdomen, but both stabs were shallow and pulled out, causing minimal damage.

The short-haired girl, who had a keen eye for weaknesses, was constantly looking for an opportunity to cut off the lizard's neck.

Even knowing her weakness, her cleaver still couldn't cut through it; it could only cut the gaps in the armor plates that Zhao Hai had already cracked.

The battle continues.

Every second felt like it was stretched a hundred times longer.

Outside the barrier, at the edge of the plaza.

Zhu Peng walked up to Jiang Ning and whispered, "Brother Ning, this Zhao Hai is pretty fierce. Look at all those cracks on Lizard Head's body; they're all from his punches. If he keeps going like this, won't he really kill Lizard Head? Wouldn't that just be a waste of kill points and loot?"

Jiang Ning crossed her arms and watched the battle within the barrier with great interest, a faint smile playing on her lips.

"He can't be killed."

"Huh? Why?"

"Don't be fooled by his current vigor; he'll soon be exhausted. This kind of high-intensity burst of output consumes a huge amount of energy. I estimate he only has half his energy left."

Jiang Ning's gaze fell on Zhao Hai, her tone as calm as if she were commentating on a match that had nothing to do with her.

"Even if he really can kill the lizard head, it doesn't matter."

Zhu Peng was stunned for a moment: "It's alright? Brother Ning, the kill points and drop rewards are all his, and we even lost a Space Cube."

"He can take the kill points if he wants." Jiang Ning glanced at Zhu Peng, his smile deepening. "But the dropped items... he can't take them with him after the barrier disappears, unless he wants to die."

Zhu Peng's eyes lit up: "Brother Ning is brilliant! Even if Zhao Hai kills the lizard head, he'll be at his last gasp. He probably won't even have the strength to run away. If he dares not hand it over, then don't blame us for being ruthless."

Jiang Ning didn't respond, and turned her gaze back to the barrier.

His gaze shifted from Zhao Hai to the lizard head, lingering for a moment on the scales that Zhao Hai had cracked, before moving away.

Further away, in the shadow of a building in the southeast corner of the square.

Li Jiahao leaned against the wall, his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, his gaze calmly fixed on the blue barrier in the distance.

Sun Kai squatted down next to him: "Brother Jiahao is right, this Jiang Ning is definitely problematic. He said there's no limit to talent and that there's strength in numbers, but he's just using people as cannon fodder. What a beast! Everyone inside the barrier is probably going to die now."

Ma Wenbo stood on the other side of Li Jiahao, his arms crossed over his chest: "I wonder if Zhao Hai can hold out until the barrier ends."

Li Jiahao did not respond.

His gaze remained fixed on Zhao Hai's figure inside the barrier, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he were pondering something.

"Jiahao, what are you thinking about?"

Sun Kai noticed Li Jiahao's expression and leaned over to ask him a question.

Li Jiahao was silent for two seconds, then said, "I'm wondering where Zhao Hai's teammates went."

"You mean Chen Ye and the others?" Sun Kai clicked his tongue. "What can those guys do? They're not even enough to fill Jiang Ning's teeth."

Li Jiahao remained silent, his gaze sweeping over the tall buildings surrounding the square.

He couldn't see what was happening on the roof from here, but he had a feeling that Chen Ye was definitely crouching on some building observing.

However, Sun Kai's words also make sense; Chen Ye and his group are too weak to change the course of the battle.