Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

The rankings will be revealed in Chapter 71.
The moment the announcement came out, the players who were just feeling relieved to have survived another dungeon were completely stunned.

The chat room was instantly bustling with discussion about potential changes after the train merger.

As Jiang Ran looked at the notification, she suddenly thought of something she hadn't considered before.

Is the process of absorbing players from other trains, and the process of players on a train being absorbed by other trains, randomly triggered by luck?
Or are there some hidden conditions, such as almost all the players on the train being wiped out, or there not being enough players?

After all, players on the same train, regardless of their previous relationship, will naturally form an alliance, and those scattered players who are assigned to the train will mostly not get any benefits.

However, some sharp-eyed players noticed that a string of numbers had appeared above the previously empty group chat box.

Surviving players (996/9999+).

Oh right, right: "If I understand correctly, does '996' refer to the players still alive on the train?"

Sixteen Happy Meatballs: "That should be true. Didn't the notice say that there would be a merger? After the merger, there should be more than 10,000 players."

Okay, received and sent: "To be honest, I have a bad feeling. The players on the train are already grouped together, and we're maintaining a delicate balance. With so many more people suddenly appearing... it's really hard to say what will happen."

Shut up and kneel down: "Now that you mention it, it's true... With so many people, things will definitely get chaotic. If the next dungeon is another group-based dungeon like Snow Country, then it'll be truly disorienting."

Magical Girl: "There's no use thinking about this now. If we get scattered like in the first dungeon, it'll be hard to stick together. The most important thing is to make sure we survive."

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The magical girl's words also reminded everyone that necessary supplies should not be skimped on. It would be truly not worth it to lose your life just to buy a train ticket to have more lives.

In particular, the sudden appearance of the nematodes in the last instance left many people with psychological trauma.

For a time, many people began to busy themselves with organizing their supplies and collecting basic materials that could be used in any environment.

Half an hour passed quickly.

Upon hearing the train's announcement, Jiang Ran put down her book and looked out the window into the utter darkness.

It's unclear how the train moves, but all that's known is that every time the train leaves the platform, the platform, including the players who didn't manage to board, is swallowed up by darkness.

At the very moment the countdown ended, the entire train seemed to vibrate slightly.

Jiang Ran sensed something and immediately opened the chat lobby.

The number of survivors above has changed to (9999+/9999+), and after these numbers is a familiar pattern, exactly the same as the pattern after Jiang Ran's real name in her information list.

It should be the train's identification code.

The group chat was now extremely lively, with various IDs constantly sending messages, seemingly trying to mask their unease.

From the various messages, everyone learned that these new players had indeed belonged to different trains before, and that the dungeons they had gone through were the same.

The only difference is that some players on the train did not encounter those terrifying threadworms in the previous instance.

It was only after further questioning that it was discovered that quite a few players had never encountered nematodes.

Despite it being the same instance content, there was still "differential treatment," which made the players on Jiang Ran's train feel somewhat aggrieved.

At this point, players were unlikely to realize that this might just be a patch the train had made to achieve a sufficient "elimination rate," and most just felt unlucky.

But from this information, Jiang Ran roughly guessed that in those dungeons without nematodes, there was probably no player like her who would occasionally drop some supplies.

Especially in the first seven days, many people died directly from the cold. It was only because Jiang Ran provided cold-weather supplies and food that the survival pressure of getting through the early stages was greatly alleviated, which is why many players were still alive after seven days.

Looking at the final result, it's hard to say whether this behavior was good or evil.

But Jiang Ran herself never thought of carrying any moral shackles on her body.

After all, she couldn't control the game's content, and she couldn't possibly follow the game's lead and act timidly for the sake of "the bigger picture".

Moreover, it's hard to say what players will choose: whether they will starve or freeze to death due to resource scarcity in the early stages, or be swarmed and killed by nematodes later on.

Jiang Ran simply opened the friend search interface, intending to look for Zhe Zhou.

It was only after investigating Bloodstained's skills that she suddenly realized that perhaps her trust in Zhezhou was influenced by that so-called "Holy Domain".

Fortunately, this time, she found Zhezhou's ID very easily.

I just don't know if he's some kind of clone or a puppet like Xiaobai.

Or perhaps, they are simply players who have lost their self-awareness after being implanted with the "sacred seed".

I just added Zhezhou using Miss's account, and the system notification appeared again.

[The train will arrive at its next stop in five days. During this time, the Survival Leaderboard and Train Zone Leaderboard will be launched successively. Once the leaderboards are launched, the world chat will also be unlocked, and players can view them on the game panel.]

With the notification, a new feature area appeared on the game panel, with a simple and straightforward name: Leaderboard.

The list has only two subcategories: the daily list and the train zone list.

The ranking list shows that there are only 1,000 slots available, but the data is not yet available.

However, the train region rankings, perhaps because there are too many players, have more detailed regions after scrolling down.

Jiang Ran is on train number 666 in the China region, even after merging the data of other train players.

Even assuming a 10% elimination rate, with 10,000 people on each train, there are at least 100,000 trains to be eligible for the top spot. It's indeed not easy to make it onto the list.

The game is divided into five regions: China, Europe, Oceania, Africa, and America.

Therefore, with the emergence of the leaderboard, group chats were divided into world channels and regional channels.

On the world channel, there are already many languages ​​from various countries chattering away.

However, the game thoughtfully includes a translation button, so communication between players is not a problem.

Just as Jiang Ran was wondering if she could find any clues about GOD in the world chat, Zhe Zhou's message arrived first.

Zhezhou: "I knew you'd figure it out sooner or later, especially now that the trains are merging. You should have realized that your position isn't as secure as you thought."

"But unfortunately, you're too late."

　Thank you Mi Xinlan for the Xiaoxiang ticket~ Thank you Yu Wu_ed, Jiu Xianling, and Lai Yi Bei Tian Dou Hua for the monthly tickets, mwah mwah (′｀)
　　Thank you so much for the generous donation from HumanMachine996! (heart emoji)
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　　Since it's a fictional world, we'll just use a global population of 100 billion.

　　The author divided the area into five zones because they were only a primary school student (.), and could only do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The name "Huaxia" (华夏, meaning China) is simply because it sounds good and has no other meaning.

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　　The new dungeon will start after the leaderboard is released~
　　(End of this chapter)