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

Chapter 21 Sleepless Night
Jiang Ran instinctively reached out and caught it.

[Item Card. Reflection (Rank B): Within three minutes of use, there is an 80% chance to reflect any item or skill effect targeting you.]

Jiang Ran: ? ? ?
what's the situation.

She blinked, looking at the freshly made spinning top box on the ground, and a thought suddenly flashed through her mind: Could it be that the spinning top didn't work after using the item card, so the item was refreshed?!
No... she felt that based on the current card art, it wasn't enough for the little spinning top to be so confident in provoking the black-stockinged young lady.

Jiang Ran couldn't help but think that the little spinning top's attitude suddenly changed about five minutes ago, so maybe the card's time limit was five minutes before, and the probability was 100%!

Only in this way can the little spinning top be made to disregard everything and lure the black-stockinged young lady to parasitize it!

Moreover, since it has been used once, it is understandable that the paper effect of the prop is compromised.

Regardless, defeating the enemy and getting a free item card is still a very happy thing.

Jiang Ran returned to her safe house with a satisfied heart.

Upon returning, the teleportation item card in her hand also disappeared.

She looked at her empty palm with some regret. If only she had the same luck as Little Spinning Top when opening boxes, and got more teleportation cards, she could name all her enemies from her previous life.

Xu Yunxuan was indeed the culprit, but what she found most disgusting was that despicable woman who deliberately approached and deceived her to gain her trust, only to use it as a pledge of loyalty to Xu Yunxuan!
She thought she had found the only true love in this cruel apocalypse.

But what this "true heart" always wanted was her life.

But Jiang Ran knew that all of this couldn't be rushed.

In the apocalypse, there are countless such trains, traveling through endless darkness, not knowing where they will take everyone.

In the previous life, after experiencing the first two instances, less than one-tenth of the original number of people remained on the train.

Therefore, after the second instance ended, the train underwent a very brutal merger.

That person arrived after the trains were merged.

Jiang Ran herself didn't know why she felt an instant connection with him the first time she met him.

They had no doubt about the motives behind all his actions.

Looking back now, those seemingly reasonable things actually seem strange in many ways.

By then, Jiang Ran had already experienced two instances and understood better than anyone else that what was more terrifying than the apocalypse was the human heart.

Yet they accepted this unexpected "friend" without hesitation and were grateful for their meeting.

To Jiang Ran today, this is nothing short of a fantasy.

In her previous life, it wasn't until her death that she seemed to suddenly awaken from the fog and realize that the hands behind her, which she thought were supporting her, actually only wanted to push her into the abyss.

Having possessed so many types of items and skills in this life, Jiang Ran has realized that she was most likely tricked before.

Otherwise, even if she were incredibly naive and innocent, she wouldn't have trusted a man of unknown origin so completely.

However, Jiang Ran in her previous life was unaware of these things.

After all, aside from avoiding crowds and being chased, and trying to find resources to survive, she hadn't really seen many skill item cards.

Thanks to Xu Yunxuan, all the lousy things he did, such as hoarding goods, monopolizing prices, and profiteering, were criticized harshly by other players.

All the hatred was drawn away by Jiang Ran. This caused Jiang Ran to be treated like a rat in the street. Forget about making transactions with people, as long as she showed her face, people would want to kill her instantly. Therefore, she could only piece together information about skills and item cards from the chat lobby.

Most of the items on display are basic skills and items. Items with special effects, such as parasitism or teleportation, which are easy to attract aggro, cannot be directly exposed to the public.

...Upon reviewing this, she realized that her previous life had indeed been quite miserable.

Jiang Ran shook her head.

Since she suffered too much in her previous life, she deserves to grow up comfortably in this life!
Putting away the "Reflection" prop card that might come in handy sometime, Jiang Ran took a shower and then peacefully wrapped herself in the blanket and fell asleep.

But for many, this night was destined to be sleepless.

They were on high alert, fearing they would turn into skeletons in their sleep.

Yet many more people still perished that night.

The fire ants crawled away in a mighty procession from the skeletons, searching for new prey.

The insect eggs on their backs, nourished by flesh and blood, continuously reproduce into new larvae, which also quickly join the feast of flesh and blood.

But all of this is just the beginning.

Jiang Ran knew that there would be an even larger volcanic eruption three days later.

After that, the area outside the mountain was swarming with fire ants, and even digging into boxes to find food became a life-or-death struggle.

Even if you know how to deal with a lone fire ant, when the entire ground is covered by them, it doesn't matter whether you're alone or not.

The sunlight was completely blocked by the smoke from the volcanic eruption, and the entire instance was devoid of sunlight. Yet the temperature did not drop at all, and fresh lava occasionally splashed out of cracks in the ground, from which swarms of fire ants crawled out.

Players were driven into dark caves by fire ants, and could only pray each day that they wouldn't run into the swarm of fire ants while digging for chests.

But Jiang Ran had no intention of moving. Her only danger was that she would have to compete with the fire ants when the train arrived on the last day.

In her previous life, she risked losing a leg to climb into the last-class carriage—if she had only retracted that leg two seconds later, all that would have been left would have been a bloody skeleton.

That was the first time in her life she had experienced being raw and gnawed at.

Because the saliva of fire ants contains paralyzing ingredients, what Jiang Ran felt more deeply than the pain was the fear of being powerless to stop everything and only being able to watch helplessly as she was eaten clean.

The health points she painstakingly earned in the dungeon were all spent on healing her wounds, and she was never able to leave the last-class carriage again.

Jiang Ran's complexion was not good when she woke up.

That night, her dreams were filled with the fire ants' gleaming mandibles and her own eerily white leg bones, along with the rustling, gnawing sounds that lingered in her ears.

After washing up, she didn't have much of an appetite. She just took out a bowl of plain porridge and a plate of refreshing side dishes, and ate while browsing the chat room.

The group chat, which used to be always 99+ messages, is now much quieter, and the few IDs that used to speak frequently have disappeared.

In the sparse chat logs, many people were grateful that they had survived another day.

Everyone was exhausted from the fire ants and the high temperature, so the coffee sold by Miss Black Silk was completely sold out. She also received many private messages asking if she could restock.

One of the people's IDs caught Jiang Ran's attention.

(End of this chapter)