Chapter One: A Beta Invitation Code? Hand It Over!

Standing before Xu Yunxuan’s door, Jiang Ran was still struggling to regain her composure.
The voice she’d heard before dying was real—she had been reborn before the beta test of the game began!
Lost in thought, she watched as Xu Yunxuan, reeking of alcohol, opened the door.
His cheeks were flushed, eyes unfocused as he leaned heavily onto Jiang Ran, his lips brushing her neck. “Ranran? Am I dreaming? Why would you come to me on your own…”
The damp heat against her skin instantly sent shivers down Jiang Ran’s spine. Before she could even process it, her hand shot out in a slap!
Clicking her tongue in annoyance, Jiang Ran felt a twinge of regret: she hadn’t managed to restrain herself.
But who could blame her? In her previous life, she’d been tricked out of her inheritance by so-called “family,” forced into a hellish start to the survival game. Anyone would lose control under such circumstances.
Xu Yunxuan, though his jaw was clenched tight enough to shatter his teeth, turned with a pitiful expression. “So it really is a dream…”
Before Jiang Ran could react, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her tightly. His expression was cold, but his words dripped with feigned sweetness: “Since it’s a dream… Ranran, Ranran, I can hardly bear it. Help me…”
He pressed Jiang Ran’s mouth against his chest and dragged her into the room, locking the door behind them.
The sudden violence shocked Jiang Ran, but it made her realize: if she hadn’t received the beta invite, was Xu Yunxuan planning to come to her room last life under the pretense of drunkenness to assault her?
Despicable!
He had always known that Xu Tian was his real father!
Just to secure his place in the family, he’d stop at nothing—even timing it for the night she turned eighteen. Was it her scumbag father Xu Tian’s “teaching by example” that had worked so well?
Seeing Jiang Ran offer no resistance, Xu Yunxuan smirked in satisfaction—Jiang Ran must be interested in him after all, making all his years of groveling worthwhile.
He knew he was Xu Tian’s son, but so what?
Jiang Ran was beautiful, and he wasn’t losing out.
Once he got his hands on her mother’s billion-dollar inheritance, he could turn his back on everyone.
But before that… he planned to enjoy himself to the fullest!
Xu Yunxuan stopped restraining Jiang Ran, dragging her to the bed as he bit at her neck.
Yet Jiang Ran not only didn’t resist, she gently cupped his face.
As Xu Yunxuan’s smug smile grew, Jiang Ran’s lips curled into a cold sneer—she slammed her forehead into his nose!
Xu Yunxuan grunted, instinctively clutching his nose, but the next moment his heart and brain felt as if struck by a hammer. He collapsed, convulsing.
Tossing aside the stun baton, Jiang Ran grabbed a baseball bat and swung it at Xu Yunxuan’s most vulnerable spot!
He managed only a strangled scream before falling into unconsciousness.
Disgusted, Jiang Ran wiped her neck, dragged his limp body into the bathroom, and rifled through his phone.
A new message lay quietly in the inbox: a website address and an invitation code.

“Congratulations! You’ve been granted access to the Infinite Train game beta! Log in at 3w.infinitetrain.com and join the beta. Invitation code: 741886.”
After screenshotting it and sending it to herself, Jiang Ran wiped and smashed Xu Yunxuan’s phone, tossing the pieces into the toilet. She bound him tightly to the side of the toilet with a resistance band, shoved two filthy socks into his mouth, and kindly locked the room from the outside.
She hurried back to her own room, changed into black sportswear, packed a backpack with her property deed and essentials, and left the villa without hesitation.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to kill Xu Yunxuan, but with seven days left for the beta, Jiang Ran wasn’t about to waste precious time becoming a fugitive.
In her previous life, she’d been coaxed by this family into handing over her mother’s entire fortune to Xu Yunxuan in exchange for resources during the beta.
A disastrous start was bad enough, but she’d also been made a scapegoat, hunted everywhere.
Before her rebirth, she’d nearly managed to kill Xu Yunxuan—such a shame.
No matter. When the game officially began, she’d settle the score properly.

*

It was 1 a.m., and the urban village was still lively.
With two thousand yuan, Jiang Ran expedited a fake ID and an anonymous SIM card, snapped her own ID in half, then found a small internet café.
She entered the website—a blank white page, with a green train at its center.
Taking a deep breath, Jiang Ran entered her ID number and invitation code.
Hitting enter, a scrolling banner appeared on the screen:
[Congratulations, player Jiang Ran! Your beta account has been bound. Your exclusive beta gift pack has been delivered to your backpack—please check!]
At the same time, a cartoon avatar popped up on screen, dressed exactly as Jiang Ran was.
Clicking the avatar, she found a golden gift pack lying in her inventory.
[Open exclusive gift pack? (Yes/No)]
Without hesitation, Jiang Ran clicked “Yes.”
[Congratulations! Player has received: Initial Stasis Space*1 (10,000 m³, upgradeable), Primary Constitution Enhancement Card*1, Initial HP*1000, Limited-Time Discount Card*1.]
A genuine smile broke across her face.
On the soon-to-arrive Apocalypse Train, the only currency was HP; when HP hit zero, you died.
Last time, Jiang Ran boarded the train with nothing—her HP was only 90. After barely surviving the first disaster scenario, most of her HP was spent on healing, leaving her stuck in the lowest-class carriage.
This time, with a godly start, she owed it to her second chance to do better.
She clicked the Discount Card, and the whole screen burst into golden light!
[Congratulations! You’ve drawn the Ultimate Discount! For the next 24 hours, all purchases and top-ups are at 10% of the original price!]

Jiang Ran was ecstatic: rebirth seemed to have turned her luck around!
Leaving herself only enough for daily expenses, she pawned off the rest of her cash and property deed, used the IDs of Xu Tian and his family in various ways to rack up three million in online loans, and converted it all into in-game currency.
With the discount, she received a staggering 1,123,000,000,000 game coins—she’d never fought a battle this wealthy before!
She spent one billion each to buy ten Advanced Constitution Enhancement Cards and ten billion cubic meters of space, then spent four million to max out her HP.
She opened the character panel.
[Character: Jiang Ran (female, 18)
HP: 5000
Strength: 30 (+101) (Practically an alien!)
Agility: 22 (+101) (A human lightning bolt!)
Defense: 26 (+101) (A terrifying body cultivator!)
Stamina: 37 (+101) (Endless energy!)
Items: Stasis Space]
It looked promising!
Once preparations were complete, she clicked to enter the game.
Except for the absence of living people, the city in-game was identical to reality. Jiang Ran said nothing, but went on a mad shopping spree!
Rice, flour, grains, oil, fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy, clothing, appliances, medicine, weapons, purified water, oxygen supplies…
She soon discovered she could buy entire streets of shops at once by selecting a range—she went completely wild!
While others stockpiled goods, she stockpiled supermarkets and wholesale markets… and thanks to her purchase of numerous generators, she bought over a dozen gas stations in one go.
Choosing not to preserve the shops’ original appearance, all goods and building materials were neatly sorted and categorized—remarkably user-friendly.
After a night of frantic activity, with her inventory now including a reservoir and custom-built safe houses in various sizes, dawn was breaking, and her balance was down to four billion game coins.
Though she hadn’t slept, Jiang Ran left the internet café energized, hired a car to a small town three hundred kilometers away, and found another café with private booths.
When Xu Tian’s family awoke to find Xu Yunxuan disabled, the house pawned, and a barrage of debt collection calls, yet no trace of Jiang Ran, she was nestled in her booth, scouring the city for anything she’d missed.
Stir-fried dishes, roasted meat, lobster, spicy hotpot, milk tea… ten thousand portions at minimum, plus a haul of blades, firearms, and twenty armored vehicles!
There was no end to what she could stockpile—never enough!