Chen Mo witnessed the entire process and then turned to walk away from the crowd.

It's better to stay away from the crowd in the future...

Following the crowd is safe, but it's hard to develop that way.

With tens of thousands of people together, there's simply not enough experience to go around.

And as for equipment, if you're not strong enough, even if you get it, you'll have to hand it over.

In the face of interests, so-called camaraderie among classmates doesn't exist.

Being alone is dangerous, but you can improve your strength quickly, and you don't have to worry about someone snatching your equipment.

However, the prerequisite is having the ability to independently kill monsters.

Actually, the best scenario is to form a small team with a few people, focus experience on the person with the best talent first, then the others, and prioritize giving equipment to them. This way, one person can rise up and then help the rest of the team grow.

But this requires very strong relationships.

Chen Mo, due to his cold personality and few words, doesn't have many friends.

He has a good relationship with a few roommates, but Chen Mo is quite guarded and doesn't easily trust others with his back, so he chose to leave alone.

With a dagger in hand and decent combat skills, he was confident in dealing with Level 1 zombies or monsters.

After Chen Mo left, many others gradually left the crowd as well.

These people, like Chen Mo, saw the problem and knew there was no future in following the main group, so they chose to leave.

However, most of them left in groups, with very few acting alone.

Among them, those with Purple Talent mostly chose to leave.

They had confidence in themselves; out of tens of thousands, only a few hundred had Purple Talent, a rarity, so naturally, they wouldn't waste time with the main group.

In the crowd, a few people were quietly discussing something...

"Still haven't found Old Mo?" a tall guy with a buzz cut whispered.

"No, I have no idea where that guy went. Haven't seen him since he activated his talent."

"Maybe we should just go without him. It's just the three of us. Old Deng has Purple Talent, and the two of us have Blue Talent, both of which enhance combat power. We three should be fine," said a chubby man.

"I'm not worried about us three; I'm mainly worried about Old Mo. If he sticks with the main group, he won't get anywhere," Deng Jie said helplessly.

"There's nothing we can do. Phones don't work, and we don't know his game name. How can we find him among so many people?" the chubby man said helplessly.

"Actually, we don't need to worry about him. He's much more capable than us. I don't believe he won't get a good talent. I guess he might have gone off on his own. After all, he always liked to go solo," said another stylish and handsome young man.

"That's possible."

"Forget it, let's go. No point wasting time. We might run into him later."

"Yeah."

Then, the three of them formed a team and left the main group, heading into the distance.

In the end, out of tens of thousands of people, a few thousand left, while the vast majority chose to stay with the main group.

Facing unknown dangers, it's safer to stay with the main group.

As for the issue of not being able to develop with the main group, that's a problem to consider only after surviving.

Even now, many people haven't transitioned from the game descent, or rather, they are unwilling to accept it, thinking it's just a dream, and once they wake up, everything will return to reality.

Many people are unwilling to face those terrifying monsters, thinking that as long as they stick with the main group, they can survive.

However, soon, this notion was completely shattered.

After the zombies were dealt with, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and many people sat down on the ground to rest.

Just then, a tremor came from the ground, scaring those sitting to their feet.

Soon, the soil was overturned, and holes appeared on the ground, followed by giant rats emerging from the holes.

"Damn! Such big rats!"

Everyone was startled by the sight of these rats; their size was comparable to small pigs.

While everyone was still in shock, the rats charged into the crowd, opening their mouths to bite at the people.

"Ah...!"

"It hurts!"

Screams echoed through the crowd, which instantly descended into chaos.

"Don't panic, everyone! There are so many of us; we can fight them!" Li Minglei shouted.

However, this time, his words had little effect.

Because more and more giant rats were crawling out of the holes, their numbers far exceeded those of the previous zombies.

Many of those who stayed were not prepared to face monsters, and when the rats charged, they panicked and only knew to run frantically.

Soon, the crowd of tens of thousands was completely scattered by the swarm of giant rats, and many people perished under their teeth.

Seeing this, Li Minglei could only sigh and then led his followers to escape into the distance...

On the other side...

After leaving the crowd, Chen Mo headed south.

As he walked, he looked at his talent, which displayed:

Current Energy: 1

This novel is available on bit.ly/3iBfjkV.

This was plundered when he killed Zhao Kai.

"This energy doesn't seem to have any other use; it seems it can only be used for sacrifice."

"It seems the strength of this talent depends on this sacrifice."

"I wonder if one point of energy is enough for a sacrifice."

"Let's give it a try."

"Sacrifice!" Chen Mo muttered.

"Please select the amount of energy to sacrifice!"

"1 point," Chen Mo said awkwardly, as he only had that one point of energy, so there was no choice.

As Chen Mo's words fell, the one point of energy under his talent disappeared, and a prompt sounded in his mind.

"Sacrifice successful! Congratulations, you have obtained Small Red Potion *1."

With the prompt, a small round bottle filled with red liquid, resembling blood, suddenly appeared in Chen Mo's hand.

"Nice!" Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief and then picked up the small red bottle to examine it.

[Small Red Potion]: Restores 10 Health per second for 10 seconds after use, with a 30-second cooldown.

"Good stuff!" A rare smile appeared on Chen Mo's usually calm face.

In the game, you can sit on the ground to slowly recover Health after losing it.

But this recovery is slow, only 5% per minute.

For example, with his current 80 Health, it would take 1 minute to recover 4 Health, and nearly 20 minutes to recover from low Health to full, which is a huge waste of time.

With this Red Potion, he could recover fully in less than 10 seconds, greatly improving his efficiency in killing monsters.

"Exchanging 1 point of energy for a Red Potion, this talent isn't bad at all," Chen Mo said with some delight.

Since the game didn't introduce Black Talent, Chen Mo was unsure whether his talent was strong or weak.

And from the talent description, it seemed to offer no combat enhancement, so Chen Mo was worried it might be a useless talent.

But now, it seemed this talent wasn't useless, which made Chen Mo breathe a sigh of relief.

He knew very well that whether he could rise in the game depended crucially on his talent.

Although he didn't know why the world suddenly turned into a game world, it was always right to work on improving his strength.

Only by becoming strong could he handle unknown dangers.

Moreover, he had a reason to become powerful.