Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1013: The First Victim

Chapter 1013: Chapter 1013: The First Victim

Xu Huo shut the secret room’s door and went to open another, "What’s the matter?"

Chi Minghong had picked a room next to his.

"There’s nothing major, I just forgot to mention, since we know each other, why not cooperate to pass the instance?" She said: "I see that none of those people outside look trustworthy, they probably won’t reveal the content even if they find the note, and that just hinders our progress."

"No problem." Xu Huo also hoped to end the instance as soon as possible, as his disadvantage was not so apparent before the full rules of the instance were revealed to the Players.

Of course, there was also another, more direct method to clear the instance.

"Agreed!" Chi Minghong smiled, waved her hand, and turned back to her room.

Xu Huo looked up, just in time to see Miss Ding and Teacher Fan walking up the stairs. Both of them averted their gaze after meeting his.

It seemed that the Players in the hall couldn’t wait any longer, and if the notes appeared in random locations, they could possibly be found in a room. Securing a room early might increase their chances.

After these two left, the other Players also gradually departed, until there were only two people left in the hall. But close to midnight, another one left.

Twelve Players were spread out in different rooms across different floors, each in a separate room. Miss Ding and Teacher Fan, who had left earliest, took rooms across the hall from each other.

Silence persisted until midnight when the Players began to move, and suddenly, all the lights in the villa went out. After a fleeting moment of stillness, noises from the upper and lower floors gradually grew louder.

The villa itself offered little soundproofing; sounds of objects being dropped and footsteps were clearly audible. After about two minutes, the Players one by one left their rooms and started to search through other rooms in a criss-cross pattern.

Xu Huo, Chi Minghong, and the round-faced female Player opposite them came out one after another and started searching from the corridor’s first room.

The villa’s power was inexplicably cut, but no one was concerned about that at the moment as each person tirelessly searched for the notes.

After searching all the unoccupied rooms as well as those with Players staying in them—but specifically omitting those already occupied—only then did the Players return one after another to the hall.

The Prop lights were brighter than the villa’s own lights, clearly illuminating every person’s expression for all to see.

"Who got the note?" The Player with the eyebrow piercing was the first to speak up.

Everyone looked at each other, faces filled with suspicion and scrutiny, yet no one admitted to having the note.

"What’s this about?" The Player with the eyebrow piercing’s face darkened. "Trying to monopolize the game?"

"Could it be that no one found it?" The bespectacled man suggested. "There are so many nooks and crannies in this villa. We don’t know the size of the note or in what form it appears; it’s not necessarily easy to spot."

"Except for the occupied rooms, we’ve searched everywhere else." The muscular man said: "There should be no oversights. I’m more inclined to believe the note would’ve appeared directly in someone’s room, and maybe that person had the note from the start."

The situation was clear, nobody was admitting anything. Teacher Fan looked around, "What could be written on the note?"

"That’s hard to say." Miss Ding replied: "Look at the name of this instance, ’The Last One’. Maybe only one person is meant to survive, with Players forced to kill each other—there have been quite a few instances like that."

"The situation’s pretty apparent now." Chi Minghong said: "Maybe the content of the note is to kill another Player."

"The villa is only so big, and the background information provided by the instance is vague. I can’t think of any other possibility except for this," said the hat-wearing Player.

"That’s perfect then," the round-faced female Player said with a sly smile: "Everyone knows that someone is bound to die when entering an instance. Now that we have a clear target, we just need to be careful, and who lives or dies when we meet is still up in the air."

She appeared petite and cute, but her words carried a chilling conviction, compelling everyone to take another look at her.

"Or we could just wait here in the hall until tomorrow," Chi Minghong clapped her hands, "that way, the person who has the note won’t dare to make a move, no matter what’s written on it, it couldn’t be put into action, and we’d be safe."

"What’s the point in that?" The lip-pierced Player said: "We are here to clear the instance, not to see who can live the longest."

As before, he was the first to leave. The second to go was the hat-wearing Player, who nodded to everyone, "See you all tomorrow."

Actually, a few others were tempted by Chi Minghong’s suggestion. The local Player said: "I’d like to stay in the hall."

However, Miss Ding countered: "The instance requires us to stay in individual rooms. Although we all have rooms, if we don’t spend the night there, wouldn’t that be a rule violation?"

Her point made sense, causing the other two Players who were considering it to abandon the idea.

After that, except for the local Player, everyone else returned to their own rooms. On the first floor by Xu Huo’s side, the round-faced female Player took the initiative to introduce herself, "My name is Zhou Yuanzhu, we’ll be staying together, please look after me."

In kind reciprocity, both Xu Huo and Chi Minghong shared their names and then went to sleep.

The villa quieted down again. Xu Huo lay on the sofa, briefly attentive to noises from upstairs before closing his eyes to rest.

Nothing happened throughout the night, but when morning came, the Players discovered that someone upstairs had died.

It wasn’t strange for someone to die, but the manner of death was exceptionally gruesome.

"This is...inhuman." Chi Minghong glanced and instinctively covered her nose.

The room’s door was wide open, with blood spattered from the bedside to the doorway, where the short-haired female Player, who had been taking photos, lay naked. Her head faced outward with eyes wide open in an angry glare. She had died from a throat cut, but her chest and abdomen were sliced open, the organs appearing hastily mutilated, partially scattered on the floor and partially on her body.

Furthermore, a deliberate circle drawn in blood surrounded her.

"Doesn’t this look a bit like some vile ritual sacrifice?" Miss Ding fanned herself non-stop, "Could it be the content of the note asked us to do this?"

"In previous instances in other rooms, similar blood traces were found." The muscular man mentioned: "This isn’t the first time this instance has been activated. Maybe we can find some clues from Beneath the Dimension."

"A regular Rank-C instance probably doesn’t have much of a guide." The hat-wearing Player said: "The means of the murder might be cruel, but this instance really isn’t that difficult."

"Is this really what the note instructed?" Xu Huo looked around at everyone, "It’s one thing to commit murder, but performing like this, I can’t do it. Maybe one of us is an extremely twisted individual. Whether he got the note is another matter."

"Are you suggesting someone else got the note?" The eyebrow-pierced Player remained defiant, "Look at the traces on the body. Clearly, it was done in a hurry, and the victim has been dead for at least three hours. We didn’t hear anything last night. To operate so sloppily over such a significant time frame indicates that the perpetrator is unskilled and panicked. Except for the instance’s requirements, there would be no other motive to drive them to dissect the body."