Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1019: The Number of Small Notes

Chapter 1019: Chapter 1019: The Number of Small Notes

"Why did you tamper with the body?" asked the player from this district to the hat-wearing player, "If you didn’t kill the person, what’s the meaning of what you did? Do you have the second note in your possession?"

The hat-wearing player faced the other players’ stares, "Is what he’s saying true?"

"You’ve seen it yourself, both the first and third notes are placed here, at least the probability of his lying is very low, but yours is not necessarily," said the player from this district.

"All he said was that you dealt with the body, not that you killed or that you have the note," the player who had ambushed Xu Huo said irritably, "I already handed over the note, what can’t you tell us? Time is life, wasting time is akin to murder."

"It’d be better for all of us if you spoke up," Zhou Yuanzhu also said, "You can’t win against so many of us."

"What right do you have to judge if what I’m saying is true or false?" the hat-wearing player retorted, "If I pointed at someone randomly, would you believe it?"

"We believe it or not, that’s our business, just tell us," the lip-pierced player stared at him coldly, "I’m still waiting for you to clear the suspicion."

"I don’t know," the hat-wearing player said, grim-faced, "Although I entered that room after the person died, I didn’t discover any useful information."

"Why did you make the body look like that?" Chi Minghong asked in confusion, "It completely misleads others."

"Maybe he was the one who killed," said Miss Ding as she locked Teacher Fan with a prop, her expression unfriendly, "Otherwise why go through such unnecessary trouble?"

Although innocence isn’t too important to a player, when it comes to life, it’s different, one against ten, in a situation where Tickets can’t be used, no one would dare say they could escape unscathed.

The hat-wearing player quickly explained, "I just didn’t want you to shift your focus to infighting among players, rather than checking who made the move on a dead person, it’s better to concentrate on finding..."

"These two issues are unrelated," Xu Huo interrupted him, "That reason isn’t convincing."

"You are covering for others," he looked around, "Among us, there should be people who pretend to be strangers after entering the instance."

Players are not ordinary people; becoming an Advanced Player means at least having high psychological quality, not easily cracking under someone’s words. However, at that moment, Teacher Fan pointed at Miss Ding and said, "It’s her!"

"We all checked upstairs when we first entered the instance, I saw with my own eyes these two people going upstairs one after the other, nearly at the same time descending!"

Miss Ding immediately slapped him and replied coldly, "Don’t forget you were upstairs too."

Xu Huo and five others came down from upstairs later. Indeed, there were two people acting together at that time, but this doesn’t mean these two knew each other.

"Who else, if not you?" Teacher Fan said hatefully, "Everyone else was searching on their own, why were you two together? If not to tamper with the body, why would he randomly meddle with a corpse after being full?"

The faces of Miss Ding and the hat-wearing player didn’t look so good, as the situation was still unconfirmed, but the other players had already silently surrounded them.

"You target me to get the first note, right?" Teacher Fan was eager to drag them down, "One commits murder, the other covers it up, disgraceful couple!"

The muscular male raised his hand, and a noisy irritation stopped, he said, "There’s only one way to confirm if they have the second note."

Before his words even finished, he attacked Miss Ding. A giant prop in the shape of a ruler was thrown, pinning her to the wall while an arc-shaped light barrier emitted from the prop, immobilizing her in a small two-meter square range.

Miss Ding’s first prop failed to activate in time, meaning she couldn’t keep up with the muscular male’s pace, and when the light barrier vanished, as he smashed his fist down, she along with her Defense Prop crashed through the wall behind her and rolled into the next room.

At the same time, the local player and lip-pierced player also moved forward to the left and right to help.

Three against one, Miss Ding quickly fell into disadvantage, just as the lip-pierced player’s Dagger was about to stab her in the back, the hat-wearing player finally couldn’t bear it and intervened, first using the characteristic "Triangle Lock" to slow down the speed of the muscular male’s trio, then using a Movement Prop to extract Miss Ding from the encirclement, both retreating to the corner of the room and trying to break through the wall to leave.

Unfortunately, other players were not vegetarians, doors, windows, walls, ceilings, and floors left no gaps for them.

Under siege, the hat-wearing player said, "That woman was not killed by Ding Xiang!"

"I thought it was her when I saw the scene at first, so I arranged the body like a ritual, but afterwards, I asked her, and it definitely wasn’t her."

"If you want clues, I only know a bit, the traces of weapons left in the room somewhat resembled one of Ding Xiang’s props."

He gestured for Miss Ding to take out the prop.

Miss Ding did not hesitate, promptly took out a metal rod, small arm in length and little finger in thickness—a fan-ring, and tried it on a nearby chair. The marks made by this metal rod were unlike most weapons, starting with a very small micro-arc, the trace rough and not smooth.

After trying this, only then did she turn to Xu Huo, "You clearly understood about Liang Zong covering up traces, so why didn’t you speak out at that time? You were able to see him without him noticing you, surely you wouldn’t be afraid of confronting him face-to-face?"

Zhou Yuanzhu laughed, "Now that you two are most suspicious, attacking others recklessly just to escape suspicion?"

"What’s your relationship?" Xu Huo didn’t respond to her question but asked another seemingly unrelated question, "Married? Engaged? Or boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"Does that have anything to do with this matter?" Miss Ding’s face went cold, but the hat-wearing player Liang Zong held her hand, "Ding Xiang is my fiancée, we’ve been engaged for a year."

"That doesn’t sound like a lie," Xu Huo said, "If you’ve been together a long time, you should be very familiar with each other’s props."

Indeed, he did see Liang Zong scrupulously examining the traces in the room.

"It’s not them?" the muscular male came over, smiling and asked, "Then who else needs to be ruled out next?"

Xu Huo glanced at him, "No need anymore, unless you know someone too."

The muscular male shrugged, "I don’t know anyone, but players are all here, it won’t be hard to eliminate a few targets."

Xu Huo didn’t speak, but the lip-pierced player scoffed, "You can try, one less player if one dies. Who knows, maybe the instance will end sooner, but it’s unknown who will die at that time!"

"Reducing the number of players isn’t necessarily helpful," Xu Huo said, "We currently have notes with numbers, if the numbers repeat then it means the note objectives can repeat, otherwise we can only keep reducing the participating players, maybe there are only fourteen notes in total."