Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1025: The Things Taken Away

Chapter 1025: Chapter 1025: The Things Taken Away

After finishing his sentence, he turned around and went downstairs. The others thought he had come up with some clue and followed him unanimously. However, Xu Huo went straight into his resting room on the first floor and even closed the door behind him.

Chi Minghong and the others looked at each other and waited for a minute. Just when they were hesitating about whether to leave or not, Xu Huo opened the door again, glanced at everyone, and said, "Isn’t it time to find the note?"

"Let’s start with the serial number."

No one objected, so the first player from the local district went upstairs with Xu Huo.

"What was the place before Snow White Villa was built?" Xu Huo took the initiative to ask.

The local player paused for a moment and said, "It was a conservation area."

"Due to overdevelopment in Snow City, the environmental department and the urban development had a legal dispute that lasted nearly a decade to preserve this woodland, which finally was designated as ’private residential land’."

"No large-scale development is allowed here, and only the original inhabitants of this area have the right to build."

"However, houses can’t just be built arbitrarily. You have to apply to the relevant departments, but the scope of this application is subjective. Residents only have one right to request reconstruction, meaning after the first time, no matter how many times the house is repaired or altered, it can’t exceed the initial scale."

"Of course, the first application isn’t a free-for-all either; theoretically, residents of this area could divide all the land except for the important protected forest area equally, but once you’ve successfully applied, you must complete the construction within the specified time."

"The Snow White Villa was built by Jin Li’s grandfather, and its area was fixed at that time. Before her death, Jin Li left a will, demanding that her heirs should not remodel the villa within a hundred years after her death, which is why her adopted son had to slightly modify some rooms for leasing."

"When was the magnetite mine discovered beneath Snow White Villa?" Xu Huo asked again.

"Just in the past few years," the local player said. "At first, it was just electronic devices not working properly. Later, after several deaths, the government investigation revealed that there was a mine here. However, due to the nature of the land and the presence of heirs, there was no development."

"But it’s also because the quality of the magnetite mine is average; otherwise, it would have become government property a long time ago."

Xu Huo nodded slightly and then borrowed the records of the past homeowners. According to the records, the builder of Snow White Villa was of mixed descent from local citizens and players from other districts. The person himself was confirmed not to be a player but probably had regularly taken higher-quality Evolution Potions, so he was physically healthy and in a normal psychological state.

Jin Li’s father, the son of the builder, was a player, but he died before Jin Li came of age. His mental state was also quite healthy.

However, these two also received mental health treatments during their childhood and adolescence but were much better off than the rest of the people in District 002.

Overall, three generations of this family basically showed a trend of positive development; from grandfather to son, to granddaughter, they had all evolved into proactive and normal individuals.

District 002 had been in darkness for not a short time, and according to the government’s published research data, lack of sunlight can invisibly alter one’s descendants’ genes. Currently, it seems only to affect outward appearances, but the increasingly developed industry of psychological treatments indicates that the impact is not just superficial.

The development of Jin Li’s family, especially considering Jin Li’s congenital disability, is an exception.

Perhaps there is some special reason behind this, but whether it is related to Doctor Zhang’s purpose for coming here remains unknown.

"Mr. Xu, do you have any connection with the owner of this villa?" the local player tentatively asked.

Xu Huo glanced at him, "Let’s go find the next room."

The other didn’t ask further and kept walking forward.

They soon found a new note in a room on the third floor, number 5, with a drawing of a person with broken arms and legs.

The two took the note downstairs, and Chi Minghong was the happiest, eagerly searching through books and saying, "I remember I’ve seen this in some book before!"

"Serial number 5, the second note likely reduces the number of corresponding people by one," the man with glasses said with a smile.

A reduction of one person meant the odds for the players from the local district, the player with lip piercings, and the player with spots all increased.

The player with spots had been disabled and had no right to speak. The local player was mostly silent, making them hard to read, while the player with lip piercings snorted with a laugh, "Anyway, I could find a note too."

The others stayed silent, counting the time and waiting.

Xu Huo didn’t stay in the hall for long. He sat for a while then went back to rest in Doctor Zhang’s room, and while there, he purchased a set of detectors from the bounty platform.

The floating spherical detector automatically rotated inside the room, marking the varying strengths of magnetism on the walls and floor. Doctor Zhang’s room was almost the same inside and out. The spot with the strongest magnetism was at the location of the small secret room, and from this center, the magnetism in the villa weakened outward.

What he was detecting was not the magnetite mine, but the building material of the house.

In other words, the entire villa had been magnetized to varying degrees starting from the location of the secret room.

To verify his idea, Xu Huo dug downward from the ground of the secret room, testing the soil at different depths, eventually finding that, starting from the position of the secret room, the degree of magnetization weakened with depth, only that the underground magnetization was stronger compared to the villa’s structure—clearly, something had once been placed in this secret room that could assimilate other materials.

Up to now, there was only one thing he had heard of that could have this effect, which was the Primeval Stone.

Primeval Stones are a type of mineral that can cause a qualitative change in other materials. Usually, such stones cause nearby minerals to transform, and the newly formed stones with special properties are then called Secondary Stones or Transmutation Stones.

These stones could be valuable gemstones or raw materials for crafting props, and the best quality ones even have special properties that could be used to make Space-Time Items. Of course, the Secondary Stones capable of making Space-Time Items are very rare because they only appear near a type of Primeval Stone called Time Origin, which is exceedingly scarce. Bai Kou once said that someone exchanged one of these Primeval Stones for a game district, which shows its value.

So, there is a possibility that there might be a Primeval Stone of an unknown quality inside Snow White Villa.

However, this was just Xu Huo’s speculation, and even if the guess was correct, Doctor Zhang probably would have already taken the stone away.

But the location of this stone was a bit off.

It’s unknown whether it was by accident that the Primeval Stone ended up inside the wall when Snow White Villa was built, or if it was intentionally placed there, which caused the subsequent magnetic chaos.

After putting away the detector, Xu Huo turned to look at the entrance of the secret room. Through the dense points of light striking the "Unassailable Territory" Spatial Barrier, he "looked" at the person hiding outside who had not shown their face, directly opening the Spiritual World to remove the wall standing between them, reducing the distance between the two!