Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1046: Today’s Me Is No Longer Yesterday’s Me

Chapter 1046: Chapter 1046: Today’s Me Is No Longer Yesterday’s Me

If the number of laboratories is limited and they are all built under natural fortresses like the Dong Family’s, it would be extremely difficult for Xu Huo to enter, but if there are such places within the city buildings, then it would be much easier.

Of course, such places are not necessarily where Doctor Zhang’s cultivated children go, but trying one’s luck might work too.

"All the water usage records of companies and residences in the city should be found at the Water Supply Bureau, and constructing a separate water system in the city is not easy, so whether it’s a company or other places, the water consumption should match the actual usage," Xu Huo said. "Even if records from years ago are gone, the water usage of a company should roughly match that of another company of the same size. Any significant discrepancies could indicate that the building has some hidden water consumption."

"Wouldn’t it be very troublesome if there are no records?" Chi Minghong said. "These companies might have declared what businesses they run, but they could be doing something else behind our backs. Companies with the same scale and projects might not consume the same amount of water. Comparing them could be very time-consuming."

"We can try to narrow down our targets." Xu Huo said. "Families capable of building a Living Human Laboratory in secret should be few. Just focus on searching for them and government agencies, these targets are not hard to filter."

Of course, it’s impossible to pinpoint the only target at once, but as long as there are not many, searching one by one isn’t hard.

Chi Minghong, who was sprinting, suddenly stopped and pointed ahead.

They were still on the outskirts of Snow City, taking lesser-traveled paths on the fringes. Although there weren’t many people around, they had still stopped three or four times. Now, a patrol car was passing by.

There must be either a Rank-B or Rank-A Player in the car. Despite the use of a Muffler Artefact by Xu Huo and his companion, they were still discovered by the opposition. This time, they weren’t greeted with props, but real guns and ammunition!

A high-powered Laser Cannon suddenly shattered the corner of the wall in front of them. Just as they retreated, a barrage of bullets came their way and a Poison Gas Bomb exploded on the ground, forcing Xu Huo and Chi Minghong to split in different directions.

"Surround this area!" the Player driving the car shouted. "I also want to bring back the heads of two out-of-district Players as testament to my duty!"

More than one car arrived, with the Players on board dispersing and coordinating with robots to block the main passages.

This area was residential, and during the state of martial law, the windows of residences were sealed with special metals and alarm systems had been installed. Abandoning the main roads and passing through the middle of buildings easily leads to being attacked from both sides, and escaping was also possible.

The only feasible approach was to create an opening in the encirclement.

"Boom!" On the other side, Chi Minghong had already begun to attempt a forcible breakthrough, but from the sounds, she had been repelled.

Xu Huo glanced at the adjacent residential building, quickly locked onto an unoccupied room, donned the Invisibility Cloak, destroyed the inner line of an alarm nearby with a "Life Core," and swiftly hid himself inside the building before the Players could arrive.

"The alarm system of J2 Building has been sabotaged," Players patrolling District 002 quickly confirmed there was an issue with the building’s wiring and reported several checks to the Players in the car, "All the metallic wiring inside the conduits turned into powder; looks like we’re dealing with a Player who possesses a prop capable of destroying metal."

"However, there’s nothing unusual with other buildings’ alarms, so the person must have entered J2."

"Then let’s find them," the commanding Player in the car said. "Send in a squad, solve it in twenty minutes."

The patrol was organized in teams of ten, and the selected squad laughed gleefully, "Ten people and twenty minutes? Is the captain underestimating us?"

"Don’t underestimate out-of-district Players; catching them is the real deal," the captain said.

The ten-person squad geared up, all expressing that they would complete the mission quickly.

However, after searching three floors from the bottom up, and shutting off the elevators, someone suggested splitting up.

"Let’s see who gets lucky and captures them first," the suggester said. "How about betting a special item?"

The others agreed promptly, as they saw this encirclement as almost a sure win. Judging by the speed and physique of the two people dodging gunfire, there was no way they were Rank-B Players. Wasn’t capturing a Rank-C Player easy?

The group happily raised the stakes even further.

But talk is just talk; they did not completely split up to act alone, instead pairing up in teams of two. They divided the search areas around the elevators, keeping each pair independent, but still coordinating to match their speeds.

Xu Huo watched for a while from the side and then took the stairs to the upper floors first.

This was a residential building with very few unoccupied homes. He used "Mental Interference" to slow down the coordination speed of some people. After several cycles, the pace of these ten people was no longer uniform. The impatient ones, after encountering the situation of "the homeowner being in a deep sleep and unable to open the door for inspection" several times, sped up first and no longer adhered to the rules of knocking before entering.

With some leading and others lagging, the five pairs quickly transformed into groups scattered across two floors for inspection.

"Bang bang bang!" The group in the corner knocked loudly on the door again, and after finding that there was still no response, they used a prop to forcibly enter, quickly checked the living room, and then kicked the door to the bedroom. The gun and prop pointed at the bed simultaneously, and only then did the person on the bed "wake up" and scream in horror.

One of the Players used a prop to suppress their screams and gestured for the other to check the next room.

"What are you doing? That’s my son’s bedroom, and he’s only eight years old!" The homeowner tried to stand up to stop them, but then there was a gunshot from that room, clearly the sound of government-issued firearms.

The homeowner and the Player were both startled and rushed over, only to see the Player lying on the floor with a trail of blood behind him.

The other hurried over to pull his companion up. Before he could ask what happened, his chest was pierced by a Short Sword, and he coughed up blood, disbelievingly looking at his "companion." However, his "companion" pushed him away and picked up the gun beside him, "Sorry, our beliefs differ."

"You..." The stabbed Player wanted to ask something, but blood gushed from his mouth instead. Watching the other walk away with his Communicator he weakly said, "You... What beliefs do you have... Working for money..."

His speech trailed off as his face hit the ground, gasping weakly, seemingly in his final moments.

"I am not who I was yesterday," the "companion" knocked out the homeowner and left.

Hearing the footsteps leave the room, the individual who had been seemingly weak on the floor pulled out another Communicator and quickly said:

"Attention squad, Xu Lin has defected!"

"Repeat, Xu Lin has defected!"

"Execute him on sight if you see him!"