Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1109: Speculation on the Truth Behind the Player Disappearance Incident

Chapter 1109: Chapter 1109: Speculation on the Truth Behind the Player Disappearance Incident

"Relocate?" Jiang Wenzhang looked at him. "Where to relocate?"

"Do you see a second city in this high-risk instance?"

"And if we encounter the Different Species Group, how many can ensure they will definitely survive?"

Xu Huo offered no rebuttal, simply stating, "Known dangers and unknown dangers, you chose the latter... But chaotic space may not necessarily be an unknown danger, you know how to avoid it."

"I’ve noticed the rooms of Xiaohe City Players, unlike the rooms a few floors down, all of yours have been modified with a layer of metal plates embedded in the walls."

"A layer of metal plates can avoid chaotic space?"

"It seems to be true."

"Since you know how to avoid it, why would you deliberately lure other players to their death? Keeping them alive should be more valuable. Do you really need people to disappear, so that the periodically occurring chaotic space will temporarily cease?"

Jiang Wenzhang truly hadn’t expected him to guess so much, and darkly said, "Since you’ve guessed it all, what’s there to ask?"

Xu Huo smiled, "Chaotic Space is concentrated in the center of Xiaohe City, exactly where the players live. And several players must die for it to disappear... who would believe it’s just a coincidence?"

Even if Xiaohe City’s outskirts are dangerous, the city’s area is not small and there’s no need to squeeze into the commercial building.

"Why can’t it be related to the players?" Jiang Wenzhang retorted: "This is a high-risk instance, what’s so strange about chaotic space? Maybe the game designed special spatial rules targeting the players, simply not wanting any player to stay alive."

"So what you mean is, you’ve changed locations but chaotic space still appeared," Xu Huo immediately said. "So, the existence of chaotic space is because of your group of stranded people?"

"I didn’t say that," Jiang Wenzhang said. "Even if what Zheng Da said is true, it’s a minority of instances, most of the time, the instances of space swallowing people occur right before or after outside players appear."

"How many years have you been here?" Xu Huo suddenly asked.

"Five years."

"That’s longer than Wang Mo and Pu Gaoshan," Xu Huo said. "So nobody knows what circumstances led to the earliest appearances of chaotic space."

He pondered for a moment, then asked, "The majority of instances you mentioned, do they occur before or after the players enter Xiaohe City?"

"Both before and after," Jiang Wenzhang looked at him puzzled. "What do you mean by that?"

"Has there ever been a case where not a single new Player arrived at Xiaohe City but player disappearances still occurred, and thereafter Zheng Da brought back new corpses from the wilderness?" Xu Huo asked.

Jiang Wenzhang understood his point and laughed, "You don’t think that chaotic space is manipulated by someone, do you?"

Xu Huo didn’t rush to a conclusion but stated, "There are only three situations when player disappearances occur in Xiaohe City."

"First, new players have entered the city."

"Second, the newcomers missed the chance to leave and were forcibly dispersed at random. During this time, some of Xiaohe City’s original players also disappeared. Zheng Da went out and returned with corpses."

"Third, there were no outsiders in Xiaohe City. Zheng Da went out and returned with corpses."

"A key witness to ascertain the facts is Zheng Da; you just have to ask him."

As he raised his hand, a chair quickly slid out from the dark water, and sitting on it was Zheng Da. However, he was not as free as Jiang Wenzhang; he was tied up in the chair.

Upon seeing Xu Huo, Zheng Da wanted to curse out loud, but the moment he opened his mouth, a jet of water from the water screen gushed in, choking him for over ten seconds before stopping.

Zheng Da coughed harshly a few times, then glared at Jiang Wenzhang, "Have you betrayed us?"

Jiang Wenzhang scoffed, "Picking on the weaker ones?"

Xu Huo raised his hand to interrupt the two of them and sought confirmation from Zheng Da about the third situation, the occurrence of chaotic space resulting in player disappearances in Xiaohe City without any new players discovered.

"Sometimes the corpses were indeed staged by me," Zheng Da, having learned his lesson, temporarily answered honestly. "But it’s rare, we also found fresh corpses."

Xu Huo nodded slightly, then asked Jiang Wenzhang, "At the same time Zheng Da brought back corpses, did any other players leave Xiaohe City?"

"Sometimes two or three teams left."

"Did other teams bring back corpses as well?"

"Of course, two or three teams would all return with fresh corpses."

Xu Huo further verified the instances of several teams simultaneously returning with corpses. Among them, there were three instances of the third situation he described; no new players appeared in Xiaohe City yet disappearances happened. And amongst these three instances, one time Mr. Kang explicitly instructed Zheng Da that if no new player corpses were found, he could fabricate fake corpses.

The other two times both had Gong Jiaji leading teams.

"Usually, it’s Zheng Da who goes out; Gong Jiaji rarely leaves," Jiang Wenzhang sold Zheng Da down the river without a hint of emotional burden.

"So what?" Zheng Da said. "With fakes and truths mixed, what kind of problem does that prove?"

Of course, it proves a lot.

Xiaohe City associates the phenomenon of chaotic space swallowing people with the arrival of new players but, in actuality, out of the three scenarios Xu Huo outlined, only the first definitively ties player disappearances to newcomers. The second and third scenarios, even excluding Zheng Da’s fabrications, cannot guarantee that outsiders are involved a hundred percent of the time, and the command Mr. Kang gave to Zheng Da further emphasizes this point.

Additionally, there’s another key factor: if chaotic space genuinely relates to the arrival of new players, why didn’t Xu Huo and his group encounter it when they arrived?

Even if we take a step back, and assume that player disappearances were due to Xiaohe City players being attacked as stranded individuals in a high-risk instance, the players that ventured out didn’t encounter such phenomena. This is backed up by the fact that Zheng Da’s teams brought back corpses while chaotic space events happened inside Xiaohe City; does this imply that chaotic space targets only players inside Xiaohe City with deliberation and specificity?

But Jiang Wenzhang and others confirmed that simply avoiding it as individual players wouldn’t end chaotic space; it requires deaths.

Synthesizing this information, one conclusion can be drawn: the emergence of chaotic space might be related to a particular player within Xiaohe City.

Besides players like Zheng Da who have ventured out during disappearances, and those who had already experienced disappearances before arriving at Xiaohe City, very few remain.

Jiang Wenzhang and Zheng Da both looked at him incredulously, taking a moment to register what he said. After a while, the former said, "It can’t be Mr. Kang; three years ago when disappearances happened, several players persuaded a small group to hide elsewhere in the city. Mr. Kang did not join them, but people still went missing."

Therefore, everyone gradually resigned themselves to staying within the commercial building since they already had ways to avoid the danger temporarily; it’s better than taking risks outside.

With composure, Xu Huo smiled, "It’s all about the scale of control."