Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1111 Mr. Kang

Chapter 1111: Chapter 1111 Mr. Kang

Now, it seemed to Jiang Wenzhang that there was only one path left in front of him—death. Whether he confessed or not, or whether his confessions were true or false, he would end up like Zheng Da, getting killed by Xu Huo.

"If I do tell you, can you really let me go?" He pondered for a moment and said, "As long as you let me go, I can use the Tickets to leave right in front of you. After all, once I’m out, I’m just starting over at a New Wormhole Point. This way, both sides have a way out."

"It’s worth considering," Xu Huo sat back down, "But just letting you go still feels unsafe to me. Through Beneath the Dimension, you can still get in touch with your old boss."

"How about we compromise?" He took out the "World in the Painting", "You enter into my Prop container, and I’ll let you out once I’m sure I can safely leave this high-risk instance."

"That way, both sides can be assured."

Jiang Wenzhang frowned at the painting frame, "How do I know for sure that you’ll keep your promise?"

"Do you have any other choice?" Xu Huo chuckled, "Actually, not everyone in the game is a bad guy. You could try to trust my conscience a bit."

Jiang Wenzhang didn’t think someone who both pretended and performed, nearly wiping out all the players who came out this time, could have any conscience. He couldn’t help but ask more, "How will you convince Mr. Kang if you go back alone?"

"While entering the Stone Forest to capture the Variant Cub, we unintentionally drew the attention of a Different Species Group. The folks from Xiaohe City sacrificed themselves to buy me and my companion a chance to survive..." Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.

Such a perfunctory excuse also indicated one thing: For the remaining players in Xiaohe City, no reason would be good enough to win them over; hence, Xu Huo didn’t actually plan on convincing them.

"So it’s either entering the Prop or dying now..." Jiang Wenzhang clenched his teeth, "I agree."

Xu Huo nodded in satisfaction and offhandedly asked, "By the way, you haven’t eaten people, have you?"

"I’m a white Player," Jiang Wenzhang said calmly, "And I’ve been a vegetarian since I entered the game."

He paused for a moment before he started talking about Mr. Kang.

"Actually, I don’t know much about Mr. Kang either. It’s said that the earliest players who followed him have all died. Those of us who came later arrived at different times, the earliest no more than five or six years ago."

"However, I’m not certain about this number because it’s what others told me."

"Mr. Kang usually lives behind the big building, but comes out to eat with others every day. He is a Cannibal Player, and he particularly favors children."

Here Xu Huo interrupted him slightly, "Did he once lose a son?"

Jiang Wenzhang nodded, "It was a son born to him by a female player, who died not long after giving birth in a firefight against other players. The child was raised for two years but was swallowed by the Chaotic Space. Even a vicious tiger doesn’t eat its cubs; even he wouldn’t go as far as to not spare his own flesh and blood."

Therefore, the reason for the Chaotic Space swallowing people remained questionable regarding Mr. Kang.

Xu Huo gestured for him to continue.

"You must have learned that not many children born in Xiaohe City grow up, some of them died at his hands," Jiang Wenzhang said. "This is the one thing he has not kept secret from Gong Jiaji, which I managed to extract from Gong Jiaji’s words."

"He rarely takes action against outside players, but he has a very powerful prop that can instantly control dozens of players, rendering them immobile. To this day, I haven’t guessed how that prop is triggered, but I can tell you the exact control duration—five seconds."

"Five seconds to hold any player, enough for a Rank-B player to kill more than ten people one by one."

"You’d better watch out for that."

"Moreover, his speed is incredibly fast, so fast that at times one can only see his afterimages," Jiang Wenzhang continued. "I’ve seen another Rank-B player fail to catch him using a positioning prop and foresight prop."

"So, I suspect he is a Super Evolver, just evolved in a different direction."

Jiang Wenzhang paused slightly and looked at Xu Huo tentatively, "One with control, the other with speed, having any one of those abilities would be hard to deal with, let alone both. Additionally, you’re not inside Xiaohe City, and while your companion’s instance time might be almost up, you still have a long way to go. Are you confident?"

"Worry less," Xu Huo lifted his hand, "Tell me the details of using these two props before and after."

"I’ve witnessed the control effect three times," Jiang Wenzhang detailed each instance of control before and after the half-hour period relying on his exceptional memory. Of course, aside from basic human behavior such as walking and talking, there were no particular trigger words or actions—he still did not know which of Mr. Kang’s props corresponded to these instances.

After some thought, Xu Huo asked, "What makes you think he is a Super Evolver?"

"Isn’t that bizarre speed evidence enough?" Jiang Wenzhang said. "You haven’t seen it with your own eyes; it’s completely different from the quickness of an ordinary Rank-B player, and it doesn’t look like prop usage or the movement of a Spatial Evolutionist, where the process appears point-to-point to outsiders’ eyes, untraceable in between."

"That is to say, one can barely keep up with the sight of him, but only see the afterimages, not helpful for capturing position or anticipating direction," Xu Huo continued the thought.

"Exactly!" said Jiang Wenzhang, "I’ve already seen no fewer than ten skilled players fall to his speed, and he doesn’t even have to use his other props."

Because of his unfathomable strength, other players in Xiaohe City were so obedient, including several other players of the same rank.

"Do you think it’s a physical evolution or a Spirit Evolution?" Xu Huo inquired.

Jiang Wenzhang hesitated for a moment, "It should be a physical enhancement."

Although the inability to capture it with props seemed a bit like the holder’s misjudgment under Mental Interference, it would not completely affect a Rank-B player in such a short period of time. Those who’ve advanced to Rank-B generally have some defenses in this regard.

"So, you’re saying he basically never left Xiaohe City." After pondering, Xu Huo added, "Has he ever used these two props outside the commercial building?"

Jiang Wenzhang thought hard and then affirmed, "He has. There was a troublesome player who managed to force him out of the commercial building, but in the end, he was still killed by Mr. Kang."

"He used?"

"It was a short struggle; both sides were injured at that time, but he had the advantage in speed."

The outcome was self-evident.

After hearing this, Xu Huo’s eyebrows slightly furrowed; this contradicted his earlier assumption that Mr. Kang’s control extended only over the commercial building.

Jiang Wenzhang also reacted quickly, connecting the chaotic time and space within the commercial building. If this was Mr. Kang’s doing, it meant that the building had always been under his control, or rather the commercial building itself was a prop. But now this scope had suddenly expanded to include the whole of Xiaohe City, a vastly larger magnitude.