Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1169: Extreme Chaotic Space

Chapter 1169: Chapter 1169: Extreme Chaotic Space

Xu Huo figured the Special Defense Department wouldn’t allow him to step onto the island, so he simply said to Song Xiaohua, "See you on the island," and got off the plane ahead of schedule.

Over the sea, he used "Towards the Destination" several times to bypass patrolling boats and Players, carefully studying the barrier surrounding the island.

The barrier outside the island resembled an uneven wave line, undulating sharply in height, but at intervals, certain smoother sections of the line indicated weaker spots in the barrier. If entry was the goal, the barrier could only be torn open at these points.

Instead of rushing to enter, Xu Huo randomly selected a boat and boarded it. Using Psychic Power, he disrupted the minds of the people onboard, securing firsthand materials from the Special Defense Department.

According to the documents, the Special Defense Department had already identified five entry points that did not require Props to access the island. Outside of these five points, boats and individuals couldn’t freely pass through the barrier. Furthermore, forcibly attacking the barrier would cause its edges to expand outward. It was the Special Defense Department’s interventions that had contributed to the barrier’s current "wave-like" shape.

Yet the final results showed that whether through the use of Props or thermal weapons, the greatest effect would merely expand the barrier—its collapse was highly improbable. This suggested that the space of the vanished island was extremely stable, with little chance of sudden spatial breakdown.

The patrol boats at sea weren’t just tasked with preventing ordinary Players from approaching; they also had duties involving the reception of Player Organization members who had reached agreements with the Special Defense Department. Any teams approaching the barrier would be transported by these boats.

The boat Xu Huo was on contained two Special Defense Department Players preparing to go ashore. These Players were not part of the main forces but were tasked with monitoring the Players heading to the island. This trip was mainly to pick up a group of Player Organization personnel.

From the conversation between the two, Xu Huo learned that the elite group of the Special Defense Department had already set foot on the island and conducted extensive searches, but they hadn’t discovered anything substantial. Inside, it seemed to be nothing more than a Chaotic Space, not an impending instance.

As the boat neared one of the entry points, Xu Huo disembarked and passed through the barrier surrounding the island. His vision blurred as what had looked like a disappearing island outside suddenly transformed into a Ruins Space resembling a dystopian city amidst the ocean. Beneath a gray, murky sky, the air was suffocatingly polluted, while remnants of structures and debris floated mid-air, seemingly weightless. However, upon touching them, one could discern they were actually frozen motionlessly, embedded within an invisible wall of air.

Further scrutiny revealed some of the stone slabs floating in the air were systematically arranged, spaced over a meter apart, as though forming a slanted pathway to the heavens. At the end of this road lay another floating set of city ruins.

From what Xu Huo could currently observe, the ground-level structures, though damaged, were still largely intact, whereas the buildings suspended in the sky appeared to come from a different origin. The decorative patterns visible on the buildings suggested divergent styles—almost as if two separate cities had been dragged into the same space.

Following the ascending stone path, Xu Huo casually tossed a pebble he’d found. The stone plummeted rapidly downward.

Repeating the same experiment atop one of the aerial buildings, Xu Huo threw another stone, which again fell straight to the ground.

This indicated the space still had gravity, and newcomers—as well as their actions—were subject to its rules.

What remained unexplained was the principle behind the floating city structures in the sky.

The aerial and ground-level ruins were largely devastated, with only a few crumbling walls preserving fragments of text and totems. Scattered inscriptions hinted that these skyborne structures had once served ceremonial purposes. The totems depicted imaginative hybrid creatures—a mix of many animal features—although, based on the mutated fauna now commonplace, beings with scales, shells, armored plating, and tails weren’t particularly rare anymore. Some humans even grew scaled armor and hardened shells.

It was unclear whether these totems represented imagined entities or Aliens. After exploring one route down, Xu Huo retraced his steps but noticed midway that the stone path seemed to have shifted position.

The direction had changed.

Pausing momentarily, Xu Huo turned back and climbed toward the celestial constructions. Upon stepping onto the stone slabs bordering the structures, he felt a nearly imperceptible energy pass through his body—a faint but detectable sensation. Yet the landscape ahead hadn’t altered; it was simply that the previously empty space now contained a few other individuals.

These figures noticed him as well.

Although both sides found each other’s sudden appearance strangely silent, their unfamiliarity prompted no interruptions to the other’s pace. The Special Defense Department had let in plenty of Players.

Xu Huo revisited areas he had just passed through, briefly pausing at a totem that had shifted direction before descending again.

The other Players followed him. Just as both parties remained suspended in mid-air, several scattered stone slabs nearby unexpectedly started to float and reorient, forming a new path upward. Strangely, this route led to nothing at all.

While Xu Huo and the others watched this change cautiously, the stone path beneath their feet suddenly collapsed. Simultaneously, the skyward ruins behind them succumbed to an engulfing darkness.

The previously uninterrupted sky had a jagged, blackened gap, like it had been swallowed by a sudden night. Yet this night was impenetrably dark, even capable of devouring light.

"What’s going on?" one of the newly appeared Players asked the person bringing up the rear of the group. "Is the island’s space shrinking?"

The last individual, presumably the Special Defense Department Player, replied irritably, "How would I know? Maybe it’ll light up again in a moment."

"Wasn’t the Special Defense Department supposed to send you to be a guide?" The questioning Player cast an annoyed glance at him. "With that attitude, you expect us to sell what we find to the Special Defense Department?"

The Special Defense Department Player shot them a cold look, refraining from engaging further. Instead, he said, "This is a normal phenomenon within this space. The aerial buildings sometimes appear and sometimes vanish. It’s best not to approach the darkness—some Special Defense Department personnel who ventured in got lost and haven’t returned."

The Players from one of the top domestic Player Associations doubted his words, but none were reckless enough to test them. Instead, they turned toward the newly formed stone path, saying, "Let’s check that out."

Xu Huo didn’t follow them. He accelerated through the space for about two kilometers when that faint energy passed through his body again. He stopped, only to find himself in an identical Ruins Space as before.

The same stone path, the same aerial buildings—no sudden dark void this time. It felt like a replicated space. Glancing back, he could still see the path he had traversed, and the blackness that had engulfed the celestial ruins remained visible.

Different positions, identical space. Same positions, differing spaces. The spatial composition of this small island must be extraordinarily chaotic, appearing to fit under the same sky but revealing drastically different scenarios and inhabitants depending on the observer.

"Crack!" A stone slab crashed to the ground. Following the sound, Xu Huo saw the stone path he had just been watching gradually collapse downward like a cascade of tumbling dominoes. Eventually, even the remnants of aerial ruins began falling piece by piece.