Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1201: Drawing Lots in the Round Hall

Chapter 1201: Chapter 1201: Drawing Lots in the Round Hall

To avoid the scenario Ye Bingxin mentioned about accidentally entering the same door under the new rules, causing mutual elimination, the four of them ultimately decided to search for doors while maintaining a certain distance from each other. They exchanged contact information and agreed to report their locations at regular intervals.

The first to enter the instance was Jiang Zifeng. Within half an hour after the four separated, he was already out of contact.

"No way, he actually went in? His luck is unreal." Liang Shuang was somewhat incredulous, as there were people in Card City who wandered for half a month without entering an instance.

"Where are you guys opening doors?" Ye Bingxin sent a voice message, "I found a place selling door entries. Pay a little and get to try every door once."

"Lucky guy. I’m queued up at the plaza," Xu Huo replied.

Indeed, while Card City was full of doors, not every door could be opened freely. If you went to a restaurant, they wouldn’t allow guests to repeatedly open and close doors. If you went to the bathroom, that would lose some dignity. Meanwhile, places like Adventure Sphere Fortress charged exorbitantly high fees. Consequently, an industry emerged—merchants and regular people alike could sell access to their doors, and even the government had set up specialized doors in the plaza that could be opened for a fee.

This was considered the cheapest method.

"I rented a family’s room," Liang Shuang said. "I plan to stay there until I enter the instance."

Everyone had their own method; when one could enter the instance depended entirely on luck.

The second person to enter the instance was Xu Huo.

When he passed through the plaza’s Door No. 1 for the third time after paying, he disappeared from his original location and instantly transitioned to a circular room formed of thick greenery. On the walls of plants, there were initially three doors, but a new door formed after he entered.

Four doors in total, four people.

The moment his feet touched the ground, the room automatically began announcing the selection rules.

"Attention, players: Among the doors matching the number of players, only one door is the correct one for entering the instance. Regardless of the number of players entering this circular hall, there is only one correct door."

"Until confirmation is made as to which player enters the instance, more players may continuously enter the circular hall, but only until a player selects and enters the correct door."

"Players may draw lots to acquire a door number. When the corresponding numbered lot is drawn, that specific door can be opened. Each player can draw only one lot at a time. Once a player successfully enters the instance, all other players in this round will be eliminated from this room."

"Players are allowed to opt out."

At the center of the room stood a circular table about half a meter in diameter. On the table was a box made of plants, with a round hole on each of its four sides for a hand to reach inside.

The other three players seemed to have just arrived as well. The moment they saw each other, all four simultaneously darted toward the circular table. The female player with long hair to Xu Huo’s left was the first to reach into the box, but before she could pull out a slip, the man opposite her opened his mouth wide and sprayed three poison needles toward her face!

The poison needles pierced the first layer of her defensive barrier. She tilted her head to dodge the needles only to face an attack from another player on her left.

"Let’s split peacefully!" she shouted to the male player, and the two were simultaneously pushed ten meters apart by the impact of their props. As she escaped danger, she managed to draw a slip, but as soon as she looked down at the number on it, a hand grabbed her wrist!

"Let’s split peacefully!" the female player repeated her tactic, but the one grabbing her was Xu Huo. As he retreated, he had already taken her slip and swiftly approached the corresponding door.

However, just as he stood at the entrance, the ground rapidly shifted backward, and a spatial barrier blocked the door ahead!

Xu Huo turned and swung his sword at the player behind him, forcing them to deactivate their prop’s effect. His sword then transformed into the Tang Sword, nicknamed "Cake Cutter," which he used to slice open the barrier in front of the door from a distance.

At this moment, the female player reappeared and threw a glass bead onto the ground in front of him. The slip in his hand uncontrollably slipped downward, and the player to his right said, "Switcheroo," causing the slip that Xu Huo tried to grab mid-air to turn into a leaf.

In this small-scale skirmish, the effects of minor props turned out surprisingly effective. However, even though the enemy managed to steal the slip, they couldn’t open the door without the correct lot.

Xu Huo activated the spatial ray to create three barriers in front of the door.

The player who came to steal the slip proved skilled, though. Pebbles flicked from his fingers struck the barriers one by one, revealing the invisible barriers as tangible obstacles that could now be targeted for destruction.

While the female player and another battled the holder of the slip, they inadvertently shattered the barrier. The slip soon passed to another player, but within five seconds, it returned to the female player’s possession.

This time, the player who had the slip immediately withdrew from the brawl and rushed toward the door.

He switched the slip.

Xu Huo watched closely but didn’t intervene. The door opened successfully, yet it wasn’t the correct gate. From the pitch-black doorway, multiple vines shot out at an alarming speed, ensnaring the player and dragging him inside!

The nearby players locked in combat abruptly paused. The female player exclaimed in shock, "He actually got grabbed by mutant plants!"

The other player, recognizing the plant, said with a hint of dread, "That’s Ox Hair Vine. It doesn’t just entangle targets; before it moves, it shoots tiny spiny hairs at its prey. These hairs are numerous, poisonous, and can paralyze the nervous system in less than a second. That’s probably how he got caught."

After the vines dragged away the player, the corresponding door vanished. Now only three doors remained.

The three players exchanged glances before the female player suggested, "I think there’s no need for us to fight. If we end up wasting our lives before even entering the maze, there’d be no point."

"If you put away the knife in your hand, I might actually believe you." The male player ran the edge of his Mitsubishi Spike along his pants leg, swept his gaze across Xu Huo and the female player, and sneered, "Seems like eliminating external interference before drawing lots is the best option!"

Before he finished speaking, he moved toward Xu Huo, clearly treating him as his first target.

Xu Huo remained motionless. The Rank-A prop "Unassailable Territory," forming the spatial barrier around him, wasn’t as flimsy as those created by spatial rays. The Mitsubishi Spike failed to advance even a millimeter against it. The player, now within a mere one or two meters of him, had just begun to display a look of shock on his face before a black metal bead pierced his temple!

This was Xu Huo’s first time using "Death of the Holder" so smoothly, likely due to the opponent being only a Rank-C player.

With one player dead, another door disappeared.

Xu Huo kicked the corpse aside and turned to the remaining female player. "To avoid having newly entered players dilute our winning chances, let’s settle this quickly."

The female player immediately backed off and made a "please" gesture toward him.