Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1252 - 1253: Thousand-Mile Fate Thread

Chapter 1252: Chapter 1253: Thousand-Mile Fate Thread

Li Cheng killed the unconscious player. She originally had five cards, and with these four, she now had a total of nine cards, three of which would be randomly returned to the instance.

After a slightly tense wait, Li Cheng said with a hint of disappointment, "The flower cards were randomly taken away, leaving behind the Exchange Card."

Jiang Zifeng looked at Xu Huo, "It seems your luck isn’t so good today."

Xu Huo smiled nonchalantly and said to Li Cheng, "Anyway, you have the Exchange Card, swap a black card with someone else, and you can secure a pass."

Li Cheng didn’t expect that he wouldn’t hold a grudge against her and even offered her a way to pass. Her expression showed some emotion—of course, under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but in the game, there are many who can’t bear to see others succeed.

When bad people and bad deeds are rampant, good people and good deeds seem out of place.

"I have too many cards, you should trade with me." Mu Yan said.

The two successfully exchanged their cards, and Li Cheng’s first card also became a black card, making her a member of the Black Faction Camp. Currently, the room was dominated by black cards, and their pass was a certainty.

Besides them, only one unfamiliar player remained. Seeing someone looking his way, he quickly spoke up as before, "My first card is also a black card, I’m on your side!"

"We’re not taking your life, why are you so tense?" Jiang Zifeng checked the time, "There are still two hours until the competition ends, are we just supposed to wait here? Can’t we end the match early?"

Xu Huo wasn’t in a hurry to pass; instead, he first dealt with Liang Shuang’s belongings.

It might have been a coincidence that they all got off at Zone 011, but Liang Shuang would never have confidently followed him and invited him to the instance just based on Ye Bingxin’s fortune-telling unless he saw potential profit in it.

After entering this poker room, Liang Shuang did not actively reveal his identity. When he encountered Ye Bingxin earlier, he hadn’t planned to team up with her, perhaps claiming "we weren’t companions to begin with," but Xu Huo was the one he actively invited to join him. The imminent pass made it unreasonable to pretend they didn’t know each other.

It was unclear what his specific calculations were, but attempting to provoke a conflict among Xu Huo, Jiang Zifeng, and Ye Bingxin using the Exchange Card implied a plan to emerge as the victor afterward.

But if it was just for a surprise attack at the end, Liang Shuang wouldn’t have needed to take the risk of seeking him out at Rose Castle—this was what puzzled Xu Huo, and of course, it was not something he could ask Liang Shuang directly.

Though he had just silenced him.

He hoped the items left behind would contain the answer.

Li Cheng took out all of Liang Shuang’s belongings, including food from the luggage compartment, "You should be able to tell if I’m lying."

She said openly, "Using a lie detection prop would work too."

Xu Huo indicated there was no need for such trouble and said, "I need to find a particular prop first."

As he spoke, he stored all the props into the prop bar, checking each one’s effects.

Liang Shuang had five Rank-B props, covering long-range attacks, close combat, and defense. Xu Huo glanced at them and set them aside; the other Rank-C and below props weren’t worth a look. He found the special item and, after examining a few, his gaze fixed on one named "Thousand-Mile Fate Thread."

[Thousand-Mile Fate Thread: As is well known, relationships between people are mysterious. Meeting someone with a matching aura can skyrocket your luck, while encountering someone with a conflicting aura might lead to misfortune just by meeting once. Unfortunately, not everyone has the ability to discern these special auras, hence the existence of this prop.]

[Just apply the prop to your chosen target, and a line only visible to you will form between you two. A white line indicates good luck; a black line represents bad luck. If the connection results in a white line, congratulations, you and the other person harmonize, and cooperating with them could greatly increase your gains. If it’s black, don’t overthink it, the farther you are from them, the better.]

[However, please note, the color of the line is not fixed. Fortune and misfortune are interdependent, and the black and white may alternately switch frequently.]

[Note: The prop can only be used once on one person and must ensure both are in the same zone.]

Xu Huo looked at the prop, which was just a piece of semi-transparent fine thread, somewhat like a thicker version of a spider’s silk.

However, just by looking at the description, it’s clear that this is not a frequently usable prop. It can only provide "good" or "bad," but can only be used once on the same person, meaning once they cross zones, the result may repetitively change without the owner’s knowledge—a setback Liang Shuang clearly faced.

Moreover, though most people encountered daily don’t meet again, a small part does, and using just black and white to represent relationships between people is very simplistic. How is the good or bad of an encounter measured, what extent of benefit does a white line represent, and when would the misfortune hinted by a black line manifest? These are uncontrollable.

Unless you test it with a prop, one by one.

Thinking of this, Xu Huo rummaged through the luggage compartment and indeed found a "diary," specifically documenting his experiences using this prop.

It must be said that Liang Shuang was indeed a careful and cautious person. After using "Thousand-Mile Fate Thread" on various people, he meticulously recorded the status of the line and the eventual "gains."

In simple terms, the more thoroughly the line changed from semi-transparency to black and white, and the denser the color, the greater the "good fortune" or "misfortune" accompanying significant benefits or risks. The faster the color changed, the shorter the warning period. The extent of this time span isn’t yet concluded, as Liang Shuang once fled after seeing a black line on someone, only to unexpectedly meet them a year later, getting entangled in a crisis almost leading to his death because of them.

A thick booklet full of records, even including sketches and basic traits for later review... Xu Huo’s information was on the last page, not only recording the train number he boarded but also his boarding and alighting spots. It contained detailed notes of Rose Castle’s perimeter and his identity in Zone 011 as well as some rumors among the Nobles.

Xu Huo looked down with a calm expression.

It was only later that it documented the effect of using "Thousand-Mile Fate Thread" on him, the line’s color remained a thick milky white before they left Zone 011, showing no sign of change—Liang Shuang had also recorded cases of line color change before, but those lines showed signs within a short time.

It seems this prop isn’t entirely reliable, at least not when Xu Huo made a decision the first moment he saw Liang Shuang outside Rose Castle.

However, Liang Shuang’s usage record seems to corroborate two things: first, any prop has varying limitations depending on the user’s abilities; second, there indeed seem to be tools in the game capable of briefly predicting the future.