Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 176 Suitcase Man

Chapter 176: Chapter 176 Suitcase Man

Although Sun Jirou had her suspicions, hearing him say it out loud still felt incredulous. Could she destroy the race of Fairy Tale City simply because she was disappointed with it?

"What’s so surprising about that," Xu Huo pointed outside the window, "do you think the people here are still normal?"

"Hatred, disgust, or finding pleasure at the expense of one’s former compatriots can be understood. But to eat the flesh and blood of one’s kin without any psychological barriers, breaking that bottom line, how would that be any different from the Cannibal Players in the future?"

Sun Jirou looked a bit upset and sighed, "In this game, whether you’re a player or an ordinary person, we are all victims."

Xu Huo was noncommittal, his gaze lingering on her face.

Sun Jirou was not as emotional as she appeared to be.

At the cabin, she only took out her aggression on him and did not target Tao Chengxin, who was tentatively an ally. One reason was to vent her anger, and if she could kill him, it would also serve as revenge for her deceased companions. Secondly, she clearly did not want to offend other players to death. There was no deep affection or loyalty between strangers met by chance, so naturally, there would be no situation where several players would gang up against her.

"In the game, it’s player nicknames that are public, but it’s also player nicknames that need protection," Sun Jirou composed herself and said to him, "You’re a man of your word; remember my nickname, we will meet again someday."

After she finished speaking, she left the instance.

Meanwhile, Xu Huo glanced at the embryo thin slice, retracted the piano string he had released upon entering, and carried the puppet towards the Delicious Sausage Shop.

From a distance, he placed the lizard embryo into the puppet’s mouth, tweaked its lips upward into a smile, and then ordered the smiling puppet to hide in the sausage shop.

Only after confirming that the puppet hadn’t been chased out of the shop did he find a spot far enough away but still within view of the Delicious Sausage Shop to settle down.

Within two hours, two people looking travel-worn arrived near the Delicious Sausage Shop.

Xu Huo recognized one of them with no eyebrows as a high-ranking player who had participated in the attack on the Girl in the painting. It seemed he was also a Cannibal Player. The browless man and his companion had promptly retreated upon encountering a hypnotist from the Guile Sound Knights, but it turned out they were making sneaky moves from the shadows.

After seeing the two enter the sausage shop, he turned and went downstairs, heading to the entrance of Fairy Tale City to catch the tour bus.

As always, the entrance of the tourist city was bustling with people coming and going. Xu Huo was walking towards the tour bus when he suddenly felt a breeze sweep by his side. Instinctively, he stopped and looked back, only to see a man wearing a coat and a top hat, carrying a black leather suitcase, appear in his field of vision.

His gaze lingered momentarily on the little figure handle of the man’s suitcase, and Xu Huo immediately got on the tour bus.

The man carrying the suitcase suddenly turned his head, showing half of a face obscured by a mask that covered his left eye, scanning through the crowd before quickly withdrawing his gaze.

Sitting on the tour bus with his back facing the notice board, Xu Huo stared straight ahead, not relaxing until that sense of terrifying danger had passed.

The tour bus slowly started moving, taking its full load of tourists away from Brick Tale Town.

Granny Bai mentioned that the owner of the smiling puppet was a very formidable person, and one should preferably not allow it to smile; yet the game introduction for the puppet itself suggested that the finder could set it to "smile mode" and send it back, which seemed more like a trap.

Xu Huo wasn’t sure who the puppet’s former owner was, so he didn’t plan on taking it with him. When he learned high-level players were tracking him, he prepared to leave the puppet at the government hall players’ location, and specifically set it to "smile mode."

In this way, whether the browless players and the government hall players fought, or successfully drew out the old owner of the puppet for a three-way battle, it would naturally shift the focus onto the high-level players. Regardless of whether there were casualties among them, at least it provided a second corroboration for the incident of "Zone 014’s super prop being stolen by high-level players."

What he didn’t anticipate was that the man suspected to be the old owner of the smiling puppet would be so powerful.

The car slowly drove away from Fairy Tale City, and just as the city was about to disappear from view, a red, mushroom cloud-like billow of smoke suddenly surged above the city. The cloud gathered for less than a second before exploding from the center, a wave of sound sweeping from inside the city to the outskirts!

Fairy Tale City’s building-block-shaped walls crumbled in an instant, the exterior’s debris and glass barriers were crushed to dust, and people on the street, as well as aliens in the viewing areas, all fled in the opposite direction of the city in unison!

Xu Huo chose the Return Ticket, leaving the Building Block Fairy Tale City Station before the car was swept away.

In the blink of an eye, he was back in Sea City.

It was night now, and he returned near the ruins of Pearl Hotel.

There were still patrol cars on the streets, but no longer any cries for help from the injured waiting for rescue. Not far away, a skewed TV set was stuck on the Jing City channel, incessantly repeating the old man from Jing City’s speech.

"... This time it’s a disaster for our nation, the entire world. I feel deeply sorrowful and guilty for our compatriots who have died..."

"... The government discovered the existence of Evolvers three months ago and learned about the existence of the Dimensional Rift game a month ago, yet failed to prepare adequately or take appropriate measures, leading the people of the country into disaster..."

"... Thanks to the valiant resistance of our players, warriors, and people, players from other zones have finally begun to leave Zone 014..."

"... It is now a critical time for our nation’s survival. The power of players from other zones far exceeds ours, and they are intent on massacring our players. The consequence of losing our talent is being trampled upon by invaders without restraint..."

"... Therefore, the government is prepared to declassify the confidential information about the Dimensional Rift game... We currently have basic methods to train players... We hope our citizens will eagerly sign up to become players, to become the foundation that protects our country, this world..."

"Fellow citizens, the tide of violent bloodshed has not stopped. The blows from civilizations of other zones are not new; thirteen small nations have been subjected to genocide by players from other zones... If we do not stand up now, we, too, will eventually walk the same path as them!"

"Fellow citizens, for our families, for our children, be brave and stand up!"

After listening to the speech, Xu Huo took out his phone to search for current news. News about the annihilation of nations had lost its heat, replaced by reports of a widespread communicable disease in Country Y and the sudden increase of aliens slaughtering civilians in Country B.

He paused for a moment and swiftly clicked on the news about Country B. It reported that on the third night of the attack by players from other zones, a large number of aliens suddenly appeared in five major cities, slaughtering nearly ten cities before being contained. When the military of Country B risked entering the sealed-off areas for inspection, they discovered these aliens hadn’t evolved from Evolvers—they didn’t know how, but these aliens had entered Country B from other zones!