Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 195: The Corpse Jelly Under the Mushroom

Chapter 195: Chapter 195: The Corpse Jelly Under the Mushroom

The people fell silent, as still as cicadas in winter. Dai Wenqian seemed quite pleased with the situation he had created and tossed the dagger back to his companion.

"There’s no need to kill them; just stopping them is enough," Gu Yu couldn’t help saying when he got close.

"This is the simplest and most efficient method," Dai Wenqian replied. "A few people running out is a minor issue, but should the remaining hundred or so people bear the risk they bring?"

Although his approach effectively controlled the situation, Gu Yu found it emotionally difficult to accept. She glanced at the person lying on the ground and sadly turned her head away.

Someone covered his face with a piece of clothing.

Dai Wenqian’s attitude caused a subtle change in the expressions of the players accompanying him. The remaining players rested in small groups, while the other ordinary people who were directly threatened seemed somewhat dejected under the dual fears.

The wealthy young lady didn’t dare to cry out loud, continuously wiping her tears while leaning against the tall woman, while Kang Hong sat beside them, no longer as calm as before, appearing somewhat anxious.

"Do you need help?" The flower-selling girl saw Xu Huo sorting out tape and took the initiative to say, "If you have a plan, you can tell us. Da Zhi and I can help; three people are always better than one."

"We can help too!" The tall woman quickly added.

Kang Hong and a few young men sitting beside him also expressed that they were ready to help wherever needed.

Xu Huo took several cell phones and wrapped them with tape, seemingly planning to put them into the elevator.

"Will this method work? Someone was just killed a moment ago," the flower-selling girl said.

"What’s your name?" Xu Huo looked up at her.

"Jiang Yihua," the flower-selling girl replied, a bit frustrated that he nodded and then continued his work.

After preparing several cell phones, Xu Huo, holding the Crimson Sword and Bull Shield, came to the elevator.

At that moment, Gu Yu came over. "I’ll help too."

Xu Huo nodded. "I’ll block the gap, and you lower the phones down the side."

There was a gap of a few millimeters on the elevator’s outer door; the phones could not be stuffed directly through, but there was no problem with a few layers of tape.

Xu Huo chose four elevators to put phones in, including the one that Brother Tie had opened earlier and the one where a player was just killed. However, no accident occurred while placing the phones, which indirectly confirmed that the Alien was not only active in the elevators.

"It’s pitch-black in the elevator shaft; what could be captured?" Zheng Liang commented dismissively from the side. "Haven’t we already tried that?"

"Not necessarily. If we put phones in every elevator, and any elevator’s doors open midway, even the slightest noise will be captured," Dai Wenqian interjected. "However, this method is a bit clumsy; all fifteen elevators connect to the floors, and it’s no surprise that the Alien appears in any one of the elevator shafts."

In other words, even if you knew there was an Alien in one elevator one minute ago, the next minute it could enter other elevator shafts through the floors.

Gu Yu, who had been confident in Xu Huo, found this reasoning convincing and couldn’t help but look at him.

"There’s no need to find the hiding place of the Alien; we just need to make sure it’s not in a certain elevator shaft," Xu Huo said.

Another suffocating six hours passed.

It was already light outside, but it was still foggy. Looking through the window, nothing could be seen.

Just before entering the elevator, Xu Huo took a spider out of his pocket and stuck it next to the elevator, and also placed a mobile phone before finally going down to the eleventh floor.

"Why is it empty?" Jiang Yihua had mentally prepared herself, yet when the elevator doors opened, the entire eleventh floor turned out to be a pure white space, a sealed room with ceilings and floors spotless.

The moment he stepped out, Xu Huo frowned, subconsciously leaning towards the wall but instead stepping into empty space, his lower leg sinking into the floor.

"What is this stuff?" The people who came out after pushed those in front out of the elevator, and as they stepped onto the "white floor," their trouser legs picked up white threads when they lifted their feet back up.

These white threads looked a bit like ordinary spider silk, but couldn’t be snapped when lifting the foot, sticky like maltose with strong adhesiveness, and some couldn’t resist grabbing a handful, ending up with their hands covered as well.

"It couldn’t be spiders again!"

"There seems to be something beneath." Zheng Liang stepped on a piece of clothing to avoid direct contact and bent down to inspect the hole that had been stepped in, "It’s all dark, about the size of a fist, looking a bit like a mushroom."

Using strings to hover in the air, Xu Huo also saw the plants beneath the floor made of white threads, which indeed looked like mushrooms, with white threads growing beneath their caps, connecting them into clusters and forming a hard, white barrier over the mushrooms.

"Can these mushrooms be eaten?" Kang Hong couldn’t help but ask, "By their appearance, they should be non-toxic, right?"

"You would dare to eat something from here?" The tall woman looked at him in shock.

Yet Kang Hong argued, "There are many plants grown in this building, but not all of them are poisonous; didn’t we just see that on the thirteenth floor?"

"Some plants are grown purely for pharmaceutical purposes, so it’s not impossible that these mushrooms are edible."

"We don’t have a lot of food on hand and we’re burning through it quickly. If the mushrooms are edible, wouldn’t that alleviate our food problem for the next two or three days?"

"He makes sense," Xu Huo chimed in, looking towards Gu Yu and the others, "Does anyone have a method to check for toxins?"

Gu Yu immediately turned her gaze to Wei Bin.

Wei Bin used a knife to cut off a mushroom. Surprisingly, as soon as the mushroom was severed, the white threads attached to it also automatically broke off and shrank back toward the hole in the floor.

Watching the threads contract like long white worms, Wei Bin’s face showed a momentary distaste, but he still put the mushroom under his nose for a strong sniff and tore off a piece to taste. After a while, he hesitated and said, "It’s not toxic..."

"That’s great!" Brother Tie was impatient and, without waiting for him to finish his sentence, took out a long knife, stood it vertically, then turned it horizontally to slice off a piece of mushroom.

The white floor quickly retreated to the side, leaving behind a dark patch that, from a distance, looked like a hole had collapsed in the floor.

Brother Tie jumped in and with each step a "squishy" noise sounded. He lifted his foot and discovered that there was another layer beneath the mushrooms, like jelly, with the roots of the mushrooms above it.

"What is this, it looks kind of disgusting."

On the other side, Jiang Yihua and Da Zhi also started picking a lot of mushrooms, underneath which a large amount of cloudy, jelly-like substance appeared.

Jiang Yihua wanted to cut it open to have a look, but Xu Huo stopped her, "Forget it, I’m afraid you won’t be able to eat the mushrooms after seeing what’s inside."

Jiang Yihua followed his gaze and saw several black threads at the edge of the retreating white threads. She suddenly realized, scattering the mushrooms in her hands, "There are bodies below!"

The people who were figuring out how to pick mushrooms shifted their astonished gazes from her to Wei Bin.