Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 205: Creating a Target

Chapter 205: Chapter 205: Creating a Target

Just like that, five people were still needed.

But none of the remaining people took the initiative to step forward, with many considering the idea of hiding on the thirteenth floor after seeing Brother Tie and the others going up and down.

However, at this moment, panic-stricken calls for help suddenly came from the thirteenth floor, followed by violent coughing. Seconds later, Brother Tie and his group were descending using the rope, landing on their knees with tears and snot running down their faces, and they urgently asked for the elevator doors to be shut.

Gu Yu and the others were startled by their appearance, with red rings around their eyes and saliva constantly dribbling from their mouths, and they quickly closed the elevator doors. Jiang Yihua turned her head and said, "It seems like some dust-like substance was drifting out from the thirteenth floor."

"Did you not close the elevator door on the thirteenth floor?" Zheng Liang came over to help Brother Tie up but saw a reflective golden powder on his face. He released his grip and stepped back, then turned to look at the plants they had brought down, "Is it the poison dust sprayed out by these plants?"

"It probably wasn’t that, it could be that they triggered a trap on the thirteenth floor." Xu Huo glanced at them, Brother Tie’s group was smart enough to move only the flowers that he had handled before.

Gu Yu couldn’t stand it any longer and told them, "Use the antitoxin now!"

Brother Tie gagged at his own throat, vomited twice, and then managed to pour the antitoxin into his mouth. Zhang Biao and his two companions did not have antitoxin, and in the end, it was Zheng Liang who gave them a bottle.

After drinking the antitoxin, their condition slightly improved, but their eyelids were burnt, blisters formed at the corners of their mouths, and their tongues seemed swollen. They drooled as they struggled to speak.

"A mild poisoning, nothing life-threatening," Wei Bin handed them water to wash their faces and after observing them for a bit added, "But staying any longer might have been a different story."

Dai Wenqian crouched in front of Zhang Biao and wiped off a bit of the powder from his face with a handkerchief, "This is pollen."

"But they didn’t close the elevator door on the thirteenth floor," Zheng Liang said with a grim face. "Even if we don’t use that elevator again, the poisonous powder could still be carried to other floors."

"There isn’t enough to cause harm," Dai Wenqian said.

"It looks like we can’t go to the thirteenth floor," Gu Yu said disappointedly.

"We still have to proceed with the plan we made earlier," Dai Wenqian stood up, checking the time, "Less than three hours left. Since nobody is willing to come forward voluntarily, we’ll have to draw lots to decide the other five people."

As soon as the drawing of lots was mentioned, the people around backed away even more. Having seen what happened on the thirteenth floor, they understood that their only choice was to go down floor by floor, but no one wanted to risk their lives by accompanying the players on their venture.

Zheng Liang scoffed, "Why bother drawing lots? In the end, there need to be four more people. Whichever elevator you enter, those in it will likely die. If you’re unlucky and end up in an elevator with more people, everyone faces the risk of being chosen randomly. By the time we reach the eighth floor, there’ll probably only be about eighty people left."

Xu Huo made no comment on this. It seemed like the players and the non-players stood on opposite sides, with the players having the upper hand in the dialogue, which was very unfair to the non-players. But in reality, this was safer for the majority.

If the players didn’t intervene, the remaining people would still fight and kill each other over the elevators.

"Think it through," Kang Hong reminded everyone at this moment, "It’s only beneficial to cooperate with the players. If we find a way to combat the danger this time, everyone left can survive. But if no one is willing to compromise, what will happen to the extra people on this floor?"

"What method do you plan to use to choose these four people?"

"In the end, won’t it just be a bloody fight?"

After a moment of silence, a wealthy young lady stepped out, "I... I’ll go too..."

If one had to push someone to their death, females, clearly weaker than males, would definitely be the first targets to be abandoned.

One after another, a few more people came out, among them a slender young man, with the rest being females.

"That’s settled then," Xu Huo confirmed, "We have two more hours. Everyone, take a break."

After speaking, he sat down on the spot, plugged in his earphones, and listened intently to the audio in the video.

This was the second night since they had entered the instance, from ten o’clock the previous night until four o’clock in the morning, they were on the thirteenth floor.

There had been no issues with the thirteenth floor at that time.

Including during the day today, when Xu Huo threw the mantis corpse and placed his mobile phone, as well as when he had just re-entered the thirteenth floor to place the mobile phone again, there had been no problems.

He had also considered several possibilities regarding the instance reminder’s trap measure for staying on the previous floor.

Most of the floors here lacked monitoring systems. To detect people lingering, it could be through a weight sensor installed in the floor. During the day as he was cutting the ground, he found a special metal layer in the floor of the building.

If it relied on this to detect people lingering, they should be able to bypass it as long as they didn’t step on the floor.

But this method wasn’t foolproof, first, because it was uncertain if there were additional factors involved, and second, it couldn’t accommodate many people.

However, the thirteenth floor was different.

He had moved plants multiple times and entered and exited the thirteenth floor twice without encountering any danger, yet Brother Tie and the others had encountered poisonous pollen.

This didn’t seem related to sensory devices... but if the thirteenth floor differed from the others, it was in having a ventilation system.

The other floors had numerous windows, while those on the thirteenth floor were sealed, lacking oxygen. Even with the use of the ventilation system, the air still felt stifling with more people present.

With this thought, he scrolled through the video timeline on his phone, listening carefully to the sound of the fans.

He hadn’t noticed it yesterday, but theoretically, a dozen ventilation devices shouldn’t cause suffocation. Could it be that the ventilation ducts were blocked?

"Let me see too," Jiang Yihua, who had been impatient, drew closer. She was aware that Xu Huo had placed his mobile phone but had refrained from mentioning it due to Dai Wenqian and others not bringing it up.

Xu Huo took off his earphones and gave them to her; he checked the time again and then closed his eyes to rest.

Soon it was four o’clock, and he, along with Jiang Yihua and over a dozen others, entered the elevator. The moment the elevator doors closed, the entire elevator was abruptly pulled upwards, and as it neared the fifteenth floor, the metal ceiling with lights shrank to either side, plunging the elevator cabin into darkness. Then, from above, came a rustling noise!

It was here!

Xu Huo immediately positioned the Bull Shield over his head, his right hand raising the Sword, but unexpectedly, what surged down from above was not mutated plants but a clear, water-like sticky substance!

In an instant, the jelly-like material filled the elevator, enclosing the more than ten people inside it, including Xu Huo, and then one by one they were pulled upwards!

The moment Xu Huo was enveloped by the sticky substance, he brought the shield back in front of him, but it did not provide a cushioned buffer zone, as the substance still flowed towards his face. Consequently, he put away his Sword and Shield and placed a fragment of the Beheading Demon’s Axe into his mouth and cupped his hands over his mouth and nose to leave some breathing space.

He closed his eyes, feeling himself being taken into a pipe and rapidly moving downwards through it.