Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 218: Killing in Self-Defense (Reward Plus)

Chapter 218: Chapter 218: Killing in Self-Defense (Reward Plus)

Zheng Liang immediately did as instructed, but at this moment, a cry came from below. He rushed over to look and discovered that a golden powder was spraying out from the elevator doors on the thirteenth floor, which was the toxic powder of the Man-Eating Flower’s roots and stems!

By now, Dai Wenqian and others had already come up, with some non-players lagging behind. These people were scrambling to climb up the vines, but the vines had a weight limit and suddenly snapped in the middle, causing the five or six people hanging from them to fall onto the elevator car, covered by the spewing toxic powder. The struggling movement combined with their body weight caused the elevator car to start shaking and sinking!

"Hurry up and climb!" Da Zhi turned back to grab the vines, but the two people below grabbed his arms and dragged him into the elevator shaft!

"Da Zhi!" Jiang Yihua grabbed his hand, stuck on the floor.

Xiao Ba and a few others quickly stepped forward to help, but the vines snapped from above at this point, and the weight of the people below was all pressed on Da Zhi. Additionally, there were three non-players who had jumped from the thirteenth floor and grabbed onto the legs of the people below, stringing together nearly ten people in a line!

Da Zhi clenched one hand on the vine while grabbing Jiang Yihua’s hand with the other, watching as more and more toxic powder surged out from the thirteenth floor, he lifted his head.

"Don’t even think about it!" Jiang Yihua’s face changed dramatically, then yelled, "Let them go, I’ll pull you up!"

But the three people below clung to his arm, nails digging into the flesh. The strength that bursts out in a life-or-death situation is often unimaginable, with one person even ferociously biting his finger!

"Don’t think of shaking us off. If we’re going to die, we die together!" the people below screamed madly.

"Kill in self-defense!" Dai Wenqian said coldly.

Da Zhi showed hesitation, but Jiang Yihua said to the people below, "Sir, please buy a bouquet of flowers."

The expressions of the frenzied people stiffened momentarily, then with his hands free again, Da Zhi quickly pulled out a Card and let go of it. A tiger, enlarged by the Card, pushed all the people entangled with him out, and the vines fell with them.

Heavy objects thudded onto the elevator cabin, accompanied by screams and curses, the elevator stuck between floors began to plummet rapidly.

Da Zhi was pulled up, and the elevator doors immediately closed.

"Don’t just stand there, help out!" Gu Yu said, "Close all the elevator doors!"

Everyone immediately split up to take action.

Since most of the elevator doors on the thirteenth floor had already been closed and the Aliens didn’t have the jumping ability to continuously clear the height of three floors, closing the elevator doors met with little resistance. The issue was with the Aliens outside.

The fifteenth floor now had wide-open doors, and the windows to the front and both sides were completely unobstructed. Even if the indoor vines were cleared, it wouldn’t be safe because the climbing vines on the lower floors were intertwined and overlapping. If any part reached the fourteenth floor, it would create an opportunity for the Aliens.

After killing two more Aliens attempting to jump up, Xu Huo turned back and said, "Split up and hide in various offices."

"It might be better to hide together in the pantry," Dai Wenqian suggested. "The pantry only has one front door, one window. Whether it’s Aliens or Man-Eating Flowers attempting to enter, there are only two pathways, which makes it easier to deal with."

Xu Huo raised his hand and struck the pantry wall with his Sword. The wall wasn’t made of metal but regular building material, easily damaged.

"The offices in the middle are relatively safe. This is mainly to defend against the Man-Eating Flowers. Without the vines, mutated animals will have a hard time climbing up."

"Then let’s go to the offices instead," Chen Shu said. "I think Kang Hong’s condition doesn’t look good."

Gu Yu pulled back the cloth wrapped around him and frowned upon seeing his knee and a large area of his thigh, which had turned blackish: "Has he used the Antitoxin?"

"She has already drunk the antitoxin," said Jiang Yihua, who had given all the antitoxin she got from the garden shed to him.

"Do you still need antitoxin?" Zheng Liang asked, "I still have some here."

"It’s no use," Dai Wenqian said. "If the antitoxin was effective, one dose should have worked. This means the medicine doesn’t match the symptoms. Drinking more won’t help, so there’s no need to waste another antitoxin."

Zheng Liang still wanted to try, but at that moment, Zhang Biao said, "Give it to me, I’ve been bitten by an alien too!"

Gu Yu went over to check his wound, "You’re not poisoned at all, what do you need an antitoxin for!"

"Who knows if it’s poisonous, just because it hasn’t acted up now doesn’t mean it won’t later!" Zhang Biao said confidently.

Zheng Liang didn’t bother looking at him and directly fed the antitoxin to Kang Hong instead.

But just as Dai Wenqian had said, it was of no use; Kang Hong’s bodily functions were gradually weakening, and he had already fallen into a coma.

Chen Shu laid him down on the ground, his eyes red as he said, "He was a good man."

Gu Yu and the others were silent, as they still had to be on guard against the man-eating flower that might attack again; they couldn’t spare any energy for anything else.

The group moved to the office in the middle, Xu Huo and Jiang Yihua among a few in one room, Dai Wenqian, Gu Yu, and a few others in another room, with most of the non-players choosing Xu Huo’s room.

The roars of the aliens were still audible from below, but as long as they didn’t come up to the fifteenth floor, there was nothing to fear.

As the sky darkened, the sounds from outside gradually faded as well.

"Kang Hong is dead," Chen Shu suddenly announced in the deep of night, as he watched over him.

Jiang Yihua and Da Zhi looked sad; out of the twenty-something people who had escaped from the thirteenth floor, including the players, one less remained.

"Nearly two hundred people, and in just two or three days, we’re down to one-tenth," Chen Shu said sorrowfully. "If we knew this would be the outcome, why struggle until now? We might as well have reduced our numbers according to the elevator rules."

"It’s not absolutely safe once we reach the first floor," Xu Huo said. "The elevator door on the fifteenth floor has the most blood handprints, which likely means that no matter how many people reach the first floor, they will eventually have to face the alien. Even if we manage to get to the fifteenth floor, whether we can survive is yet another matter."

"And then there are those who fell." The rich girl spoke softly, "If we had gotten to the fifteenth floor earlier, maybe they wouldn’t have died."

Jiang Yihua cared for her, so she had taken her along when they left the thirteenth floor, but the injured woman was left there forever.

"Who could know what traps there are in an instance?" Jiang Yihua said, arms crossed. "Just the thought of having to go through this kind of day over and over again makes me prefer death to life."

"I want to be a player," the girl’s attitude was quite the opposite. "Even if it means playing the game constantly, it’s better than being pulled into an instance and killed at random."

Jiang Yihua paused, "After we get out, you can apply to become a player."

Some harbor hopeful dreams only to be broken by reality, some are struck down and unable to recover, while others endure through life and death with unwavering conviction. The game is like a long-distance elimination race, some go out, and some come in.

Xu Huo glanced at the several people whose attitudes varied and continued to focus his attention outside the window.