Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 240 S-Rank and Level D Player

Chapter 240: Chapter 240 S-Rank and Level D Player

Night fell as scheduled, and Xu Huo and Wei Da each stood in the left and right corridors watching the exhibition hall. Before the lights went out, Xu Huo turned on his cell phone and placed it next to a pillar, directly facing the position of the sculptures.

Under the light, the heads of the sculpture figures began to twist, shedding the broad drapes over them like shedding a shell, slipping out from the gap below. They supported their slender heads as they surveyed the entire library, then headed towards the spot where the new painting hung, casually waving their staff to shatter the phone. After the light source disappeared, they stood in front of the pillar, bent down and lowered their heads, moving their faces close to the painting frame to look at it for a full half minute. Suddenly, they became enraged, swept the painting to the ground with a swipe of their hand, and stomped on it forcefully until both the frame and the canvas were trampled to pieces.

"Looks like this method won’t work either!" Wei Da whispered.

"Maybe the painting you made was too ugly," Xu Huo thought for a moment, then lifted Ni Tian out from the painting. "You heard everything during the day; now you have a chance to try it."

Ni Tian tried to run as soon as she came out, but after being kicked to the ground by Xu Huo and unable to get up, she said, "In your dreams! I’m not going to walk into my death!"

Meanwhile, Wei Da had already run out to attract the attention of the monster. Without further ado, Xu Huo stuffed Ni Tian back into the painting and let the Girl in the painting push Xie Man out.

Xie Man had seen what had just happened, and without waiting for Xu Huo to speak, she said, "Isn’t it just about confronting the monster head-on? At worst, I’ll turn back into a painting again. If the oil painting didn’t lie, maybe I’ll even strike it lucky!"

Having finished speaking, she willingly entered the exhibition hall and rushed behind the monster with a burst of energy: "Hey, aren’t you the Curator of the Hundred-People Art Gallery?"

The monster, busy pursuing Wei Da, stopped and slowly turned around, lowering its towering frame.

Xie Man swallowed hard twice before saying, "Curator, could you give me a painting?"

With a swing of the monster curator’s staff, she was transformed back into a new painting!

"No good!" Although Wei Da couldn’t see very clearly in the dark, he sensed something was off when Xie Man suddenly disappeared and said, "I don’t think it matters what is said to the curator. The curator has poor eyesight and needs to look closely to see clearly. Once it is confirmed that they are living people, they will be turned into paintings!"

Xu Huo also realized this point and quickly sketched on white paper. In just a few minutes, a fresh sketch was hot off the press. He framed it and hung it back on the pillar, then kicked the painting that contained Ni Tian over to Wei Da. "We can go now!"

Wei Da lunged to catch the painting, and the next second, he disappeared from the spot. Simultaneously, Xu Huo also left with the Girl in the painting.

However, after they left, the art gallery did not return to calm. The monster curator, roaming inside the gallery, found the painting that had just been hung up by the pillar and after looking at it closely for a good while, it lightly tapped the painting with its staff. The sketched glasses in the painting turned into a real pair of glasses in its hand.

Upon wearing the glasses, the monster curator let out a gratifying low roar, and thereafter, the entire art gallery began to tremble. The floor cracked open from the middle, and the endlessly surging black and white floor tiles pushed the ground and the stone pillars to both sides. As the area expanded, the doors and walls of the gallery also began to crumble and rebuild, with decorations and murals all being refreshed, and even the paintings on the walls slowly changing, not only becoming more profound but also gaining an added layer of shiny glass...

Xie Man and Lu Gang, who had been spat out by the paintings, witnessed the dramatic changes in the gallery, exchanged glances, and then left the replica one after another.

Using the Return Ticket, Xu Huo did not go straight back to Zone 014 but rather entered a blank space as he had initially done when he got off the train for the preliminary review. Firework effects surrounded him 360 degrees for half a minute, and his personal panel popped up in front of him:

[Congratulations player Passerby A, for successfully completing three tasks in this replica and facilitating the upgrading of the replica site to Level D Replica, you have received an S-level Super Rating. In addition to the rewards you are entitled to for this replica, and the gift from the Curator of the Hundred-People Art Gallery, you will also receive one additional special item gifted by the game.]

An S-rank Rating? That was beyond his expectations.

After experiencing several replicas, Xu Huo had a rough idea that only Rank-B or Rank-A Ratings were granted for successfully completing a replica’s tasks. Originally, he wouldn’t have been able to get a Rank-B for completing two tasks this time, but to his surprise, the tables had turned, and just the sketch of a pair of glasses had made such a significant impact.

In the art gallery, saying Wei Da’s paintings were ugly wasn’t solely in jest; monsters don’t have the best eyesight, but they meticulously discern paintings. It had seriously examined the painting before furiously smashing the frame, indicating that the monster not only would kill those who destroyed paintings but also possessed a certain level of cognitive ability regarding the paintings themselves.

Of course, Xu Huo didn’t know from what perspective it viewed the paintings, nor whether it would acknowledge a player’s painting, so he decided not to continue wasting time in the copy. When he left, he merely hung the painting up out of sheer luck... But now it seemed that the curator held his artistic talents in high esteem.

That the game area had been upgraded was beyond his understanding of the game mechanics, but upon closer thought, he could find some clues. Since the monster curator could turn people into paintings, turning paintings into items wasn’t far-fetched, and it appeared to be the core of the Hundred-People Art Gallery copy. The upgrade from E to D level could probably be attributed to this reason.

Before he could check out the items from this round of the game, another new prompt appeared:

[Incorporating the copy rating from Passerby A, congratulations on your successful promotion to a Level D Player. The game will unlock Level D privileges for you. Since you are the ninth player to advance in Zone 014 and the third to receive an S-rank rating, the game will also gift you a promotion package.]

[Upgrade privileges are as follows:]

[① Item Exchange: You have one item exchange opportunity per month, limited to exchanging multiple items for a higher-level item or for an equivalent-level item replacement. The game will alert the player when an exchangeable item is detected.]

[② Cross-region Bounty: You may use the bounty function once a month, where you can input information or items (including tickets and potions) you wish to acquire or trade, and provide valuable goods (including tickets and potions) or White Notes for the game to relay to other players and provide feedback within a one-month period.]

[③ Information Feedback: The game welcomes players to provide any related information. Based on your news, the game will determine the value and give corresponding rewards.]

[④ Leaderboard Function: Level D players can compete on a leaderboard across five zones with players of the same rank. This leaderboard only displays player nicknames.]

[⑤ Broadcast Function: The game will broadcast important current affairs and hot news points from E27 Wormhole Point to players.]

After the upgrade, the personal panel had become somewhat more intricate than before, with more functions. The electronic time changed from just game time to game time plus real-world time, and there were additional indicators like weather, temperature, and humidity levels for both Zone 014 and the current game copy’s location.

The item section remained largely the same, but the icons representing the items were more vivid in color. Nevertheless, there were now additional slots in the potion column where he could add potions, and besides the basic usage and information, a recipe listing was now provided for each potion.

Additionally, the tickets now included departure information, final destinations, and the locations of the copy territories they pertained to, such as the Garden Castle Station address becoming E27-011-Garden Castle Station.

Another new feature was a luggage compartment, noted for its ability to store food and clothing while maintaining freshness.

Some minor changes were not worth mentioning, but what deserved closer scrutiny were the five new privileges.

Xu Huo had already used the first privilege once, trading the "Fearless Torch" and the "Arsonist’s Tool" for a Level D item "V Fan Xiao’s Crime Tool". Although the game’s prompt was necessary, it happened monthly, and the player had some choice, as not every item acquired in the game was convenient to use.

As for the cross-region bounty, from the slaughtering house copy Peng Fengnian, a player from Zone 009, had once spent a substantial amount of money to buy information about the Skinning Artisan, to other zone players arriving in Zone 014 in an extremely short time after the game’s announcement...

After some thought, Xu Huo wrote down the tickets for Zone 014 and the bounty amount in the bounty column. He didn’t need a month; the moment the bounty was sent out, the game provided feedback:

[Currently, there are seventy-two Zone 014 Level D copy tickets on the bounty platform, with fifty-six traded for White Notes and sixteen for items or potions. The lowest transaction amount is fifty thousand White Notes. Would the player like to proceed with the transaction?]