Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 264 Utilizing Game Rules Effectively

Chapter 264: Chapter 264 Utilizing Game Rules Effectively

Without any hesitation, she thrust her sword, and the semi-transparent Sword Qi Barrier instantly contracted to the width of a neck when it encountered the puppeteer player, aiming to hit the target. However, to her surprise, the opponent once again turned into a phantom and appeared to her front left!

Xu Huo was taken aback, "Is this an ability?"

At this moment, the tattooed man perched in the tree laughed and said to the puppeteer player, "I’ll leave this side to you. I’m going after that girl!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than he headed towards Yan Jiayu. Meanwhile, the player who had previously ambushed Xu Huo produced a game controller-like device, and with his manipulation, the vines in the forest started to slither like snakes!

Wary of the small hats hidden on their bodies, Xu Huo did not dare to go all out, and neither did these players. Therefore, their vine attacks were aimed only at the exposed parts of his body that were visible. After chopping down two large trees to block the vines, he quickly swung his sword at the remote-controlling player.

But the vines formed a barrier first, stopping the Sword Qi. The remote-controlling player looked at him from a distance and said, "Your sword can only hit the closest thing to you, which kind of makes it a long-range combat tool. However, its flaw is too significant, nowhere near as practical as my tool!"

As his voice trailed off, the vines began to surge like waves!

Having his tool’s method so quickly seen through did not surprise Xu Huo. In actual combat, the more often a tool is used, the easier its weaknesses are exposed.

He grabbed a guitar string and flew onto a net full of small hats, hoping to use the puppeteer player’s trap to create space for himself to move. However, the net beneath his feet began to close in from all sides, wrapping around him like capturing fish!

His gaze darkened, and with a flick of his fingers, he raised the guitar string, flew out before the net could fully close, placed the fairy tale book on a tree bud, and then leapt down from mid-air, stepping on the vines to charge toward the puppeteer player, slashing his sword mid-air!

The puppeteer player turned into a phantom again, but this time, Xu Huo did not stop. Instead, he quickened his slashes, striking three times. As the opponent turned into a phantom and vanished into thin air for the fourth time, Xu Huo preemptively reached a position three meters to the left and thrust his sword into the air!

The remote-controlling player who had just escaped from the Sword Qi was now impaled through the throat with a stunned expression.

Whether a tool or an ability, the capacity to escape attacks with ease was strong and highly elusive, giving the illusion of being unkillable. However, after taking action a few more times, it became apparent that the puppeteer player’s movements were predictable—he could only move in the four directions of front, back, left, and right, and the distance was always three meters.

As he watched the man before him take his last breath, Xu Huo withdrew his sword, shaking off the blood, and casually gathered the forest’s web of wires into a tangled mess, throwing it along with the small hats at the remote-controlling player, who had just recovered from the psychic attack of the fairy tale book.

The remote-controlling player, seeing his companion killed, dodged the tangled wires and attempted to seek help from the tattooed man. However, at that moment, the grappling hook player was hit by Yan Jiayu and was flying his way. The two collided and landed against a nearby tree. The impact caused the fairy tale book placed in the tree to fall down, opening at their feet, with copious amounts of blood pouring from its pages!

At the same time, Xu Huo, who was delayed by the vines, had already destroyed the remnants on the ground and was slashing his way to their rear!

Seeing things turn sour, the remote-controlling player quickly pulled up a vine barrier on both sides.

By the time Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu, returning from the opposite side, had broken through the barrier, there was no one to be seen inside.

"The tattooed one ran away, too," Yan Jiayu said. "Should we go after them?"

Xu Huo glanced at the rustling tree bushes in three different directions and sheathed his sword, "No point, even if we catch them, we might not be able to finish them off."

Yan Jiayu seemed somewhat annoyed, "It’s all because of those hats. We don’t even know if they’ve hidden more under their clothes, making it difficult to fight freely."

Picking up and dusting off the fairy tale book, Xu Huo said, "Consider it a double-edged sword. We wear hats; they don’t dare to hit us with all they’ve got, either. I think their initial objective was to capture you."

Yan Jiayu was puzzled, "Capture me for what? To steal our small hats? But isn’t it that the hats only transfer voluntarily?"

"They wanted to see how many hats you have," Tang Xiao said from a tree in the distance. "If there are only a few, they can just kill you directly by making use of the rules, eliminating the excess hats on themselves."

"Like that female player from before," Yan Jiayu realized, "they wanted to find someone to crush the hat so that by doing so, they could trade in the extras and exchange for the little hat I got from the Mirror Tent."

"These people are really mean!"

Tang Xiao leaped down from the tree and walked towards them, avoiding the little hats on the ground, and added, "That’s why new players are easy targets."

"But you don’t need to worry too much; this method is very risky. If you’re not careful and damage the hat, it can cost you your life."

Xu Huo looked at him, "What are you still doing with us?"

Tang Xiao smiled, "I just said that I’m looking to cooperate with someone."

"What benefits do we get from cooperating with you?" Xu Huo asked bluntly.

Tang Xiao didn’t mind and said, "I’ve been in here longer; I definitely know more about the instance than you do, so I can at least warn you to avoid taking the wrong paths."

"Besides, you should know that both the Single Person Ticket and the Multiple Person Ticket are fixed numbers, so even if you take me to the Game point, I won’t be counted in the headcount."

"My proposal is, I’ll inform you about messages related to the instance, and if you can clear it, you tell me how you did it."

"Sounds good in theory, but as you said, anyone can understand the rules given enough time in the instance. We don’t necessarily need to take you with us," Xu Huo eyed him, "This is not equivalent to the method of passing through the Game point."

Tang Xiao smiled upon hearing this, "I have quite a few companions, and by working together, we’ve already figured out most of the Game point’s methods of play; we’re just missing a key step."

"The final question-and-answer game location?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.

"Exactly. Mobilizing more people is to collect the five questions. I can assure you I’m not deceiving you." Tang Xiao produced a red mask and said, "This is an artifact that verifies whether words are true or false. If the bead in the middle moves up, it signifies truth; if it moves down, it signifies a lie."

To show his sincerity, he first said, "Tang Xiao is not my real name."

The bead stuck in the middle groove slowly slid upwards.

"Let me try," Yan Jiayu was interested and leaned forward to speak to the mask, "Candy is sweet."

The bead turned in the middle and moved upwards.

"This is quite fun," Yan Jiayu laughed, then called Xu Huo over to try.

"I am a woman," Xu Huo stated to the mask.

Two seconds later, the bead slowly started to climb up.

Tang Xiao and Yan Jiayu both paused, the former quickly checking the artifact in astonishment, and the latter turned back with a shocked expression, "You’re actually a woman!"

Xu Huo looked at her expressionlessly.