Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 385: Set Ambush Circle

Chapter 385: Chapter 385: Set Ambush Circle

A loud explosion rang out, and Sandy City was enveloped in a cloud of dust. A scorpion, its cold metallic luster glinting in the sunlight, flew out from amidst it, landing several meters away on the sand.

"Shajin Scorpion, a mutated scorpion that feeds on metal. It won’t attack humans on its own," Ai Jia reassured Xu Huo and Wan Tingfang not to panic. After watching She Ping kill several scorpions, each as long as a man, he said, "There seem to be an unusually large number of scorpions today. I’m going to check the vehicle’s protective measures."

"Is there anything I can help with?" Xu Huo followed him.

Ai Jia did not reject his offer to help and beckoned him to come along while telling Wan Tingfang to stay close to Shi Youzhi and not wander off.

As the two inspected the vehicle, Xu Huo asked with some confusion, "Aren’t there any measures to prevent Shajin Scorpions?"

"Of course, there are," Ai Jia replied. "Our transport vehicles are equipped with a special frequency barrier. Humans can’t detect it, but once mutated animals evolve to a certain extent, they’ll actively avoid this frequency. However, it’s hard to guarantee there won’t be one or two exceptionally clever mutated creatures."

As Ai Jia was speaking, he suddenly sank into the sand, as if something was dragging him down with great force, and in an instant, only his shoulders were left visible!

Just two meters away, Xu Huo quickly rushed over to rescue him, but he only managed to grab his jacket. The sand buried the spot where Ai Jia stood, and at the same time, more than a dozen funnel-shaped quicksand whirlpools appeared on the ground nearby. He grabbed a guitar string, flipped onto the train, and warned Shi Youzhi and the others, "Ai Jia has vanished!"

At this moment, a multitude of quicksand whirlpools began to form around the transport vehicle, and the vehicle started sinking from the rear.

"Watch the Repair Instruments!" Shi Youzhi commanded, pulling out a vine and touching the transport vehicles in the air with it. The three vehicles broke away from the whirlpools and slowly began to levitate.

By now, the Orbital Supply Department personnel had split into two groups: half had entered the station, with one of them tossing out a transparent cube that, upon hitting the ground and rolling, quickly expanded into a giant box slightly smaller than the station itself, encompassing him and the three Repair Instruments within the station. The remaining seven stood guard outside the box.

Meanwhile, Shi Youzhi’s seven people each boarded one of the three transport vehicles. After activating the autopilot, a female team member raised a soap bubble machine as tall as two people and quickly blew three soap bubbles into the sky.

Once the soap bubbles formed, they each drifted towards the transport vehicles and gently enveloped them, though the people on the vehicles could not feel the bubbles but only a light breeze passing by.

Considering they could be used as a defensive measure, the items were obviously of a high level. Xu Huo stepped back to give way to the supply department personnel, and then saw another person pour a liquid that resembled ink onto the ground.

The liquid floated on top of the sand upon touching it and covered a large area around the station in the blink of an eye, turning the yellow sandy region into a black underwater area. Since this "water" was almost still, any ripple or disturbance was particularly noticeable.

Xu Huo spotted at least seven ripple points.

"At least seven targets," She Ping said to Shi Youzhi. "They’re after the Repair Instruments. Should we make a move?"

"Wait for Ai Jia," Shi Youzhi said calmly. "This is our turf."

Three gigantic soap bubbles had completely enveloped the transport vehicle when suddenly, several long arrows made of sand shot out from the dark waters. They surged upwards at extreme speed, piercing the clouds that floated above the desert area, then swiftly fell back down. At their terminal velocity, a layer of shockwave barriers actually appeared at the tips of the arrows!

"Run for it!" Wan Tingfang said instinctively, but turning her head, she saw that Shi Youzhi and the others had no reaction. Gritting her teeth, she moved back towards the vehicle, avoiding the impact points of the sand arrows and once again brought out a protective item to shield herself.

Xu Huo did not move away from Shi Youzhi and the others; instead, he stepped closer to them.

The people from the Orbital Supply Department dealt with the situation calmly, either they had known beforehand that something would go wrong, or they were often confronted with such sudden scenarios. In terms of experience, they were the experts, and in terms of gadgets, they were formidable. Now, in this place, there was nowhere safer than by their side!

Indeed it was so. The sand arrows came with ferocity, but upon hitting the soap bubbles, their force was dissipated. The arrow shafts were enveloped by the indented walls of the bubbles and after several rolls, they turned back into sand.

"Crack, crunch..." The soap bubbles made a sound as if chewing on something and soon slowly returned to their original state, without the slightest rupture, and neither the transport vehicle nor the people on it suffered any damage.

"That’s just too powerful!" Wan Tingfang blurted out, but no sooner had she spoken when the sand that was supposed to be expelled by the soap bubbles suddenly began to multiply exponentially, spreading like bacteria along the surface of the soap bubbles, quickly forming a thick layer on the outside!

"Collect!" She Ping threw a dropper towards the outside. It was only as long as a hand, but once it squeezed through the soap bubble, it stuck on the outside and began to suck up the sand in large amounts!

The sand that was about to completely cover the soap bubbles retracted by half in the blink of an eye. However, the other two vehicles were not so lucky. Their gadgets did not work and in an instant, they were wrapped into a ball of sand. The soap bubbles that were supposed to protect them instead became an additional barrier!

"Invert the outer layer!" The female team member who had blown the soap bubbles reached out through the air and grabbed at the top of the two vehicles covered in sand, immediately tearing a hole at the top of the sand balls. Inside, the soap bubbles unfolded and rolled from top to bottom, scooping all the sand inside before bursting open beneath the vehicles.

The massive amount of sand fell back to the ground, but the two transport vehicles had lost their protective barrier. Concealed beneath the sand, a person or a thing seemed to be waiting for this opportunity, as two mechanical hands each over ten meters in size emerged from the dark water, clasped each other high in the air, and pressed down on one of the transport vehicles, forcing it towards the ground!

"Up!" The team member who had drained the black water was turned upside down to the ground with another person’s help. He pulled out a broom-like item and stirred it in the black water; the black liquid covering the desert surface quickly retracted and wrapped around the two metal hands in an instant. With a strong twist, a "creeking" sound was heard as both the metal hands and the transport vehicle fell back to the ground, causing heavy waves of sand!

An explosion suddenly occurred not far from where the transport vehicle hit the ground. Ai Jia burst out from under the desert, holding a dog leash in his hand. And, unbelievably, at the other end of the leash was a living person!

However, the moment the two were visible, the person caught by the dog leash vanished into thin air!

"He used the Tickets to run away!" She Ping said angrily, "These inhuman players!"

"There are still three people below." Ai Jia returned to the transport vehicle, turned his head to look towards the station, and frowned, "Aren’t they here for the Track Repair Instrument?"

Everyone present had the same thought. The only item of high value and not easily replaceable here was the Track Repair Instrument. The game technology monopoly made it so that even if some game zones could produce it, it was not allowed by the game. So an ambush would naturally be for that gadget. But to this point, the Shajin Scorpion had appeared, and the station had not been disturbed at all!