Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 387: The Peculiarity

Chapter 387: Chapter 387: The Peculiarity

The surprise on the opponent’s face flashed by, but the next second, he slid backward along the sandy surface, retracting his lasso while shouting at Xu Huo, "Desert Fish!"

He didn’t take out any tools, so Xu Huo guessed this must be a special ability, but now that the two of them were face to face, under the effect of "Seeing is Believing," the other’s ability didn’t activate.

Grasping the Umbrella of Justice tightly, the Desert Pinwheel in his hand instantly changed into the Crimson Sword, with Sword Qi extending out into a thin cutting plane sweeping toward the opponent!

With a distance of over ten meters between them, even with his quick speed the opponent had time to react. As he drew the sword, that player quickly ducked into the sand, while the sweeping Sword Qi sliced the transport vehicle cleanly in half.

Standing on the ground was unsafe, so Xu Huo grabbed a violin string and ascended into the air, then turned back to look towards the station.

Rain and playing with sand had opposing properties, sand was continuously falling from the glass walls of the station. Shi Youzhi and others had already entered the station. The protective barrier from the square box that a teammate had opened inside the station was shattered. Three people were covered with a layer of frost, frozen in place and immobile, while huge Shajin Scorpions crawled all over the station, not only attacking the repair instruments but also besieging Shi Youzhi and his team.

"Didn’t you say that thing wouldn’t attack people on its own?" Wan Tingfang, standing in a barrel not far away, floated over from the sand and glanced at his umbrella, "Your tool is pretty powerful, it just restrained the enemy’s abilities, but you need to be careful."

Out of three transport vehicles, one was stolen, one was chopped in half, and now Shi Youzhi and his team were trapped in the station, while the remaining vehicle outside was slowly sinking into the sand.

Xu Huo adjusted direction and swung his sword to cut the only remaining transport vehicle in two.

As the vehicle split, the sand movement immediately ceased, then fell into dead silence.

He watched the sand closely, as a number "6" emerged from a spot on a nearby sand dune to the left, at the same time a "9" appeared from a distant point on the right.

Friendly values are scored based on how much attention others pay to you, a value of 9 confirms that someone wants to kill you.

Seeing one of them charging towards Wan Tingfang and one within the attack range of the Crimson Sword, Xu Huo then took out his pen, and the Power of Writing began to take effect, stopping the "6" from moving, but not the "9". Since he couldn’t see what the opponent looked like, he had no choice but to strike first.

Sword Qi carved out a five-meter-long trench in the sand, and the hit area flipped up like a piece of tin foil, with someone rolling out from inside. But it wasn’t the sand-playing player with the severed arm from before.

Xu Huo’s brow furrowed, just as he was about to move forward. Suddenly, a metal net appeared out of thin air five to six meters above the sand. He stepped back and saw the net dive sharply into the sand and rapidly retract like a fishing net, scooping up the two players hidden in the sand.

The net belonged to Wan Tingfang, who was standing in her barrel pulling it back in, but the two players inside obviously had no intentions of being captured without a fight; the moment they were dragged together, they disappeared from the net one after the other.

"Seven went three," Wan Tingfang retrieved her tool, "This round is stable, Captain Shi and his team cleaning up the remaining four won’t be a problem."

The sand-playing players had already left the station, but the remaining four players did not come out. These people could hide in the desert probably by borrowing that player’s special abilities. Now that the sand-playing player was gone, they should have shown themselves.

Xu Huo felt something was a bit off, but right then a dull thud suddenly came from the direction of the station. As the repair instrument, protected by Shi Youzhi and others, toppled, the cone-shaped object above it cracked open, and the liquid inside flowed through the tubes connected to the instrument, like an old tungsten light bulb, the silver instrument turned black from the inside and visibly self-destructed.

With this, Shi Youzhi had no choice but to abandon repairing the track, shutting down the other two repair instruments and lifting them into the air, coordinating with the team to evacuate the station.

The Track Repair Instrument had an automatic flight function, and black water laid out a straight road leading to the distant city on the desert, with two giant bubbles protecting the machines, leaving a few people to cover their retreat, Shi Youzhi exited the station with the others.

Without them saying, Xu Huo and Wan Tingfang naturally followed, retreating. Along the way, Shajin Scorpions continuously lunged at them, but their numbers and ferocity were not as great as inside the station, making it not difficult for Shi Youzhi and his team to handle. On the other hand, She Ping and the Ai Jia family and others straggled to withdraw.

The closer they got to the city, the fewer the Shajin Scorpions became, and once it was assuredly safe, She Ping finally said, "Those Shajin Scorpions were being manipulated to ignore our equipment, those bastards creating trouble for no reason. Even if they stole the repair instruments, they wouldn’t be able to use them. It’s just causing us trouble for nothing."

The expressions of the other team members were also not great, because not only was an instrument destroyed, but the self-destruction of the instrument also affected part of the track, making the subsequent repairs even more time-consuming.

"Can’t we just use a tool to seal off this area?" Wan Tingfang asked, perplexed, "There should be a tool that can do it, right?"

"The Orbital Supply Department is only responsible within the trains and stations, areas outside the stations are beyond our jurisdiction," Ai Jia explained, "Normally, base personnel cannot use spatial artifacts to seal areas outside the stations."

In other words, they couldn’t seal off the area beforehand or bombard the area with firepower after the fact; the issue had to be handed over to the Zone 011 Government.

The Enforcement Department usually deals with such situations.

"This station will be idle for a long time again."

"Who’s going to liaise with the Enforcement Department?" She Ping asked.

The other team members all wore expressions that screamed reluctance, but it was Shi Youzhi who said, "I’ll handle this. Let’s call for a transport to take the repair instruments back first."

He used the communicator to contact someone and left, while the others rested nearby.

Xu Huo privately asked Wan Tingfang, "Are relations between the Enforcement Department and the base not very good?"

"I haven’t been here for long, but I’ve heard that some high-ranking officials in the Zone 011 Government have friction with the base," Wan Tingfang said in a low voice, "Like today’s attack, those people wouldn’t dare to show their faces and wouldn’t stay here for long, but according to the rules of the Zone 011 Government, after an attack occurs, it must be reported immediately, and the Enforcement Department handles it before notifying us of the next reopening time."

"You know what it’s like when relations aren’t good."

If relations were poor, the Enforcement Department could drag their feet, and who knows how long it would be before the base could carry out the second round of repairs.

After listening, Xu Huo nodded slightly but still felt something was off. The players who came to rob today didn’t seem that strong and were well-prepared for a hit-and-run strategy. Yes, they managed to take one repair instrument, but in comparison to earlier, the subsequent attack on the repair instrument was lackluster, bringing only Shajin Scorpions, almost as if they had started with a roar but ended with a whimper.