Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 389 Event Spin-off

Chapter 389: Chapter 389 Event Spin-off

Xu Huo didn’t deny it, and added, "The gameification of my hometown hasn’t been going on for long."

Wan Tingfang waved her hand, "You’re impressive, holding so many powerful items in your hands. My profession is a fisherman, if the rating isn’t high after completing an instance, I won’t get any good items. It took me several years to become a Rank-C player, but I’m probably the lowest among the Rank-Cs."

"How many instances do you have left until Rank-B?" Xu Huo asked casually.

"Who knows?" Wan Tingfang answered just as casually, "The higher the rating of the instance, the fewer instances you need to advance to the next level. However, I always just barely scrape by, and sometimes there are one or two instances that I fail to clear, so leveling up is slow. What about you?"

"I’m okay, mostly Rank-C and Level D," said Xu Huo.

"That means you’ve been a player for a shorter time than me, but you might become a Rank-B player before me," Wan Tingfang sized him up, "But your physical strength seems weaker than that of an average Rank-C player. Is your evolution rate not high?"

Xu Huo smiled without saying anything.

Wan Tingfang finished the strong liquor in her glass and extended her hand, "Now that we’re officially acquainted, don’t hold a grudge if I edge you out as an adjunct member of the base."

"Same goes for both of us." Xu Huo shook her hand.

Afterward, the two left the bar and went their separate ways.

Xu Huo returned to his rental room, only entering after he confirmed that no one had been in the room during his absence. First, he observed through a telescope that the logistics personnel was at home, then he began watching the footage he had recorded earlier.

The man’s activities were the same as two days before: working normally during the day, taking groceries home after work, then cooking dinner for his wife and daughter, helping his daughter with homework after dinner, and putting his daughter to sleep before doing some extra work.

Now it was his time for extra work.

Xu Huo watched from the window for a while before folding back to rest.

At midnight, the lights that had been extinguished in the surveillance footage suddenly lit up. The logistics personnel hurriedly got dressed in his work uniform, took his briefcase, and left the residential building.

Xu Huo, who had been feeling somewhat tired, brightened up, put on the clothing of a cleaning robot maintenance worker, and followed him.

He tracked him all the way to a trade dock on the eastern side of Base City.

The docks in Zone 011 were different from those in Zone 014; the large shipping containers were swapped out for temperate storage rooms resembling small chambers, each equipped with an automatic flying device. When accessing goods, one only needed to control them remotely, and they could have preset swapping procedures as well.

This measure was taken to counter theft. Each storage room on the dock had a moving sequence, and within a set time, the rooms would automatically switch positions. Aside from the program that generated the positions and the person with the controller, no one else could know the location of a particular storage room based on its number.

There were other people in the dock. Xu Huo parked his vehicle outside the dock and used his telescope to observe the activities inside. Sure enough, not long after the logistics personnel entered, the stacked storage rooms began to exchange positions.

At least half of the storage rooms in the entire dock started to move, and the white rooms with no identifiable markings changed positions so many times that it became impossible to determine their original locations. Moreover, with such a vast number, it was unknown which specific storage rooms the logistics personnel was operating.

About half an hour later, the logistics personnel and several colleagues left the dock.

Xu Huo’s gaze lingered on the man’s briefcase for a long time before he retreated, hiding outside the dock until the man left, then took a different route back to the rental room.

The logistics personnel’s hasty midnight visit to the dock to switch storage room positions was certainly not a company drill. Those storage rooms might contain something very important.

Previously, Rongxin Group had been catching internal traitors. If indeed staff members had sold out some company secrets, they would normally take action before or right after the incident, not wait until now.

But information found online indicated that in the coming week, three cargo ships belonging to Rongxin Group would enter port, meaning a large volume of goods. Thus, these storage rooms should have been cleared out by now, if not all, at least partially. Why would Rongxin Group want to swap positions of empty storage rooms?

Xu Huo’s thoughts paused for a moment here; perhaps it wasn’t to exchange the storage rooms’ positions but to rewrite the program.

The dock had over ten thousand storage rooms belonging to different groups and companies, likely having a set of preset moving sequences to ensure there were no conflicts. Frequent changes would definitely be inconvenient, so these logistics personnel must have come to update the moving programs.

This suggested that these storage rooms would soon store a batch of important goods. Considering the business content of that branch office, it’s very likely they were weapons purchased privately without authorization.

If this speculation was correct, it meant Rongxin had bought a batch of weapons. However, the internal staff leaked this information, so Veyson Meni started a purge of his own people while trying to capture the liaison in the hopes of tracing back to the secret buyers opposing him.

Rongxin Group is a very large company, nourishing quite a few players under its banner. Given the attention on this company, it’s likely that the buyer is also strong. This might well be a dog-eat-dog scenario.

Xu Huo suddenly lost interest.

After daylight, he made a trip to the Game Government Base.

Shi Youzhi greeted him with dark circles under his eyes, obviously having not slept all night, and there were many others who hadn’t. Compared to the quietness of his last visit, today the base building was bustling with busy workers.

"I was just speaking off the cuff yesterday," Xu Huo said with a hint of regret: "If a major game district is about to erupt into war, the preliminaries wouldn’t be this quiet."

Shi Youzhi lit a cigarette and took a deep drag before replying, "Wars in game districts don’t have much to do with us, but if someone intentionally sabotages the station, we definitely need to look into it."

"Your suspicion isn’t unreasonable. I checked the maintenance records since Zone 011 became a game district, and the stations under several divisions have been damaged. This coincidence is too much," Shi Youzhi stated.

"Did you find any clues?" Xu Huo paused before asking, "The player who ambushed us, has anyone shown their face? Can you find out their identities?"

Shi Youzhi gestured in the air, and several photos were projected in the room, "We found the one whose arm you cut off. He’s a Level D Player who arrived in Zone 011 not long ago. All we could get from the surveillance footage is here. I’ve been looking at it all night, with no gains."

About twenty small frames played videos at the same time. The man had been to many places and interacted with many people. He had worked as a bodyguard, participated in drug trials at pharmaceutical companies, been an assassin — juggling multiple jobs while also having a rich personal life with five or six lovers, frequenting places of entertainment, but none of it seemed to be related to the attack on the base personnel.