Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 397: A Serious Test

Chapter 397: Chapter 397: A Serious Test

After reaching this conclusion, Xu Huo unconsciously frowned. In such a vast game world, how difficult it was for two players from different game zones to meet by fate, unless they were subconsciously searching or had agreed to meet. The chance of such a random connection and a coincidental encounter was unimaginably low.

He had acquired V Fan Xiao’s lighter through the game, and by a stroke of luck, inherited Rose Castle as his first choice of residence. This series of coincidences made him instinctively want to dig into the meaning behind them.

There were only half the pages in the photo album, and after the last piece of news about V Fan Xiao’s most recent arson, someone had written a sentence with a pen:

"I have contracted a very serious illness. I hope for an heir."

Xu Huo furrowed his brows; this sentence was not meant for him, but for the person flipping through this album.

Beneath the text lay an irregular black stone, somewhat resembling an ore, but its texture was like that of metal that had been thoroughly refined.

He restrained himself from touching the stone, and at this moment, Madame Butterfly behind him spoke up, "This was left for you by He Pu, don’t you want it?"

Xu Huo turned around to face her, "Whether it’s gifting houses or items, such good things make me suspect that this might be a trap."

Madame Butterfly didn’t mock his Player Level, but nodded earnestly instead, "I’d think the same if I were you, but He Pu was a good man, you can rest assured. Besides, he’s dead. You taking his things without doing anything won’t make him jump out of his coffin."

Xu Huo couldn’t help but smile slightly, "Aren’t you good friends with him? It seems a bit unkind to undermine him right after taking his stuff."

However, Madame Butterfly, caressing the box, said, "He won’t mind."

As she spoke, she passed the box to him, "I have taken what’s mine, but this is a multilayered box. I couldn’t open the layer below; what’s inside should be for you. Just take it yourself."

"You’ve gone through your second evolution," she nodded, "you probably don’t need me to teach you how to get it."

Xu Huo set down the photo album and took the box, focusing on the eye carvings on it. The next second, the lines around the eye carving began to cast multiple images, and soon after, the images expanded, as if countless eyes were layered inside and outside the eye. Then the eyes started to rotate and interweave, like a blooming flower in motion.

After a few seconds, he noticed that some of the eyes were rotating in a specific pattern, functioning like a special combination lock.

He pressed to stop three of the eyes, and then the carved eyes on the box sank downward, and the lock clasp of the lid opened.

Placing the box back onto the table, Xu Huo lifted the lid. On the black velvet inside was only a Diamond Key, and at the bottom of the key small numbers were engraved with the code E27-001-01.

"Playing coy." Madame Butterfly glanced at it and lazily explained, "He left something in District 001, saying you have to take the key there to get it."

"What kind of thing is deliberately left in District 001?" Xu Huo asked.

Madame Butterfly indicated that she didn’t know, adding, "You’ve taken the item, but the box is mine."

It wasn’t just the box; she also took the wooden horse in the room with her.

Xu Huo sized her up, then took the photo album.

Both of them walked out from the darkness again, and after returning to the study, Madame Butterfly closed the door and threw him the Brass Key, "This place belongs to you now."

Xu Huo caught it, "What are you doing in Zone 011? Really buying weapons?

Madame Butterfly laughed sarcastically, "Buy weapons? Of course not. You take them by force."

Xu Huo’s thoughts shifted, "Did you have something to do with the destruction of the station?"

Madame Butterfly glanced at him, "Someone deliberately sabotaged the station?"

It turned out she didn’t know about this.

"You’re a bit smarter than I thought, you’ve also only been in Zone 011 for a few days, haven’t you?" Madame Butterfly beckoned for him to follow, "Have you found out who is behind the sabotage of the station?"

"The traffickers from the Lower City district," Xu Huo said.

"Rongxin ordered a batch of weapons that is due to be delivered to Zone 011 soon... it seems you already know that."

"I guessed," Xu Huo hadn’t been certain before; he only knew fragmented pieces of information.

"Your guess is not bad, indeed there is a batch of smuggled weapons to be delivered here," Madame Butterfly said, "And I’m not the only one with an eye on these weapons."

"Weapons will be transported through the station, by damaging some of the stops, if someone wants to steal the weapons, they would act at the remaining stations," Xu Huo said.

Someone inside Rongxin Group had leaked information about the weapons, then players in the Lower City district bribed other players to cause trouble at the base to prevent them from repairing the station, leaving several stops more convenient for ambush.

Madame Butterfly took out a projector and cast a map of the main subdivision of Zone 011 onto the walls of the study, with several decommissioned stops already marked on it.

"The likelihood of taking action at the station is very slim," she said, "Players deliberately damaging the station is a very grave matter, and if they do make a move, they would use other means, not openly wage battle at the station."

Xu Huo thought of the storage room at the dock, "Rongxin has already found out the news has leaked."

She also understood the matter of capturing people in the game.

"Even if the news leaks, the weapons will still be delivered on time," Madame Butterfly said, "Such inter-district transactions are difficult to cancel, especially since they’re not bought through normal channels."

Xu Huo carefully reviewed her annotations on the map, then suddenly said, "Are you planning to steal the weapons by yourself? What about your Cultists?"

"Just kidding, and you believed that." Madame Butterfly approached him and said as she raised her hand, "Don’t move."

Before her hand could get close, Mr. Dong appeared quietly at their side.

Madame Butterfly smiled, retracted her hand, then opened her fan and said to him, "You also know about this, so why don’t you speculate on which station the weapons will come through and come up with a heist plan? If the plan you provide satisfies me, how about I teach you something else?"

Her tone was ambiguous by the end, leaving much to the imagination.

However, Xu Huo caught the scrutinizing coldness in her eyes. He said, "You trust me that much?"

"No choice, you inherited the Rose Castle," Madame Butterfly nonchalantly flicked her fan, "I would also like to have the Rose Castle, but Mr. He Pu was unwilling to give it to me. If you can’t handle this little thing, I believe he wouldn’t be angry if I killed you and then took over the castle."

She then turned to Mr. Dong, "Don’t come disturbing me again next time, or I’ll skin you."

Having said that, she left the study with the map. Xu Huo turned to ask Mr. Dong, "Is she really a friend of Mr. He Pu?"

Mr. Dong nodded, "Before Sir passed away, he used to send her gifts every year."

Xu Huo pondered, then took out the Diamond Key, "Do you know where the lock for this key is?"

"There’s an address on it," Mr. Dong said, "Mr. He Pu used to go store things alone, are you going to go and get it?"