Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 448: Abandoning the Goal

Chapter 448: Chapter 448: Abandoning the Goal

The speed of retrieving the items wasn’t slow, but there were simply too many bodies. In ten minutes, the dropped items had piled up. Chu Yuan even picked out two inconspicuous items from the pile.

They weren’t anything too valuable.

Generally, when players died, the items in their inventory would be reclaimed by the game system. The items they hadn’t managed to put back before death would be left on the ground, and those on the body would stay with the body. However, considering the Beren Clan always sent someone for each dungeon instance, the items left on bodies were unlikely to be very good.

"Let’s take a break." Gan Qing, who was not lightly injured, felt tired first.

At that, Qiu Xiangdong slightly frowned, looking back and forth between Xu Huo and Chu Yuan. Seeing both of them sit down wearily, he then turned to Wu Xiaonan, "What do you think?"

"Why don’t you try having a hole in your chest?" Wu Xiaonan seemed to be in a relatively good spirit.

Meanwhile, Chu Yuan moved his numb hand and asked Qiu Xiangdong with knitted brows, "It won’t take a very long time to recover, will it?"

"Don’t worry, you’ll know in a while," Qiu Xiangdong replied, pointing at Wu Xiaonan, "Hasn’t she recovered just fine?"

Chu Yuan said nothing more, but looked at Xu Huo with a querying expression.

Xu Huo, too, rubbed his wrists, "Otherwise, we could take turns later, so that not everyone is exhausted. This way, we won’t be caught off guard if something sudden happens."

The others naturally had no objections. Dr. Deng took the initiative to walk over to the pile of items cleared from the bodies. He put on gloves and took out a magnifying glass to inspect them carefully.

Qiu Xiangdong joined him, "What does the potion look like?"

Dr. Deng shook his head, "No one knows that. Perhaps Professor Wu stored the potion in a different way. As I see it, the likelihood of it being hidden in a body is very small."

"Are there any cyborgs among these bodies?" Xu Huo said, "It’s not easy to spot them mixed in with the bodies, but we can’t rule out the possibility."

So Dr. Deng voluntarily went to search through the pile of bodies. This identification was much simpler, as cyborgs do not decay.

Unexpectedly, after searching for a while, they really found two "disabled" cyborgs. Dr. Deng seemed to know a bit about mechanics and dismantled the cyborgs efficiently, but still found nothing.

"This is too slow," Qiu Xiangdong said, "Moreover, we can’t completely rule out the possibility that it’s hidden inside the bodies. Although the chance is slim, we have to try to know for sure."

"It’s still better than doing nothing."

Chu Yuan and Gan Qing didn’t respond, Xu Huo and Dr. Deng turned their heads away as well.

"Even if there is something inside, can it still be used?" Chu Yuan sat on the ground, stretching his limbs, "I think we should change our approach, look for another breakthrough."

"Do you have any other ideas?" asked Qiu Xiangdong.

Chu Yuan nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders, "Don’t ask me, I have no idea."

"What are your thoughts?" Qiu Xiangdong directly asked Xu Huo and Dr. Deng, as Chu Yuan clearly had no suggestions.

"Didn’t you buy a metal detector?" Xu Huo looked at Chu Yuan, "Take it out and try it, let’s find the cyborgs first."

"That’s for finding ore, can it detect robots?" Chu Yuan hesitated.

"It can work," Dr. Deng interjected, lifting his glasses, "Cyborgs have special ores embedded in them, an instrument specifically for detecting ores should be able to do it."

"Alright then." Chu Yuan brought out the instrument and handed it directly to Qiu Xiangdong, "Please do the honors."

Qiu Xiangdong watched him with an expressionless face.

"Don’t look at me like that, who asked me to stand up because of your props," Chu Yuan said before sitting back down, lazily adding, "I don’t care about any potion, if worst comes to worst, just make a fake one. Anyway, those people upstairs have never seen the real thing."

"That could work," Gan Qing said. "After all, it’s just a way to buy time."

Xu Huo’s gaze shifted among the few people, and after a moment, he said, "I think we still need to find the potion. A fake potion might not fool the Kong Siblings, they might already know what the potion looks like."

"Besides, such a potion must be very precious. If we could get it, it wouldn’t be a wasted trip, even if it means bartering with the Kong Siblings."

"Xu Zhi is right," Wu Xiaonan said, grimacing as he stood up and picked up the Consolidation Bag. "Since we’re here and have sustained such serious injuries, we can’t leave empty-handed."

"Looking for bodies is too much work, let’s first look for the imitations," Xu Huo said. "If the potion just happens to be with the imitations, we won’t have to sift through the bodies."

Wu Xiaonan looked at Qiu Xiangdong, who nodded and took the initiative to pick up the detection device.

"By the way, did you kill Chang Chengyong?" Xu Huo casually asked, feigning indifference.

Qiu Xiangdong turned his head, "Does it matter to ask this now?"

"Just curious," Xu Huo said. "Zhu Rumin is most likely dead, and Wan Yunrong, who became a ghost last night, is also dead. That leaves one ghost left."

"By tonight, almost everyone left will turn into ghosts. Could the potion be linked to this game, like, perhaps, the reward for successfully clearing the game might be this potion?"

While searching for the imitations, Qiu Xiangdong replied, "If that were the case, the Beren Clan should have gotten the potion a long time ago."

Dr. Deng also looked at him doubtfully, "That’s unlikely, isn’t it?"

The S-Version Drug hadn’t appeared in the Game System yet, and why would Hengxing Group provide the S-Version Drug to ordinary players?

Xu Huo sighed, "So many players before us haven’t found the potion, it seems it will be difficult for us to find it."

The thoughts of everyone present were more or less the same, so no more was said on the matter.

Qiu Xiangdong moved quickly, and after searching this floor and finding three imitations, he brought them back to Dr. Deng for inspection, with the same lack of findings.

"Let’s not look anymore, just take a fake and make do," Chu Yuan suggested.

Xu Huo clearly was also tempted, when Qiu Xiangdong and Wu Xiaonan exchanged glances. The latter said, "Think it through, there are three days left, and who knows if the Kong Siblings won’t come down. What will we do if they see through us?"

"I think we should block off the elevator," Xu Huo said. "If we block the elevator, they can’t come down, and the laboratory isn’t so easily compromised. We could hold out for two or three days without an issue."

"We should have done this earlier." After regaining some strength, Chu Yuan moved his arms and legs and said, "I’ll move the bodies."

Compared to easily movable objects like tables, chairs, and cabinets, of course, readily available corpses were more useful and less likely to be affected by props.

Together, they moved the elevator to the second floor, stuffed the shaft full, and blocked the entrance as well.

After completing these tasks, Xu Huo said, "Let’s go check the laboratories on the west side. Everywhere here is covered with dust; it’s not suitable for a long stay."

The group then crossed the corridor heading to the other half of the laboratories, and upon entering, naturally discovered the bodies of Zhu Rumin and Zhao Bi.

"What the hell, wasn’t Zhu Rumin a ghost? Why did she die of asphyxiation?"