Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 488: The First Slaughter

Chapter 488: Chapter 488: The First Slaughter

The man’s expression changed subtly, and he looked at Xu Huo intently, "You should go, let’s pretend this never happened."

"How can we pretend it didn’t happen," Xu Huo played with the camera, "aren’t you afraid I’ll tell the people on the ship?"

The man turned his head back, looking at him with a mix of pity and mockery, "You’re wearing a White Bracelet, having been the lowest-status person on this ship since you boarded. Who are you going to tell? If I were you, I’d find a place to hide to avoid being found by other players."

After he had spoken, the man walked away, and Xu Huo did not follow him. He was preparing to go upstairs to find Bai Kou when the ship just happened to be passing a dazzling sea area. The great ship slowed down and from the fourth floor up, the hull rotated and shifted, opening up like a fan, exposing each floor to the air to the greatest extent. And if the angle was right, you could also see the people in the floors above from the lower levels.

On the ninth floor, one-way glass was installed, so from the outside only indistinct human silhouettes could be seen, unable to discern their height or build, only that these people were looking down through the windows.

Suddenly one pane of glass became transparent, and an old man dressed in a white suit stood at the window, raising his glass to the people below.

The people below, watching the ones above, raised their glasses in response, and some even let out cheers, "Captain Matt!"

The cheering lasted for a minute, with more people joining in, until the glass became opaque again and then the people quieted down.

Xu Huo heard a few people close to him saying, "Didn’t expect our luck to be so good today to see Captain Matt. I heard he has been traveling through other game zones since his retirement. When did he return to Zone 011?"

"Is this Captain Matt some kind of big shot?"

"You’re out of the loop. Before his retirement, Captain Matt was a Rank-B player, always leading his fleet to collect and transport supplies for Zone 011 throughout the major game zones. It’s said that with his strength he could have ascended to Rank-A long ago, but he always put Zone 011 first, which is why he didn’t complete the upgrade."

"I see..."

There were quite a few people discussing this legendary captain as Xu Huo walked towards the central shaft elevator in the middle of the ship. Along the way, he heard quite a lot about the captain.

After the nobility, a military background, owning a fleet company whose main business is transportation, a classic armed escort, he has a not insignificant reputation in Zone 011. Although retired, he’s still an important figure in the government and has substantial influence over personnel changes.

Not only do ordinary people adore him, but some Nobles also take the initiative to curry favor with him, although he rarely appears in public.

The waitstaff said that the captain had not attended this party in the past three years.

"Were you also on the ship last year?" Xu Huo, having listened to a few waitstaff for a while, took the initiative to ask the one who seemed most excited.

"I’m new this year," the person said, and the other waitstaff likewise were new hires of the year.

Subsequently, Xu Huo asked a few more people and found out they were all first-timers on the ship, with everything they knew about it coming from internet rumors or orientation training.

Such a good job, and all the people on board, as if brainwashed, possessed a blind worship for the captain. The likelihood of them quitting was low, yet all the waitstaff on the ship were newcomers, which in itself was quite abnormal.

"You’re not in your room?" Ran Ying sent a message at that moment.

Xu Huo glanced at it but didn’t reply; instead, he followed a waiter who had stolen some wine to the changing room.

The staff changing room was for two people. Once the other person had unlocked the door, he went over, knocked the person out, dragged them into the changing room, took off the waiter’s bracelet to lock the door, and then messaged Ran Ying.

"There’s a cannibal on board."

Half a minute later, Ran Ying replied, "Where are you now? I’ll come to find you."

"Fifth floor staff changing room." Xu Huo gave the specific location and then asked, "Does the red bracelet represent a Cannibal Player?"

It took a while before Ran Ying’s message came in, "Where are you hiding? I didn’t see you, come up to the seventh floor first."

Xu Huo looked up towards the upper floors; dinner time was fast approaching, and most of the waitstaff were bustling about outside. From the moment he had entered this room, no one had come into the fifth floor changing room, and Ran Ying hadn’t come downstairs to look for him as she said she would.

But the charade had to go on.

"I’ve moved. A waiter came in; that noble has already left, I’m heading upstairs now."

After sending the message, Xu Huo exchanged bracelets with the waiter and put on a set of waiter’s attire before leaving the room. As soon as he stepped out, he was stopped by another waiter, "You’re delivering wine to room 609, ordered by Mr. Palad."

He duly escorted the automatic meal delivery robot to the sixth floor and knocked on room 609. The door was opened by that nobleman he had seen not long before in the dining room, shirtless, with ambiguous marks on his neck, who stepped aside to let him in after opening the door.

Passing through the wide-open door, Xu Huo saw Palad and two other disheveled noblemen sitting in the room. A strange smell wafted out from the room mixed with the scent of blood, and a woman lay on the disheveled bed facing away from the door, her body mostly covered by a blanket, leaving only some hair and a sliver of calf exposed.

The woman on the bed was already dead, and Palad, leaning back on the couch snorting an intoxicant, waved banknotes at Xu Huo, "Come in."

"Come on in, we’re not going to eat you," the brown-haired man at the door said, licking his lips and eyeing him greedily.

Xu Huo proceeded as if he hadn’t noticed the man’s gaze, following the robot in.

As soon as the door closed, the brown-haired man swiftly moved behind him with his hands reaching for Xu Huo’s head, as if to twist his neck. However, accompanied by a "crack," it was the brown-haired man’s neck that was twisted—while still maintaining a stance of his hands held high, his head now hung at an impossible angle over his right shoulder.

Where Xu Huo was expected to be standing in front of the brown-haired man, he now stepped out from behind, lightly flicking his hand to push the man’s body to the ground.

The thud of the heavy body alerted Palad and the other two men engrossed in their narcotic haze. They stood up in shock but at that moment, Xu Huo’s figure vanished from where he was and, in the blink of an eye, was on the couch, kicking Palad into the window, and with another hand raised, the crossed piano wires lifted the second man into the air. Lastly, he threw a rope that tied up the third man. His left hand, adorned in Diamond Gloves, pulled, and the soft rope instantly transformed into a blade, effortlessly slicing the man in two at the waist!

The fallen bodies spilled thick blood and organs across the room, shocking the other two. They finally snapped out of their drug-induced fog. Palad’s first reaction was to don protective gear and smash through the window with a punch before jumping out, while the man who had been hung freed himself from the piano wires with a ring, landing on the ground, and with a cross motion of two fingers, slashed at Xu Huo!