Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 535 Rank A Prop Life Core

Chapter 535: Chapter 535 Rank A Prop Life Core

Additionally, the air quality in the jungle zone might also be a problem, as the Stone Forest and the city area are far from vegetation and the soil is dry, so it’s not surprising that there’s a difference between the two.

However, the changes in Jin Dong are even more peculiar—it must have been caused by some kind of inducement for him to lose his reason.

For safety’s sake, Xu Huo still wore the "Oxygen Supply" when he came out of the bathroom.

Zhuo Wangsun watched him, moved his lips but ultimately didn’t say anything.

It wasn’t long before Cen Lu called them to the dining room for food, "There’s still some time before dawn, so have something to eat and then rest."

The two went with the flow and only upon entering the dining room did they realize there was quite a variety of food prepared, including bread, vegetables, roasted meat, and dessert.

"We’ve made a few small farms downstairs, where we can grow our own food," Gao Peng said. "There aren’t many people, so it’s just enough for us to be self-sufficient."

Zhuo Wangsun swallowed his saliva, unable to resist picking up a piece of bread.

"Why aren’t you eating?" Cen Lu looked at Xu Huo, then at the prop on his head, "This place is very safe, there’s absolutely no need to wear that mask."

"It’s purely a personal habit." Xu Huo gave a slight smile, "I’m pretty shy and don’t really like to eat in front of others. If it’s possible, I’d like to take some food back to my room to eat."

Cen Lu looked at Gao Peng, who hadn’t yet spoken when the man with the shaved head slammed down his knife and fork, "Ungrateful bastard, acting like you’re some sort of lord!"

Xu Huo and Zhuo Wangsun put down the food in their hands one after another. Seeing this, Gao Peng spoke up to smooth things over, "Everyone has their own little quirks, we just need to understand each other."

The man with the shaved head didn’t say anything more, but glared fiercely at Xu Huo before leaving.

"Don’t mind it, my brother is just like that," Gao Peng offered an apology on his behalf and gave them half a bottle of wine as a peace offering.

Xu Huo and Zhuo Wangsun had no reason to refuse, and returned to their room with the food and wine.

Zhuo Wangsun followed behind Xu Huo, and as soon as he entered the room, he asked eagerly, "Do you think there’s something wrong with the food? Is there something not right about them?"

"I haven’t noticed anything for the time being." Xu Huo stood at the doorway, gesturing for him to go back to his own room.

Zhuo Wangsun didn’t want to leave, "In such a special period, it’s safer to stick together."

Xu Huo didn’t insist. Without touching the food or wine, he turned off the lights and sat in the dark, listening to the sounds upstairs and downstairs.

It wasn’t until dawn that there was some noise from the direction of the elevator.

Xu Huo stood in front of the window looking down, as Gao Peng and Cen Lu led those few young people out of the building and towards the city center.

"Should we follow them and have a look?" Zhuo Wangsun said from behind him.

Xu Huo nodded and leaped out from the window at the end of the corridor, using the shadow of the building to fly away with his guitar strings, not bothering with the person who was close on his heels.

Zhuo Wangsun had no choice but to turn back, while Xu Huo took a slight detour and found a medical laboratory in the city.

The equipment inside was quite complete. He picked up a glove-sealed box and chose a sealed lab to enter. After placing the box down, he threw Yuguo’s severed hand from the luggage compartment into it.

Yuguo’s severed hand had turned black, the skin eroded by bacteria and starting to fester, with pus and blood seeping out. The hand shriveled slightly, making the crudely spherical prop stitched underneath the skin even more obvious.

Slipping on the Diamond Gloves, Xu Huo gently squeezed the prop out within the sealed box.

A thumb-sized black orb fell inside the box, its circular grooves covered with a black, sticky mucus.

This little ball, intentionally sewn under the skin by Yuguo, was definitely not of low rank; it was just that now, it was covered with bacteria.

The severed hand was inside the sealed box only for a short while when the bottom of the box turned black. This showed that the bacteria remained active even after leaving the host. Looking at the situation now, even obtaining the prop wouldn’t make it usable.

However, he still stored the prop in his inventory, where a "Highly Poisonous" alert popped up, along with information about the item.

[Life Core: Rank A, when used, allows the player to touch and shatter metal objects as well as props mainly composed of metal that are Below A-Rank.]

[Its maximum coverage area could encompass a city. When the player makes contact with the ground, the entire city falls within the realm of destruction of the prop, with the total amount destroyed being one-third of the cumulative volume of the objects within the single coverage area.]

[The volume of the object destroyed is determined by the duration of contact. Note, if a city doesn’t contain more than one-third of its total volume in metal components, it’s possible for the entire city to be destroyed, so users should handle with caution.]

Xu Huo raised an eyebrow as he read, as the prop was truly murderous, far exceeding his expectations.

Many props have a cooldown period, but the "Life Core" did not. It worked based on total volume destroyed. In other words, wherever he was with the prop, up to the maximum extent of a city, simply using it could turn one-third of the place into dust.

Of course, this effect targeted metal objects, but a city couldn’t possibly be made entirely of metal. The effect of the "Life Core," however, was calculated based on the total volume ratio of the city’s buildings, so it was entirely possible to collapse an entire city within a limited time!

If he were to wear the "Life Core" right now, he could completely cause this abandoned city to collapse or even destroy it.

Just that effect was already staggering, not to mention it could also destroy props Below A-Rank!

With such astonishing power came certain requirements for use.

Each usage determined the extent of the destruction based on how long the contact lasted; the longer the touch, the greater the volume destroyed, and vice versa.

In actual combat, it might not be easy to secure enough time, but it was more than sufficient for dealing with props during a confrontation.

This was the first Rank A prop he had acquired, and the lack of a forced cooldown suited him perfectly. So, even laden with bacteria, Xu Huo found the small sphere in the inventory increasingly pleasing to the eye.

After a while, he switched panels to put out a bounty for a method to cleanse the item.

No sooner had the bounty been posted than a message popped up on the game panel:

[Upon inspection, the player Passerby A’s item is contaminated with Rank A pollutants. System cleaning is available for application. The charge is one hundred thousand White Notes for a single item, and three hundred thousand White Notes for cleaning the luggage compartment. Note: Additionally, purchasing the Rank A pollutant Cleansing Potion set also costs one hundred thousand White Notes. Incomplete cleaning may result in residual contamination.]

Extortion was everywhere.

Xu Huo paid the fees and bought a set to process the severed hand.

The hand was different from the prop; it was contaminated by bacteria inside and out. A bit of Cleansing Potion wouldn’t clean it thoroughly, so he had no choice but to seal the hand in the box provided with the set and then store it in the luggage compartment. After cleaning the sealed box and gloves of bacteria and making sure nothing was missed, he finally left the laboratory.

Outside, it was already broad daylight. Xu Huo didn’t choose a destination this time and walked directly toward the rift at the city center.