Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 537 Abnormal Ecology

Chapter 537: Chapter 537 Abnormal Ecology

The woman was stunned for a moment as white powder fell from her scalp.

"Clown City could never accept you, you should be well aware of that, otherwise you wouldn’t have fled here to live underground," Xu Huo said indifferently, without a hint of sympathy for their plight and suffering.

"If you were merely being hunted by those warriors on the surface, you wouldn’t prefer to live like livestock down here, unwilling to go out. There must be some other reason, right?"

"The water and food in the clearance zone cause muteness and infection, and there might be special elements in the air that gradually rob the infected people of their sanity."

"You’ve been able to hide underground for more than a decade, safely breeding offspring. It seems that you’ve discovered a pattern. What is amiss on the surface? Is it the soil or the high temperatures?"

Jin Dong’s condition was very strange, and of course, the strangeness wasn’t just that he had lost his sanity suddenly without any injury. But given this, the peculiar climate here was worth suspecting.

There were countless things that could have an impact, and Xu Huo was not an expert in this area. Naturally, he wasn’t seeking an answer, only that if the key to the abnormal ecosystem in the clearance zone lay with the warriors who were supposed to clear the area, then his deduction about passing the level might be incorrect. Whether it was the Aliens or the warriors, they could essentially be classified as one and the same.

Unable to find clues on a person for the time being, perhaps another place might provide a breakthrough.

The woman kneeling on the ground didn’t react, and Xu Huo, without a second word, turned to leave. She hastily scrambled up to stop him, hurriedly taking a pen from a hole in the wall and writing on a piece of paper.

Xu Huo glanced at the content she wrote in her haste and his expression turned cold, "There’s no need for excuses."

The woman exclaimed in an effort to stop him, then quickly wrote more on the paper. Unfortunately, this time Xu Huo didn’t even want to look and took to the air with a leap, holding onto a string.

Only then did the woman reluctantly reveal the truth, "High temperatures accelerate the transformation into Aliens!"

Xu Huo stopped, "You lose sanity upon reaching the surface? How long does it take?"

"A few hours, and if someone’s constitution is weak, it could be just one or two hours."

Xu Huo looked towards the children standing at the entrance of the hole, and after a moment, made a decision, "I will take two people with me. Whether they will transform into Aliens after going out depends on their fate. If they can withstand the high temperatures, I will take them out of the clearance zone."

The woman’s face lit up with surprise, and she quickly nodded, calling the children over for him to choose from.

In the end, Xu Huo chose Fish Ball, the child who was throwing stones, and Ice Cream, a frail child.

Although the woman had clearly indicated that Ice Cream, due to his weak constitution, wouldn’t last long outside, Xu Huo still chose him. These adults, who couldn’t speak but had normal thinking, began to suspect his motives, and Ice Cream’s parents were even reluctant to let their child go with Xu Huo.

"I am not a Cannibal Player." Xu Huo said, "He looks frail, and even if he stays here, he won’t last another two years. It’s better to take a chance and take him out with me."

The white-haired people gathered around, refusing to disperse, so Xu Huo said again, "What happened to the children who were taken out before?"

The agitated crowd gradually calmed down. Even though they were underground, they were very clear about the fate of the children who left this place because usually, a day or two after they managed to get one or two normal people to take the children away, dead bodies or bones would be thrown back down, belonging to children and adults alike.

In other words, not even the adults escaped with the children; this was also a small bargaining chip used earlier in the notebook to persuade Xu Huo.

"Either take both or don’t take any," Xu Huo shifted the dilemma back onto them.

It was the Ice Cream’s parents’ turn to plead now.

As parents, they couldn’t possibly use their child’s life to exchange for another child’s life, but the frail child had grasped their mother’s finger and pointed upwards, expressing a desire to go out.

Ultimately, Xu Huo still took both children with him. When exiting, he didn’t take the underground passage but directly carried the children up through the cracks in flight.

As expected, Gao Peng was waiting for him outside.

Sitting on a motorcycle, Gao Peng looked at him and said with a grin, "Lightning told me you came out, didn’t expect you’d be here as well."

Xu Huo placed the two children on the ground and took out a lighter to light a cigarette, glancing at the black bag in the back of their vehicle, "I heard you people are cannibals."

The complexions of Gao Peng and his men changed slightly, and they immediately stood up straight.

"So you’re not planning to talk this out?" Xu Huo’s lighter flickered, and the bag at the back of the car burst into flames instantly.

Gao Peng and the others quickly moved away from the car and put some distance between them, while one of them tried to take advantage of Xu Huo’s distraction with the burning bodies in the bag to rush from the side and punch him.

Without even turning his head, Xu Huo raised a hand in the air and swiped down towards the ground; that person’s body suddenly misaligned and was severed in half at the waist. Since he was charging forward, his body stiffened and couldn’t stabilize, falling forward, and was cut in two by the line of fire on the ground!

The corpse fell to the ground, a large amount of blood pooled at their feet, and Xu Huo took a drag of his cigarette, squinting at Gao Peng and his men, "Even killing children, that’s just inhumane."

Under the high temperature, bodies seemed to burn more readily, and soon a foul smell drifted out, but Gao Peng and his men were too concerned with the "provisions" they had hunted to pay attention, and were highly alert to the man not far ahead.

"I’d advise you not to move," Xu Huo motioned towards Cen Lu, "The heat makes everyone irritable, if one more person makes a move, all of you will die right here."

Cen Lu, with her hands behind her back, already held a prop, and upon hearing his words, she first looked at Gao Peng.

Gao Peng tilted his head to signal her to back off, then eased his stance and relaxedly said with a smile to Xu Huo, "It’s just different philosophies, there’s no need for life-and-death conflict, brother, calm down. You just want to take two kids out, right? It’s all yours..."

He hadn’t finished his sentence when Xu Huo, still standing in his spot, suddenly made a sword strike. Sword Qi swept across in mid-air, and a layer of obstruction invisible to the naked eye split open, the crack curling up along with the view of several people who still appeared to be in the same spot — it was just a prop for deceiving the eyes, in reality, as soon as Gao Peng began to speak, the people in Xu Huo’s view hadn’t been standing still, it just looked like they hadn’t moved under the prop’s effect.

Now that the trick had been exposed, Cen Lu and the others who had closed in quickened their actions. Cen Lu threw a living rope, "I’ve got his hands! Shoot him!"

The prop rope indeed bound Xu Huo as desired, but was immediately released by the "Universal Lubricant," and with the "Severance Gate" erected in front to block the barrage of bullets directed his way, he shielded the two children behind the gate and then ignited his lighter to burn the protective suit of the one coming at him from the side.

Amidst screams, Xu Huo kicked the person writhing on the ground away from behind the gate and charged out. After several quick moves, he used the Water Cutter Gun to kill two nearby, and his Sword to slay another, dodging bullets from Gao Peng and Cen Lu, he tossed out the "Lament of the Plants." In the moment of their instinctive stiffening, he cleanly severed both their heads!