Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 604: Is His Mind Still Stable Now?

Chapter 604: Chapter 604: Is His Mind Still Stable Now?

With the increasing number of Level D Players, certain information about tickets and players is actually not difficult to obtain, especially if one is going to a fully game-oriented district where the information might be accessible through online channels.

However, knowing how to obtain non-player tickets is actually of little use for most people; players are not allowed to take non-player trains, and boarding one requires suspending their player identity. This suspension does not mean becoming a Grey Player with reservations of traits and items, like when joining the Game Government, but rather shutting down the personal panel, with the only difference from ordinary people being an enhanced body.

Therefore, it is generally not useful for the average person, and moreover, obtaining a non-player train ticket requires passing through game audits, so boarding a train requires more than just courage for a normal person.

The content he replied with quickly garnered the attention of players, but not long after, the original post was deleted.

So he started his own thread and added some information that warranted attention, such as the advisability of not easily detaching from the train. Even if the train was wrecked by players, it was still best to wait for the Orbital Supply Department to clean up the aftermath. The space where the track makes contact might not be accessible with tickets, or it could outright be an unstable space. In short, if the train comes to a halt, survival would be entirely up to luck.

But for those who are highly skilled and daring, consider this unsaid.

Player-created primers on train stations, tickets, and instance entry had long been extensively detailed. The information Xu Huo released, while only known to a few players, had never been encountered by most people, particularly with regard to the Grey Player aspect.

Hence, after the post was published, many people inquired about how to become a Grey Player.

Xu Huo scrolled down a few comments without replying, but soon others replied. Their responses were rather vague, stating that contributions to the Game Government were required because the rules for granting Grey Player status were not set in stone and depended purely on the willingness of the Game Government.

His opening of this subject led to several other players sharing information they knew, including mentions of the Wormhole Flower and even some photos were shared.

Good, it looks exactly like the one Xu Huo brought back from the Xiaohua Honghong Building.

Zhou Ning and the others were also browsing the forum and couldn’t help but sigh after reading Tang Guangbo’s paper, "This Professor Tang seems to be an ordinary person, right? Divine, he was able to predict the situation so accurately!"

Those who had seen the script in advance, of course, felt differently.

Xu Huo temporarily had no interest in Tang Guangbo, took out Shelter 101, and planned to cultivate a few more living King Fungi.

"Xu Huo, you’re really planning to go to the Special Defense Department Headquarters?" Zhou Ning asked him, "I saw online that it’s causing a huge uproar, with many players saying they want to stake out a VIP seat in Jing City."

"These people are full of themselves, are they really waiting for Brother Xu to clash with the Special Defense Department?" Sima Xiao’er snorted, but seeing Xu Huo’s unchanged expression, asked tentatively, "Brother Xu, you’re not actually planning to fight the Special Defense Department, are you?"

Meanwhile, deep in a meeting room at the Special Defense Department Headquarters in Jing City, Minister Fan and several chiefs in charge of different regional branches were also puzzled by this.

"... In the next ten days, I will be visiting the Special Defense Department Headquarters."

The video of Xu Huo saying this had already been played in the meeting room over ten times. Although the face was not his original one, the eyes and tone remained unchanged, and it was unclear whether he was joking or truly targeting the Special Defense Department.

"What exactly does he mean?" Director Chang couldn’t help but ask, "Is he picking a fight with the Special Defense Department?"

"I don’t think so," Chief Wu said. "The origin of this matter is with Twin Snakes. If Twin Snakes is dealt with, this can be put behind us."

"Twin Snakes must be dealt with. To have such a large Cannibal Player Organization emerge right under the nose of the Special Defense Department, I think some people want to take advantage of us being preoccupied with border and antidote issues," said Director Lü. "Moreover, this situation must be explained to the public. There are already online rumors suggesting the Special Defense Department secretly fosters Cannibal Players to control others. The Twin Snakes issue needs to be resolved quickly, and our internal staff must be inspected as well."

"But I think these are two separate issues," she continued. "If Xu Huo indeed plans to attack the Special Defense Department, Twin Snakes cannot serve as the reason; he was simply caught up in it by chance."

"I agree with Director Lü’s view," said Jiang Qiao. "Xu Huo’s statement also has a precondition: that he’s inciting Twin Snakes members to seek revenge on him."

"Now, it’s not just Twin Snakes members who are probably targeting him, but likely many Cannibal Players too," sighed Director Chang.

"Perhaps that is his real intention," said Minister Fan. "If Cannibal Players gather near headquarters, the Special Defense Department becomes his insurance policy."

"Moreover, other players are bound to gather, and whether they would cause trouble in Jing City is uncertain."

"Should we then restrict entry?" Director Chang suggested.

"No," Minister Fan objected. "The Special Defense Department doesn’t have the capacity to thoroughly screen Cannibal Players. If we make a sweeping restriction, it will not benefit us."

The Twin Snakes debacle made the Special Defense Department realize they needed to find a way to deal with Cannibal Players hiding within their ranks. True collapses begin from within, and were it not for Master Qiu’s arrogant folly, uprooting the problem would not have unearthed the root cause of the Twin Snakes incident.

Given the current situation, there’s no need to consider passive strategies like ’lying low’ or ’waiting for the hare’; those caught must be killed swiftly. Decisive action is the only way to deter Cannibal Players, so the Twin Snakes issue isn’t difficult to handle. In fact, as of yesterday, when Chief Song took action, the Special Defense Department had already begun making arrests.

The magnitude of the situation Xu Huo caused, when viewed from another perspective, also serves to the advantage of Special Defense Department. As high-level players are nearly non-existent, and Zone 014 still relies on firearms, eliminating more Cannibal Players sooner not only reduces future complications but serves as a warning to Evolvers yet to become players, killing two birds with one stone.

"The only problem is Xu Huo’s stance," said Chief Wu. "The fear is that he is truly coming for the Special Defense Department."

A silence fell over the meeting room before Jiang Qiao finally said, "The samples from Taole Club have been rushed back overnight. The result is that the fungus used against Chief Song and the others was an ordinary one, as he said, and antidote is effective against it. However, the contaminant used on the Twin Snakes members is at least Level B or higher, and currently, we cannot contain it effectively."

That’s right, not ’remove’ but ’contain’. The substance contaminates on contact with people and objects, and apart from complete isolation, there’s no effective solution.

Which means, if Xu Huo wished, he could transform a city into a contaminated dead zone in a very short time, with barely any effort on his part.

"No way, no way," Chief Wu shook his head repeatedly, "Xu Huo is not that kind of person, otherwise he wouldn’t have given the Antidote Fungus to the Special Defense Department."

"I have a question," said Minister Fan, his palms crossed on the table, his expression solemn, "Is his mental state still stable?"