Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 617: The Seventeenth Hospital Upgrades

Chapter 617: Chapter 617: The Seventeenth Hospital Upgrades

The Special Defense Department was experienced in dealing with players, equipped with anaesthetics, anaesthetic smoke, stun guns, and the distinctive electric shock nets. Especially the electric shock nets, which didn’t require a direct confrontation with players—they could simply set up the net in advance and lure people into it.

Of course, when it came to dealing with players, the Special Defense Department relied more on abilities and gadgets. This time, the department spared no expense, and elite players dressed in deep blue uniforms and black leather gloves shuttled between each small conflict zone, using gadgets in coordination with armed personnel and other players to capture people.

When Xu Huo was passing by a certain office building, a player used "Feet Firmly Planted," which also brought him crashing down to the ground, right into the midst of the battlefield.

However, the gadget’s effect was limited to that much. After casually killing two Cannibal Players, he hurriedly took to the sky again before he could be identified as an enemy by the Special Defense Department players and sped up.

The Special Defense Department had more resources than he had imagined, which was not surprising. As long as gadgets could be purchased, the Special Defense Department had the money, and acquiring high-level gadgets was not difficult.

The first three minutes were almost up when he was blocked by a large Mist Area.

Fog in the winter was odd, but after circling a few times and realizing he couldn’t exit the Mist Area, Xu Huo knew he had fallen into a trap. Noticing people coming through the fog, he quickly changed positions to avoid them, only to discover a squad of people dressed in black.

Xu Huo used a Silent Figurine and observed these people walking through the Mist Area, taking the opportunity to remove their invisible contact lenses and revealing their colored pupils, which made him frown slightly.

There were ten people in the group, with one holding a square screen that faintly lit up with a "Heavy Fog" icon, and mist constantly seeping out from it—it must be the gadget responsible for creating the foggy weather.

They stopped, and the middle-aged man leading them said, "Everyone, do you remember the purpose of our mission?"

"To obtain the Antidote Fungus and kill all the Special Defense Department players!" The other nine answered with conviction, clearly with grand aspirations.

"Correct," said the middle-aged man with a somber expression. "But we have just received word that we’ve been betrayed. The Special Defense Department has already moved the Antidote Fungus; the laboratory we destroyed was just a shell. We’ve also lost many of our own players!"

The other nine were furious, yelling in unison, "A blood debt must be repaid in blood!"

"Good!" the middle-aged man shouted. "Our mission has failed, of course we must take revenge, but this isn’t our territory and we have limited manpower. We can only focus our strength on killing a few key figures!"

He sent a list to each person’s phone, "These are all important members of the Special Defense Department; killing them will incapacitate the department for a short period. As for the other players here, let the random instance take care of them!"

At this time, outside the Mist Area, several huge metal boxes appeared simultaneously in the sky above the Special Defense Department Headquarters and surrounding areas.

"How did these things appear!" Minister Fan slammed the table and stood up in the strategy meeting room.

"It’s definitely the effect of a gadget," Chief Wu also said. "Quickly send people to intercept!"

An adjutant immediately issued commands, and several intercepting missiles were fired. The boxes immediately exploded midair!

After the smoke dispersed, the metal was blown into fragments, but the objects in the boxes were unharmed and hurled toward the ground.

Drones relayed the images back immediately, allowing the meeting room to see the contents of the boxes: a sacrificial-looking mask, a moss-covered stone, a door, and a long-haired doll.

In an instant, everyone present knew that these were the entrances to a random instance.

The entrances to random instances came in many forms: some were extensive areas, others a single building or room, or even a body of water. These were the larger types, often pulling in a large number of living beings, but there were also smaller portallike instance entrances, such as a single object, a tree, or a stone, which only affected those who touched them.

The Special Defense Department had experimented and found that the locations of large-instance entrances were usually unmovable, while those of small objects could be moved before the instance disappeared.

"A small instance entrance won’t affect as many people," Minister Fan said. "Immediately have the rescue team block off the area where the instance entrances landed and investigate how these boxes were dropped above the headquarters. We must catch the culprit!"

The Special Defense Department started to take action. The middle-aged man in the Mist Area signaled for the players behind him to retract the gadgets and then waved for the players to disperse.

However, a few seconds later, the fog still did not dissipate. The middle-aged man frowned and turned around asking, "What’s going on?"

The player holding the electronic screen was just as perplexed, but they soon realized they might have entered the range of another gadget’s effect.

"Let’s split up and walk," the middle-aged man led the way, choosing a direction, but as soon as he took a step, he changed color, because the original asphalt road had turned into even paving tiles. Upon stepping on them, he faintly saw the entrance to a large building through the fog.

Retreating was impossible, as a strange force directly pushed him to the building’s entrance, with the other nine people arriving alongside him.

Looking at each other, the middle-aged man eventually said, "It seems we’ve entered a random instance. Our luck is really bad."

But having entered the instance, they had no other way out apart from clearing it. So, under his direction, a player stepped forward to push the door.

To their surprise, the door wouldn’t open.

The ten people stood outside looking at the drab-looking building, and after a moment, they tacitly spread out to search around the building for an entrance, only to return without success.

"There are doors and windows, but we can’t get in. I’ve tried the second and third floors; I can’t see what’s inside."

"This is the first time I’ve seen such a weird instance. Players can’t enter the venue!"

"Could the venue for this instance actually be outside?"

"There are no other buildings next to this one, and the area around where we can move is about ten meters wide, with no secret passages or other hints. The venue must be inside the building; we just can’t enter for the time being."

The players looked at each other before someone finally proposed, "If the instance can’t be activated, maybe we can get out."

Getting out was impossible because The Seventeenth Hospital instance was upgrading.

Xu Huo had to be selective about the release location of an instance for two reasons: the distribution of players and the fact that Seventeenth Hospital was previously contaminated by Yuguo’s germs. Now, whether it had spread to the entire building was uncertain. If released, it could potentially cause a widespread outbreak. Therefore, he chose a more isolated location, and the first thing he did upon entering was deal with the contamination inside.

But sometimes, luck plays its hand. These ten players had to be kept inside, so after signaling he activated "The Seventeenth Hospital." What he didn’t anticipate was that instead of the hospital being unusable due to the contamination, it began upgrading.

The area of the original building quickly doubled, and two equally sized new buildings appeared behind the outpatient building. The three buildings were arrayed horizontally with a lawn in between.

[The Seventeenth Hospital is about to upgrade. Does the instance holder Passerby A wish to input new instance rules?]