Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 652: Mirror Maze

Chapter 652: Chapter 652: Mirror Maze

After dealing with the player in front of her, the Girl in the painting produced a piece of paper and quickly folded an origami frog. She wrapped the button signaler inside it, placed it on the ground, and let it hop around in the corridor.

Crouching on the ground and watching the frog hop for a while, she then used paper to roll up the player’s corpse and put it in a cabinet in the room next door, and then turned to open another door.

*

Xu Huo and a group of players from the Special Defense Department were trapped on the third floor.

The third floor housed a Mirror Maze.

This was not the original layout of the building, but when they arrived, mirrors filled the corridors of the floor. They tried to bypass the third floor, but a large mirror blocked the corridor and was completely impassable.

"Blowing up the stairs won’t work either," they had tried the corridor, ceiling, and walls.

"It looks like they intend to keep us on the third floor," Captain Wang said in a bad tone, "Pretty arrogant, huh!"

"When will the second group of players from the Special Defense Department come in?" Xu Huo asked at this moment.

Captain Wang didn’t trust Xu Huo very much, but there was nothing to lie about this matter, "If we lose contact after we enter, the next group of players will enter the building fifteen minutes later."

Xu Huo nodded. The number of players from Country Y hiding in this building wouldn’t be too many, but they might have high-level items, which is why he let the Girl in the painting go up first while he stayed below.

Following behind the Special Defense Department players was also to delay time, firstly to divert the enemy players’ attention and create opportunities for the Girl in the painting, and secondly to get an early understanding of this batch of players.

"Since we can’t blow our way through the corridor, we might as well go into the third floor first," one of the team members suggested, "It’s a waste of time standing here, if we can take down one, it counts as one."

The other team members agreed.

No one asked for Xu Huo’s opinion. After the captain nodded, more than ten people entered the third floor one after the other.

As soon as they stepped in, a large mirror as tall as the floor appeared in front of everyone. The mirror seemed to reflect their figures and then quickly flipped them left and right, with the side lights flickering constantly.

Having learned their lesson, the Special Defense Department players didn’t rashly fire this time. Captain Wang threw a rubber sticky object forward, and when it stuck to the mirror, they heard a crisp "crack" sound. The large mirror cracked in response and its shards splattered all over the ground.

Captain Wang protected his chest and confirmed that there was no ambush behind the mirror before stepping over the frame and walking in.

Xu Huo looked down at the mirror shards on the ground and took two slow steps to fall behind the rest.

Behind the large mirror was a corridor pieced together by rectangular mirror surfaces. Each facet was a mirror, and once a person stood inside, their image was reflected on all sides, causing such visual confusion that it was difficult to discern where one actually was.

"There’s no way forward," Captain Wang stopped and turned on the lighting lamp to examine the left and right ends, "This section seems to be sealed off."

"Just pick one at random."

He spoke and, doing the same as before, tossed a rubber sticky onto the mirror right in front, but this time the mirror didn’t crack like it did before after the sticky was applied.

"What’s going on?" Captain Wang hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward to retrieve his tool, but as soon as his hand touched the sticky, the entire mirror surface rippled like water and sucked him in completely!

"Captain!" The team members behind hurriedly reached out to grab him, only to be dragged in along with him.

Once the two figures had disappeared, that mirror returned to its normal state.

"What’s happening!" The other team members swiftly fired at the top corner of the mirror, but the bullets they discharged in this enclosed Mirror Space ricocheted wildly, injuring two of their own!

"Stop shooting, don’t you see this is a Special item?" Xu Huo interrupted them, "Our shadows are each reflected on a single mirror surface."

The lighting here was dim, and even though the players’ vision had evolved, it was still difficult to capture whether a mirror added or lost a person’s reflection when surrounded by mirrors. Indeed, as Xu Huo said, among the nearly a hundred mirrors, truly one reflected the image of just one of them.

"Could it be that one mirror corresponds to one person?" a player of short stature wondered aloud while using his own destructive item. He still failed to break the mirror where Captain Wang had disappeared, and someone else touched the mirror with their hand, which didn’t result in being absorbed like the captain.

At this moment, the mirror was just a solid wall that couldn’t be cracked no matter how they struck it.

"Captain! Captain!" The team members shouted a few times more, but there was no response from behind the mirror. The two who had gone past were like stones dropped into the sea.

"We are trapped," the short player said, "If the mirrors correspond to each of us, we won’t find a way out without spreading out. We can only stay here."

But everyone understood the risk of splitting up and going their separate ways.

"What are you doing?" After a moment of silence, the short player suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Huo, who was continuously throwing a marble at the mirror surface.

"I’m trying to see if other things can pass through the mirror," Xu Huo replied without stopping his hand movements as the marble bounced back into his hand from the mirror.

Not in a rush to deny him, the short player said, "Didn’t we try bullets just now?"

"It doesn’t hurt to try," Xu Huo said, "Even though we are split by the mirror, this is still a floor after all. The divided spaces won’t be enlarged."

Even if they created a path for each person based on the reflections shown on the mirrors, the other side might not have enough manpower to handle them all, which means their separation could be no more than a few mirrors apart.

The moment Captain Wang was swallowed by the mirror, another person was taken along with him, indicating that the mirror wasn’t strictly allocating people.

Holding the lighting lamp up high, Xu Huo stood in the middle of the corridor, gesturing to the short player to stand in front of that particular mirror reflecting only his image.

"Are you suggesting we each take a turn to try?" the short player said unconvinced, "I think we shouldn’t spread out, to avoid danger."

As long as they were still here, they served the purpose of delaying the opposite players.

"How do we know there’s no breakthrough point if we don’t try?" Xu Huo argued, "Even if you don’t want to earn merits, you should consider Captain Wang’s safety. Besides, I think our luck can’t be that bad. There shouldn’t be a second closed space like this one."

"I’ll try," a burly player squeezed through the others and came forward, "But since the captain took someone with him just now, we can try that too."

"I’ll go with you," another person also stepped forward.

The two switched mirrors, and when the burly player touched the surface of the mirror, it indeed rippled. As he was turning his head to nod at the players behind him, he was unexpectedly hit by several people, including Xu Huo, crashing into it at once!

Several players were suddenly knocked over in one go, piled on top of one another without the light illuminating them. They didn’t know if they had passed through the mirror, and amidst the confusion, they only saw a few fist-sized spots of light coming towards them from the front!