Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 654 It’s Time to Wrap Things Up

Chapter 654: Chapter 654 It’s Time to Wrap Things Up

Xu Huo dodged several times to avoid the red thread but was unsuccessful, as it moved through the air naturally like a snake, seeking out its target on its own, without even requiring the control of the lady in red.

"The man I set my sights on, can never escape," the lady in red said as she slid a miniature gun into her hand and fired at Captain Wang and others charging at her.

"Bang!" The gun did not shoot bullets but colored confetti, which dispersed and quickly expanded to the size of a palm before bursting, spraying a powder with strong adhesiveness that clogged their protective barriers.

"Don’t remove your protective barriers!" Captain Wang loudly reminded, but two players had already taken theirs off. As expected, the powder was poisonous, and one person with an open wound was quickly infected by a mere motion of removing the barrier; inhaling the powder could also cause poisoning.

The remaining team members used Cleansing Potion to deal with the powder on their bodies. The lady in red nonchalantly raised her gun, but before she could pull the trigger, the Prop Gun strangely slipped from her grasp.

Turning around, she saw a wallet on the ground. With a curl of her red lips, she released the red thread from her command, and the flying thread wrapped around Xu Huo who was charging at her with incredible speed!

But in less than a second, the red thread slid off, and Xu Huo, free from control, looked into her eyes and commanded, "Freeze!"

The lady in red, who had been about to step forward, found she couldn’t move her feet. She threw a prop encased in an iron hoop at her feet, and the second-floor floor, along with the collapsing chunks of cement, melted away, creating a large hole that she fell through!

Xu Huo hurried to the hole and threw a grenade down, but after the explosion, the woman had disappeared without a trace.

Moments later, he sensed someone crossing from the second to the third floor through the middle, and he grabbed the ceiling and flipped up.

"Woo! Woo! Woo!" As soon as he got up, he was again met with layers upon layers of mirrors. Each mirror reflected his form, some in sync with him, others moving on their own, even stepping out of the mirrors right in front of him.

"You like playing with mirrors so much, I’ll give you something to play with!" Xu Huo stepped forward and with one hand firmly turned one of the mirrors.

One, two, three... As the first mirror began to rotate, others spontaneously started to turn as well. Initially, only his silhouette was flickering in the mirror, but as more mirrors joined in, some also reflected the image of the lady in red.

Both their faces rotated and interleaved in the mirrors, and the lady in red soon replaced Xu Huo’s reflection, and more and more figures emerged from within, surging towards their original.

Seconds later, all the mirrors disappeared, and Xu Huo, who had remained in his original place without moving, appeared in front of the lady in red and slashed her neck with Sword!

Of course, the lady in red wouldn’t just wait to be killed; she dodged this fatal blow and gracefully appeared several meters away, smiling radiantly at Xu Huo, "It seems to be a Defense Prop that can influence the mental state. My Mirror Maze has always been invincible; I didn’t expect it to be broken like this."

"But that’s good, consider it an experience for me. Your skills are not bad, and you use your props very skillfully, but you lack combat awareness. If you had used your Sword from earlier with that move just now, maybe you really could have killed me."

"Is that so?" Xu Huo turned around, a faint smile appearing on his face within the Oxygen Supply.

The lady in red’s complexion changed, and as she wiped her neck, her palm was suddenly filled with black blood.

Poisoned!

She glared at Xu Huo resentfully and, instead of continuing to fight, turned and leapt out the window, scaling the wall towards the upper floors.

The sound of gunfire came from outside, dense at first but quickly dying down, clearly indicating that the Special Defense Department’s ambush had failed to eliminate the target.

"Why didn’t you kill her?" Captain Wang ascended from downstairs, "The move you just made should have been able to kill her."

Xu Huo stowed away his gadget, "I do what I do for my own reasons."

The two teams from the Special Defense Department that had come in after were already searching the place. He looked down before saying, "The Mirror Maze won’t appear for now. I suspect the prop that sealed the building is also related to that woman. She is injured now; she might change her plan."

Captain Wang stopped him, "You want to act alone?"

The only reason Xu Huo had lingered downstairs was to buy time. Now that his objective had been achieved, Girl in the Painting should have managed to kill a few people, even if she hadn’t succeeded in rescuing the child. It was time to go up and finish it.

The person in front of Captain Wang suddenly vanished, and in the next second, that figure appeared at the stairwell entrance. He then said, "You guys decide for yourselves."

Captain Wang was furious, but someone from Unit 3973 shouted, "Captain, after confirming with the second team, someone stole 3304’s uniform. That person upstairs isn’t one of our Special Defense Department players!"

Captain Wang was taken aback, "Then who is he? Aside from the players in the safety zone, who else can fight like that?"

The gadgets and abilities of the players are quite miraculous. Some seemingly insignificant gadgets can be just as effective against high-level players, and if the opponent lacks the appropriate defense prop, there’s a seven to eight chance they’ll fall for it. Of course, these aren’t lethal moves, but rather the clever use of gadgets.

It’s fair to say many gadgets don’t possess much killing power on their own. The key to boosting a player’s strength lies in how they are combined. This requires not just a lot of practice but also a certain talent, as in real combat, the gadgets used can’t be methodically planned out as in prior simulations. The variety of tricks a gadget can pull off entirely depends on the player.

The continual use of gadgets in 3304’s battle against the woman in red earlier was astonishing. Anyone with that level of skill is among the elite of the elite, often tasked with guarding the nation’s core figures.

"I bet it’s Xu Huo!" 3973 said excitedly, "He used that trick before when fighting Twin Snakes. I remember it well, taking on ten at a time. There’s no one else but him."

Captain Wang’s tense nerves relaxed slightly, "Wasn’t he said to be at headquarters?"

replied, "He must have rushed over. The one captured is his half-brother... even though they have different mothers, they’re still blood-related. Maybe by the time we get up there, he has already taken a few of them down."

Agitated, Captain Wang kicked him, "Hurry up, we can’t let him get all the glory alone!"

The members of the third unit of the Special Defense Department regrouped and prepared to move upstairs, while Xu Huo had already successfully reached the eighth floor. He sensed a few people descending from another direction as he came up, but not in large numbers, so he didn’t pause.

However, as soon as he set foot on the eighth floor, the space behind the stairwell turned murky, and then he heard the cries of children and women.

Turning the corner past the elevator hallway, the empty office area of the building was occupied by several players wearing masks. Among them was the woman in red from earlier, and kneeling before them, with eyes and mouths bound, were Tongtong and Girl in the Painting.