Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 681: The Missing Players and the Corpses

Chapter 681: Chapter 681: The Missing Players and the Corpses

"If I don’t look, is it less likely to affect me?" Yi Pei asked.

Closing one’s eyes might have some effect, but it couldn’t be decisive.

Xu Huo glanced outside, "The rain is getting heavier, you should go back."

After bidding farewell to the grandfather and granddaughter, Yi Pei left the courtyard.

It was as dark as night, and by evening a heavy downpour had started, one that couldn’t be withstood with an umbrella, and naturally, no one ventured outside in the rain.

Just after nightfall, a faint scream suddenly came from outside. Xu Huo immediately went into the yard. Seeing him about to leave, the little girl quickly stopped him, "Don’t go outside at night."

"I’m worried something has happened to my friend." Xu Huo stepped out of the courtyard, but turned to see the old man calling his granddaughter back and firmly closing the courtyard door.

The players living nearby had come out. Several of them headed towards the direction of the sound and soon saw the square-faced player guarding the entrance of a courtyard near Fang Penghui.

As Xu Huo and others entered, they found that in addition to them, the player in the black shirt and the player with artistic flair, among others, were present.

The tragic scene in the courtyard was apparent at a glance, an elderly pair of sisters had their heads smashed to pulp, one laying inside the main house, and the other face down in the courtyard. The latter’s scream must have been the second woman, who ran out from the house only to die anyway.

These two people had been killed by a player. The player who Xu Huo had set on fire during the day lay just two steps away.

"These two, I remember they spat at that person during the day," Fu Danhong said. "Their desire for revenge must have been too strong, to actually come out to kill at night, not expecting to give themselves away."

"Quit making cold remarks," said one of the partners of the player with artistic flair. "Didn’t you see how horribly he died?"

That was also the reason the players still lingered in the courtyard. The burned player’s death was similar to the couple in the forest, with eyes gouged out, head and torso collapsed, brain and viscera gone, but shattered bones still inside the body.

"Didn’t anyone notice how he died?" Xu Huo asked.

"With rain that heavy, you can’t even hear clearly, let alone see anyone," said the square-faced player. "And whatever did this was too fast."

The reason for describing it as "something" was because the second woman’s death happened in a very short time before they arrived. Not only had the killer taken a life, but also started scooping out the organs starting with the eyes. If they had arrived even later, probably not even the bones inside the abdomen would have remained.

"It could also be another player who did it," said the artsy player with a laugh. "We have quite a few Cannibal Players here, maybe they couldn’t resist the smell of blood."

"Stop stirring up chaos," said Liu Shiyen with a stern face. "No one died in the county town in the past few days, but from yesterday to today, there have been three deaths. We should be thinking about how to deal with this situation."

The artsy player remained flippant, shrugging. "Maybe they triggered some game rule."

"Could killing the local people be one of the triggers?" someone immediately thought of the two players who committed the murders. "They haven’t come, have they?"

"Someone has already gone to look for them," said Fang Penghui at that moment.

The others looked at him, then fell silent.

Soon, several people came running. There were clearly two groups from different directions: one sent by Fang Penghui to look for the two players, and the other from the few unoccupied courtyards that were being watched over.

"They’ve disappeared!"

"The body is gone!"

"Explain it properly." Fang Penghui hurried over.

It wasn’t difficult to explain. In simple terms, two players had forcefully occupied a residence and even drove the owners out. It was unclear what specifically happened, but when they went to check, the house was already empty, with no one around and no signs of struggle in the room.

The missing bodies were those of the elderly who had died during the day.

Their bodies had been placed in the empty courtyard next to the small yard where Fang Penghui and the others were staying together. When Fang Penghui and others came out to check following the sound of screams, several players were missing. Just now, they happened to glance next door and discovered that the bodies that were laid out in the main hall had mysteriously vanished.

"Bodies can run away now?"

This undoubtedly cast a shadow over all the players. How the people died was unclear, and how the bodies disappeared was also unclear. Whether they ran away on their own or something was lurking within the county town, either possibility was beyond their imagination.

"I don’t believe that there are really gods in this world." The player in black pressed down his hat, "It’s nothing more than the instance boss playing tricks with props."

"Who doesn’t know that," said the square-faced player. "The key is how to deal with it? Before it acted stealthily, but now it has brazenly entered the county town. If this continues, it will kill us all!"

"What if the instance no longer exists?" Yi Pei suggested. "No people, no houses, the instance ceases to exist as well."

True courage born from artistic talent.

After hearing this, everyone present actually began to consider the proposal.

If the instance ceased to exist, they could clear it ahead of time.

"Destroying the county town will only accelerate the progress of the instance," Xu Huo spoke up at this moment, "First, we may not be able to destroy the divine statues placed in the civilian houses, and just the fact that we can’t look at them could put us in a dilemma."

"Not being able to look at the divine statues, is it that we can’t look, or the statues can’t look at us?"

"Without the shelter of houses and wooden cabinets, everyone might be exposed to the sight of the divine statues."

"Moreover, let’s not talk about the dead for now, where did the missing players and bodies go? Since they can’t be found in the county town or the woods, and they definitely can’t leave the instance area, it means the county town isn’t the entire instance. With this certainty, can burning down the instance ensure the game ends early?"

To destroy the instance area, unless you can thoroughly destroy this space, generally speaking, it’s very likely that the instance won’t collapse just because the area is destroyed. For the Skinning Artisan instance, Xu Huo was just lucky, perhaps it was precisely because he burned the Instance Authorization Document that led to the early end of the instance.

Sifang Palace City is obviously more than just this small area; destroying the houses is the worst plan.

"This county town is a bit strange," the player in black added. "It doesn’t seem like it was built on top of an existing town. Judging from the wear on the building materials, they date back no more than twenty years. Sifang Palace City’s religious culture would mean the city has a much longer history."

"Could it be that we still need to go looking for the instance boss?" Wei Xian shrank back in astonishment, "Rather than aiming for a high rank, I’d rather survive here for seven days."

"You won’t survive seven days." Yi Pei swayed his cell phone, "I took a photo of the hotel’s registration book. The hotel clears out guests once a month. Regardless of how many days they’ve stayed, all the guests have to check out. Think about why they check out."

"Brother Shi is so amazing!" The two female players cuddling up to him flattered him with passionate kisses.

"We either take the initiative to attack, or we wait for the time to come and all go down together," Yi Pei said with a smile, "In any case, we’re all going to die, so it’s worth a gamble. You never know, you might just get a Rank-A out of it."