Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 685: Proposal to Slaughter the City

Chapter 685: Chapter 685: Proposal to Slaughter the City

The "Joyful Invisibility" cloaked Girl in the painting had already walked away from Brother Shi’s corpse; she appeared particularly fascinated, not sneaking off to the side as Xu Huo had instructed before he acted, but instead she walked over to the female player.

After blending with the environment, Xu Huo couldn’t see her either. Realizing she didn’t move from there, and the female player’s hair was gently pushed aside, he didn’t call her back but said to Fang Penghui and the others, "I killed the guy, you guys don’t have any objections, right?"

Objections were definitely there, and they were significant, but Brother Shi, who wasn’t weak, had been killed right in the face, and the two players who had tailed him hadn’t come back; fighting to the death wouldn’t make sense.

"Our only goal was to stop them from setting fire," Fang Penghui made his stance clear. "You killed the person, so of course the artifact belongs to you."

"However, we can’t just let these few people go free," he pointed at the female player and others. "We can’t let them drag everyone else down with them."

This remark set off the few players, "If the statue can bewitch players, what’s wrong with burning it?"

"Have you guys lost your minds?" the square-faced man said, "The house burns, but the statue remains; that’s digging a hole for everyone!"

"As long as we don’t look at the statue, there won’t be a problem even if it’s revealed," the other side argued as if it made perfect sense.

Fang Penghui and others could only laugh at the absurdity, "I’m fucking baffled, how did you guys even make it to a Level D Copy!"

Before both sides could clarify their stand, the villagers who were almost burned to death but hadn’t opened their eyes suddenly woke up en masse. Their first action wasn’t to escape for their lives but to rush into the rooms to rescue the statue!

The players were startled and hurried forward to stop them, but the focus wasn’t on these outsiders. It was those trapped in the blaze who hadn’t come out. In the gap when the players rushed over, some people had already come out carrying a wooden cabinet!

"Fuck!" Someone cursed, and the players immediately scattered in all directions.

The people who ran out of the fire scene and the wooden cabinet were both engulfed in flames. The bewitched villagers seemed to have no sensation of the fire on their bodies at all; they were like living torches, running towards water, with the first thing being to press the wooden cabinet into the water.

Unfortunately, the wood, having burned for a while, fell apart once in the water, followed by a fist-sized wooden eye floating on the water’s surface.

With no red light appearing, and after waiting a while, some daring players stepped forward to check. That’s when they found out that the wooden eyes in the tank or on the ground had all cracked after burning. When the wooden shell crumbled, several spherical objects rolled out.

"These are... eyeballs!"

All those that had rolled out from the wooden eyes were rotten eyeballs. Some were so decayed that they fell apart into a fuzzy substance as soon as they touched water, stinking up the place!

"Could these be the eyeballs of the missing players?" Wei Xian said, retching, "The boss of this copy is too disgusting, actually digging out living people’s eyeballs for worship!"

"There are some fresh ones!" A player nearby crushed an open wooden eye, and a few eyeballs rolled out, one pair with blue irises.

"I remember there was a mixed-race player with blue eyes among those who disappeared last night."

Meaning, the person went missing yesterday, and today their eyeballs were placed inside the statue.

"I fucking knew these people were up to no good!" a player pointed at the injured villagers not far away, "The eyeballs were definitely placed in there by them!"

"Maybe they are also waiting for the time to drag us down with them. If they really wanted to take out the wooden eyeballs, we couldn’t stop them with just this number of people!"

"In my opinion, we should strike first!"

"No!" Yi Pei immediately opposed it, "Don’t forget there are many children here, do you also want to kill the kids?"

"No?" the player who proposed slaughtering the town said coldly, "It’s either their death or our demise, think about your own capabilities before playing the saint!"

Yi Pei gripped the artifact tightly, her voice and demeanor intense, "Then you try!"

Suddenly, quite a few players stood on the side of slaughtering the town. The cost of killing was too low, especially within the copies; in order to survive, they had long since lost count of how many people they had killed.

"There has to be a bottom line to being human," a player in a black shirt frowned as he stood by Yi Pei’s side, "I don’t approve of killing either."

Fang Penghui and Tian Kunwen, after some hesitation, also sided with Yi Pei.

The player who first proposed the idea, seeing both sides had similar numbers of people, couldn’t help but say, "You all saw just now, those affected by the statue don’t even feel death, who could stop them if they go berserk, surviving is the king in a copy!"

"I have a question," Xu Huo spoke up, interrupting the two tense groups, and asked the man in the hooded shirt, "How can you be sure that killing everyone here will prevent someone from taking out the statue?"

The man in the hooded shirt was momentarily speechless, then said, "Isn’t that obvious? Without them, no player would touch the statue."

"You forgot one thing," Xu Huo said, "How did those corpses disappear?"

Saying this, he turned to the female player who had followed Brother Shi, "You were guarding that player’s corpse just now, where is it?"

The female player, at a loss for words, "It’s gone."

They had left the yard when the residents of the county town went mad. When they returned just now, the corpse was gone, but the artifact that had been placed on it was discarded in the yard.

"It must have been the townspeople who moved the body!" the hooded player said decisively, "The purpose was to create psychological pressure on us."

"Use your imagination a bit," Xu Huo said, "It’s possible that the corpse left on its own."

The players present found the idea ridiculous, but only Yi Pei caught on, blurting out, "You mean those we encountered last night were all corpses!"

"What do you mean? What did you encounter?" Fang Penghui asked urgently.

Yi Pei’s expression was solemn, "Yesterday we went to trail the administrator, but as we entered the woods, it was like we were cut off by someone. But they were different from living people. At first, I didn’t think they were human at all."

Yi Pei’s eyesight wasn’t good, so in her evolution, she developed a feature similar to radar, which could determine the size and shape of objects within a certain range. She only vaguely felt that those "people" who appeared were slightly different in the feedback they returned. However, she didn’t connect this to corpses.

After all, the very notion of corpses moving on their own flew in the face of common sense. Even with the assistance of artifacts, what kind of artifact could control so many corpses in batches and even command them to attack?

It was utterly fantastical!

To say it was a humanoid artifact was perhaps more conceivable.

The other players shared the same thought as Yi Pei. Fang Penghui said, "A living person can move because they are alive; even if a corpse could move, it wouldn’t possibly have significant attack power."

Let alone take on players.

"Fine, let’s assume those corpses have no attack power," Xu Huo made a concession, and then he said something that sent chills down people’s spines, "Did all the missing players definitely die?"