Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 696: The Evolution of Pebbles

Chapter 696: Chapter 696: The Evolution of Pebbles

Responding to him were more tentacles; Xu Huo retreated under the platform and saw two Mechanical Beings approaching from both sides, so he took advantage of the rain not falling again to throw the Desert Pinwheel down!

The yellow sand swept over once more; with the assistance of the Girl in the Painting, he easily destroyed two of them using the "Life Core." Just as he was about to deal with the remaining ones, they suddenly retreated from the sandstorm!

Hearing a slippery sound ahead, Xu Huo retracted his tools and then saw the remaining Black Armored People returning to the front of the Sifang Palace, blocking the shattered main gate and the opened door on the second floor while more tentacles stretched out—not to directly consume, but to wrap around living people and pull them upstairs!

With the Water Cutter Gun in hand, he cut through the tentacles with utmost speed, while casting out his Spiritual World to envelop all the people in front of Sifang Palace.

As the boss of the dungeon weakened, the corresponding mind control also weakened. The residents of Sifang Palace City, although not yet fully conscious, were also not as indulged in cannibalism as before—the best way to prevent them from becoming nourishment for the dungeon boss was to take them away...

Since it was impossible to awaken them by shouting, he had to try to control them in the same way.

Portals and staircases of the Spiritual World appeared beneath the platform, and under the tug-of-war between two forces, some of the people really turned around and walked towards the platform below!

But at this time, an unnatural calm restored inside the Sifang Palace.

Standing under the platform, Xu Huo scrutinized the people coming towards him, and just as they got one or two meters from him, the eyes of a little boy in front suddenly rolled towards him, and the next second, he pounced like a wild beast!

With a leap, Xu Huo grabbed the boy’s throat and held him mid-air, frowning as he poured an Antitoxin into his mouth, but it didn’t work; the child looked at him frenziedly, his opening and closing mouth still retaining flesh and blood...

Behind him, someone approached; he dodged with the boy, only to see a woman, clearly mutated into an Alien, pouncing into the crowd on all fours, excitedly grabbing living people and tearing at them with her teeth!

"Xiao Yun...!" Xiao Yun’s Brother ran over from not far away, his arm dripping with fresh blood, tears in his eyes as he looked at his sister, who had degenerated into an Alien.

Too fast.

It had been less than an hour since Xu Huo gave the Potion to the siblings; Xiao Yun lost her sanity and her body also developed animal characteristics at a rate far beyond normal evolution.

Knocking the child in his hand unconscious, Xu Huo walked over to Xiao Yun’s brother. "Did the people from the county ever eat human flesh?"

Xiao Yun’s Brother, seeing him, couldn’t help but show a glimmer of hope and knelt down pleading, "Save my sister... please save her..."

If it were just a simple Alien toxin, King Fungus could serve as an Antitoxin before irreversible changes occurred. But Xiao Yun’s condition was due to an injection of Evolver blood; she was an evolutionary failure, not just poisoned.

Seeing him shake his head, Xiao Yun’s Brother’s shoulders slumped, looking at his sister tearing and biting among the crowd, he regretfully said, "I shouldn’t have given her the injection..."

Xu Huo remained silent; the residents of Sifang Palace City were not much better off. To gain more nourishment, or rather, to control them better, the dungeon boss would manipulate them into cannibalism. How different was that from being an Alien?

They would even reproduce, allowing their descendants to repeat this vicious cycle.

Xiao Yun’s Brother’s breathing and heartbeat underwent drastic changes. Xu Huo looked down, "A reminder, once you’ve eaten human flesh, you’ll have to rely on it to survive for life."

Yet, Xiao Yun’s Brother gave a miserable laugh, his eyes gradually filling with hatred. He glared at the Sifang Palace, "It’s that thing! It’s what caused all of this mess!"

"You’re no match for it," said Xu Huo, moving his injured arm. "But the first floor is about to be blown away, and the Black Armored People have lost more than half; for a short time, the dungeon’s control over the area might not be so strong. You could try leading the others and escape from the county."

"Escape from the county?" Xiao Yun’s Brother slowly stood up, showing no pity for his fellow townspeople. "Everyone has eaten human flesh, what difference does it make if they go out?"

"Besides, when they were conscious, they knew what Sifang Palace was. To save their own lives, they dragged outsiders down with them; some even profited from it. There’s nothing sad about the death of sinners."

Xu Huo’s gaze swept over the unconscious child. "At least I think it would be a shame if you died."

"Thank you." Xiao Yun’s Brother took steps toward the crowd.

Having failed to use the Spiritual World to evacuate the people of Sifang Palace City, Xu Huo planned to retreat. As he had said, it’s unlikely for the boss to return anytime soon, and it would be safe to wait until the end of the instance without issue.

Perhaps Xiao Yun was too conspicuous, as a tentacle flew out from the second floor of Sifang Palace, wrapped around her, lifted her high, and snapped her in half!

The sound of bones cracking was clear, and Xiao Yun, now lifeless, was thrown down. Xiao Yun’s Brother, who had arrived later, did not catch his sister’s body but instead leaped up to embrace the retracting tentacle and was pulled into the second floor of Sifang Palace!

The entrances to the second floor of the palace gradually closed, the retracting tentacle and the person brought inside went silent all at once.

It was nearly dawn, and a fine drizzle began to fall again. Xu Huo looked at the people walking slowly on the streets like wandering ghosts and picked up the unconscious child, heading towards the entrance of Sifang Palace.

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

"Ding!"

The crisp and pleasant sound of a lighter opening and closing rang out, one building after another burst into flames, plunging the city back into a sea of fire.

"Xu..." Yi Pei’s voice came from beneath the rubble, Xu Huo went over, pulled her out, and poured a Self-Healing Potion down her throat; then, following the trail of bullet marks on the ground, he found Fang Penghui and others who had already died.

The player in the black shirt hadn’t died either, but he was in better shape than Yi Pei, not yet at the point where he couldn’t move, though he was crippled in one hand and one leg.

He leaned against a tree, eyes fixed on Xu Huo.

"If I were you, I’d put the items away." Xu Huo said.

The man in the black shirt smiled and indeed put away his items, but remarked, "If you were me, I’m afraid you would have used those items to attack by now."

"Want a smoke?" Xu Huo offered, taking out a pack of cigarettes.

"Give me one." The man in the black shirt managed to grasp a cigarette with his other functioning hand and brought it to his lips. "About Sifang Palace..."

"As long as Suitcase Man doesn’t come, we’ll live until the end of the instance." Xu Huo also lit a cigarette for himself and took a drag before speaking. "Let’s rest for three to five minutes and then get going. The pond will flood again soon, and there’ll be no place to find a boat."

After finishing a cigarette, the man in the black shirt extended his hand. "Bian Jin, E27-007 player."

"Xu Zhi." Xu Huo shook his hand, then handed the child to him and hoisted Yi Pei on his back.

The group walked towards the pond, Yi Pei resting on Xu Huo’s back, weakly said, "Won’t the boss come to kill us?"

"At this point, if it’s still unwilling to show itself, it probably doesn’t dare to leave Sifang Palace." Xu Huo said. "Its house has been bombed, which should pain it for a few days."

Yi Pei cracked a smile, "I didn’t realize you had such a sense of humor."