Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 717 There are Strange Tales in the Wax Figure Gallery

Chapter 717: Chapter 717 There are Strange Tales in the Wax Figure Gallery

Only Xu Huo and Bai Wenxian were left, and they looked at each other. Bai Wenxian said, "I’ll tell the last story."

Xu Huo glanced at the wax figure beside him whose head had been burned off, took out the "Homologous Locator," looked at it, and then signaled Bai Wenxian to begin.

The tale from the Strange Tale Room continued, and at the same time, Jie Ling on the floor managed to find a clue.

The envelope containing the clue was hung in the hall outside the Strange Tale Room, held by a wax figure, with another wax figure beside it. She hadn’t seen it when she entered earlier, but now standing there, it must also be there to deliver the clues.

"Just as I said, Long Aotian’s story was unreliable; it looks like he didn’t get the clue at all."

"Could he have gone to find Xu Ruosi?" Jie Ling peered towards the Wax Figure Gallery and hesitated. She did not leave but instead opened the envelope, and when she saw the contents of the letter inside, her pupils violently shook, and she threw what was in her hands away and stepped back several paces.

As the cast-off letter hit the ground, the lights in the hall suddenly went out, and she caught a glimpse of a few glow-in-the-dark characters on the back of the paper. The letter was folded, and from her position, she could only make out the words "The real clue" when all of a sudden, a faint light flashed from the direction of the Wax Figure Gallery. She instinctively looked up only to see a short figure flash past the doorway!

Jie Ling’s body jerked to a stop, and then a pair of small hands touched her lower back, forcefully pushing her towards the Wax Figure Gallery!

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"...Li Ping closed the bedroom door, locked all three locks, and even moved a table against the door. Hearing the footsteps fading away outside, he breathed a sigh of relief, intending to pour himself a glass of water. But as soon as he turned around, he saw the red dress draped over his couch, the sleeves swaying in the night breeze, as if greeting him just like before..."

"The story’s over."

Bai Wenxian paused for a moment and then looked at Xu Huo with a smile, "Why don’t you tell one too?"

The room had already started to rise; Xu Huo said, "I’d rather not."

Both of them were clearly aware that staying here alone would only increase the risk. So after Jie Ling left, they were down to one story spot, and they hadn’t managed to get a clue.

When the room stopped, they stepped out one after another into a pitch-black hall where they first saw a faint glow on the floor.

Bai Wenxian took out a special item for illumination, picked up the letter, shielded the light with his hand, and after looking at the text on the back read, "Find the pair of twins, and you will find the real clue."

Turning the letter over, the front was actually smeared with crayon drawing of two stick figures holding hands, a boy and a girl, with matching patterns on their clothes but no facial features.

"Twins?" Bai Wenxian was slightly stunned, "Why...!"

Xu Huo also saw everything clearly. The tale of the twins had just been told by Jie Ling, yet bizarrely it matched the clue she had received.

"Could it be that Xu Ruosi and Long Aotian, who left earlier, heard her story through some means and intentionally used this method to scare her?" Bai Wenxian first suspected the two who had left earlier.

Although they agreed to stick together, it was not impossible that the people ahead had obtained a clue and wanted to hold back those behind them, knowing Jie Ling was very timid.

"The Strange Tale Room is underground; there shouldn’t be any other way to get down there, and they also didn’t leave any special items in the room," Xu Huo said: "If it was the people in front who wanted to scare Jie Ling, she should be waiting outside for us."

The room was indeed underground, surrounded by no gaps, but there was something off about this Wax Figure Gallery we came from.

"Maybe there was an accident, the envelope is all here," Bai Wenxian said. "Under normal circumstances, she would never just toss away the clues."

"We can’t rule out that Jie Ling was deliberately being mysterious," Xu Huo pondered. "To create psychological pressure for us."

Bai Wenxian thought for a moment and nodded, "Got a clue for free, let’s head out first and talk."

Xu Huo paused, not saying ’us’, and the two retraced their steps back to the Wax Figure Gallery.

The lights in the Wax Figure Gallery were all out, and without Jie Ling’s string of lighting items, the lamp in Bai Wenxian’s hand seemed rather feeble, barely illuminating a few meters ahead.

"Something’s not right," Bai Wenxian turned to ask Xu Huo walking behind him, "Do you have lighting..."

Before he could finish, he saw the other person turn his back to him, holding a sword and swinging it forward!

The Sword Qi Barrier pierced through the corridor, tapering off at the end before disappearing. The next second, as the two approached, they discovered a wax figure at the corner with half its head sliced off, its body maintaining a posture as if it were peering forward, leaning against the wall.

"Is it... tracking us?" Bai Wenxian raised an eyebrow. "I don’t remember there being a wax figure in this pose when we came through the gallery before."

"There wasn’t," Xu Huo kicked the wax figure’s head into the Strange Tale Room, and only after hearing a series of thuds inside did he enter.

The figures inside the Strange Tale Room, whether kneeling or standing, were bidding farewell to the "bodies," and several of them had been knocked down. Aside from these few, most of the other wax figures had shattered into pieces, the wax "bodies" included. Both the walls and the floor bore marks of a fight.

"It’s really happened," Bai Wenxian took a glance.

Just then, the room with the cremation furnace suddenly echoed with the "click-clack" sounds of footsteps. Xu Huo sprang to the doorway in an instant, tossing the lighting item inside; the room lit up immediately, but even so, he still failed to catch sight of the source of the noise. Instead, the furnace’s moving platform suddenly retracted back into the furnace body, and intense flames spurted out!

"Jie Ling?!" Bai Wenxian was a step late, only managing to catch a glimpse of the top of a head. He rushed forward, only to be stopped by Xu Huo. "It’s a wax figure."

Bai Wenxian took a closer look and indeed saw the "person" on the platform melting through the gaps in the flames.

"There’s a problem," he quickly analyzed. "Xu Ruosi and Long Aotian wouldn’t just place a fake Jie Ling here, it’s completely meaningless."

"The strange footsteps we heard just now, the drawing of the twins from the clues Jie Ling got, they all match up with the story we talked about. It’s clear that besides the five of us, there are others in this venue!"

"It’s not necessarily a person," Xu Huo said. "I’ve only encountered one or two Level D Copies, rarely dealing with copies that have special items."

The two came to the same conclusion. Bai Wenxian said, "Indeed, it would increase the difficulty of the copy, but it’s just unclear whether it’s the copy boss or some independent special item. It’s not strange for a copy to have multiple entities hunting the players."

"Click-clack, click-clack, click-clack..." The footsteps sounded again from down the corridor. The two exchanged glances, each holding an item, approaching the hallway one to the left and one to the right.

The footsteps initially maintained a steady pace but suddenly accelerated as they approached, as if starting to run. Bai Wenxian immediately charged in, and just as Xu Huo was about to follow, a hand suddenly extended from behind and rested on his shoulder!