Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 721: Rules of the Murder Game

Chapter 721: Chapter 721: Rules of the Murder Game

"Do you see it?" he pointed to the wall beside the front door.

Xu Huo and Jie Ling looked in the direction he indicated, and only then did they notice small ripples on the wall of the Wax Figure Gallery that had appeared from melted wax solidifying again; at first glance, they looked like continuous decorative patterns.

"No wonder I always felt something was off," Jie Ling said at this moment. "We’ve smashed quite a few wax figures, and the broken ones are still around, but new wax figures keep appearing. They can’t just materialize out of thin air, so could it be that these ripples in the wax on the walls are where they’re coming from?"

"I have a bad feeling about this."

The three of them exchanged looks. The Wax Figure Gallery was now a sealed space. If the wax on the walls kept melting, they would eventually be trapped here!

Bai Wenxian reflexively rushed towards the main entrance, but the doorway was already blocked by a giant wax figure. Attacking the wax figure with props not only had no effect, but it also caused the giant to start melting.

Jie Ling quickly stopped him. "We’d better go find Xu Ruosi and Long Aotian. Maybe if we find them, we’ll be able to get out."

"Haven’t you realized yet? Finding corpses is useless!" Bai Wenxian glanced at Xu Huo. "If it were useful, those two from the Strange Tale Room would have been enough."

Xu Huo ignored him and tried using the "Eye of the Deceased," but he also failed to break out of the Gallery.

"Strange Tales at Night... Surely they don’t expect us to spend the night here," he joked. "After all, it’s already dark outside. Why not rest for the night and maybe by tomorrow morning, the Gallery will open on its own."

Jie Ling and Bai Wenxian looked at him in disbelief.

Xu Huo disregarded their stares and continued, "Don’t be so pessimistic. At least we’ve figured out three things."

"First, the ghosts from the Strange Tales that didn’t yield any clues won’t appear."

"Second, when the Wax Figure Gallery is above ground, the ghosts from the Strange Tales also don’t appear."

"Third, when the Wax Figure Gallery is underground, there’s absolutely no way to open it."

"What do you mean?" Bai Wenxian frowned.

"The ghosts we’ve seen are all wax figures," Xu Huo explained. "The ones walking around in the room, following us, without exception."

"Wax figures can’t make human sounds."

"But we all heard children’s laughter," Jie Ling looked at him and Bai Wenxian. "Didn’t you just say you heard the Red Dress Woman laughing too?"

"That’s also true. But you’re missing one premise – the Red Dress Woman shouldn’t appear in the Wax Figure Gallery," Xu Huo said. "To test this, I just told a story about the Human Skin Ghost, and this character didn’t appear in the Gallery."

Jie Ling immediately stepped away from Bai Wenxian, and also kept her distance from Xu Huo.

"Don’t you think your deduction is too arbitrary?" Bai Wenxian sneered. "What makes you think that the Wax Figure Gallery will follow your so-called rules? Couldn’t it be random?"

"Of course there’s that possibility," Xu Huo responded calmly. "But since it’s a game, it wouldn’t be fun if it didn’t follow the rules of the game."

Bai Wenxian mocked, "Talking about rules in a killing game?"

Xu Huo replied with a faint smile, "Just because you don’t follow the rules doesn’t mean there are no rules."

"There’s a fifty percent chance of getting a clue after telling a story, and no clue for breaking the rules. These two points correspond to the situations of the five of us."

However, Bai Wenxian argued, "Jie Ling said she saw two wax figures. If there really are two clues and the wax figure from before waited for her to come out, then we should have seen the wax figure when we came out. Her statement doesn’t hold water, and neither does yours."

"Don’t rush, let me finish," Xu Huo cut him off, returning to the previous topic, "When the Wax Figure Gallery was underground, aside from the lady in the red dress, the other wax figures could only make footsteps sounds. But when we got back to the surface to look for Xu Ruosi and the others, aside from laughter, we weren’t followed by any wax figures."

"It does seem that way," Jie Ling reflected. "So does encountering the wax figure again after coming out of the Strange Tale Room mean we’re back underground?"

"The Wax Figure Gallery didn’t move," Bai Wenxian stated.

"We didn’t feel the Wax Figure Gallery move when we climbed out from above the Strange Tale Room either," Xu Huo added.

Bai Wenxian couldn’t refute this point since the existence of the Wax Figure Gallery was special in itself. After a moment, he let out a cold sneer and his fingers twitched slightly, "You mean to say I tampered with something in between..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Xu Huo closed in on him in a second, simultaneously using "Extreme Fatigue" and "Progress Bar Disappearance," the former to weaken his opponent’s combat power and the latter to guard against any possible effects and properties of items that could act on himself. Then, the "Murmur Sphere" made its appearance, and the Spiritual World instantly opened up!

Bai Wenxian’s face showed alarm, and while retreating, he acquired a pair of earplugs and an eye mask. He also threw out a dozen white, hyperbright spheres, their light instantly illuminating the entire hall in white. The overly dazzling light nearly made one reflexively close their eyes!

Xu Huo closed his eyes too.

Taking advantage of this gap, Bai Wenxian attacked, sweeping a long whip studded with blades through the air!

"Severance Gate" was immediately set to block, but unexpectedly, the whip was so powerful that it left several gashes on the gate, and the tail of the whip even curled around the gate to strike Xu Huo!

Even with his eyes shut, Xu Huo could still judge the position of the weapon. He stepped back slightly, raised his sword, and cut the long whip into two. Then, with a turn of his hand next to him, he immediately appeared behind Bai Wenxian!

"Enemy’s Distance!" Bai Wenxian turned around and spread his arms forward, pushing Xu Huo into the nearby wall, creating distance between them.

"People’s Verdict!" Bai Wenxian raised a Cross. Xu Huo, still by the wall, was forced against it. Seeing Bai Wenxian take out a nail-like item, Xu Huo made a move and the air immediately compressed into a three-square-meter shield in front of him. The air was compressed manifold, effectively increasing the distance, and so when the shield formed, he was also freed from the influence of the Cross.

Bai Wenxian’s expression shifted subtly, and at that moment, the effect of the bright light item was about to pass. He intended to turn and run towards the Wax Figure Gallery but didn’t expect a door to suddenly appear behind him. Unable to stop his momentum, he crashed into it and immediately stepped into thin air, plummeting down into the bottomless Shen Yuan!

To avoid being disturbed by items, he had deliberately sealed his hearing, but as he fell, Bai Wenxian gradually felt his earplugs lose their effect. All kinds of sounds filled the darkness, frantically pouring into his ears!

"This is an illusion!" He steadied his mind and pulled out a glow stick to throw towards the ground, "Careless you!"

In the darkness, a point of green light seemed to respond to the glow stick. Bai Wenxian grabbed an axe and smashed it towards the glow!

The sensation of falling disappeared, and Bai Wenxian took out a firework. As the sparks flew, he himself rushed towards the location of the green light!