Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 732: The Implicit Story Connection

Chapter 732: Chapter 732: The Implicit Story Connection

The moment he was stuck, the doll became like a rampant mechanical being, its limbs and head twisting wildly. Its jaw clacked open and shut. What was critical was that its killing intent wasn’t hindered by these movements, as the metal rods in its hands relentlessly stabbed towards Xu Huo’s face!

Xu Huo didn’t hesitate. He grabbed its head and twisted it off before dismantling the limbs and tossing them to the ground.

By now, Jie Ling had already controlled quite a few dolls to pounce on the animated dolls as targets, but this did nothing to turn the tide, because more and more dolls began to stir and rush towards them frantically.

Xu Huo swiftly maneuvered between the display cabinets. After dismantling seven or eight dolls, he still hadn’t found what he was looking for. He was considering whether to exit the gallery first when suddenly, a muffled knocking came from the wall beside him. He immediately pulled away, and just as he moved, several metal rods shot through the wall where he had just been standing!

In the few seconds that followed, a line of dotted holes was punched densely through the wall. Two human models broke through the wall, straightened their heads hanging askew on their necks, and charged towards Xu Huo—the metal rods they held were long steel needles from the Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall, each capable of penetrating two display cabinets!

Not just the display cabinets; inevitably, the running dolls were also skewered together, whether it be heads or bodies. But these dolls did not lose their ability to move. They simply linked up and ran around amidst the cabinets. Those stuck in the aisle, unable to move, would forcibly tear their bodies off the long needles, a scene both laughable and horrifying.

"Yu Huo!" Jie Ling cried out in alarm.

Xu Huo’s expression remained unchanged.

After coming out of the Wax Figure Gallery, his first target was actually the Doll Apparel Shop.

The progress in solving the Wax Figure Gallery was one-sixth, so the clue given by the wax figure should also be one of the galleries that needed solving.

There were no fewer than twenty galleries in The Solar Museum City. The pictures of the twin dolls seemed to match the story characters Jie Ling spoke of, but they actually corresponded to the Doll Apparel Shop. This place was most likely another puzzle gallery; however, there were no corpses here, only the wildly moving dolls and "good neighbors"—the mannequins—leaving no clear clues yet discernible.

The biggest difference with these dolls was that parts of their bodies had seams from being disassembled.

Of course, it could be as Liu Chengyi said, simply to save on costs.

Xu Huo grabbed two dolls and stuffed them into a luggage hold, then kicked away the approaching mannequins to find out where Jie Ling was.

Jie Ling had been buried by dolls, as several animated dolls and a few mannequins kept stabbing at the pile of dolls with metal rods and long needles, sporadically pulling them out with blood on their tips.

Xu Huo promptly opened the wall beside him, and when Jie Ling burst out of the doll pile as he jumped into the Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall, her eyes lit up at the sight of him.

Xu Huo grabbed her hand and ran downstairs, only to find that the situation in the Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall wasn’t much better. The mannequins in the hall had all come to life, more agile than the dolls, and even had the option of "perishing together," intent on embracing the players with bodies full of steel needles.

When the two reached the first floor, Xiao Ling and the others were struggling against the mannequins, with long needles everywhere on the doors and walls, leaving them with some minor external injuries.

"Why are you all still here?" Jie Ling asked in surprise.

They had run quickly and should have left the Doll Apparel Shop first, so how did they end up at the Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall?

"Do you think we want to be here?" Long Aotian knocked down a mannequin, "Take a look outside the door!"

Outside the door were nothing but dolls——different sizes, all crowding against the glass door, their jaws opening and closing as they waved metal signs and shouted outside.

"You see," Long Aotian came around to their side, "even if you get out, they will chase after you."

In fact, they hadn’t been able to get out at all, and were directly blocked on the first floor. Like Xu Huo, they had come through by breaking through the walls, originally thinking they could leave through The Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall. But it turned out to be much the same on both sides. The only benefit was that the mannequins could enter the doll clothing store, but the dolls would not enter The Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall.

But mannequins wouldn’t be rendered virtually immobile like the dolls after being taken apart. They could use long steel needles to reassemble their bodies and stand up again.

"This is just too draining, all that strength gone to waste." Xiao Ling saw the endless stream of mannequins and threw a toy car toward the front door, "Drive-by killer!"

As the toy car hit the front door, the wall immediately collapsed, burying all the dolls outside. Then, the toy car burst out from beneath the debris, made a sharp turn on the street, and parallel to the main entrance, rammed the rubble and the packed dolls right back in front of the doll clothing store.

When Xu Huo and the others left the therapy hall, the toy car was still ramming into the doll clothing store, effectively using the dolls to block the store entrance.

However, before they could find a safe place to take shelter, banging noises came from the Insanity Prison. Standing in the street, they could see two mannequins climbing out onto the prison roof, scanning the area just like real people, and successfully spotting their targets.

The two mannequins pointed in the direction of Xu Huo and his group, and the mannequins from The Human Model Tower and The Insanity Prison ran out.

"Fuck, will this ever end?" Long Aotian looked around, "Let’s hide in the shops. We are too obvious in a group. I’m off first, good luck, and we’ll meet tomorrow if we’re fortunate!"

With that, he was the first to dive into a nearby shop and quickly disappeared from sight.

Xu Huo didn’t leave Jie Ling behind, taking him into a store not far away, while Liu Chengyi ran off like Long Aotian. Only Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan stuck with them.

"There’s a small warehouse here!" Xu Ruosi searched the shop and found, "The walls are sturdy. If we lock the door, we should be okay. Maybe we can hide out here for the night."

Xu Huo had already seen signs of mannequins at the end of the street. His eyes moved slightly, "I’ll go up and have a look."

After putting on the Invisibility Cloak, he climbed up to the roof, first looking towards the Doll Clothing Store. The mannequins had already started to come out and search for people there as well.

Actually, looking at the layout of these venues, it seemed that each themed gallery had hidden narrative connections. For instance, the mannequins from The Human Model Tower had serial numbers that corresponded to graves in The Beheaded Cemetery.

At first glance, The Insanity Prison and The Zhen Mountain Therapy Hall seemed to have very different content, but upon closer reflection, it became clear that these two venues actually represented two factions: the victims and the victimizers, with a clear distinction—the victimizers wore white robes or coats.

Most of the mannequins that had come out belonged to the victimizer faction.

However, whether the mannequins would move outside their venues didn’t mean much. What was important was the connection between the Doll Clothing Store and the other galleries.

If mannequins had a life-and-death connection, then the dolls from the Doll Clothing Store could also match up with the pregnant women in the Insanity Prison.