Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 749: A Permanent Solution is the Best Solution

Chapter 749: Chapter 749: A Permanent Solution is the Best Solution

At the Corpse-Hiding Hotel, if one had heard the footsteps from the Mirror Hotel, they wouldn’t have been so steady and regular.

As for Peng Fengnian’s firm assertion that no players had come in before them, this still needed to be verified—it wasn’t that Xu Huo didn’t trust these people, but this was inherently a very difficult thing to verify.

However, the footsteps heard in the Mirror Hotel could intersect with the trajectories of the players outside... This meant that the "footsteps" heard before entering and after entering were not the same, which also matched the fact that the "footsteps" could lead people into the Mirror World when heard in the Corpse-Hiding Hotel, yet hearing "footsteps" in the Mirror Hotel didn’t provide a way out.

Assuming this fact was true, the players were completely trapped—the Mirror Hotel really was a place you could enter, but not leave.

"We’ve speculated before that maybe we just haven’t heard the correct footsteps in the Mirror Hotel," Lin Zhenhuai said. "We shouldn’t wander around in the Mirror Hotel, maybe footsteps will appear on other floors..."

"That’s not valid," Xu Huo countered directly. "The footsteps in the Corpse-Hiding Hotel follow the players, and you have also tracked the footsteps in the Mirror Hotel from the outside. You’ve also confirmed with other players the overlaps between the footsteps and their movements; the footsteps in the Corpse-Hiding Hotel last for varying durations, you should have encountered the external footsteps at least once."

"Unless you’re extremely unlucky and never encounter them, then it means that the footsteps from the outside are avoiding the players in the Mirror Hotel."

"That... may not necessarily be the case," Gao Xiaoyue said. "We haven’t met any players who’ve experienced overlapping footsteps from both sides."

The players who entered before them would still take risks to search; dragging on till now, the greatest kindness Peng Fengnian and the others could offer to the newcomers was to tell them that hiding in the rooms was safer.

"Not encountering them also speaks volumes," Xiao Ling said. "Maybe it’s a restriction on the players in the Mirror Hotel."

All said and done, they were back to square one: the footsteps heard by the players in the Mirror Hotel didn’t hold much significance.

"Does this mean we can only wait for death?" Peng Fengnian couldn’t hide his disappointment.

"Not necessarily," Xu Huo said. "On the contrary, if the footsteps heard in the Mirror Hotel are meaningless, that in itself is of great significance."

"You mean, the Mirror Hotel itself has a flaw?" Xiao Ling responded quickly, pondering a moment before adding, "Right, if the footsteps heard inside are really different from those outside, as in the genuine walking sounds of players, it would be strange for them to filter through."

"So the conclusion is?" Sun Bo finally couldn’t help but interject, "Do we still follow the footsteps?"

How was this any different from what they had been doing before?

Xu Huo ignored his comment and once again began to inquire about details related to the monster.

Even though Peng Fengnian and the others had not checked all the rooms, they were surprisingly certain that the Mirror Hotel only had one such monster. Whether it was due to sensitivity to sound or a fondness for the people walking outside the rooms, no matter when they went out, the monster would appear very quickly. If the group split up, the monster would only pick off one at a time.

Peng Fengnian and his group had tested this by spreading out over different floors, and it was through this method that they had searched most of the rooms.

As for the lair and excretion site, they hadn’t discovered anything, but considering they couldn’t leave the Mirror Hotel, it was also possible that the monster’s den was outside.

"Verifying this isn’t difficult," Xu Huo paused before asking about the times of sunrise and sunset in the Mirror Hotel.

The expressions of Lin Zhenhuai and the others beside him showed no change; clearly, they had previously paid careful attention to these key points. Now Xu Huo was asking, simply retracing their steps.

The Mirror Hotel had the same day and night cycle as the outside, not just sunrise and sunset times. The timing of sunlight appearance and even the angles of shadows had been meticulously measured.

The data was so detailed it somewhat surprised Xu Huo, prompting Xiao Ling to bluntly ask, "Are you guys out of your minds?"

Lin Zhenhuai smiled good-naturedly, "Without extraordinary intelligence, we can only compensate with carefulness."

After speaking, he turned his attention expectantly to Xu Huo, seemingly hoping for a different conclusion.

The Mirror Hotel, or The Solar Museum City, had long daylight hours, from six in the morning until nine at night, and for the remaining nine hours it was shrouded in deep darkness—this was especially so for the Corpse-Hiding Hotel, or the Mirror Hotel.

"It looks like we only have one choice now, and that’s to wait for the next footsteps to appear," Xu Huo said. "It would be best to search the entire hotel again."

"Search the entire place?" Peng Fengnian voiced hesitantly, "But that monster..."

"Then we kill it first," Xu Huo stated without hesitation.

Sun Bo laughed beside him, but didn’t speak.

Peng Fengnian hesitated before saying, "You must have seen that monster just now. It’s not easy to deal with, and it has a particularly strong regenerative capability. Wounds inflicted by props heal very quickly, and unless it’s critically hit, it won’t even bleed."

Having been through two battles, they had mostly resorted to holding the monster at bay afterward, not wasting props on a futile fight.

Xu Huo hadn’t faced off directly against the monster and wasn’t in a position to judge, but said, "Even if we can’t kill it, it’s best to inflict heavy damage and see if it really cannot leave the Mirror Hotel."

"I don’t see the point," Gao Xiaoyue said. "So what if it can go out? The outside is still the Mirror World, and even if we go out, it wouldn’t mean anything."

"The main purpose is to find its den and excretion site," Xu Huo explained. "It’s a living animal, it must have a place to excrete. If it’s not in the hotel, and if it can’t leave the hotel, where could that place be?"

"That place exists within this space, yet we haven’t been able to find it," Xiao Ling said with a laugh. "Maybe if we wound it, it will return to its den on its own."

Xu Huo didn’t believe that following the monster would let them pass through space and leave the Mirror Hotel; the theory of multiple spaces was still in doubt, and that needed to be confirmed first before continuing with the next steps.

"What do you think?" He asked Lin Zhenhuai and the rest directly, "Why don’t you go back and discuss it with your companions before deciding? Dealing with that monster won’t be easy; we need everyone involved if we’re short-staffed."

Indeed, Peng Fengnian and his group were already in poor spirits; they couldn’t have some people facing life-and-death risks while others reaped the benefits without lifting a finger.

"I’ll go ask," Lin Zhenhuai said.

Sun Bo also wanted to accompany him.

This time Xu Huo added, "You’ve probably tried every method you could think of. Since none worked, we can only seek other ways. Risk is certain."

This time, Lin Zhenhuai didn’t say anything further and left, followed by Sun Bo.

Peng Fengnian, who previously held great hope for Xu Huo, now seemed somewhat despondent, "To find the den, we don’t need to take such a big risk, we could just lead it away and search elsewhere."

Xu Huo didn’t explain too much, merely stating, "A one-time fix is the optimal solution."