Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 763: There are still many good people

Chapter 763: Chapter 763: There are still many good people

The conclusion they reached was that players might have been present in Zone 009 much earlier, with the leading figure being the descendant of the Shang family who rebuilt Museum City; otherwise, it would be hard to explain his alibi that was almost like having a double.

So many people disappeared, but their bodies were not found, and yet their death videos were recorded as if they truly happened. Considering the frequent transportation of live people or bodies to certain places, scholars believed that the videos were actually shot in the hotel, but in a space invisible on the surface.

If the descendant of the Shang family could come and go, then it was entirely possible that there was a separate, small space here. Such a stable small space was not common, and perhaps it could become a separate instance—yes, the government of Zone 009 already knew the secret that players could become instance owners. If they could get their hands on an instance, it would be far more valuable than a high-level item.

However, Zone 009 had not succeeded in fully integrating into the game world until the very end. During that time, even more people chose to give up, especially after the full opening of the game world. This place that had long resisted capture became as useless as chicken ribs, with only a few persisting.

Having seen so many die before them, Teacher Pan and others came fully prepared, at least ensuring that they could return alive even if they found no results. Unfortunately, they did not expect that even holding tickets would be futile when they entered.

According to Teacher Pan’s latest diary, the first thing they did when they entered with tickets was to clear customs. After being trapped in the corpse-hiding space, all other tickets and Return Tickets became invalid.

Teacher Pan speculated that this might be due to the space’s uniqueness, after all, the game world was so vast, and it would not be strange for any kind of existence to be there.

Xu Huo had a slightly different view.

When the Potion was found, a strange device appeared on the wrist of the doll. Although the device destroyed itself, having it with the Potion was not ordinary.

If the Potion was deliberately left there by Dr. Wu, this was undoubtedly a lifeline left for the player who found the Potion. The evidence was that even the Tickets were unable to escape the space, but while that device was operating, all players were ejected from the space. This probably wasn’t as simple as a coincidence.

Moreover, that space was able to receive game notifications but couldn’t use Tickets, which obviously contradicted the game rules. Where the game could connect, Tickets should be unobstructed.

From the hints in the psychotherapy room, to the dolls that matched, and the Potion hidden inside the dolls, all of this nearly told him a fact—that indeed someone was painstakingly spreading the Potion, even using this method to screen players.

Some Potions could also be found in certain instances, but not hidden so deeply. What’s more, if this was truly an S-Version Drug, it would prove that Dr. Wu had been moving between worlds long before just to escape, and it wouldn’t be strange for him to possess some special abilities. The game rules were also made by people; turning a certain space into a special zone that only received signals one way was not hard to comprehend.

However, he couldn’t verify these things at the moment.

Teacher Pan and the others failed to get out even when facing life and death danger, indicating that Xu Huo’s previous speculation about the instance’s one-day cycle was at least half correct because the final clearance information did not mention whether the mystery of time was solved, so his speculation was not entirely correct, but it was a fact that Lin Zhenhuai and the others couldn’t get out.

He packed up the materials and hurried to the Doll Apparel Shop before dawn.

The Doll Apparel Shop was the only place other than Corpse-Hiding Hotel that had dolls. If Dr. Wu had really appeared here, maybe he had hidden more than one Potion.

No other players blocked the way this time, and when Xu Huo arrived at the Doll Apparel Shop, he realized at least half of the dolls had been disassembled, with parts strewn all over. The remaining dolls were still resilient, and he was "welcomed" by steel pins as soon as he entered.

After kicking away the two dolls that rushed at him, he closed the door, put on the Invisibility Cloak, and continued inward.

The dolls, with poor eyesight and hearing, lost their target and randomly threw a few steel pins before toppling over onto the floor. Xu Huo rummaged through the cloth and debris and found a doll holding a smaller doll in a pile that looked like discarded old dolls in the corner.

He didn’t see the one with a knife, but this one did match the children’s figure in the nursery rhyme.

He disassembled the limbs of the doll and eventually found a slot in its belly, but unfortunately, it was empty when opened.

The Potion had already been taken by someone else.

Sighing lightly, Xu Huo placed the broken doll into the luggage compartment and searched a bit more before leaving.

When he stepped out, it was already broad daylight. Not far away, several players were fighting, including the figures of Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan. He glanced at them and then withdrew his gaze, moving from the doorway to a shop dozens of meters away. He walked in leisurely, and a few minutes later, he came out, tossing the body of Old Eagle to the ground.

"Finally some smart people." Of the three people from Teacher Pan’s group that had scattered, only Old Eagle had come. Lin Zhenhuai and the injured Peng Fengnian did not follow him again.

The time was almost up, and Xu Huo didn’t plan to linger any longer. A few bursts of acceleration later, he appeared at the exit of Museum City, pushed open the gate, and walked straight out.

He didn’t intend to leave Zone 009 for the time being, so he first used Sun Bo’s mobile phone to check the nearby map and found the closest car rental company to get a car. He then followed the "Random Instance-Free Safe Route" announced on the official platform.

The large influx of players was not a good thing. Those who had come early had either cleared the instance or failed and come out. Despite Zone 009 having been accessible to all players for quite some time, it was still impossible to fully control the players, and many were making trouble. He saw several bloody incidents along the way.

Driving onto a national highway, Xu Huo found the road ahead blocked, with no end in sight. He went to a nearby bus and knocked on the window.

The driver opened a crack in the window and asked warily, "What do you want?"

"I just wanted to ask what happened up ahead? Why is the traffic jammed this far? My phone is out of battery, and I can’t receive any messages," Xu Huo said.

"Go away, I don’t know either!" the driver said impatiently, waving his hand. But at that moment, a dull thud came from the back seat, and from between a row of tightly closed curtains, one was forcefully pulled aside, revealing a woman’s face next to the glass, desperately trying to say something. But she was quickly yanked back by her hair.

The curtain fell again, and the driver stared at him, "Kid, I advise you to be sensible..."

Before he could finish his sentence, his neck was suddenly strangled, leaving a deep groove, and he was lifted backward. Xu Huo raised his index finger to his lips in a shushing gesture, then said, "Could you please open the door? I’d like to ride the bus."

The driver, struggling slightly, desperately reached to press a button beside the steering wheel, and the bus’s middle door opened with a hiss. Xu Huo smiled, "It’s still the time where you can catch a hitch on a good person’s ride."