Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 826: Spider’s Funeral

Chapter 826: Chapter 826: Spider’s Funeral

Compared to Dr. Deng’s eagerness, Xu Huo was much more indifferent. He didn’t linger on this "futile trip" and wasn’t in a rush to seek an expert who understood the Perfect Potion.

"The Black Epaulette will definitely be watching the castle for a while, you can’t leave for now," he said after a moment. "I’ll get you a non-player ticket in a couple of days; you can go to another game district then."

Seeing that he was about to leave, Dr. Deng hurriedly stopped him, "Don’t you want to get the Perfect Potion? Your evolution rate is still very low, if you get the S-Version Drug sooner, you might completely solve the trouble before any evolutionary side effects manifest!"

"This is a situation no one could have predicted. I’m sorry they suspect you because of me, but I sincerely can help you refine the potion and I also know a lot of details about Dr. Wu. Even if you get the Perfect Potion later, at least you should have a trustworthy person to verify its authenticity."

Xu Huo turned around upon hearing this and suddenly asked, "Do you know how long an Evolver’s normal lifespan is?"

"If you don’t misuse the Evolution Potion, you have at least 105 years before any evolutionary side effects appear. This is the effect for ordinary people taking the Evolution Potion, the normal lifespan of evolving players can be extended from fifteen to fifty years, though most players suffer from side effects earlier due to excessive use of potions," Dr. Deng was well-versed in this common knowledge.

"That is to say, as long as I follow the procedure in taking the Evolution Potion, I still have at least a hundred years of life," Xu Huo said. "By then, do you think the evolutionary side effects will still matter compared to life nearing an end?"

Just like everyone knows that irregular eating and sleeping habits can cause illness and shorten lifespan, but as the end of life is still far off, it’s hard to have a concrete sense of this, so over the long years, people don’t pay much attention to these details.

It’s the same with evolutionary side effects for players.

Don’t players know the consequences of abusing Evolution Potion? Of course, they do, but to survive in the game, they have to improve their evolution rate in this way. In fact, the majority of players in the game are young adults.

If Xu Huo truly evolved through the potion provided by the game, rather than relying on Dr. Deng’s private research, it’s better to hope that the Game Government might develop and publicize the Perfect Evolution Potion when he is older.

And since Xu Huo was using the S-Version Drug, Dr. Deng’s proposal was even less necessary.

"Do you think a player’s lifespan is only a mere hundred fifty years?" Dr. Deng seemed to make a significant decision, his expression serious. "Those are players without perfect evolution!"

"Hasn’t Dr. Wu been active for such a long timeline, isn’t it because of the benefits brought by perfect evolution?"

They had discussed this question before. Looking at the time span of Dr. Wu distributing Perfect Potions, Xu Huo thought it likely that this person’s identity had been inherited. After all, "Dr. Wu" would have also undergone a long period of study before producing the Perfect Potion, and if he was in his twenties or thirties when he created it, by now his age would be quite considerable.

However, after learning about "curve time," he had another thought.

"He could be relying on curve time to travel through different spaces and times."

Dr. Deng laughed after hearing this, "Do you think jumping through space in curve time can rejuvenate you? As far as I know, that’s not possible!"

"I don’t understand the theory, but if this method worked, the Game Government would never change, Super Players wouldn’t die, the world would have been in chaos long ago."

"So your conclusion is that perfect evolution can extend a player’s lifespan," Xu Huo said thoughtfully. "But my basic evolution is already complete, even taking the Perfect Potion now wouldn’t have any effect."

"As long as there is a Perfect Potion, maybe one day it will come to be!" Dr. Deng’s eyes were fiery, exceptionally bright, "You’re not dying tomorrow, with decades of time, there must be progress!"

His words were harsh, but logical.

"I’ll consider it. For now, stay here," Xu Huo let Mr. Dong lock him back up and then walked out of the pavilion.

Looking up at the sky, a cloud... let’s call it a cloud, where two or three numbers appeared, probably because it sensed his gaze, these numbers kept fluctuating constantly between six, seven, and eight.

Indeed, professional matters should be handled by professionals, even Xu Huo hadn’t anticipated that the Black Epaulette could disguise and hide in the clouds.

"Sir," Mr. Dong came out holding a glass cabinet with a spider in it. "This spider is about to die of old age, I’d like to arrange a simple funeral for it."

Xu Huo nodded, "Where do you plan to bury it?"

"In the Garden Maze," Mr. Dong said. "There’s a pathway specifically for burying them."

Xu Huo respected his hobby and customs, "Do I need to attend the funeral?"

Mr. Dong’s eyes shifted towards him briefly, "It would certainly be better if Sir could come."

Xu Huo assured he would definitely attend. On his way back to the main castle of Rose Castle, he said, "Rose Castle is no longer an instance, you can go to other game districts to compete, but I can’t accompany you like He Pu."

"I’m not planning on leaving here for now," Mr. Dong said.

Xu Huo nodded and didn’t say more, but on his return, the Girl in the Painting and Xiao Yuan were standing at the door conveying Bai Kou’s message: she did not want to see spiders in the castle.

Meaning Mr. Dong’s spider couldn’t be brought inside.

"Bai sister seems to really hate spiders," Xiao Yuan whispered to Xu Huo, "She asked me and Xiao Chun to clean out all the cobwebs in the house."

"Many girls dislike spiders," Yan Jiayu leaned in from behind and said to Mr. Dong, "Your spider is dying, do you want me to recite scriptures for it to help it pass on? That’s how we do it where I’m from."

The glass cabinet was placed on a small table in the garden outside, where Yan Jiayu, changed into her attire, sat cross-legged by the table chanting.

Xu Huo, accompanied by the Girl in the Painting and Xiao Yuan, stood as witnesses, while Mr. Dong fed the spider for the last time. However, the poison spider, adorned with a flower, was too frail to move or eat, ending up motionless on his finger.

Mr. Dong silently stroked the spider’s head, said his silent goodbyes, then carefully extracted the venom from the spider’s body using a small knife and covered it with a piece of white cloth. Led by Yan Jiayu, he solemnly proceeded to the Garden Maze.

After the final farewell, Mr. Dong buried the spider in a wooden box under the roots of a flower.

"Shouldn’t there be a tombstone?" Yan Jiayu asked.

The adults didn’t react notably, only Xiao Yuan looked up in surprise and confusion at her, then at Xu Huo and the Girl in the Painting next to him, before his eyes, puzzled and lost, fell.