Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 878: Only by Appreciating Inner Talent Can We Call It Friendship

Chapter 878: Chapter 878: Only by Appreciating Inner Talent Can We Call It Friendship

In fact, not only Xu Huo, but several people present did not think that this would allow them to pass the level. Xiaoxiao said with a tone that saw through worldly affairs, "Sea World is no different from other sectors; there’s no such thing as a real paradise."

Xiaoxiao and her companion were lovers, who came to participate in the show in search of a way to survive. Their relationship could be considered quite devoted, but the show still did not acknowledge their "friendship."

"You Good Me Good" probably wouldn’t do a background check in advance, so even though the two knew each other, as long as it wasn’t explicitly stated, they were just close friends to each other. Even when making sacrifices for each other, it couldn’t be considered a "friendship," unless the production team became aware of their relationship during the show, or the team had a unique set of criteria to judge.

Simply put, it diverged somewhat from generally recognized displays of friendship.

"Did you reveal your romantic relationship during the tasks?" Xu Huo asked Xiaoxiao.

"No," Xiaoxiao said. "We didn’t dare to mention it... Even if other participants knew, they were here for the show too, so it wouldn’t count."

"The car we came in had surveillance," Xu Huo said. "Didn’t you know?"

"We knew, but..." Xiaoxiao began to say something but suddenly realized something, and her face turned pale as she said, "So that’s how it was... The audience had been watching us since we got on the car... Why, though? Friendship Park is the site of the show!"

"This is just your guess; it might not be true," Sha Jia consoled her, "After all, friendship has to be based on at least two people."

This statement did not comfort anyone; instead, it made Xiaoxiao cover her face and burst into tears.

A hint of awkwardness appeared on the usually calm face of Sha Jia, and Xu Huo reassured him, "You’re just not very good with words; that’s not a big fault."

Sha Jia gave an embarrassed smile.

Xiao Xianglin’s group had no results for the time being. The second round of 130 pairs had completed the tri-color confrontation before two o’clock in the afternoon. After a day and a night of depletion, more ordinary people died in the second round. There were few players willing to take ordinary people along in the game, and some of the ordinary people took advantage of their situation to betray the players.

Thus, the number of deaths in the second round was also high.

But before the players who participated in the adventure tasks of the second round had all come out, the host announced the start of the third round of confrontation.

"Unfortunately, up to now, not a single guest has gained friendship. The third round of the tri-color confrontation will consist of randomly combined individuals who remain or return to the square. I wonder if everyone feels the tension?"

The host’s voice was high-pitched, "Often at this point, the guests will drop their disguises and reveal their true natures. Without sincerity, there’s no friendship. It could be said that this is the best time for friendships to be born."

"People may not be perfect, but friendship is such a wonderful feeling. Even if you are ugly, despicable, or even of low character, you still may gain the friendship of others. Believe in yourself; there will definitely be someone who looks beyond your shell to appreciate what’s inside."

"Please, guests, show us what you’ve got!"

After listening to the host, the anxious You Si finally calmed down, "I almost do not recognize the word ’friendship’ anymore."

Actually, the host was hinting that participants disguising themselves as helpful or self-sacrificing "good people" was not the criterion for gaining friendship.

"There’s no point in playing anymore," You Si shrugged his shoulders. "It looks like I can’t pass this round; might as well leave when the game is over."

"The instance lasts seven days; you may not be able to leave when the game ends," Xu Huo said. Since the unit of friendship was two people, at the very least, they might end up with only two people left.

Unless there’s only one person left here, with no possibility of gaining friendship, one would have to wait the full seven days.

"You Good Me Good" had lost half of its participants in less than two days. In the next few days, would the remaining people have to fight each other to the last one standing?

"It seems we must find a way out," You Si glanced at the venue’s walls. "But if the instance isn’t over, most players probably can’t leave."

Giving up the game wouldn’t work. When the time comes, even if players weren’t concerned with passing, the production team would still force the players to comply. Otherwise, once the floor of the venue opens, everyone would have to feed the fish in the sea. And how long could one last in the water?

"But the production team has to choose some people to score at the end, right?" Xiaoxiao said. "Even if you don’t pass, you can still enter Sea World."

"If no friendships are born continuously, the show will just go on," Xu Huo said.

Xiaoxiao began to doubt again, "Has anyone really settled in Sea World through the show before?"

The third round of confrontation began. This time, Xu Huo randomly ended up in the first group, and his teammate was Zhuang Mengtian.

"What a coincidence." Zhuang Mengtian smiled crookedly, "You’re not thinking of picking the white ball again, are you?"

Xu Huo made a "please" gesture with his hand, "You choose first."

But Zhuang Mengtian suggested, "I think it’s easier to form a friendship if two people complete a task together. How about we both pick the yellow ball?"

Xu Huo naturally had no objections and switched to picking the yellow ball in front of everyone.

Zhuang Mengtian also picked the yellow ball, and the two decided to act together. The task they drew was a landscape painting, and the location was the botanical garden.

The cabin transported the two to the botanical garden, and unlike the botanical garden they had seen before, there was now a mountain in front of them.

The place where they emerged was right in a valley, guarded on all sides by high and dense green vegetation. The diagonally growing old trees were draped with vines that covered the valley’s sky.

Xu Huo and Zhuang Mengtian were almost buried in the vegetation.

Xu Huo was taller, and as he walked, he could peek at the situation above him, while Zhuang Mengtian was entirely below, her movements only discernible by the swaying of the plants.

To guard against poisonous insects, they wore protective suits from the start, and Zhuang Mengtian also had a repellent she had gotten from someone else. They did not need to worry about this danger, but walking was inconvenient.

"Is this place really on the sea?" she asked. "Could we have been transported to another island by a Spatial Artifact?"

"Sea World’s technological development is quite good," Xu Huo commented without much elaboration.

If the technology was advanced enough, what they had seen upon arrival—the white city—might not have been real.

"That’s true; usually only sectors with better economies like to play this kind of reality show with people’s lives..." Zhuang Mengtian didn’t finish her sentence when she suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, and then a living vine rapidly dragged her away!

With limited visibility in the woods, Xu Huo followed. He threw out kite lines several times without being able to stop her. At one point, Zhuang Mengtian tried to anchor a weapon into the ground, but unexpectedly, the ground vegetation automatically parted, not only causing her to miss but also taking her knife away. As the vine on her foot flung her up, she shouted a warning to Xu Huo, "There’s nothing beneath the ground!"