Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 880: Changed Landmark

Chapter 880: Chapter 880: Changed Landmark

Xu Huo could no longer sense anyone around him.

A Level D Player being captured by mutant plants in the forest without any chance of resistance was less likely than her leaving on her own, so he didn’t linger there. Instead, he left a note on a tree and continued toward the mountain’s summit.

From time to time, he would leave the ground to check and make sure he was going in the right direction, but as he neared the summit, the whole mountain suddenly changed.

It wasn’t just getting lost—the orientation of the entire mountain had shifted.

When Xu Huo had started his ascent, the mountain was due east, and he and Zhuang Mengtian had climbed it with their backs to the sun. Although the terrain had changed a few times, the overall direction, as judged by the sun, hadn’t altered.

Now, the sun was completely out of view, his compass was accurate, but the mountain had moved from the east to the south.

The direction of the fading light and the growth pattern of the grass and trees hadn’t changed, yet he felt the mountain had shifted its position.

Without further delay, Xu Huo grabbed a wire to ascend directly to the summit through the air.

Looking down from above, the scenery around the mountain was identical in all directions, and the mark he had left in the forest had disappeared.

Plants can shift; whether markings move or vanish is normal—this couldn’t possibly have caused the mountain to change its position.

Xu Huo was sure he hadn’t been transported by the moving plants to the other side of the mountain, making the changed direction of the sun and the orientation of the plant growth seem particularly strange.

If not paying careful attention, one might not notice, but since he had noticed... Was the external environment fake, or was the mountain itself an illusion?

From both a cost and feasibility perspective, creating a fake sky above the botanical garden would be easier. This way, the sun could rise from any direction, and similarly, any direction could be east.

However, Xu Huo truly felt the position of the mountain had changed.

"Could it be that the botanical garden itself is moving?"

When he entered, he saw a deep valley, and if the entire botanical garden was on a movable platform, shifting direction wasn’t impossible.

Xu Huo withdrew his gaze and first drew a simple landscape as required before submitting the task.

According to the test results, there is only one entry/exit pod near Guest 313. Please proceed there as quickly as possible."

Xu Huo looked at the map; if he viewed it from the normal direction, the location of the entry/exit pod should be where he and Zhuang Mengtian had entered.

Therefore, the only entry/exit pod was the one they had just used. To return to the plaza, they had to go back the way they had come.

Although the entire mountain might have changed its position, if the whole botanical garden was moving together, following the wrong direction could still lead him to the entry/exit pod.

Considering the task meant for two players wasn’t likely as simple as just painting, to confirm his idea, Xu Huo first descended the mountain towards the west.

He quickly returned to the spot they had entered earlier, but the electronic screen emitted a "buzz" sound and the map refreshed, marking his position now to the true north—the original east before the mountain shifted.

The location of the entry/exit pod shifted from the west before the change of position to the east.

Then he walked towards the true north. When he was about to reach his destination, circumventing half the mountain, the map on the screen updated again to the true East.

The directions compared by Xu Huo were those from before the ascent and after his descent; both times he reached the position of the entry/exit pod, the map had updated, rotating clockwise by ninety degrees in about an hour. In another two hours, the orientation would return to the sequence when he first entered.

To ensure the direction was correct, he still headed true east according to the current direction. Sure enough, just as he was about to reach the destination, the location of the entry/exit pod updated again.

This time after the update, Xu Huo donned the Invisibility Cloak and used the wire to move through the air, reaching the true west, the actual place he and Zhuang Mengtian had entered—an hour earlier by his estimation. This time he thought he could make the rendezvous, but unexpectedly, the map updated one more time, still indicating another direction.

He stopped and stood still.

If the entire botanical garden was moving, then the location of the entry/exit pod should remain unchanged. If the map on the electronic screen was correct, he should have found the entry/exit pod following the new true west direction the first time.

But he hadn’t, leaving two possibilities.

The map on the electronic screen and the position of the botanical garden didn’t completely overlap. The map had only updated once, while the botanical garden or just the entry/exit pod was still turning, resulting in multiple clockwise shifts of the entry/exit pod.

But following it here, he still hadn’t found the entry/exit pod, whether there was an issue with the map on the electronic screen or the botanical garden was moving. He had searched all four directions and found no traces of the entry/exit pod... unless the entry/exit pod was moving away from people.

Regrettably, the vegetation here was too dense; not to mention finding the trees from when they exited, even traces of their struggle during the day had completely disappeared.

Xu Huo climbed quietly up a tree and took out the Homologous Locator, which indeed showed "1 item," indicating that he was indeed inside a large prop.

The botanical garden was inside a large prop, and he rechecked the map on the electronic screen, which still showed the entry/exit pod at the true west. If the map on the electronic screen was correct, then the prop must be what was causing the change in position.

A botanical garden, having such a large prop?

This thought flashed through his mind, and Xu Huo suddenly realized a problem; was the botanical garden really that big?

Setting aside the aquarium, apart from the botanical garden and the zoo, other categories like cosmetic surgeries, medical surgeries, or other tasks—many were in small scenes. If guests needing to complete tasks weren’t transported to another space, building such a large island in the middle of the sea would be difficult, let alone making the entire botanical garden move.

He extended a certain distance in four different directions, using the mountain in the middle as the center; the area he covered was already more than twice the size of the zoo.

Was everything he saw and perceived around him real?

Releasing his Psychic Power, Xu Huo opened a gate on the tree and entered. Behind the door was another door; he opened three in total and found himself moving from the tree above to the tree below.

The range of movement within the Spiritual World depends on how large a Mental Space the mover can create or how large a suitable space for Psychic Power exists. Xu Huo’s Spiritual World could cover every building in the Seventeenth Hospital, but outside, the independent range would shrink to within fifty meters. However, Psychic Power can create illusions, so to persons entering the Spiritual World, his mental world seemed infinitely large, but in reality, it wasn’t.

But from the tree above to below, his power was clearly suppressed.