Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 896: Death by Fear

Chapter 896: Chapter 896: Death by Fear

The Cannibal Player was caught, and Shangguan Xi was about to close in with joy. However, just then, the barrier containing the opponent suddenly broke, and preceding the Cannibal Player’s emergence were several hidden weapon props that resembled water columns. But they were intercepted half a meter from Xu Huo. Unexpectedly, the water columns, upon striking the Air Barrier, instantly clung to it, spreading rapidly like ice and freezing several cracks onto the surface.

At that moment, the Cannibal Player let out a strange laugh and burst through the Air Barrier, lunging at Xu Huo. Xu Huo didn’t know if it was the effect of a special characteristic or a prop, but the moment the Cannibal Player pressed close to him, all the spaces his eyes could see seemed to be filled, like a massive blanket enveloping him.

Of course, a human body couldn’t possibly cover such a vast area, but he was immobilized by the effect nonetheless.

Xu Huo first used "Like Repels Like," a prop that could repel two people of the same gender within a three-meter radius. But when the prop failed to activate, he drew a line between himself and the Cannibal Player with "This Way is Blocked."

"This Way is Blocked" is an upgraded version of "Beautiful Ray," where the laser’s coverage had expanded from the original three square meters to fifty now. The ten-meter-long, five-meter-wide ray could form a barrier wide enough in front of him that anyone trying to cross it first had to withstand the ray slicing through them. Some furniture within the ray’s range was unsurprisingly split in two. And although it couldn’t burn through the roof of the car, it was enough to threaten the Cannibal Player.

The opponent didn’t hesitate to retreat, pressed against the door of the opposite room, though he didn’t give up just like that; instead, he waited for the prop to lose its effect.

"This Way is Blocked" only lasted ten seconds, during which Xu Huo activated "Heartbeat Discount" and "Heavy Protective Color." When the ten seconds passed, he took the initiative to confront the Cannibal Player, hacking a sword towards the opponent’s head!

The Cannibal Player was surprised by his speed and threw a handful of powder-like substance into the air, then, repeating his previous move, spread his arms and flew towards him.

However, the stationery Xu Huo, who had tried to strike and missed, just smiled and said, "Lucky me."

The opponent’s outstretched arm technique was obviously a special characteristic. The Player’s category was determined on the preliminary evaluation train - those who had eaten people before boarding and did not want to devolve into Aliens would still need to eat people on the train and were destined to be Cannibal Players. However, Evolvers who hadn’t eaten people before boarding but did so on the train would also become Cannibal Players. The difference was that the latter possessed special characteristics when they boarded.

"Heavy Protective Color" could randomly grant immunity to characteristics, and he had not expected to see its effect on his first use.

Free from that sensation of being restricted in the air, Xu Huo feinted an attack and used the "Murmur Sphere."

The Cannibal Player, unconcerned with mental interference, grabbed a gyro-like object with a piercing screech that seemed to overwhelm the "Murmur Sphere’s" whispers, and threw a clasp, locking Xu Huo’s sword-wielding right hand and right leg together.

"Careful!" Shangguan Xi threw a firecracker-like prop, and the exploding steel balls all shot towards the Cannibal Player!

The props made a "bang bang" metallic sound against the Cannibal Player’s body, and after his outer clothes were pierced through, it was revealed that from his hands to his feet to his neck, he was completely covered in protective prop gear, unaffected even by a scratch from the steel ball props!

The Cannibal Player casually swept his hand, and the door to Xu Huo’s room automatically shut, trapping Shangguan Xi inside, while he stared at Xu Huo, "Among everyone in this carriage, you smell the sweetest; you must taste delicious."

Xu Huo frowned in displeasure, "Does a Cannibal Player have to disgust their victim before they make a move?"

The opponent’s expression darkened, "Once you’ve bled, you won’t be so tough!"

However, as the distance between them closed, a hand inserted seamlessly into his heart!

With their eyes locked, Xu Huo gave the Cannibal Player a slight smile. The latter, unable to hide his astonishment, tried to raise his hand—any significant movement might result in him tearing out his own heart. So he moved his mouth to speak, "Remember..."

Before he could finish, Xu Huo kicked the suspended figure away!

The throbbing heart was directly pulled out of the chest cavity as the body moved backward, and the Cannibal Player had already passed through the automatic door and fallen into the transition carriage.

The carriage’s sensor door silently closed again.

Xu Huo walked over and casually threw the bloody thing on the ground.

The length was not more than two meters, but the Cannibal Player no longer had the strength to crawl over and retrieve his own heart; he lay gasping on the ground, on the verge of death at any moment.

The sensor door opened again, and Xu Huo stood in the doorway, washing his hands with Cleansing Potion while saying, "You won’t die that quickly, you should hold on for at least two more minutes."

"Although your corpse is of no value to me, the two people in the carriage behind are still waiting."

Hearing this, the two Cannibal Players waiting behind the door silently retreated.

The person lying on the ground no longer had the presence of mind to care about these things. He glared resentfully at Xu Huo with bloodshot eyes and attempted to use a prop, but Xu Huo at that moment made a pulling gesture by his mouth with hands clean as new, and the Cannibal Player’s lips began to stick together as if melting. Not just his mouth, but his limbs also started to dissolve like wax, becoming flat and weak, and eventually he lay like a stagnant puddle on the floor of the train...

Dying in a hallucination with boundless fear, Xu Huo quickly checked the items he had obtained on his personal panel, took away the props from the corpse, took a steady look at the two people peeping from carriage seventeen, and then returned to carriage sixteen.

There was peace both inside and outside the carriage.

Shangguan Xi had by now opened the room door, and the short-haired female Player and the one with the mechanical dog had stepped out. The three of them watched Xu Huo’s return, and of course, they also saw the corpse.

Meeting the gaze of the three, Xu Huo asked, "Do you want to eat?"

The three showed varying degrees of disgust. Shangguan Xi said, "We are not Cannibal Players, who would eat that thing, but is it okay to leave the corpse there? Aren’t we just handing it over on a silver platter to the Cannibal Players behind us?"

Xu Huo sat down inside the carriage, "You can go take it back."

Shangguan Xi quickly shook her head, "Forget it, forget it. Better that they have something to eat to prevent them from killing again."

"They don’t dare to come out," the short-haired female Player spoke at this time. "If they did, they would have acted when he was just thrown out."

Shangguan Xi was hesitant at first, but quickly brightened up, "They really haven’t opened it yet, those cowards are definitely scared of my Brother Xu!"

The short-haired female Player watched him with an amused expression in her eyes.

As if guessing what she was thinking, Shangguan Xi argued logically, "They’re scared of Brother Xu, and Brother Xu is my good friend. By extension, it’s as if they’re scared of me. I don’t know how many days we have to ride this train, but they definitely won’t dare to come over and start trouble!"

With the carriage behind them inaccessible and the only Cannibal Player in carriage sixteen dead, they just needed to be careful of carriage fifteen to get through the remaining time in peace, which was much better than living in constant fear.

"That means we’ve caught a break," the short-haired female Player laughed and took the initiative to sit opposite Xu Huo, "You’ve just advanced to C-rank, right? Which station are you heading to this time? Maybe we can team up!"