Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 900 Game Government Library

Chapter 900: Chapter 900 Game Government Library

Twenty-five pounds was enough to change the boy’s attitude, which showed just how desperate the situation was for those abandoned in Base City.

"Poor thing." Shangguan Xi roughly tousled the boy’s hair, then grabbed the food on the table and gave it to him, "It’s all yours."

The boy angrily turned his head away, grasping the food in his hand but still fixing Xu Huo with a stare, "Can you really give me twenty-five pounds of food?"

Xu Huo nodded, "Does W18 have a suitable guide?"

"Yes." The boy hesitated before answering, "But I can’t decide for him, you need to discuss it with him personally... but my ten pounds of food can’t be shorted!"

"Yours won’t be shorted." Xu Huo flashed a slight smile, signaling that the boy could start eating.

The boy unwrapped the food and fed it to himself quickly, probably because he felt he couldn’t take it with him anyway, so he didn’t bother stashing any in his pockets.

"Did you eat anything these past few days?" Shangguan Xi said, "Don’t eat too much at once and make yourself sick."

The boy didn’t even bother to reply, turning his back and continuing to eat.

Shangguan Xi perked up his ears to listen to the noises outside, "The swarm seems to have moved away."

Xu Huo stepped out the door. The swarm on the rooftop had retreated, and there were a few insects left on the ground poisoned to death. He picked up a box, placed two insect corpses into the luggage compartment, and retracted Prop 101. Turning to the others, he said, "Let’s make use of our time, we’d better leave before dawn."

They were located in the eastern part of W18, with the swarm overall moving from the south to the east and not towards the city center. Therefore, although the swarm hadn’t completely gone underground, they could leave safely without provoking another hunting spree.

The boy was very cautious and had no intention of leading them through the "secret passages" he used for hunting. Instead, he demanded they travel over the city from above.

"As long as we don’t make too much noise, we won’t attract any Flying Variants," he emphasized.

"You think we’re fools, huh," Shangguan Xi said, "so many buildings have been occupied by Aliens, and those egg-like things are everywhere. Props can fly but can’t be used infinitely. You better lead the way properly. If there’s a guide to W19, who cares to stay here? What do you original residents who have mutated have on you that would tempt any Player?"

The boy subconsciously touched his arm.

The surviving original residents all had some features of mutation, which was the reason other Base Cities were reluctant to rescue and accept them, and why even Cannibal Players would not choose to eat them.

The original residents in Base City were just surviving.

After hesitating, the boy still didn’t agree and said bluntly, "I don’t trust you!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Huo looked at him more intently, and raised a hand to stop Shangguan Xi, "Let’s do as he says. Choosing a safer path is fine, we can detour a bit."

Seeing this, Shangguan Xi didn’t argue further. He brought out an arrow-shaped Prop, clamped it to the railings of the rooftop, and pressed it. The arrow shot out just like a real one, piercing through the railings of a rooftop opposite and securing itself. Then, cables connected to palm-sized metal plates shot out to both sides, forming an air bridge about two palms wide.

Since the buildings were quite far apart, this thin walkway appeared unstable.

Shangguan Xi patted the walkway and turned to smile at the boy, "If you’re brave enough, come on!"

With that, he lightly stepped onto the pathway and ran swiftly to the opposite building.

"Not bad agility." Xu Huo clapped his hands from afar to show his appreciation, then took the boy with him using "Towards the Destination" and bypassed Shangguan Xi, heading directly to a rooftop hundreds of meters away.

With the distance too great and without fixed communication tools, it was hard for them to communicate. However, by the way Shangguan Xi was lowering his head to collect his Prop, he didn’t seem as spirited as he had been when first crossing the pathway.

Although his Prop could move back and forth in the air, it was limited in range and more time-consuming compared to Xu Huo’s method. Therefore, while Xu Huo could pause along the way, Shangguan Xi had to keep repeating the process of setting up the Prop, crossing the pathway, and retrieving the Prop.

After advancing a bit further, Xu Huo suddenly saw a library at a street corner.

The library’s exterior was gray-white and stood out prominently among a sea of abandoned buildings because it bore no marks of destruction, nor was it overgrown with Mutant Plants. Other than its somewhat faded color, it seemed out of place in the city.

"Wait for him here, I’ll be right back." He put the boy down and teleported straight to the front of the library using "Towards the Destination."

The entrance was grand with a clock at the top that used A1 time—the time of the A1 Wormhole Point, said to be synchronized with the Hengxing starting point. Xu Huo was not very clear on the concept of a Hengxing starting point, but the use of this time as a decoration demonstrated the importance of the library to a certain degree.

A square electronic authentication screen shaped like a lock automatically opened in the center, prompting him to show his library card.

Xu Huo placed his library card, which bore his number and nickname, on it, and the doors opened in response. Just as he was about to enter, his glasses’ "Shared Positioning" alerted him once again: Shangguan Xi thought he had been left behind by Ding Wei. In fact, Ding Wei had always been nearby. They had been headed towards the city center, and Ding Wei had followed, now close to the library as well.

With the other person still two to three hundred meters away, Xu Huo had no intention of letting her inside and closed the library door behind him.

Like any normal library, this place was filled with huge bookshelves. However, the books displayed were not real but holographically projected to look like books, with the shelves forming arches from both sides towards the center. In the center of the shelves was a solitary reading pod. Once Xu Huo sat inside, a projection screen appeared in front of him:

"Player number E556688, what information about this area would you like to know? You may choose from the following options:"

"1. Politics; 2. Culture; 3. History; 4. Ecology."

He first selected history.

In the next second, the reading pod flew up to mid-air, and the library’s relevant information formed a catalog beside him. Just by selecting any part of the catalog, holographic projections would instantly play archived videos and audio materials, as well as dynamically simulated scenes based on images and videos.

For the next hour, Xu Huo did not leave the library, browsing through the information provided by the library about recent times.

W37 Base Station was originally composed of multiple nations. After the first surge of Alien outbreaks, weaker nations were nearly wiped out, with only a few powerful countries left to build up secure bases. However, the situation didn’t improve much, as there was too little space for too many people, and internal conflicts were ongoing.

A few of the country’s leaders got together and decided to build new secure bases.

Since they were going to build new bases, and the outside was so dangerous, they had to drive people away.