Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 933: Death is Luck, Living is Also Luck

Chapter 933: Chapter 933: Death is Luck, Living is Also Luck

"We’re W37 Players, and since you’re delivering something to W37, you might as well hand it over to us." The young woman, with the help of the man with lightning tattoos, washed her hands and, without fussing over details, flicked them a couple of times before rubbing them on her clothes, then walked over to the vehicle. "Let me see what it is..."

Kuang Wenjun and Zhu Feiyun immediately blocked the car door.

"Don’t be so tense," the young woman said, "I just want to check it first."

Xu Huo nodded to Kuang and Zhu. Zhu Feiyun opened the car door, just as the Alien’s anesthetic wore off, hearing the noise and commotion, the young woman nodded, "It’s an Alien, no mistake."

The lightning-tattooed man drew a long knife and made as if to step forward, "This kind of thing can’t be taken back to the city."

Xu Huo’s group visibly tensed up, but the young woman raised her hand to stop him and said with a smile to Xu Huo, "You must have called us over for this, right? Hand it over to us; how you deal with it should be none of your business."

"We had an agreement beforehand." Xu Huo lifted his bracelet, "The way to complete the task is to record the journey, which means both we and the Alien have to enter Base W37 City to complete the task."

"Just so happens we’ve long admired Base W37 City and want to see what kind of city it is, one that makes other Base Cities so apprehensive they stoop to such low means as fabricating rumors to slander its ruler."

"Ha ha!" The young woman revealed a hearty laugh incongruous with her appearance, "Buddy, you catch on quick, huh? Want to get into W37, don’t you?"

"What’s the issue?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow, "Does Base W37 City not welcome outside Players?"

"Of course not. No Base City would refuse outside Players at this station." The young woman came over and put her arm around his shoulder, "They’d be glad to have you settle down!"

"Let’s go, let’s go! I’ll be your guide!"

The matter of killing the Alien was glossed over: the woman’s companions didn’t show even a hint of opposition, and after she took Xu Huo away, the man with the ponytail came over to Shangguan Xi and smiled gently, "You don’t mind if I ride with you, do you?"

Shangguan Xi and the others were on high alert, but clearly, they no longer had a say in the matter.

Fortunately, the other Players showed no intention of coming over. The man with the ponytail took over the driver’s seat while Xu Huo got into the young woman’s car.

The muscular man loaded the pile of bison with a Prop, and the two vehicles set out again.

Ignoring the intense scrutiny from the backseat, Xu Huo experienced the incomparable driving skills for a while before asking, "Are you really from W37?"

The young woman smiled, "Too quick to agree?"

"Don’t be so suspicious. Like I said before, any Base City welcomes outside Players. Even if you’re from W11, it’s alright. If the conditions are suitable, you can become one of W37’s people. Many who come to W37 end up liking the place."

Xu Huo thought of the unique "Circular Job-Hopping" characteristic of W37 Base Station, paused and then said, "I should make it clear, we’re only responsible for delivering the Alien to W37, we don’t know anything else."

"Don’t worry, don’t worry!" The young woman’s attention was on the control panel. Despite her zigzagging driving, she was still enthusiastic and only after a while did she say, "My name’s Gao Xiaoyan, and you?"

"Xu Gou." Xu Huo’s view jostled abruptly, "Did you just learn to drive?"

"Not really," Gao Xiaoyan admitted candidly, "It’s a side effect of my Characteristic, I just can’t drive well."

"That’s the first I’ve heard of such a side effect."

"That’s because you’re not well acquainted enough. Generally, Characteristics with strong practical uses have side effects."

"Really? Then it must be that I haven’t met any impressive Players."

"No worries. Once we’re in W37, I’ll introduce you to some decent Players. All kinds of weird side effects to be found."

"No wonder W37 can stand apart from other Base Cities. Do you all draw resources from the game?"

"Hardly. No matter how many Players there are, they can’t support that many regular people. Thankfully, the station’s resources are also plentiful."

"W37 doesn’t do business with other Base Cities?"

Hearing this, Gao Xiaoyan finally turned to look at him, "Without interaction, wouldn’t W37 become a dead city? For no other reason, doing business just for the Players from the other Base Cities is necessary."

"I heard you take in regular people who are infected, is that true?" Xu Huo asked.

"That’s right, you seem to be well informed." Gao Xiaoyan lifted her chin.

"A Player told me. He was originally bringing his family to seek shelter in W37. We traveled part of the way together..." Xu Huo paused before continuing, "But shortly after we parted, they died."

Gao Xiaoyan didn’t inquire about the details but simply said, "These kinds of things happen all the time. To put it unpleasantly, there’s not an inch of soil on the entire station without a buried corpse. Death is luck; so is life."

Xu Huo’s eyelids drooped slightly before he changed the subject.

Gao Xiaoyan was very chatty. Throughout the trip, she talked with him about everything from the general situation of W37 to regular people’s lives, agriculture, construction, gourmet food, entertainment—all of which she could discuss tirelessly and competently. Her companions, just like with the suggestion to kill the Alien, did not object to any of her decisions from beginning to end.

At rest time in the evening, Gao Xiaoyan and her companions grilled a bull and enthusiastically shared with them a special type of liquor from W37.

Xu Huo tasted it, finding the bitterness overwhelming.

Meanwhile, Gao Xiaoyan and her group drank it down with gusto, the woman smacking her lips and saying, "This is the only wine-producing plant that can survive when planted near W37—though the taste is rather poor, it’s the fruit of our labor, and I think it tastes better than any other liquor!"

Xu Huo clinked glasses with her in approval.

When it was time to share the meat, Shangguan Xi came up, "Brother Xu, are we really just heading to W37 like this?"

"Why not catch a free ride?" Xu Huo said nonchalantly, "Following locals can save us a lot of trouble."

At least they wouldn’t have trouble with the Players guarding the bridge and those nearby.

"That’s true..." Players have exceptional hearing, and even though Shangguan Xi whispered very softly, he couldn’t prevent the others from hearing. Using a Prop would seem like picking a fight, so he found himself at a loss for words.

Gao Xiaoyan’s group didn’t seem concerned with their wariness at all, drinking and eating as they pleased, seemingly without any guard against them.

However, when Zhu Feiyun moved closer to the fire pit, the man with the ponytail stretched out his hand to stop him, saying politely with a smile, "I’ll cut the meat for you."

Kuang Wenjun and Pan Qiao saw Zhu Feiyun’s little action very clearly, and obviously, Gao Xiaoyan’s group noticed as well. As a Dagger with cooked meat flew towards Zhu Feiyun, the atmosphere suddenly grew cold.

Gao Xiaoyan scraped meat from the bone, saying lazily, "Isn’t the wine and meat we offered you enough? Or do you really want to taste our flesh?"