Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 943: Talent and Luck

Chapter 943: Chapter 943: Talent and Luck

According to the agreement, Xu Huo brought Ren Man through the door, and Ren Man successfully began Super Evolution, manifesting fragments of the Spiritual World. This was his limit, as for skillfully using the Spiritual World or creating Materialized Items, those were currently beyond his reach.

Ren Man spent a lot, but was in high spirits, excitedly returning to the training base. He first greeted Gao Xiaoyan and then entered the training room, where staff checked his spiritual power data. He couldn’t maintain his spiritual power for long, but it was enough to test basic figures, and the results were good, surpassing thirteen thousand.

Thus, the transaction as far as Xu Huo needed to do was completed. Gao Xiaoyan wore a smile, "I didn’t expect it to go so smoothly. Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your help. We have already prepared a meal, and since there’s still time, let’s eat before we set off."

After several days of constant traveling, rest was indeed necessary, if not for rushing to clear the instance, they could actually rest here today.

Gao Xiaoyan led him to the rest room of the training base. Shangguan Xi and several others, along with the live samples, were inside. These people had already replenished their energy, and upon seeing Xu Huo come in, they stood up, "Are we setting off?"

"We’ll leave after eating," Xu Huo glanced at the corner where a metal cage was before saying, "I need to rest for a bit."

"Of course," Shangguan Xi nodded repeatedly.

Soon, someone brought in meals, and Gao Xiaoyan politely said, "Ideally, I should accompany Mr. Xu for the meal, but I still have some minor issues to sort out. To not delay Mr. Xu’s schedule, I need to leave for a bit."

Xu Huo didn’t say much. Everyone from the training base had left, and only Shangguan Xi and a few others remained in the room.

"Did he really succeed in Super Evolution?" Pan Qiao asked eagerly, unable to contain his excitement, "Is there really a shortcut for Super Evolution?"

As for Super Evolution, Advanced Players generally had some understanding, albeit limited. Even though they knew it was highly challenging, and methods offered by other players often entailed deadly risks only available by chance, such high-risk opportunities were not easy to come by, making Super Evolution seem even more mystical and desirable.

Xu Huo was only a Rank-C Player, yet he could guide a Level D Player to start Super Evolution. Doesn’t this suggest that the threshold for Super Evolution isn’t as high as players imagined, it was just about finding the right method!

Everyone in the room, including Teacher Ai who had quit the game, listened attentively.

"Have you researched about Super Evolution?" asked Xu Huo.

"Of course, we have looked into it," Shangguan Xi eagerly said, "I dream of undergoing Super Evolution, how could we not seek methods. But the methods suggested on the bounty platform are way too difficult, just impossible... Brother Xu, do you really have a method?"

Xu Huo glanced at him but didn’t reply, instead, continuing to eat.

Since they knew, they must be aware of the great difficulty involved in Super Evolution. The fact that Ren Man had touched the threshold showed his innate talent, and that he quickly began Super Evolution under the spiritual stand also affirmed this point, calling him a genius wasn’t an overstatement. How could one think the threshold of Super Evolution had lowered just because his Player Level was low?

Realizing his implied meaning, Shangguan Xi and the others showed some disappointment, with Pan Qiao most visibly affected. He stopped eating and persistently asked, "Is there really no trick to it?"

"You could bring a second person to experience it, you must understand Super Evolution better than most. Is the risk really that high right at the start of Evolution?"

Everyone present knew what he was asking. If the opportunity for Super Evolution was like what the bounty platform suggested, encountering a Super Player in combat or facing unpredictable space-time dilemmas, then with Xu Huo and Ren Man’s Player Levels, they surely wouldn’t survive. Their smooth Super Evolution must have had a special circumstance, something regular!

"Pan Qiao!" Kuang Wenjun sharply warned, "Don’t ask what you shouldn’t!"

Pan Qiao, visibly agitated, "I’m not just asking for myself, Super Evolution is the only way we can survive longer in the game... I can’t protect you anymore!"

Kuang Wenjun’s face remained stern, unmoved by his plea, and she said, "If you think I’m holding you back, we can go our separate ways after this instance."

"Do you think I joined the game to live longer?"

Zhu Feiyun at the side clicked his tongue, shaking his head, evidently mocking Kuang Wenjun.

Pan Qiao, hearing Kuang Wenjun’s words, did not seem very upset, "You saved my life once, and I vowed that if you faced danger one day, I would risk my life to save you. I mean what I say, I won’t leave."

Kuang Wenjun lowered her eyelids, saying no more.

"The only chance for a lower-level player to start Super Evolution is innate talent," Xu Huo spoke up, not intending to hide it as the others thought, "After completing as many instances as you have, you must have encountered one or two involving Mental Interference, or those with special space or time restrictions. For those with talent, this is their chance."

"That’s impossible!" Zhu Feiyun was the first to respond, "If it was really possible to begin Super Evolution in an instance, then there should be many..."

He paused midway and then sternly added, "To grasp how to evolve during an instance, one would indeed be a genius among geniuses."

Numerous instances in the game involved special powers, but very few players had undergone Super Evolution through such "mundane" methods, leading more Advanced Players to believe those high-risk, luck-based opportunities had a higher chance of success—indeed, some had succeeded. It was relying on luck rather than sufficient strength. Compared to a gap in innate talent that was impossible to cross, elusive luck still offered a ray of hope.

Once again acknowledging their lack of innate talent, everyone present felt a moment of dejection.

No one offered consolation; they would digest it themselves.

"Let’s eat," Shangguan Xi, ever the optimist, "I’ve just reached C, and like Brother Xu, I have talent. Sooner or later, I’ll encounter such an opportunity, maybe I’ll have a sudden epiphany in the next instance!"

Zhu Feiyun glanced at him and sincerely stated, "You really have no shame."

Shangguan Xi, stuffing his face with food, retorted, "Aren’t you eating? We’re short on clothing and food here, the next meal might not even be as good as this one."

Now getting back to serious matters, the group began to eat earnestly.

During the conversation, Xu Huo, who had not forgone eating, was now full. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, stood up from his seat, and sat down on a soft armchair beside him, facing the cage placed across. He leaned slightly back, hands folded in front, and began to ponder a question:

Who had killed the live sample?