Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 946 Reflect on Your Own Incompetence

Chapter 946: Chapter 946 Reflect on Your Own Incompetence

"The virus leaked?" Shangguan Xi immediately put on a protective suit and urged everyone else to hurry up and do the same, "I don’t know if the protective suit will work. Gao Xiaoyan and his people don’t even want the bodies, so it’s probably not a simple alarm. Could it be that kind of virus from the lab in W19?"

"It’s not," Xu Huo said indifferently, "Just a false alarm."

"Did you tamper with something?" Kuang Wenjun looked at him in surprise, "Did you know that the sample organism was already dead?"

"I knew it when we got to the break room." Xu Huo glanced at everyone’s expressions through the rearview mirror.

"So they never had good intentions," Shangguan Xi seemed to catch on, speaking angrily, "It turns out they wanted to lure us out and get rid of us. Lucky we ran fast, or they would have blown us to bits!"

"Why would Gao Xiaoyan want to turn against us?" Zhu Feiyun was puzzled, "We agreed to go to Base City together. Why would they choose this moment if they could deal with the Alien somewhere else?"

"It’s not necessarily Gao Xiaoyan," said Kuang Wenjun, "that man with the Lightning shaved into his head wanted to kill the sample as soon as we met him, right?"

"Could we have gotten caught up in a faction struggle?" Shangguan Xi narrowed her eyes slightly, "This is outright killing among our own, no hesitation."

"But I see that those people are very obedient to Gao Xiaoyan. Besides, we are only a few people. How much influence could we have if we began fighting them? The faction struggle wouldn’t be worth risking a training base that was so hard to establish. A third party would have more to gain from taking action, right?" Pan Qiao analyzed.

"That’s even less likely," Zhu Feiyun disagreed, "Base W37 City specifically built this training base, and there’s research on new weapons and secret training for Players. The chances of players from other base cities infiltrating are slim, and even if it’s possible, there’s no need to expose themselves for the sake of stirring up trouble between a few outsiders and W37."

"Could it be you guys?" Shangguan Xi cast a suspicious glance at the others.

"Use your brain, we are all Players, we were about to clear the instance, why would we kill the sample?" Zhu Feiyun was annoyed by the arbitrary accusation.

"Who knows? We know faces, not hearts. It’s still hard to say whether you’re true dungeon players." Shangguan Xi squinted her eyes, leaving a small gap to scrutinize the others.

The faces of Zhu Feiyun and the others turned sour, and at that moment, Xu Huo finally spoke up, "The sample was alive when it arrived at the training base. Someone else moved before your eyes. Shouldn’t you first reflect on your own incompetence?"

No one had anything to say. From the moment they entered the building to the break room, the players at the training base had all kept more than three meters away from the sample, except for about ten seconds in the elevator. But during that time, they were all crowded around the cage and should not have been completely unaware—there must be many methods to kill an Alien, but to fake the appearance that the Alien is alive, it definitely requires close contact to insert a Space-Time Item.

The car grew quiet for a few seconds before Shangguan Xi finally spoke, "If I had known, I would have just given them the body. Since we couldn’t clear the instance anyway, it would have been better to get some props in compensation!"

Zhu Feiyun sneered, "You weren’t saying that just now."

"That was a negotiating tactic. Of course, it’s a huge loss not to rank. How can you let them go without making them bleed?" Shangguan Xi spoke as if it were a matter of course, and with regret added, "Too bad now we’ve got nothing."

After a pause, she turned to Xu Huo, "Brother Xu, what’s the use of us taking this body? Is there something wrong with the body?"

"The body is fine," Xu Huo said expressionlessly, "just didn’t want to give it to them."

Zhu Feiyun and the others looked on with indescribable expressions. If that was the case, they really should have traded for props.

But they couldn’t beat Xu Huo, and, unwilling as they were, they had to hold it in.

Shangguan Xi was very perceptive, speaking with a grin, "Brother Xu is right. We’ll throw it away but not give it to them. They prevented us from clearing the instance; wouldn’t it just benefit them to settle with a few props?"

"We can’t run away anyway, and we have to head to Base City. Why don’t we make a big move and kidnap the old mayor and have them pay a ransom!"

The others in the car fell silent again, until Teacher Ai spoke up first, "Are you alright?"

"I’m just joking. You guys really don’t have a sense of humor," Shangguan Xi waved her hand, "I’m not really that foolish; who would go courting death?"

Now that things had come this far, it was of little importance to pursue who had killed the live sample or to even think about troubling Gao Xiaoyan and the others. Without a third live sample, the instance would surely be aborted. The question was where to spend the upcoming time. They needed to find a place with food and water since their stockpile had been severely depleted on the journey to Base W37 City.

"I plan to proceed to Base W37 City according to the original plan." Xu Huo said, "What about you?"

Shangguan Xi leaned forward, "Brother Xu, if you have something to do, why don’t I accompany you? I’m free anyway."

After saying that, without waiting for Xu Huo’s response, she said to Zhu Feiyun and the others, "But you better not come along."

Zhu Feiyun, who also found Shangguan Xi annoying, answered directly, "Once we get to Base City, everyone will go their own way!"

Running into Xu Huo had been his bad luck. The sample from the W19 Base City lab had died inexplicably, and just as they were finally about to get the second one through, they failed at the last moment. It was as if they had come all this way for nothing, and he couldn’t even claim back his loss of props from Xu Huo.

With three samples down to one, and the last one unseen all along the way, likely already at Base W37 City, there was no hope of clearing the instance. He truly had no reason to continue traveling with Xu Huo and the rest.

Kuang Wenjun and Pan Qiao felt the same. Initially, they had formed a team through mutual compromise. Now that Xu Huo was subtly taking the lead and the instance had failed, looking for side tasks was pointless. Besides, Xu Huo was tight-lipped and they didn’t know what he would do once in Base W37 City, so separating would be safer.

Of course, they couldn’t do it just yet. There was no telling whether Gao Xiaoyan would lead his people to catch up; hence, sticking together was the best option until they truly reached Base City.

"We’ll see once we get to Base City." Kuang Wenjun said, "Even if we want to go to another base city, we need to resupply with water and food first."

"So we’re all heading to Base W37. Base cities are usually closed-off; how are we supposed to get in?" Shangguan Xi moved Teacher Ai from the front seat and took a seat beside the driver.

"Isn’t it said that Base W37 is accepting refugees from other places?" Pan Qiao said, "Could we sneak in?"

"With what just happened, that might not work. They might even seal off the city gates." Zhu Feiyun replied, "At the end of the day, it’s a city controlled by players. They must have set up devices restricting the use of Space-Time Items. We probably can’t enter the city directly."

"We’ll deal with it when the time comes." Xu Huo let Teacher Ai drive and stepped to the back to handle the Alien’s body.

The body of the now long-dead Alien emitted a foul odor, and green liquid oozed from its mouth and nostrils. Xu Huo used a Prop to extract a little, confirmed that the virus carried by the Alien was the same as the one he had seen on the natives in W18, and then sealed the body in a Body Bag before packing it away into the Umbrella of Justice.