Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!

Chapter 2365

(Modify later) The female player didn’t intend to trick him and immediately added, "There’s a knack for gathering information from the service staff. As long as you avoid asking about the core secrets of the Fish Banquet Building, finding someone or spreading a message through them is doable."After saying this, she shook the White Notes in her hand and turned to leave.

"Should we go find the service staff?" the Girl in the painting asked Xu Huo after she had gone far, "I always feel like she’s deceiving us."

The other party was already far away, but Xu Huo knew she’d already sold him out as information. Within the building, you could use Beneath the Dimension and the bounty platform to communicate, but the service staff would wear internal communicators. This wasn’t exclusive to them; some well-informed players also had them. The female player spread the information about the ’suspected Cannibal Player appearing’ through her communicator within a minute of separating from them, also providing the descriptions of him and the Girl in the painting.

This was within the Fish Banquet Building, where it wasn’t easy for the Girl in the painting to change her face directly, so Xu Huo made a few masks to alter their appearances, also changing their clothes and tweaking his height a bit.

"Next time we meet her, I’m definitely going to hit her." The Girl in the painting really liked the face she had just now.

Xu Huo ignored this. There was no need to look for the service staff temporarily, for the same reason as before. The service staff might know a lot, but that didn’t mean they would tell the truth. Additionally, when players inquire about information from them, it’s also a channel for leaking information, which eventually converges in one place. He didn’t want to become a target because of the Gourmet.

The three-hour revelry soon began. When time was up, the rooms where players were still lingering opened one after another, forcibly ejecting the players before shutting again. At that point, all the rooms were locked tight. No amount of violent door-opening could prevail.

Evidently, quite a few players didn’t know about the rule of the revelry day. They had found a safe room to hide in, either for a few days of peace or to lie in wait... In any case, their plans had all fallen through, so when they emerged, they were furious and became the first hunting targets.

The revelry began, and the eighteenth floor where Xu Huo was located was no exception. Players continuously dashed past him, and though they weren’t aiming for him, their props and devices affected him. After resisting over a dozen shockwaves, he was eventually forced into the battle.

The cause was a player attempting to use a containment tool to trap their opponent, but both parties moved too quickly. When the prop took effect, Xu Huo was caught in it.

This wasn’t a simple containment tool. The barrier wasn’t easily broken. Xu Huo slashed at it several times with the Black Blade, but nothing happened. Only then did he turn around to look at the other two people trapped inside.

The other trapped player questioned their opponent, "Restraining-type prop, aren’t you afraid you’ll end up dead here?"

The prop holder glanced dismissively at Xu Huo before their gaze settled on the person opposite, "Then go ahead and try. Anyway, until the prop deactivates or I die, you won’t get out!"

Once the words were said, the two began to fight, with no one paying any attention to Xu Huo beside them.

This seemed to be a conditional containment prop, similar to the player on the train who used a platform characteristic. Under certain conditions, the prop was activated and wasn’t easy to destroy.

Removing the opponent’s prop or directly killing the prop holder was the simplest solution.

Not wanting to waste time here, Xu Huo straightforwardly joined the fight, making it two-on-one against the prop holder.

He mainly played support, assisting the other player in disrupting the prop holder. The other player was quite intuitive, adapting to his support after a few exchanges.

The battle naturally became easier, with the Girl in the painting outside cheering them on and using a projection screen to display fireworks.

Perhaps because such a joyous fight scene was rare, several passing players stopped to observe the people in the containment circle and the Girl in the painting.

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The Black Mask paused here and looked at Xu Huo, "I’m only telling you this much because you seem generous with your payments. Don’t think that just because the Fish Banquet doesn’t care about the lives of the service staff, you can pressure them. If too many service staff end up dead because of you, the Fish Banquet will definitely find a way to deal with you."

"Though it’s never openly stated, everyone who’s been in the building long enough knows this."

"Will I silently disappear?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.

"Of course," the Black Mask laughed heartily, "They might even set up a lottery scene and have the whole building come kill you!"

Xu Huo was intrigued, "Has such a thing happened before?"

"Yes, just a month ago there was one. I even experienced it firsthand. It was thrilling," the Black Mask said with interest, "It started with rumors that people were fighting on the upper floors, killing people across two floors. Then there was silence for a while, but by evening, a special lottery was held from the first to the hundredth floor, with ten lottery barrels. All the drawn symbols were the same. The Whales even announced a bonus: kill one with a lottery mask and exchange it for an advanced prop. The stronger the one killed, the better the prop." The Black Mask recalled with excitement.

"That could be considered a different kind of revelry," Xu Huo remarked.

"Indeed," the Black Mask said, "But unfortunately, I wasn’t strong enough and spent that night just hiding."

"What happened afterward?" Xu Huo pressed on.

"What else, everyone went back to their business after the revelry," the Black Mask said nonchalantly, "Isn’t the Fish Banquet Building still the same as before?"

Xu Huo remained silent.

He couldn’t confirm if the revelry talked about by the Black Mask was the same incident as the Gourmet’s video, but if such a big ruckus did occur, the Gourmet would certainly change appearance upon returning, even altering frequently used props, making it much harder to confirm an identity.

But if the Gourmet had indeed returned to the Fish Banquet Building, it wouldn’t be just for tea. So, heading to a place with more action to try his luck was currently the only way.

Afterward, he and the Girl in the painting went two floors up and obtained different information from another player.

"You’re asking about that time? That time was because the Cannibal Players in the building were causing too much trouble," a short female player said while counting the White Notes, "Though hunting here is free-range, it can’t just turn into a playground for Cannibal Players, right? When too many showed up, they had to be dealt with."

"What happened to those Cannibal Players afterward?"

The female player glanced at him, "What else, most of them died... Are you asking because you’re a Cannibal Player?"

"Who are you calling a Cannibal Player!" The Girl in the painting raised the Communicator.

The female player chuckled, "Don’t be so tense. I don’t discriminate against Cannibal Players, but if you’re really keen on knowing what happened that day, you can ask the service staff."