Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!

Chapter 2433: Hide and Seek

"Kill him!" Bubble Bean shouted with red eyes and attacked alongside Yin Yang Master. However, the props they used consecutively all missed. They could only see two or three meters away, and as long as Xu Huo jumped a bit further, they would have to rely on their sensing ability to determine his position. But at this moment, they dared not fully trust their judgment, so they preferred to kill by mistake rather than miss him; they launched a wide-range attack to ensure he couldn’t escape!Among them only three were present. With Yin Yang Master and Bubble Bean experiencing illusions and hearing abnormal sounds, their first suspicion naturally fell on the third person. Therefore, Bubble Bean didn’t hesitate to take the risk of possibly violating the instance’s hidden rules to kill Xu Huo. If everything disappeared after his death, it would prove that all the previous occurrences were merely illusions. If not...

Kill him first!

Xu Huo, seeing no other players around, didn’t plan to let these two go. If the role of the actor required by the instance is rotated among the players, then he at least needs a target to attack. But because the current situation is still unclear, and he doesn’t know whether the identity of the "Hidden Friend" rotates or if it can be any person, it’s best if both of them stay alive.

Xu Huo retreated to a kilometer away. From this distance, he could observe the two’s condition, but they couldn’t easily discover his tracks.

The girl in the painting, disguised and hidden, slid out of his clothes and transformed back into a human.

"Hide and seek?" the girl in the painting said, "I’ll go tease them."

Xu Huo didn’t object, just reminded her to be careful and not get caught.

The girl in the painting made a gesture, and he sent her over directly.

Xu Huo sent her to a position less than fifty meters from Bubble Bean and the other. The fluctuations of spiritual power did not attract their attention. After discovering Xu Huo’s complete disappearance, they acted as if panicking, frantically attacking the surrounding grove, even using explosive props.

The grove was blasted into chaos, making it seem difficult for anyone to hide around them.

"That kid is probably a wolf in sheep’s clothing; he’s likely an instance player too, deliberately posing as a Rank-C Player to lull us into complacency," Yin Yang Master said. "We can’t waste more time here."

The two immediately tried to use a teleportation prop to leave, but the prop, which had been functioning fine earlier, suddenly failed.

There are only two possible reasons for this situation: one, someone used a higher-level spatial artifact to interfere with their teleportation prop; or two, the forest’s magnetic field is unstable, disrupting the use of artifacts.

If it’s the latter, it’s still manageable; but if it’s the former, staying here longer may result in death.

Without further delay, they selected a direction and moved forward quickly.

"Deng Guang’s disappearance might also be because of him," Yin Yang Master pondered for a moment, focusing all his suspicion on Xu Huo. "It’s hateful that the intelligence evolution level was too high; I didn’t notice anything before falling into the trap..."

Before he finished speaking, Bubble Bean, who had been walking alongside him, suddenly stopped sharply.

Yin Yang Master quickly followed suit. Seeing Bubble Bean staring straight ahead, he also looked up, but unfortunately, saw nothing through the thick fog.

"What did you see?" Yin Yang Master moved closer to him.

"Did you hear that sound?" Bubble Bean raised his hand, preventing him from continuing to speak.

Yin Yang Master listened carefully, uncertainly saying, "Wind noise?"

"No, it sounded like paper rustling," Bubble Bean used a prop to enhance his hearing, but the brief sound vanished as if it had been an illusion.

As evolution rate increases, a player’s senses and sensory range grow stronger. Once the evolution rate approaches 80 or 90, even without Super Evolution, a player can clearly sense everything around them—from large objects’ overall shape to the tiny sounds of insects crawling. In other words, spatial awareness improves.

Despite this, it’s still no match for true Super Evolution. Powers like Spatial Power and Psychic Power can control every subtle change within their range, making even the stealthy retrieval of a prop by a player apparent.

The sensory enhancement brought by high evolution rate has obvious limitations; when the number of obstacles increases, spatial sensing ability declines rapidly just like hearing does, unable to surpass Super Evolution. Famous Rank-A Players are often Super Evolvers. Even if not evolved in space or spirit, some bodily abilities are specially evolved, allowing them to stand out among players of the same level.

There were too many trees here, coupled with the thick fog, and the airflow rustling the leaves made it seem like sounds were everywhere. It was hard for ordinary people to identify abnormal areas without clear indicators.

Thus, although Bubble Bean heard the sound of paper, he remained unaware that the girl in the painting, transformed into paper, hovered like a giant leaf above them.

"Drip! Drip!" the girl in the painting shook down a few drops of dew.

The two people under the tree raised their heads but seemed like blind men, only glancing and then quickly looking away.

"Buy two hurricane tools," Bubble Bean suggested, "and blow the fog away directly."

The fog in the forest couldn’t really be blown away, but earlier attempts with props had briefly opened a path. Even a few seconds would suffice for them to pass through.

Before resuming their journey, Yin Yang Master was startled again, throwing out a prop and quickly rushing into the fog amidst the sound of trees being felled!

Bubble Bean followed closely, simultaneously using a hurricane tool to clear the way, revealing everything plainly under the clear view.

No people, no other entities, not even small animals, all having fled due to their previous actions—nothing at all.

"Didn’t you see it again?" Yin Yang Master glared at Bubble Bean, "Just now, someone walked past us!"

"I didn’t see it," Bubble Bean met his gaze, "What kind of shadow was it?"

"What kind of shadow can it be?" Yin Yang Master was a bit agitated, "A dark silhouette, couldn’t tell if it was male or female..."

He paused and realized, "Wait a minute, the shadow seemed to have long hair—attached behind the neck... was it a woman?"

"Xu’s sister has long hair," Bubble Bean sneered, "Looks like she never disappeared, waiting around for an opportunity."

Yin Yang Master looked at the prop in his hand, "My prop indicates no one is nearby."

"They’re strong, having countermeasures isn’t surprising," Bubble Bean said. "They’re likely wearing protective suits that can conceal and alter body state, so they appeared as Rank-C players and ordinary people. If my guess is correct, both of them should be part of our instance."