Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!-Chapter 2220: Kill the Player

At this moment, Huang Mao couldn’t open his own player panel. It wasn’t a disconnect from the game, but rather he was trapped in an illusion, having lost precision in his actions and judgments. What he thought was a prop might not be a prop, and the enemies he saw might not be enemies. In severe cases, even everything he touched might not truly exist.

Footsteps approached from behind. Huang Mao wiped his tears and turned around, seeing no one. He thought he was having an auditory hallucination, but the footsteps grew closer. He quickly got up to distance himself from the source and yelled, "Come out!"

Seeing that Huang Mao couldn’t see him, Xu Huo stopped, gathered a bit of materialized item with his forefinger, and sliced open the spiritual world in front of him. After stepping through the rift, he asked, "Why are you alone?"

Huang Mao still didn’t dare relax and quickly replied, "Are you a Psychic Evolver?"

Xu Huo nodded, unleashed his spiritual world, and pushed away the spiritual powers within the Divine Temple, forcefully creating an environment with less pressure. His mental interference hadn’t reached the level where he could blur a player’s reality in a very brief time, so while in his spiritual world, Huang Mao suddenly regained vitality and opened his player panel!

"It’s open, it’s open! It’s really open!" Huang Mao excitedly started pulling out his props while exclaiming, "Take them all out, in case the player panel becomes inaccessible again!"

Xu Huo walked over, "Where are the other players? There are much fewer people."

"Dead." Huang Mao instinctively touched the eye on his arm, "Did you see this? Someone discovered that the eye, which represents the depth of spiritual influence, can be transferred to others. The fewer the eyes, the less mental interference. To remove the eyes on their bodies, people have been killing each other, resulting in considerable casualties."

"Aside from that, it’s just dying in this instance. Each player experiences something different; sometimes people are just fine and suddenly inexplicably walk into a wall or go mad attacking randomly, and the end result is inevitably death."

He glanced at Xu Huo, noticed there were no eyes on his arm, and his eyes lit up, "Friend, why don’t we stick together?"

"I’m afraid you’ll interfere with me." Xu Huo pointed his chin at the eyeball spinning on Huang Mao’s arm before planning to head out of the Divine Temple, but was caught off guard by a sudden attack from behind—a high evolution rate player punched at full force in fury!

Without using a prop to block, Xu Huo clenched his fist and turned, taking the punch head-on!

As fists collided, both parties were propelled back by the force, retreating a few steps to distance themselves.

After steadying himself, Xu Huo was a bit surprised. He was merely testing the change in stamina post-evolution, and like the leap in self-healing ability, his strength had also rapidly progressed. The Rank-A player’s evolution rate was near 90%, yet Xu Huo didn’t feel strained taking the punch.

Contrary to Xu Huo’s calmness, the Rank-A player was ashen-faced, his right hand twitching involuntarily twice. After a moment, he said, "It’s you, isn’t it? You’re that guy named Xu."

"The moment you unleashed your psychic power, I felt it. You were severely tricked by him, yet you still team up with him? Aren’t you afraid of risking your life?"

This last remark was directed at Huang Mao. Although he too suspected Xu Huo’s identity, there were many Psychic Evolvers; blindly guessing could offend someone. Now that the Rank-A player had revealed it, he had to indicate, "Let the past be the past."

The Rank-A player was momentarily at a loss for words. "You can actually say that?"

"Why wouldn’t I say it?" Huang Mao said rather helplessly, "You don’t know Brother Xu, previously going to the Divine Temple just to pick scraps. To put it bluntly, you brought it upon yourself, no one invited you. Is it worth fighting to the death over this?" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Moreover, this is a spiritual dungeon venue, and others are always stronger than you.

"Anyway, we’re all stuck in this instance and have to stay for a week. Why not turn hostility into friendship?" Acting as a mediator, he said to Xu Huo, "We all need to pass the level. Don’t bother with him."

Then said to the Rank-A player, "Stop making trouble. Would you use your fists if props could still be used?"

This statement hit the Rank-A player’s sore spot; indeed, before he started fighting, he wanted to kill Xu Huo through hand-to-hand combat. But he didn’t anticipate that Xu Huo, a Rank-B player, wouldn’t be at a disadvantage, now he wasn’t sure anymore.

He paused, then laughed, "I heard you’re a player who has no tickets; passing the level might not matter to you."

In a closed venue Rank-B Copy, those who accidentally entered without tickets simply couldn’t get out.

"I’m really wondering how you managed to get into the Rank-A player’s team," Xu Huo said, "Haven’t you realized this isn’t a closed instance?"

Both present were taken aback, but quickly reacted, Huang Mao was overjoyed, "Even if we fail to pass the level, we won’t be trapped in the Divine Temple until death!"

"That’s right." Xu Huo added, "With a little luck, you might make it through fourteen days."

Huang Mao was about to discuss with him what "a little luck" meant when the Rank-A player across from them grew furious and kicked the nearby Shitou (Stone) toward Xu Huo, following up himself!

"You must die here!"

Xu Huo traded a few blows with him bare-handed, luring him to the nearest Divine Temple. Watching him approach, Xu Huo smiled slightly and then thrust his hand into the wall.

Realizing the situation wasn’t good, the Rank-A player turned around to flee, but the next second he heard the person behind him order, "Stop."

It was as if the Rank-A player’s brain temporarily malfunctioned upon hearing this word, causing him to involuntarily stop right where he was. Even though he regained awareness the next second, he had already missed the opportunity to escape—Xu Huo had pulled a Goddess Statue out from the wall!

In fact, the entire Divine Temple area contained fifteen Goddess Statues, with fewer than one-third openly displayed. The rest were left to chance for some unfortunate soul to trigger, and Xu Huo just borrowed one to use.

The hidden Goddess Statues were taller, or perhaps a few days of mental interference made them appear taller to the players’ eyes. So as it emerged from the wall, the Rank-A player was left with no escape. All the statue’s eyes focused on him, giving him no time to evade before exploding one after another, turning into a ground covered in eyeballs that climbed onto his legs!

"It’s fake, it’s all fake!" While self-hypnotizing, the Rank-A player activated five interference props and devices mounted on him. The sudden burst of power rendered some eyeballs lifeless, but not all eyes were susceptible to props; some even actively approached them, covering the interference forces with multiple times, several fold amounts until the effect diminished or failed!