Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!

Chapter 2447: Things Players Don’t Know

As dusk approached, the other players gradually returned.First, Bubble Bean and his group, followed by the green-haired female player and the Earless Man, and then the middle-aged man.

Compared to the others, the middle-aged man appeared particularly disheveled, with multiple wounds on his body, looking as if he had been in a fight. Upon seeing Xu Huo and the others upon returning to the village, his expression was wary, as if suspecting that what he saw might not be real people.

"What happened to you?" the Earless Man kindly asked.

Only then did the middle-aged man relax, grimly saying, "Nothing."

After speaking, he took out his location prop and went inside.

His location prop had a simulation function, and placed next to the wooden house, it looked quite harmonious with the village’s architecture. However, from the outside, it was impossible to see what happened inside the prop, so once inside, everything went silent.

"Feeling guilty like a thief," Bubble Bean laughed coldly, "It’s getting dark, and Yang Tian hasn’t returned."

Chi Cai hesitantly said, "Did you see the code left on the tree?"

"What code?" the green-haired female player asked.

Chi Cai lowered his voice and said, "Someone says one of us is playing the Hidden Friend role."

The people present looked at each other, Bubble Bean and his group understood but pretended not to know, asking, "Who is it?"

Chi Cai found it difficult, hesitating before looking towards the middle-aged man, "I told Yang Tian about this, and he hasn’t returned yet... I don’t know if the writing on the tree was left by him."

The green-haired female player came over, "Let me see the code."

Chi Cai immediately showed the recorded content, and to avoid direct conflict with the middle-aged man, he redirected the view to make sure the middle-aged man couldn’t see it.

"This is a fairly common cipher code in the game," the green-haired female player said, "Players who are slightly interested in this knowledge would find it easy to learn. Who left it is hard to say."

She looked at Bubble Bean and his group, "Did you see it?"

"If I saw it, I wouldn’t be asking," Bubble Bean said lightly, "The forest is so big, and we’re not going in the same direction. But your suspicion makes sense. Maybe Yang Tian is up to something, hiding outside on purpose, making us think something happened to him, so we unknowingly eliminate his opponents."

"After all, only one player can clear the level."

He deliberately looked at the green-haired female player, actually warning her that her words were stirring the pot, making all players suspect each other, and what good would that do?

The green-haired female player curled her lips, "Since no one trusts anyone, take care of yourself."

As she took out her location prop to enter, a new message suddenly popped out on her personal panel:

[Current number of players remaining in the instance: 34.]

The players paused at this message; someone in the instance had suddenly died. Was it another player or Yang Tian, who hadn’t returned?

Did they encounter the Hidden Friend, or did they run into another player?

"I sent messages to Yang Tian earlier. He hasn’t replied," Chi Cai thought the worst had happened.

"That’s not necessarily the case," Yin Yang Master said, "Maybe he just found you annoying and didn’t want to bother with you."

Chi Cai glanced at him, speechless, "This is a Rank-B instance."

Who would waste time because of something minor like ’seeing eye to eye’ in a Rank-B instance?

"So what?" Yin Yang Master retorted, "Between people, there are not only eye affinities but also magnetic fields. Some people you can tell at a glance are jinxing me."

The others couldn’t stand it anymore and found places to rest.

Of course, what Yin Yang Master said wasn’t entirely without reason. After all, some props and characteristics in the game can detect others’ attention levels and friend-or-foe judgments. Pre-cognitive props also exist, and avoiding certain players or some players could really be due to these reasons.

"I wonder if tonight will be like last night." Back in the wooden house, Chi Cai said worriedly.

Xu Huo didn’t respond, instead sending the Girl in the painting next door to find that young guy and ask him to come over for dinner.

The young guy had helped them fetch water earlier and also provided some chopped firewood, so inviting him for a meal was reasonable.

The young man came over with some dried meat and wild vegetables and mushrooms, offering to help cook dinner.

During the cooking, Xu Huo brought up the villagers’ attitude towards them, "When Granny Yi’s granddaughter went missing, I heard someone say it was outsiders who took her away... Has anything like this happened before?"

The young man was a bit surprised, "Where did you hear that? Nothing like that has ever happened. Most outsiders are polite to us; though sometimes communication isn’t smooth, they absolutely wouldn’t abduct children. Our village never had a child abduction incident."

"Sometimes some kids playfully run into the grove. They come back once adults start looking for them."

"Then I must have misheard," Xu Huo sighed, "Compared to other regions, you are very friendly to outsiders."

The young man chuckled with a natural, simple feel to his smile, "People treat each other reciprocally."

The meal’s atmosphere was relatively relaxed, and after dinner, the young man helped clean the dishes and returned to his home.

Soon, the village fell silent.

Xu Huo discovered yesterday night that the villagers slept very soundly. When some players went out wandering last night, only Grandpa He’s place had a few awake elders who quietly observed inside the house. Most others slept, seemingly unaffected by any noise.

Perhaps that extreme fatigue also influenced them.

"There are still many days left, we can’t stay awake all the time." Chi Cai stated he would keep watch tonight, allowing Xu Huo to watch a while before sleeping, "This way it’s fair."

However, near midnight, that familiar sleepy feeling returned. Chi Cai, who promised to stay awake, struggled for two hours before falling asleep again. When snoring began, the Girl in the painting slapped him, but it surprisingly didn’t wake him completely. He opened his eyes, mumbling, "Talk tomorrow if anything comes up..."

Only when he saw her hand raised again did he suddenly sit up, cold light flashing in his eyes, and his defensive barrier suddenly activated, forcefully knocking the Girl in the painting from the chair!

Facing her accusatory gaze, Chi Cai realized and quickly apologized, "I was groggy, my bad. You were calling me just now, weren’t you..."

The Girl in the painting glared fiercely at him and complained to Xu Huo, "He hit me."

Xu Huo was not paying attention to the two but made a "shh" gesture, then pointed outside the window.

The others remained inside the house without coming out. Even if they weren’t asleep, they were not alert enough to move, but outside the middle-aged man’s prop wooden house, a figure appeared.