Players, Please Board the Train

Kang Hong probably understood what they wanted to do, so he said: ”I’ll go to other floors to find electrical wires.”

”Be careful, other floors might have mutated animals hiding,” Xu Huo said.

Kang Hong then called Chen Shu to join him, and Xiao Ba and Zheng Liang also went up to help.

”What are you all planning to do?” Jiang Yihua walked over, looking at them with confusion.

”Preparing a big gift for that man-eating flower,” Xu Huo said.

Jiang Yihua hesitated for a moment before saying: ”Are you planning to electrocute that man-eating flower?”

”That man-eating flower has very high energy values. I don’t think electricity can kill it.”

”Whether it can kill it or not is secondary,” Dai Wenqian interjected. ”If the man-eating flower occupies this building, then the mutated animals inside will eventually be eaten clean. If it blocks the elevator shaft, even better - this dungeon will be finished sooner or later.”

Jiang Yihua suddenly understood. ”If the dungeon’s inherent rules no longer apply, then this place can’t continue swallowing people anymore!”

”This could be considered benefiting others too.”Gu Yu walked over and picked up the dismantled small fan, then took out a whetstone and rubbed it against the blades. The originally dull blades immediately became sharp as knives. ”Since that’s the case, let’s do the good deed thoroughly.”

She smiled at Xu Huo as she spoke. ”Learned from you - even the most inconspicuous methods are still methods. They might unexpectedly come in handy.”

Xu Huo moved aside to give her space.

”I’ll help too,” Jiang Yihua said as she helped dismantle other small fans, smiling as she added: ”Since becoming a player, this is the first time I’ve felt such a sense of accomplishment.”

Gu Yu glanced up at her, then looked back at the two men who had gone to the circuit breaker, her gaze first landing on Xu Huo before shifting to Dai Wenqian. She let out a soft sigh.

”Sister Gu Yu, is there anything we can help with?” Zhang Biao and the bald player approached.

Gu Yu looked at them coldly. ”Get lost.”

”Sister Gu Yu, we’re on the same side. You need to testify to Brother Qiao about Dai Wenqian killing Brother Tie when we get back,” Zhang Biao said. ”Even though Brother Qiao might not do anything to him? But who would feel safe following someone who casually kills their own companions? Anyway, if I can find train tickets for the same dungeon next time, I definitely won’t go with him.”

Gu Yu mocked: ”Do you think Dai Wenqian really wants to bring deadweight like you along?”

”Wanting to enter the same dungeon again? Unless you cooperate with the government, where would you find two identical train tickets? You’re looking down on others while having quite the inflated ego yourself.”

Zhang Biao and the bald player got nothing but rejection and, facing hostility from other non-players, exchanged glances before running off to find Zheng Liang and Xiao Ba.

Xu Huo connected wires to the circuit breaker while Kang Hong and the others brought up the dismantled wires. They had also found some useful modification tools on other floors and similarly connected several more lines. Deciding to go all the way, they planned to dismantle the elevator completely before leaving the dungeon.

”But Zhang Biao and the other guy went outside,” Kang Hong said. ”I saw them find something.”

From upstairs, it was completely impossible to see the situation outside the building. Xu Huo said meaningfully: ”They’re quite bold.”

Nearby, Zheng Liang was also discussing this matter with Gu Yu, though he knew what Zhang Biao had picked up - it seemed to be leftover items from previous players. Zhang Biao had also called him to go outside, saying the man-eating flower vines outside seemed to have stopped moving.

Hearing Xu Huo’s words, his eyelids twitched, and he changed his sentence mid-speech: ”...Forget it, going outside still isn’t safe. It’s not worth risking my life for a few items that might not even be useful.”

Kang Hong and Chen Shu were actually somewhat tempted too, but before going out, they tacitly came back to ask Xu Huo’s opinion. Hearing him say this, they didn’t say anything more.

Time quickly reached evening. According to the correct floor, they should go to the fifth floor. Although they hadn’t seen any mutated animals appear since the man-eating flower invaded the building, to avoid unnecessary trouble, the group went down to the fifth floor via the elevator shaft ahead of time.

The elevator soon came down from upstairs, opened on the fifth floor, then returned upstairs.

For Xu Huo, night wasn’t much different from daytime, so while everyone rested on the fifth floor, he went to the fourth floor alone.

Aside from several mutated animals that had been crushed to death, the fourth floor was filled with crowded man-eating flower vines.

His gaze lingered on the emaciated animal corpses for a few seconds before he turned back to the third floor.

The third floor seemed to be a leisure area, with sofas, bookshelves, and some leftover old magazines.

Xu Huo picked one up and discovered these magazines weren’t from the same place, or even from the same wormhole point.

His eyes paused slightly. The Little Flower Red Red Building and Decibel Town appeared to be fixed-location random dungeons - they were placed in specific positions, only needing to attract players inside.

This was different from the Skinner’s dungeon.

The Skinner was the master of his dungeon, and the dungeon could move between different zones, so it was normal for things from different places to appear in his dungeon. Then there was the Fairy Tale City, which had been completely assimilated into the game, with external zone forces stationed there, so they could bring in things from other zones.

Meanwhile, the background of the Little Flower Red Red Building mentioned that Professor Hao had wanted to contact the Stellar Pharmaceutical Research Group, along with these entertainment magazines from different places, which might represent another type of existence - the complete fusion of the game world with the real world.

External zone players arriving in Zone 014 all came with train tickets, so they might face two restrictions: first, the train tickets, and second, the game world and real world not completely overlapping. But if Zone 014 completely merged into the game world, then Harbor City might become a station city like Fairy Tale City that players could freely enter and exit.

This way, there would inevitably be power differences between old zones and new zones, making it easier for players from old zones to accomplish whatever they wanted.

To some extent, train tickets instead became the most crucial gate - without train tickets, one couldn’t travel between different station cities.

Thinking of this, Xu Huo couldn’t help but recall the ”temporary pass” that the Skinner had once mentioned. It seemed that with that thing, traveling between stations would become much easier.

Maybe the external zone players invading Zone 014 relied on so-called ”temporary passes”?

Though there were also people who could move freely between stations without needing train tickets.

After casually flipping through the magazines and putting them back, he got up and headed to the second floor.

Dai Wenqian had been to the second floor before - it was Professor Hao’s bedroom, with signs of struggle and fresh bloodstains, plus another emaciated mutated animal corpse.

Picking up a fountain pen stuck in the flower vines in the corner, he turned and threw it toward the doorway. ”This is yours, right?”

Dai Wenqian, standing in the darkness, reached out and caught his own item, saying in a deep voice: ”What are you looking for?”

”Useful things,” Xu Huo said. There was a five-meter distance between him and Dai Wenqian - from this distance, he could clearly see the subtle expressions on Dai Wenqian’s face. Raising an eyebrow, he asked: ”Want to fight me?”