Players, Please Board the Train

Dr. Deng was a smart man, knowing that Xu Huo was actually already tempted, just weighing whether he was worth the risk.

He lifted over the case he had brought with him.

This case had been left here since last night; he hadn’t taken it with him when he passed through the corpse vault with the Kong siblings.

He took out a low-temperature glass tube from inside, containing a dead blue spider. Pinching the metal handle at the top, he held it up and said, ”This highly venomous spider can kill an adult within three seconds.”

”It’s dead,” Chu Yuan leaned in to look.

Dr. Deng pushed his face away. ”This is a spider particularly sensitive to temperature. It has its own temperature system. Below a certain value, it enters a state of suspended animation. When the temperature rises, it revives. As individuals differ, specific experiments are needed to know the exact threshold, but human body temperature is enough to revive it. So you have to be careful when handling it too.”

Xu Huo and Chu Yuan both instinctively stepped back a bit.

”Can it bite through protective gear?” Chu Yuan asked while looking.

”No matter how venomous, it’s still just a spider. A slightly thicker piece of cardboard is enough to stop it.” Dr. Deng put down the glass tube and picked up two others. ”These are leaves from a plant that releases a paralyzing toxin. Whether ingested orally or through a wound, it can cause limb stiffness in a person within three minutes, taking at least half an hour to slowly recover.”

”Quite well-prepared,” Xu Huo looked at him with a half-smile. ”You really don’t have a train ticket?”Dr. Deng, however, said, ”Even if I had a ticket, I wouldn’t dare ride the player train alone.”

Xu Huo took the spider and also smeared the leaf’s sap on his sword blade. However, relying on these alone wouldn’t be enough to deal with the Kong siblings; there were too many uncontrollable factors.

At that moment, Wu Xiaonan came over from the corridor, holding her stomach. ”What are you all still doing here? Really not looking for the potion anymore?”

”Can’t find it, don’t want to waste the energy,” Xu Huo said directly. ”You should also save your effort and rest a bit more.”

Wu Xiaonan simply sat down leaning against the wall. After resting for a while, she stood up again. ”Forget it, this isn’t fun either. I’ll go call them over.”

”I’ll go with you,” Xu Huo proactively stood up.

As he got up, Chu Yuan and Dr. Deng followed suit. The four of them walked towards the corpse vault together.

Gan Qing and Qiu Xiangdong were resting. Seeing Dr. Deng, Qiu Xiangdong asked, ”Doctor, do you really think the potion is here?”

Dr. Deng said helplessly, ”It’s just a guess, I’m not sure. This lab has been searched over and over again. Maybe there isn’t one.”

Gan Qing looked somewhat disappointed upon hearing this. Just as he was about to say something, the Kong siblings suddenly appeared at the elevator door far from them.

”What’s going on?!” He abruptly stood up, but his legs went weak, and he directly knelt on the ground.

Before the others could recover from the shock of the Kong siblings’ sudden appearance, Gan Qing’s kneeling drew their attention.

With continuous unexpected events, Qiu Xiangdong and Wu Xiaonan retreated towards Xu Huo’s side. Xu Huo signaled Chu Yuan to pull Gan Qing up and slowly move towards the other end of the corridor. At the same time, he took out the ”Lament of Plants” and the Crimson Sword. Amidst the piercing noise, he aimed and slashed at the two figures ahead!

The moment the sword swept out, the two who had their backs to him the previous second suddenly fled to both sides. Qiu Xiangdong took out a shield to block the sword energy’s cutting edge. Over there, Wu Xiaonan reached out her hand towards him: ”Health Exercise...”

Before she could finish speaking, piano wire had already tightened around her neck. Then, Xu Huo used the Note Launcher to shoot out the spider.

The current underground third floor was filled with dust, disrupting sight and hearing. Although Wu Xiaonan avoided the sword strike, she was injured and couldn’t move as fast as Qiu Xiangdong. So Xu Huo targeted her, launching continuous attacks, aiming to take her life in the shortest possible time.

Wu Xiaonan couldn’t see and was disturbed by the noise. Out of self-preservation, she shifted from her original position the moment the piano wire hooked her. However, Xu Huo had already predicted her dodge location and aimed precisely where she would dodge. As she moved there, she directly caught the spider.

After being bitten, Wu Xiaonan flung her hand away like lightning, but only had time to tear off the piano wire before she knelt on the ground. However, before collapsing, she released a gymnastics ball from her hand. That thing quickly rolled across the ground towards Xu Huo, and when it was three meters away, it suddenly shot up!

Xu Huo swung his sword to knock the gymnastics ball away, but a water band came rushing toward him. He barely managed to grab the just-retrieved piano wire, leaping up and back. Suddenly, he heard Chu Yuan shout ”Watch out!” from behind. Looking up, he was pulled forward by a force!

He uncontrollably slid forward. The piano wire couldn’t counteract this force. Although Chu Yuan behind him grabbed him in time, he was also pulled forward along with him.

At that moment, Qiu Xiangdong from the side moved up to attack, while Kong Hui ahead charged forward rapidly. Xu Huo blocked in front, first using his sword to block Qiu Xiangdong. But the moment they were locked in stalemate, Kong Hui also pressed close!

Uncertain whether the Crimson Sword could block two attacks, especially since Kong Hui’s item level wasn’t low, he turned his hand and held up a White Block to block in front:

”Ding! Ding!”

The moment Kong Hui’s twin swords collided with the White Block, they immediately shattered into two pieces. This outstanding effect not only surprised Kong Hui and the others but also Xu Huo. However, seizing this opportunity, Chu Yuan first moved Qiu Xiangdong away, then threw something at Kong Hui.

It was unclear what he threw, but Kong Hui retreated. Xu Huo successfully retreated into the corridor. He took out a short cabinet he had previously stored in the luggage compartment, stuffed Dr. Deng inside, gave him a District 011 train ticket, then wrapped the outside with an automatic inflatable boat. At the same time, he put on a layer of leather clothing himself, zipping the zipper on the chest all the way up to his head. He lit the Lighter towards the end of the corridor.

”Fuck me!” Chu Yuan and Gan Qing shouted in unison, but the echoes were swallowed by the successive explosions!

The dust-filled underground third floor was simply a breeding ground for explosions. Xu Huo had placed flammable materials here in advance. Once the flame ignited, it was a continuous chain of explosions.

Even he, positioned at this corridor end, was affected within an extremely short time. What he wore was an item obtained from the Black-Shirted Player. Although it couldn’t breathe when sealed, it had defensive functions. Without this thing, he wouldn’t have dared to easily detonate the third floor.

Additionally, while being blown away by the explosion, he turned and hugged the cabinet where Dr. Deng was hiding.

The laboratory was sturdier than he imagined. The explosive force merely cracked parts of the connection points of the third floor’s outer shell. The gas with nowhere to vent surged back into the elevator and the adjacent corridor, carrying people into the western half of the laboratory and shattering all the observation glass!

Xu Huo felt himself plunging into water, but was immediately pushed back into the laboratory by the high-pressure seawater surging over. The two forces converged inside and outside the laboratory, forming a powerful vortex that sent him crashing around everywhere.