Players, Please Board the Train

”Ah.” The little girl opened her mouth again and made a short sound, though the tone was slightly different this time. But this time, half the room’s seaweed began to thrash about, wildly lashing towards Xu Huo and the others.

Swiftly dodging the seaweed, the little girl, surrounded by the fronds, watched their frantic escape with glee, clapping her hands and laughing.

Her laughter could also control the seaweed. Instantly, all the seaweed in the room, even the stuff on the walls, began to writhe, like tentacles growing from a single creature. Some were responsible for striking, others for entangling. Both methods worked in tandem, showing not a hint of chaos.

The cramped space was simply unsuitable for a chaotic melee. Xu Huo and the others had tried to break through and directly subdue the little girl. However, these living, sentient-like seaweed would specifically protect her while attacking, even forming a wall around her to block the effects of characteristics and items.

”These are characteristics too, how can the difference be so huge!” the female player shouted angrily. Being closer to the door, she took a few hits before turning to look for an escape route.

Unfortunately, as soon as the door opened, the seaweed clogging the doorway also heard the sound and quickly reared up.

”Fuck me!” The female player slammed the door shut.

”You are no match for me.” The little girl was very pleased with herself. Pointing at Xu Huo, she said, ”I hate him. If any of the rest of you can kill him, I might let that person go.”

Except for Serin, the other three instantly shifted their focus to Xu Huo. However, Xu Huo himself seemed not to have heard. He tossed a bottle of ”Intoxicatingly Good Stuff” onto the floor and asked the little girl, ”Are you a Black Player or a Red Player?”

The intense stench made it hard to breathe. The little girl immediately pinched her nose and said in a muffled voice, ”You think using something like this can make me shut up?””Whether it can make you shut up, I don’t know. But when you used the smoke grenade earlier, you used a protective mask. Now you’d rather pinch your nose than bring out a protective shield. Does that mean your voice cannot transmit through objects to this seaweed? Or rather, to these plants.” After saying this, Xu Huo looked back at the others. ”Does anyone have a suitable, handy item?”

”I do!” The female player hauled out a fish tank. Coordinating with the player beside her, they tried to clamp it down over the little girl.

But how could this possibly contain a living person? Not to mention they couldn’t even get close to the little girl. With a few swipes of the seaweed, the fish tank was sent flying.

The little girl, still pinching her nose, had her face flushed red now, seemingly having lost her patience. She opened her mouth, preparing to unleash a big move. Xu Huo had already taken out ”Director’s Prerogative” ready to use it. But at that moment, Serin casually knocked aside the seaweed lashing towards him, took out his book, and extended his right hand towards her. ”Sermon time. Maintain silence.”

Although the little girl opened her mouth wide, not a single sound came out. The seaweed that had stood up instantly fell to the ground. Seizing this opportunity, Xu Huo used kite string to bind her.

Wary that she might have items on her, the female player and the others did not approach, merely guarding the door.

Unable to make a sound, the little girl mouthed curses directed at Serin’s entire family. She tapped her communicator a couple of times. Subsequently, the communicator projected a human figure. That figure glanced at her. ”I’ll be right there.”

The little girl put on a metal protective suit and stood waiting in place, her eyes coldly watching them as if looking at a group of dead people.

”It’s that black wristband player from the swimming pool!” The female player recognized the person in the projection and said urgently, ”That guy is very powerful. He has something, I don’t know if it’s a characteristic or an item, that can instantly kill multiple players. It’s like a rainstorm. You’ve all seen rain, but his rain can pierce right through you, skin and bone. I saw it with my own eyes. Four players, they were killed by his rain before they could even get close!”

”We’re definitely no match for that kind of player. We should find a place to hide!”

”The elevator has stopped. He probably can’t come up, right?” another player said, clinging to hope.

In reality, not only could the other person come up, he came directly to the door.

*Knock knock knock.* Someone knocked. The black wristband player spoke from outside. ”Little sis, are you in there?”

The little girl tapped her foot twice. It went quiet outside the room for a moment, but then, the door melted away, and the black wristband player appeared before everyone.

He first glanced at the little girl, then looked at Xu Huo and the female player, smiling as he said, ”All the effort, yet it came without any trouble.”

The moment his words fell, both sides sprang into action simultaneously. The black wristband player raised his hand, and the countless tiny diamonds embedded in his coat flew out evenly in all directions like bullets. Their speed and force were no less than bullets. Such small objects could create egg-sized craters in the floor!

Sensing the danger, Xu Huo used every defensive item he carried that could be used, relying on his own reflexes. Although he dodged most of the diamonds, two were still blocked autonomously by the ”Mobile Metal.”

This meant this B-grade item only had one defensive use left today. And this kind of high-density, high-intensity attack from the black wristband player wouldn’t be a one-time thing!

Beside him, Serin moved faster, shattering the glass window and jumping out, not caring how much seaweed was outside.

The moment he went out, he was submerged by seaweed. But compared to the doorway, this side was clearly the only path to survival. Therefore, Xu Huo and the other three also unanimously chose the window.

However, with Serin’s control gone, the little girl’s voice returned. A cry resembling that of an oriole sounded, and all the seaweed inside and outside the window stood straight up!

Facing the menacing seaweed, Xu Huo and the others paused in their steps. But then they heard a sizzling sound behind them. Looking back, they saw the seaweed around the black wristband player had broken off into scattered fragments by itself. And those fragments, under the black wristband player’s control, turned into a new wave of sharp weapons!

Xu Huo threw several bottles of alcohol onto the seaweed. Taking advantage of the seaweed retreating after he set it on fire, he directly jumped out the window.

Knowing that under these circumstances he couldn’t completely defend against attacks from behind, the moment he went out, he took out ”101 Emergency Shelter.” Once inside the shelter, he tumbled down with the surging seaweed.

Inside the room, one couldn’t feel what was happening outside. He could only judge his position based on the shelter’s falling speed and deviation.

The ship was already covered in seaweed. It was hard to say if there was this stuff underwater. So Xu Huo couldn’t follow the item into the sea; he had to get out before entering the water.

In reality, this was only a moment’s work, as the position he jumped from wasn’t very high to begin with.

But this brief evasion just managed to avoid the black wristband player’s attack. After putting away the item, he grabbed the piano wire and quickly moved along the ship’s hull. The boiling, surging seaweed wasn’t just attacking him; it also became his best cover.

Passing by a broken window not far away, he threw out the item ”Mimicry Doll.”