Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!

Xu Huo kicked away the dolls that approached with a few swift kicks, but unexpectedly, several of them focused on the weakest among them, Qi Cong, and worked together to hold him down, tearing at the flesh on his body hungrily!

Qi Cong screamed in agony, but every time he tore off a doll, new ones would pounce on him—the scent of blood seemed to trigger some kind of signal, even some of the smaller dolls couldn’t help but approach.

"Get off!" Injured and seeing that no one was helping him, Qi Cong had no choice but to activate a device he carried, pushing away the dolls clinging to him. He immediately leaped onto a nearby rooftop, but only stayed a moment before hastily jumping back and desperately running towards Xu Huo and the others.

Meanwhile, a masked Battle Doll appeared on the rooftop, twisting its hand, and a few mini bombs flew out!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The successive explosions not only blasted away the surrounding doll people but also injured some of those who arrived with Dai He; fortunately, they managed to take advantage of the explosion to hide in a nearby shop without facing the Battle Doll directly, which, after concluding its action, ignored them and left.

This was completely different from what they had understood about the Battle Dolls before.

"What on earth is going on? The behavior of these dolls and puppets makes no sense..." muttered Dai He in a low voice.

"Shh." Xu Huo cut him off, watching the situation outside.

Due to the explosion just now, several of the dolls were blown apart, and like those he had killed before, the damaged dolls automatically turned into ordinary cloth skins. From the crowd, a few people came out, two picking up the doll skins from the ground, and two replacing the fallen dolls by entering a nearby shop. Once these two entered the counter, their doll skins instantly changed to that of the original shop owner, serving the customers according to the owner’s behavioral patterns.

"Who are you, and how did you get into the kitchen? Get out now!" The new shop owner opened the back door and upon seeing Xu Huo and the others hiding inside, immediately raised his voice to drive them out, apparently forgetting everything from earlier and their identities entirely.

The group found themselves back on the street, everything reverting to how it was when they first arrived.

Dai He’s team remained calm, but the injured Qi Cong was very annoyed. His original Protective Suit level was not very high, and after somehow being cut open, both his arm and thigh were bitten several times, especially the arm, which had two chunks of flesh torn off. His Self-Healing Potion didn’t work well, stopping the bleeding but not the pain, forcing him to grit his teeth and endure.

The situation now was confusing; they initially thought their attire was conspicuous, so they changed clothes, but the new clothes seemed to render them unable to speak. Before they could figure out whether they could speak, the doll people for unknown reasons went berserk, yet in less than half a minute, those dolls returned to normal...

What on earth could they do and not do?

Surely, just taking one more step wouldn’t suddenly violate the rules, right?

Qi Cong tentatively took a step forward, but this time, no one suddenly turned their head.

"Phew..." Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he was pushed violently, tumbling into a suddenly appearing door. He thought it was a trap and turned around in fright, only to crash into Girl in the Painting, who had followed in, screaming as she slapped him, sending him flying to the feet of some dolls watching a performance.

The two sides stared at each other, Qi Cong scrambled away in a panic.

Having just come through the Mental Portal, Xu Huo shoved him aside and nodded toward those dolls.

Then the two sides began walking left and right.

"I just tested it; hitting ordinary dolls isn’t a problem. Most of them are ordinary people, a few are players. For some reason, they seem starved, wanting to bite when they see people," said a middle-aged man leading the team from Yongta Country, "Usually when speaking softly like this, they wouldn’t notice."

Xu Huo nodded, "What about the Battle Doll that appeared earlier?"

"I wanted to see if I could blow up the building," the middle-aged man said regretfully, "Unfortunately, these structures seem to be dungeon instances, ordinary weapons are useless and would even draw out the Battle Dolls."

"So it’s not difficult to lure out the Battle Dolls," Xu Huo said, "They can enter and exit this dungeon venue; they’re our only hope before the Suitcase Man appears."

The middle-aged man did not refute this, and asked, "Won’t wrapping yourself in these worn clothes get you noticed?"

Xu Huo smiled, "Whether wearing doll clothes affects their recognition of us doesn’t matter."

"Their initial assault, apart from a few genuinely wanting to fill their bellies, the rest probably aimed to make us put on the doll clothing."

"The doll clothing might activate in certain situations, and the deceased dolls get replaced by others, leading the new players to eventually become part of the Circus City roles.`

The middle-aged man clicked his tongue but didn’t intend to remove his doll suit, "Then I’ll have to gamble on my luck."

"I looked around earlier; this Circus City is large. From this position, looking around, the only prominent structure is the castle cluster to the north, which is most likely the center of this dungeon venue, the place with the most Battle Dolls."

The visible areas varied in height, but the terrain in the northward direction rose gradually.

Xu Huo caught on to his intention, "You’re heading to the castle over there?"

The middle-aged man replied matter-of-factly, "I chased the dolls here to take down their lair... It seems difficult now, but without expelling this grudge, how can I face the fallen brothers?"

Those present all admired his skill and courage.

With different goals, of course, they wouldn’t accompany each other for long. Climbing the stairs to the upper street, they parted ways.

Xu Huo wanted to find Yan Jiayu, naturally wanting to cover as much of the city as possible, while the Yongta group’s goal was clear: head straight to the city center. So one continued north while the other went west.

Unexpectedly, both parties encountered obstruction within half an hour, as the peaceful doll people suddenly went berserk attacking, and this time the number of players among the attackers increased significantly.

"Are they insane?" Qi Cong, again the focus of attention, couldn’t help but roar.

Xu Huo’s gaze swept over the props the dolls used for decoration and then looked further into the city, speaking only after a moment, "I’m afraid most of the dolls in this city are players themselves."

Somewhere a Que Niao flew from one end of the city towards the castles, its bird-eye view revealing the conflict to be a very small part of the city. On more streets, further away, countless dolls diligently played their circus roles, and the continuous laughter echoed like a curse, as if they were part of this perpetually running city, never ceasing.

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