Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!

After a thorough analysis, the result turned out to be quite bleak, causing Teacher Jing Shi, who had been clinging to hope, to fall completely silent. After a moment, she finally spoke, "Let’s wait for the rescue team’s news."

The noise outside the Enforcement Department building didn’t dissipate even late into the night. As the number of missing people increased, messages on the Collection of Information Terminal were flying everywhere, making the public increasingly anxious. People hoped that the Enforcement Department or the government could provide a definitive explanation: how far has the rescue team progressed, have any of the missing been rescued, or are they already dead?

If only one city’s population needed evacuation, even at a slow pace, it could be manageable. However, now neighboring cities also fall within the instance’s range, forcing those initially evacuated to nearby cities to undergo a second evacuation. This not only increased the difficulty of evacuation but also made all the previous work by the District Government totally futile.

Past midnight, the evacuation of city personnel was still incomplete and even came to a halt at one point, as there was no place left to evacuate to unless long-distance Teleportation Props are used to increase space coverage. Yet, the rescue teams seemed consistently out of position, not only failing to evacuate local residents to farther cities but even prohibiting the use of aircraft.

Additionally, as more Players used spatial teleportation tools, even the teleport stations equipped with Interference Devices began to fail in regions, while the number of similar Teleportation Props and Instruments was clearly insufficient, unable to support the transfer of the entire city’s population.

Xu Huo was closely monitoring the messages on the Collection of Information Terminal. Now it was confirmed that the cities included within the "Night Tour" instance range had increased from five to eight, based on definitive information released by local Players in different cities.

"This instance... is spreading like a plague." The three cities later included in the instance’s range had all received evacuees.

Soon, the local government issued an emergency notice, advising residents to return home or seek nearby shelter, as almost all nearby cities had fallen, and the rescue team’s current equipment wasn’t sufficient to reach farther places.

This clearly seemed like an evasive explanation. District 001 could certainly get the necessary large Teleportation Props, so it’s not a matter of being unable to rescue several cities; the only explanation could be that personnel couldn’t evacuate.

Based on the current situation, it’s not hard to imagine that those evacuated likely became the instance’s tentacles—wherever they went, it would turn into a new instance area. Therefore, the best solution was to lock down the eight cities already ensnared by the instance.

Besides, Xu Huo also felt the range of the dungeon restricted area was expanding.

The Enforcement Department building, where he was located, wasn’t far from Yangming Building. Within the past hour, three people had suddenly disappeared near Yangming Building.

"What’s the situation outside the city?" Xu Huo grabbed a Player from the Enforcement Department.

The Player was initially very impatient. Not just Xu Huo, but everyone who could see him tried to stop him for the latest news, yet he had no time for this... However, as their eyes met, he inexplicably calmed down and opened his mouth to say, "We’re already sending people outside the city; outside is temporarily safe."

Outside refers to the forests and plains between cities. Given that evacuating to other cities could possibly lead to expanding the instance’s territory, they could only flee to uninhabited places, at least not dragging more people into danger.

According to the messages on the Collection of Information Terminal, every city had already started doing this.

However, just when everyone thought this was also a solution, a video from another city occupied the top spot on the Collection of Information Terminal’s hottest rankings.

Evacuating outside the city, although resources couldn’t keep up for a while, didn’t mean the Players of each city’s Enforcement Department were inept. With so many people relocating, there was hardly any chaos, the teams were well-organized, and in the video, the people from this city had already started building tents for accommodation, the overly bright Props illuminating the forests as if it was daylight—under such an atmosphere, most people’s emotions were relatively stable, as this wasn’t the first time they’d migrated due to an instance. Usually, before the first instance ends, the District Government has plans to settle them...

That’s what ordinary citizens thought, that’s what Players in the law enforcement teams thought, but as a wave of darkness surged from the forest, first strange music covered the area. Within a few minutes, a Night Tour Team emerged. They moved like performers from Cultural Street, dancing as they moved, occasionally having performers break away from the team to approach the audience, but instead of interacting, they killed.

As several heads flew, the Players from the law enforcement teams took the lead in attacking those performers. Those performers were easy to kill, even an ordinary person could chop their heads off with a knife, but when the skeletons inside fell, the masks on their heads would automatically fly off and latch onto the person who had just killed them!

Two members of the law enforcement team reacted too slowly and were covered by the masks, and when they tried to pull the masks off, the first thing that splattered was blood. Yes, those masks seemed to embed roots into their faces and necks, and lifting the mask’s edges even revealed blood vessel-like things connecting to the Player’s skin, and these blood vessel-like things seemed directly linked within the Player’s body, once torn off, the wound sprayed blood like holes!

Moreover, as each was severed, the masks grew more, large and intricate, covering one Player’s face in the video as he tried several times to remove the mask.

Crucially, masks aren’t just attached to faces, but also areas like head and neck, which are fragile.

The masked Players dared not move recklessly anymore, while other Players in the law enforcement team tried every way to trap several wildly flying masks. As they were about to send away the two entangled people, those two Players unconsciously walked into the Night Tour Team.

Their companions desperately tried to pull them out, but clearly, the ones going in were replaced by skeletons when pulled out—not the Players died, but they swapped places with the skeletons originally in the group.

Some Players forced the Night Tour Team masks off with Props, but the consequence was the two Players dying on the spot from detaching the masks, while part of the Night Tour members’ masks flew off again like living creatures, picking new targets nearby.

More people got dragged into it.

The video content stopped here, Xu Huo zoomed in on the frame, looking at the deceased Player from the law enforcement team, realizing the area connecting their skulls and blood vessels had deep holes, flowing out not just blood, but pale brain matter.