Chapter 1319: Twin Cities Station
When you are under someone else's roof, you have to lower your head. Even though Xu Huo's gaze was not on her, the purple-eyed female player still did not dare to secretly hide any items. She gathered up all the items from the corpse before the train arrived, placed them in a bag, and set them down beside herself.
Xu Huo only glanced at them before taking the entire bag away without giving her another look.
The purple-eyed female player breathed a sigh of relief and retreated back to her companions.
Thanks to Xu Huo, the station finally quieted down. The sounds of mutual slaughter, tearing, and swallowing ceased. Even the few players who arrived later found a spot and waited for the train peacefully.
This time, Xu Huo was heading to E19-023 District. Among the ticket slots of the killed fake Han Yi and Old Man Zheng, only one ticket to a B-rank instance at this address overlapped. The fake Han Yi wore many high-quality items and was always protected by advanced players when entering or leaving. Judging by his usual demeanor, he was not just a scapegoat; he held a certain status within the Han family. Someone like him only carrying two or three tickets meant that the destinations of those tickets were relatively safe for him, otherwise he wouldn't keep them in his ticket holder as emergency supplies.
Old Man Zheng was also no lightweight. Both of them held tickets to this place, so E19-023 had some connection to the Han family.
Therefore, Xu Huo bought a C-rank instance ticket for this district, planning to check it out while completing the instance.
However, the players on the train line to this district were even more bloodthirsty and violent, more inclined to brute force. After transferring to a train car also splattered with fresh blood, Xu Huo looked at the passengers inside, who had impulsive expressions and fierce eyes, and silently walked to a corner.
The rooms at the four corners of the car were enough to accommodate the players in one car, but now the number of players in the car far exceeded the normal capacity. It didn't seem like they came from the front or back cars either, because those cars were just as crowded, with some standing and some sitting.
The good news was that the rooms in the car weren't all occupied yet. Xu Huo stopped in front of a single room showing as unoccupied. The door was open. The previous "guest" had already been killed, with the body still lying by the bed. Another person was sitting nearby, rummaging through the corpse's belongings. Noticing Xu Huo, the man raised a pair of triangular eyes and stared at him fiercely.
It was clear that this person had no intention of giving up the room.
So Xu Huo walked through the confrontational crowd toward the front door of the car to find the next empty room.
The purple-eyed female player and her four companions had also entered this car with him. The five of them were originally standing near a room, but when they saw Xu Huo approaching, they immediately made way, clearing a wide path for him.
"Bastard, looking for death?!" A few of them bumped into another player nearby. The man with a scar on his forehead clenched his fist and swung it at the purple-eyed female player.
He was wearing item gloves and had stacked other items on his attack. He pushed aside the two people beside the purple-eyed female player while pulling her toward himself.
But the purple-eyed female player was no pushover either. A flash shield appeared out of nowhere, releasing a blinding light as it caught the man's fist.
The scarred man instinctively covered his eyes, giving the purple-eyed female player an opening. Her high-heeled item shoes pierced through his defense barrier and kicked him hard in the groin.
The scarred man screamed in pain and fell to his knees, unable to get up for a moment. However, he wasn't one to be easily defeated. With a flick of his hand, over a dozen leaf-shaped short blades shot through the car toward the purple-eyed female player. But he forgot that there were other players in the car. A middle-aged man in formal attire not far away flicked his finger, and a bloody hole appeared in the scarred man's temple.
With the dull thud of the body hitting the floor, the flying blades clattered to the ground.
The purple-eyed female player instinctively glanced toward Xu Huo's direction as she retreated to her companions. Seeing that the room door was already closed, she visibly relaxed.
The people in the car weren't fools. In the span of a minute, they had clearly seen everyone's actions and expressions. If even the purple-eyed female player's group of five was so wary of Xu Huo, only the dead fool would lose his life over something as trivial as being bumped into.
The tense atmosphere that had lasted for a while finally eased, and the players put away their weapons one after another.
Just then, a few people came over from the front car. The purple-eyed female player opened the locked car door and walked out with her companions. After a brief exchange, they followed the newcomers to the front car, showing no intention of returning.
"Ha!" A young man with dyed colorful hair in the car let out a contemptuous laugh, cursing someone as a "coward."
This naturally provoked the other players' frayed nerves, and three of them attacked simultaneously.
In such a small car, with items causing indiscriminate damage, the fight among four people quickly escalated into a brawl involving over a dozen. Except for those in the rooms, only a few outside didn't join in. The car was filled with noise, and the already overturned tables and chairs were further destroyed, nearly beyond repair.
In no time, everything that could be destroyed in the car—except for the windows and the rooms on the sides—was wrecked. The floor was covered in debris and the bodies of the recently fallen, leaving no clean place to step.
However, many people had boarded this train, and many had also gotten off. During the fight, three players disappeared one after another, presumably having reached their stops.
With a meal service prompt, the car fell silent again. The players found places to sit and prepared to eat.
On the train, consumption was mandatory, so during mealtime, these people tacitly agreed to a ceasefire.
Xu Huo, in his room, also ordered a meal and took the time to search for information about E19-023 on the Under Dimension.
Information on the Under Dimension was tiered. With a one-star account, you could only view information corresponding to your own player level and below. For a C-rank player who had simply activated the Under Dimension, B-rank and A-rank information was blocked, and they could only browse information from their origin wormhole point, unless their account star rating increased.
When Xu Huo upgraded, he obtained a three-star account, so he could view all information from the entire E27 wormhole point, as well as other E-rank wormhole points, as long as it matched his player level.
Not being able to fully understand the 023 District wasn't a big deal. The main information he needed was related to the instance. As long as someone had provided clearance strategies and information, he could get a general idea of the situation in the entire district.
The ticket address he obtained this time was "Twin Cities Station." No one was selling strategies on the Under Dimension, and only a few scattered pieces of information were available for purchase.
Xu Huo bought them all and ended up with a few seemingly unimportant clues:
"One: Bring enough water and food, as well as antidotes."
"Two: The roads are bad, so it's best to prepare an amphibious vehicle."
"Three: The safest place is Twin Cities."
(Chapter End)