# Chapter 1699: Killing from Within the Abdomen
Obviously, most players preferred to trust their own strength and looked down on Xu Huo's meticulous efforts. Even if they had to prepare props, they would use them on themselves—what did the life or death of others matter?
In the end, only the shirt woman and the little upward bun joined Xu Huo in the work. The little upward bun fawned over the shirt woman, not paying much attention to his tasks. Everywhere he passed, Xu Huo had to follow up and press down again.
After this repeated several times, Xu Huo seemed unable to bear it any longer and said, "If you don't want to help, go rest over there!"
The little upward bun looked at the crooked adhesive tape under his own hand and quickly apologized awkwardly. As he staggered to fix it, he accidentally bumped into a small water droplet floating in the air. The moment he touched the droplet, the originally suspended and still water suddenly stretched and deformed, piercing through his palm like a long needle!
"Smack!" The water needle shot onto the window and splattered. Every tiny droplet that flew out automatically turned into long needles, shooting aimlessly. This triggered a chain reaction—in an instant, all the water droplets in the carriage trembled like raindrops outside the window, then transformed into lethal needle shapes, shooting everywhere inside the carriage. When they hit impenetrable obstacles, they reverted to droplet form and then formed even more and smaller needles!
The lethality of these water needles wasn't great—at most, they could damage tables, cups, and the like. The windows and rooms remained intact. And this situation didn't last long. As the vest-wearing female player lightly tapped a glass container, a strong sonic wave pierced everyone's eardrums while causing the deformed water droplets to tremble again, making it difficult for them to maintain their needle form.
"Thump!" The vest-wearing female player tapped again. The unsustainable water droplets all fell to the carriage floor. There was too much water mist; once it hit the ground, it was hard to see. Uncertain whether this water could be reused, she said, "Sorry, everyone will have to wear protective suits from now on."
"It seems the water droplets aren't very lethal either..." the strong man laughed. But before he could finish, his expression suddenly changed as he clutched his chest and abdomen. Before he could make another sound, icicle-like solidified liquid burst out from his stomach, piercing through his hands, extending half a meter in a bloody display, like a blooming blood-red ice flower!
Everyone present was startled. But before the strong man even fell, the vest-wearing female player beside him also had ice spikes explode from her abdominal cavity. She reacted a bit faster, immediately using a prop to shatter the ice, but just as she raised her hand, she was already dead.
The two fell stiffly to the ground, the ice spikes on their chests beginning to melt rapidly.
"Hurry up and move them out!" the little upward bun said hastily. "All this water melting in the carriage will only bring us bad luck!"
As he spoke, he took the lead, lifting the strong man and throwing him into the transition car behind. The fire-borrowing female player followed suit, tossing the vest-wearing woman's corpse out.
After the carriage door was closed again, the players grimly tried to figure out the situation.
The deaths of the strong man and the vest-wearing woman were too horrifying. The liquid they had drunk into their stomachs could actually be controlled and frozen, and the moment it broke through the skin, it must have frozen some of their blood vessels, which was why they died so quickly. This completely overturned their understanding!
Even if the hijacker could control the liquid inside the carriage, that was still outside the human body. Moreover, judging from the earlier water needle situation, the lethality wasn't great. If it wasn't lethal, it posed no threat to players. But now this sudden development made everyone unable to help but worry.
"Don't panic, don't panic," the buzz-cut player calmed everyone. "Whether it's a trait or a prop, it probably can't control the liquid inside the human body. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more convenient to directly freeze the blood? I think the problem lies in what they drank."
With this reminder, the others turned their attention back to the little upward bun.
No other reason—both the strong man and the vest-wearing woman had drunk the alcohol he had taken out. The ice spikes came from the stomach, which was enough to prove that what they drank had been tampered with. Moreover, it was his accidental touch of the water droplets that had put everyone in danger earlier.
"Hey hey, don't look at me like that! It has nothing to do with me!" the little upward bun said while backing away and explaining. "The alcohol I took out—that beautiful woman didn't drink it! She just poured it into her own cup. If you don't believe me, ask him!"
He was pointing at the hat player, who had been sitting opposite the vest-wearing woman at the time.
"I can testify. That female player didn't drink his alcohol," the hat player said calmly.
"Only three people drank his alcohol—himself, the dead female player, and me," another man with a scar on his eyebrow said, tossing a pill into his mouth. Then he picked up the ice bucket beside him and vomited out everything he had eaten.
It was a bit disgusting, but it wasn't a bad idea. Even though most of them hadn't eaten anything handed to them by others, they couldn't be sure they hadn't been tampered with along the way. Throwing it up was safer.
The players who had been lively in the middle of the carriage all induced vomiting, except for the hat player who hadn't eaten anything. Meanwhile, Xu Huo, who had been staying alone, along with the other two male players, were relatively safe.
The fire-borrowing female player wiped her mouth and couldn't help glancing at Xu Huo. "Aren't you afraid of being tampered with when the food is served?"
Xu Huo frowned slightly, looking worriedly at the corpses outside the back door. After hesitating for a moment, he went to the front restroom.
A moment later, he returned to the carriage, tore off the adhesive tape damaged by the water needles, and replaced it with new ones.
Probably because it was the first time they had ridden a train filled with the smell of vomit, the people in the carriage were in a bad mood, and no one paid attention to what he was doing.
After a moment of silence, the eyebrow-scarred player suggested piecing together the sticker doll to hear the rest of what the hijacker had to say.
"We're already very passive now."
The water needle trick wasn't impressive, but the method of instantly freezing the liquid in the stomach and killing someone from inside the body was truly hard to guard against. Who knew if the other party had even more powerful means?
"Like I said, if they really had that kind of skill, wouldn't it be faster to just kill everyone in the car?" the shirt-wearing female player subtly reminded everyone, also warning the hijacker who might be hiding among them. "But it doesn't hurt to listen."
There were still twenty minutes until lights-out. To avoid any accidents during the night, most people agreed to the proposal. As for Xu Huo, who was busy on the side... he would just have to go along with the majority.
The buzz-cut player moved the branding iron aside and stuck the sticker doll back together. Just as he was worried that the prop might be completely broken, it "whooshed" up from the floor, inflating with a rustling sound to half a person's height, and said angrily, "In war, you don't kill the messenger! How can you treat an innocent prop doll like this?"
"Stop the nonsense. If there's anything else you haven't said, hurry up and say it!" the fire-borrowing female player said irritably.
(Chapter End)