Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!-Chapter 1920: Obvious Progress

Chapter 1920: Chapter 1920: Obvious Progress
The three angrily slapped the spatial barrier and furiously demanded that Xu Huo let them out, threatening that they would not let it go otherwise.
Since they were players of the Eye of Platinum, it was certain they carried some life-saving instruments with them. Their props couldn’t be used, but the instruments could. Thus, the three each used a pop-up pen-shaped instrument to pierce the spatial barrier, and one of them angrily pointed at Xu Huo, "You’re done today!"
Xu Huo raised his hand to interrupt him, "Look over there."
The three turned their heads and only then did they notice that black lines had unexpectedly appeared around them, sharp thin blades crisscrossed, making it not only impossible to step out, but even a slightly larger movement risked them injuring themselves.
Reflexively, the three retracted their hands, but dealing with this kind of prop wasn’t completely out of the question. Though they couldn’t use props, some could be triggered without manual operation. So one of them planned to use a defense prop to forcefully break through the secant line, but unexpectedly, before they even touched the secant line, they were blocked by something invisible in mid-air, and this time it wasn’t the spatial barrier. Judging from the attack to the defensive barrier, it appeared to be something like a sharp object!
Not fully understanding the situation, this player cautiously retreated, and his gaze at Xu Huo changed.
The room quieted down. After a while, seeing Xu Huo had no intention of withdrawing, the leading player among the three said, "Are you determined to fight us to the bitter end?"
"To the bitter end?" Xu Huo laughed, "If I kill you here, who would know? Even if someone investigates later, the game world is so vast—could the Eye of Platinum really launch a manhunt for me for you guys?"
"Kill us?" His attitude made the three laugh. "Do you think you can kill us?"
"I see, so when you mentioned to the bitter end earlier, you were only referring to me." Xu Huo lightly clapped his hands. "Killing you isn’t easy, but you’re welcome to try..."
His gaze swept the floor, and the three followed his eyes downward, only to see below them a cluster of black object, clearly not their shadow, which had somehow covered their legs. And this shadow wasn’t being blocked by their defense props.
Instantly, the three realized Xu Huo was also a Super Evolutionary with Mental Powers, and they felt alarmed because they weren’t Super Evolvers themselves, making it hard to tell what they were experiencing was real. Perhaps the props failing was just an illusion!
Seeing they were unsteady, Xu Huo said, "You can run to the station. It’s not shameful to protect your life."
The three refused to admit defeat, but then he continued, "Bai Kou and I are friends, starting things on her turf isn’t right. Besides, this minor issue doesn’t warrant killing, but I could ship you off naked to the Mechanical Castle instead, letting your deeds be forever remembered by the Municipal Government, how about that?"
Face turning pale, the three quickly disappeared from the room.
Xu Huo called hotel staff to switch rooms, handing over the recorded video of the three emptying items on the bed, leaving it for the hotel to claim damages from them.
The hotel was efficient, promptly switching rooms and, considering he was a VIP member, upgraded his room for free and gifted three voucher sets.
No one disturbed him afterward, allowing Xu Huo to sleep until dawn. The next day he woke up refreshed, ate breakfast at the hotel, before catching a ride to the Mechanical Castle.
The timing seemed right, as upon arrival, he saw those three leaving the inner castle, looking disheveled. They didn’t glare at him like they did yesterday but instead walked with their heads bowed.
"It’s our management error, please forgive us, Mr. Xu." Said Hou Pei, whom Xu Huo met previously at the Eye of Platinum, now at the Mechanical Castle. He apologetically escorted Xu Huo to Bai Kou’s study.
Those three were merely a trivial matter, no need to publicly discuss. Meeting, Xu Huo and Bai Kou skipped the topic and jumped straight into today’s training.
Unlike previous days, Bai Kou didn’t focus solely on her training today but also monitored Xu Huo’s progress, discussing common challenges and breakthroughs in the evolution process.
Logically, Bai Kou wasn’t a Time-Directed Super Evolver, lacking the expertise to guide Xu Huo in those areas, but her evolution in mental and spatial powers far exceeded Xu Huo’s own, so she was well-versed in Time Evolution despite being unable to apply it practically, providing theoretical support, especially during theory bottlenecks Xu Huo faced.
Additionally, they sparred regarding Spatial Power.
Xu Huo had seen several space-directed super-evolution models and while Bai Kou didn’t reach the level of Lawrence Lee, she could replicate Lady Palace’s lethal methods, whether detonating compressed spatial bodies or dismantling people remotely.
Currently, Xu Huo could only compress spatial volumes under ten square feet, with limited ability to crush objects, though could dismantle buildings remotely; he found space barriers and spatial ray blades more useful.
"Because you haven’t yet mastered control over spatial power," Bai Kou said, "Mastery doesn’t mean having grand scales, just like absolute range in the spiritual world, no matter the amount, as long as you can fully control it."
"But compared to last time, you’ve improved greatly."
"Let me teach you a small trick."
As she spoke, Bai Kou casually tossed a metal ornament from the desk into the air, lightly flicking her index finger, the ornament pierced from its center as if run through by a thin blade.
"Adding up means more than just space barriers, besides your method of stacking barriers is too slow."
She pushed the suspended ornament towards Xu Huo, "Try merging spatial rays into blades. If you can create spatial ray blades within a certain range, compressing them together shouldn’t be hard."
"Could this penetrate barriers from spatial artifacts?" Xu Huo asked while practicing.
"Wishful thinking, spatial artifacts such as teleportation props represent stable spatial states. Once turned into props, they’re not easily breached with Evolver power alone."
Bai Kou casually took a bite of a fruit. "But once you reach a certain evolution level, none of these are challenges, my method is merely clever workaround, moreover quantity transforms into quality inevitably, begin with 1, then reach 10, understands easily."
Xu Huo nodded, sought further under spatial ray control issues. After an hour, he completed reinforcing ray blades.