Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!-Chapter 1935: 1935: The Calm Before the Storm

Capítulo 1935: Chapter 1935: The Calm Before the Storm
The newcomer has been excluded.
When Xu Huo walked out, he glanced at the armed flying device almost directly above his head, his expression slightly grim as he boarded the public transportation.
The vehicle quickly arrived near his rented apartment. After getting off, he bought something to eat. As usual, he glanced at the shadow wall when he reached downstairs before turning to go upstairs.
The mute girl he rescued hadn’t left. When he reached the door, she immediately ran out from the neighboring woman’s unit.
“You haven’t left?” Xu Huo asked her, “Can’t find a place to go?”
The mute girl hesitated and nodded, then took a step closer to him.
“A young girl with no place to go and no family, it’s hard to survive in the Western District.” The neighbor said at the door, “At best, she might be sold into prostitution. At worst, she might be dismantled and sold as parts. Be kind and take her in for a few days; consider it finding yourself a warm bed.”
The neighbor woman didn’t ask him for money this time. After speaking, she closed the door.
Maybe because the Supervision Department made too much noise yesterday, nobody visited Xu Huo’s rented apartment last night. He opened the door and walked in, then turned to look at the mute girl still standing at the door, “Come in.”
The mute girl quickly went inside and closed the door, but stood next to the door panel without moving. Her eyes followed Xu Huo around the room. After hesitating for a long time, she walked to the middle of the room and slowly started to undress.
Xu Huo was taking out food when he saw this and paused for a moment, gesturing for her to put her clothes back on, “Have you eaten?”
The mute girl nodded and pointed to the neighbor, indicating that the neighbor had fed her, and she had slept at the neighbor’s place last night as well.
Xu Huo tore off a piece of bread, pushed the remaining cookies and such forward, “Take whatever you want to eat.”
Initially, the mute girl didn’t dare to, but when she saw that he wasn’t paying attention to her, she cautiously moved closer to the table before she picked up a small bag of cookies.
After eating, Xu Huo intended to catch up on some sleep, so he said to her, “I can let you stay for a few days. If you don’t mind, you can help me clean the house.”
The mute girl seemed delighted at his words, gesturing that she could cook and go grocery shopping.
“Are you okay to go out during the day?” Xu Huo asked. After receiving an affirmative answer, he gave her some money and asked her to go with the woman next door, and by the way, buy a pot and some bowls.
Back in his room, Xu Huo lay on the bed and looked at the identity card the game had sent him.
His identity was well concealed, but he couldn’t prevent the Supervision Department from tightening control over players this way. Besides the flying device that followed him all the way, after he returned, there were clearly more flying devices patrolling around, aiming to restrict his movements.
However, the events of the past few days hinted at something significant happening soon in the Western District.
The areas where Outer Zone players could intervene were always limited, unless they could infiltrate the upper echelons of the Western District or Eastern District within a month or two. Otherwise, instigating discord was the only effective method.
So, the conflict between the Supervision Department and the Western District, which could erupt at any moment, should have the backing of the Resistance Army.
Only the locals knew the true operating model of the Western District and how to cause trouble, as well as the extent of the trouble they could stir.
This most likely involved the struggle between the Resistance Army and the Eastern District, although the battlefield was in the Western District.
Could it be related to “White Blood”?
Whether they were People of the Eastern District, Inspectors, or members of the Resistance Army and the Dark Power, Xu Huo, through his observations in the past few days, gathered some scattered information, but the words “White Blood” never came up.
Considering that the task given in the game is “to compete,” at least one side between the Eastern District and the Resistance Army knows about this item. Could it be that it’s not mentioned because the core position of the Resistance Army isn’t in this area?
“Tweet!” A barely noticeable bird call echoed through the nearby district. The Resistance Army member who had followed the mute girl to the rented apartment two nights ago without leaving heard the sound and exited his hiding place. He found a piece of paper in a bag littered with various greasy stains in a garbage bin of a box. Bringing the paper back to his resting place, he cleaned it and then gently toasted it over a flame to reveal the writing on it.
It was an address.
Xu Huo knew this place. The nightclub owner, wanting to counter the Heyue Winery people, commissioned an intermediary to contact the frozen processing plant manager to purchase a batch of weapons. The agreed meeting place was the location written on the paper.
Coincidentally, a few people arranged to meet at another establishment owned by Knife Boss, whom the nightclub owner had previously bribed.
Now with the nightclub owner’s competitor gone and the Heyue Winery boss killed by the Supervision Department yesterday, the remaining people and territory would inevitably be divided. The weapon transaction couldn’t proceed, but since the nightclub owner couldn’t access the Heyue Winery’s channels and wanted to gain more profit from the division, he still followed the original plan in hopes of obtaining a batch of weapons through the frozen processing plant.
Most factories in the Western District are controlled by People of the Eastern District, who are the voice of the Eastern District. On the surface, they might appear as Western District People, but Eastern District People are mixed in, making it hard to distinguish.
As for how the nightclub owner found Eastern District People to collaborate with so precisely, it’s because the intermediary he knew was well-informed and had an extensive network of relationships. The way messages were exchanged was also quite simple: through virtual games.
Xu Huo had closely observed this intermediary. He regularly logged onto the game to meet other players and brokered sales of various items, delivering them via mail. As for those delivering the mail, they were his trusted apprentices.
There should be Resistance Army personnel among the intermediary, or within the information flow station operated by the intermediary. Otherwise, the meeting address of the nightclub owner wouldn’t have reached different Resistance Army hands so quickly.
Is the Resistance Army planning to sabotage this transaction negotiation?
The meeting location was quite far from where Xu Huo currently lived, so after resting for the day and having a meal prepared by the mute girl, he started inquiring about the mute girl’s relatives.
The mute girl quickly told him that her parents had been killed, and she was almost sold. When Xu Huo offered to arrange a burial for her parents, she was so moved that she knelt and kowtowed repeatedly.
She still remembered where the man with the knife scar lived.
So after lunch, the two of them headed there.
The place where the knife-scarred man lived wasn’t far from the frozen processing plant. As they crossed the street, they would pass by Knife Boss’s shop. Because the flying devices were quite close, Xu Huo only got a general feel of the internal structure of these two places.
Knife Boss’s shop wasn’t particularly notable, but the frozen processing plant was peculiar.
The frozen processing plant dealt in toys and daily necessities. They employed Western District workers, but no worker was allowed to stay inside the plant for over five hours, so there were six shifts daily for workers to rotate. When Xu Huo reached the vicinity, they should have been switching shifts, but from the spatial ray’s movement, the people in a basement room of the plant hadn’t been replaced.
Spatial perception is somewhat vague due to building constraints and being underground. Xu Huo could tell there were people inside but didn’t know exactly who they were. The people coming out from their shifts mostly looked dull and didn’t discuss anything about what went on inside, leaving no way to gather any information.
Maybe the local inhabitants knew something about the situation.
At this moment, the mute girl tugged on his sleeve, signaling that the place where the knife-scarred man had stayed was already occupied by others, and two fierce-looking men were glaring at them.