Chapter 333 Hidden Checks and Balances (4k)

"Almost." Death had no intention of hiding anything. Without waiting for Zhao Xun to ask in detail, he took the initiative to say, "At present, the seventh district, the ninth district, and the eighteenth district have all fallen into a paralyzed state without a leader and defense."

"Have they been annexed by other districts?" Zhao Xun asked curiously.

"The neighboring districts all want to fight for it, but it has not been annexed for the time being." Death replied, "But it won't last long."

Zhao Xun didn't ask any more questions, but his view of Death had changed a little.

He was not as unkind as the whistle described, nor was he old-fashioned, and he didn't mean to "be loyal" to the endless train.

Otherwise, Death would not have taken the initiative to reveal this information.

It seems that Death is only cruel to "volunteers", and ordinary people will not have any problems as long as they don't provoke him.

In addition to his expressionless face, Death is quite easy to talk to.

At this time, the God of Death spoke again: "Now let me talk about the relevant rules."

He looked at Zhao Xun. It was obvious that Han Bing had already known what he was going to say next, and now he was talking specifically to Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun came back to his senses and listened attentively.

"The mission is basically twice a month, with an interval of about half a month between each mission." The God of Death spoke slowly, making sure that Zhao Xun could understand it with just one sentence. "There is generally no time limit for the mission. As long as you can complete it, you can get points as a reward, but the faster you complete it, the higher the points."

Zhao Xun nodded, indicating that he understood.

Although there is no time limit, the faster you complete it, the higher the points you get. Who would choose to delay the completion time?

"After the player leaves the endless train, every minute and every second in the real world will be deducted from the [survival time]." The God of Death continued, "Once the [survival time] is reset to zero, the player will die immediately. Note that there is no [survival time] reward for missions performed in the real world."

Zhao Xun continued to nod.

Before the [survival time] is reset to zero, at least three days must be left to return to the Endless Train to participate in the dream game and replenish more [survival time].

This should be the fundamental reason why the God of Death has to return to the Endless Train every once in a while.

The God of Death was very satisfied that Zhao Xun did not interrupt, and he was more patient when he spoke: "Players must first perform tasks in the real world. After the task is completed, players will not be forced to return to the Endless Train. Players can go to any place and do whatever they want. Once a new task appears, it must be executed immediately."

Zhao Xun still did not speak, but just signaled the God of Death to continue.

The God of Death changed his sitting position and continued: "When a player is fatally injured or otherwise injured in the real world, the corresponding points can be deducted to restore the body to its original state immediately."

Zhao Xun understood.

The number of points used should be determined according to the degree of injury.

The advantage is that when performing tasks, the player's life safety can be greatly guaranteed.

The disadvantage is that the points are consumed very quickly.

Once the points earned from completing tasks in the real world are not enough, players who want to have this guarantee will naturally have to return to the Endless Train and accumulate more points through the survival game.

Of course, this is not a problem for Zhao Xun.

He has the ability of [Resurrection Rage]. As long as it is not a very urgent situation and there is no dilemma of being picked up by the corpse, he can offset the negative state of the body without using points most of the time.

The God of Death was silent for a moment, and then said three sentences in succession:

"If you reveal anything about the Endless Train and the survival game to other non-players in the real world, the player's [survival time] will be reset immediately."

"The three of us will have one more communication system than other players, and we can communicate by voice or text."

"This time our tasks are different, and we will be teleported to different locations. It is up to you to decide how to complete the tasks. As long as the result is to complete the tasks, the process is fine."

The God of Death stood up and said the last sentence to Zhao Xun: "Don't contact me casually if there is nothing wrong, complete your own tasks."

After that, he turned around and was about to leave.

"What about the punishment for mission failure?" Zhao Xun finally asked, "You said so much, but you didn't mention the punishment."

"I said before that there is no time limit for the mission, so you can try again after failure." Death glanced at Zhao Xun, but there was no impatience in his expression, "Until your [survival time] is reset to zero or you are killed by someone in the real world, the mission must continue."

"So, before the mission is completed, you can't return to the Endless Train." Zhao Xun concluded, "This is a disguised punishment."

"That's right." Death said, nodded slightly, and left.

However, Han Bing did not leave immediately with Death like last time.

She sat in a wheelchair with her head slightly drooped, looking like she was asleep.

Until the compartment door was closed again, she slowly raised her head to look at Zhao Xun and asked, "Are you satisfied with the identity of [Deputy Train Captain]?"

Zhao Xun didn't know why Han Bing suddenly asked this, he smiled and answered truthfully, "It's not that I'm satisfied or not, the system didn't give me any other options."

Han Bing coughed lightly and asked again: "Do you think this identity is better than that of an ordinary passenger?"

"I may have to wait until I have experienced the mission before I can give an answer." Zhao Xun shrugged innocently, "I can't judge now."

Han Bing was silent for a moment before speaking again: "Please open the door for me, I'm leaving."

Zhao Xun didn't ask any more questions, and got up and opened the door of the compartment.

Han Bing controlled the electric wheelchair to walk out. When she reached the door, she looked back at Zhao Xun again, but didn't say anything else.

Zhao Xun closed the door of the compartment again, his eyes narrowed slightly.

I always feel that Han Bing seems to have something to say, and what she said is not what she wants to express most in her heart.

Perhaps it is the "restriction" that prevents her from speaking, or it may be that she does not trust him and is still in the testing stage.

But it is not difficult to judge from Han Bing's behavior that the [Deputy Train Conductor] and the [Train Conductor] are not completely of the same mind.

Otherwise, Han Bing would not have to wait until the Grim Reaper leaves before telling him those things.

However, the Grim Reaper should also be aware of this.

Han Bing just stayed and did not leave with the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper could not have no doubts.

It feels like this is something that the Grim Reaper and Han Bing know.

Therefore, Zhao Xun is more inclined to believe that this "discord" is not a conflict between players, but a problem with the game settings.

It is very likely that the relationship between the [Deputy Train Captain] and the [Train Captain] is not just a relationship of superiors and subordinates, but there is also some hidden checks and balances.

After all, the existence of the identity of [Deputy Train Captain] is more special than that of [Train Captain].

Han Bing may want to test whether Zhao Xun, who also has the identity of [Deputy Train Captain], has the same information as her.

Unfortunately, Zhao Xun has not found anything special about the [Deputy Train Captain].

Maybe he has not appeared yet?

We can only wait and see patiently.

*

January 4.

Midnight.

Without any sign, Zhao Xun, who was sitting by the bed and ready to go, suddenly disappeared from the box.

In just a blink of an eye, Zhao Xun found himself standing next to a building, hiding in the shadows where the searchlight could not reach.

He immediately looked around and confirmed that this was a blind spot for surveillance, and then he carefully looked at the surrounding environment.

He quickly entered the mission state and adapted very well.

This should be the place where the leaders of District 20 live. After all, his mission is to kill all the top leaders, and he can't teleport them to an irrelevant place.

According to his idea, blowing up this area directly is the fastest solution.

However, there is no guarantee that there are no tunnels for escape in these buildings, and the buildings themselves are likely to have super strong defense capabilities.

The required explosion energy is very high.

The most important thing is that he must first determine who are the top leaders.

In case some people do not live here for various reasons, he must determine the location of these people to facilitate hunting.

Well, we still have to figure out how many people there are in the top leadership and who they are.

This question should be known by all leaders in the leadership.

Zhao Xun thought about it, used [Beast Transformation] to turn into an ant, and climbed up the wall.

The security measures here must be of the highest level. Infrared cameras are basic equipment. As long as you walk out of the blind spot of surveillance, you will be captured by the surveillance.

But a small ant, even if it is seen, will not attract any attention.

And ants are very small, and they can easily get into the gaps of windows or doors.

Soon, Zhao Xun got into a room through the window.

He crawled along the wall to the soft carpet and hid in the curtains. Then he turned into a mouse. After increasing his night vision ability by five times, he quietly poked his head out and looked at the situation in the house.

There was a person lying on the bed, already asleep.

Apart from this, there was no one else in the room.

Zhao Xun increased his hearing by five times again, and determined through the heartbeat that there were four people guarding outside the door.

Even when sleeping, there were guards.

It seems that the person in the bedroom is an important character.

Maybe he is one of his targets.

Zhao Xun looked up at the roof again and found no surveillance.

The owner of this bedroom is obviously a person who values ​​privacy.

I think no one of such status would dare to install hidden cameras in the room at will.

Zhao Xun quickly ran to the bed, climbed up the bed legs, and then turned into a ten-pound mouse, standing on the other person's chest and jumping in the posture of a mouse.

The middle-aged man soon felt the discomfort of oppression in his chest from time to time, and woke up in a daze.

He subconsciously reached out and touched it, but his hand touched nothing, but he could feel that the heavy object had been moved away.

At this time, he was not fully awake, and his movements were only instinctive.

He instinctively raised his neck, opened his eyes, and looked in the direction of the heavy object.

Just like that, he unexpectedly looked into the eyes of a big rat.

The middle-aged man didn't even have time to react, and the big rat's eyes had already lighted up slightly.

Immediately afterwards, the middle-aged man's eyes became distracted.

"Don't resist in any way." Zhao Xun said in the middle-aged man's ear, "All the questions I ask you, you must answer me truthfully, without any concealment. When you speak, you must speak very softly, so that people outside can't hear."

The middle-aged man agreed one by one.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Xun added: "You now feel that your body is like a stone, completely unable to move, only your mouth can be used, you can speak to answer my questions, other than that, you can't do any physical actions."

The middle-aged man repeated Zhao Xun's words, indicating that he received hypnotic suggestions.

Zhao Xun repeated these instructions three more times to strengthen the effect of the instructions and avoid the situation where the middle-aged man tried to resist the instructions in the middle.

After making full preparations, Zhao Xun began his interrogation.

Soon, he had a lot of useful information.

There are a total of 20 leaders in the top leadership of the 20th District, and these leaders have a total of 180 direct subordinates, which together constitute the "top leadership".

In other words, Zhao Xun wants to kill these 200 people.

Only 20 leaders have the right to live in this place, and their direct subordinates live in their own purchased residences.

But everyone has more than one residence, and only a few people around them know where they live.

Tonight, there are only 11 leaders living here. Among the other nine people, six of them went to other districts to participate in various meetings, and three may have gone to their own secret residences.

In general, Zhao Xun can only kill 11 leaders here tonight.

Everyone else has to look for them elsewhere.

Zhao Xun unlocked the middle-aged man's mobile phone with his finger, and learned the appearance and basic information of the 20 leaders from the photos on the mobile phone.

In order to remember it easily, he marked the key information with text on the corresponding photos.

As Zhao Xun expected, the middle-aged man was one of the twenty leaders.

The middle-aged man had ten direct subordinates, and the corresponding contact information was found in his mobile phone.

Although the number of direct subordinates was small and their locations were scattered, it should not be difficult to find out their residences in the name of the direct leaders.

But this matter must be done as soon as possible.

Once it is delayed for a long time, the living people will definitely be alert and will change their hiding places.

If these people know that their leader is dead, it will be impossible to get their residences in the name of the leader.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Xun said to the middle-aged man: "Think about it, what excuse can you use to hold a meeting to gather all your ten direct subordinates tonight?"

The middle-aged man thought seriously for a while, and then whispered: "Then there is only..."

Zhao Xun interrupted the middle-aged man before he finished speaking: "Just send a message or call your ten direct subordinates according to the reason you think of, and ask them to gather immediately. Choose the place where you usually hold meetings. No matter what reason they find, they must invite people out."

After speaking, Zhao Xun lifted the hypnotic command that stiffened the middle-aged man's limbs. (End of this chapter)