Chapter 138 Success in Escaping Trouble

Chapter 138: Chapter 138 Success in Escaping TroubleJing City Command Center, Hai City suburban Command Center, and the five temporary command centers within Hai City maintained constant communication.

"The bodies of police and civilians who died outside the Skyscraper have all been transported away, the Special Affairs Bureau and the special forces have all withdrawn, and are now clearing the surrounding civilians."

"Our helicopters are unable to approach the Skyscraper for observation and cannot determine the number of players hiding within it."

"It is estimated that there are at least two thousand hostages inside, but after our forces evacuated the building, the other side has not continued killing, their intentions are unclear."

"The Special Affairs Bureau personnel are currently attempting to communicate with the players inside."

Staff at the Hai City Command Center are delivering a brief report:

"In addition, as of now, there is still no effective way to stop the explosions, and the only survivor has also died in the second round of Black-White Roulette."

"Besides twenty cases of fire incidents, many players are stranded within the Black-White Roulette range; the Special Affairs Bureau and the special forces were attacked upon entry, resulting in seven malignant incidents of players from outside the region slaughtering our players."

"Apart from the Skyscraper, there have been forty-seven major hostage situation incidents, of which sixteen have been resolved. Defu Mall has the highest number of remaining hostages, with over two hundred trapped individuals, including nearly thirty children."

"Due to the restrictions of the Black-White Roulette, the rescue team has just reached the vicinity of the mall, but the surrounding monitoring lines have been damaged, and the last video transmitted by the trapped crowd was two hours ago."

These concise reports might sound like just a few sentences, but they mirror a bloody reality.

Three and a half hours have passed since the Guile Sound Knights declared war, and within the entire zone of the Black-White Roulette, the death toll is incalculable, with at least over one hundred thousand people trapped. The highest number of deaths occurred in the first half-hour and the first twenty minutes of the appearance of the small roulette.

Especially in the second round, when the large roulette was segmented into countless smaller ones, without any notification of the rules, each roulette simultaneously claimed the lives of about a dozen people. Some densely populated rescue areas witnessed up to nearly five hundred deaths in a single instance!

And that doesn’t even include rescue workers on the move; whole trucks of people unknowingly drove out of the roulette range and were all blown up, leading to car accidents and fires...

To avoid causing more casualties, the first thing that rescue workers did upon entering was to put out fires, which was extremely difficult. Simply moving inside could lead them to become part of the Black-White Roulette, with some special forces and players needing rescue themselves, hence later arrivals could only scatter.

But rescues don’t solve the root problem; what can truly contain the situation is finding the people from the Guile Sound Knights.

Although they seem most likely to be hiding in the Skyscraper, everyone who entered formed a queue and jumped from the building, and even helicopters approaching would inexplicably crash. Negotiations failed as well, leaving them without progress here.

The false news about Super Props released early by Jing City to draw attention also seems to have had no effect. The Guile Sound Knights won’t leave, and the other scattered players aren’t worth mentioning, while even more people seem to be using the Guile Sound Knights as weather vanes. The population around Hai City is on the rise, with emergency incidents sharply increasing, and all the channels of emergency calls never rest for a second.

"The Special Affairs Bureau has submitted a plan," said the elderly man from Jing City. "Since attracting players to other cities does not work, we might as well use this Black-White Roulette to trap players from outside the region. Our players can’t break the game, but players from outside the region may not necessarily be able to."

"That’s a good idea," said Dr. Sun, who was responsible for Evolver re

At this moment, the secretary to the commander of Hai City Command Center received an external call; he immediately reported, "It’s from Captain Xing; there’s important new information on their end, and they’re requesting a video conference."

"Connect them."

The video was quickly connected, and the scene from inside the mall revealed the conditions within several Black-White Roulettes. The floor was nearly smeared with blood and flesh, the number of people reduced by a third.

"Did you kill those players from outside the region?" the commander asked.

"Those three players from the outside region were already two dead and one escaped two hours ago," Captain Xing shifted the camera to the side. It pointed at a group of elderly, women, and children, who, unlike the others in the mall, were relaxed, especially the children, all huddled together playing.

"These people were also trapped in the Black-White Roulette ten minutes ago, but now the patterns on the floor have disappeared!" Captain Xing’s voice was exhilarated, "Commander, a player from Hai City has driven away the players from outside the region and has broken the multiplayer Black-White Roulette!"

"What?! Where is that player?! How did they break it?!"

"They’ve already left, and I haven’t had the chance to ask for details. I’ve asked Comrade Wang Chaoqing to report to you," Captain Xing pulled over a slender bespectacled young man.

"Lea-leaders, hello." Wang Chaoqing stiffly greeted the camera, "Brother Xu has left; he told me to tell you, to break the multiplayer Black-White Roulette, the method is to not spin the pointer for twelve consecutive rounds."

"Consecutive twelve rounds?" The people on the Command Center end couldn’t believe it. According to Dr. Sun’s statistics, after entering the Black-White Roulette, one’s mind would be affected, with fear exacerbating the impact. It would be very difficult for anyone to remain completely unaffected, and even the person who previously didn’t spin the pointer couldn’t last beyond the second round!

"Is there anything else?" Dr. Sun quickly asked.

"He didn’t say anything else, but I can tell you what I know, provided you give me the Antitoxin to remedy the Alien poison in my body," Wang Chaoqing began to set conditions. "Not just for me, Brother Xu was also injured by that player from outside the region, we were both trying to save people. If it weren’t for us, these women and children might all be dead."

The command center didn’t mind him setting conditions; they were afraid no one would come forward to do so. The commander immediately responded, "We have inhibitors here in Hai City, and I’ll send someone in right away."

"First, tell us about the Black-White Roulette situation."