Chapter 256: Beating You in Place of Society

Chapter 256: Chapter 256: Beating You in Place of SocietyChief Song hung up the phone and, unwilling to give up, asked the surveillance personnel beside him, "Did you see clearly, he really just disappeared from the room all of a sudden?"

"Yes." The surveillance officer replied, "His heat image vanished right in the middle of the room."

Chief Song let out a long sigh, "It’s truly a pity, if this person could be of use to me..."

Dai Wenqian stood behind him, adjusting his glasses, "Does Xu Huo really have a spatial transfer item?"

"Until now, we haven’t received any feedback from the facial recognition system, so he must have left Jing City already." Chief Song said, "Considering how confident he is, he’s probably relying on the fact that he’s become a Level D player."

"To become a Level D player in such a short time indicates he does have the ability." Dai Wenqian said, "However, if I may speak frankly, Chief, Xu Huo isn’t someone who can cooperate with others. To be honest, he trusts no one besides himself and views others as hindrances. Even if he joined the Special Defense Department, he wouldn’t follow orders."

Chief Song of course understood this point, thinking about Chief Wu, who, after so much effort, still hadn’t been able to persuade him.

"I just regret that such a good item can’t be used where it’s needed most."

Dai Wenqian smiled gently, "The level of the item in Xu Huo’s possession isn’t likely to be very high, intentionally showing off his skill also serves the purpose of demonstrating his strength. What he wants is simply non-interference."

"That being said, there are still many good items in the game, there’s no need for you to be envious of him, Chief. Once the Special Defense Department has more players, what item can’t we get?"

Chief Song’s expression relaxed, and he patted Dai Wenqian’s shoulder, saying, "Wenqian, I have high hopes for you, put in some extra effort."

Dai Wenqian smiled and nodded, then left the room with his colleagues, who were also players.

"Brother Qian, Chief Song seems reluctant to let Xu Huo go. Will he send us to capture him?" The young player with an eyebrow piercing asked in a low voice.

"How would we capture him?" Dai Wenqian chuckled, "Bring a cannon and bomb residential buildings? Not to mention Xu Huo now has the support of a great number of ordinary people and Evolvers. Even without this video incident, the Special Defense Department wouldn’t dare to take drastic measures in capturing him. If he escapes into the game, levels up, and then comes back for revenge, wouldn’t it be the high-ups of the Special Defense Department who suffer?"

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"Though, I do admire Xu Huo," said the player with the eyebrow piercing, "Actually, I received a tip a few days ago, someone was paying a high price for information on Evolvers and players, but I never expected those people to go so far. I always thought only Cannibal Players would not treat their own kind as human, but it turns out... he really did stand up for us players."

"That’s only to be expected." Dai Wenqian replied, "The development of civilization has always been about those at the top stepping on those beneath them. If they can be captured by a few tranquilizers, they’re just foolish. Such people wouldn’t last long in the game anyway."

"You contact others and take care of those Evolvers who are hiding, secretly. If you find any who are imprisoned, try to set them free. I want to leverage this momentum."

The player with the eyebrow piercing was puzzled, "Why save them?"

"Indeed, the development of civilization is about those above stepping on those below, but who stands on top is never certain." Dai Wenqian said, readjusting his glasses.

The Open Air Window System could only be used once outside of a copy, and within the same space. Xu Huo used the item to demonstrate one thing: that he could easily leave the Special Defense Department’s encirclement without relying on tickets. The more aces up his sleeve he had, the more cautious the Special Defense Department would be, not only regarding the higher-ups but also the other players.

So using this one opportunity wasn’t a waste.

The conditions Jiang Qiao proposed seemed more advantageous than him aimlessly searching in the game on his own, but in reality, the Special Defense Department’s knowledge of the Seventeenth Hospital was far less than his. The Special Defense Department only knew the name of a hospital, whereas the real clues were sealed in his memory of that doctor.

So this was nothing more than a rubber check they had issued, offering a position in the Special Defense Department in exchange for the slim chance of a clue was more trouble than it was worth, information could also be obtained through trading.

Furthermore, finding someone in the vast game was extremely difficult, a better strategy was to make the other party come looking for him—by becoming a well-known high-level player in the game.

As long as both parties were still in the game, they would inevitably meet one day.

Therefore, what he needed to do now was to settle down and work on increasing his evolution rate and player level.

"biu!" Xu Huo felt like he had entered the Fifty-Fifty Open Air Window System for just a moment before being spat back out, but the sky outside had already turned dark, and for a moment, he thought he had been transported abroad. However, with the ghastly sound effect coming from the air window behind him, he realized he was in mid-air, and below was a rooftop at least dozens of meters away.

Quickly adjusting his posture in the air, he grabbed the Omnipresent Strings to arrest his fall, and a few seconds later, landed smoothly on the rooftop.

The air window had shrunk into a small sphere, Xu Huo reached out to catch it, and a plastic tongue popped out of the round mass, complete with game sound effects: "Was it fun? Thrilling enough?"

It was thrilling enough, luckily he had an appropriate item. Otherwise, falling from that height would have smashed his face beyond recognition.

Tucking the air window into his inventory, Xu Huo looked back at the distant buildings and then descended the building.

He still hadn’t figured out the transport pattern of the Fifty-Fifty Open Air Window System, but it seemed that the time intervals were somewhat long and the locations random, unclear if they were the same each time.

Fortunately, the place he had arrived at was Hua City, near Ting City, and it was in the old city district where the buildings were old and the streets were quiet. Xu Huo went down the building and found a noodle shop to eat.

"... Are you sure you saw it, that girl had two thousand banknotes on her?" Someone was talking at the end of an alley that was out of sight.

"It was in the plastic bag pinned to her clothes, two thousand brand-new banknotes." Another person said: "I think she must have a screw loose, she’s been guarding that broken puppet in the park for several days, eating steamed buns and drinking mineral water when hungry."

"Holding banknotes while eating steamed buns, it’s just not right. There’s nobody at the park now, is there..."

"Gone, gone, it’s a secluded place, and they say it’s haunted, no one dares to enter, even during the day... hehe, the little girl looks quite tender too..."

The sound of the conversation gradually faded away, Xu Huo paid for his noodles and stepped into the alley.

In the dim park, Yan Jiayu squatted in front of the carousel, staring hard at a skewed puppet beside her for a while before sighing, "My eyes are sore from looking, when will it light up."

"Little sister’s eyes are sore? Why don’t I give them a rub?" Two sleazy-looking dyed-haired youths leered as they walked over.

Yan Jiayu stood up and casually picked up a stone stick at her feet, turning her head, "What did you say?"

Just as one of them was about to speak, his mouth had not yet opened when he saw the stone stick swing towards him. He reached out to block, and his forearm was immediately smashed and bent outward, his cries echoing as he fell to his knees.

The other one didn’t fare much better; he too received a blow from the stone stick to his leg and fell to the ground.

Yan Jiayu then hit their arms and legs with a few more blows with the stick and dragged the two maimed men together, squatting in front of them, she said, "My master says that those who do evil must be brutally punished by society."

"We didn’t plan to do anything bad..." the two men pleaded, falling over each other to speak.

"You thought it, even if you didn’t say it." Yan Jiayu said firmly: "I saw through your eyes into your hearts, people with crooked hearts have crooked eyes, today I will pronounce society’s ruthless punishment on you."