??1130: Chapter 1130: A One-Way Trip
1130: Chapter 1130: A One-Way Trip
“He’s not letting anyone in for now,” Chief Wu said rather awkwardly.
It was he who called everyone here, yet Xu Huo didn’t need anyone at all.
Professor Lan and the dical team looked at each other, while it was Tang Guangbo who suggested, “Then let’s just wait outside.
If he doesn’t need help from outsiders, it probably ans the problem isn’t too severe.”
The sizable crowd of dozens could only pack themselves in the hallway and wait.
“The New Year is coming up and it’s troubling everyone to make the trip,” Chief Wu had a big pot of dumplings cooked, offering a bowl to each person, “Let’s eat first.”
“Maybe we should get a bowl for Brother Xu too,” Sima Xiao’er suggested.
“Look at him, he’s so seriously injured yet he insists on coming back.
He must be thinking about the New Year.”
“Do you think everyone is like you?” Chief Wu scolded him but allowed him to proceed regardless.
Whether Xu Huo could eat was one thing, but the gesture was important.
Sima Xiao’er really did carry a bowl of dumplings and knocked on the door.
However, just as his hand was raised, the door automatically opened.
“Leave it on the side.” Xu Huo’s voice ca through, reaching the ears of the crowd in the hallway who craned their necks.
Aside from being good at taking advice, Sima Xiao’er had no other benefits.
He placed down the bowl and scurried out before Chief Wu even had a chance to speak.
“I think Brother Xu is fine.
Chief, you don’t have to worry about him,” Sima Xiao’er said.
“I saw him spitting out a lot of black blood.
There must be poison in his blood, you should think about how to handle it later.”
“Xu Huo didn’t ntion it, so it shouldn’t be a poison that can spread through the air,” Chief Wu said.
“We’ll just follow the original procedure when the ti cos.”
The group, chatting and deliberating, continued eating their dumplings, when unexpectedly, the safe zone suddenly lost power.
Chief Wu imdiately stood up, “It’s impossible for the safe zone to lose power.
Soone must have sabotaged the power supply.
Get soone to check it imdiately and restore the power as soon as possible!”
“It’s not just the power, even the signal has been jamd,” Rank-C Player Qin Jingyuan from Jing City, who accompanied the dical team, said.
“Chief Wu, please arrange for a safe room to shelter Professor Lan and Professor Tang.”
Chief Wu knew the safe zone like the back of his hand and imdiately had two players take them to the room closest to the detention cells, “That’s a Rank-A safe room.
Everyone and everything can go in.
As long as we guard the door, there won’t be any problems!”
After swiftly arranging matters for the Jing City group, Chief Wu ordered the players within the safe zone to confirm the status of each blockade area—since all the doors of the blockade areas on each floor had been closed when Xu Huo entered and most had not yet been unlocked, even if the invaders controlled the main doors of the blockade areas, there would only be one path available, which was not hard to pin down.
The players in the safe zone moved quickly.
In less than half a minute, the temporary alarm sounded.
Players from other areas rushed in response to the alarm, and the battle began swiftly, with updates quickly coming in from the front lines.
“The invaders brought a large number of Poison Gas Bombs.” Sima Xiao’er took out a gas mask and handed it to Chief Wu, “Chief, you go to the safe room first.
There are Rank-C Players there; it’s safer than outside.
Leave this area to us, we won’t let anyone breach the detention cell!”
Chief Wu hesitated for a mont then agreed to go to the safe room, “I’d be a liability if I stayed.
Contact
through the Communicator if anything happens!”
Sima Xiao’er nodded then turned to join his teammates in setting up Defense Props in the hallway.
With no option left, Chief Wu handed over the matter to them.
After entering the safe room, he imdiately contacted the surveillance personnel outside the safe zone.
After calling five or six people with no answer, he realized the surveillance personnel might have been sacrificed.
He then imdiately asked Qin Jingyuan, “Did you notice anything unusual when you ca in?”
This situation was highly abnormal.
Although the dostic environnt was unstable, there were hardly any Players bold enough to directly attack a nationally established safe zone.
The complete loss of communication with the surveillance personnel suggested the opposition might have co prepared—a prepared party would surely leave so traces.
Qin Jingyuan gave a negative answer, “If there had been anything unusual, we would have inford you right away.”
“Could it be they’re targeting Xu Huo?” Chief Wu said uncertainly, then turned to Qin Jingyuan, “Most guarding the door to the detention room are Level E Players.
Squad leader Qin, could you dispatch a few Level D Players to protect him?”
“Impossible,” Qin Jingyuan refused bluntly.
“Our mission is to protect Professor Lan, Professor Tang, and the dical team.
No one can abandon their duty!”
Knowing it was futile to argue with him, Chief Wu turned his gaze towards Tang Guangbo, who, after all, was Xu Huo’s future stepfather and should be more concerned about his safety…
But just as he turned around, he suddenly noticed a mber of the dical team at the back raising a Scalpel!
“What are you—!” Before he could finish his sentence, the nurse thrust the scalpel into the neck of a colleague standing in front, quickly pushing the victim aside and charging towards Professor Lan who was only a couple of steps away!
“Bang!” A bullet, coming from sowhere in the room, pierced the nurse’s hand.
Before the scalpel hit the ground, Players rushed over to subdue her.
At the sa ti, all other dical personnel set down whatever they were holding, automatically stepped back to the wall, spread their fingers, and placed them against the wall.
anwhile, Professors Lan and Tang were protected by Qin Jingyuan and two other Rank-C Players.
The entire dical team and Qin Jingyuan’s few stood face to face on opposite sides of the room, with other Players in the middle.
Besides those restraining the attacking nurse, the rest began to check around.
After checking the dical team’s people and supplies one by one, female Player Ye Suqiu quickly said, “Only one person has traces of Props on them, but about half of our supply boxes have been marked.”
“It seems they’re targeting our supplies,” Qin Jingyuan nodded and said.
“Ye, take two empty boxes to another safe room, along with Xiao Zhao, Xiao Wang, and Xiao Ding.”
Upon the order, the four Players imdiately sprang into action.
They emptied the Potions from the boxes and left with the empty containers.
With the knowledge that those outside were targeting the dical team’s supplies, Chief Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, it occurred to him that Sima Xiao’er and his large group guarding the detention room might actually beco the targets.
He imdiately used the Communicator.
But it was too late.
Regardless of how the front players were holding up, five Players managed to penetrate deep into the safe zone interior.
Seeing Sima Xiao’er and the others, they charged over and quickly dismantled all the Props they had set up.
“Fire!” Sima Xiao’er, who stood at the forefront, had already raised his gun.
With a loud shout, bullets poured densely towards the people across the hallway.
“The era of Players is here, yet you’re still playing with such outdated weapons,” one of the attackers, a long-haired man, said leisurely as he raised a hand.
A semi-transparent honeycomb-shaped barrier appeared in front of him, easily catching all the bullets, while Sima Xiao’er and his side suffered injuries from bullets ricocheting back.
“Who are you!” Sima Xiao’er shouted harshly.
“Do you know the cri of attacking a safe zone?”
“Cri?” The long-haired man laughed, arrogantly saying, “No one can adjudicate Players…”
However, before he could finish, his expression froze.
His mouth, which had opened wide with laughter, began to grotesquely widen even further…
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