Players, Please Board the Train

Gan Yi sneered. ”Die? The one who dies might not be me!”

As soon as the words fell, a semi-transparent box appeared beside Xu Huo, like a rectangular cabinet, directly trapping him inside it.

”Bang! Bang! Bang!” The Crimson Sword slashed repeatedly, but it didn’t leave a single scratch on the semi-transparent barrier. Xu Huo tried other items in succession, but still couldn’t break open this two-square-meter item space.

Gan Yi, supporting himself on the Eye of the Dead, slowly pulled the sword out with a twisted expression. ”Your sword is a good thing, to be able to pierce even my defensive item. If you were holding this item instead, the Box of Life and Death might not have been able to trap you.”

Xu Huo seemed to have given up on breaking the item space. He looked at Gan Yi. ”Can your item seal a train ticket?”

”Haha.” Gan Yi let out a low chuckle. ”You really cleared the dungeon?”

”If you cleared it, why haven’t you left? Putting on a show of killing, isn’t it just to cover up the fact that you didn’t clear the dungeon?”

Xu Huo smiled an ambiguous smile. ”If I said I stayed because of you, you definitely wouldn’t believe me.”

Gan Yi’s expression shifted slightly. He quickly took two bottles of healing potion, then stored the Eye of the Dead into his luggage compartment, and keeping some distance from the Box of Life and Death, circled half a lap around Xu Huo, positioning the Box of Life and Death between himself and Shajia and You Si, warning the two of them, ”Instead of figuring out how to clear the dungeon, you want to save someone who’s neither kin nor friend to you? In all my time surviving in the game, this is the first time I’ve seen a ’good person.’”

You Si snorted. ”Whether you’re a good person or not is another matter. I just plain don’t like the look of you. A D-level player ambushing an ordinary person, I’m embarrassed for you!”

”He’s a C-level player.” Xu Huo added.

Those words did make You Si and Shajia hold back slightly. Although they’d witnessed the way Gan Yi was being crushed by Xu Huo, which was hardly befitting a C-level player, they didn’t have dual Super Evolution like Xu Huo in both space and mental power.

And Gan Yi wasn’t actually as weak as he appeared. The reason he hadn’t shown the strength of a true C-level player when facing Xu Huo wasn’t only because his opponent was too strong. Back in District 011, Ahsis Vilner had blown up several of his high-grade items, and later at Rose Castle, when Bai Kou caught him, he’d used another high-grade item to escape at the cost of two fingers.

Gan Yi looked at the two of them and smiled. ”Even injured, dealing with you two won’t be a problem. Go ahead and try.”

Before Shajia and You Si could speak, Xu Huo raised a hand to interrupt them again. ”Don’t just chat about trivial matters, let’s talk business instead.”

Gan Yi shot him a cold glance and clenched his left hand. The Box of Life and Death quickly shrank to the size of barely fitting a single standing person, clamping Xu Huo tightly in the middle.

”Who exactly are you?” he demanded.

Trapped as he was, Xu Huo showed not the slightest hint of concern for his situation. He said calmly, ”Just doing a favor for someone. Lady Lily doesn’t want to see her little brother dragged down by a Holy Sword Society player... I didn’t expect you Holy Sword Society people to be this formidable. Not only did you kill quite a few Black Epaulets, you even managed to steal items from the laboratory and escape cleanly.”

But Gan Yi laughed upon hearing this. ”So you’re that woman’s kept man too? So what if you’re a genius, willing to be a woman’s errand boy for a bit of flesh, how laughable!”

But within seconds, under Xu Huo’s gaze, his laughter stopped. Enraged, he tightened the Box of Life and Death once more. ”You’re playing me!”

Inside the Box of Life and Death, Xu Huo was forced to stand on tiptoe, his arms pressed oddly against his body, his form slightly deformed, but his tone remained unchanged. ”I’m not interested in the power struggles of District 011’s nobility, but the Holy Sword Society is different.”

”I want to know whose paper item is the one that kills with blood and names.”

”The one holding it should be a Holy Sword Society Gold Disciple.”

”Also, the Holy Sword Society has quite a few people buried in District 011. I’m a little curious about your goal. Surely it’s not just to grab one Origin Stone.”

Gan Yi concealed his emotions, but human instinct still exposed some traces. Rather than answering Xu Huo’s question directly, he said, ”People who take money to do jobs need professional ethics. I don’t ask too many questions.”

”You mean you’re hired.” Xu Huo nodded slightly. ”The price the nobility offered is worth a C-level player being imprisoned and enduring torture?”

”Everyone has a price, it just depends on whether the offer is good enough...” Gan Yi trailed off mid-sentence, suddenly pausing. He then looked at the other people on the Plaza. The silence around them was clearly abnormal, and Xu Huo, trapped in the Box of Life and Death, should long ago have shown symptoms of suffocation from the thin air... He abruptly retreated, but his back hit a hard object!

Reflexively turning his head, Gan Yi saw the wall of Friendship Garden Plaza. He looked forward again. Cracks suddenly appeared on the Box of Life and Death. Amid the cracking sounds, within seconds it shattered into a pile of debris on the ground, and Xu Huo shook out his clothes and walked out from inside, reaching out a hand toward him.

Gan Yi wanted to flee, but when he looked down, he found that the Eye of the Dead had somehow embedded itself in his own body, the blade having cut open his shoulder blade!

Xu Huo pulled the Eye of the Dead out.

Pathogens had already corroded over half of Gan Yi’s body, most of his face discolored. He knelt half on the ground, gasping heavily, while No. 27 beside him lay on the ground, dead.

Realizing that ordinary antidotes couldn’t cure this poison, Gan Yi raised a hand and thrust it into his own throat, fingers piercing into his windpipe. He let out an agonized howl, then glared at Xu Huo with utter hatred, saying with difficulty, ”I never expected... to die so pathetically... the Holy Sword Society will avenge me...”

Xu Huo walked up to him and crouched down. ”Are you killing yourself for the Holy Sword Society, or simply because you don’t want your items to fall into my hands? Dressing up your intentions as something noble to add some glory to your death? Too bad there’s no holy light on your corpse.”

Gan Yi suddenly laughed. He abruptly reached out and grabbed Xu Huo’s foot, and three worm-like ridges rapidly raced up from his blood vessels!

Xu Huo quickly retreated, tearing open his shirt, and swiftly cut open two blood vessels on his arm. But one of the ridges had already reached his shoulder, and unable to block it in time, it burrowed into his heart!

His expression immediately turned agonized as he collapsed to the ground, vomiting blood violently!

Gan Yi burst out laughing. He slowly withdrew the hand that had been ”stabbed into” his neck. The skin that had just been bleeding slowly restored itself. He stood up, looking down at the person kneeling on the ground. ”What a pity, dying so young. Don’t worry, after you die, I’ll take your corpse away. Feeding it to Mutants isn’t bad either, no point wasting that dual Super Evolution body of yours!”

”Now I can see it. The Holy Sword Society has no other strengths, but being black-hearted and stubborn is first-rate.” Under Gan Yi’s incredulous gaze, the ”vomiting blood” Xu Huo slowly stood up.