Chapter 1114: Not a Single One Has Any Backbone
"You're willing to leave?" a player with gloomy eyes said coldly. "There's a whole table full of good stuff right in front of you."
"Wei Zhongyu, if you have something to say, just say it. Don't be so passive-aggressive all day!" Qian Zi slammed the table. "Isn't it just because Cao Zheng beat you twice? Holding a grudge this long, are you even a man?"
Wei Zhongyu suddenly looked at her, and a thumb-sized metal ball slid from his sleeve into his hand. "I'd like to see how long you can keep running your mouth!"
Seeing the two about to fight, a few others nearby stepped in to break it up. In the back-and-forth, no one knew whose fist landed on whose face, and it seemed like it was about to turn into a full-on brawl.
"Slap." Mr. Kang's wine glass was placed on the table.
The group fell silent like ducks whose tongues had been cut, and they quietly separated.
"Waaah...!" At that moment, the infant held by Lin Qiao started crying. The baby's piercing wail was like a spark thrown into the tense atmosphere. The short-haired female player behind Gong Jiaji immediately tried to snatch the child from Lin Qiao, but Uncle Guan blocked her.
He stepped back from the table, pulling Lin Qiao and the others within the range of his defense item, then said coldly as frost, "Even if two fists are no match for four hands, taking a few people away is no problem for me!"
The players who had been eager to make a move stopped, all turning their gazes to Mr. Kang. But before Mr. Kang could respond, Miss Ma, who had been in the back, suddenly let out a strange shriek and rushed to the defense barrier, saying with a hint of madness, "Give me the child! The child is mine!"
Qian Zi reached out and grabbed her. "What's wrong with you? Your child died a long time ago!"
"No! That's not true! My child didn't die of illness!" Miss Ma grabbed her arm instead. "Do you know how my child really died?"
"Have you really lost your mind?" Qian Zi looked at her suspiciously.
But without getting an answer, Miss Ma quickly lunged at another player. Unfortunately, no one here had the slightest bit of sympathy. One of them directly grabbed her by the neck and threw her away, saying, "If she's crazy, lock her in the back! Her mind was already a bit off before Sun Jing died!"
Miss Ma was thrown right in front of Xu Huo. She scrambled up quickly, clinging to the mud wrapped around Xu Huo, and asked, "How did my child die?"
The person who had seemed like a dead battery just a second ago spoke. "Eaten by Mr. Kang."
Miss Ma was stunned. The other players in the hall also turned to look at him. The tall player frowned and was about to speak, but Gong Jiaji suddenly moved to kill!
The tall player used an item to move Xu Huo away, then grabbed Gong Jiaji's hand. "What are you doing?"
"He slandered Mr. Kang, so of course he deserves to die!" Gong Jiaji's face was full of cold fury.
"In his current state, he can only speak what he perceives as the truth," the tall player said in a deep voice. "He can't fabricate lies."
Gong Jiaji pushed his hand away. "Then what are you saying? That Mr. Kang killed Ma Chunchun's child? Mr. Kang set the rules—we can't kill each other. He would never break his own rules."
"That's not necessarily true," Chi Minghong said from behind. "Maybe he finds your children more delicious? I think those of you who have had children should think about it—maybe your own child died in Mr. Kang's mouth!"
Gong Jiaji turned his head and glared coldly at her. But Chi Minghong, protected by Uncle Guan, was fearless and even provoked him. "If you dare to do it, you should dare to face the consequences!"
"...It's you..." Miss Ma stood up, facing Mr. Kang across the table. "It's you, you old bastard!"
"Once, you called me to your room to serve you. I saw a child's bones in the kitchen trash can. There were no other children in the city at that time, only my son! You ate him!"
Miss Ma glared at Mr. Kang, forgetting her fear, leaving only hatred. She stepped onto the dining table and charged madly at the old man across from her. But before she could get halfway, her head exploded into a cloud of blood mist!
"Bang!" Her body fell, knocking the food piled on the table to the floor. The successive crashing sounds brought the few people from Zone 002, who had been frozen in fear, back to their senses, and they let out hysterical screams—not because they had never seen a dead body, but because they all knew their fate. The overturned table meant their lives were about to end!
Flying items bound them all and dragged them into a corner. No one had time for them now.
"So your rules only apply to those below, not to those above," Chi Minghong said, already covering herself with three layers of defense items.
Mr. Kang was not angry. He took out a handkerchief to wipe the bloodstains from his clothes and announced to the others, "Ma Chunchun has betrayed Xiaohe City."
The players of Xiaohe City fell silent. Even the other two B-rank players didn't bother to pursue the matter further.
Mr. Kang easily regained control of the situation. He tossed the handkerchief aside and looked sharply at Xu Huo. "I underestimated you."
The moment before, Xu Huo had seemed completely controlled. Now his eyelids moved, and the mud wrapped around him began to fall away. Brushing the dust off his clothes, he stepped out of the mud clumps, surveyed the entire hall, and raised an eyebrow. "Not a single one of you has any backbone."
Immediately, several attacks came straight at him, but they were all blocked by the "Inviolable Domain." The transparent barrier was invisible to others, but it stopped every item cold.
"So it was you who influenced Ma Chunchun," the tall player who had been using mental interference said. "You're a Super Evolver!"
"It wasn't exactly me who influenced her," Xu Huo said. "She already suspected Mr. Kang of eating her child, and I also got that information confirmed by Jiang Wenzhang... Mr. Kang likes children the most."
Seeing Mr. Kang's fingers twitch, he quickly added, "Taking control of Xiaohe City, I thought you had some class. I didn't expect you couldn't even let someone finish speaking."
As his words fell, Gong Jiaji was already charging at him, his fists covered in spikes, slamming down heavily!
Xu Huo didn't fight him. He raised his hand and waved. Gong Jiaji, who hadn't even touched the defense barrier, was pushed back several meters and crashed into a door that appeared out of thin air!
And almost at the same time, the entire layout of the commercial building began to change. The floor rose and fell in chunks like tofu, the walls curved, the ceiling drooped, and as they shifted and transformed, the entire hall was cut into several spaces!
The other two B-rank players present, along with Gong Jiaji, were moved away. People like Qian Zi and Wei Zhongyu were locked in separate spaces. Uncle Guan and the others were also moved away—the central dining table was being continuously compressed. Xu Huo and Mr. Kang stood facing each other. After a brief exchange of glances, Mr. Kang appeared right in front of Xu Huo, his five fingers reaching for his face!
The rising ground carried Xu Huo backward rapidly, and at the same time, several doors appeared in front of him. However, these doors didn't work. With a series of "bang bang" sounds, the doors were forced open, and Mr. Kang's hand shot through in an instant!
(End of Chapter)