Chapter 1407: I'm Waiting for You to Die at the Boss's Hands
The gentleman player considered himself immune to all poisons, and in fact, after his body's super evolution, he had indeed reached that level. Throughout the previous battle, he had been constantly exposed to toxins, but his body had yet to show any problems, thanks to the powerful purification ability he gained after his secondary evolution—any toxin that entered his body would be automatically expelled before it could paralyze his limbs, and the process wouldn't even affect his combat effectiveness.
He had tested this ability with no fewer than a hundred different poisons, which was why he dared to boldly immerse himself in the toxic gas without even wearing a protective suit...
But he never expected that the bacteria in the box would reproduce at a rate far exceeding his self-purification ability. The moment they attached to his skin, their volume began to increase hundreds or thousands of times over, covering half his arm in the blink of an eye!
The gentleman player's face was full of disbelief. He retreated while shaking his head, quickly hitting the other side of the pyramid. The movable space in this area was not large to begin with. Wherever his contaminated hand touched, new breeding points would appear. In just a few breaths, his body and the pyramid space were visibly being rapidly eroded by the bacteria!
"Boom! Boom!" One after another, potion bottles smashed onto the ground. The gentleman player drank more than ten bottles of antidote, but it only slightly slowed the bacteria's growth rate. In his shock, he quickly realized that he had made a huge mistake this time and was beyond redemption!
At that moment, his boiling blood gradually cooled. Looking at the two people not far away, his gaze fell on Xu Huo. "Don't you want to know who the boss of the Bauhinia Restaurant is? I can tell you."
"Didn't you say you didn't know?" Xu Huo countered.
"I just didn't want to say it before," the gentleman player said as he sat down, desperately trying to suppress the bacteria on his body while negotiating with him. "Give me the antidote, and I'll give you the jammer controlling the new city. Then I'll tell you everything about the Bauhinia Restaurant's boss, including his identity and what he asked me to do."
Xu Huo stared at him for two seconds before smiling. "I was interested before, but now I'm not that interested anymore."
The gentleman player's forehead veins bulged. "Are you messing with me? If it wasn't for that, why did you fight me for so long, just playing around?"
"You're quite forgetful, selectively forgetting how you screwed me over at the Bauhinia Restaurant," Xu Huo said. "I came after you for no other reason—an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
The gentleman player gritted his teeth secretly, wanting to say something to turn the tables, but then he heard Xu Huo continue, "Besides, you don't really know the restaurant boss's identity either."
Xu Huo looked at him. "You might have been sent here on commission, but the restaurant boss's background should be very strong. You can tell from the employees working for him—you and his staff are actually on the same level."
"As for why he would send an outsider to handle this instead of using his own people, it's either to protect his reputation or because this isn't a very important matter."
"In that case, how could a temporary worker like you possibly know his true background? Even if you think you do, it might just be a false impression he deliberately showed you."
"A desperado," Xu Huo paused, deliberately sizing him up before saying, "If I were the restaurant boss, I wouldn't want to be openly associated with you either. So the restaurant staff treats you no differently from other players."
Although he didn't want to admit it, the gentleman player also understood that what he said made a lot of sense. "Since you're so smart, why don't you guess what exactly the restaurant boss wanted me to do?"
"As I said before, it's most likely related to the live human experiments here," Xu Huo said. "But I guess the restaurant boss isn't a charity enthusiast. Either he has a grudge against the forces supporting the new district government, or he has a grudge against someone from District 001, which led him to find this place."
"As for what he told you to do, it's probably just to destroy this city, maybe also to deal with the clones. There shouldn't be any more detailed mission content."
The gentleman player listened with a dark face, then suddenly burst into loud laughter two seconds later. Wiping the mixture of blood and bacteria gushing from his mouth, he made a hoarse breathing sound and said, "No matter how lightly you put it, it's useless. I know your type—curiosity trumps everything. You wouldn't have come specifically to ruin my plans just because I tripped you up in the instance. It's more like we happened to be on the same path. We ran into each other on the way to the new district government city."
"More than venting your anger, you're more curious about who the restaurant boss is... haha... Do you want to know?"
Xu Huo remained silent as he watched the gentleman player place a thumb-sized oval metal object on the ground. "You're right, I really don't know the restaurant boss's true identity. But this S-class jammer can't be bought on the ordinary black market. Being able to casually take it out, I guess he might come from the Platinum Eye."
"Aren't you very eager to know his identity? I'm giving this to you."
"With this thing around, you'll eventually go looking for the boss. I'm waiting for the day you die at his hands..."
The gentleman player's voice was already very weak. He barely managed to sit upright, with a large pool of blood spilled in front of him. As his breath gradually weakened, his head slowly drooped.
"Be careful not to capsize in a ditch." The moth technique, who had not relaxed his spatial control, reminded him.
Xu Huo wasn't worried about the gentleman player committing suicide or pulling a deathbed self-destruct. First, there were no conditions for it. Second, he was definitely not the type to kill himself. Rather than letting his props fall into an outsider's hands, he would rather have the person who killed him take the props to find the restaurant boss one day, letting the boss avenge him.
Naturally, his life was insignificant. The restaurant boss only needed to know that someone had ruined his plans.
This seemed like a very low-probability event. For a slightly more timid player, it might never happen. But he wasn't wrong about one thing—as long as Xu Huo got the item, he would eventually find a way to track down the restaurant boss.
[Congratulations, player Passerby A, for killing a black player. You can obtain the props, potions, tickets, and other items of the killed player. Please accept the player's inheritance below.]
"Alright." Xu Huo called out to the moth technique.
The moth technique didn't completely close the pyramid space. Instead, he released a bubble prop into it. The bubble prop floated over to the gentleman player's corpse, slipped under his clothes, and slowly emerged again, retrieving a time bomb.
"Please handle that." Xu Huo glanced at it, then picked up the S-class jammer beside him. After studying it briefly, he handed it to the moth technique as well. "You go out first and keep watch. I need to finish dealing with the people in the instance before I can leave."
The moth technique naturally had no objections. "If you have any requirements, you can mention them in advance."
"Two small matters," Xu Huo said. "There should be a laboratory under the pharmaceutical factory. Find the entrance and exit. I need to bring some children out."
"Also, change the attack targets of all the mechanical soldiers in the city to the government players and the clones."