Chapter 1944: Holy Sword Society Member
The boy's condition visibly improved after the bleeding was stopped. However, the mute girl holding him began to tremble. Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at Xu Huo, a mix of fear and excitement. But because she couldn't speak, she only opened her mouth a few times, ultimately making no further reaction.
The boy didn't lose consciousness. After recovering somewhat, he rose and knelt on the ground, kowtowing heavily to Xu Huo. "Thank you for saving me. I want to become a player. Please teach me. In the future, I will definitely repay your great kindness!"
"There are no children among the players," Xu Huo said.
"I'm not a child. I'm already ten years old. In a few years, I'll grow up. I want to become a player. I don't want to rot here like everyone else," the boy looked up at him, his eyes bursting with maturity and fighting spirit beyond his years. "I want to kill all those evil people. They don't deserve to live in this world!"
After speaking, he lowered his head again and kept kowtowing, as if he would continue until Xu Huo agreed.
"Whether you can become a player depends on your own talent." Xu Huo placed an Evolution Agent on the table. "This is an Evolution Agent for ordinary people. After injection, it can strengthen your physique. At the very least, these agents will make you stronger than ordinary people."
The boy didn't feel disappointed. On the contrary, he was very happy. Without hesitation, he picked up the injection and injected it into his arm.
This was a relatively mild Evolution Agent. After injection, there wouldn't be too obvious a sensation, but the boy still trembled. Tears welled in his eyes as he kept muttering about becoming a player.
Xu Huo told the mute girl to heat up the leftover food for him to eat, then returned to his room to sleep.
For the next two or three days, he had almost nothing to do. Because of the fermentation of the Cleanup Plan incident, the entire West District had become disinterested in production. Even the Supervision Department personnel were slacking off. Whether on duty or off, everyone was scrolling through messages on their terminals, afraid that the news might suddenly become true.
Meanwhile, the Godfire Supervision Department Headquarters seemed to have completely forgotten about these inspectors. They didn't reveal any information at all, let alone reassure them. The team leaders couldn't even contact the East District players anymore, and no one knew what had happened.
Xu Huo used this gap to contact Uncle Guan of the Holy Sword Society.
Uncle Guan was a Holy Sword Society member who had once been involved in a high-risk random instance with him. It was from him that Xu Huo learned the Holy Sword Society had actually split into two factions. Some of the founding core members had left and almost directly replaced the Holy Sword Society's name. The Holy Sword Society now active at the E-level wormhole point almost exclusively referred to the New Holy Sword Society. Meanwhile, those who insisted on upholding the original founding purpose had essentially gone into hiding, forming the Old Holy Sword Society. Uncle Guan and the Spatial Super Evolver, Lady Gong, who had appeared in Zone 017, were both members.
After dealing with them a few times, Xu Huo could see they were different from the mixed bag of the New Holy Sword Society. Their members were mostly from difficult backgrounds and held onto ideals. He had helped Uncle Guan and the others in the random instance, and Lady Gong had given him a ticket related to Dr. Wu in Zone 017. It was a reciprocal relationship, making them acquaintances.
The good news was that Uncle Guan was still alive, but he couldn't come to Zone 035. However, he had entrusted other members of the society to come and pick up the people.
Less than half a day after the contact, a player appeared in Xu Huo's rental house.
The other party was wearing the uniform of an East District player. He had a very ordinary, non-aggressive face. Upon meeting, he said, "My code name is Morning Mist. Uncle Guan notified me to come."
"The Holy Sword Society has people deployed in Zone 035?" Xu Huo was somewhat surprised, but due to their identities, he didn't ask further. He pointed to the mute girl and the boy inside and said, "I'd like to trouble the Holy Sword Society to send these two people to other safer districts."
"Not into the Holy Sword Society?" Morning Mist was instead somewhat surprised, because the content of the notification he received was different.
"That should be Uncle Guan's misunderstanding," Xu Huo said. "They are both ordinary people. I only want to send them away. What they do in the future is up to them."
Morning Mist confirmed that both were ordinary people. "Without using a Container Item, they can only take the Non-Player Train. I can't board the train. I can only arrange for someone to pick them up after they get on."
"As long as they can get off safely, that's fine." Xu Huo paused and then added, "Since you're in the East District, has anything major happened there in the past couple of days?"
Morning Mist had much better information. "Because of the West District Cleanup Plan stirred up by the Rebel Army, some Outer Zone Players stranded in the East District have been making moves. They've caused a lot of trouble for the City Hall in the past two days. They don't have the time to deal with West District matters right now. But the Cleanup Plan isn't real, you can rest assured. Although a Cleanup Plan does exist, the proposal for this zoning was made earlier and was already rejected."
"Doesn't the East District have the D2 Vibration Jamming Device?" Xu Huo asked. "Can't it affect the Outer Zone Players?"
Morning Mist hesitated slightly before saying, "The D2 Jamming Device can be circumvented with instruments."
He took out a mung bean-sized metal flake. "Sticking this in the ear canal can reduce the jamming device's effect to a certain extent. To be completely unaffected, you'd need a minor surgery to implant a special chip into the brain."
"Did all the East District people have this surgery?" Xu Huo's heart stirred, but he couldn't help finding it unbelievable.
"Those working for the government and Agor Corporation should have mostly done it," Morning Mist said. "Others tend to prefer using this metal flake."
He placed the metal flake on the table. "Take this."
Seeing the Supervision Department uniform placed on the chair, he added, "I don't know how much your Clearance Mission has to do with the East District, but if the Supervision Department arranges for inspectors to enter the East District for training, you need to be careful. I haven't found out the specific details, but in the past few years, almost none of the inspectors who came for training have returned alive to the West District, nor have they appeared in the East District."
"Thank you. I'll be careful." Xu Huo nodded.
"My time is almost up. Do you have anything else to say to them?" Morning Mist asked.
Xu Huo turned to look at the mute girl and the boy. "Go ahead. Choose how to live your lives from now on."
The two had nothing to their names and couldn't express their gratitude with words. They instinctively wanted to kneel on the ground. Xu Huo stopped them. "Don't do this anymore from now on. Live like human beings."
Morning Mist had prepared Non-Player Tickets. After sending the two away, he also disappeared from the rental house. Unexpectedly, as soon as they left, people from the Rebel Army came downstairs.
The other party disguised themselves as a drunkard and collapsed behind the small building. Not long after, they climbed up the wall to Xu Huo's residence.
"Can't you use the door?" Xu Huo sat in the shadows and spoke only after the person entered.
The other party paused in their movements, then crouched by the window in their landing position, getting straight to the point. "You were the one who put that note in our people's home."
"How did you find out?" Xu Huo asked, holding his gun.
(Chapter End)