Chapter 2225: Targeted Bounty
"I happened to be in that country when it happened and was fortunate enough to meet him once." The man involuntarily shuddered. "I almost got caught along with them."
"I don't know if people with mental evolution are..." The man pointed to his own head, using a more euphemistic term, "thinking differently from ordinary people."
"He made the people of that country kill each other not to plunder resources, but simply for the pleasure of killing. Including the players he caught, I saw with my own eyes him cutting open people and taking their brains. He was completely insane, not like he was conducting any experiment. It felt a bit..."
It was a bit difficult to say the rest. Xu Huo interjected, "Brain supplement?"
The man was speechless, genuine fear in his eyes. "It seemed like that... Anyway, many players were killed at the time. The scene was terrifying."
"After that, I didn't really like interacting with mental evolvers."
He cautiously studied Xu Huo's expression, then added, "And it's not just him. I heard there's a very powerful female player who does the same thing, making people line up to commit suicide."
"Are you talking about Dou Shengnan of the Eerie Sound Knights?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
"I don't remember if that's the name," the man emphasized, "but anyway, there are quite a few evolvers like that."
Super evolvers, especially mental ones, seemed to have something wrong with their brains after evolving to a certain point. Of course, he didn't dare say that out loud.
"So I really am not in cahoots with that person just now."
Xu Huo nodded. "Don't worry, I'm different from them."
The man forced a smile.
But Xu Huo still felt something was off. The previous confrontation with several cannibal players should have alerted the players in the same carriage. That player wasn't a newcomer, so why did he specifically target him?
Did he think a B-level mental evolver wasn't strong enough?
Or had he revealed something that caught someone's attention?
This face was newly changed. Aside from being a mental evolver, he hadn't used any of his usual items. It shouldn't have been possible.
The player quickly returned to his own carriage. Not long after, the train lights went out.
No other player competed with him for space, so Xu Huo occupied a sofa and could lie down to rest. For safety, he carefully examined the deceased player's belongings again and accidentally found a note tucked inside a book. There was only one line on it:
"B-level player, mental evolver."
There might be countless mental evolvers among B-level players, but finding one on a train passing through B37-008 couldn't be a coincidence.
He then used Under Dimension to investigate the situation in the B37-008 zone.
It seemed there was no change after he left that zone. Apart from mobilizing players to strengthen defenses, the government conducting internal reviews, and investigating the Tian family's assets behind closed doors, nothing new had happened.
Since he hadn't arrived at the zone yet, the communicator and message collection terminal for that zone couldn't be used. After thinking it over, he contacted Nie Xuan to ask about the situation.
After waiting a while without a reply, he closed his personal panel and rested his eyes.
Unexpectedly, not long after, the front carriage suddenly exploded, causing several carriages behind to shake violently. The nearest seventh carriage was almost thrown off the tracks.
This jolted all the players awake, especially those in the rear half. If the train was damaged in the middle, the people at the back would likely be left on the tracks. Quick-reacting players had already tried to cross the wind and waves from the explosion to reach the front carriages.
"Don't worry, friends in the back!" A rough voice came from the front. The tattooed head and two players walked into the transition car. "The carriages have been reinforced and stabilized. The troublemaker has been caught. Everyone is safe now."
This didn't calm the players' anger. There were no xenomorphs outside, and there was no sound before the incident—who would use a large-scale weapon right off the bat on a train? It was clearly intentional destruction!
"Who is it?" someone pressed. "Is he dead?"
A player beaten beyond recognition was thrown onto the carriage floor. The tattooed head said, "We've taken all his items. Such a dangerous person can't just be killed. We need to see if he has accomplices. We've already injected him with a potion. Once it takes effect, we can interrogate him."
Everyone waited quietly for a minute. When the player's consciousness became confused, the interrogation began.
The tattooed head led the questioning. He first asked if the player had accomplices, but got an unexpected answer.
"I don't know," the player said.
"Did you decide to blow up the train on a whim?" The tattooed head lifted the man. "Why did you blow up the train?"
"To kill two people..." The player intermittently revealed the information everyone wanted. He was targeting two people: the first was Xu Huo in the seventh carriage, and the second was a player in the eleventh carriage. They had never met. The reason for killing was simple—it was a bounty mission.
Someone had issued a bounty mission through a special channel under Under Dimension, requiring the killing of all mental super evolvers passing through the B37 train, with A and B levels prioritized.
"Someone is specifically targeting mental evolvers?" The tattooed head looked somewhat surprised. "But wanting to kill all passing mental evolvers is too domineering and unreasonable."
"Heh!" Someone sneered. "It's probably some player family that suffered a loss at the hands of a mental evolver and is now furious. The Game Government doesn't have this kind of leisure. Only some powerful player families would do such a shameless thing."
"What are these people's identities?" Xu Huo asked. "The target is the train passing through B37. It should be related to the B37 wormhole point, right? Did something major happen at the B37 wormhole point?"
That was hard to say. Major events within a zone might never be reported, and the ranking battles weren't at the B37 wormhole point.
The tattooed head then asked about the player's identity and found he wasn't a bounty hunter at all, but an ordinary player from the B37 wormhole point. The bounty mission was also issued from an underground market. In other words, it wasn't a legitimate mission through the game platform open to all players, but a private bounty. The bounty point was set in a certain zone, and any player who happened to encounter it could take the mission.
"Which zone?" someone in the crowd suddenly asked.
The air went still. Just as Xu Huo was about to finish off the player who bombed the train, the tattooed head snapped his neck first.
Then, facing the varied gazes of the crowd, he smiled casually. "Let's not kill each other among players. Besides, I admire anyone who dares to challenge a player family at a B-level wormhole point."
"Those who are interested don't need to waste effort trying to get information from me. I'll pack up and sell off this bounty taker's belongings. That way, neither heaven, earth, nor you and I will know anything." (End of chapter)