# Chapter 2359: Ask You a Few Questions
"What!" The Giant Eye Fish was seeing stars from the collision, but couldn't afford to care about that, hurriedly reaching out to feel ahead—yet the doorway that had looked perfectly fine was now blocked off!
He whipped his head around to look at Xu Huo!
Xu Huo tore off his torn clothes, slowly wiping the Black Blade clean. The superficial wounds he'd sustained earlier were healing at a visible rate, seemingly without any effect on him.
"A little panicked? Can't find the door?" he said.
The Giant Eye Fish was shocked, and at that moment, one of his companions felt around the wall for a moment, as if grasping something. "The door handle is here!"
Some in the group had already thought of retreat, and the others naturally wouldn't stay to fight to the death, so the player who found the door rushed forward ahead of the Giant Eye Fish—but the next second, he was back inside the room.
This made the Giant Eye Fish, who had been preparing to bolt through the door, freeze. Realizing this was mental interference, he quickly reached for the jamming device on his body, and after grabbing nothing, immediately took one out from his item slot.
But Xu Huo wouldn't give him that chance. He stepped behind him in one move and chopped off his right hand.
The Giant Eye Fish screamed and dropped to one knee. Before he could make another move, the icy Black Blade rested on his shoulder, the edge pressed against his neck. Then he heard a cold voice from behind: "Want to race speeds?"
The Giant Eye Fish had no choice. He slowly lowered his other knee and knelt on the ground. "As long as you don't kill me, anything goes. I can give you all my items and money."
"Giving up just like that? Not using your ticket?" Xu Huo asked.
"I'm a wanted criminal," the Giant Eye Fish said. "Using a ticket means certain death."
Glancing at the remaining two players still trying to find the door, Xu Huo called the Painting Woman over. "Take his invitation and mask."
The player who had been fighting the Painting Woman was barely breathing. She had already taken his invitation and was picking up his items and devices. Hearing Xu Huo's call, she immediately ran over and reached into the Giant Eye Fish's clothes—but at that moment, a powerful force erupted from the Giant Eye Fish's body. Even Xu Huo, standing behind with his defense barrier up, was sent flying into the wall. The Painting Woman, however, was grabbed by the throat and lifted into the air!
"Open the door! Let me out!" The Giant Eye Fish held the Painting Woman in front of him as a hostage, threatening Xu Huo.
Xu Huo stood by the wall, casually steadying a precarious hanging painting behind him, then pointed at the door. "Isn't the door right there?"
The Giant Eye Fish didn't believe it. He had his two companions use a jamming device, and sure enough, once the mental interference weakened, the door became normal.
The Giant Eye Fish had planned to take the Painting Woman with him, but he never expected that the woman, who should have been restrained by the item, would instead stab him in the stomach with her bare hand—literally with her hand, as if she felt no pain or suffocation. Her other hand grabbed the hand around her neck and twisted hard!
The sound of bones breaking echoed through the room, along with the man's screams. The other two players had already fled, and the door was closed again. The Giant Eye Fish fell to his knees once more—this time from pain.
No matter how fast his recovery ability, he couldn't instantly heal severed limbs and internal injuries. He was badly hurt, his stamina greatly depleted. One against two, he had no room to resist. Just as he was about to negotiate with Xu Huo, he lifted his head only to receive a slap from the Painting Woman.
The Painting Woman angrily raised her communicator and demanded, "If we're fighting, fight! Why did you grab my neck!"
Grabbing her neck—the Giant Eye Fish glared at the woman with blazing fury. He'd rather slit her throat!
Xu Huo pushed the Painting Woman aside, not letting her kill the man, and said, "Letting you go isn't impossible. Just answer a few of my questions truthfully."
The Giant Eye Fish spat out the blood in his mouth. "Ask away."
"Have you heard the name Food Guest?" Xu Huo asked his first question.
"Food Guest..." The Giant Eye Fish seemed to recall something. "So you're looking for him. Why didn't you say so earlier..."
Before he could finish, his body was pierced by the Black Blade.
"You... why..." The Giant Eye Fish vomited blood from his mouth, quickly losing his life, forever unable to finish that question.
"Lied on the first question. Talking to someone like this is a waste of time." Xu Huo pulled back the blade and turned to look at the other person. That man had more breath going out than coming in, but his survival instinct still made him struggle to answer: "Never heard of him..."
"Looks kind of pitiful. Let's send him off," the Painting Woman suggested.
Xu Huo had no objection, but that player's eyes filled with terror. Bottle after bottle of potion spilled by his hand, but he didn't have the strength to bring them to his mouth.
After dealing with the bodies, Xu Huo inventoried their items. There were quite a few practical ones, some of which he'd seen during the fight—like the ring, which was specifically used to divide the battlefield to avoid being outnumbered, though it wasn't very sturdy. The black rod the Giant Eye Fish used was made of a special metal, but it was meant to be used with a trait; in Xu Huo's hands, he couldn't change its shape at will.
The rest didn't interest him much. After upgrading his mask to the Giant Eye Fish's appearance, he also changed the Painting Woman's mask to an octopus.
"We're not going out tonight. We'll rest here." He took out a few small rest items, cleared part of the room, and set up a temporary bed and table.
"Your ability seems to have improved." After washing up, Xu Huo sat down to talk with the Painting Woman.
She now had quite a few Light Gentleman medals on her, which seemed to be linked to her strength.
"That's nothing." The Painting Woman waved her hand with a hint of pride, feigning modesty, then couldn't help adding, "If I could use paper freely, I'd be even stronger."
Not being able to control paper on a large scale was something Xu Huo had agreed with her in advance. Using paper frogs and such could be passed off as items, and small-scale paper control could be seen as some kind of evolution, but if the range was too large, it would be easily recognized.
"Can the paper frogs be upgraded?" Xu Huo had previously considered that the little things she made might become items like the Paper Servant Master's, but item authentication required channels, and her paper toys were just paper without her—unlike items made from special materials. Still, it was a good idea.
The Painting Woman had actually thought about this. She enthusiastically showed him her results. Well, the paper frog had become a paper frog with doodles. When she threw it, the power it carried was like a micro-bomb, releasing a strong shockwave, but it wasn't much different from before.
Xu Huo grabbed a piece of paper and crumpled it into a ball. "Why don't you try this? I think it might be more lethal."
The Painting Woman flatly refused, saying paper balls weren't as cute as paper toys.
Xu Huo didn't say much more. After all, she could tear through defense item barriers with her bare hands, and even if hit by ordinary attack items, she wouldn't be injured. She didn't have any particularly obvious weaknesses.