Chapter 2511: Too Smooth
"You can represent the Wan family?" The buzz-cut man sneered. "I want to see a member of the Wan family."
"I can." The older of the three players smiled and handed over a business card. "I am a member of the Wan family. You can tell me anything you have to say."
The buzz-cut man couldn't help but look at Xu Huo beside him. Although they had agreed to threaten the Wan family with the Wan family incident, in truth, he had planned before coming that rather than using a vague piece of information, it would be better to grab two Wan family members directly as hostages. He hadn't expected that none of the Wan family members in politics would show their faces. Capturing players was not as easy as capturing ordinary people.
"We know that the Wan family massacre is related to you." Xu Huo cut straight to the point. "Right now, our friend is waiting outside the Wan family estate. If we don't come out by the agreed time, this matter will become known to everyone."
The expressions of the three Wan family members didn't change. They only asked, "What do you want?"
"Not much, just a few items will do." Xu Huo said. "Because of your internal strife in Area 001, we can't clear the instance smoothly. It's not too much to ask for a little compensation."
The older player nodded. "That's not too much."
With that, he took a box out of his luggage compartment and opened it. Inside were two items and five devices. "All A-grade quality. This should be enough for you to split."
The Wan family being so straightforward was unexpected for Xu Huo and the others. It was a bit too smooth.
"Wait," when the buzz-cut man reached for the box, the older player pressed his hand on the edge of the lid. "You can't take these things with just a word. You need to hand over the evidence."
Xu Huo hadn't prepared any fake evidence in advance, so he looked at the buzz-cut man. The buzz-cut man and the others had planned to just snatch it by force, so they also had no corresponding preparations. Who would have thought the Wan family wouldn't give them any opening? Not only was there no meeting, but he could sense that the nearby rooms didn't have a single ordinary person, and further away, the area was cut off by a barrier, making it impossible to know what was inside.
After thinking for a moment, the buzz-cut man took out a storage device and shook it. "On the day the Wan family was attacked, someone happened to be at the Wan family and filmed this video. The evidence of those players' actions. I believe many people would be willing to pay a high price to buy this storage device."
"As for why we came to you instead of anyone else, I believe Wade himself should know in his heart."
He clenched the storage device in his palm. "There are still several people outside. Seven pieces aren't enough. Bring three more."
The older player looked darkly at his hand. After hesitating for two seconds, he still put down three more items. "If you take the things, can you keep your promise and not tell anyone?"
The buzz-cut man reached out and took the box. "Have your people remove the defense barrier outside. We'll leave the Wan family immediately, leave Mao Guo Town, and never come back."
The older player seemed to be considering, but at that moment, a loud noise suddenly came from not far away. The ground shook, and then an alarm blared throughout the entire town!
The older player's expression changed sharply. He and the two behind him coordinated to attack Xu Huo and the others opposite, mainly to snatch the evidence in the buzz-cut man's hand.
But the buzz-cut man had long anticipated this move. His body bent like a snake into an odd angle. After grabbing the box, he used a defense barrier to bounce the three of them away and ran outside without looking back.
"Stand still!" the older player shouted. The buzz-cut man, who had already run into the yard, suddenly froze. His whole body seemed stuck in the air, unable to even lift his feet. He couldn't help but yell, "Help!"
Xu Huo took out a B-grade longsword and, together with Player No. 1 and Player No. 3, repelled the three of them. After buying some time, they split up to retreat. When leaving, Xu Huo gave the buzz-cut man a hand. The few of them jumped out of the yard and, without stopping, headed straight out of town.
By this time, the streets were already in chaos. Players from all over the town were rushing toward the Wan family. With several consecutive explosions, countless photos erupted like a geyser from the Wan family yard, carried by the air currents and flying outside the neighborhood. The military district players tried to stop it, but it was too late. Many photos had already flown out. The content of the photos was simple: most of them showed Wan Dong standing in front of a man in black with a masked face. Looking at this alone, there might not be anything noteworthy, but the time deliberately enlarged on the photos was very important, because it was taken within the few minutes when the Wan family incident happened!
"The photos are real!" The enforcement team that arrived first began collecting and verifying the photos. At least they could confirm that the content of this photo had not been tampered with. Whether the time was real was another matter.
However, the residents of Mao Guo Town were more concerned about the Wan family than the players had imagined. Some even dared to come out and pick up the photos. Someone recognized Wan Dong. "This is Xiao Dong. I saw her wearing this hair clip this morning!"
A single stone stirred up a thousand waves. Besides the enforcement team and the military district, the Area 001 players who had spontaneously gathered near the Wan family also turned their attention to the underground of the Wan family yard: someone knew the truth. There was a living witness!
For a moment, the air seemed to freeze. A female officer in military uniform shouted an order, "Capture them alive!"
Inside the cave beneath the Wan family, the bruised and swollen man was trembling, his legs shaking. "It's over, it's over. I'm dead this time. If I fall into the hands of the military district, who knows how they'll torture me!"
The Painting Woman kicked him forward, signaling him to block the cave entrance.
Unless the military district was ruthless enough to blow the Wan family house away, catching people from the cave entrance was the most time-efficient method. As long as they blocked the entrance, they could buy more time.
The bruised and swollen man had no choice but to desperately throw out defense items—he didn't even have the courage to face the military district players head-on. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but mainly that he was afraid of angering them and having no good outcome if caught.
However, he was overthinking it. The military district dropped a "Non-Game Area Simulator," and all his items were rendered useless. Seeing someone jump down, the bruised and swollen man instinctively turned back to look for the Painting Woman, but there was no one behind him. Furious and panicked, he was about to run when the military district player who had come down kicked him to the ground, stepped on his back to pin him down, and injected him with a tranquilizer.
His body suddenly became weak, but the bruised and swollen man hadn't lost consciousness. He looked at the passage ahead and helplessly closed his eyes.
Seeing that they had captured someone, the military district players quickly searched the cave. Finding nothing more, they dragged the man out and said to their companions outside, "Check this underground passage."
Several more players jumped down. After deploying instruments, they followed behind, carefully inspecting every corner of the passage.
At this time, the Painting Woman had already crawled from a small hole she had made in the middle of the passage into the underground pipes of Mao Guo Town. From the pipes, she returned to the surface and ran against the flow of people toward the Wan family estate.