Chapter 2921: Platinum Eye Attack Incident Four
The Box Carrier showed no sign of leaving, and the District Government remained as silent as the dead, making Platinum Eye seem like an isolated island.
At this time, while players from Platinum Eye were continuously rescuing people, some Outer Zone players had appeared, taking advantage of the chaos to loot.
It was unclear whether these people were connected to the two Super Players, but judging from what Xu Huo had seen along the way, their attacks focused on well-known research companies and laboratories. Indeed, Platinum Eye's most valuable asset was its technology...
He stopped outside the Xin family estate.
The vast estate was covered by a semi-transparent barrier, cutting off the inside from the outside. From the outside, everything inside the estate seemed normal, but that was the biggest anomaly. The super-large teleportation device the Xin family had purchased was certainly unusable. Their family assets and core holdings were all in Platinum Eye. They couldn't have left with their belongings the moment the Box Carrier attacked. Evacuation took time, and there was no way they could have cleared out so cleanly in such a short time.
As for whether the Xin family had raised the defense barrier themselves, anyone with half a brain would know it was completely useless. They would have been better off running early.
Casually tossing a pebble at the barrier, the stone passed through without obstruction.
Raising an eyebrow slightly, Xu Huo stepped inside.
The moment he set foot on the estate grounds, he was greeted by several props flying out from the estate, along with three players waiting outside.
The defense barrier automatically blocked the prop attacks, and Xu Huo's speed remained unaffected. As for the three running toward him, they had already been frozen by Time Power. Since he didn't know their identities, he didn't kill them.
The next second, he stood inside the mansion's main hall. Glancing at the blood and severed limbs scattered across the floor, he turned his gaze to the people on the central staircase:
Several people lay sprawled there, still alive but unable to move. Among them stood a burly, fierce-faced man, who was gripping a young boy by the neck, looking down at him. "Are you one of the Xin family's lackeys?"
"Are those people outside your companions?" Xu Huo looked around. The dead and the living were all unfamiliar faces. He didn't see Xin Rong or any of the Xin family's core members. "Where are the rest of the Xins?"
"Aren't they on the ground?" the big man sneered.
"I wasn't asking you." Xu Huo's gaze fell on the young boy. "Where are Xin Rong and the other Xins?"
The boy's neck was stained with his relatives' blood, and his face was pale. He stammered, "The old master and the others left early... we were the ones who stayed behind..."
"Shut up!" The big man's left hand tightened, choking the boy until his face turned blue. Then he pointed at Xu Huo and said, "Who do you think you're fooling? I'm talking to you—"
Before he could finish, he suddenly stumbled forward as if he had stepped into a hole, rolling down to the first floor. Then he writhed in pain, clutching his head.
The boy, who had been brought down, was quick-witted. Seeing that the man couldn't care about him, he quickly crawled to the side.
Xu Huo walked up to the big man, who was now kneeling on the ground, and looked down at him. "Do you have a grudge against the Xin family?"
The big man's pupils trembled wildly. He randomly threw out a few props, but they were completely useless. He could no longer see clearly. Blood was flowing from his nose and ears, and the veins on his face and neck bulged as if they were about to burst...
"Mercy... mercy..." He knelt on the ground, shouting, "I just followed others to rob... I didn't kill these people..."
"He killed people too!" the boy retorted hoarsely. "He killed two of my cousins and one aunt!"
"Are you someone the Xin family hired..." the big man said with difficulty. "Spare me... I'll tell you where the other players went..."
Xu Huo ignored him because someone was coming in from outside. There were quite a few of them, and the middle-aged man at the front was carrying Xin Rong.
As soon as this group entered, they saw their three companions frozen in place and immediately became alert. The middle-aged man threw Xin Rong to the ground and signaled his companions to spread out.
Xu Huo didn't give them a chance to test him. He walked straight out of the mansion. At the same time, Time Power descended, enveloping them all tightly. Then a Space Tangent sliced through, and a few drops of blood splattered as everything settled.
Approaching Xin Rong, Xu Huo looked down and asked, "Are you alright?"
Xin Rong finally recognized his voice and burst into tears of joy. "I thought I was dead for sure this time..."
Xu Huo gave him two injections. "Your arms and legs are all broken. It'll take a while to recover. Why didn't you leave?"
"I stayed behind to pack up some things." Xin Rong let out a long breath, looking at the darkness that never dispersed in the high sky. "This Platinum Eye is probably finished. The Xin family's foundation is here. If we lost everything, it would be a devastating blow. I covered for the others to escape, but I ended up getting caught."
"Didn't you prepare return tickets to other districts?" Xu Huo asked. "With the Xin family's resources, it shouldn't have been difficult."
Even with broken limbs, as long as he had a breath left, he could have escaped.
Xin Rong already knew about the situation in the mansion. Lying on his back on the ground, he said, "I wanted to come back and check. There were still some family members here."
Xu Huo didn't press further about why they hadn't evacuated in time. Instead, he brought up the Box Carrier and the Falling Star. "Do you know what's happening with the district?"
"These people came prepared," Xin Rong said. "The reason my family wanted to clear out completely before leaving was because we got wind of it."
"You probably don't know this yet, but Miss Kou Kou's team has developed a new energy chip. It's a revolutionary chip that could shake up the game. If it's promoted, the energy restrictions and technological blockades imposed on us by the A-level wormhole points will be greatly reduced."
"Zone 002 doesn't have a Super Instance, but it has a Super Player, Sun Eye. He's not from Zone 002. His own Super Instance is in another district. He only provided us with protection. Somehow, news of the energy chip leaked, and Sun Eye changed his previous trade terms to demand the energy chip technology."
"Let alone Miss Kou Kou, even the District Government couldn't agree to that. But disaster followed immediately. The Falling Star was negotiating with the District Government—I don't know how that went—and the Box Carrier didn't even bother pretending. He just came to rob openly."
"However, the Box Carrier probably won't get much out of it. Even if he does, the Falling Star and Sun Eye won't let him leave with the goods."
"Now it all depends on how things develop..."
As Xin Rong spoke, his eyes slowly reddened. "After so many years and so many people building Platinum Eye, it's all destroyed in an instant. Who knows what price we'll have to pay to send the Box Carrier away..."
Just as the Xin family couldn't completely abandon their assets, the players of Platinum Eye couldn't simply give up their home. Wave after wave of players rushed forward, suffering countless casualties...
"Platinum Eye is not a place you can come and go as you please!" High above, Bai Kou, who had been knocked back by another shockwave, stabilized herself with the help of her companions and shouted sharply, "Destroying a city and killing people—even if you're a Super Player, you'll have to pay the price!"