Chapter 3097: Leaving the Island
Yilan looked at Xu Huo, and Bai Po also looked at Xu Huo. Regardless, he was the strongest here. With his cooperation, whether it was destroying the terminal of Challenge Island or anything else, there was a possibility.
At that moment, Xu Huo's personal interface emitted the agreed-upon notification sound. He made a "please" gesture to the two, which was considered agreeing to the proposal to wait.
Seeing him so straightforward, Yilan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn't say much and hurried into the spire.
Bai Po was different from Yilan. His goal wasn't as complicated, so he stayed behind for a step and tentatively asked, "Do you have other plans?"
Xu Huo didn't answer but said, "Maybe I'll be going in soon."
Since things had come to this, Bai Po couldn't say anything more and went ahead first.
Xu Huo changed locations to check the Bookworm's information. He had successfully infiltrated the terminal of Challenge Island, stolen the island's information data, and now, if Xu Huo wanted to leave, he could temporarily shut down the island's hyperdimensional instruments. As for the ordinary blockade barriers, they were just a minor issue.
"What are the Inspection Department people looking for?" Xu Huo wasn't in a hurry and instead brought up other matters.
The Bookworm had already deciphered some of the data. "Analyzing the existing data, Challenge Island should be an observation point for Degenerate Players. The data contains records of many players' physical conditions, including yours."
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow slightly. "Including mine?"
"You have become a key observation target," the Bookworm said. "The instructions received by the intelligent entity were to reduce your points twice in a row. If you still want to enter the spire, you can succeed this time."
"What's the situation inside the spire?" Xu Huo was no longer very interested. His goal for this trip had already been achieved; everything else was just incidental.
"After taking the potion provided by Alton Corporation, the Degenerate Players undergo a final observation. After the observation ends, they will be bought and taken away as experimental subjects," the Bookworm replied quickly.
"I see," Xu Huo said. "How will they leave the island?"
"They will be taken out by company players," the Bookworm said. "Alton Corporation employees have entry and exit passages on the island, but the opening time is still three days away."
"So they have long-distance teleportation instruments on them?" Xu Huo became a bit interested.
The blockade barrier on the island certainly wouldn't be closed, as players would continue to enter the island. The island's area was vast. What was called opening a passage should just be passing through the barrier with a work ID. To travel, they would still need teleportation instruments.
Before coming to the island, Xu Huo had put away teleportation instruments capable of crossing national borders. The ones he carried were slightly inferior in quality. If he forcibly left the island, it would take some time.
However, since hyperdimensional instruments could be blocked, this amount of time naturally didn't matter. As for the aerial killing weapons, there were many ways to avoid them.
"Has the location of the hyperdimensional instruments been locked?" he asked again.
The Bookworm directly sent him the map of Challenge Island.
Xu Huo looked at it and found that both the hyperdimensional instruments and the Non-Game Area Simulator were very far from the island. However, the good thing was that these two instruments weren't too far apart from each other.
According to the data given by the Bookworm, both instruments were very large and couldn't be placed in the luggage compartment. Players also didn't have direct permission to transmit them through the Under Dimension, so they couldn't be taken away either.
Just as players would implant certain special instruments into their bodies to prevent themselves from being collected into container items, some monopolistic instruments had also been treated accordingly. The item slots and luggage compartments on a player's personal panel had capacity limits. For example, the Cube Space and the coffin he had obtained earlier couldn't be placed in the item slots but could be stored in the luggage compartment.
Similarly, ultra-large instruments like these were usually transported directly by starships and were not allowed to be transmitted through player channels. Ordinary weapons were also excluded.
Yilan and Bai Po had been inside for a while. If they attacked the terminal, it might cause unnecessary trouble. Xu Huo decided to act immediately. As he left, he also called Ding Xiang along.
Ding Xiang was deeply immersed in the peak of climbing points. When Xu Huo said with a smile that he planned to leave the island, she almost thought she had misheard. "You want to leave... not that, how do you plan to get out?"
"I have a work ID," Xu Huo said, showing the terminal he had hijacked halfway.
Ding Xiang found it utterly absurd. She had many questions at once, but the one she most wanted to ask was: "Why are you bringing me along?"
Since she knew he was from the Inspection Department, and they had only met by chance, with no deep friendship, and she wasn't particularly strong, why bring her?
"If you're waiting for support personnel from the Inspection Department..." her thoughts churned, and she still found this reason more plausible.
"Is there really someone coming to support you?" Xu Huo interrupted her, his tone light. "I'm quite curious too."
Ding Xiang choked for a moment, looked in the direction of the spire, and said, "My mission isn't finished yet. I finally made it to Central City..."
"Let's go." Xu Huo clearly wasn't here to ask for her opinion. As his words fell, he was the first to move toward the direction outside the city.
Ding Xiang had no intention of following him at all, but upon hearing this, she involuntarily turned around. When she tried to resist, her hands and feet uncontrollably stiffened, leaving her no choice but to let him lead her away.
The two of them walking out of the city didn't attract much attention, as there were plenty of players trying to pick up scraps at the entrance. If they encountered an injured player, wouldn't the points come their way?
Therefore, when Xu Huo and Ding Xiang brazenly passed through the barrier and walked out, the nearby players were momentarily shocked and furious. Shocked that they could pass through the barrier, and furious that the company wasn't even pretending anymore, openly violating the rules they had set!
Ice Shovel, who had painstakingly accumulated his points to reach Central City, happened to see Xu Huo and the other coming out of the city. The two sides had clashed more than once. If it weren't for Ice Shovel having the audience as a guarantee, he would have died long ago. Seeing them come out now, his heart tightened. But the next second, the two figures disappeared from the spot, clearly having left directly.
"They could actually come out..." Having dealt with them since landing on the island, he naturally knew that Xu Huo was absolutely not a company person.
Although not many people were paying attention to Xu Huo, many were watching Ice Shovel, so they naturally noticed Xu Huo's anomaly.
It wasn't unusual for the company to secretly pull strings behind the scenes, but they did it covertly. On the surface, company players still had to accumulate points and cross zones like other players, also affected by the audience's likes and dislikes. But now, they just left openly?
Although Xu Huo and the other used work IDs to get out, the company wasn't completely unaware of what was happening on the island. Upon discovering their abnormal behavior, they immediately planned to kill them. The terminal was their locator.
The use of instruments in the Wasteland Zone was limited, but Xu Huo had prepared teleportation instruments beforehand. As long as the company hadn't completely shut down the permissions, using them was no problem.