# Chapter 350: Kicking an Iron Plate
"Is that so?" Xu Huo struck swiftly, and a short arrow flying from nowhere pierced through Chen Tu's palm!
Hearing Chen Tu's cry, Chen Nan quickly turned around. Seeing the blood flow, he knew they couldn't fool Xu Huo anymore. Gritting his teeth, he rushed forward and hugged Xu Huo. "Brother! You run! I'll hold him off!"
By this time, Chen Tu had already torn off his clothes. He saw the flying arrows hovering in the room and knew full well they were no match for Xu Huo. If they kept fighting, at least one of them would die... He knelt on the ground. "Please let us off!"
"Quite self-aware." Xu Huo kicked Chen Nan away, but Chen Nan wasn't willing to let things go. He got up ready to fight to the death, yet the moment he met the eyes of the man standing before him, his legs involuntarily went weak.
After dispelling the other's thoughts of a desperate fight, Xu Huo said to Chen Tu, "If you dare to kill, you must be prepared to be killed. Does kneeling and begging for help work?"
"Of course it's useless against someone who's determined to kill us, but you actually don't want to kill us, right?" Chen Tu tested. "If you wanted to kill us, you wouldn't have held back just now."
Xu Huo smiled faintly and tossed the "No-Knot Rope" to him. "Tie up your brother."
Chen Nan felt humiliated after being intimidated by Xu Huo's gaze, but he still refused to just wait for death. He secretly signaled Chen Tu with his eyes—if they couldn't win, they could escape. Once they got out, Xu Huo wouldn't dare openly kill people in the castle!
"Don't you want to clear the instance? Why not hear my cooperation plan?" Xu Huo had already turned and walked toward the sofa. After sitting down, he looked at the two brothers. "Instead of completing the game mission, you came to kill me. You're grasping at straws in desperation."
"You're actually a mission player?" Chen Nan couldn't believe it.
Chen Tu glanced at his brother who had just exposed their identity and said to Xu Huo, "Can you take us through the instance?"
Xu Huo raised his hand, then took out a self-healing agent and drank it.
Chen Tu gritted his teeth, used the No-Knot Rope to bind Chen Nan, but kept a trick up his sleeve—he pretended to tie a knot but placed the rope's end in Chen Nan's hand.
The two brothers sat opposite Xu Huo.
"Was Fang Min killed by you?" Xu Huo asked directly.
The brothers exchanged surprised glances, and Chen Tu couldn't help asking, "How did you figure it out?"
"You have a sound-silencing item, don't you?" Xu Huo said. He hadn't heard any sound when he entered, but after his super evolution, he could sense people in the space.
His main suspicion for Fang Min's death was the people in the castle. There were no signs of struggle in Fang Min's room. To kill a D-level player in an extremely short time without allowing them to resist required either a powerful player or a strong item, followed by dismemberment.
But after discovering the twins hiding in his room, he changed his mind. The lack of struggle marks in the room could also mean she wasn't killed in her own room.
He was just bluffing casually. Since they admitted it, Xu Huo continued.
"When Fang Min was killed, the other players didn't notice, which means the fight was soundproofed. There were no struggle marks in Fang Min's room, proving she wasn't killed in her own room."
"Sound-silencing items aren't hard to obtain, but you slipped up when you implicated Fry. Not to mention that Fry and Fang Min weren't friends, even if they were, it wouldn't be a one-hit kill. Such an accusation is far-fetched among players."
Chen Nan said regretfully, "It's all because Li Chao noticed I was the last to arrive. Otherwise, I wouldn't have said that."
"The body..." Xu Huo started but was interrupted by him. "It wasn't us! We're not cannibal players. Why would we mutilate the corpse!"
Chen Tu explained, "You can't blame us for this. After signing Fry's contract yesterday, my brother and I regretted it. To be safe, we used an item early. Chen Nan felt hungry and went downstairs to find food. Unexpectedly, after the power outage, Fang Min came to our room and attacked me without warning."
He turned sideways, revealing a thin new scar on his back. "Fortunately, the substitute mirror blocked a fatal blow for me. I only suffered a minor injury and managed to kill her in return."
"We were forced to fight back!" Chen Nan said.
"Was she a cannibal player?" Xu Huo asked.
"Not exactly." Chen Tu continued, "We were afraid of alerting other players, so we planned to put her back in her room. But in just that short time... the body really wasn't our doing."
"Originally, I intended to do my best to clear the instance to get more tickets. But seeing Fang Min's condition, we knew this instance's boss would be very difficult to deal with. So we switched to targeting cannibal players, hoping to snatch a few tickets. That way, clearing or not clearing wouldn't matter."
They just didn't expect their first chosen target to be an iron plate.
"How did you get your invitations?" Xu Huo asked again.
Chen Nan glanced at Chen Tu first before taking out his invitation. "Snatched it from a black market buyer."
It was an unsigned invitation.
This instance was a bit strange.
Xu Huo nodded slightly. To be cautious, he used cleaning agent to wash the two brothers' numbers—one black, one white.
He tossed a pair of pants to Chen Tu and said, "When non-mission players entered this instance, you should have known that this instance wouldn't be something you could just survive until the time limit."
"I thought of that too," Chen Tu said as he quickly pulled on the pants. "But generally, if you don't directly confront the instance boss, the boss can't massacre players on a large scale."
"That's why he invited outside help," Xu Huo said. "The Ma couple are cannibal players, and they also came with unsigned invitations."
Counting the one that originally belonged to the cheongsam woman, out of twelve players, there should only be eight mission players.
"What do we do then?" Chen Nan said. "There might be other non-mission players. We're already outnumbered!"
"Of course, complete the game mission." Xu Huo glanced at him.
"Do you really have a way to clear the instance?" Chen Tu asked uncertainly. After a pause, he added, "How do we cooperate?"
"Let's not rush that. First, tell me about your items and traits." Xu Huo changed the subject.
"What do you mean?" Chen Nan looked at him warily.
"Just a general idea is fine," Xu Huo didn't insist. "At least explain how the mirror works. I can guess some of its limitations. Your mirror won't work on me a second time."
"Is this related to clearing the instance?" Chen Tu hesitated.
"It's related to staying alive." Xu Huo didn't want to waste words. "Do you want to tell me verbally or just hand over the items directly?"
The twins understood what "hand over the items directly" meant. Their expressions turned unpleasant, but after hesitating, Chen Tu decided to speak.
However, Xu Huo raised his hand to stop him. He motioned for them to stand against the wall, then silently walked over and pulled open the door. He coldly looked at the two people outside. "In a good mood, aren't you?"
Unlike their uneasiness in the morning, the Ma couple wore smiles on their faces. Mrs. Ma even said, "Little Brother Xu, why is your room so quiet without a sound? I thought you had gone out to look for things!"