Chapter 855: Entering the Station One After Another
Using the Black Epaulet communicator, Xu Huo found the identity information of the Black Epaulet responsible for identity verification.
The possibility of a player infiltrating the Black Epaulets was very low. This player was most likely like Director Sanyang, entering the relevant organization under their true identity. If they hadn't been exposed in this incident, then this person was a contact for the Holy Sword Society.
The same went for Director Sanyang and Wan Tingfang.
The Game Government base's trap for the Holy Sword Society was real, but District 011 might indeed have obtained something as priceless as a Primordial Stone. The Black Epaulet's behavior during the explosion at the Night Orchid Laboratory proved this.
The box that was sent out was actually a tracker.
Given the current situation, the Holy Sword Society appeared to have suffered significant losses, but the real loser was the District 011 Government.
Additionally, there was another point that felt somewhat off to Xu Huo.
There were quite a few Cannibal Players in the Holy Sword Society, but these people were more orderly than the Cannibal Players he had encountered before.
Uniting Cannibal Players was not easy; it could easily devolve into a situation like the 014 Twin Serpents organization, where a bunch of people gathered like a cult to eat people. Moreover, Cannibal Players and non-Cannibal Players could never trust each other. From the moment the Cannibal Players' diet changed, the foundation of trust between the two sides was completely destroyed. Yet the Holy Sword Society, Cannibal Players, and non-Cannibal Players cooperated very well.
Judging from the previous encounters, aside from the first player Xu Huo encountered who tried to develop followers in District 014, the other Holy Sword Society operations were group actions with clear goals.
They didn't seem fanatical, but their objectives were clear.
Such an organization wasn't a cult, nor was it a simple gathering of villains. Instead, it resembled a union with a different kind of belief.
It was difficult to unify people's beliefs, let alone imbue an organization with personal faith. From this perspective, the Holy Sword Society was already on the edge of extremism.
Regardless of whether their initial intentions were good or evil, their methods of action had already stood in opposition to normal humanity.
Returning to the Rose Castle, it was evening again.
Mr. Dong was as usual, but Bai Kou was somewhat surprised to see him back.
Xu Huo didn't say much. Upon learning that Qing Cai had left in the morning, he simply nodded and went back to the study.
Sitting at the desk, he took out the diamond glove that had been burned with a sword-shaped pattern. Just as he was about to examine it closely, he suddenly felt a change in the surrounding space. As a burning hand reached out from thin air, he kicked the table hard to retreat, but the space shifted, invisibly trapping him in place. Frowning slightly, he took out his ticket.
However, before leaving, he saw Bai Kou appear in front of him.
His vision shifted, and Xu Huo appeared at the station. He immediately put the glove into his item slot—it had already been marked.
He was sure no one had followed him back to the castle, but the moment he took out the glove, the person came. The captured Holy Sword Society player, besides being a Mental Evolver, clearly also knew how to control space. He was another multi-faceted Super Evolver.
This was getting boring. He was just a delivery boy for the ticket. It seemed this person was certain he wasn't a fellow member and wanted to drag him down as a scapegoat.
From this perspective, this player's capture was indeed with ulterior motives. He just didn't know what Ashis Werner and the Black Epaulets would think now.
But Lady Lily was certainly happy.
When he left Xiang City, he saw a video online of Leyton Millar killing a Holy Sword Society member. This undoubtedly cleared his suspicion. The explosion at the Night Orchid Laboratory and the successful time-wasting by the captured Holy Sword Society member made Ashis and the Black Epaulets look somewhat incompetent.
Xu Huo's focus wasn't here.
Another multi-faceted Super Evolver.
Changing his mask, he stretched his body but still felt that sense of obstruction. The first two times had been fine, but this time, this symptom-like aftereffect appeared, somewhat inconsistent with the Perfect Evolution Potion described by Master Nicer and Dr. Deng.
"Brother, injured?" someone came over to strike up a conversation.
Xu Huo glanced at him, then shifted his gaze to a player who had just appeared opposite. The player was missing two fingers on his right hand.
It was just a glance, then he looked away and refocused on the player beside him.
This player was displaying his potions on his communicator. "I have all kinds of potions here. Whether you're injured or poisoned, I won't say I can bring you back from the dead, but at least I can keep you lively enough before you die to find yourself a decent burial spot!"
Xu Huo smiled. "You definitely weren't in sales before, were you?"
"Haha, you're right. I'm bad with words. If I did sales, I'd be at the bottom," the other player said cheerfully. "But hey, people care about being buried peacefully. No one wants their corpse to be desecrated after death."
Xu Huo looked at him. "Before you peddle potions, have you thought about finding a good burial spot for yourself?"
The player immediately stepped back. "Brother, if we can't do business, no hard feelings. I'll go find someone else."
This guy was perceptive. He didn't go to the few players at the station who looked very dangerous. Instead, he asked a few approachable ones, successfully sold ten bottles of potion, and then obediently waited for the train.
Before long, a strikingly beautiful female player arrived at the station. Two or three players approached her to chat, asking which station she was getting off at.
The female player joked with them for a bit without revealing anything, but she bought quite a few potions.
"Beautiful lady, you're generous. I'll throw in two more bottles," the potion-selling player said with a grin.
The train still had some time before arrival. Seeing him start, a few other players also traded potions and food. Xu Huo took the initiative to buy some food at a higher price, then brought up the topic of expensive food on the train.
"The train is clearly price-gouging," the potion-selling player said. "Limited menus, daily specials—it's all a scam. The revenue on the train goes to the staff up top. The more we spend, the more they earn, so of course they push hard. I've eaten it, and honestly, the taste is just average."
Obviously, the few players chatting here weren't very wealthy and didn't know much about what he was saying, so they could only chime in with a few words.
This brief discussion divided the players in the station into two groups: one, like Xu Huo's side, was willing to talk; the other stood scattered at the edges of the station, seemingly indifferent to everyone else.
However, while the potion-selling player was bragging, two of them showed sneers. The remaining four—the beautiful female player, the one missing his index and middle fingers on his right hand, one sitting cross-legged in meditation, and the last male player sweating profusely and chain-smoking—showed no interest at all.
When the train arrived, most of these people ended up in the same carriage. Xu Huo stood at the back row of the carriage. Aside from the one meditating cross-legged, the other three were all there.
Tapping his fingers on the table, he sat down behind the player with the missing fingers.