"I haven't even said anything yet!" Dong Jingxuan interjected, but after Xu Huo silently looked at him, he couldn't say anything more.
He wasn't particularly thick-skinned. Of course, even if he had been, it was easy to give himself away in front of a Player. The more he said, the more mistakes he'd make, so he wisely shut his mouth.
"You can't enter the Dong family estate right now. Do you know of anywhere else that might be an experimental base, or another entrance?" Xu Huo asked after a moment's thought.
"What are you looking for a place like that for?" Dong Jingxuan was silent for a few seconds before saying, "You may be capable, but you definitely can't get into the Laboratory. It has Players and advanced interference equipment. A lot of your items won't work once you go inside."
Without their items, Players were merely Evolved Humans who could move faster and were more agile. Heavy firepower was more than enough to deal with them.
"Besides, the equipment there isn't like the instruments used in ordinary places such as the Government Hall or other sensitive facilities. You might be able to find a way to sabotage those instruments in advance, but the Laboratory's equipment is completely sealed off. They only open up the walls for repairs when something major goes wrong. Forget how hard it'd be for you to get close—you couldn't sabotage the equipment without being noticed, even if you did."
"Items can be affected by distance and obstacles. Specialized equipment can't."
Xu Huo listened without a word. Only after Dong Jingxuan finished did he ask, "Are Laboratories usually built with metal?"
Dong Jingxuan gave him a look that said, "I knew it." "You didn't understand what I meant. Forget C-class and B-class Players—even A-class Players might