Facing the Holy Sword Society
Chi Minghong laughed. "I thought they'd driven all the poor out of Snow City. After all, it's the face of the entire district."
"Not at all. Even the most developed places have rats." Zhou Yuanzhu's tone was hard to read.
They soon reached the surface—the passages here were nothing like the crisscrossing sewers of the cities they had encountered before. Most of the underground pipelines were monitored by the government. Only a few shorter passages had been abandoned and never put back into use, becoming what they were now: routes for "illegal immigrants" to make short-distance escapes.
The exit was beneath a trash bin behind a residential building. After moving the bin aside, Zhou Yuanzhu put on an invisibility item before going out.
Xu Huo's invisibility cloak could hide a child for a short time without any problem, but dealing with another woman was difficult. Chi Minghong's invisibility outfit could not fit two people.
The woman was terrified of being left behind and hurriedly said, "I can get out on my own. No one will suspect someone like me!"
"We don't have suitable clothes for you either," Chi Minghong said. "There are no new invisibility items in my item replacement slot. Buying one from the bounty platform would take too long."
"Let her stay here," Xu Huo said. "Going upstairs may not be safe. If players from the Government Hall discover her, it'll be hard for her to escape. Rather than leave her behind then, it's better to hide her here for now."
Zhou Yuanzhu returned at that moment and only spoke after using a soundproofing item. "Don't waste time."
Chi Minghong did not object to Xu Huo's suggestion, but the woman pleaded with her through her eyes not to abandon her.
"Forget it. It