A Tacit Understanding
At the very least, the Commercial Building in Little River City had its Space Artifacts restricted. But just now, he had clearly sensed a ripple of Space Power behind him, yet when he turned around, there was no one there. Could the building currently be under the control of an A-rank or higher Space Artifact?
It wasn't impossible. Mr. Kang and more than half the people here were Cannibal Players. If someone wanted to eat people openly, using an Artifact to deliberately fake bizarre disappearances would make sense. Besides, that had been Xu Huo's first thought after hearing about the strange disappearances from Miss Ma and the others.
Miss Ma and the others knew very little about the details. Perhaps the other Players had deliberately kept them in the dark.
If they were on the right track, it was both good and bad for their group. The upside was that their enemy was an actual Player, not an even more unpredictable being. The downside was that the Players in Little River City could attack them at any time, without having anything else to worry about.
They could try sounding out Mr. Kang.
Putting away his Artifact, Xu Huo went to check the rooms in Zone 002. One person was missing from a room occupied by men.
The thick-skinned ones were already asleep. Only one person was curled up in the corner of a bed, trembling nonstop. The moment he saw Xu Huo, he rushed over and said tearfully, "Brother Liu just disappeared out of nowhere... We'd eaten too much earlier, so we went to the bathroom together. We were squatting right next to each other, and while we were talking, he suddenly went quiet. When I came out, I couldn't find him..."
Xu Huo sidestepped him and