Xu Huo had no objections to the route Song Xiaohua chose. He went whichever way Song said.
That only made Song Xiaohua less confident. He hurriedly said, "You're just going to go without checking? What if it's the wrong way?"
"You chose the route, so you're responsible," Xu Huo replied matter-of-factly.
Song Xiaohua sneaked a glance at him. "You're going to hold me responsible after the fact? You're not going to go back on what you promised, are you?"
Xu Huo seemed to have lost his memory. "What did I promise you?"
Song Xiaohua seemed to have lost his memory too. "Didn't you say that if I teamed up with you to come to the island, you'd sign a contract with me as your agent once we got out?"
"I never said that." Xu Huo sped up.
Song Xiaohua caught up with him, grinning. "But wasn't that what you meant in context? What's wrong with being a celebrity? Look at those people Wang Xiaohui hired. They're already acting all high and mighty, and they're not even that capable."
"They're pretty impressive. They're all C-class players," Xu Huo said. "The Special Defense Department has more C-class players than anywhere else in District 014. For ordinary players, reaching C-class is definitely harder than it is for the Special Defense Department. You can't say they're not impressive."
Song Xiaohua waved a hand. "I've seen them, and the Special Defense Department too. Every last one of them—C-class isn't all that..."
Before he could finish, Xu Huo stopped. The two of them had just passed through a ruin-space, and now two groups of players stood facing off in front of them, barely twenty meters apart. They had emerged right between them.
Song Xiaohua jumped. "What's going on?"
"Didn't you say your luck was good?" Xu