The Space Ray swept away a few strands of hair. Chang Bei brushed them off as if nothing had happened, picked up her coat, and put it back on. "I'll go. If you're worried Xu Huo will mess things up, hurry."
Xue Lang pressed his lips together and said nothing more. Chang Bei gave him a deeply mocking look before she left.
"Bang!" Xue Lang hurled the Communicator in his hand. His bloodshot eyes then swiveled toward the players drawn over by the commotion.
There was little to do while they waited. After players had tied Dou Shengnan down, Xu Huo left the painted woman behind, telling her not to turn back into a sheet of paper, then departed the combat base.
He randomly picked up some people in the Capital Safe Zone. Along the way, he also ran into some stranded District 014 players and helped them out of a jam.
"Mr. Xu!" A player from the Special Defense Department called out to him again.
This time, Xu Huo finally stopped. After dealing with a player spying on them in the distance, he looked at the group with an expressionless face. "Could you at least try to get a little smarter? If you can't manage that, try repeating the words 'read the room' to yourselves."
The player looked a little apologetic too. "I know calling out your identity without warning could cause you trouble, but we had no choice. The director said we had to get in touch with you, no matter what. It's become the top priority for Special Defense Department players in District 017."
Xu Huo hadn't paid any attention when the "begging trio" had seen through his identity before. For one thing, there hadn't been any special circumstances that required him to deal with the