Chapter 1578: All About Technique
Xu Huo hadn't given the painted woman many detailed instructions, but he had two hard requirements: no one was allowed to leave the base, and no one was allowed near the meeting room.
Keeping people from leaving the base was simple. Close the base's few gates, and unless they were players, almost no one could get out—let alone take anyone with them. They had the government to thank for building R1 Base so well.
Keeping people away from the meeting room took some technique.
The painted woman couldn't move around easily while maintaining a human form, so she used the surveillance system to tell the staff near the security doors to lock them. In the few places where people refused to cooperate or there weren't enough staff to help, she simply filled the passageways with flying paper and barred everyone from approaching.
Of course, some powerful players broke through her defenses. Some of them set fire to the paper, for example. But she wasn't about to line up her paper and let them burn it. She beat them up first. If they submitted, that was easy enough. If they didn't, she grabbed people nearby as hostages and forced the others to strip naked or lie on the floor beneath three, four, five, or even six tables. In short, they either felt too embarrassed to move around or couldn't move around.
Throughout it all, she repeatedly stressed, as Xu Huo had instructed, that they were only trying to secure a chance for peaceful negotiations. Once the meeting room reached a decision or the Special Defense Department came to take over, she would release everyone.
The words "Special Defense Department" made some clever people sense that something was amiss.
No one else had shown up so far.