The still-active mine was heavily guarded. Whether to prevent people from spying on it or stealing from it, the entrances and exits used by the working robots had been fitted with reinforced metal doors, and there were devices that interfered with instruments inside. Xu Huo's mental power wasn't strong enough to penetrate all the metal doors, and the mountainside beside him was far too thick, with mostly metal ore running through it. There was no way around it...
He wasn't as lucky as before—there were no slack-off workers to run into—so Xu Huo didn't stay long before leaving. When he took out the watch terminal from earlier, he found that his access had already been revoked.
"They sure reacted quickly." He tossed it into the Storage Compartment and prepared to visit Suolan's family.
Suolan's relatives on her father's side lived scattered across the area. The closest were her father's younger brother and younger sister, both of whom were now nearly 150 years old. Their children were about the same age as Suolan and were still alive. They had taken their own children and grandchildren elsewhere, while the siblings now lived together and looked after each other.
Xu Huo arrived in Chuanwan City in the morning. The city sat near a natural lake and boasted beautiful scenery, making it especially popular with tourists from other districts. The city that had grown up around the lake was full of luxury shops from District 019. Fishing in the lake was prohibited, but if you could afford it, there were twenty spots each day for out-of-town visitors to fish. Early that morning, twenty boats were already floating on the water.
Where there were tourists, there were naturally Players, too. Xu Huo had barely picked a restaurant to eat breakfast when he ran into eight