"You really didn't find out anything useful?" Xu Huo raised his voice slightly. "If you tell me, you might still live."
The player was sweating profusely. He tried his artifacts again and again, but either they had no effect or they worked without producing any visible result. Even the alarm settings on his Jixin Terminal had stopped working!
In his panic, the man called toward Xu Huo. "You'll really let me go?"
"I keep my word." Xu Huo's voice seemed to be drawing closer. Seeing the leaves rustle, the man suddenly shouted toward the front, "Animal Instinct!"
He meant to run as soon as he'd shouted, but the moment he turned, he collided with an invisible cutting line. The Space Ray blades might not be able to penetrate all the Defense Artifacts on him, but the A-class "Everything Wants to Cut Everything" could.
The corpse fell at the foot of the trees, and Xu Huo turned and left the woods.
After returning to Chuanwan City, he contacted the other three again.
Recent mining accidents weren't hard to look into, since there had been very few of them. They'd all involved small, near-bankrupt mining outfits that occasionally had accidents because they couldn't afford decent equipment. In all, there were only a dozen or so cases.
Work credentials, on the other hand, were hard to get. For community service such as free clinics, it was enough to stay under the machines' surveillance at all times. But to enter a place like the Hels Group, the company had to approve you. Anyone going in or out had to be a resident of District 019, at the very least. In other words, to get inside, they first had to establish residency in District 019.
Of course, establishing residency wasn't easy either. They screened Outer