The barrier destroyed by the Jammer, especially one from someone in District 019, would be difficult to raise a second time under these circumstances. The government Players had tried to capture Xu Huo by exploiting the time gap, hoping to take him in before things got out of hand and deal with the aftermath later.
The only surprise was that after capturing so many Players who had helped Xu Huo, the government had assumed he had no more allies. They had also learned from several people that he really was a C-class player. This should have been a capture with no suspense at all... but now things had gone awry.
Xu Huo was slippery and had too many good items, most of them defensive. He had also undergone Super Evolution, and could often sense when someone was about to use a Space Artifact to transport him away along with his items, escaping the encirclement just in time. He had managed to buy himself several minutes.
The concealment barrier had been destroyed. If the government raised it a second time, it would look like an admission of guilt. And they could no longer use brute force to capture Xu Huo regardless of whether he lived or died, especially when that might endanger ordinary people in District 019.
Xu Huo hadn't done anything illegal. Even the item he'd used to spread "rumors" was a puppet, and he'd gone to great lengths to protect Xia Xi Duolai Ti's privacy by not revealing her appearance. Spreading "rumors" in public wasn't a serious crime in District 019, especially when those rumors targeted the government. Ordinary people had taken their side against the government in this matter, and the more aggressively the government reacted, the more suspicious it would look.
So as more and more aircraft