No one knew whether the barriers standing throughout the city could withstand the explosion of the "Little Mushroom Cloud," but the moment the blast went off, all the Space Artifacts set up inside the city had indeed stopped working. In that instant, Xu Huo, who should have been on the rooftop, vanished. After hearing what he'd said, players and aircraft alike headed for the District Government.
Xu Huo could control how long temporal and spatial artifacts interfered with each other. Once he was outside the city, he put away "Three Seconds of Life" and used a teleportation artifact to go straight to the District Government.
A broad plaza stretched before the main building of the District Government in District 019. Defense artifacts and instruments had originally been set up both inside and around the plaza. But in light of everything that had happened over the past two days, ordinary people had begun gathering there. The District Government had also evacuated its premises after the intelligent systems malfunctioned, so there weren't many guards around now.
That didn't mean Xu Huo could simply stroll in, though. He'd planned to complete the Dungeon in midair over the plaza using "Gentleman's Demeanor," but as soon as he entered, an immense force of gravity pressed down on him. At the same time, two Players appeared on the main building's rooftop, looking down at him where he'd fallen.
The government Players were naturally furious that he'd made a fool of the District Government. If the government's upper ranks hadn't yet ordered them to kill him, Xu Huo would probably already have been turned into a human target!
But that didn't matter. He spread out his Spiritual World and opened more than ten portals around himself, sending the Photos he'd prepared flying out through them.
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