At the words "junior," Zheng Shijiu's eyelid twitched. The other players understood, too: Xu Huo had called in reinforcements!
Before Zheng Shijiu could speak again, the man in windbreaker turned his head and beckoned. Xu Huo was pulled over to him, and he patted him on the back. "You even used a Super Artifact. That's shameless."
As he spoke, he made a pulling motion behind Xu Huo. The invisible chain took shape in his hand, its other end still connected to some place in the District Government. With a forceful tug, the chain rapidly retracted, hauling the player who controlled it over from a distance.
Then the man in windbreaker circled Zheng Shijiu and the others in the air. He left a corpse behind and brought the chain back with him. He seemed to have killed the player with his bare hands; blood stained his fingers and one end of the chain. Under the restrained, shocked gazes of Zheng Shijiu and the others, he said, "A perfectly good Super Artifact, wasted on killing a C-class player. If you don't know how to use it, then give it to me."
Right in front of them, he put away the Super Artifact.
One player tried to speak, but Zheng Shijiu stopped him before he could get a word out. His gaze shifted from the man in windbreaker to Xu Huo. "I didn't consider things carefully enough. I said you could leave once we'd finished discussing the Enbel Maiden, but I didn't keep my promise. That was a breach of faith. Government players used their strength to bully you. That was unjust. The District Government is responsible for the situation as it stands, and District 019 will do everything it can to compensate you for your losses."
He offered compensation and admitted that