Judging by their work logs, the two men were partners. They had entered the West District only ten days ago; before that, their work records were in the East District. In those ten days, he had reaped a considerable harvest: he had uncovered three contact routes used by the Rebel Army, learned the movements of twenty-seven people along those routes, including players, and captured three Outer District Players. Two had already been sent to the East District, while the tattooed man he had just caught hadn't yet been sent.
Xu Huo searched Dimension Below for information on the bracelets they had used.
The bracelet was called "Stinger" and came in over a hundred models. The potions inside ranged from anesthetics and painkillers to deadly poisons. Designed specifically for players, the bracelet had two modes. Simply wearing it had no effect, but its hollow spikes stayed embedded in the skin. If someone tried to forcibly destroy the bracelet, it would automatically trigger injection mode, pumping the poison inside into the wearer's body.
Since players had many ways to escape, these bracelets were generally set to injection mode as soon as they were put on. Like the tattooed man, someone with bad luck could die while unconscious.
"Beep! Beep!" The work-log device in his hand suddenly blared an alarm. Xu Huo froze, then immediately threw it away and wrapped it in successive layers of spatial barriers. Two seconds later, it exploded, gave off a puff of white smoke, and was completely destroyed.
He didn't know whether the alarm had been triggered by the player's death or whether the device had a special warning system of its own. Either way, people in the East District had probably been notified.
Xu Huo quickly stuffed the corpse and the other East District player into the