Danger Level: 41%
It wasn't just their movements that had grown sluggish. Slowly, even their bodies seemed to distort. From above, they looked like a crowd of puppets moving inside a picture.
"Could this be an item too?" Qiao Qiao asked. "I saw some people on the Rebel Army's side panicking but not leaving. Could they be trapped in a containment item?"
If they were trapped inside a containment item, they would be cut off from the outside world and unable to use a Ticket to escape. In other words, they would be trapped in the East District.
Containment items could even help some Players escape a Dungeon or avoid a high-risk Random Instance, but only temporarily. No containment item could sustain someone indefinitely. They usually had a time limit, and once it ran out, the Player would likely die inside and merge with the item. For that reason, Players generally tried to avoid entering containment items. After all, no one knew what harm might come from entering one for a long time or too often. It was like the aftereffects of Player Evolution. At the beginning, who could have guessed that taking Evolution Potions would eventually cause problems? Those conclusions only came after some people had evolved to a certain point.
The East District players were ruthless enough to stuff even their own people into containment items.
"They told them to be expendable, and they actually went along with it." Xu Huo draped the "Mysterious Person" outfit over himself, passed through the two Players supporting the item, and killed them. He then blocked several other East District players who rushed to take their place. Next, he leaped into the air and jolted the ring on his black blade before plunging down and slicing open the park's ground!
That slash