Chapter 2145: The Terrifying Act of Implanting Ideas
The law enforcement team's player hadn't just been talking. After Xu Huo left through the portal, two players followed him the whole way. They made no effort to hide, openly telling him they were keeping an eye on him so he wouldn't get the chance to cause trouble.
He wasn't the only one treated that way, of course. Many high-level players from outer districts were under the same surveillance. Most had no choice but to bow their heads while under someone else's roof. A rare few wanted to fight back, but never got the chance to make a scene.
The locals, whether ordinary people or players, were all cooperative. As a result, Station City maintained a tense order as it moved steadily toward the dead of night.
The information about Xu Huo provoking the Tian Family had been deleted, but plenty of people had already seen it. Neither the city government nor the Tian Family dared let their guard down. After midnight, the players patrolling the city grew even more vigilant.
But no attackers showed up. Instead, a well-known scholar published an article on the relationship between technological development and the course of human progress.
The article cited verifiable data: the numbers of instruments used and personnel deployed, along with the hours worked, as disclosed by the municipal governments across District 008; the cutting-edge projects that leading tech companies had made public to attract investment; the frequency with which ordinary people and players in the district took potions; the declining number of players entering the preliminary selection year after year; and, over the past decade, player participation and death rates in Attack Incidents rated C or higher in the district. From these figures, the scholar extrapolated and predicted that District 008 might