The paper's indiscriminate attacks had begun to crack the players' defensive barriers one after another. And with so many sheets of paper, the attacks never stopped. Given enough time, the barriers' weakness became apparent—whether they switched to another Defense Artifact or reactivated one, there was always a brief gap.
Everyone who had been locked up in the room was gone. The trap was obvious, and the players who had barged in immediately scattered, fleeing in different directions.
However, the area outside the location item had already been sealed off by a barrier. Xu Huo, Zhu Xiaojin, and the others, who were supposed to have left, were all waiting outside.
"Drive them out," Xu Huo told the painted woman inside the item.
The painted woman had improved her ability to control paper. She directed some of the sheets to slam into the players like small cannonballs. Inside the location item, the full force of the transformed paper had been hard to gauge. But when a flurry of sheets sent players and their defensive barriers flying through the entrance, then carved a trench several meters long into the street, they no longer dared underestimate the paper's power. To keep the paper from disrupting their movements, they simply avoided it.
Killing these people wasn't difficult. Xu Huo unleashed his Spiritual World and layered mental-type items, instantly bringing his mental strength to its peak. He controlled them as quickly as he could, capturing or killing them, while Zhu Xiaojin and the others helped. The battle was over in less than five minutes.
"Three got away." After things had settled down, Zhu Xiaojin came over carrying a gravely wounded, unconscious player. He glanced at the now-empty room and couldn't help asking, "Did you move everyone out ahead of time?"
Xu Huo glanced at him and