Metallic Strangulation
The middle-aged man seemed to have heard a joke. He silently wore a mocking expression, then closed his eyes, looking as though he had no intention of speaking again.
Bubble Bean was furious and started forward to attack, but Xu Huo stopped him with a glance. "From now on, don't say another word."
Bubble Bean didn't understand why Xu Huo was acting this way, but he had ample reason to suspect that Xu Huo wanted to cooperate with the players from District 001.
Xu Huo didn't explain. What Warren had said about the relic area had been only half true, at best. He had clearly concealed a lot of basic information.
Items could be used in this metal forest, and they could even contact the outside world. That meant players from District 001 could actually communicate with the outside. Yet Warren had said that everyone who entered had lost contact. That was clearly a lie meant to hide something else.
There might be places in the relic area that couldn't connect to the outside, but that wasn't true of the entire area. The middle-aged man thought they belonged to an Outer District faction, so there must have been quite a few Outer District Players who had entered. In that case, there was no need to rush to clarify their identities. Sometimes, the more confused the situation, the more information it revealed.
The middle-aged man wasn't afraid of the truth serum in Xu Huo's hand. Maybe he had been trained to resist it, or maybe his injuries were so severe that he had already prepared for the worst.
"I heard that the local players and the Outer District Players in District 001 have started fighting," Xu Huo said with a smile. "It's only natural that you hate Outer District