Chapter 2596: Night and Ghost Faces Made the Perfect Pair
Any space could serve as a place for the headset to appear, so location-based items were useless, as were small containers. The headsets could show up in all sorts of unimaginable ways, and the ones in the Restricted Zone were far more powerful than those outside. It was already clear from what had happened: ordinary people were killed outright, and injured Players were no different. Only Players who had managed to get the headsets over their heads and still had the ability to move were gradually affected by them.
For now, though, the roots inside the headsets weren't that sharp. A helmet made of ordinary light metal could hold them off for the time being. Even if a headset got over someone's head, they wouldn't be in mortal danger right away. But leave it on too long, and that could change.
"Didn't you bring any container items?" Xu Huo asked the auxiliary officer. "There are so many ordinary people here. You can't exactly carry them all around."
"Can't" was an understatement. In the Restricted Zone, defensive artifacts with even a slightly large range were almost completely useless. The best way to defend yourself was to act alone—that was the only way to fend off headsets coming at you from every direction.
Still, there were loopholes. If a headset or a protective suit was sturdy enough, you could simply ignore the risk of getting a headset over your head. But that was the worst option. Unless there was absolutely no alternative, it was better not to do that, because nobody knew whether the headsets would change in other ways over time.
"I did, I did." The auxiliary officer hurriedly pulled out a funnel-shaped item. He put the mother and daughter inside