Without Xu Huo, the four members of the rescue team might have considered getting the old man out first. But Xu Huo had made it clear that he wanted to take the old man to another sub-district. With their interests in conflict, they couldn't make a reckless move, or they'd end up in the same situation as before. And the truth was, getting rid of Xu Huo and the old man wasn't easy.
There were no new arrivals in the area, so they followed far behind the three of them, occasionally using items to fend off a few Demon and Monster masks.
The Demon and Monster masks' attack power hadn't been weakened, and their equipment was wearing out quickly. Sometimes, items they sent out were lost. Even with thorough preparations and government support, the rescue team couldn't use up equipment and items without limit, so they still had to fight on their own from time to time.
Xu Huo was in much the same situation. No matter how many items he had, using them all would be a waste, so he mainly relied on his bone ring to suppress the masks that appeared around them with gravity.
He planned to check the space gates Old Mr. Xi had marked first. But when he approached them according to the markers, no spatial portals appeared at six of the locations. Even the faintest fluctuations had vanished from Old Mr. Xi's detection device. As the old man kept exclaiming that it was impossible, they reached the seventh location. The moment they crossed the street, the surroundings changed. It was still a landscape of ruins, but other people were now in the same space.
It wasn't that those people had appeared out of nowhere. They had appeared out of nowhere.
When they looked back,