The masked man had openly called it an obedience test. All he was doing was starting with a condition Yu Kingdom's players would be more likely to accept, raising the cost of compromise for Yu Kingdom, while also clearing away some obstacles to completing the Dungeon. After all, players who were stuck there would surely try to sabotage Ticket holders' attempts to finish, so they wouldn't have to enter a high-risk Random Instance.
However, this was a Dungeon that no one had cleared in twenty years. Aside from the players who had escaped the Sub-district by special means, the rest probably didn't have much fight left in them. The span of time was simply too long; it was hard for people to stay highly focused and alert day after day, year after year. So the earlier players had gotten stuck there, the less they interfered with later Ticket holders. Those who had only been stuck for a little over three months were the ones on edge, seeing danger everywhere.
The masked man had told Yu Kingdom's players to kill the players who were stuck, but hadn't specified which Dungeon they had to be from. Although District 039 was small and had a small population, it still had a few high-level Dungeons. Who knew whom Yu Kingdom would use to fill the quota?
The masked man's side didn't seem to care much, either, whether the people District 039 handed over were actually players who were stuck. Verifying it would be time-consuming and laborious, with no real point. He just wanted the Yu Kingdom government and player organizations to bow their heads.
It was hard to say what consequences this turmoil would bring, but at least for now, it wasn't good news for Xu Huo. The government players had told him that