"They claimed Punishment City was short-staffed and wanted to recruit temporary workers to help out for a while," Chai Sheng said.
That was right. One of the two was Chai Sheng, whom Xu Huo had encountered aboard the aircraft earlier. He pointed to the item Xu Huo was wearing. "I recognize that."
Xu Huo nodded. It wasn't surprising.
"Looks like recruiting temporary workers and hiring people to attack us are both tricks for dealing with Outer District Players."
When Chai Sheng had run into Xu Huo and the other man, he'd also figured it out. A place as big as Punishment City didn't even have many people in it. Why would it need to hire outside help?
The four of them picked up the pace, but after the alarm sounded, rows of holes suddenly appeared in the walls on both sides of the corridor. White smoke with a pungent odor poured out, filling all the space they could move through in the blink of an eye.
They quickly put on gas masks and hurried forward. But now the sensor doors wouldn't open automatically. Worse still, some sections ahead and behind them had been reinforced with fully sealed metal layers. After they hacked through one door, they found another identical door behind it. It seemed that metal shields had been built into the walls of every corridor, forming a new barrier every few dozen meters. There was no end in sight.
"Looks like we picked the wrong route," Chai Sheng said. "Let's go another way!"
The group turned into another corridor. This time, they seemed luckier than before. After opening a few doors, they came upon one that kept bouncing open and shut because it had malfunctioned.
Xu Huo and Chai Sheng went through first, but a dense cutting net swept