The One You Wanted to Frame
"Only by finding these people might you be able to find the Perfect Potion." Leijie looked even more frustrated than Xu Huo and the others. She was just short of calling the enforcement team useless.
Xu Huo and the others more or less felt the same way. Either the Players in District 022 were too useless, or those people simply weren't important. Otherwise, how could they have all been taken out at once?
"Forget it. I don't think it makes a difference whether we find them or not," Zhou Juanjuan said. "It's not as if they could really develop the Perfect Potion, right? There are plenty of alternatives to other Evolution Potions in the game."
Leijie seemed to want to convince them, but after hesitating, she swallowed her words.
Xu Huo hadn't had high hopes to begin with. Perfect Potions were rare and hard to find, and even if they found the real thing in District 022, there was a good chance it wouldn't be the one he needed.
Just as he was preparing to return to Capital Prefecture, the District Government contacted him. They were willing to agree to both of the conditions he'd proposed earlier, and would even throw in some confidential information. In exchange, however, he would have to help the District Government hold off a Player.
The terms sounded absurd. He couldn't imagine anyone the Players of District 022 couldn't handle themselves, yet needed an outsider to get involved. Besides, if this person really left District 022 helpless, then a little information wouldn't be worth much.
"This isn't anything particularly dangerous," the diplomat said. "It's just that, due to the other party's identity, District 022 can't get involved directly. We don't need you to kill him, either. Just hold him