Xu Huo usually dealt with the Special Defense Department, primarily Nie Xuan and Team Leader Wu. He rarely had contact with Minister Ji and the other higher-ups, let alone the military or the country's top officials.
Of course, everyone present had surely read his file.
"Thank you again for your contributions to Country X and District 014. You're a hero to all of District 014." The old man shook Xu Huo's hand.
Xu Huo didn't offer any pleasantries. He simply nodded and asked, "What's the situation with the Random Instance?"
At the old man's gesture, Minister Ji quickly projected the information they had on the instance.
"This instance is called 'National Resources.' To clear it, Players must use the resources available at the instance location to determine a reasonable population size."
"Based on the information Players have sent back so far, someone has suddenly suffocated and died every minute since the instance began. There's no apparent pattern in the victims' locations, ages, or genders. As of just now, the number of deaths by suffocation has reached 127."
"The instance location covers all of Capital City."
Minister Ji brought up a map. "The city's outskirts form the boundary. The city itself is shrouded in dense fog, and the inside and outside are cut off from each other. No items or instruments have been able to break through the boundary."
"However, we can still contact the outside. From there, Capital City appears to have disappeared into the fog, and they can't get in either."
"Judging by the instance's name and its clearance requirements, its true purpose is to make Players reduce the population."
"According to the city happiness index issued by the dimensional game in the first half of the year, Capital City's population far exceeds what its infrastructure can support. Our