"Where are you taking them?" Xu Huo walked up to the group and looked down at them as he asked.
At first, they struggled, but when they met his gaze, fear and shock overcame them, and they stammered out the truth.
These players weren't from the Special Defense Department. They'd gotten a job through an inside channel. The task was to capture government players alive and deliver them to a designated location, where someone would meet them and pay a hefty reward on the spot.
Each live captive was worth a million White Cash, and the employer didn't care about the player's level.
"It's not just us. Lots of people are doing this job. The city's sealed off by the fog, and players can't get out. There's nothing wrong with earning a little extra on the side..."
Before he could finish making excuses, Xu Huo slit the man's throat. As blood spurted out, he turned to the next one. "Think carefully before you answer. Where do you make the handoff?"
The others swallowed hard and scrambled to name several handoff locations they knew. They even volunteered the names of other players doing the same job. There were more than twenty people they knew of alone.
"Scum!" The Special Defense Department players who'd come to the rescue were furious. "Special Defense Department personnel risk their lives to save people, and these bastards still try to prey on them!"
This wasn't anything new in District 014. Some people had no regard for the law and dared to target even players. In the past two years, the Special Defense Department had investigated and punished more than twenty cases of criminals using players for human experiments. Most of the perpetrators had been ordinary people. Whether they wanted to become stronger or cure an illness,