Once their score passed seven hundred, the eight of them entered Little Bear City again. No one challenged them this time, and they easily bought some supplies. Given the conditions in the wasteland, they decided not to buy ready-made food and stocked up on more Nutrient Agents instead.
They also bought two Jammers. If they ran into a player with lots of gadgets, they could always make sure none of them worked.
Just as he was looking for somewhere to rest, Xu Huo suddenly received a challenge:
"Player Mitchell challenges Player Xu Zhi."
Xu Huo looked up and saw a bizarre-looking player leap down from a building not far away. He looked bizarre because he was wrapped in all kinds of venomous creatures. Snakes and insects were nothing unusual, but the man even had mushrooms growing on his clothes.
Bulges covered both the inside and outside of his clothes. It was hard to describe the sight. The three companions who had come with him were dressed the same way, and Xu Huo couldn't tell whether they had some natural resistance to poison, but their complexions and lips were all a little off-color.
"I just heard that another poison user had arrived in Little Bear City," Mitchell said, stroking the five-colored venomous snake coiled around his arm as he sized Xu Huo up. "You don't look the part."
"What difference does it make whether I do or not?" Xu Huo asked with a smile.
"If you do, that's easy. Since we're in the same line of work, I'll invite you to join my team." Mitchell lifted his bluish eyelids. "If you don't, then I'll just have to send you on your way."
Xu Huo noticed that the onlookers nearby kept farther away than the size of the arena, and almost no