Xu Huo followed the players from the same carriage off the train. After entering the spacious Station, he found a nearby portal and headed to the Harper United Region in the south of the district.
District 009 was rather unusual. Its original national systems had not been completely replaced; on the contrary, there were many powerful countries. In the end, none of them could force the others into submission, so after all sides had suffered losses, they ultimately decided on joint administration.
The original countries had been renamed regions. Most regions were independently controlled by different factions, while a small number—such as the District Government, certain special Stations, and places where multiple factions were entangled and none wished to withdraw—became united regions jointly governed by several nearby powers.
With a district divided up like this, each region handled its own border security. Moreover, because this district was relatively well-developed, the major regions maintained extremely strict control. There was no need to mention the abundance of combat robots and defensive devices within them; some regions even publicly announced that they possessed hyperdimensional space instruments, using them to deter powerful Outer District Players.
What was slightly surprising, however, was that this district had retained Random Instances.
According to the information Xu Huo had found in the library, District 009 had gone through a period without Random Instances. But judging from the situation within the district, it was clear that this was a place that revered strength. Once they realized Random Instances were also a means of acquiring resources, after a long period of "adjustment," the regions finally agreed to activate Random Instances, a practice that had continued to this day.
The locations of Random Instances and the conditions inside instances that had already been explored were all clearly marked in District 009's