Fierce Battle!

Fierce Battle!

Xu Huo looked back at Yan Jiayu. She nodded. "Let's follow them and take a look."

They were moving on foot and had to shake off the attacking players, so they weren't going very fast. The hot-air balloon had no trouble keeping up.

"Writing someone's name on paper and crossing it out is enough to kill them..." Yan Jiayu mused. "I've only heard of that happening once before."

Xu Huo nodded. "The Elite Players who were killed during the Super Artifact incident."

The case was still under investigation. Nie Xuan had revealed that the players who had inexplicably died despite there being no enemies around had been listed in a certain order. They died in that order, with only a short time between each death. But they were scattered across different places, and many weren't even in the same location.

The List had been leaked from the Special Affairs Bureau, the predecessor to the Special Defense Department. The culprit had killed more than fifty players without ever showing their face. How could the Special Defense Department let that go? They'd been searching for whoever was responsible ever since, but to no avail.

The way the person they'd just seen had killed resembled the deaths on that List. Perhaps they were the one who'd come to District 014 to stir up trouble back then.

"They think the Artifact is on a particular Player, so they're killing people on a large scale," Yan Jiayu said with a frown. "But this Artifact's effect is abnormally powerful. If knowing someone's True Name is enough to kill them, almost no Player can escape."

What's more, it ignored distance, location, and defenses. As long as the name was crossed out, the person died. There was no apparent pattern to how the Artifact worked, and