Chapter 997: Sure
"You dare!" Brother Xuan shoved the braided girl behind him. "Unless you don't want to live!"
"Young Master, look at where we are," the boss said. "We're all Players. At worst, we'll finish this job and lie low for a while. The game world is huge. Who's going to find us?"
As he spoke, he signaled his men to move. Brother Xuan had searched every pocket but couldn't find a teleportation item, and his expression darkened. Still, he was clever enough to have used an item to send out his location right away.
But it seemed he was too late. After the boss knocked away another defensive item he pulled out, several flying-cable items quickly bound the group. One of the boss's lackeys walked over and kicked Brother Xuan to the ground, then planted a foot on his shoulder and patted his face. "Such delicate skin. Plenty of people would be into you!"
The group struggled desperately, and another one of them took a kick. Brother Xuan cursed furiously and was slapped several times. When he bit the leg of the man reaching for his butt, the lecherous man drew a knife and swung it at his face. "You bastard, you're asking to die—"
Before he could finish, an invisible force suddenly sent him flying, knife and all, into the wall!
With no high-level defensive items—or rather, no time to use one—the man slammed into the wall, threw his head back and spat out a mouthful of blood, then fell to his knees.
"Who's there?" The boss and the others looked around in alarm, on guard. But then the players surrounding the young group began flying away one by one, starting from the left, at intervals of half a second. They landed like flattened meat patties against