Under Siege
Within just two minutes of the player suspected of possessing a Super Artifact appearing, nearly every media outlet in Country X was reporting the news. But with information coming from different sources, the reports were a confusing jumble. In the end, the Hai City Command Center deployed military drones that were still classified to track and film this life-or-death chase.
This was Xu Huo's request: to make information about the Super Artifact as public as possible.
The people in Capital City and Hai City could guess what he was trying to do. As they publicized the pursuit, they also worried about him.
As for the painted woman, three players had followed her all the way to the area around the Pearl Hotel during their back-and-forth chase.
The painted woman was fed up with being hounded. While using scraps of paper to slice open a blood bag inside her clothes and make herself look injured, she sent a swarm of paper flying into the Skyscraper to rescue people.
"Even with so many players after her, she's still rescuing people!" an Outer District Player exclaimed in amazement.
Someone else scoffed. "What good is saving those ordinary people? Long hair, short sense! A Super Artifact shouldn't be in a woman's hands!"
"This just shows how powerful the Super Artifact is!" another person said excitedly. "She's a low-level Player, and she can already control an entire city. If I had it..."
"Bullshit! You'd never get your hands on it!"
The Outer District Players attacked one another even as they closed in on the painted woman. Soon, they cut off her escape route. The three players who had been chasing her since she first appeared joined forces and drove her into the Pearl Hotel. One of them hurled a palm-sized black iron block