"Quit joking around." Huang Junjie couldn't be as relaxed as Xu Huo. He'd already sensed something was off. The Twin Snakes didn't have many players stationed at the resort, but they were heading somewhere that might be the organization's headquarters. Who knew how many D-class players were there?
Apparently, he wasn't the only one thinking that. As the convoy drove along, a player suddenly leaped out of one of the vehicles and ran toward the roadside.
The convoy didn't stop, and none of the black-robed men went after him. But the moment the player stepped off the main road, he vanished.
"Did he use a Ticket?" Huang Junjie asked uncertainly. "Or did the gray-robed man tamper with something?"
There was no way to know which it was. Either way, everyone in the convoy now stayed close to the middle of the road and behaved themselves until they left the resort and reached a nearby town.
The town was a place to rest along the way, with all the necessary facilities. But it had been cleared out.
Once the convoy stopped, the gray-robed man explained that there were entrances to Random Instances somewhere in the resort area. No one knew how many there were or what triggered them, so the Special Defense Department had evacuated everyone living nearby. The area was now almost completely deserted.
"Everyone had better stay put. If you don't want to join the Twin Snakes, you can leave after daybreak," the gray-robed man said. "This place is more dangerous at night than during the day."
After that, he left the six remaining players wearing white Masks and the three of them—Huang Junjie, Guan Zu Hong, and Xu Huo—in a Small Building, with only a few black-robed men to keep watch. Everyone else followed Sima Xiao Er. They