Free Cross-Country
After expressing his regret with heartfelt emotion, Yan Jiayu hung up.
Xu Huo rested for the night, then set off for the southern border the next day. He found Zheng Liang's friend and went to meet up with several people who wanted to leave the country.
Since the game began, very few people had wanted to leave. Compared with other countries, Country X was relatively peaceful. In particular, the Return Tickets players received after completing a Dungeon usually took them back to where they had lived before entering the game. Unless they had no intention of returning to District 014, going to another country was hardly worth the effort.
The number had increased over the past few days entirely because of the upheaval at Special Defense Department headquarters. In the country, not only ordinary people but even Players had begun to turn against foreigners.
Ordinary people could still be kept in check, but Players were genuinely impossible to control. Minor disputes often escalated into irreparable conflicts. Of course, Country X's Players living abroad were having a hard time too. At least before the incident at headquarters, people in Country X hadn't been so hostile toward foreign Players.
Under the circumstances, some people wanted to leave across the border. They were mostly foreigners.
When Xu Huo arrived with Lichun, the others who also wanted to leave looked a little surprised, but didn't approach them. Instead, they kept their distance.
"Brother Sun's here." One of them spotted a man emerging from the woods and immediately waved to him.
They were near the border, where patrols passed by from time to time, so they were all hiding in the grass. Brother Sun had arrived five minutes earlier, checked the area repeatedly, and only then came out and motioned for everyone to