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Qin Ran frowned at the hole in the ground before him.

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The figure he had been chasing had vanished into it just seconds ago.

The hole and the sudden explosion earlier told Qin Ran the other party had prepared for this.

From his first encounter with the Hellfire sniper to the sniper's final self-destruction, it all seemed to have been arranged by that person.

But why arrange it this way?

And why had the Hellfire sniper blown himself up?

Qin Ran could make no sense of it.

As for getting the Hellfire sniper to come here on command?

That would not have been difficult. From the moment the sniper received his "punishment," he had been like a gambler desperate to win back his losses. Someone like that was easy to manipulate.

All it took was a tempting enough reward.

"What was the point of all this?"

Qin Ran muttered, his brow tightly furrowed.

Beside him, Lawless's friends looked equally troubled.

Not one of the veteran players present was a fool.

They had noticed something wrong too.

That did not stop them from investigating the hole.

A slight man held a remote with an LCD screen, using it to guide a small, doglike robot into the hole.

The screen showed what lay inside.

When they saw the bombs blinking red, everyone, Qin Ran included, drew a sharp breath.

If they had rushed in after that figure, the consequences...

"They look like proximity-triggered bombs... No, get back!"

The slight man was studying the bombs when he suddenly shouted.

Everyone moved at once.

Boom!

The instant Qin Ran stepped out of Himaken Square, an explosion sent the entire square skyward.

The enormous blast knocked Qin Ran and the others off their feet.

"Fuck, my DOG!"

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