Even Wang Biao instantly understood the situation.
He lowered his voice and said to Zhao Xun, "Those two robbers must be players too."
Without any official restraints, the NPCs in this game still went about their lives in an orderly fashion. Clearly, that was how they had been programmed.
That meant only players would think of committing robbery.
As far as Zhao Xun was concerned, reaching the eighth quest in the chain before clashing with another player's quest was already fairly late.
He would have found it strange if none of the chain quests brought players into conflict with one another.
"Everyone get down!" one of the men, wearing a Demon Mask, shouted at everyone inside the Gold Shop. "Throw out your phones! Don't look up, and don't resist!"
Everyone in the Gold Shop kept their heads lowered in fear, terrified that they would be shot if they so much as looked up.
Trembling, they took out their phones and tossed them onto the floor in front of them.
The man in the Demon Mask stood on the checkout counter, watching everyone in the Gold Shop, while the other man, wearing a Gorilla Mask, had already started smashing the display cases and stuffing gold jewelry into a bag.
Zhao Xun quietly asked Wang Biao beside him, "How well can you control your special ability?"
"Pretty well," Wang Biao answered confidently.
Zhao Xun glanced at Wang Biao, skeptical of his claim.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to trust Wang Biao, but the man had broken his word multiple times and seemed fond of spouting nonsense.
Trusting Wang Biao so readily again would only make Zhao Xun look foolish.
"You can obscure the eyes of the man wearing the Demon Mask, right?" Zhao Xun gave Wang Biao just one task to