Chapter 2586
This made the players present feel a chill on the back of their heads, those headgear, once worn, could only be taken off at the cost of one’s life!
Xu Huo quickly searched for news in other cities, and so far, no new Night Tour Teams had appeared, "It seems that the people evacuated from the city will soon be sent back."
The earliest appearance of the Night Tour Team outside the city was definitely not a coincidence.
Sure enough, three minutes later, the local government issued another notice, asking ordinary residents to return to their homes, or find a nearby place to hide, while players were ordered not to use Teleportation Props to leave.
"Teleportation Props are restricted," the Bearded Player tried, "It seems that the barrier outside the city has been activated."
Now, they couldn’t leave even if they wanted to.
Of course, most players in this district did not intend to leave, unless they directly fled to the station, otherwise going to any place in District 001 would only increase the trouble, and at this moment, they couldn’t abandon the ordinary people in the instance just to escape alone.
The Bearded Player thought for a moment before saying to Jing Shi, "Teacher, Xiao Peng and I will go into the Yangming Building to take a look, while Xiao Wu and Liu Jie stay behind to protect you."
"I’m really worried about Xiao Chuan, I can’t persuade you not to go," Jing Shi said, "Be careful, if you can’t find him, come out first, don’t get swallowed into the dungeon restricted area."
"Maybe Xiao Chuan is just lost inside the building," the Bearded Player comforted, then went with his companion.
The Yangming Building was within Xu Huo’s Spiritual World range, he hesitated slightly and said to the two who were leaving, "Check out the restroom on the left side of the thirteenth floor, it might be a passage into the dungeon restricted area."
"Thanks." The Bearded Player was somewhat surprised but nodded quickly.
"Xiao Xu, can you sense the entrance to the restricted area?" Jing Shi couldn’t help asking, "What kind of space is that?"
Being swallowed into the dungeon restricted area, which is another space, means cutting off almost all contact with the outside world, so how could anyone accurately discern the real situation inside just from an entrance?
Xu Huo shook his head slightly and did not answer this question, instead, he opened the city map and said, "It’s not very safe here, we’d better find another place."
The two players left behind were puzzled, "We’re thousands of meters from the Yangming Building and far from any other dungeon restricted area."
"The dungeon restricted area might be constantly expanding," Xu Huo said, his eyes always on the map, "Judging from the current number and distribution of restricted areas in the eight cities, the intervals between each restricted area are about the same. This could be due to mutual repulsion among the restricted areas or the reserved space needed for expansion, but they are distributed relatively evenly, so the relatively safe place should be the midpoint between two connected restricted areas."
"We’re too close to the Yangming Building here, it’s better to move to the Third High School between the Yangming Building and Ocean Park, but below those two, there’s another restricted area, so according to the distance, we can move a bit further down."
His finger stopped below the Third High School at the Lake View Villa District.
Those present were already stunned by his words about the "expansion of the restricted area," and the nearby members of the Law Enforcement Team repeatedly asked questions while arranging for someone to report the information, and also wanted the expert team to give a conclusion on exactly where in this city was safe.
"The local government should already know about this," Xu Huo took out a Teleportation Prop and tried it, "We can still use it for now, let’s head to the Lake View Villa District first."
If Teleportation Props and instruments interfere with each other, they could possibly be thrown out mid-way, but they still had enough time.
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Running to unpopulated places, at least, would not involve more people.
Based on the messages from the Collection of Information Terminal, all cities had already begun doing this.
However, just when everyone thought this was also a solution, a video from another city occupied the top spot on the most popular list of the Collection of Information Terminal.
Retreating outside the city, although resources couldn’t keep up for a while, it didn’t mean the players of the Enforcement Department across cities were doing nothing. With so many people migrating, almost nothing went wrong, the convoys were orderly, and the people being relocated in this city’s video had already begun setting up tents for accommodation. The overly bright props illuminated the forest as if it were daylight—under such an atmosphere, most people’s emotions were relatively stable, after all, this wasn’t the first time they moved because of an instance, usually before the first instance ended, the District Government would have a plan to settle them...
Ordinary citizens thought this way, as did the players of the Law Enforcement Team, but as a dark force surged from the forest, strange music first covered the area, and within a short few minutes, a Night Tour Team appeared. They danced and moved, almost like a performer on Cultural Street, but instead of interacting with the audience, they killed.
As a few heads flew off, the Law Enforcement Team players were the first to attack the performers. Those performers were easy to kill, even ordinary people could chop off their heads with a single strike, but after the skeleton inside fell, the masks on their heads would automatically fly out and cover the person who had just killed them!
Two members of the Law Enforcement Team reacted too slowly and were covered by the headgear. When they tried to pull the headgear off, the first thing that splattered was blood. Indeed, the headgear seemed to have rooted into their faces and necks, and when the lower edge of the headgear was lifted, something similar to blood vessels could be seen connected to the players’ skin. These vein-like things appeared to connect directly inside the player’s body. Once they were forcibly removed, the resulting holes would splatter blood like fountains!
And with each severed connection, more grew from the headgear. When the video was zoomed in, it was very clear that when one player attempted to pull off the headgear several times, those blood vessels had densely grown all over his face.
The key was that the headgear wasn’t just growing on their faces; fragile areas like the skull and neck were also connected.
The covered players dared not make any reckless moves, while other Law Enforcement Team players, after trying to lock down a few flying headgear, were about to send them away along with the two affected, but those two players uncontrollably joined the Night Tour Team.
Their companions desperately tried to pull them out, but the ones they pulled out turned into skeletons—not that the players were dead, rather they swapped places with skeletons originally in the team.
Some players used props to forcibly remove the Night Tour Team’s headgear, resulting in immediate death for those two players due to the removal, while some headgear from the Night Tour members again behaved like living creatures, choosing new targets close by.
More people got caught up in it.
The video content stopped here, Xu Huo zoomed in on the screen a bit, observing the Law Enforcement Team player who died, noticing deep holes at the junction of the blood vessels with their skulls, from which not only blood but also white brain matter flowed.