Players, Please Board the Train

Xu Huo's suggestion was something the bald man agreed to almost without thinking, quickly saying, "Absolutely no problem, I'll contact them right away!"

Xu Huo gestured for him to go ahead. "Make it convincing."

The bald man took out his phone, dialed a number, and the other party answered quickly. He immediately roared angrily, "Hou Song, we suffered huge losses this time! You didn't say Xu Huo and his crew were that powerful! Half our people are dead! How are you going to settle this debt?"

Hou Song's voice was clearly audible from the other end of the line. "If it was that easy to catch them, I'd have gone myself. Why would I spend money hiring you? You should have known the risks before going... Alright, are they dead or not?"

"They're dead," the bald man said, his anger not subsiding. "But the price we agreed on earlier needs to be renegotiated."

Hou Song fell silent for a moment. "Bring the person to me first, then we'll talk. You know the place."

"You..." The bald man wanted to say more, but the other end had already hung up. He looked up at Xu Huo, holding the phone. "Not sure if he believed it or not..."

Whether he believed it or not wasn't important. Someone had taken the bait, and that was enough.

The group restarted the car. Liu Jia took out a headset and put it on the bald man. "Now he can't hear us talking."

"Your characteristic is so amazing," Yuan Yao said. "Just shout and someone goes blind." Liu Jia smiled. "The duration is too short. For experienced players, even temporarily blinding and deafening them makes it difficult to succeed."

"It's still plenty powerful," Shen Xin said. "Actually, in the game, how you use your characteristics and items is sometimes more important than pure combat power. If you get some powerful items, you can kill people without making a sound."

As she said this, the people in the car couldn't help but glance at Xu Huo in the front seat. If he hadn't taken out a whole carload of people right from the start, they wouldn't have won so easily. That was the beauty of using items effectively.

"Speaking of which, are we still going to fight Hou Song's people?" Yuan Yao asked. "Since they're also heading to Ting City anyway, why not just leave them to the Special Defense Department?"

Sima Xiao Er didn't rush to take on the task himself, but Xu Huo said, "If they were ordinary players, the Special Defense Department could handle the arrest. But Hou Song is also a member of the Special Defense Department. The procedures would be very troublesome, and the results would be slow."

Hu Wenhu perked up upon hearing this. "Didn't we cooperate pretty well? With Brother Xu and Sister Jiayu here, dealing with a few players should be a piece of cake!"

"Okay, okay!" Painting Woman raised her phone.

"The other party works for the Special Defense Department but secretly contacts other players. We have to be careful they might come prepared," Zhou Ning said seriously. "Player organizations are popping up like bamboo shoots after rain these days. We also need to watch out for someone playing the waiting game behind our backs."

"Zhou Ning is right," Shen Xin said. "We are a bit short on manpower."

"Brother Xu and Sister Jiayu are worth four people by themselves," Yuan Yao said dismissively. "With them taking action, there's definitely no problem!"

"Aren't you guys being a bit too confident?" Sima Xiao Er couldn't help but interject at this point. "What if Hou Song brings Vanguard Players?"

The car fell silent. Yan Jiayu looked at him and said, "You can bring people too, can't you? We have this bald guy here."

The group turned their attention back to the bald man, who instinctively raised his head and even closed his eyes.

Night fell.