418 Recruit Family as Talents (1/2)

”I'm not leaving!” Wiping his tears, Kaido cried and said, ”Those people… They will beat you. I don't want you to be beaten!”

Many people said that children could be blunt. But on many occasions, what children said could be most touching.

Cage smiled happily after hearing that. Why should he not feel happy when he had a son who cared so much about him?

He only regretted that, as a father, he failed to create an environment where his son could grow up safely. His son would definitely be traumatized after this.

Cage said gently, ”Be a good boy, or I'll be angry. Go find the butler. Got it?”

”I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving!”

Kaido grew stubborn and shook his head hard.

Seeing that, Cage was both sorry and anxious, fearing that the kidnappers were agitated by his crying son.

After all, the cries of little children could be very annoying for certain people on certain occasions.

Also, Cage found that all the Golden Sons had changed their expressions.

Growing even more anxious, he was about to demand his son to leave in a harsher tone in case the kidnappers changed their minds, when something unexpected happened.

One of the players suddenly became violent. He violently slashed to the side and chopped a tree as thick around as a bowl.

The truck of the tree collapsed, and the crown and branches crashed into the snowy ground, raising a white rustling mist.

Terrified, Kaido cried in a much lower voice and started to sob.

Everybody looked at the man who suddenly moved.

Cage's heart palpitated, knowing that it was not good.

He subconsciously clenched the Phoenix Blood in his hand.

Breathing hard, the player tossed his longsword to the ground and roared angrily, ”Damn it! I hate this! I'm done!”

Cage was already prepared for battle, but he was surprised by what he heard.

The other six players, though also surprised, weren't as clearly stunned as Cage was.

Jess said coldly, ”Roald, what's the meaning of this?”

”What do you think? I'm here to play the game, not to be a villain,” the player named Roald roared and stepped back. ”I have my own children. I can't watch this anymore, okay?”

Jess looked even colder. ”But we had a deal!”

”And you think you can't go back on your promise?” Roald stepped back and waved his hand as if he were slapping something off. ”When I was little, I swore to be a hero of justice, but what am I now? I don't want to do more wrong. If they're players, we can rob or kill them when we're stronger than them, but those NPCs can't respawn after they're dead. I can't do anything to them.”

Jess fell silent.

Roald picked up his weapon, turned around, and left without any hesitation.

Briefly stunned, Cage couldn't be more delighted. Though he couldn't really understand the players' language, he could tell that they were having a disagreement.

Watching Roald go, another two players retracted their weapons and followed him in silence.

In no more than ten seconds, another two players gave up and left.

The player who was holding Kaido sighed and sheathed his longsword.

Staring at him, Jess asked hoarsely, ”Are you leaving too?”

”Let's go.” The player didn't leave alone. Instead, he went to Jess, grabbed his neck, and dragged him away, while saying, ”It's unnecessary to carry on anymore. If we continue, we will fail even more miserably.”

Though he seemed rather reluctant, Jess's body followed the player without much struggle. However, he said, ”That bottle of blood is worth hundreds of gold coins, which means millions of yuan in reality.”

”Yes, I know.”

”Is it not tempting to you?”

”Of course it is, but you see cash carriers every day, and each of them may contain millions of yuan. Will you ever rob them? Jess, I think our negative feelings are magnified in this game, perhaps because we're powerful and unrestrained.”

”This is different. Reality is reality, and a game is just a game…”

”But this game is too real. It's no different from reality.”

The two of them chatted and walked away slowly.

Stunned, Cage watched all the kidnappers leave, and ran toward his son a long while later. He picked up his son with one hand and examined him. He was relieved to see that the boy was unscathed.

Burying his head in his father's arms, Kaido cried loudly.

He had been terrified during the past two days. Though the strangers never physically abused him and only cursed him at most, as a small child, he was still scared.

Staring in the direction the players left in for a while, Cage slowly stepped out of the woods with his son.

The butler had been waiting by the road nervously. Seeing his master and his young master, he instantly ran to them and was relieved to find that the young master was unhurt.

They went home along the main road.

After they walked a while, they saw a white storm pressing at them. Cage was about to take a defensive posture, but then he relaxed.