All the bounty hunters who had gathered to hunt down Lex were searching outside the barrier for the enemy attack, so when Lex attacked from right in front of them, they were not prepared. The truth was, they had been sold the information in bad faith.
There were a lot of forces which had begun to conspire against Lex. Since the Midnight Inn itself was outside the scope of their reach, then their external assets came under scrutiny. Among those assets, Lex was the most well known. In fact, he himself had attracted enough enmity that there were even those targeting him for his own sake, rather than because of the Midnight Inn.
These forces, the ones targeting Lex, understood him a lot better than the ones searching for him for the reward of the puny bounty he had acquired as a serial kidnapper. How could someone suspected of being an heir, or at least apprentice of such a mysterious Dao Lord, be weak? Or, at the very least, be without sufficient protection.
