# Chapter 99: Dangerous Battle
She was like a tightly stretched string, about to snap at any moment.
"Your condition is very bad." Xu Huo said neutrally.
Wu Qiuyi was provoked by his calmness, her eyes red as she said, "A month ago I was still an ordinary office worker, with a harmonious family and a happy life. Now, my family, my boyfriend, they're all dead! All dead!"
"My condolences."
"Condolences?" Wu Qiuyi laughed in anger and swung her fist at Xu Huo. Xu Huo caught her fist with one hand, grabbed her other hand, and pressed her firmly against the glass cabinet.
"Do you still want to live?" He asked from behind her.
"Everyone I care about is dead, what am I still living for?!" Wu Qiuyi struggled fiercely.
"Then why haven't you died?" Xu Huo said calmly. "If you really couldn't go on living, you would have killed yourself when you found your boyfriend's body."
"You want to live, that's why you've survived until now."
"There are many ways to live. Others can't control you, and you can't control others."
"We are just strangers who happened to meet. We have no obligation to counsel you."
Wu Qiuyi laughed out loud. "How realistic. It's only been a short time since evolution, and even the most basic human warmth has disappeared."
Xu Huo released her and stepped back. "If you're looking for human warmth, you've come to the wrong place."
"Yeah." Wu Qiuyi turned to look at him. "A dimensional rift game like this is too suitable for someone like you. Only cold-blooded people can thrive in a killing game!"
"Say whatever you want." Xu Huo pushed open the door and went out, just as Gu Yu and the others returned with the biscuits.
Seeing Wu Qiuyi's red eyes as if she had just been crying, they immediately pulled her aside and looked at Xu Huo suspiciously. "Did you take advantage of her?"
"I despise men who bully women the most. Xu Huo, if you're that kind of person, our previous agreement about being allies is null and void!"
Xu Huo stared at them for a few seconds. "I should have gone to the gas station."
"It's nothing. I was just thinking about my boyfriend." Wu Qiuyi explained voluntarily.
The three of them cleared up the misunderstanding and began dividing the food amicably.
Xu Huo climbed alone to the top floor of a nearby small building.
Looking over the entire town, the most eye-catching clock was the large one on top of the town mayor's office building. That clock should be the 20,001st clock, Master Nise's final work.
Its time exactly matched the black gemstone watch.
Did these two specially calibrated timepieces have any special significance?
Just as Xu Huo was thinking about going to investigate the town mayor's office building again, a sharp whistle suddenly came from the direction of the east gate. He turned his head sharply and saw dust rising from the woods, followed by a scream!
It was Nian Hong'an!
In an instant, players scattered in various places appeared on different rooftops and rushed toward the east gate. But just as they reached the town entrance, a corpse flew out of the woods and crashed straight down in front of them!
Nian Hong'an was no longer recognizable. His head was twisted twice and hung limply behind his back. There were several bloody holes poked by fingers in his shoulder and throat. One arm was missing. His entire body was broken from the lower back like an ice cream bar, with his heels touching his back shoulders!
The sound of metal twisting kept coming from the woods. There was no need to look to know that the xenomorph had appeared. At this point, the players no longer cared about Nian Hong'an's gruesome death. They turned and fled back into the town.
"Follow the plan!" Xu Huo shouted.
"I quit. You go if you want. I'm going to hide!" Wang Chaoqing, scared out of his wits, fled in another direction.
Xu Huo moved closer to Shen Yi. "That thing is busy wrecking the cars. We still have time to spread out. Only by luring it into town do we have a chance of winning. Are you in?"
"I'm in!" Shen Yi gritted his teeth. "I'll take the lead!"
With that, he leaped to another building and frantically pulled the string of bells hanging on the carpet.
The twisting sound stopped. A white shadow rushed out of the woods, moving so fast it was almost impossible to see clearly!
What was even more terrifying was that it didn't slow down at all after entering the town. Relying on its powerful physical body, it kept smashing through walls, doors, and windows, charging straight toward the sound of the bells. The sounds made by the dolls scattered on the ground had no distracting effect whatsoever!
Xu Huo stood on the rooftop, watching it pass through five or six buildings and enter the street where the trap was set. The moment it pounced onto the carpet, he raised his lighter and shouted, "Ignite!"
The gasoline-soaked carpet burst into flames. Though it had lost its reason, the xenomorph still had instincts. It tore off the burning carpet in a few moves, leaped without any tools, and jumped directly to the third-floor rooftop, charging at Xu Huo!
The crimson sword was already in his hand. As this short xenomorph rushed toward him head-on, Xu Huo swung the sword with all his strength!
Given the distance between them and the xenomorph's own speed, this strike should have been unavoidable. But no one expected that it seemed to sense the danger. Its toes pierced through the ground, forcibly changing direction to avoid the frontal attack and strike from the side!
The xenomorph's hideous face rapidly enlarged in his field of vision. Xu Huo raised his shield and was knocked off the building the moment of impact, and it jumped down after him!
"Bang! Bang!" Two gunshots rang out. A green bullet and a black bullet exploded on the xenomorph's face and chest respectively. Gu Yu shouted from the opposite rooftop, "Pull him up quickly!"
A rope bullet flew from Shen Yi's hand, wrapped around Xu Huo's waist, and lifted him up. The xenomorph landed on the ground below!
Seeing it tear off the melted skin from its face without any sign of pain, and the place where its chest had exploded barely bleeding, Xu Huo grabbed Shen Yi and Gu Yu as soon as his feet touched the ground and ran forward.
They had only run two or three meters when the spot they had just been standing on suddenly exploded. Amidst flying bricks and stones, the small xenomorph smashed through the wall and charged straight at their backs!
"Die!"
Gu Yu fired several shots, all missing. The rope bullet Shen Yi had shot was instead caught by the xenomorph, which pulled it back. In an instant, Shen Yi was lifted like a kite. Even if he let go in time, he couldn't overcome the force of inertia!
Seeing that he was about to collide head-on with the xenomorph, Xu Huo whipped out the strings and hooked them around his neck, pulling him backward. His forward-leaning body tilted back, narrowly avoiding the xenomorph's claw!
At that moment, Shen Xin rushed out, shouting "Panda Charge!" and blasted the xenomorph like a cannonball to a spot two buildings away!
The xenomorph crashed into the wall, its condition unknown. Shen Xin quickly picked up the rope bullet. "Run, run! That xenomorph is fierce!"
The four of them hurriedly fled to another building. The trap clearly wasn't working, so Xu Huo had to improvise. "Lure the xenomorph over. There's still gasoline left. Pour it on it!"
"What if it doesn't work?" Gu Yu said urgently. "We got out just now purely by luck!"
"I'll attract its attention!" Wu Qiuyi appeared several dozen meters away. She pulled the string of bells closest to her. "If it doesn't work, pull the bells elsewhere, and we'll find another way to lure it to the gas station!"
"First, lure it to the main street!" Xu Huo changed direction alone. "You stay and help Wu Qiuyi. If one strike doesn't work, don't waste time. Use the bells to bring it over!"