Chapter 1003: A Special Profession
Whether or not they had any sense of integrity was another matter, but for now, Xu Huo certainly wouldn't let Mr. Chang and the others touch Dong Jingxuan.
The invisible player's side had already managed to force the "Desert Windmill" to stop. They didn't try to open the door but instead used props to indiscriminately attack the surroundings—this was the downside for high-level players; mental interference had a greatly reduced effect and couldn't make them believe their props had failed or that they couldn't even take them out.
The attack was effective.
Xu Huo opened the door and went over to Dong Jingxuan's side. After blocking a wave of attacks, he saw that Brother Lei and the others were about to break through the metal layer. He withdrew his mental power, pointed to the chairs nearby, and said to the three people in front, "Please sit."
Mr. Chang and the other two uncontrollably moved toward the broken seats nearby and followed the normal procedure of locking themselves in for thirty seconds. Of course, the invisible player had props to control metal, but the metal seat was pressed against his own body, so he didn't dare to just melt the chair...
Thus, when Brother Lei and the others broke through the door, they saw this strange sight: Mr. Chang, the invisible player, and the driving player—one sitting in the control room and two in the first carriage—awkwardly perched on the broken chairs on either side, looking like they wanted to get up but couldn't.
Xu Huo was much more composed. He had saved a chair in advance and was now leaning back in a relaxed posture. Seeing Mr. Chang once again use his "Step Back" ultimate move, pressing down Dong Jingxuan and the boy while also warning the others, "Duck!"
Brother Lei and the others had just been sent flying nearly a hundred meters by this move. Hearing his words, they immediately leaned forward—seven of the nine successfully dodged the trait, while only two were sent back to the fifth carriage.
"This trait only works on people who are standing," Xu Huo said, releasing his grip. He then said to Brother Lei, "They hijacked the train targeting the Dong family and mentioned genetic passwords during the process."
Brother Lei's expression shifted slightly. He quickly thanked Xu Huo and ordered his men, "Take them alive!"
The thirty seconds weren't up yet, but Mr. Chang and the invisible player had already gotten up from the chairs. The former's "Step Back" trait was indeed very useful because in a fight, people would inevitably stand up. Before Brother Lei and the others could get close, three more were sent flying.
Meanwhile, the invisible player's hypnosis was very effective against ordinary people. Without Xu Huo's mental interference, he directly controlled these people to swarm Brother Lei and the others. When the adult passengers weren't enough, he used the children this time.
Aside from the initial chaos, before the train's guarding player died, the children had faded out of the fight. They were gathered in the third carriage, unconscious on both sides—this was likely the invisible player's deliberate control. But now the children were getting up. Given their speed, they couldn't catch the players, so they blocked the door, piling on top of each other to obstruct Brother Lei and the others.
"Clothesline Time!" The female player with the injured eye threw a rope forward. A thin metal cord looped around the necks of the children at the door, trying to pull them away.
The only problem was that she was looping it around their necks. The invisible player across from her changed expression and immediately threw out a removal prop, causing the female player's prop to fail.
In that split second, Brother Lei had already closed in on him. Using a prop, he knocked the pocket watch out of his hand and simultaneously slashed down, cutting a long strip of flesh from his left arm!
At that moment, the driving player stepped in, ramming his vehicle prop directly at people. The peacemaker player bypassed Brother Lei and erected a stone tablet in the carriage...
"Boom!" The vehicle slammed heavily into the stone tablet. The tablet cracked, but the front of the vehicle was also dented. Both sides suffered damage, but Brother Lei's team coordinated faster. Two players immediately flanked the invisible player and the driving player from left and right. One of them carried a spray gun that emitted a liquid capable of freezing surfaces in an extremely short time, freezing the driving player's right hand.
"Step Back!" Mr. Chang flashed from the front to the first carriage. With a wave of his hand, the several people surrounding his companions were sent flying into the carriage walls. Brother Lei, reacting faster, ducked to avoid the attack and swung his large blade at Mr. Chang's feet!
"Blade Evasion!" Mr. Chang raised his hand, and a semi-transparent rectangular block appeared under his palm, about the width of a palm. The long blade struck it but didn't break through; instead, it slid at an odd angle toward the train floor!
"Bang!" The long blade got stuck in the metal floor. Before Brother Lei could pull it out, Mr. Chang extended his hand toward the top of his head and said, "No Looking Up!"
With that, Brother Lei, who hadn't had time to get up, was pressed to the floor by an invisible force. The force was so strong that it deformed the metal plate. As long as Mr. Chang maintained his posture, Brother Lei couldn't break free, no matter what props or power he used!
Xu Huo, sitting in the back, became interested. He noticed that Mr. Chang's traits or props all had a condescending posture while also being complementary. "Step Back" could make people in front of him retreat, but if someone bypassed this trait by crouching or lowering their head close to him, "No Looking Up" would take effect—the latter was clearly more powerful, but when using this trait, Mr. Chang couldn't spare a hand to kill.
His profession must be very special.
"No Looking Up" had a time limit. After a brief exchange between their companions, Brother Lei broke free from the restriction and used his trait "Death Embrace" on Mr. Chang.
Mr. Chang, who had been retreating, was restricted. The distance between them quickly shortened, but just before they made contact, Brother Lei changed into a defensive suit embedded with spikes as long as two palms from head to toe!
Although the design looked a bit strange, it vividly and one-sidedly demonstrated what "Death Embrace" meant.
But Mr. Chang remained expressionless. He stacked his palms together, and a sword beneath his hand pressed straight into the ground.
He just stood there casually. Without breaking free from "Death Embrace," every step he took forward forced Brother Lei to take a step back. In other words, he unilaterally altered the state of "Death Embrace." Originally, both sides were supposed to move closer together, but now Brother Lei had to retreat.
This trait was essentially nullified. Brother Lei waved his hand, and twelve blades of varying lengths appeared in the air, indiscriminately stabbing toward Mr. Chang and the other two!
The driving player used a metal net to block the blades and then threw a smoke bomb with an extremely pungent smell into the carriage. As the thick smoke exploded, both sides retreated. However, the female player with the injured eye soon screamed—a black scorpion had bitten her hand, and the skin around the wound rapidly changed color!
"Poison!" She quickly stepped back to drink an antidote. Brother Lei glanced at her and said to the other side through the smoke, "No matter what your goal is, you won't achieve it. You're players from Zone 002. As long as you set foot on this land, as long as you ever return to this land in the future, you can't escape the Dong family's pursuit!"
(Chapter End)