Chapter 1027: Direct Battle Against a B-Class Player
The items Xu Huo had encountered so far that could counter mental interference usually worked by affecting the mental controller themselves to achieve a blocking effect. The advantage of this type of item was its quick results—both sides would immediately know if it worked or not. The downside was that it lacked sustainability. If the first use didn't produce a good effect, the chances of completely breaking through the mental world with a second use were slim.
However, under normal circumstances, achieving the goal of interfering with the mental controller themselves was sufficient. For players who didn't understand much about mental evolution and mental interference, rashly delving into someone else's mental world was an extremely risky move. Super Evolvers themselves were inherently unpredictable. Compared to ordinary players of the same level, they might suddenly unleash a killing move.
The Glasses Man wasn't stupid. Almost as soon as he sensed Xu Huo trying to interfere with him, he used an item.
"Items specifically developed for people like you—how does it feel?" Xu Huo could use his mental world to pass through walls, but the Glasses Man couldn't. So he used his fists to clear a path, punching through more than twenty walls in a straight line from the middle of the villa to create a passage leading directly outside!
Xu Huo leaped out of the villa, kicked off the ground, and soared into the sky. But before he could reach the maximum height of "Gentleman's Poise," a force yanked him back down, dropping him back to the second floor of the villa.
Having taken a punch head-on, he fell backward, using "Dead End" to briefly draw a boundary, then set up "Hell Cage" in front of him.
Unfortunately, the Glasses Man, wearing a defense item, passed directly through the laser cut surface of "Dead End." Although "Hell Cage" delayed him for a second, it ultimately failed to trap his hands and feet.
But Xu Huo took this opportunity to re-enter the villa. Raising his left hand, he reincorporated the entire villa into his mental world. This time, he tried to block his hearing to resist the opponent's item, but the effect was minimal. After a brief moment of intense pain, facing the man who had already closed in, he had to shrink the range of his mental world.
"You bastard, take my sword!" Chi Minghong suddenly came up from downstairs. The red sword's energy swept horizontally, cutting through the walls on both sides of the corridor like tofu, and arcing beautifully to strike the Glasses Man's fist!
The sword energy wasn't enough to break through the shockwave, but it disrupted his rhythm. Then Chi Minghong pressed her hand to the ground, "Surface Collapse!"
The Glasses Man, standing on the second-floor corridor, felt the ground give way beneath him and fell with the broken stone slabs to the first floor.
Seeing the Glasses Man didn't come back up, Chi Minghong immediately retreated to Xu Huo's side. "What's going on? Is this guy planning to destroy the instance? He's not a C-class player, is he!"
High-level players entering low-level instances wasn't impossible, but they couldn't recklessly destroy the instance, or they risked punishment from the game, the worst-case scenario being becoming a wanted criminal.
Once someone became a wanted criminal, that wormhole point would no longer provide tickets to the player, meaning the instance would be interrupted. Even if the player forcibly took a ticket to enter an instance, they wouldn't receive any clearance rewards. After three months, they would be forcibly teleported into a high-risk instance.
Of course, there were ways to avoid this, such as leaving one's original wormhole point through other channels. But going to another wormhole point didn't mean they could rest easy. No matter where they hid, as long as they used a ticket again, the missing instances would accumulate, and they would still be unable to escape the high-risk instances. Unless the player could move between different wormhole points through non-ticket means—which was extremely unlikely.
Of course, Xu Huo hadn't experienced this process, so the details might differ from the information found on the bounty platform. After all, some people did exploit loopholes in the game. But this Glasses Man had a legitimate job. Even if he had become a gray player, he wouldn't risk exile to another wormhole point just to complete an employer's task.
In fact, this was also the Glasses Man's concern. He had tried to force Xu Huo out of the villa but failed.
"Since you're not a C-class player, have some common decency, will you?" Chi Minghong said. "If you destroy the instance, where are the rest of us supposed to clear it? Are all these people here just to play around?"
The Glasses Man didn't even look at her. He raised his left hand, and Chi Minghong was pulled by a suction force, hurtling uncontrollably toward his palm!
"Stalker Ban!" Chi Minghong threw a piece of paper at the Glasses Man. The item forced him to involuntarily take a step back, but that was it. The distance between them was still rapidly closing!
Seeing she couldn't escape, Chi Minghong used every item she had, successfully stalling for two seconds. Just as her items ran out, a spiral staircase rising from below caught her and sent her to a higher level.
At the same time, spiral staircases appeared one after another in other parts of the villa. They varied in height and rotation speed but densely filled the villa. The original villa structure collapsed in large sections, with debris constantly falling downward!
The Glasses Man looked up and sneered. Reactivating his item, he destroyed the staircases between them one by one. At the same time, he scattered a handful of small frozen ice beads onto the ground. Upon landing, the beads shot out in all directions. Every surface they hit spread a freezing zone at least a meter wide. Chi Minghong, who had been sent away by Xu Huo, along with Zhou Yuanzhu and the lip-ring player who had been watching nearby, all had parts of their bodies frozen. The freezing seemed impossible to remove in a short time, so the three of them were all restricted in their movements.
Fortunately, the Glasses Man's target wasn't them. After using the ice beads to force Xu Huo out, he clenched his five fingers, and all the scattered ice beads flew toward the same direction!
At the same time, a translucent, almost mist-like substance emerged from the second-floor ground of the villa. In the blink of an eye, this seemingly flowing object "hummed" and rapidly condensed into a layer less than a millimeter thick. Starting from the Glasses Man's feet, it silently sliced through everything five centimeters above the ground—including people!
A low cry of pain came from diagonally behind. Clearly, this silent attack had only accidentally injured other players in the same instance. It failed to cut off Xu Huo's legs. Of course, the ice beads also didn't work, all blocked by "Inviolable Domain."
"You've got quite a few good things on you!" As he spoke, the Glasses Man personally closed in, slipping through the gaps in the items and punching straight at Xu Huo's face!
At that moment, the three-second duration of "Inviolable Domain" had just expired. Xu Huo seemed unable to smoothly transition to the next use and was interrupted. He only managed to block with "Eye of the Dead" before being sent flying backward.
Under normal circumstances, he would have hit the villa wall. But in the next second, a door appeared behind him. The liquid-like darkness inside immediately swallowed him!
Another mental interference.
The Glasses Man didn't hesitate for a moment and charged in. But as soon as he stepped inside, he realized something was off. Unlike the previous dark space or spiral staircases, what he now saw was a massive circular library tower!
(Chapter End)