Chapter 1091: Low Energy Consumption Killing
There was nothing above.
But due to human conditioned reflexes, and being within a safe distance, the buzz-cut player instinctively lowered his head. And in that moment of lowering his head, he felt something prick his neck. As his eyes locked onto the person opposite him, he wiped his hand upward, finding a trace of blood on his fingers—the next second, he collapsed toward the ground. As he hit the floor, another Xu Huo appeared in his peripheral vision beside him!
The buzz-cut player's eyes showed surprise and confusion. He wanted to look up ahead, but he no longer had the strength. The potent poison quickly plunged him into unconsciousness, and once unconscious, there would be no chance of waking up again.
Standing beside him, Xu Huo confirmed the man was dead before taking out a land jellyfish and pressing it onto his neck. Then he glanced in the direction Zhou Yuanzhu had fled, picked up his sword, and followed.
He had easily dealt with one player on his end, but Zhou Yuanzhu was struggling to survive under the taunting siege of four players. One against four was too much, and Zhou Yuanzhu's item reserves couldn't possibly match four people. In just three minutes of fighting, she had already used up more than half of her attack and defense items that required cooldowns.
Of course, you didn't need too many effective items—a few reusable ones would suffice—but as time dragged on, she gradually felt overwhelmed. The four players surrounding her had far greater item reserves and considerable combat experience—two of them were cannibal players.
Cannibal players who had survived to C-rank had to have something going for them, whether it was brains, items, or physical strength. Sensing that she was reducing her item usage, two of them stepped back slightly, yielding their positions to the other two.
These two clearly had a physical advantage. In one instance where Zhou Yuanzhu failed to use a defense item in time, she clashed head-on with one of them in a kick exchange. The result was that he only stepped back a single step, while she was sent crashing into a tree three meters away, even fracturing her shinbone!
Zhou Yuanzhu gasped for breath, her temples soaked with sweat. The player she had kicked wiped the torn skin from his face, spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, and cursed, "Damn it, she's a Super Evolver!"
The three men jeered at him in varying tones. Feeling his pride wounded, the man dropped his previous playful demeanor, pulled out a ring-shaped item, and threw it. The self-spinning item sliced through tree after tree like a knife, heading straight for Zhou Yuanzhu's neck. When it was blocked by a defense item, the ring-blade split into three, becoming three thin rings that attacked from different directions in rotation!
"Boom! Boom!" The ring-blades struck the defense barrier repeatedly. On the final hit, the barrier around Zhou Yuanzhu shattered. Before she could activate another defense item, the player using the ring-blades flashed in front of her and delivered a heavy knee strike to her face!
Her automatic defense items had already been exhausted. Zhou Yuanzhu raised her arms to block, but she hadn't expected the man's knee to be reinforced with an item. Not only did it break her arm guards, but it also knocked her to the ground with brutal force!
"Slap!" The moment she hit the ground, the man's foot followed like a shadow, stomping down. She had no chance to get up, so she rolled to the side while using a teleportation item: "Keep Away From Me!"
This item couldn't actually teleport someone a thousand miles away; it was a social "keep away from me," so its limit was only ten meters. But after being teleported ten meters away, she found a chain had somehow been fastened to her foot!
"Bitch!" The man grabbed her hair and yanked her back, but the next second, Zhou Yuanzhu's earring shot through his arm.
Both sides were in pain, but neither intended to let the other go. After another clash, they were forced to create distance again.
The man was losing patience and wanted to call his companions for help, but when he turned around, he found the two behind him facing away from him, warily watching a certain direction.
One person was missing.
Four people had chased Zhou Yuanzhu here.
"Yuan Kai is gone," said the player in the vest.
Yuan Kai was the middle-aged man.
"What happened?" The injured player forgot about Zhou Yuanzhu for the moment and immediately formed a triangular formation with the other two. However, the forest was quiet, and aside from Zhou Yuanzhu, there was no one else nearby.
Zhou Yuanzhu breathed a sigh of relief and tried to put as much distance as possible between herself and the three.
"Force him out!" After a few seconds, the injured player signaled the other two. The three used items simultaneously. First, scattered stones in the forest shot in all directions, then several barriers extended in different directions, cutting the forest area into various fan-shaped sections. When one of the fan-shaped sections emitted a different-colored glow, the remaining players threw several metal balls into it while shouting into the woods, "Truth or Consequence Round!"
After this operation, someone in the forest was caught. The three abandoned Zhou Yuanzhu without hesitation and charged in.
"Idiots." Zhou Yuanzhu climbed a large tree, downed two bottles of self-healing agent, and began keeping watch.
The middle-aged man was already dead. The vest-wearing player spotted him in the forest—his body had already changed color, poisoned.
Realizing that Xu Huo might be carrying potent toxins, the vest-wearing player's expression soured. In the game world, good antidotes were hard to come by, but high-grade poisons weren't easy to obtain either. His companion had died so quickly, proving that the poison in Xu Huo's possession wasn't on their list of curable toxins.
But worse still, the vest-wearing player found that he had lost contact with his other two companions.
The three had clearly entered together, but after just over ten meters, they couldn't find each other!
The vest-wearing player called out twice without response, then deployed a space item to create a barrier protecting all sides while using his trait to shout, "Real Men Face to Face!"
Xu Huo, who had been hiding behind a tree, did indeed come out. He seemed to be pulled by an invisible force to the front of the barrier, and vines suddenly sprouting from the ground entangled his feet.
"Stabbing from behind—you're asking for death!" The vest-wearing player sneered. The attack items he had pre-deployed nearby took effect. Dozens of intersecting dividing lines rose from the ground, cutting the ten-meter-diameter circle into fine cake slices... but they stopped at Xu Huo.
The A-rank item "Ideal Skin" was transparent and colorless, worn like a protective suit. Besides blocking some A-rank item attacks, it also had the effect of isolating poison gas.
The dividing lines were firmly stuck less than a finger's width from Xu Huo. Wrapped in the vertical lines, he kicked off the already-detached vines from his feet, then reached out and grabbed the barrier in front of him.
The vest-wearing player was using a space defense item. Seeing Xu Huo place his bare hand on the barrier, he couldn't help but show a mocking expression. But the next second, his face froze, because Xu Huo directly tore the space barrier apart with his bare hands!
I've been struggling with writer's block lately, so only one chapter today. I really can't write anymore. I'll switch to a full attendance reward and take a break. Everyone, rest early. Good night.
(This chapter ends)