Chapter 1171: Dimensional Strike
Xu Huo had no objections to the path he chose, simply following wherever it led.
This lack of pushback actually made Song Xiaohua lose confidence. He quickly said, "Just like that? What if the road is wrong?"
"You chose the path, so of course you're responsible." Xu Huo said matter-of-factly.
Song Xiaohua stole a glance at him. "Are you going to hold me accountable afterwards? You won't go back on what you promised earlier, will you?"
Xu Huo acted as if he had lost his memory. "What did I promise you?"
Song Xiaohua also pretended to have forgotten. "Didn't I say that if I teamed up with you to come to the island, you'd sign a contract to make me your agent once we got out?"
"I never said that." Xu Huo quickened his pace forward.
Song Xiaohua caught up, grinning. "But wasn't that the implication of the situation back then? What's wrong with being a star? Look at those people Wang Xiaohui hired—they're not even that capable, yet they act all high and mighty."
"They're pretty impressive too. They're all C-level players." Xu Huo said. "Right now, the place with the most C-level players in Zone 014 is the Special Defense Department. For ordinary players to reach C-level is definitely harder than for those in the Special Defense Department, so you can't say they're not strong."
Song Xiaohua waved his hand. "In my eyes, them plus the Special Defense Department—every single one of them—C-level is just so-so..."
Before he could finish, Xu Huo ahead of him stopped. At this moment, the two had just passed through a ruined space, and what appeared before them were two groups of players at odds with each other. The distance between the two sides was no more than twenty meters, and they had walked right into the middle.
Song Xiaohua was startled. "What's going on!"
"Didn't you say you had good luck?" Xu Huo gestured with his chin to the left and right. "Coming out and immediately offending everyone—that's some luck indeed."
Song Xiaohua quickly stepped back and said to both sides, "Sorry to interrupt, everyone. You carry on. We're leaving, we're leaving!"
Today, all the Special Defense Department personnel who landed on the island were C-level players. Although the department had many hands, they weren't numerous enough to deploy everywhere. Therefore, half of those present were people who had followed Team Leader Lu in the safe zone a few days ago. They had seen Xu Huo and clearly understood why the Special Defense Department hadn't confronted him head-on. They also knew about the assassinations of some high-ranking government officials involved in the forced evolution incident a few days ago—the video leaked from the safe house had spread even under the restrictions of ministers and team leaders.
Almost all C-level players had seen it. Even though Xu Huo had concealed his appearance and altered his voice, anyone slightly more professional could identify him by his walking posture and speech patterns—he had disguised himself, but not very carefully.
So they also understood that Xu Huo was clearly warning the Special Defense Department.
Of course, from a player's perspective, this wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Not only because of their own positions and stances, but also because when they participated in capturing the experimenters, they were shocked by the recorded data. The evil of human nature, after repeatedly crossing boundaries, was unimaginable.
Therefore, many players approved of Xu Huo's actions and even admired him. That's why Guo Nan and Yi Huijun had been so easygoing earlier.
More importantly, he indeed had the strength to back it up.
So the Special Defense Department didn't take Song Xiaohua's words seriously, since Xu Huo was right there.
But the other group was different. One bald man shouted, "Stop!"
He was referring to Xu Huo and his companion.
"Something?" Xu Huo looked over.
"Quite the big talker, huh! Not even putting the Special Defense Department in your eyes!" The bald man glared fiercely at them. "Two people daring to team up and come in—you must be pretty strong, huh!"
"Can I interpret this as," Xu Huo raised his hand to signal him to calm down, then continued, "You've run head-on into the Special Defense Department's elite squad, clearly know you can't beat them, but don't want to slink away with your tails between your legs, so you want to make an example of two bystanders to show off your strength?"
"Or maybe you're just plain stupid."
"An eight-person team going up against a twelve-person Special Defense Department squad."
"Although your thinking seems closer to the former, in my eyes, you're probably more on the stupid side. Otherwise, why would you provoke a two-person team? After all, we two dared to come in alone."
The bald man was first rendered speechless, then flew into a rage, making as if to charge at Xu Huo. Of course, he wasn't completely brainless—before changing direction, he had already thrown out a prop.
But this was a place where spatial order was chaotic. By simply creating several barriers with cube space in front, most props or traits would have difficulty taking effect, because the vast majority of C-level props, and even B-level props, hadn't yet reached the point of completely ignoring obstacles and distance. So creating spatial barriers to block props and traits could be considered a dimensional strike. And since the other side didn't have a Spatial Super Evolver, they weren't sensitive to spatial changes either, only able to passively sense them through defensive props.
Although the ray blades Xu Huo created hadn't yet reached the level of directly piercing defensive props, he had other props. The bald man's defensive prop couldn't block A-level props.
Thus, the moment he took his first step, his head had already left his shoulders.
It was as if he had only blinked, and the bald man was killed. Yet the one who acted seemed to be standing still, without even lifting a finger—not to mention the bald man's companions, even the Special Defense Department squad across from them felt their eyelids twitch. This wasn't a matter of speed; they simply couldn't catch his movements at all!
A few players with higher evolution rates or stronger perception evolutions could discern the difference.
"This is Super Evolution." The leading player said. "And it's not ordinary strength."
Normally, no matter the direction of Super Evolution, for a long time it only allowed the Evolver to be slightly superior to ordinary players. If talent wasn't high, there might be no significant progress for years. For example, with Mental Super Evolution, many people couldn't even establish a spiritual realm and would get stuck at the stage of releasing spiritual power externally, needing corresponding auxiliary props to help.
Another example is Spatial Super Evolution—not to mention directly affecting space or controlling objects, even just moving through space to increase speed would take a long time.
Then there's Super Evolution specifically applied to the body—changing appearances, evolving poison resistance, or even modifying certain body parts. These people might initially only be slightly better than ordinary people in strength, speed, or self-healing.
So at the same C-level, unless they evolved particularly quickly, Super Evolvers were still at the top tier. This also meant that capable players of the same level could put up a fight.
But if someone had advanced evolution ahead of time, not only could same-level Evolvers not rely on their own evolved perception to judge their movements and power fluctuations, but even without the aid of high-level props, other Super Evolvers of the same level might not be able to keep up with their pace!
This was the gap in strength.
(Chapter End)