Chapter 1209: Three New Cards
His two legs stood straight and planted on the ground, the gushing blood spraying outward in a jet-like manner, its color somewhat dark.
Immediately after, this cannibal player spat out a mouthful of blood, and his arms, which he had just tried to lift, also drooped down. He stared at Xu Huo in shock and hatred, "When did you poison me!"
Xu Huo didn't answer that question, but instead said, "Tell me what cards you got."
The cannibal player, his body completely weak, barely supported himself, trying his best not to touch the surrounding tangents, "If I tell you, will you let me go?"
Xu Huo slightly adjusted his angle, blocking He Xiaoxiao's view from behind him, and promised, "Alright. Having so many cards is useless anyway. I just want to know what the card faces represent."
"Please note, you only have one chance."
He raised his hand, lightly tapping one of the tangents in front of him with his index finger. One of them tightened and shifted to hover before the cannibal player's throat.
The cannibal player quickly straightened his body and said rapidly, "The first card is White Card 8, the other two are Black Card 14 and White Card 19."
Black Card 14. Lin Qian, who had the same trigger as Xu Huo, had obtained Black Card 14 from the player she killed. In such a short time, this card couldn't have changed hands twice. That meant only one of them was telling the truth.
"Go on." Xu Huo tugged the line to remind him, then turned his head to glance at He Xiaoxiao, who was only five meters away.
He Xiaoxiao's expression flickered slightly, and she raised a smile at him.
Xu Huo turned back to look at the person in front of him.
The cannibal player swallowed hard at the sharp tangent, "Black Card 14 is a draw card. I don't know what it draws. I haven't used it yet. White Card 19 is a trap card. Its effect is that you easily get lost."
After hearing this, Xu Huo didn't use any prop or potion to verify the truth. Instead, he directly withdrew the tangents and then stepped aside.
The cannibal player barely supported himself with his hands, "What about the antidote?"
"What are you talking about?" Xu Huo said flatly. "It wasn't me who poisoned you."
The cannibal player then turned his gaze to He Xiaoxiao in shock, "So it was you. What a venomous woman..."
Before he could finish, another mouthful of blood sprayed out. Seeing that he couldn't escape, he gave the two a desperate look, and then the hummingbird he had used earlier dropped beside him—he would rather die than let them benefit.
Whether it was to injure or to commit suicide, Xu Huo didn't let him succeed. He considerately used a space barrier to block most of the damage for him, leaving him a chance to linger on.
The cannibal player failed with one hand and tried to finish the job, but the next second, a rubber cat released by He Xiaoxiao bit through his throat, tearing off a piece of flesh and skin, chewing it as if simulating eating.
In reality, it couldn't swallow anything, so when the cannibal player fell to the ground, the rubber cat also spat out his flesh, as if spitting out some foul-smelling garbage.
This ironic coincidence seemed like a final attack on the cannibal player. His eyes widened, and he breathed his last.
"This person didn't tell the truth," He Xiaoxiao said, her face changing color slightly before continuing, "The effect of White Card 19 isn't that you easily get lost."
As soon as she finished speaking, the maze walls on either side of them suddenly began to tremble, and then a new wall rapidly grew horizontally from the middle—the maze's layout was changing!
He Xiaoxiao had already run off without looking back. Amidst the rapidly shifting maze walls, her figure quickly disappeared.
But no matter how the maze walls changed, a person wouldn't just vanish. As long as the maze walls hadn't completely closed, or if there were connecting passages that weren't too far apart, this person couldn't escape!
Xu Huo first chased after her before the shifting maze walls closed, covering some distance. When the passage ahead was blocked by the maze walls, he changed direction and followed the newly generated path. After passing through four passages, he saw He Xiaoxiao again.
He Xiaoxiao also spotted him. Her face changed, and she sped up again, triggering traps on the maze walls while releasing five rubber cats to block him.
Unfortunately, without the maze walls to help her this time, she couldn't even get out of this passage. The rubber cats and the mutant plants jumping out of the maze walls were quickly cut to pieces by the scattered tangents and the long blade. The next second, Xu Huo teleported from behind to the front, directly blocking He Xiaoxiao!
At high speed, He Xiaoxiao nearly crashed into him, but in an instant, she used a prop to change direction and quickly retreated, running in the opposite direction.
Xu Huo again switched directions to get in front of her. "Cake Slice" pressed down vertically, and the fan-shaped cutting surface swept across He Xiaoxiao's shoulder, leaving deep slashing marks on the ground behind her and even the distant maze walls!
This wasn't him holding back; He Xiaoxiao had used a prop to avoid the fatal blow. She retreated again, putting distance between them, and said, "It's just three cards. No need to be so relentless, right?"
"A cornered rabbit will still bite. Do you really think you have me completely under control?"
"If you're referring to the poison you put on me and the prop you're holding now, I suggest you don't get your hopes up too high," Xu Huo said. "If I don't let go, you can't even get close to me."
Without wasting more words, he directly said, "Same process as before. What are the five cards you have now, and what are their effects?"
He Xiaoxiao looked at him warily, "You must have more than one card too, right? If you exceed six cards, they randomly return to the instance. Don't you have any good cards?"
"Thanks for the reminder. I actually do have a card I urgently need to get rid of randomly," Xu Huo said with a smile, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"Then what are you waiting for? Why not just kill me and take the cards!" He Xiaoxiao shouted.
"For you, my motive is hard to explain in just a few words." Xu Huo raised his hand, and a chair that had automatically appeared behind her pushed forward, hitting her legs and forcing her to sit down—it was an enforced sitting. He Xiaoxiao instinctively tried to dodge, but was pressed down by a strange force and shrunk into the chair.
This wasn't the right place to use the "Please Sit" trait, so Xu Huo used mental interference instead. However, facing someone with strong will and high vigilance, it took him a bit more time.
He Xiaoxiao was also well-traveled. Once her prop became unusable, she reacted, "Mental interference! You hypnotized me? Using a prop or a trait!"
"Don't waste time stalling. You won't get out of here anytime soon." Xu Huo cut her off, took a step forward, and crossed over ten meters to stand in front of her.
He also pulled out a chair and sat down, signaling for her to begin.
He Xiaoxiao forcibly suppressed her emotions, "My first card is White Card 12. You've seen it. I don't know what effect it has."
Xu Huo nodded and asked, "What card is the clue card?"
"Black Card 11." He Xiaoxiao bit her lip. "I wasn't lying to you about the clue... I really did want to find someone to team up with..."