Chapter 1325: The Roadblocker
However, Cao Qinglin's trait was also quite interesting. Her profession was a jewelry appraiser. Facing the two people closing in on her, she activated her defense item and said, "Judged as fake!"
The two people had items in use at that moment. Upon hearing these words, they suddenly stopped their movements and instead grabbed their own items and threw them away.
"Friends from afar!" Taking this opportunity, Cao Qinglin used an item to distance herself from them and then threw out two explosive items.
Those should be single-use items, and the explosion was quite powerful. The two people who had been moved away chose not to withstand it head-on but actively distanced themselves.
Then Cao Qinglin regrouped with Qiu Ming, while Xu Huo had also roughly gauged the level of these people. Among these six, the strongest should be the masked man, but he was only a C-level player, not particularly strong.
Without killing them all, Xu Huo switched from "Eye of the Dead" to "Cake Slice." With a vertical slash, he cut through the long road in front of him. Then, he flipped his hand and placed the blade behind his arm, teleporting in front of the masked man. He swung his arm and blade horizontally toward the man's throat!
The masked man hadn't expected him to suddenly accelerate, but this didn't put pressure on him. It was normal for players to hide their true strength during combat, keeping one or two trump cards up their sleeves, so... However, just as this thought crossed his mind, a strange force struck him from behind, sending him crashing toward Xu Huo.
And in front of him, Xu Huo, who had just been blocked by a defense item, raised his long blade again.
The masked man's expression changed drastically. Although he was injured, he forcibly altered his trajectory with the help of an item. But every time he changed positions, Xu Huo would follow like a shadow, even intercepting him twice ahead of time... The two moved rapidly through the buildings on both sides of the street. With each move, a building would collapse. In no time, the street was filled with rubble, forcing even Cao Qinglin and the others to retreat to a distance.
The attackers hadn't expected Xu Huo to be so troublesome. The short man who had woken up said to his companion, "Grab those two!"
They probably intended to capture Cao Qinglin and Qiu Ming to threaten Xu Huo, but before they could act, the masked man flew out of the dust cloud and crashed straight toward them!
"Brother Mi!" The short man and another companion hurried forward to catch him. Midway, the masked man shouted, "Don't come over..."
By the time he finished speaking, the two were already close, but before they could grab him, Xu Huo suddenly appeared in midair, followed by an immense pressure that slammed all three of them back to the ground!
Seeing the situation was bad, the short man threw out a net-like item, pulling the masked man and the other companion along as they all vanished from the air.
The others also disappeared along with them.
Xu Huo lowered his blade and landed back on the ground. His gaze lingered on a spot not far away for two seconds before he withdrew it. He said to Cao Qinglin and Qiu Ming, who had rushed over, "Let's find another car."
The two naturally had no objections. Cao Qinglin said, "But we need to be more careful. There might be other players here."
"If they're smart enough, they won't show themselves again," Xu Huo said. "They're all players of not very high levels."
"That's true. If they were really B-level or A-level players, how could they be hiding in a place like this to rob people?" Qiu Ming said. "But using this abandoned city as a base is really strange."
Xu Huo didn't say much more and signaled them to find a car quickly.
Soon, the three were back on the road.
This city was quite large. According to an old map found in a gift shop, driving straight through would take at least three hours.
"It's not even as fast as a hot air balloon," Qiu Ming said. "This district is pretty backward."
From the current situation, the state of this city when it was abandoned was roughly similar to the basic conditions of District 014. However, Xu Huo suspected that Fresh Flower City and the Han Clan had connections with this district, so there should be safe cities with decent technological development. He just didn't know if Twin Cities was one of them.
"Let's rest for a while," Qiu Ming suggested. "Mr. Xu, can we take turns driving?"
Xu Huo nodded. But before they had gone far, there were players blocking the road again.
Before the car even entered their encirclement, Xu Huo opened his eyes. He said to the two in the car, "Keep driving forward," then left the passenger seat. With a flicker, he appeared inside a building ahead.
The ambushing players seemed to have been prepared. The moment he entered, the floor of the building exploded. The four players originally hiding there had already jumped out of the windows in advance, using items to seal the outer walls, trapping Xu Huo inside a box-like building structure.
The explosion wasn't from a highly lethal item. "Flower Bloom" was enough to handle it. After peeling off two layers of petals, Xu Huo safely crossed several floors and caught up with the four players who had fled to the first floor of the adjacent building.
"Don't players from the same city exchange information with each other?" he said, standing behind one of them.
The four players who had run over were still watching, not expecting him to have already escaped. Shocked, they launched a fierce attack. However, two minutes later, they were all kicked out of the building one by one, rolling onto the street.
Xu Huo held back, only breaking one hand or one leg per person. Then, standing in the air, he said to them, "Please tell your people that we're just passing through. There's no need for such a big fuss."
Seeing the hostility in their expressions, Xu Huo frowned slightly. He temporarily trapped them in a space barrier and went after Cao Qinglin and Qiu Ming.
The space barrier would automatically disappear once it left his control range, so it wasn't much of a confinement.
Watching from afar as these people were taken away by their companions, Qiu Ming, who had deliberately slowed down, waited for Xu Huo to get back in the car and said, "Letting them go like this, they'll definitely come again. These people seem very hostile toward outside players. The next attack might have even more people. Why not just kill them?"
"There's no need," Xu Huo said, his expression unchanged.
Among the three, he was the strongest, and Qiu Ming didn't have the confidence to counterattack so many players. He didn't press for the reason but instead sped up.
Half an hour later, they encountered a third group.
"This place is so desolate, yet it's hiding so many players," Cao Qinglin found it strange.
Xu Huo took out a loudspeaker in advance. "Three strikes and you're out. If you make a move this time, someone's going to die."
Unfortunately, the other side didn't heed his warning. Six players directly blocked the road ahead. The man at the front issued a challenge, "Do you dare to fight one-on-one?"
"Squeal—!" The car stopped fifty meters away from them. Xu Huo got out and said, "You might not be a match for me."
The man at the front, however, said, "How about a bet?"
"One-on-one, three matches. Win two and you win. I'll let you pass, and I guarantee no one will bother you again."