Chapter 1349: The Ya Clan People
A scorching wave of wind blew toward them. Fan Zhigang and the others instinctively raised their hands to shield their eyes, staring in shock at the place where the flames surged. "In a place like this, is it necessary to use such powerful weapons?"
"This has nothing to do with the instance mission anymore," Gou Wu said. "Blowing it up like this, it's obvious they want everyone dead together."
"Are there other players nearby?" Qiu Ming immediately went on alert.
"Be careful," Xu Huo warned. "Those xenomorphs earlier were likely lured here by another group."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get out of here!" Wei Dong said. "That group just now can buy us a little time..."
"It's already too late." Xu Huo drew his Black Blade, recalled the housekeeping robot, and instructed Qiu Ming and Cao Qinglin to watch the vehicle.
As soon as he finished speaking, he vanished from where he stood. Qiu Ming wanted to ask something, but opening his mouth, he didn't know which direction to shout toward. He couldn't help but slap the car. "What use is this broken car? Why keep it?"
But Cao Qinglin trusted her instincts. She said, "At least with the car, we can take turns resting. Since Mr. Xu told us to guard it, he must have a plan. It's safer for us to stay here."
Qiu Ming had no choice but to drop it. Fan Zhigang and the other two exchanged glances, leaving Wei Dong behind while the other two headed toward the explosion.
As he left the car, Xu Huo expanded his Cube Space and Spiritual Realm to their limits. In two steps, he reached the vicinity of the fire. He saw a player holding a notebook, moving through the blaze. The player was wrapped in a bubble-like film that completely isolated the flames. Every time he reached a corpse, he scribbled in his notebook. A few seconds later, he retreated to a nearby grove and said to another player, "Three were blown up. One wasn't killed by us. Three got away."
"They won't escape." The man with distinct Ya Clan features said, "Has Bai Jing finished drawing the circle?"
"Almost. The ones who fled by car are also inside the circle," the notebook player said.
The Ya Clan man rotated two round jade stones in his hand and asked again, "Have you found Dr. Duo Er?"
"No, I haven't found his body," the notebook player frowned slightly. "When they were fighting earlier, I couldn't see clearly who took the person suspected to be the doctor."
"Four died here, three escaped. They don't have anyone," the Ya Clan man said. "The person should still be with the original group."
"Have Dou Li go scout..." Before the Ya Clan man could finish, a voice suddenly interrupted from behind him. "Why are you intercepting and killing Dr. Duo Er?"
"Who's there!" The two players quickly turned and retreated, simultaneously throwing out their items. Most were blocked by the Space Barrier, and those that weren't were either deflected by the Inviolable Domain or dodged by Xu Huo.
Small items placed on the ground detonated randomly. As Xu Huo moved, the grove was soon pockmarked with craters. Not only that, but the Ya Clan man kept replenishing the items, trying to kill him from a distance.
"He's one of the people in the car," the notebook player warned his companion, while sending a signal to call the others.
Xu Huo didn't show them any courtesy. In such a short time, he couldn't completely interfere with their minds to make them voluntarily stop using their items. Since that was the case, he would have to force them to stop.
He first appeared behind the notebook player, breaking his right hand from a distance and snatching the notebook. As he stepped through the Spiritual Gate, he flipped through it. Conveniently, the front pages contained the player's records from the past few days. Every page had Dr. Duo Er, heavily marked. Just the marked entries alone numbered no less than ten.
"Give it back!" The notebook player angrily reached out. He likely used a trait, but Xu Huo wasn't affected. He raised his hand to open a door behind him, sending the Ya Clan man who was sneaking up on him directly to his front, then used an item to suspend him in the air. But the next second, the man used a teleportation item to escape, taking the notebook player with him.
However, they didn't get far. Within the Cube Space, they were only a step away. Xu Huo then twisted open a Spiritual Gate and went ahead of them, but he paused as he stepped out.
"Boom!" At the same time, the spot where his foot was about to land exploded. This was followed by dozens of consecutive explosions in the air around him—unlike the small explosive items placed earlier, this seemed like the air itself was detonating.
Several figures appeared nearby. One of them looked slightly surprised when he saw Xu Huo, then quickly regained his composure. He flicked his five fingers toward Xu Huo, and the air around him seemed to ignite all at once, exploding densely!
The intense white light of the explosions covered a three-meter radius around Xu Huo's position. The moment it happened, he was no longer visible. Not seeing him emerge, the notebook player said with satisfaction, "Brother Bai is amazing! You took care of him with one move!"
Bai Jing, the one who had triggered the air explosions, was the effeminate man who had shared a train car with Xu Huo earlier. He was dressed entirely in black. Despite the high heat, his boots and pant legs were tightly sealed, but his hands were dirty and ungloved. Hearing this, he said, "This guy isn't that easy to kill. Everyone be careful..."
Bai Jing was mid-sentence when he realized that Xu Huo, who should have been trapped by the air explosions, was standing silently behind the notebook player. Before he could even utter a warning, the notebook player collapsed, clutching his neck. In the time it took him to fall, black veins had crawled up to his chin and were visibly spreading across his face.
"Don't move," Xu Huo warned the others. "Unless you think you're faster than me."
"Everyone, don't move!" Bai Jing raised his hands, signaling for everyone to stay still. "This grove is now filled with blades formed by Space Power!"
After evolving again in the Card Maze, the Space Ray Blades Xu Huo created were sharper and more numerous. Naturally, they might not be able to break through defense items, but not every player had a twenty-four-hour defense item. Without knowing the situation, they might walk right into a dead end without him even lifting a finger!
Sacrificing one person was different from sacrificing many.
There were eight people in total. Half of them had the appearance of Ya Clan members. The remaining four, including Bai Jing and the notebook player, looked like ordinary players from other districts, whether due to items or not—plain and without distinct skeletal features.
He couldn't be sure if they were all Ya Clan members. Xu Huo looked at Bai Jing. "You're a Spatial Super Evolver."
(Chapter End)