Chapter 1856: Essential Skill for Idol Dramas
Xu Huo hesitated for a moment before walking over. The middle-aged player was also there. Both of them looked at him with excitement and curiosity in their eyes. The young player couldn't help but lower his voice and ask, "What's going on over there? Why did so many players suddenly show up?"
When the 010 District players gathered, they had cleared the surrounding area, not allowing any outer zone players or ordinary people to get close. Coupled with the assistance of props, it was normal for the young player not to understand the situation. They couldn't just tear off the mask and confront the Polar Safe Zone like the Sand Sea Safe Zone players did.
"I heard someone say during the explosion that someone found a newborn?" The middle-aged player's joy was mixed with a hint of worry. "To be honest, my instance is to find a newborn born in 010 District. Unfortunately, I've already passed the instance time limit. Even if I clear it and get out, I'll have to enter a high-risk random instance."
"Going to a high-risk random instance once is still much better than staying in this damn place forever," the young player said. "Here, I don't even dare to use too much water when going to the bathroom. I can't imagine what it would be like to live here for decades!"
The middle-aged player found this reasonable and then asked Xu Huo if he knew about the newborn.
Xu Huo hesitated for a moment before nodding. "But I don't know who has the child now. Everyone scattered when we ran out."
From a normal person's perspective, handing the newborn over to a B-level player would be much more reliable than to a C-level player. So when he said this, the young player didn't suspect anything and said, "That's bad. Now it's a big melee. Both 010 District and the outer zones want to snatch this child. Maybe the child is already in the hands of 010 District people, since they have the most numbers."
"010 District people can leave the district freely. If they take the child and run, the players in the newborn instance might never be able to clear it!"
Continuous sounds of battle came from the city, some from props, but more from thermal weapons. The Sand Sea Safe Zone side seemed to have no shortage of money, charging in and blasting away with thermal weapons. Now, the 010 District players had split into three groups: one group was tracking and protecting Deng Xiahei and the others, another was intercepting the Sand Sea players and the outer zone players who had mixed in within the city, and the remaining group had gone outside the city to block and destroy the personnel and thermal weapons that the Sand Sea Safe Zone had deployed in the distance.
Although the 010 District side didn't have as many thermal weapons, they had more people. By taking turns using props, they managed to withstand this wave of fierce attacks. Moreover, thermal weapons were consumables; they would eventually run out.
Seeing players moving back and forth between the dust and buildings, the young player suddenly caught a glimpse of pink hair. "There's someone over there!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was the first to chase after them. The middle-aged player immediately followed, and Xu Huo also followed, because the place where they were hiding had already been discovered by two outer zone players.
As soon as the three of them left, that floor was half-collapsed by an explosion. Two figures quickly leaped out from inside and followed closely behind them.
Xu Huo only glanced back before focusing his attention on the pink hair. He frowned as soon as he saw it.
In this war, apart from the Polar Safe Zone and some players from other safe zones who cared about the lives of ordinary people, the Sand Sea Safe Zone and other outer zone players didn't care much about the people running and screaming for help on the streets. The group battles of B-level players were no longer on a small scale. Those ordinary people were like ants crawling on the ground; no one deliberately avoided them, and no one deliberately killed them.
But the pink-haired one seemed to be killing for the sake of killing. Unlike the previous close-combat mode, every time he made a move, he had to destroy buildings and streets, especially in densely populated areas.
A prop came flying from behind. Xu Huo blocked it with a defense prop, but the powerful impact sent him flying into a nearby building that had been cut in half. He sidestepped into it, using the momentum to pass through the floor and jump out from the other side, just in time to run into Juan Er, who was being besieged by three players.
Brother Wu and the others weren't with him. Xu Huo used "Like a Gentle Breeze" to fly into the air and shouted in his direction, "Quick, give me the child!"
Juan Er, who was struggling to defend against the three players, paused for a moment, then understood. He took out a half-person-tall box, covered it with a prop, and tossed it towards Xu Huo.
Xu Huo's words, combined with this box—whether or not there was actually a child inside—meant that the players couldn't afford to miss this opportunity. So the three players besieging Juan Er immediately changed direction. One of them pulled out a long rope prop, trying to wrap around the box, but it was just a hair's breadth away when a whip came in from the side and knocked it away. And when that whip locked onto the box and followed the force towards its owner, another female player appeared behind him. She placed a hat-shaped prop over his head, and the whip-wielding player, who had been standing in mid-air, suddenly plummeted towards the ground.
The box followed him down, but was intercepted mid-fall by the female player. She hugged the box and was about to leave when another player flashed in front of her, baring two rows of teeth and lunging at her face.
The female player instinctively leaned back, and somehow her hand slipped. The box flew out and was intercepted by one of the players who had been besieging Juan Er.
The three of them coordinated to make a run for it when suddenly someone shouted, "Essential skill for idol dramas!"
Before anyone could even realize what kind of attack this was, everyone present—the three holding the box, Juan Er who had escaped the fight, the female player and the cannibal player opposite her, the whip-wielding player who had fallen, and even Xu Huo, who had been on the periphery of the battle—whether they were in the air or on the ground, all slipped in place. They pitched forward, and whatever they were holding—or if they weren't holding anything, the props on them—at least one or two items flew out.
The whole scene looked a bit ridiculous, but most people quickly salvaged their dignity, stopped their momentum, and retrieved the props that had fallen.
The player holding the box naturally wanted to retrieve it as well, but just as he caught it, the box suddenly turned into a stone slab, while the real box had already flown a hundred meters away, heading straight for an unfamiliar outer zone player.
And what was shocking was that this person wasn't trying to snatch the newborn at all. Before the box even reached him, he pulled out a prop and slashed down at it!
This scene stunned everyone present. Even the Sand Sea Safe Zone players were aiming to capture the newborn alive. Apart from Deng Xiahei and the others who needed to clear their instances, the wise thing for players from other instances to do was to stay out of it. Although everyone was busy grabbing the child, freeing up a hand to deal with one or two troublemaking outer zone players was absolutely no problem.
"Some people just have too much time on their hands!" someone cursed.
But at the critical moment, several prop barriers protected the box, and at the same time, that outer zone player was beaten away by the combined efforts of the players who had just arrived.
However, the assassination attempts on the newborn didn't end. One left, and two more came. The two of them used their traits to send the box high into the air, not caring whether it would land safely, but focusing entirely on clearing out anyone trying to take it.