Chapter 1857: Black Faction's Clearance Mission
The box "containing" the newborn flew high into the air, rising above the surrounding buildings and alerting some nearby players that something was wrong.
Just as the players in Zone 010 were rushing over, a laser shot diagonally across the city and struck the box!
Under everyone's gaze, the box burst open, and a flurry of lingerie drifted down in all directions.
Everyone who had been staring at the box now felt an urge to vomit.
"Men's underwear... What the hell!" someone cursed.
In short, after everyone had been taken on a roller coaster ride, things returned to square one. The few players who knew where the box came from turned their gazes to Juan Er and Xu Huo respectively.
Xu Huo gave Juan Er a thumbs up from afar, then released his spiritual realm, directly passing through several players who were chasing him to reach the target players behind them.
The ones he was looking for were exactly those outer zone players who had come up and started killing people outright.
Simultaneously using "Written Intensity" and "Narrator's Charisma," Xu Huo drew most people's attention to himself and made a "small request": "How about a game of hide and seek?"
Some players stopped because of his words, but there were also many ways to defend against traits, so some people weren't affected. Among them were the three outer zone players who had attacked the box. They only had their attention focused on Xu Huo due to "Written Intensity" but didn't stop in their tracks.
Of course, that didn't matter. Xu Huo had already stacked the use of "Realm of Thought," "Dimensional Fog," and "Life Flashback," while also using a defense item. After ignoring several attacks, he raised his hand and pointed downward.
Two of the three players couldn't help but follow his gaze to their feet, but they reacted the next second. However, before they could use their items, illusions born from the spiritual realm grabbed their feet and dragged them into the spiritual gate.
After the two disappeared, Xu Huo followed suit. He directly pulled them into the library, using the constantly rotating and overlapping rooms to disrupt their movements and thoughts while randomly placing tangents along their path. Within two minutes, both of them had wounds on their bodies.
The destruction of their protective suits and defense barriers put them on high alert. The moment wounds appeared on their bodies, they both made the same move—cutting away the wounds along with the surrounding flesh.
Even the growth rate of pollutants hadn't reached that level, so both of them narrowly escaped danger. They also realized they couldn't get out of the illusion on their own, so they used instruments to interfere with Xu Huo's spiritual realm.
The energy released by the instruments made the library extremely unstable, like a TV with an unstable signal—sometimes showing images, sometimes blank.
Xu Huo didn't approach them. Instead, he used "Holder's Demise" and "Backstab" to attack them separately. After these two items were blocked, the suddenly erupting space ray blades pierced toward the two through the gaps in the barriers created by the items' destruction.
The two weren't super evolvers, so after their defense items were successively broken, the ray blades managed to slip through.
Both players were injured to varying degrees. One of them would have died on the spot if not for a protective item worn close to his body that shielded him.
At this point, they realized they were no match for Xu Huo. The longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it became. Unfortunately, the space teleportation items they took out didn't activate. At that moment, the tangents that had disappeared once again spread across the air, rapidly advancing toward them.
The interference instrument they had just taken out was knocked down by black streamlines suddenly springing up from the ground. The two players exchanged glances and turned to run, but the next second, Xu Huo blocked their path, using space power to raise dozens of high walls.
Affected by spiritual power, their senses were somewhat impaired, making it impossible to accurately judge how far the space barriers in front of them extended. After several attempts to break through, they found even more barriers waiting ahead, so they simply split up and ran in opposite directions.
Xu Huo was waiting for them. He used various large-scale attack and trap items in turn, exhausting their defense items before stepping in himself. Seizing the gaps, he left pollutants on both of them.
The overly dense attacks prevented the two from noticing the difference. A minute or two later, they realized they had been poisoned. The rapid changes in their bodies filled their faces with terror as they frantically injected themselves with antidotes.
"Your methods are dirty enough!" the square-faced one among them roared, charging forward. But under the interference of the poison, his mobility and judgment were compromised. As his speed and reflexes decreased, he could no longer trust what his eyes saw, because he couldn't tell whether it was spiritual interference or the effects of the poison.
After several consecutive attacks missed, the square-faced man shouted in fury, "Come out and fight face to face if you've got the guts! Hiding and skulking around—what kind of man are you!"
Xu Huo wasn't bothered by his provocation. He waited until the time was right, then administered a few doses of truth serum.
His goal was the content of their instance.
After doing a simple test with a few questions, Xu Huo got down to business.
Unsurprisingly, their clearance instance was also "Wandering Melissa," but they had chosen the black faction. Unlike the white faction's mission of finding Melissa and sending her home, the black faction's clearance mission was to kill Melissa.
The background description of the black faction mentioned that the newborn Melissa carried a severely defective gene. If she were allowed to enter the reproductive system of Zone 010's people, the descendants of Zone 010 would eventually all carry this defective gene. Once all future generations of Zone 010 were mixed with this gene, it would be the end of the Zone 010 people.
"Zone 010 people are almost all dead, can't have children, and don't even have the chance for gene fusion. I'm afraid they'll go extinct before the defective gene covers the entire zone," Xu Huo said.
"I thought the same," the square-faced man said honestly at this point. "But since the game says so, just killing the newborn Melissa is enough."
To ensure the information was accurate, Xu Huo asked the other player as well. The answer was similar, and he also obtained an unexpected piece of information—among the people who came from the Sand Sea Safe Zone, there was a former player from CK12.
After getting the exact appearance characteristics and item trait information, he dealt with the two and headed straight for the area where the Sand Sea players were active.
The Sand Sea players were currently locked in a fierce battle with Zone 010 and Deng Xiahei's group. When Xu Huo arrived, he first found the Sand Sea player, only to discover that the other was already injured and preparing to retreat.
That made things much easier. He took the opportunity to call Deng Xiahei over and intercepted the other, pressing for information on Dr. Joyce's whereabouts.
The other clearly knew that Dr. Joyce was already dead. He said coldly, "If you want to know, go find out in CK12 yourselves."
"Was the doctor killed by a CK12 player?" Xu Huo asked.
That player had a poor impression of Dr. Joyce and became even more irritated at this, saying, "He should be buried with the Zone 010 people who died in his experiments!"