Chapter 1991: Someone Will Always Talk
He had already experimented with the toxin extracted from the Eastern District player's mind, and found that it could be neutralized using the King Fungus. This indicated that the poison used to modify the players was likely not of a very high grade or rarity. In short, the King Fungus could cure it. This was unlike the mutant fungus that had previously swept through 014, which required the King Fungus to proliferate inside the patient's body for a long time or be supplied in large quantities. Here, the cure was immediate, a one-time solution.
Therefore, replicating the King Fungus cultivation from the Black Rain incident could serve as a backup plan.
Xu Huo took out the Nuwa Stone and placed it into the water storage system. He then planted the King Fungus on top of it, allowing it to grow slowly.
During the waiting period, he did not miss any news from the Agor Headquarters side. As Agor's control over the city weakened, some surveillance drones took to the sky, capturing several thrilling scenes that were all transmitted to the Message Collection Terminal.
It was only then that the extraordinarily powerful Spatial Super Evolver and the player who had attempted to assassinate Xu Huo revealed themselves.
Judging from the footage, although that Super Evolver could use Space Rays to freeze space, his methods were clearly different from Xue Lang's. He could not casually use Space Rays to reap lives, but he was quite skilled with Space Barriers and Space Ray Blades, having killed many players.
As for the other player, he was an old man with graying hair. He stood inside the Agor building the entire time, only making a move every five minutes. But every time he acted, it was a one-hit kill. Players he targeted, if they didn't have a life-saving passive item, often found it difficult to dodge based on their own reflexes. It was unclear whether he was using an item or a trait, but his success rate and lethality were not to be underestimated.
Among the Outer Zone players, there were also Super Evolvers. They attempted to kill the old man three times, but each time they failed—either blocked by Eastern District players or because the old man's cooldown period ended, allowing him to reap a wave of kills.
However, judging from these several attacks, compared to the Spatial Super Evolver who was indiscriminately killing on the battlefield, this old man was not easily lured out of the building. Moreover, his targets each time were the stronger individuals—the Outer Zone players who had killed many Eastern District players.
Up to this point, the casualties near the Agor Headquarters building were mostly from direct confrontations between the two sides. No one had tried to blow up the building, but those who did were usually dealt with by the Spatial Super Evolver active on the battlefield.
Xu Huo observed this player's movement patterns from different videos and angles. Ordinary small explosions, such as those from instruments or specialized weapons, had limited power. The trigger-type instruments buried underground by Agor could detect the impact of an explosion and immediately deploy a Blockade Barrier to contain the damage as much as possible. In such an environment, small explosions caused very little harm to players.
The greater threat came from space explosion items like the "Mini Mushroom Cloud." These items were portable, compact, and had few usage restrictions, making them very convenient. Their lethality was also not to be underestimated. Although they were relatively rare items, the Eastern District had enough people to scrape together a few. Therefore, in these videos, there had probably been about five such explosions.
The first two times, the items had already taken effect, and the holders had retreated in advance, leaving the items in areas crowded with Eastern District players. But then the Super Evolver appeared. He made a motion of pressing something down with both hands, and the explosion's shockwave was locked within a certain range. From the video, this layer of Blockade Barrier was nearly transparent, and the compressed shockwave formed a cylinder about twenty meters in diameter and thirty meters high. It was this invisible blocking item that perfectly suppressed the power of the space explosion items.
The third and fourth attempts were even worse than the first two. The two players had just taken out their items when they were discovered by the Super Evolver. Both they and their items were sealed inside the barrier, causing them to severely injure themselves with their own explosions before being killed on the spot by other players.
The fifth player was a bit luckier. His item probably required some setup in advance, but he was caught in the process. After being relentlessly pursued, he had to give up on the idea of blowing up the building and fled in disgrace.
It could be said that Agor's Super Evolver had perfect control of the battlefield, single-handedly neutralizing all the Outer Zone players' heavy weapons.
Because Spatial Super Evolution itself had a significant advantage, players who had not undergone Secondary Evolution, even if they could perceive spatial power through items, lacked a more concrete understanding. They could only grasp the general idea, which was sufficient for defense but made their attacks very weak. Yet this Super Evolver's offensive power was not weak. With an unbreakable one-way barrier in between, the Outer Zone players were at a great disadvantage.
Of course, there were ways to counter a Super Evolver, such as using space interference items or instruments. The effective range of these items varied, with some focusing on attack and others on defense. However, the power of these items or instruments was often very singular. For example, a defensive item could only defend, and an attack item might only be able to target a single point. For instance, Xu Huo's custom-made Wormhole Flower Bracelet could reduce the intensity of Space Rays, or the space instrument "Glass House," which was a large-scale protective barrier. That was all it did. It was very inflexible and could even interfere with other items. Therefore, even when several stronger Outer Zone players joined forces to besiege that Super Evolver, they repeatedly failed due to the flaws of their items or instruments, or poor coordination, not to mention the old man providing support.
After several attempts, some Outer Zone players slowly withdrew from the battlefield.
However, the situation did not change because of this. Players from the same district joined the battle. Compared to the weaker Rebel Army and the Outer Zone players who were mostly in the city due to instances and were of similar levels, these players who had specifically come to join the fun were of a much higher caliber. In just ten minutes, they successfully detonated the first space explosion item, blasting open the defensive barrier outside the main building of the Agor Headquarters.
At this point, the attacking players truly entered the Agor Headquarters.
Most of the personnel in the Agor Headquarters had retreated before the battle or during the previous stalemate. The remaining were mostly players. The battle gradually moved inside the building. Both the Outer Zone players and the players from the same district, while fighting the Eastern District players, were also rummaging through the building.
"Do you think we're stupid? You've been fighting outside for so long. Of course, all the important items and data in the building have been moved away!" a severely injured Eastern District player said while spitting blood. "A bunch of fools being used by others, wasting items and lives. How ridiculous!"
A passing Outer Zone player casually slit his throat and said to his companion beside him, "If the stuff isn't here, the people are. Capture them and interrogate them. If they don't talk, kill them. Kill enough of them, and someone will always talk!"