Chapter 2163: Hard to Seize the Opportunity
Less than seven minutes had passed—was the blockade barrier about to break?
Of course, the disappearance of the blockade barrier wasn’t a major problem. Nie Xuan was facing such a powerful Mental Super Evolver for the first time. She didn’t even need props; her mental power could both defend and attack, shifting with her thoughts, changing at any moment, appearing and disappearing on the spot, making it exhausting to deal with.
Originally, the ideal state before the simulation field disappeared was to severely wound Dou Shengnan. Even if they couldn’t inflict heavy damage, they had to drain her mental energy, preventing her from focusing entirely. Only when the barrier vanished could Xu Huo seize the opportunity—an A-level player, carrying advanced props and with an extremely high evolution rate. He might not accurately perceive Time Power, but sensing danger wasn’t difficult, and avoiding it was even easier. So the goal was to catch her off guard: her worn instruments heavily consumed, most props still in her personal panel and not yet retrieved, and after a prolonged prop-less battle, she wouldn’t react in time the moment the barrier disappeared…
Against a player like Dou Shengnan, whose strength far exceeded theirs, this was their only chance!
“Dragonfly!” Nie Xuan couldn’t help but shout.
At this moment, Xu Huo was nearly bent over by Dou Shengnan’s mental pressure. His Library Tower space was almost entirely filled with her mental power. Going head-to-head, especially letting her mental force enter his core world, was extremely dangerous. But to buy time, he had placed the materialized core of his spiritual world into the Mirror Space. Fortunately, Dou Shengnan’s spiritual world was unique, giving him a chance to stall.
Nie Xuan’s shout briefly distracted him, but he only had time to see Space Rays slicing through the blockade barrier. Before the semi-transparent barrier had fully vanished, his expression darkened—because outside the first barrier, there was a second layer of blockade barrier. Though it extended far beyond his spiritual world’s range, the glaring barrier wall stood in the city, visible to anyone who wasn’t blind.
Moreover, in the gap between these two barriers, there were a large number of Double-Bright Bird players!
A spatial energy bomb exploded between Xu Huo and Dou Shengnan, sending both flying. The prepared Double-Bright Bird players swarmed in, showing the two what a rich foundation meant. If not for concerns about conflicts between instruments and weapons, they might have fired all kinds of instruments and weapons like bullets!
The mental power battle was forcibly interrupted. Xu Huo, Nie Xuan, and Dou Shengnan were all targets for the Double-Bright Bird players, forcing them to adjust their focus.
Facing this situation, Xu Huo and Nie Xuan both prepared two plans. Since the Double-Bright Bird side used targeted jamming instruments, Xu Huo was hit by a player early on, crashing into a building three blocks away. Before he could return, he heard Nie Xuan loudly claiming to be a staff member of Zone 008, even pulling out a work certificate from a certain city.
According to normal procedure, the Double-Bright Bird side should have at least verified his identity. But the approaching players ignored it entirely. Several energy cannons blasted both him and his work certificate away, and other players followed up, condensing countless blades in the space around him.
“Boom!” The ground sank sharply, and Nie Xuan dropped with it, narrowly dodging the barrage. But before he could move, a powerful force lifted him and dragged him toward the encirclement of Double-Bright Bird players.
Intersecting Space Rays twisted toward him. Nie Xuan’s expression hardened. He grabbed the space with both hands, forming two long blades of condensed Space Rays that swept outward, cutting through most of the rays—but not all. Three Space Rays severed his blades!
Nie Xuan wasn’t foolish. He immediately turned and fled toward Dou Shengnan’s position.
Dou Shengnan’s defensive instruments were top-notch. Even after a full minute of “greeting,” her barrier remained unbroken. Not only that, she found openings to kill a few players and seized a batch of instruments.
The Double-Bright Bird side didn’t care. Wave after wave of players attacked with varied methods, focusing on a war of attrition.
Even Nie Xuan could see that Dou Shengnan was starting to struggle.
But struggling wasn’t limited to Dou Shengnan—Xu Huo, who was also maintaining his spiritual world, was feeling the strain.
Interfering with advanced players was one thing; resisting mental jamming instruments was another. Influencing others under the effect of jamming instruments was harder and more mentally draining. Unable to use props, he barely managed to trap over a dozen players attacking him in the Mirror Space.
But the Mirror Space consumed a lot of mental energy and had a limited range. After briefly confusing them, he found an opportunity to slip away.
Ten minutes had passed. The first layer of the blockade barrier was broken, but the second layer outside remained. This meant the jamming instruments Nie Xuan had placed were either disabled or removed. In the current situation, the local Double-Bright Bird players alone could wear them down to death, let alone find a chance to kill Dou Shengnan. And Dou Shengnan wasn’t having an easy time either—if this continued, once the blockade barrier was lifted, she would have to flee.
Making the Double-Bright Bird side voluntarily close the blockade barrier was now unlikely. They could only hope for Dou Shengnan herself. She had destroyed a blockade barrier once before in Lichuan City; destroying a second shouldn’t be hard. The problem was that Xu Huo didn’t know how much longer she could hold out. And if she were the one to break the barrier, the slight advantage of surprise would be completely lost.
Glancing at the Double-Bright Bird pharmaceutical building now surrounded by the second layer of blockade barrier, Xu Huo exchanged a look with Nie Xuan from a distance and began moving toward that area.
With Space Evolution and space instruments, the two could barely manage rapid movement through the city filled with spatial barriers. After repeatedly dodging attacks from Double-Bright Bird players, Xu Huo opened his communicator and told Nie Xuan, “We need to find a way to destroy the blockade barrier!”
This was their only chance!
“Can you do it?” During their earlier discussion, Nie Xuan had asked what range Dou Shengnan needed to be fixed within. Xu Huo gave a specific value: within a one-kilometer radius centered on the Double-Bright Bird pharmaceutical building. But the current blockade barrier coverage far exceeded that range.
Using a materialized object to remove the jamming device from her, Xu Huo also opened a door to send a player closing in on him far away. He didn’t answer. Instead, he hesitated over whether to risk luring Dou Shengnan over. If he used “Life Core” immediately after the barrier was lifted, he might attract her, but the risk would multiply—not just for him, but for Zone 014 as well.
Nie Xuan didn’t know what his concerns were, but he abruptly stopped, turned back toward Dou Shengnan’s position, and said, “I’ll handle luring her in. You control the timing!”
(This chapter ends)