Chapter 2767: Welcome to Watch
Because of the metal disintegration, the ground of Supervision Punishment City, along with its underground structures, completely collapsed. Even if it couldn't dismantle one hundred percent of the metal structures within, it was enough to completely destroy this so-called location item.
Of course, with the building collapse, the players trapped underground, along with some xenomorphs that hadn't been killed yet, all managed to escape. A considerable number of them recognized Xu Huo. Chai Sheng and Lei Xiaohe immediately came to his side, forming a formation to guard against the Enforcement Team players appearing outside the original Supervision Punishment City's defense barrier.
"There are quite a lot of people here." Xu Huo swept his gaze over them and said with a smile, "What, can't you keep filming your TV show anymore?"
These people, all wearing white protective suits with their faces hidden, clearly didn't want to waste words with them. As one of them made a signal to attack, the players activated their sonic shockwave instruments one after another. The violent impact, accompanied by sharp sounds, echoed throughout the entire defense barrier.
The xenomorphs scurrying in all directions let out pitiful cries under this attack. Within moments, they collapsed to the ground, bleeding from their ears and noses—watching the xenomorphs' miserable state, the players hovering in the air used their items one after another, trying to forcefully break through Supervision Punishment City's barrier.
However, these barriers could regenerate repeatedly. Destroy one layer, and another would immediately rise. Not only that, but the players outside the barrier kept stacking sealing items on top of it, turning the original barrier into a buffer zone. The barriers formed by the items they carried weren't so easy to completely destroy!
Of course, the barrier's existence also hindered the Enforcement Team players. Both sides were deadlocked for the time being, each stalling for time.
"I'm afraid more Enforcement Team players will come to support soon," Chai Sheng said to the others. "There are space instruments everywhere nearby. Long-distance space teleportation items probably won't work. It'll be hard for us to shake off their pursuit all at once. The best way is to flee in different directions. Whether we can escape or not depends on each person's luck!"
Many districts might not have super players, but they had plenty of means to deal with ordinary players. At least in terms of instruments and energy weapons, they could supply them endlessly. As long as they didn't care about the cost, how many people below the super player level could escape unscathed?
The longer they stayed, the more dangerous it became. So after a brief exchange, three players released explosive items into the sky. After several consecutive explosions, only one layer of the sealing barrier remained in the air. At that moment, the Enforcement Team's reinforcements arrived, nearly fifty people in total.
Figuring no more would come, Xu Huo looked up at the sky. He pressed his hands slightly downward, and the space rays connected to his fingers directly affected and deconstructed a corner of the sealing barrier. As the barrier began to collapse, the space above Supervision Punishment City suddenly cracked open. A massive wave, a hundred meters high, crossed through space from another world and plunged down, instantly covering the entire area where Supervision Punishment City stood.
The sealing barrier was completely shattered. As the giant wave poured down, buildings and forests were like wheat fields under a storm, all bending in one direction!
The players weren't much better off either. Although the defensive items they wore were enough to withstand the tsunami's impact, the tsunami appeared too suddenly and too close. So whether it was Xu Huo's side or the Enforcement Team's side, most people were swept up by the water. Though the water's speed wasn't fast for players, many who were swallowed by the wave never came out again!
The curly-haired woman and others who had already escaped turned back, only to see white shadows surging with the water, clearly already dead.
Not bothering to investigate how these people had died, the curly-haired woman and the others scattered in different directions without looking back.
This sudden tsunami didn't last long either. When people on the other side of the city noticed the commotion, the water source was cut off. The remaining waterfall quickly fell completely to the ground. Seawater spread everywhere with the corpses, but by the time it reached the city's populated areas, it was only a thin layer.
Several running children didn't stop to stare like the adults around them, drawn by the distant noise. They noticed many pieces of paper floating on the water and scrambled to pick them up.
"There are words on this!" one child said. "Do you recognize them?"
"I do! I do!" another child happily raised the paper high. "It says 'Welcome to Watch'!"
"Welcome to Watch." The city Enforcement Team's aircraft hovered over Supervision Punishment City. A huge metal sign captured by the camera reflected dazzling light with the same four words.
"Bang!" At the other end of the city, on the top floor of a sky-scraping building that overlooked the entire city, a middle-aged man waved his hand and smashed the floating projector in front of him. Furious beyond measure, he said, "A few outer zone players can cause this much damage? Are those guards just eating idle rice?!"
Three others were in the office with him. The white-haired elder among them said calmly, "Better think of a way to deal with the Enforcement Department. A third of the guards were borrowed from the Enforcement Department, and now almost all of them are dead. The situation inside Supervision Punishment City will also be exposed to public view. District law doesn't allow underground live broadcasts. Once an investigation is launched, the entire company will be implicated."
"Try to bribe the higher-ups in the Enforcement Department to buy time. Then recover the players' corpses. If Supervision Punishment City is gone, it's gone. It's already mostly collapsed anyway. Probably nothing much is left."
"What about explaining it to the public?" the elder asked again.
"Do I need to explain to them?" the middle-aged man said angrily. "Same as always—just make up some excuse to fool them. Do I need to teach you this? All of you, get out!"
The three silently left the room. The middle-aged man hesitated for a long time before taking out his communicator and dialing the first contact. But the call wouldn't connect. Just as he was growing anxious and tense, the projection screen finally appeared.
"Grandfather..." the middle-aged man blurted out, only to find that the projection showed a completely unfamiliar person. No, not entirely unfamiliar—he had seen this face in the Supervision Punishment City live broadcast just two minutes ago!
Before he could make any reaction, the middle-aged man's body froze in place. His limbs couldn't move, his mouth couldn't make a sound. He could only watch helplessly as the person in the projection stepped into reality.
Xu Huo picked up the nameplate on the office desk. "Executive Officer of Black Sea Technology Co., Ltd., Tovin Smith."
Half-sitting on the edge of the desk, he turned back to look at the middle-aged man. "Is it you?"
The man's eyes shifted downward, indicating he couldn't speak.
"Can't speak, can't nod?" Xu Huo's gaze turned cold. Then he asked, "Is Supervision Punishment City yours?"
This time, the middle-aged man didn't dare try to negotiate. He nodded forcefully.
"Looks like it's a fake Supervision Punishment City." Xu Huo casually tossed the nameplate back onto the table. "Tell me about the main businesses of the Smith family."