Chapter 2811: Capsized Boat
The other side fell silent after Xu Huo's words, then cut off the communication, clearly realizing he wouldn't help. Now the Enforcement Team members were all focused on the battle situation in the city center. Even though players around Xu Huo and his group had noticed them, no one dared to approach rashly.
"They've got their eyes on us," Zhou Juanjuan said.
Xu Huo nodded and turned to leave, but just as he twisted around, a force shot toward him from the front. Instinct made him use "Darkened Heart" to swallow himself and Zhou Juanjuan's three companions. After only a moment in the black space, he brought them back out. Zhou Juanjuan and the others hadn't even realized what had happened before they reflexively followed his gaze and saw a vortex of power that had appeared in the sky at some unknown time.
This force was originally invisible, but the impurities rolling within it formed a sharp cone shape heading straight for the man in the city center. Several kilometers away from the man, this cone-shaped force collided with the defensive barrier. The moment they touched, the barrier, which had seemed like an unbreakable wall, instantly dissolved, and the debris constantly rolling outside the barrier also stopped.
In an instant, over a dozen Enforcement Team players closed in on the man, forming a small sealed-off area that blocked all of that man's items.
But the other party was clearly no pushover either. As he clenched his fist, over a dozen fine needles flew from his gloves. These flying needles seemed to have eyes, locking onto nearby Enforcement Team members one-on-one and continuously tracking and attacking them, preventing them from concentrating on the man trapped in the middle and giving him an opening to escape.
Under the cover of two accompanying players, the man successfully left the sealed area. But the moment they stepped out of the sealing circle, a red line appeared on all three of their necks. The next second, the heads of the two accompanying players fell along with their bodies, while the man only swayed slightly—the wound on his neck wasn't fatal.
Two middle-aged men in blue robes appeared in front of him.
The injured man smiled slightly. "Only the two of you came?"
As he spoke, he looked around and saw the third blue-robed man far away at the edge of the city, confronting several players.
"A dog can't change its habit of eating shit," the man mocked.
At the city's edge, the third blue-robed man, whom the man had mocked as a "dog," looked down at Xu Huo. "Hand over the item you just used, and I'll spare your life."
Xu Huo laughed. "Did all you people from the A-level Wormhole Point attend the same training class?"
The blue-robed man frowned slightly. Though he didn't understand the meaning, he clearly didn't want to waste time here and immediately moved to eliminate this minor nuisance. Unfortunately, this "minor nuisance" wasn't polite either, greeting him with "Time-Space Hand" right away. While restricting his mobility, he maximized the introduction of time power while simultaneously creating distance between them.
The blue-robed man was frozen in the time power and rapidly aged. However, the commotion here couldn't be hidden from the other two blue-robed men on the other side. The moment the time power surged in, those two quickly judged the controllable range of Xu Huo's power. Maintaining their distance, one of them used his trait to immobilize the entire city—the originally unobstructed space turned into mud, making it difficult not only to move freely but even to take a single step. Moreover, the air solidified, and oxygen seemed to be instantly drained!
Of course, the remaining one wasn't idle either. The cone-shaped force that had previously broken through the injured man's air barrier reappeared. Unlike the immobilized people, it could move freely through the solidified air and closed in on Xu Huo in the blink of an eye!
Since a surprise attack hadn't worked before, how could it possibly succeed now? Xu Huo immediately threw Zhou Juanjuan and the others aside and flashed into the black space himself. With each entry and exit, he rapidly closed in on the blue-robed man. The cutting net formed by "Time-Space Hand" covered the entire city center, and during this process, the space bodies he pulled up and quickly decomposed exploded throughout the city. Though limited by the solidified space, they still caused considerable impact.
Seeing him charging so recklessly toward the city center, one blue-robed man immediately cursed and hurriedly blocked his path to prevent the hyperdimensional instrument in the sky from being affected.
"Fall back!" The blue-robed man pushed his palm forward, and the buildings of the entire city, along with the air, were pushed outward. With a rumbling sound, half the city began moving outward.
Xu Huo, caught in it, was also moved backward. At the same time, the other blue-robed man predicted his trajectory. As Xu Huo approached the city center again, the man pulled out a glass-like short blade and gently sliced toward him!
In an instant, half the city was cut in half at the waist—this item activated too quickly and covered too wide an area, bisecting countless buildings and players almost simultaneously. Worst of all, this cutting force would swing back and forth like a guillotine. Many players who had dodged the first strike like Xu Huo failed to defend against the second and were killed indiscriminately!
Trapped by the blue-robed man, Xu Huo couldn't escape the solidified half-city. But he couldn't stay hidden in the dark space forever either, and simply leaving wasn't possible. After dodging the cutting force again, he estimated the blue-robed man's position, used the black space to maximize his movement distance, and opened the way with Space Tangent, successfully shortening the distance between them.
Just as he was about to use "Darkened Heart" again, the blue-robed man seemed to see through his intentions, gave a contemptuous smile, and instantly widened the distance again, forcing Xu Huo back toward the solidified city.
Xu Huo's right hand twitched. Just as he was hesitating whether to use hyperdimensional space power, the injured man from the A-level Wormhole Point suddenly appeared between him and the blue-robed man, spreading his arms toward the latter. "Magnetic Attraction!"
The previously confident blue-robed man's face changed abruptly. Clearly, his item couldn't defend against the injured man's trait. The distance between them uncontrollably closed, and at that moment, Xu Huo once again escaped from the solidified city. After disappearing from space, a large mass of dark matter surged out from behind the blue-robed man, rolling over and swallowing him before gradually shrinking. When the dark matter disappeared again, the person standing in place had become Xu Huo.
Meeting his gaze, the injured man quickly said, "That hyperdimensional instrument is a semi-finished product. Its sealing power is unstable. Once damaged, everyone here could disappear in an instant!"
Xu Huo nodded, then turned to look at the remaining blue-robed man—the one hit by time power had long since aged to death, and the one thrown into the black space had vanished without a trace, presumably not reappearing. Of the three blue-robed men, only one was left.
The other party clearly hadn't expected that he and his companions would capsize in such a small place as Zone 022, and at the hands of a B-level player at that. In an instant, emotions flickered in this man's eyes, and he finally spat out, "Who are you? Why are you meddling in the Lan family's affairs!"
Xu Huo laughed at that. "Looks like not only did you all attend the same training class, but you're also conveniently forgetful."