Chapter 2928: Bring the Message Back
The Special Defense Department reacted swiftly. As soon as Jing City made its decision, the locations of player engagement zones were divided into five levels of urgency, marked in different colors on the national map.
At the same time, players in various cities received orders to fully cooperate with Xu Huo's actions.
Of course, district fusion could not rely solely on Xu Huo, and the nation also had some secrets that could not be made public. Therefore, only places that could be disclosed and required urgent handling were marked on the map.
Additionally, the birth conditions of instances in these locations were also marked and privately handed over to Xu Huo, to prevent him from accidentally falling into random instances or sealed instances.
Xu Huo glanced at the map and noticed that there were actually three first-level engagement zones along the border. Generally speaking, many high-level players possessed instruments or items capable of long-distance teleportation. Even if their arrival point was in other countries of Zone 014, entering X Country was not difficult. There was no need to break through the border defenses. With X Country's current instrument configuration, it was impossible to fully cover the border line; they could only select certain areas to serve as engagement belts.
And it was predictable that other countries in Zone 014 would assault the border, but with comparable strength, they shouldn't be able to create first-level engagement zones...
After a brief thought, Xu Huo used a teleportation item to reach the southwestern border. The moment he arrived, he was met with a high-speed artillery shell. After dodging, the shell landed in a nearby forest. As the explosion roared, several figures quickly fled in different directions, apparently not from X Country.
Looking further into the mountainous area, he saw that several mountains had already been blasted into scorched earth.
"Beep! Beep!" The communicator rang. Xu Huo answered it while simultaneously lifting a player who was sneakily attacking him with an item into the air.
"Mr. Xu, I am Zhao Xun, the commander of Border Engagement Zone 3. You are currently at the center of the conflict between our forces and the enemy. The invading side has a player using a large-scale blockade item. They have already killed three waves of our elite players. So far, we do not know the enemy's true identity or exact location. We can only resort to concentrated bombardment to prevent them from entering our positions."
As soon as the call connected, the military personnel laid out the situation.
After listening, Xu Huo looked at the player he had suspended in mid-air. "What is the name of the person who severely wounded the military player team? What do they look like?"
The captured player had already fallen into an illusion. Unable to escape using a ticket, he heard Xu Huo's question and immediately said, "You think you can get anything out of me..."
Before he could finish, his expression turned wooden, and then he slowly uttered, "His name is Jack Jones, height..."
Before he could finish, his chest suddenly exploded with a loud bang, his entire heart cavity hollowed out!
A micro-bomb had been planted inside his body in advance.
But this was clearly not an explosion triggered by the player themselves or by a specific keyword... Xu Huo's gaze shifted to his left, where the enemy players were active. Just then, several players from that side had withdrawn from the battlefield.
But that didn't matter.
The next second, his figure vanished from the air.
The Y Country players, who had been shuttling through the battlefield gathering intelligence, had already locked onto Xu Huo the moment he appeared in the engagement zone. Although they had also received news of the wanted criminal's death, they hadn't connected it to a specific player, nor did they have time to pay attention to what was happening in other engagement zones.
However, anyone who dared to come alone to the engagement zone, appearing openly in the sky and blatantly using spiritual power to interrogate, was undoubtedly a top-tier force from X Country.
The player who had triggered the bomb inside their comrade's body had already withdrawn from the battlefield first. The few scattered players nearby thought they were far enough away and had used concealment items, believing Xu Huo could never find them...
But they soon realized they were wrong, because the gathering and shifting spatial power completely covered their hiding place, giving them no time to react. In an instant, these few concealed players responsible for reconnaissance were all killed.
Xu Huo's movement speed was extremely fast. With a spatial perception and manipulation range of nearly forty kilometers, he could clear mountain after mountain. Given the disparity in strength between him and the invading players, he could achieve instant kills without being detected!
After clearing the players in the nearby mountains and forests, Xu Huo penetrated deep into the enemy's territory. He didn't need any items; spatial perception and spiritual investigation could find everyone. Once he located them, he no longer bothered interrogating them about the player's whereabouts; he simply killed them on the spot.
After killing over a hundred players in a row, the enemy country finally realized that their opponent had infiltrated the heart of their position.
The Y Country interim commander in the battlefield immediately ordered all players to activate their monitoring instruments—both sides had prepared ample monitoring and jamming instruments. These instruments sometimes interfered with each other, even causing thermal weapons to malfunction.
With limited personnel, items, and instruments, and to prevent their thermal weapons from becoming scrap metal, both sides had tacitly chosen a tactic of using instruments sparingly, deploying them at specific times and locations. This way, although both sides suffered losses, it was far from a decisive moment.
The invading side's goal was not to occupy territory, but to plunder nearby X Country resources—minerals, species, energy—while tying down the border elite teams. These would be crucial materials for future national development, so they were willing to pay any price to seize them!
The Y Country command post activated a large-scale monitoring instrument. Almost immediately, they received feedback. The person in charge of recording practically jumped up and shouted, "He's coming! He's coming! He's here!"
The interim commander pushed people aside to look for himself, only to find that the spatial energy fluctuations detected by the instrument appeared as a rain cloud. There was no need for instruments to detect it, because the other party wasn't even trying to hide!
And this rain cloud jumped several times on the instrument screen, quickly approaching the command post!
"Prepare for battle!" the interim commander shouted. Y Country's players scrambled to prepare for battle, but before they could all leave the camp, countless spatial tangents began slicing back and forth across the area. Their positions, the people inside, and the surrounding mountains and forests were all cut to pieces!
The next second, Xu Huo's figure appeared above the ruined command post camp. He showed no emotional change at the sight of the blood everywhere. Looking down at the two or three surviving players, he spoke, "It seems Y Country still hasn't learned its lesson from last time. Bring the message back: from this moment on, if Y Country and its allied nations do not withdraw from X Country's borders, I will personally visit each and every one of you shortly."
"Zone 014 may not be able to afford the loss of a large number of players, but all the muddle-headed rulers can die."