Chapter 2955: Struck by Time
The two stood far apart, neither rashly closing the distance, but the tangent lines and barriers they released flashed incessantly, attack and defense alternating without a gap. The storm was shredded, the safe zone was torn apart. With each attack, portions of the safe zone collapsed. Starting from beneath their feet, this fortress, which had consumed immense manpower and resources, crumbled rapidly!
The sound of the city's collapse was like a dull roar from a giant beast. The dust that shot into the sky was suppressed and bowed by the torrential rain, stirring the air until it thickened. The wind no longer flowed smoothly, and the view was shrouded in gray mist. The range of vision was compressed again and again, but neither side's attacks ceased until this devastating clash spread beyond the safe zone.
Shadows flickered through their perception range. Xu Huo only glanced away for a moment, and the next second, Jin Feixue's figure abruptly appeared in his field of vision. Accompanied by an immense pressure, Xu Huo was crushed backward. In an instant, he sank into the cavity of the hypercube space.
Jin Feixue lost his target and halted midair. He looked around, and then another Jin Feixue emerged from the nearby chaos. The next second, both Jin Feixues were pressed toward the ground by a spatial defense barrier!
The first Jin Feixue couldn't withstand the pressure and dissipated. Before the second Jin Feixue even landed, a lotus-shaped instrument flew from his hand. As the instrument passed through the pressure, he himself returned to the high altitude. A bowstring swept through the air, and countless air tangent lines rippled from his zither, chaotically cutting through the surrounding space. With the powerful fluctuation of spatial force, Xu Huo, who had been hidden in the cavity, was revealed.
From above and below, two arm-thick giant flying needles shot forth, accompanied by bursts of breaking air, attacking from both sides and striking heavily against his defense barrier!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Under the heavy pressure of the flying needles, the layers of the instrument's defense barrier were breached one by one, accompanied by the sound of the instrument shattering.
Under the barrier's effect, the two flying needles veered off course, brushing past Xu Huo's clothes as they crossed each other. At the same time, a new round of tangent line combat began.
Endless tangent lines swept wildly through the air, once again shredding the safe zone, which had already turned into mud. Mud flew everywhere, briefly revealing the otherwise invisible tangent lines. From an outsider's perspective, the entire safe zone seemed embedded in a tangled mess of twisting ropes. Anything entering it would be ground to pieces by this peach-pit-shaped meat grinder. It was unimaginable that anyone could still be alive inside!
But in fact, as long as the tangent line exchange continued, it meant both combatants were still alive and well!
"They're coming this way!" The players originally arranged by the military and the Special Defense Department were watching from outside the safe zone. When they suddenly saw signs of the tangent storm moving outward, they immediately fled. Their speed couldn't match the tangent lines, and they couldn't use long-distance teleportation items. They could only rely on instruments to protect themselves, desperately trying to escape the area sealed off by the Non-Game Area Simulator!
"Run!" Players were caught one after another. Whether from the military or the Special Defense Department, no one dared to gather anymore. Instead, they fled as far as possible.
"There's an instrument in that direction!" The combat zone moved too fast, and it was obvious it was heading straight for the instrument-sealed area.
"The instrument can't be saved!" The meeting room issued orders for the players stationed near the instrument to activate all protective tools and evacuate.
Almost the moment the stationed players evacuated, the "peach pit" covered the instrument's location. Then the surrounding buildings, along with the protective shield, were shredded together with the instrument. Amid the flying dust, the Non-Game Area Simulator was destroyed!
Although the Non-Game Area Simulator could restrict Jin Feixue, Jin Feixue also wanted to use it to restrict Xu Huo. Given their evolution times, without items and with Xu Huo's time power sealed off, Jin Feixue should have had an absolute advantage in evolution rate and combat power. Yet, after repeated exchanges, Xu Huo's spatial evolution level far exceeded his expectations. This could only mean that in this relatively short period, Xu Huo had evolved again!
It was clear that such methods could no longer kill Xu Huo. The moment the sealing instrument was destroyed, Jin Feixue threw out a glass sphere the size of a human head.
As the sphere was shredded by tangent lines, a cloud of smoke dispersed from it. Then, wave after wave of tsunami-like smoke surged out, covering the entire city in an extremely short time!
[Detected player entering A-level random instance...]
"Bang!" There was no time to finish listening to the instance notification. Xu Huo was struck head-on by a sharp cone that pierced through his defense barrier. But just as the cone approached him, he raised his hand, and spatial tangent lines sliced it into several pieces!
After pulling back slightly, Xu Huo quickly observed the items Jin Feixue was wearing. He didn't see any cross-shaped objects, but he wasn't sure if Jin Feixue truly hadn't brought the instrument with him. Because of that item, Xu Huo couldn't use time power, and even several time items and the "Time-Space Hand" were rendered useless. Moreover, with the instance activated, the "Reversal Ring" couldn't teleport him away from District 014. This cut off one of his backup plans.
The only advantage was that Jin Feixue wouldn't find it easy to leave either.
The torrential rain had already stopped, replaced by a massive fog. Under the gray-white mist, visibility was even lower than before, and it limited perception to some extent. Jin Feixue's position had moved beyond Xu Huo's perception range, and his movements were unclear.
Xu Huo didn't know if the same applied to his opponent, but being in the dark while the enemy was hidden was clearly disadvantageous. Xu Huo activated his special trait, "Master's Invitation." The next second, Jin Feixue, along with another member of the Eerie Sound Knights he hadn't noticed before—Whale—as well as Nie Xuan and several Special Defense Department players, all appeared within three thousand meters of him!
Jin Feixue was the farthest away, but Whale and Nie Xuan were relatively close, positioned on opposite sides. The moment he saw them, Xu Huo made a decision: use time power to kill Whale!
A thread of time power pierced through the district, through the instance venue, through the thick fog, and descended upon Whale without obstruction!
But the next second, that thread of time power suddenly veered off Whale, as if snapped, shooting into the air and striking Xu Huo himself!
Both of them froze in place.
At that moment, the wind and fog seemed to stagnate. In almost an instant, Nie Xuan flashed in front of Xu Huo, raised both arms, and a transparent space sphere suddenly appeared a thousand meters away, trapping Jin Feixue, who was also moving at the same time, in the center!