# Chapter 498: Setting the Trap
This person was none other than the black bracelet player who had placed a camera on the ship and was seen earlier in the restaurant.
His clothes were already soaked through with blood, his shoes and face covered in blood, like a butcher who had just walked out of a slaughterhouse.
At this moment, he stared at the cluster of red bracelet players, his eyes nearly bloodshot with rage.
The red bracelet players weren't fools either. Seeing this man's momentum, they knew he was coming for them. One of them kicked aside the anthropomorphic doll curled up on the ground, and the group walked toward him.
"He's injured on his right hand." A red bracelet player sized him up, quickly focusing on his right arm.
The black bracelet player's expression didn't change. He swept a glance at "Xu Huo" on the ground and charged straight at the red bracelet player in front of him.
That red bracelet player cautiously retreated, throwing out something like a magician's curtain. The object came out and wrapped itself around the black bracelet player, but it missed—because that move was also a feint. The black bracelet player had only made a fake lunge, actually aiming at the player on the right side. Facing the red bracelet players, he chose hand-to-hand combat as well.
The two clashed. The black bracelet player exchanged blows with the red bracelet player. Although the black bracelet player was knocked back, the red bracelet player's arm was sliced from the finger bones all the way to the elbow by several invisible forces—truly sliced open. Now that hand hung open like a chicken claw, blood pouring out without restraint.
"This kid fights dirty! Kill him!" The red bracelet player retreated while taking out a potion, but before he could drink it, the black bracelet player threw out a flying disc. The disc flew over everyone's heads and landed behind the red bracelet player. Then the black bracelet player, at an almost uncatchable speed, passed through the red bracelet players' encirclement and appeared where the disc had landed, simultaneously slashing the throats of two red bracelet players!
No one saw his movements clearly. Those two red bracelet players only dodged by instinct. Their necks were cut, but the wounds weren't fatal. However, the red bracelet player with the injured hand wasn't so lucky. The black bracelet player rushed over and slapped him across the face. Along his finger gaps, an intact head was sliced into several pieces!
The red bracelet player died too quickly. The others present couldn't tell what method the black bracelet player had used to kill him, but they all chose to keep their distance from him. From those two moves, as long as there was no physical contact, the risk should be greatly reduced.
The two with neck injuries hadn't touched the black bracelet player. Sensing he was a tough opponent, they retreated in different directions.
The anthropomorphic doll hadn't left yet. Seeing one of the red bracelet players retreating toward it, it picked up a nearby table and smashed it while running.
Although it didn't hit the person, the red bracelet player's face was covered in some kind of organ debris, stinking to high heaven. He wiped his face and, without a word, chased after the anthropomorphic doll.
The anthropomorphic doll was happily running when suddenly a wall beside it burst apart. The black bracelet noble who had gone to the fourth floor earlier walked out, holding a military saber, and sliced the doll in two from a distance.
The anthropomorphic doll fell. The black bracelet player took out something like a powder compact and blew on it. The powder stuck to the prop that could no longer stand up. A few seconds later, he swept the powder back into the box. Then several percentages and up-down-left-right arrow indicators appeared on the box's lid.
The black bracelet player only glanced at it before turning back and sneering at the miniature camera in the distance.
Found already?
This thought had barely crossed Xu Huo's mind when the elevator nearby suddenly started moving: someone was coming up from the fifth floor to the sixth floor!
He ducked into "Emergency Shelter No. 101," and of course, the prop was placed within the range of "Counting Grids."
Coming up from the elevator were that noble and the red bracelet player lured out by the anthropomorphic doll. The two arrived together. Based on the prop's data analysis, the black bracelet player immediately spotted the shelter placed out in the open.
"The most dangerous place is the safest. This trick is clever enough. Others might mistake it for a decoration on the ship." The black bracelet player waved his hand, and the seaweed fragments on the ground shot wildly toward the shelter.
After a series of "ding ding ding" sounds, not even a small mark was left on the shelter, let alone breaking the prop to hurt the person inside. So he took out his military saber and slashed from a distance again. This time, it had no effect either.
"Hiding works?" The black bracelet player extended both hands toward the shelter and tried to lift it upward, but failed twice—this shelter couldn't be lifted by him.
If the shelter could be lifted so easily after landing, it wouldn't be called a prop that could withstand nuclear explosion force.
Unable to do anything about the shelter, the black bracelet player signaled the red bracelet player to check it out.
The red bracelet player was straightforward. He took out a cutting drill and walked toward the shelter, stabbing at its outer wall repeatedly. But it had no effect either.
So he walked half a circle around the shelter. After a moment, at the black bracelet player's blind spot, he said, "Mr. Jiang, there's a door here!"
Hearing there was a door, Jiang Feng no longer hesitated and immediately walked over. But he didn't expect that as soon as he rounded to the side where the shelter's door faced, his feet were stuck to the ground. Looking down, a grid with the number "2" appeared under his feet, while the red bracelet player had "5" under his.
"Mr. Jiang, don't blame me. I only got caught because I was clearing the way for you." The red bracelet player showed no trace of guilt.
Jiang Feng had no time to settle scores with him. Finding that he couldn't move his feet out of the grid, he immediately used "Dripping Water Wears Through Stone" to form a protective circle around himself.
But just as his rain curtain took shape, Xu Huo also came out of the shelter. Protected by "Absolute Safe Distance," he passed through the protective circle without obstruction and swept his sword toward Jiang Feng's neck!
Jiang Feng reacted quickly. He drew a ray with his right hand to block the killing strike while releasing a balloon in front of himself.
The ray was a slaughter barrier, and the balloon could make people float. At such close range and in such a short time, even if Xu Huo safely broke through the first line of defense, it would be hard to avoid the balloon under his charging momentum. And once he floated up, Jiang Feng would have an opportunity.
"Bang!" The sword energy didn't cut Jiang Feng's neck but struck an invisible barrier.
Of course, Xu Huo didn't expect to kill him with one strike. He didn't cross the ray but instead used his trait "Frequent Movement" to circle to Jiang Feng's right side, firing several anesthetic needles with a small note launcher.
The first few anesthetic needles were also blocked by the invisible barrier, but the last one penetrated it—not because the barrier failed to block, but because that layer of protection had a limited area!
Seizing this opportunity, Xu Huo pulled out an energy gun and fired continuously. Four out of five shots were neutralized by the barrier. Bullets with grenade-level destructive power only created a vortex on the barrier without causing greater damage. But the one shot that got through hit Jiang Feng's thigh.
(Chapter End)