Chapter 656: The Crushing Overwhelm of Spiritual Power
The wind and sand suddenly rose, filling the entire eighth floor's view. Xu Huo stood still, sensing that at this moment, two more people had entered the eighth floor. These two, together with the golden-haired buzz-cut man, charged at him from different directions. Meanwhile, several gaps appeared in the wind and sand flow on the eighth floor, likely blocked by some props or items.
Pausing briefly, he opened a door to his left and right at his standing position, anticipating the moment the three attacked and opening the door first.
"Chi!"
"Bang!"
The sounds of metal weapons clashing and gunfire rang out simultaneously. The attacks from the golden-haired buzz-cut man and his two companions passed through two doors half a meter apart and struck their own comrades!
The wind and sand around them had been completely cleared, so the three could clearly see the doors and what came through them. Upon realizing it was their companions' props, they couldn't hide their surprise as they looked at the doors before them.
Their sensory perception wasn't as sharp as Xu Huo's, but at such close range, they could still feel something. Based on their positions, aside from the gun, their other props shouldn't have been able to collide with each other!
The swirling wind and sand suddenly vanished again. The golden-haired buzz-cut man and his two companions looked up and discovered that the two doors ahead had automatically merged into one—they were fighting each other through a single doorframe!
"The Epitaph of the Base!" Another person immediately reacted, throwing a heavy tombstone onto the ground. On the tombstone was a large line of text: "The world is full of banana peels!"
The ground suddenly became slippery. The golden-haired buzz-cut man and the remaining companion quickly dodged to the side, seemingly trying to avoid the effect of the "Epitaph." But before they could move out of the way, the tombstone was struck back by an unknown force!
The two hurriedly evaded, while the player who had used the prop dashed forward in a single stride, stopping in front of Xu Huo and raising a block of ice from his chest: "Flash Freeze Relationship!"
A wave of cold air rushed toward him. Xu Huo's protective suit instantly formed a layer of frost, which quickly spread to his limbs.
"Interesting." Xu Huo glanced at it, unconcernedly stepping forward. With a swing of the Crimson Sword, he predicted the opponent's escape direction and simultaneously threw the Kite String!
The player was pierced by the Kite String and pulled toward Xu Huo's position. Seeing the frost on Xu Huo's body growing thicker and thicker, the player immediately shouted, "Leave the rest to you!"
As his words fell, he vanished from the spot. Meanwhile, the golden-haired buzz-cut man and the remaining player flanked Xu Huo from both sides while his body was frozen.
"Pervasive!" The golden-haired buzz-cut man blew a handful of white powder toward Xu Huo.
Xu Huo furrowed his brows and smiled. Instead of dodging, he charged straight into the powder and delivered a heavy punch to the man's abdomen!
The golden-haired buzz-cut man flew into the wall. Seeing Xu Huo appear right in front of him, his pupils contracted sharply, and he quickly rolled to the side!
Xu Huo kicked through the wall, then swung his sword in a horizontal arc, cutting through the wall like tofu as he chased after the golden-haired buzz-cut man!
"My poison can seep through the skin. It's a specially made poison designed to deal with players. Within three minutes, your entire body will fail!"
"You're going to all this trouble to explain it to me, but did you know I have the Detox Fungus? How could you not think I've already taken it in advance?" Xu Huo swept his finger, and "Beautiful Ray" unfolded a brilliant light surface in the air, chasing after the golden-haired buzz-cut man!
The golden-haired buzz-cut man dodged too slowly and had several fingers severed. He activated his defense barrier prop again, but this time it didn't force Xu Huo back. Instead, Xu Huo raised his hand, and a massive metal house suddenly dropped between the two, its overwhelming weight sending the golden-haired buzz-cut man flying!
The opponent crashed to the ground. Xu Huo was about to finish him off when another player flashed in front of him, raising a mirror: "Danger Makes People Blind!"
Xu Huo was suddenly blinded!
With darkness before his eyes, Xu Huo withdrew the 101 Shelter and blocked two of the opponent's attacks before retreating a few steps.
He had closed his eyes in time earlier, but he still couldn't escape the prop's effect. This should be similar to Liu Jia's "If I Call Your Name, Dare You Answer?"—it couldn't be avoided through ordinary means.
The texture of the ground felt wrong. Earlier, the golden-haired buzz-cut man had used a prop to turn the floor tiles into powder. Now, the ground should have been concrete, but Xu Huo could clearly feel that the texture was different—it seemed to have become wooden flooring.
It was indeed wooden flooring. Not just under his feet, but the entire eighth floor's surface had suddenly taken on the pattern of wooden planks, and it was sliding toward the golden-haired buzz-cut man like an escalator.
Standing on the wooden floor, Xu Huo couldn't help but move forward.
"Same-Sex Repulsion" and "Absolute Safe Distance" were activated simultaneously, but he wasn't about to stand still and wait to be killed. He took out "The Lament of the Plant," and in an instant, the eighth floor was filled with a suffocating scream.
The prop's effect couldn't last long, but he only released "The Lament of the Plant" for less than two seconds. After the prop was returned to the item slot, the high-frequency sound filling the floor didn't disappear. Instead, it grew louder over time, until the golden-haired buzz-cut man and his companion could no longer bear it!
Both of them had props to block their ears and eyes, but even wearing them seemed useless. The sound had become so piercing that the props couldn't counteract it. It kept amplifying, stimulating the two until they were dizzy and bleeding from their ears and noses!
"Not good..." The golden-haired buzz-cut man wiped the blood from under his nose and was about to say something to his companion when he turned back and saw Xu Huo standing in that spot. His companion had already fallen to the ground, decapitated.
Xu Huo's eyes didn't seem to have returned to normal, but he looked at the golden-haired buzz-cut man as if he could see perfectly. Flicking the blood off his sword, he charged forward!
The sword's energy swept across the space, eventually cutting through the wall not far away. As the wall cracked, the golden-haired buzz-cut man, who should have been on the eighth floor, vanished.
"Fast runner." Xu Huo held his sword, forcefully closed his eyes, and when he opened them, his vision had returned.
He looked up at the floor above, directly cut a hole in the ceiling, and stepped up.
Above was a secret room. A door next to it was open. The room had clearly seen a fierce fight—the walls and floor were littered with remnants of wooden crates and embedded playing cards.
The rooms near here were empty, but a few auras could be sensed a bit farther away.
Xu Huo pulled out his phone from his pocket and dialed the Painting Woman's number.
The "beep beep beep" ringtone came from a certain direction in the secret room. He hung up, forcefully opened the door, and cut a straight line through the middle of the secret room.
When he found the Painting Woman's hiding spot, he saw her trying to shove the tearful Tong Tong into a drawer, with the child saying, "Sister Li Chun, this place is too small for me to squeeze in..."
The Painting Woman turned back and saw Xu Huo. She immediately withdrew her hand from Tong Tong's head and wrote a bit guiltily: "I thought it was a bad guy. I wanted him to hide."
Xu Huo saw that the child's mental state was still okay. He walked over and asked, "Can you walk?"
Tong Tong quickly jumped out of the drawer, wiped his tears, and nodded vigorously.
(Chapter End)