Chapter 833: Battle Center
This was not a killing move that could be avoided by simply lying on the ground—Xu Huo realized this fact immediately. He turned and retreated, leaping straight down from the hotel building!
Jumping down with him were Yan Jiayu and the players originally responsible for security. They were not the main combatants, so once the situation became irreparable, they withdrew from the main battlefield as quickly as possible.
Just as they jumped, the distorted space directly sliced off the entire floor. The upper floors hung suspended in the air for a brief moment before beginning to fall. However, before the upper and lower halves of the building could close together, Jin Feixue and Ashis Werner and the others also flew out from within!
The banquet hall was located on the middle floor of the building. If the upper half had come down, the line of sight for Jin Feixue and the others emerging from different directions would certainly have been obstructed. But someone must have tampered with something, because the building did not close. Instead, after touching, the upper half floated upward again.
Half a building now hung suspended in the air, with aircraft streaming out one after another. This was Eternal Star's property, but the Eternal Star staff showed no dissatisfaction, because the final bill would be charged to every player's account. No one could prevent them from collecting debts, and they only needed to take shelter in time to avoid becoming names on the list for compensation and funeral expenses.
Not everyone had fled, but those who could leave had already gone. At this moment, the suspended building moved, shifting horizontally before smashing down toward Jin Feixue. At the same time, several surrounding players coordinated to restrict his movements—first, flying darts shot out from all directions, attacking repeatedly as if equipped with trackers, buying time. Then, several flashes of light moved rapidly around the perimeter. The high-intensity brightness made it nearly impossible to open one's eyes, and even if one could, nothing was visible. Finally, a polygonal spatial box enveloped the outermost area, completely sealing off the path beneath the building.
In other words, for Jin Feixue to escape from the sides or bottom of the building crashing down on him, he first had to break through these layers of blockade and the players beyond them.
However, he did not choose to go through the players. He stomped his foot and shot upward, piercing straight through the building!
From the outside, one could hear the floors exploding one after another. But the 011 District players had deliberately left this opening, and of course, it wasn't to make things easy for him.
A white-haired man stood atop the building. He touched the structure with both hands, which had turned pitch black. Half the building seemed to be dyed, instantly turning black from top to bottom. Whether walls or glass, everything was coated in a film-like substance and given a certain elasticity!
"Boom!" A force broke through from inside, but it only created a sharp bulge on the outer wall before quickly retracting—the black outer wall was not damaged!
"Compression technique!" The player standing on the roof clapped his hands together. The black substance on the building's outer wall began to squeeze and shrink. Although the speed wasn't very fast, it was clearly visible that the building was indeed shrinking toward the center!
Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu had already landed safely by this time. They could see that the 011 District players intended to narrow the combat range, but this was only the warm-up. What came next might not be controllable, so staying nearby was still unsafe.
However, before they could leave, the 011 District's evacuation alert officially activated. Autonomous search-and-rescue robots zipped through the air and on the ground, quickly capturing any living people or pets they found, placing them in pods, and swiftly transporting them out of the danger zone. At the same time, the pressure-resistant barriers installed on every building in this city all activated, forming ten layers of protection centered on the hotel. Additionally, large-scale lethal weapons with different ranges appeared in the sky, and wide-area high-level props that could restrict prop effects were also activated... All these measures were completed in an extremely short time, requiring little player coordination.
Furthermore, countless intelligent analyzers hovered in the air, rapidly assessing the types of props and traits and their potential range of effect by analyzing the battle scene—these reports were directly transmitted to a temporary strategic command center, where professionals and cutting-edge technology quickly analyzed them to decide which suitable players to dispatch and how to coordinate.
They even issued impact warnings to city residents, telling them not to panic and to take shelter at home.
After Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu were protected by robots in pods and sent to a distant shelter, they looked back at the 011 District's arrangements and couldn't help but feel impressed.
Quick response, thorough preparation, and a seamless integration of players and advanced technology. Just looking at this scene, no one would feel uncertain, after all, they were only facing an A-rank player.
Thus, without interfering with the battle, specialized media began real-time broadcasting, with large screens projecting the scene to every part of the city.
Xu Huo and the others also saw the battle footage.
That half-building, wrapped in the black substance, had already shrunk to less than half its original size. By this point, the internal space should have been mostly compressed, but this prop couldn't make matter disappear out of thin air, so it just hung there in midair.
Jin Feixue certainly couldn't die from building compression, so the 011 District players covered the building with several layers of props to teleport him away.
The change happened precisely at that moment. A white light sliced through the black sphere, cutting it in half. The black substance wrapped around the building debris rebounded first, knocking the player controlling the prop flying, and then the building's wreckage began to fall.
Jin Feixue was protected by a light arc around him. He calmly moved out of the wreckage, swung the short sword in his hand—about two palms in length—broke through the two barriers blocking his way, and returned to the building.
Although the banquet hall floor had been cleared away, the platform remained. The moment Jin Feixue stepped onto it, that strange music even traveled through the broadcast equipment to every viewer's ears. As the music suddenly peaked, everyone was stimulated into covering their ears!
At that moment, Jin Feixue set up a violin.
The ground beneath his feet changed. A pale golden light spread out like a thin carpet, covering not only the building's area but also expanding outward in a circle, enveloping everything within the 011 District's first defensive barrier, as if building a massive banquet venue in the sky.
The players hovering in the air simultaneously fell uncontrollably onto the golden "floor." As Jin Feixue drew his bow across the strings, the golden ground was divided into several fan-shaped sections, and these sections began to rotate alternately.
The players forced to stand on it also began to move with it. In less than a second, two players were subjected to a grinding attack. Unlike those whose faces had been shredded in the banquet hall earlier, these two were like being in a fan-shaped meat grinder. Despite wearing protective suits, their entire bodies began to shake violently, trapped by the force and unable to move or escape!
"He can't leave a ten-meter range from the center of the field. Force him out!" Ashis Werner issued the command.