Chapter 885: Settling the Score
Seeing the two of them return together, someone couldn't help but mutter quietly, "Didn't clear it either. I told you, what help could an ordinary person be?"
"Are you alright?" Xu Huo asked Xiao Xiao, who was coughing while lying on the ground. She lifted her head, her face pale, "I'm really sorry, I didn't help you... It's true, someone like me with no abilities at all, how could I possibly help..."
Xu Huo handed her a towel, "Friendship is equal; it has nothing to do with a person's strength or weakness."
Xiao Xiao slowly got up and reached out to take the towel.
Unexpectedly, fireworks effects appeared above the square right after, and two names slowly enlarged from within the fireworks. The host enthusiastically scattered flower petals, "Congratulations to Mr. Yu Cong and Miss Liu Xiaoxiao! You two have obtained sincere friendship!"
The realism brought by cutting-edge technology was something ordinary special effects couldn't achieve. The moment the host announced they had obtained friendship, the Sea World surrounded them in a full three-hundred-sixty-degree realistic display, like a promotional video. Every time the scene changed, someone would warmly greet them, as if they were already residents of the Sea World.
Those who wanted to stay in the Sea World were naturally filled with envy, but Xu Huo wouldn't stay, so he was indifferent, and Liu Xiaoxiao didn't seem particularly happy either.
"Cleared it?" You Si raised his chin at Xu Huo.
Xu Huo nodded slightly, then said, "Clearing it wasn't as hard as I thought."
The evaluation he received this time surpassed the S-level rating. Such a high evaluation was entirely because Liu Xiaoxiao, as a weak ordinary person, was willing to sacrifice herself to rescue a player who was countless times stronger than herself. Even though she understood that she absolutely couldn't turn around a situation that even a player couldn't handle, she still did it.
Therefore, a clearance with a normal rating probably wouldn't be this difficult—at least not to the point of having to sacrifice one's life for the other.
Xu Huo had a feeling that someone else would clear it soon. He swept his gaze across the square, passing over Gan Yi, Number 18, and the others, finally landing on the person who had ambushed him last night.
With a shift of his feet, he crossed space and appeared behind the man. His hands crossed, and he directly twisted his neck.
The body fell to the ground. Xu Huo then turned his gaze to Gan Yi.
At his speed, he could reach them in less than a second. So the moment he turned his head, Gan Yi and Zhuang Mengtian both took out their items. The former pushed out a storage cabinet as tall as a person, while the latter steadied a half-person-tall standing clock and forcefully moved the hands on it. When it reached nine o'clock sharp, the standing clock chimed!
A sound completely disproportionate to the clock's size instantly pierced through the entire square. Though it was a deafening noise, many people experienced a dazed sensation, and several ordinary people fell to the ground, fast asleep.
Xu Huo stood still, unmoving. Zhuang Mengtian across from him wasn't sure if the item had really worked and was observing when Gan Yi took the opportunity to reach his hand behind Xu Huo's back—it was still his right hand with two broken fingers; the ring and little fingers that had been snapped off earlier were reattached.
But this time, Xu Huo didn't hold back. As he turned, a flash of sword light appeared in his hand, and he cleanly cut off the hand. In an instant, he moved behind the two of them, tore open the space shield they had created with their items, and grabbed Gan Yi's shoulder.
Some small-scale space items, like those that alter the state of surrounding space to block attacks or create defensive shields, essentially still change the state of space. Under normal circumstances, ordinary items are hard to break through. But Xu Huo had undergone Spatial Super Evolution, and the space item Gan Yi used wasn't very advanced. So when the two clashed, Gan Yi's item naturally became useless. However, he was willing to go all out, sacrificing an arm to forcibly slip away.
Of course, items played a part in that, but Gan Yi's left arm was still dislocated. Before he could reattach it, Xu Huo appeared beside him again.
At such close range, it was all about speed. Gan Yi used five items in succession to forcibly widen the distance between them.
Xu Huo was first forcibly moved three meters away. Then the floor beneath him turned into a constantly sliding staircase, forcing him to walk in place. Next, a cloth sack dropped down from above, and he heard the other person say, "Please avoid," causing him to involuntarily turn around and walk with his back to Gan Yi.
As he turned, not only Gan Yi and Zhuang Mengtian, but also Number 27, who was not far away, came over to join the fun.
Sensing these people closing in, Xu Huo activated "Truth Transcends All," nullifying items and attacks for three seconds. He turned back and faced the three head-on. Using space power to enhance his speed, he passed by them, slitting Zhuang Mengtian's throat, then grabbing Number 27 by the neck and slamming him into Gan Yi, pinning both of them directly into the square wall!
Behind them was genuine metal. Number 27 in front was okay, but Gan Yi behind him was embedded in a dent in the wall, his bones cracking and snapping loudly!
The three seconds hadn't passed yet, but Xu Huo raised his hand and threw Number 27 away. Without even blinking, he drove his sword straight through Gan Yi, pinning him to the wall.
Gan Yi let out a low groan and tried to pull the sword out, but Xu Huo just looked at him, then kicked the hilt of the sword. With that, the blade of the Eye of the Dead was almost completely buried in the wall behind him.
"Cough!" Gan Yi spat out blood, staring fixedly at the person in front of him.
"The sword went through your right shoulder. If you're ruthless enough, you can cut off your shoulder and push the sword out." Xu Huo looked at him expressionlessly.
Gan Yi didn't speak. Instead, he looked toward Number 27, but Xu Huo crushed his hope, "He can't even save himself. Don't count on him to help you escape."
Number 27, who had been thrown away, was lightly injured. Unfortunately, his problem wasn't the injury on his body, but the fact that when Xu Huo grabbed him, the bacteria had already seeped in through the wounds on his skin. Penetrating a wound was faster than just touching the skin's surface. So when he got up, his neck had already turned black. All he could do for the remaining time was clutch his throat and cough up black mucus.
He couldn't even care about Xu Huo anymore, frantically pouring antidote into his mouth.
Two dead, two injured. The seemingly thrilling fight hadn't even lasted half a minute. At this point, Xu Huo smiled at the others, "You all continue."
The host and audience off the field had clearly seen this scene too. Whether they were particularly excited by the sight of fighting and killing or especially tolerant of potential future city residents, no one interfered with Xu Huo. After he said this, the host also smiled and said, "The Sea World welcomes strong friends."
The three-color competition could continue. Number 18 was quite wary and took the initiative to team up with someone.
You Si gave Xu Huo a thumbs up from afar and said, "Awesome!"
Shaka shook his head sympathetically, covered the dead bodies with a white cloth, and instantly took the items they were wearing.
Only then did Xu Huo turn back to Gan Yi and say, "Do you know why you're still alive right now?"