Chapter 917: Chase Battle
After the smile disappeared from the clown's face, his clown costume and the makeup on his face and hands faded away like special effects, one after another. What finally stood before Xu Huo was a baby-faced young man in his early twenties. There was still a look of shock on his face at Xu Huo's relentless pursuit. After sweeping his gaze across the surrounding environment, he quickly retreated, using an item to send Xu Huo outside the gravitational anomaly zone. At the same time, he himself moved back toward the laboratory.
However, at this moment, the two players who had not intervened in their fight both chose to move away from the laboratory. Seeing the baby-faced man shed his clown suit, the tattooed player, while floating upside down, unleashed a "Fleeting Meteor Shower," forcing the baby-faced man toward the laboratory's direction. Because the upper half of the building was suspended, combined with the earlier fighting, black dust had already drifted out from within the building, gradually expanding the contaminated area. Their current position was not entirely safe.
The fact that the tattooed man and the female player had come out without carrying any living samples was already telling enough. The baby-faced man turned his head, and the three of them simultaneously cast their gazes toward Xu Huo, who had his back to them. With the living samples in the laboratory dead, they now had only the South Gate as an option!
So, as Xu Huo turned and chased after the speeding vehicle, the three of them also headed in the direction of the South Gate.
"What's going on?" Zhao Jiahuai, who had already returned to the car, couldn't help asking.
"The laboratory is heavily contaminated. The living samples are gone." Xu Huo had already packed the invisibility cloak and protective suit into his item box and put on a new protective suit to completely seal any contaminants on his body surface to prevent leakage.
"Then now we only have the living samples at the South Gate," Shangguan Xi said, looking back. "They're following us."
The building debris suspended around the laboratory began to fall one after another, the thunderous crashes alarming the entire city. Players near the South Gate were moving quickly, clearly indicating that the disappearance of the living sample signal from the laboratory had triggered a new round of competition.
"Drive faster!" Ding Wei urged. "Those three behind us are no pushovers!"
Compared to the South Gate, the number of players near the laboratory building wasn't impressive, but the fact that these three could make other players back off was enough to prove their strength. Of course, part of it was also due to the difficulty of extracting the samples, but the fact that other players were willing to crowd around the South Gate instead of approaching the laboratory meant the risks here were indeed higher.
Just look at Ding Wei and Zhao Jiahuai. They were supposed to be drawing fire, but in reality, they hadn't done anything useful. They had probably backed off as soon as they saw people, which was why the female player had arrived so quickly.
"Boom!" Just then, a large section of a building collapsed in front of the vehicle. Teacher Ai swiftly turned the steering wheel, veering into another street. However, the pursuers behind them clearly had no intention of letting them go. Rain-like burning bullets continuously pounded against the car body, while the female player circled around to the front of the vehicle. Maintaining a considerable speed while floating backward, she pulled a white thread from her palm. The moment she disappeared from the vehicle's line of sight, that floating white thread automatically formed a seemingly transparent barrier!
The off-road vehicle swerved sideways on the narrow street. Although it avoided crashing head-on into the barrier, the nearly overturned car still became embedded in it.
The barrier, which looked like a thin film, cushioned the vehicle for a moment before wrapping around it tightly!
Ding Wei threw a pair of scissors out the window. As soon as they touched the film, the scissors automatically cut a slit, eventually splitting it in two.
Teacher Ai returned to their original direction, but because of this delay, the three pursuers had already caught up!
"Don't they want the living samples? Why are they clinging to us like this?" Zhao Jiahuai exclaimed in shock.
Ding Wei immediately looked at Xu Huo. "Did you get the living samples?!"
"If you want to know, you can try to kill me too." Xu Huo gave her a cold look, then left the vehicle and used "Dead End" to draw a line behind him, cutting off the tattooed man and the baby-faced man's line of sight. He then passed through space and appeared right beside the female player. She was wearing a defense item, which reacted before she did, but it was only a layer of space barrier. He slipped the "Light Sandwich" he had just obtained over her.
The glass bead illuminated a sphere with a five-meter radius, which seemed to take on a physical form, firmly trapping the female player inside. However, since she had space items, she naturally also had items to break spatial restrictions. A spike shot out from the ring on her finger, and the effect of the "Light Sandwich" item quickly dissipated. Then, her palm turned black, and from a distance of several meters, she swung it toward Xu Huo:
A crisp sound like a slap rang out, and the person who had been standing there vanished, replaced by blood and gore splattered everywhere!
Having easily killed her opponent, the female player's expression did not relax. She looked around: the off-road vehicle sped down what seemed like an endless street; the building debris suspended in the sky, along with the players controlling it, had all frozen in place; the tattooed man was also stuck motionless!
Anyone would find this situation abnormal. Like the baby-faced man before her, the female player first chose to leave her current position. But just as she was about to move, a transparent box appeared around her. This wasn't a particularly difficult item to break, but as the box rapidly shrank, the female player was instantly compressed, experiencing a brief moment of pain. In that split-second gap, her head involuntarily twisted backward.
"Crack!"
Xu Huo put away his item pen, quickly stripped the items from the female player's corpse, and then looked back toward the vehicle.
The car was still moving, but Shangguan Xi and the other two had already gotten out to block the baby-faced man and the tattooed man.
Without his clown suit, the baby-faced player wasn't particularly fast, and he had been chasing the car the whole time. The constant movement seemed to limit his abilities. Although he continued to manipulate objects around him during this time, their size and weight were far less than before, and he hadn't formed a complete gravitational anomaly zone. Some lighter objects might have experienced reduced gravity, but it was nowhere near enough to make people's heads and feet swap places.
However, the fact that Shangguan Xi and the other two had taken the initiative to leave the vehicle and engage in a tug-of-war gave the baby-faced man room to maneuver.
"His item's effectiveness is greatly reduced during high-speed movement!" Xu Huo used the "Crimson Sword" from behind to block the baby-faced man's attempt to put on his clown suit. While warning Shangguan Xi and the others, he caught up to the vehicle first.
Shangguan Xi decisively retreated, but Ding Wei and Zhao Jiahuai got entangled with the tattooed man. He used a metal ring with a diameter of only ten meters to trap them on the ground!
"Bang, bang, bang, bang!" Zhao Jiahuai raised a thick shield to block the burning bullets. Seeing Shangguan Xi following Xu Huo and running away, he immediately shouted, "Come back and help!"
(Chapter End)