Chapter 1001: One Against Three
"How dare you!" Brother Lei roared from behind, striking his palms together in the air. A transparent protective barrier extended from beneath his feet outward, but it barely reached Dong Jingxuan's side before being crushed by the high-speed tunnel rushing past—the item had no effect. Meanwhile, the player driving the prop vehicle pressed a button on the dashboard, and a metal net shot out, sealing the door of Car 2.
At the same time, the passengers who had been knocked out by the potion stood up again under the control of the invisible player. After swaying unsteadily, they charged toward Brother Lei and his group!
These people were all ordinary civilians, and they were being manipulated. Thus, Brother Lei and his team's first instinct was to restrain them. But there were too many of them. They crowded into the car in groups, and when they failed to achieve their goal, they began jumping off the train in Car 4 one after another—the high-speed train could crush even metal seats, let alone human bodies!
Every time, a spray of blood mist dissipated into the darkness before it could even spread. Brother Lei's people had to deal with the invisible player while simultaneously trying to save people.
"Bastards! What do they think human lives are?!" the square-faced man cursed loudly.
"Forget about them!" Brother Lei spread out a defensive barrier to catch the molten metal dripping from the ceiling of the train, then charged forward with his long blade and slashed at the metal net. But the strike failed to break the item. The seemingly hard metal net rebounded under the force, and Brother Lei was thrown back by his own strength!
The square-faced man and the other two behind him also tried different items to break through, but none succeeded—the opponent's items were performing exceptionally well in the narrow, elongated space of the train.
"What do we do? Should we destroy the train?" the peacemaker player asked.
Since the opponent's items were attached to the train, destroying the walls of the car would render them useless.
Brother Lei's eyes darted left and right, clearly considering action. But before he could act, Mr. Chang, standing at the control room end, raised one hand and made a sweeping gesture. Brother Lei and his four people in Car 2, the five players in Car 4, and some of the passengers were involuntarily thrown backward, landing instantly in Car 5!
As they were pushed back, the invisible player took the opportunity to lead the remaining passengers into Car 3. At the same time, he threw a metal ball onto the ceiling of the corridor. A large amount of liquid metal poured out of the ball, filling the entire passageway and quickly solidifying into a metal door three meters thick.
The sounds of attacks from outside the door were incessant, but even Brother Lei's long blade couldn't cut through a three-meter-thick slab in one go. Meanwhile, the invisible player could easily thicken the door at will.
As mentioned before, whether it was the driving player or the invisible player, both of their items were being used to their maximum potential on the train.
"Now we only have one person to deal with," the invisible player said calmly as he stepped into Car 2.
Mr. Chang turned his gaze back to Xu Huo.
Xu Huo had remained silent the entire time. Dong Jingxuan, observing the expressions of both sides, spoke up first to question Mr. Chang and his two companions, "Do you know who I am?!"
"If we can call you by name, of course we know who you are," the driving player said, leaning on the steering wheel with amusement. "No one can save you now. You'd better cooperate with us, and maybe you'll get a whole corpse."
Dong Jingxuan was starting to get scared. "My parents and my family won't let you get away with this!"
None of the three took his threat seriously. If they were truly afraid of the Dong family's power, why would they have come to hijack the train in the first place?
Mr. Chang said to Xu Huo, "It seems this friend wants to play the hero."
"I was paid," Xu Huo finally spoke, his tone indifferent. "I take money and do the job. If you tell me to hand someone over, that goes against my professional ethics."
Everyone present, including the boy who barely reached Xu Huo's waist, couldn't help but look at him. Mr. Chang even let out a laugh. Then he signaled to the invisible player, whose pocket watch flew up again. But as the item's power spread, Xu Huo, who was the first to be affected, showed no reaction at all. Not only that, but he turned his head and glanced back at the invisible player.
It was just that one glance. The invisible player felt as if he saw a pair of enormous eyes opening right in front of him. He involuntarily leaned back, but when he came to his senses, Xu Huo was still standing in the same spot, having not moved at all. His expression changed, and he commanded, "Kill him!"
The passengers behind him, who had been moving like ghosts, all rushed into Car 2. But instead of attacking Xu Huo as the invisible player had ordered, they charged straight at him!
After dodging a fruit knife thrust at him, the invisible player looked back and forth between his controlled targets and Xu Huo in shock. "You tampered with them!"
Xu Huo hadn't even shifted his feet. "Those were your words. What does that have to do with me?"
Despite his words, the invisible player realized that Xu Huo was likely also skilled in mental manipulation. "No wonder my item didn't work on you!"
As he spoke, he draped himself in an invisibility cloak, trying to hide among the passengers. But unfortunately, the passengers who had been crazily stabbing him with whatever tools they had just a second ago now dropped everything, and some even started dancing on the spot.
With the tools no longer a threat, the invisible player layered items to conceal his movements and sounds as he crossed the car. However, just as the distance between them shrank to three meters, Xu Huo, who seemed completely unaware, precisely pinpointed his location. With a sudden lunge, he grabbed the invisible player by the neck and slammed him into the opposite wall!
With a loud "bang," the invisible player left a large dent in the wall. Since the invisibility cloak made his body unseen, only a mouthful of blood could be seen spraying onto Xu Huo's hand. Xu Huo, expression unchanged, lifted him and hurled him toward the player still sitting in the vehicle!
Unable to ignore his companion's plight, the driving player dismissed his vehicle item and threw out a "Decisive Breakup," causing the invisible player to slip out of Xu Huo's grasp. But Xu Huo didn't care. Without a moment's delay, he flashed in front of the driving player!
The driving player had just used a defensive item to protect himself when Xu Huo's sweeping kick caught him on the side of the head, sending him headfirst into the pile of broken seats.
Just as Xu Huo was about to press his advantage, Mr. Chang, standing ahead, suddenly raised his hand: "Fall back!"
"Inviolable Domain" instantly sealed off the space around Xu Huo. Even so, the force of the impact sent him crashing backward into the sealed door of Car 2.
Stepping out from under the cascading liquid metal, he pointed a finger, and the floor of Car 1 rapidly shifted to both sides. Dong Jingxuan and the boy were involuntarily moved to Car 2, causing the driving player, who had tried to grab them, to miss completely.
"Space item?" Mr. Chang's eyes darkened at the sight. He made the same gesture again, trying to push Xu Huo back. But though his hand was raised, Xu Huo didn't retreat even half a step:
Instead, he slightly crouched, then crossed three cars at a speed invisible to the naked eye. In an instant, he was in front of Mr. Chang, throwing a punch straight at his glasses!
(Chapter End)