Chapter 729: Attack Demon King Castle First, Eat and Drink Well
Solaris's face twisted, every wrinkle etched with terror, and as he spoke, streams of blood flowed from his eyes, suffering under some unthinkable torment!
Hearing this, the four building guards retracted their attack stances.
Meanwhile, the Haunted House, sensing the shift, thoughtfully withdrew its Terror Aura.
Solaris let out a sigh of relief. Ignoring his own injuries, he hastily said, "The most important thing right now is to drain the Mad King Building's Interference Power!"
The timing of Heaven's Judgment Building's Interference Power depletion was rather convenient. Convenient in the sense that this depletion was a display of sincerity.
This laid the foundation for cooperation between the two sides!
The Haunted House seemed unskilled in such negotiations, so it opened its mouth wide, and the Candy Queen leaped out from within.
"What you're saying makes sense. Then let's first eliminate the Mad King Building together!" The Candy Queen's body was slick and sticky.
The Haunted House's saliva clung to her like honey nectar, and rather than diminishing her beauty, it made her even more radiant and alluring.
"Wait, your building hasn't depleted its Interference Power either. This is unfair to us!" Solaris shouted.
Seizing this opportunity, he hastily used a recovery item, and his physical condition improved considerably.
"Heh!" The Candy Queen sneered. She glanced back at the Ferris Wheel and said, "We've been attacking Heaven's Judgment Building with the Ferris Wheel this whole time. Eventually, we'll create a window for the Haunted House to break through!"
"And what about the rest of your players?" Solaris asked.
"They can die, whatever." The Candy Queen looked utterly indifferent.
As long as a batch of Amusement Park Building players could break through Heaven's Judgment Building, everyone else could die.
And they'd die a worthy death!
"Fine, then go ahead and attack the building." Solaris looked completely calm.
The Candy Queen's breath hitched.
There was no way Heaven's Judgment Building would just sit back and watch Amusement Park Building expand its advantage while doing nothing itself.
If they truly fell out with Heaven's Judgment Building, all it would take was one Heaven's Judgment player dispatched to destroy the Ferris Wheel, and Amusement Park Building would be in deep trouble.
Tactically speaking, Amusement Park Building only had the one Haunted House. There was absolutely no way they could outplay Heaven's Judgment Building.
"So what do you want, then?" The Candy Queen tossed the question back.
This stalemate was anything but ordinary.
Evil King Building had only one player left. All they needed was to break through the Mad King Building to win.
Some Amusement Park Building players had already broken through the Mad King Building, and a portion had also pushed through Evil King Building.
Heaven's Judgment Building players had broken through the Mad King Building. Neither Amusement Park Building nor Evil King Building had achieved a breakthrough, but all their numbers were stacked on the towering building guard, making consecutive wins easy.
With such a tangled, complex situation, an average player's brain would simply short-circuit. But the Candy Queen was a genuine High-Level Player with a sharp grasp of the situation. She knew cooperation with Heaven's Judgment Building was the only option.
Because Solaris was absolutely right. Without taking down the Mad King Building, neither Heaven's Judgment Building nor Amusement Park Building could hope to prosper!
Amusement Park Building had been sneaking victories all along, and this was no time to capsize in the gutter.
Indeed, the championship and runner-up spots were locked between Amusement Park Building and Heaven's Judgment Building.
The Mad King Building and Evil King Building were both minnows.
However, guarding against a minnow's counterattack was still necessary.
If the Mad King Building pulled off another reversal at the last second, that would be a true case of the duck flying right out of their mouths.
"We can assist you in breaking through Evil King Building." Solaris said in a deep voice.
The Candy Queen immediately laughed: "Assist us? Don't make me laugh!"
At the very least, Amusement Park Building had some players who'd broken through Evil King Building. Heaven's Judgment Building hadn't gotten a single one through.
"You want our help, yet you also want us to drain our Interference Power dry. Where would you ever find such a good deal?" The Candy Queen's eyes suddenly flashed with sharpness as she pressed: "Don't forget, old man, when we first came asking for cooperation, you slammed the door in our faces!"
Speaking of the past, the Candy Queen truly harbored some resentment.
Solaris's expression darkened as well.
Back then, when that cooperation fell through, Amusement Park Building turned hostile and cost several Heaven's Judgment Building players their lives.
That score still hadn't been settled!
Taking a deep breath, Solaris said coldly, "Fine, then let's not talk about anything else. Let's only discuss taking down the Mad King Building!"
"Deal." The Candy Queen nodded.
She figured this was the old man's real intention all along.
"Attack Demon King Castle first, or find Nicholas Sabas first?" The Candy Queen followed up.
Solaris answered decisively: "Find Nicholas Sabas first!"
The Candy Queen was caught off guard: "Are you insane?"
Instead of attacking the weak, you go after the strong?
Even when picking a fight, you don't do it like that!
"If we attack Demon King Castle, Nicholas Sabas will definitely come back to defend. But if we attack Nicholas Sabas, Xu Lang might not necessarily come to his aid!" Solaris stated with conviction.
"I wouldn't be so sure!" The Candy Queen wanted to contradict Solaris, sneering, "How about we try it?"
That Xu Lang, she'd wanted to take him down for a long time.
Just thinking about Xu Lang's sturdy, powerful body made her feel restless.
...
The sword-wielding guard, the towering guard, and the Haunted House made their way toward the Mad King Building.
This arrangement was the Candy Queen's call, because she was worried the towering guard might try to sneak a win against Amusement Park Building.
Similarly, Xu Lang might also try to sneak one.
So Heaven's Judgment Building's home turf also needed two guards remaining.
Just as the three BOSSes were about to attack Demon King Castle, the River Mouth Child waved his horsetail whisk, and the entire Demon King Castle vanished completely.
Merge with the Light and Dust.
An exceptionally superb invincibility effect.
Solaris's brows furrowed deeply.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, he looked toward Amusement Park Building, and his pupils violently contracted.
"Stop him, quickly!" Solaris shouted at the top of his lungs.
There, Xu Lang had somehow appeared on the rooftop of Amusement Park Building, walking step by step toward the Teleportation Gate!
The iron-hook guard and the spear-wielding guard immediately sprang into action, their bodies like streaks of light and lightning, rocketing toward Amusement Park Building.
The spear-wielding guard bent low, raising his spear, and the meteor-like spear pierced straight through Xu Lang's body!
Solaris's eyes flew wide open, and he couldn't help but step forward, finding it almost unbelievable.
Xu Lang was taken down just like that?
The next moment!
A terrifyingly ominous aura surged from behind, and then a huge crimson hand reached out from the black vortex gate, grabbing Solaris and yanking him straight into the Gluttony Purgatory!
The real Xu Lang stepped out from the shadows, a ferocious ghost coiled around his body.
This was called the Footstep Ghost. Song Fei had used it before. It could travel through the sound of other people's footsteps, thereby achieving teleportation.
"The third Sequence Holder... all the puzzle pieces are finally in place." Xu Lang glanced indifferently at Heaven's Judgment Building's Teleportation Gate, then leisurely stepped into the black vortex gate, disappearing to who knows where.
Solaris was Heaven's Judgment Building's Sequence Holder.
His Sequence number was B-88, the Adjudication Enforcer!
This was a Primal Sequence!
...
Ten minutes later, inside the Gluttony Purgatory.
A Sequence Crystal now rested in Xu Lang's hand.
Solaris collapsed to the ground, turning into a puff of flying ash. He didn't even qualify to become a Tale.
The Adjudication Enforcer Sequence was a thorny one, with plenty of invincible frames, so Xu Lang had to waste some time before finally capturing Solaris.
Capturing Solaris hadn't been easy. In the Simulation Dream, it was only on his final simulation that he'd found the optimal approach.
After all, he had to balance capturing the target while also playing the game against the Mad King Building.
Moreover, Solaris seemed extremely important to Heaven's Judgment Building. There had even been instances where Heaven's Judgment Building used its Interference Power to assist Solaris.
That was something the Building could learn from for a lifetime.
Since the Simulation Dream couldn't use the Nightmare Lord's power, Xu Lang couldn't perform a Fusion, so he didn't fuse now either. Instead, he silently returned to Demon King Castle.
Seeing Xu Lang appear, Yan Xiaoli and the other two women all lit up with joy, but they didn't dare ask where he'd been.
Xu Lang sat back down on the sofa and continued watching the show, as if nothing had happened.
At this very moment, inside the Demon Box World.
The Neighborhood Committee had begun distributing fine wine and food.
Players were drinking and feasting, all the while imagining Xu Lang outside, dominating the battlefield, fighting alone against overwhelming odds.
"I can't drink this wine." Zhang Dahai refused the alcohol, speaking gravely to the Neighborhood Committee workers: "Brother Lang is out there, carrying all the pressure of the Building Wars on his shoulders. How could I sit here and enjoy myself?"
Instantly, a chorus of cheers rose from the crowd, and quite a few people smashed their cups on the ground.
Although this was fine wine from Demon King Castle, at this moment it didn't seem so precious anymore.
The Neighborhood Committee workers looked awkward.
Should they mention right now that the Dorm Owner himself had ordered everyone to eat and drink well?