Chapter 2535: You Guys Are Pretty Interesting
The Black Blade was already in hand, and Xu Huo’s psychic power covered the downtown area, including the landmark tower. He didn’t sense any special power on that transparent bubble, but he dared not relax. Just as he was about to probe, a face outlined on the cheongsam emerged. It looked like a little child, but the expression was angry. As the bubble burst, a sharp voice came out, "If you tear down my home again, I’ll beat you up!"
The bubble had already disappeared, and the voice vanished with it. A second later, Xu Huo said, "So those attacks just now didn’t count as ’beating me’? You’re quite humorous."
He gestured with the Black Blade toward the tower. Even though the metal forging the tower was special, the city’s underground couldn’t be all metal. Even if he couldn’t tear down the tower, there were other ways to bring it down.
No new bubbles came down from the tower, so Xu Huo slashed the ground every hundred meters. Enhanced by a prop, the Black Blade released a secant line hundreds of meters long, deeply cutting into the ground’s metal. Of course, due to the metal’s special nature, the cut marks on the ground didn’t meet his ideal effect, but that’s okay—if one slash doesn’t work, then a second one will!
Ignoring the small boss’s warning, he fended off the metal fragments that sometimes clustered and sometimes dispersed, while also plowing the area around the tower into a pitted mess. After a few minutes of this standoff, some of the flying metal fragments gathered in the air, repeatedly compressed, and finally squeezed into a giant cone, sweeping over with other debris!
Xu Huo was restricted and couldn’t dodge in time. Separated by a spatial barrier and a Spatial Artifact, he was hit directly and was caught by the high-speed rotating cone pressing him toward the ground!
With booming sounds, the barrier formed by the "Spatial Sphere" crashed into the ground, creating a large pit, then was firmly crushed, compressing in the direction opposite the tower!
Although Xu Huo was encased in the "Spatial Sphere," the overwhelming pressure and forceful collision with the ground and buildings trapped him. With the nearby metallic objects attacking in turns, the barrier of the "Spatial Sphere" was showing cracks!
Taking advantage of passing through another building, he quickly switched the "Spatial Sphere" to "Auto-Adhesive Film" and stabilized the surrounding space using the "Time Ring." After escaping from beneath the giant cone, he summoned his full Spatial Power. Although polyhedrons were limited in number, they could be compensated with the Super Space Body...
In an instant, the entire building he was in was occupied by a Spatial Body. The Super Space Body couldn’t be captured directly by the naked eye, and the polyhedrons were inconspicuous in the chaotic environment, so others could only see the metallic objects pause for a moment before being blown away with the entire building, and the nearby dilapidated buildings were similarly not spared!
The disintegration of polyhedrons and Super Space Bodies wasn’t like merely layering space barriers of the Spatial Body, where the power would dissipate completely in a short time. Instead, the Spatial Bodies collided repeatedly, forming a chain reaction. The continuous destructive force could persistently damage everything around. Thus, when the space-induced explosion’s air current finally cleared everything, not only had those few buildings disappeared, but the ground also showed a huge depression, with only some finely cut metal fragments remaining around the crater.
"Turns out, when the direction of Spatial Evolution differs, it can lead to such a vast difference..." The middle-aged man, who had been held by the Girl in the painting, was rescued by Qiu Xiangming. As the three rushed to the city center’s vicinity, they witnessed Xu Huo’s building explosion. The middle-aged man couldn’t hide his amazement as he spoke.
With the building exploded, Xu Huo naturally came out too. Just as the middle-aged man spoke, Xu Huo appeared behind them. He yanked the middle-aged man aside and then kicked at Qiu Xiangming.
Given Qiu Xiangming’s strength, he couldn’t possibly be unaware of Xu Huo’s movements, but the Girl in the painting restrained him first. When neither prop succeeded, Xu Huo clapped in the air. The Girl in the painting, originally close to him, suddenly swapped places with the middle-aged man. Under the characteristics effect, Xu Huo could only watch, helplessly, as the person slipped from his grasp.
Disoriented, the Girl in the painting smacked her forehead into Xu Huo’s palm. She raised her head, looking at him in confusion, then turned to look at Qiu Xiangming. Paper fragments in the air converged into a giant pillar, encircling the four of them.
Attempting to seize people now was impossible. Xu Huo’s gaze shifted from them to the numerous balloons suddenly drifting out from behind them. Smiling, he said, "It seems there are many ways to dismantle the city."
Qiu Xiangming didn’t move, but the middle-aged man glanced back. In the next second, those balloons, along with the buildings on both sides, were squeezed together. The potion’s corrosion caused waves of mist, but it was confined to that.
"Such a large city, with just three or four people, how do you plan to take it apart?" Qiu Xiangming said.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, many balloons floated out from over a dozen nearby buildings. With the aid of props, Bubble Bean, now with his legs broken, quickly moved across the buildings. Wherever he passed, balloons soared into the sky. Within just a few blinks, there were balloons flying everywhere in view. A gust of wind rose, and the balloons began surging toward the city center.
The crackling bursts and the corrosive hissing began spreading throughout the city. Listening to the noise, Xu Huo also took out a lighter. Accompanied by the clicking sounds, jets of fire burst from different buildings, instantly turning the area into a sea of flames.
In truth, the entire city only had a few people: Xu Huo and two others, Qiu Xiangming, the middle-aged man, plus four more players from Zone 001 drawn out by the blaze. But with the fire raging, the surrounding areas inevitably got involved. Black smoke billowed, along with explosions from some buildings, making it look like an epic battle had just occurred. However, in reality, this wasn’t even an appetizer.
Bubble Bean had already been captured by a few later players. Two stood on a high building three kilometers away, and two others on another building a thousand meters away. They held Bubble Bean captive, and their voices, enhanced by props, echoed through the wind, "If you don’t want your companion dead, you’d better behave!"
Xu Huo looked at Bubble Bean with regret. "I can’t be blamed in this situation. Bowing your head means getting beaten, which I don’t fancy."
Even true friends might not be dependable at such a moment, let alone Xu Huo, a "fake friend." He chuckled, raising his voice, "Even I don’t want to! Being thrown in here so cluelessly was bad enough, and now I have to do what they say? Go ahead and do it, send these bastards to keep me company..."
Bubble Bean was silenced, and laid flat on the ground. A player stepped on his head, grinding his face into the floor. Blood quickly covered the ground, rendering him speechless.
Xu Huo’s expression darkened slightly, then he smiled, "You guys are quite interesting."