Chapter 2787: Cunning and Scheming

Miss Ruo’s expression slightly darkened, her eyes grew extremely deep, and gone was her previous leisure, her tone slower than before as she walked in the bubble, which moved along with her.

"Do you know why people who dig into everything are so annoying?" she said.

"I don’t think this counts as digging into everything," Xu Huo’s gaze followed her, "It’s just something you need to understand before dealing with people, after all, it concerns life safety."

"If you’re really sick of being disturbed, leaving Lake City for a while would solve the problem."

"Why should I?" Miss Ruo’s tone carried a hint of laughter, "Why should I make way for others?"

Xu Huo nodded, "Of course there’s no need for that, but unfortunately the game requires it, so I have to come and disturb you."

Miss Ruo paused, turned her head to look at him, "Many people like you have come before."

Xu Huo understood the implication of her words and said, "I think verbal communication is better than life-and-death struggles."

The nonchalance in Miss Ruo’s expression suddenly vanished, replaced by a suppressed excitement. She casually swiped her hand, the water beneath the lake surged, disrupting the glowing Milky Way. Countless glowing bugs rushed toward Xu Huo’s side along with the undercurrent.

"You have to endure the life-and-death struggle first before you have a chance for verbal communication!"

A new group of tourists just entered the bubble, slowly moving toward the Milky Way when a surge of undercurrent rushed from the front, instantly pushing all the bubbles back. The staff hurriedly activated emergency measures, quickly recovering the bubbles, but then an explosion occurred beneath the lake, and huge waves accompanied by a muffled sound continuously hit the underwater facility. Not only were the unrecovered bubbles thrown into the lake, but even the staff inside were swept into the water.

The Lake City Law Enforcement Team reacted swiftly, diving to rescue people as the huge waves surfaced, yet what everyone didn’t expect was that the lake froze into ice in an instant, then rapidly shattered, and ice cones turned into sharp weapons, recklessly traversing underwater, targeting Xu Huo near the original position of the Milky Way, inevitably affecting those tourists who were sightseeing underwater.

Affected by props, the Law Enforcement Team’s defensive barrier failed instantaneously, players at the forefront and armed robots were all repelled, with many injured. Large ice cones formed a storm underwater, churning the depths of the lake and then rushed out of the water, forming several towering water columns.

The crashing lake water hit the surface like heavy rain, Xu Huo and Miss Ruo consecutively rushed from under the lake, confronting each other in the air across hundreds of meters.

Dark Matter surrounded Xu Huo, protecting him from Miss Ruo’s attacks while he also raised multiple layers of spatial body barriers around him, trapping a few water dragons, then directly cut into the depths of the lake, isolating the area beneath the lake.

Miss Ruo controlled the ice cones to attack him and the spatial body barrier indiscriminately. Seeing it was ineffective, she took out a bud, crushed it, and scattered the petals. The floating petals drifted near the spatial body barrier, and the originally solid space body began to deconstruct, and the spatial ray lost power, gradually becoming ethereal.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The heavy rain of ice cones followed suit, breaking through the weak point of the barrier, and Miss Ruo put on a prop like a raincoat, easily escaping the spatial confinement.

By this time, the people beneath the lake had evacuated, but more law enforcement personnel arrived, with aircraft circling the area, warning Xu Huo and Miss Ruo to stop fighting immediately, or they would be captured.

"Annoying." Miss Ruo waved her hand, and the flying ice cones instantly shattered all the aircraft, also erecting an ice storm isolation zone. She became very impatient, her expression agitated, staring at Xu Huo with a sinister gaze, murmuring as if to herself, "Why are you all so annoying? Why are you so annoying?"

Xu Huo watched her smoothly switch personalities, pointed toward the lake, then his figure flashed, switching from the air to beneath the lake.

Miss Ruo followed without hesitation, paving the way with ice cones, moving quickly underwater. After losing track of Xu Huo, she sneered and froze all the surrounding lake water, replacing the original blue with expansive white. All frozen areas were within her perception range, and upon tracking Xu Huo again, she moved her hand, the ice layer splitting internally to form several giant ice cones, spinning at high speed toward Xu Huo’s position!

However, in the next second, Xu Huo emerged from the ice layer, appearing straight in front of her. At the moment of encounter, Time Force tilted downward, causing Miss Ruo’s movements to stagnate, and the ice cones under her control lost momentum, collapsing and falling toward the lake.

Within two or three meters distance, Xu Huo used Spatial Power to knock her unconscious and then left the lake through a spatial portal.

*

All the cats and dogs in the Whale Garden gathered around Miss Ruo, warming her icy body with their body heat. Covered with a blanket, Miss Ruo curled up like a baby, her brow furrowed until much later when a puppy licked her awake. Habitually holding it, she came to her senses.

She sat up on the sofa, unconcerned about the cats and dogs falling to the ground, looking at the person outside in the garden drinking tea, somewhat angrily said, "Who let you into my house without permission?"

Xu Huo turned around to look at her, "Expediency demanded it. Law Enforcement Team is out there arresting people, and I have no other place to stay, so I brought you back."

He spoke while gesturing with his chin outside, "See? There are still law enforcement waiting."

Miss Ruo didn’t even glance, "They’ll leave on their own in a while."

"You can use Time Force, why didn’t you kill me?"

"If not for passing the level, we might not have intersected at all, what’s the use of killing you." Xu Huo stared at her, "I still haven’t found a way to pass the level."

Miss Ruo’s expression suddenly became tender and charming. She kindly suggested, "Why don’t you tell me, maybe I can help you."

Xu Huo laughed, "I really don’t dare. Playing mind games, I can’t match up to you all."

"Only kind attracts kind." Miss Ruo held the puppy, leisurely stroking its head, "Nobody ever met my siblings only once and realized it. And the sister who met you that day always thought the other siblings all died."

"So the life-saving savior is fake too?" Xu Huo said, "What about parents?"

"All fake." Miss Ruo smiled beautifully, "I was born an orphan, without knowing parents or relatives, those siblings were people I once met, they are bad guys living in other bodies, but in my body, they can all protect me."