Chapter 2812: Capsized

The other side fell silent because of Xu Huo’s words and then abruptly cut off communication, clearly knowing he wouldn’t help them. Now, the members of the Law Enforcement Team were busy monitoring the battle in the city’s center. Even the players around Xu Huo and the others noticed them, no one dared to approach recklessly.

“They’ve set eyes on us,” Zhou Juanjuan said.

Xu Huo nodded, turning to leave, but just as he turned his head, a force shot toward them. Instinctively, he used “My Heart is Dark” to engulf himself and the three around him. They stayed in the black space only for an instant before he brought them out again. Zhou Juanjuan and the others hadn’t realized what happened and reflexively looked in the same direction as Xu Huo, noticing a vortex of energy appeared high in the sky.

This force was initially invisible, but the impurities swirling within formed into a sharp cone, charging toward the man in the city center. A few kilometers from the man, the conical force collided with the Defensive Barrier. At the moment of contact, the barrier that seemed unbreakable suddenly disintegrated, and the debris outside the barrier ceased to roll.

In an instant, over a dozen players from the Law Enforcement Team approached the man, encircling him in a small confinement field, blocking all of his props.

However, the man on the other side was no pushover. As he clenched his fingers, more than ten thin needles flew out from his glove. These needles seemed to have eyes, aiming one-on-one at the nearby Law Enforcement Team members, relentlessly pursuing them. This prevented them from focusing on the entrapped man, providing him an opportunity to escape.

With the help of two fellow players, the man successfully left the encirclement. But just as they stepped out of the blockade, red lines appeared on all three of their necks. In the next second, the heads of the two players fell with their bodies, while the man’s body just slightly swayed—the wound on his neck wasn’t fatal.

Two middle-aged men in blue robes appeared in front of him.

The injured man smiled slightly, “Why did only you two come?”

He glanced around and saw the third blue robe man was far off at the city’s edge, confronting several players.

“A dog can’t change its habit of eating shit,” the man mocked.

At the city’s edge, the third blue robe man, mocked as a “dog” by the injured man, looked down at Xu Huo, “Hand over the prop you just used, and I’ll spare your life.”

Xu Huo chuckled, “Did all of you from the Rank-A Wormhole Point attend the same training class?”

The blue robe man frowned slightly, not understanding his meaning, but he clearly didn’t want to waste time here. He immediately attempted to resolve this small nuisance, but unfortunately, this “small nuisance” was not polite either, greeting him immediately with the “Hand of Space-Time,” restricting his ability to move. As time force fully immersed, he simultaneously increased the distance between them.

The blue robe man was frozen in the flow of time, rapidly aging. However, this commotion couldn’t hide from the other two blue robe men. At the moment when the time force surged in, they quickly assessed Xu Huo’s controllable power range. Keeping a distance, one of them used Characteristics to confine the entire city—the formerly unobstructed space turned into sludge, making movement difficult. Even taking a step became arduous, and the air solidified, as if all the oxygen had been vacuumed out!

Of course, the remaining one wasn’t idle either. The cone-shaped force that previously penetrated the injured man’s Air Barrier reappeared. Unlike those immobilized, it moved unimpeded through the solidified air, reaching Xu Huo in the blink of an eye!

Having failed to catch him off guard earlier, how could it be effective now? Xu Huo immediately abandoned Zhou Juanjuan and the others, flashing into the black space himself. With each entrance and exit, he rapidly approached the blue robe man. The cutting net formed by the “Hand of Space-Time” covered the entire city center. During this process, the spatial bodies he pulled up and quickly dismantled exploded throughout the city. Although limited by the solidified space, they still caused considerable impact.

Seeing him charging towards the city center so unabashedly, one of the blue robe men cursed aloud, hastily blocking his path to avoid affecting the high-altitude Superdimensional Instruments.

“Retreat!” The blue robe man pushed forward with his palm, propelling the city’s buildings and even the air outward. Accompanied by rumbling sounds, half of the city moved outwards.

Xu Huo, caught within, was also forced to retreat. Meanwhile, another blue robe man anticipated his movements. As he approached the city center again, a short knife appearing like glass in his hand made a gentle cut targeting him!

At that instant, half the city was sliced in half—the effect of this prop was too fast, too vast, almost simultaneously slicing countless buildings and players in half. The worst part was that this cutting force repeated back and forth like a guillotine. Many players who dodged like Xu Huo the first time were unprepared for the second strike and met an indiscriminate death!

Held back by the blue robe man, Xu Huo couldn’t leave the solidified half of the city, but he couldn’t stay hidden in the Dark Space forever. It was impossible to simply walk away. After dodging the cutting force again, he estimated the blue robe man’s position. Using the black space to extend his movement distance to the maximum, he opened up a path with the Space Cutting Line, successfully closing the gap between them.

Just as he was about to use “My Heart is Dark” again, the blue robe man seemed to see through his intentions, sneering contemptuously as he instantly widened the distance again, forcing him back into the solidified part of the city.

Xu Huo moved his right hand, hesitating whether to use the Superdimensional Space Power. Just then, the injured man from the Rank-A Wormhole Point suddenly flashed between him and the blue robe man, opening his arms towards the blue robe man, “Magnetic Attraction!”

The initially confident blue robe man’s expression suddenly changed, as his prop couldn’t block the characteristic of the injured man, uncontrollably closing the distance between them. At the same time, Xu Huo once again freed himself from the solidified city. After disappearing from space, a large mass of Dark Matter surged behind the blue robe man, engulfing him as it gradually shrank. When the Dark Matter vanished again, Xu Huo stood in its place.

Meeting his gaze, the injured man quickly said, “That Superdimensional Instrument is a semi-finished product, and the sealing power is unstable. Once damaged, everyone here could vanish instantly!”

Xu Huo nodded, turning to look at the remaining blue robe man—the one hit by the time force had long aged and died, and the one thrown into the black space was missing, unlikely to reappear. Of the three blue robe men, only one remained.

The opponent clearly didn’t expect to fail so miserably in a small Zone 022, let alone at the hands of a Rank-B player. In an instant, emotions fluctuated in his eyes, finally spitting out, “Who are you, and why interfere with the Lan Family’s affairs?”

Xu Huo laughed, “It seems not only did you all attend the same training class, but also collectively forgetful.”