Chapter 885: Settling Accounts

Seeing the two of them return together, someone couldn't help but mutter softly, "They didn't clear it either. Just as I said, what help could an ordinary person possibly provide?"

"Are you alright?" Xu Huo asked Xiaoxiao, who was lying on the ground coughing. She raised her pale face and said, "I'm so sorry, I couldn't help you... Of course, someone like me with no abilities at all, how could I ever help anyone?"

Xu Huo handed her a towel. "Friendship is equal. It has nothing to do with how strong or weak a person is."

Xiaoxiao slowly climbed to her feet and reached out to accept the towel.

Unexpectedly, fireworks effects appeared above the plaza right after. Two names slowly enlarged from within the fireworks, and the Host enthusiastically scattered flowers. "Congratulations, Mr. Yu Cong and Ms. Liu Xiaoxiao! You two have earned genuine friendship!"

The realism brought by advanced technology was something ordinary special effects could never achieve. The moment the Host announced they had earned friendship, Sea World vividly surrounded them in three hundred sixty degrees like a promotional video, and with every scene change, people warmly greeted them, as if they were already residents of Sea World.

Those who wanted to stay in Sea World were naturally full of envy, but Xu Huo would not be staying, and Liu Xiaoxiao did not seem particularly happy either.

"Did you clear it?" You Si tilted his chin at Xu Huo.

Xu Huo gave a slight nod, then added, "Clearing it isn't as hard as you'd think."

The rating he received this time surpassed S-level. Such a high rating was entirely because Liu Xiaoxiao, as a weak ordinary person, was willing to sacrifice herself to rescue a player who was more powerful than her by an unknown number of times. Even though she understood that a situation players couldn't handle was absolutely something she could never turn around, she still did it.

Therefore an ordinary rating clear probably wouldn't be this difficult. At the very least, it wouldn't reach the point of sacrificing your life for the other person.

Xu Huo had a premonition that someone else would clear it again very soon. His gaze swept across the plaza, skimming over Gan Yi, Number 27, and the others, before landing on the person who had ambushed him last night.

With a shift of his foot, he crossed space to appear behind the man, crossed his hands, and directly snapped his neck.

The corpse dropped to the ground. Xu Huo then turned to look back at Gan Yi.

With his speed, he could reach them in less than a second. So the instant he turned his head, Gan Yi and Zhuang Mengtian both brought out items. The former pushed out a storage cabinet as tall as a person, while the latter braced a half-person-tall standing clock and forcefully turned the pointer on it. When it reached nine o'clock exactly, the standing clock chimed!

A sound completely disproportionate to the standing clock's own size instantly pierced through the entire plaza. It was clearly a deafening noise, yet many people showed dazed expressions, and several ordinary people directly collapsed to the ground asleep.

Xu Huo stood in place without moving. Across from him, Zhuang Mengtian wasn't sure whether the item had actually worked, and while she was observing, Gan Yi had already taken the opportunity to reach his hand behind him, still the right hand missing two fingers. The ring finger and pinky that had been severed earlier were reattached.

But this time Xu Huo didn't hold back. As he turned, sword light flashed in his hand, and he cleanly cut off Gan Yi's hand. In an instant he appeared behind the two of them, tore apart the spatial shield Gan Yi had made with an item, and grabbed his shoulder.

Some small-range spatial items, such as those that altered the surrounding space's state to separate attacks or form protective shields, were in reality just changing the state of space. Under normal circumstances, ordinary items would find it very difficult to break through. But Xu Huo had undergone Super Evolution in the spatial direction, and Gan Yi's spatial item wasn't particularly high-grade either. So when the two collided, Gan Yi's item was naturally rendered useless. Still, he was willing to go all out, simply sacrificing an arm to forcefully slip free.

Part of that was thanks to his items, of course, but Gan Yi's left hand was still dislocated. Without any opening to reattach it, Xu Huo flickered to his side again.

At such close range, it came down to speed. Gan Yi used five items in succession, forcefully pulling the distance between them apart.

Xu Huo was first forcibly moved three meters away. Immediately after, the floor beneath his feet turned into a constantly sliding stairway, forcing him to walk in place. Then a cloth sack dropped down from above, and he heard the other side say, "Please turn away." He then involuntarily turned around, walking with his back to Gan Yi.

When he turned, not only Gan Yi and Zhuang Mengtian, but even Number 27 from not far away came over to join in.

Sensing these people closing in, Xu Huo activated "Truth Transcends All." Within three seconds, items and attacks were ineffective. He turned back around and directly faced the three of them head-on. Using Spatial Power to boost his speed, as he passed by them, he slit Zhuang Mengtian's throat, then grabbed Number 27's neck with one hand and slammed him into Gan Yi. Pressing the two of them, he crashed them straight into the plaza wall!

"!" The tremendous impact echoed through the plaza. The back of this area was genuine metal. Number 27 in front was fine, but Gan Yi behind was embedded in a dent in the wall, his bones snapping with a cracking sound!

The three seconds hadn't yet passed, but Xu Huo threw Number 27 out without even blinking. With a backhanded strike, he nailed Gan Yi to the wall with his sword.

Looking at the screaming man, Xu Huo walked over and lightly tapped the sword hilt with his foot. As the injured man's face contorted, the blade of Eye of the Dead sank almost completely into the wall behind him.

"Cough!" Gan Yi spat out a mouthful of blood, staring deathly at the person before him.

"The sword went through your right shoulder. If you're ruthless enough, you can cut off your shoulder and push the sword out," Xu Huo said expressionlessly.

Gan Yi didn't speak. Instead, he looked in Number 27's direction. However, Xu Huo shattered his hope. "He can barely save himself. Don't count on him to help you escape."

The thrown Number 27 had suffered only light injuries. Unfortunately, his problem wasn't the wounds on his body, but rather the moment Xu Huo grabbed him. The pathogens had already seeped in through the wounds on his skin. Invading through wounds took effect faster than simple contact with the skin's surface. So by the time he climbed to his feet, a black ring had formed around his neck, and for the remaining time he could only clutch his throat and desperately cough out black mucus.

He couldn't even spare a thought for Xu Huo now, frantically pouring antidote into his mouth.

Two dead, two wounded. What seemed like a thrilling fight had actually taken less than half a minute. And at this moment Xu Huo turned and smiled at the others. "Carry on."

The Host and audience outside the arena had clearly seen this scene as well. Whether they were especially thrilled by scenes of combat and slaughter, or especially tolerant of someone who might become a friend ruling a city, in any case no one interfered with Xu Huo. After he said those words, the Host also smiled and said, "Sea World welcomes powerful friends."

The Three-Color Showdown could continue. Number 18 was rather wary and took the initiative to team up with someone.

You Si gave Xu Huo a thumbs-up from afar and said, "Badass!"

Shajia shook his head pityingly and draped a white cloth over the corpses, casually taking the items they had been wearing.

Only then did Xu Huo turn back to Gan Yi and say, "Do you know why you're still alive right now?"