Players, Please Board the Train

”Click!” The Crew-cut Blonde Man pulled back the safety and pressed the gun against Tongtong’s back of the head. ”Xu Huo, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”

Xu Huo stared at the formation across from him, then gave the Crew-cut Blonde Man an odd look. ”I’m curious. How did you manage to capture the players?”

”You’re a veteran player too. Don’t tell me you don’t know that trapping a player isn’t actually that hard? Your country’s Special Defense Department can do it. How could we possibly not?” The Crew-cut Blonde Man didn’t waste words. He said directly, ”I only have one goal. The antidote fungus. You give me the antidote fungus, and both of these people can live.”

”Hold on.” Xu Huo raised his hand, speaking unhurriedly. ”You don’t actually think I carry the antidote fungus on me, do you? Since you have channels to learn about the antidote fungus, you should know that thing is very difficult to cultivate. If the environment is bad, it will die naturally.”

The Crew-cut Blonde Man laughed. ”Trying to buy time?”

As he spoke, he lifted the gun and shot the Painting Woman’s head clean off. Brains and blood splattered everywhere.

Xu Huo really wanted to applaud him. ”You killed my person. What makes you think I’ll still give you the antidote fungus?”

”Then it depends on whether you care about this little brother of yours.” The Crew-cut Blonde Man pressed down hard on the child’s head. ”I know you two don’t share the same mother. Before I took him away, I left your father a note. I wonder if he’s now hoping his eldest son will save his youngest son.”

Xu Huo didn’t show the emotion the other man wanted. Instead, he asked, ”Are all the players from your Country Y mute except for you? No one else talks?”

The Crew-cut Blonde Man narrowed his eyes. ”I’ll give you three seconds. One, two—””Don’t bother counting.” Xu Huo lifted his chin. ”Look at what’s under your feet.”

The Crew-cut Blonde Man’s gaze shifted downward. The floor beneath them had started sinking at some point. Step by step, it descended, gradually transforming into a spiral staircase walkway.

But his luck was bad. He hadn’t stepped on the stairs. He was right in the center. As the ground vanished beneath his feet, he plummeted down.

After the Crew-cut Blonde Man fell, the opened steps quickly retracted. In less than a second, the floor returned to normal. Meanwhile, Xu Huo ignored ”Tongtong,” who was kneeling motionless on the ground, and turned his head toward a certain spot on this floor. ”Come out.”

Another Crew-cut Blonde Man appeared where his gaze had landed. The man stepped out from behind a door and applauded. ”I didn’t expect you to defeat Tracy so quickly.”

”You didn’t meet her?”

”It must have taken quite some effort, right?”

”Not really. The fact that my friend can appear here means you have seen her. Has Tongtong already been taken away by her?”

”The fact that you can see through my illusion means we’re the same kind of people.” The Crew-cut Blonde Man’s expression darkened.

”That’s not really the case either.” Xu Huo smiled slightly. ”You created yourself and your companions in the illusion, but you clearly don’t have enough ability to control it. So besides you, no one else can speak. Also, if that red-dressed woman really had met up with you, then you and the others would absolutely never dare to share a room with her.”

”A-grade pollutant!” The Crew-cut Blonde Man immediately reacted.

”That’s right. I hope she lives a bit longer and returns to her own country. Then you’ll also understand what it means to be helpless.” Xu Huo said. ”Unless you can buy a super antidote from the Artificers, those pollutants will spread like a plague in your country.”

His voice sent chills down one’s spine. ”But even if you manage to trade for antidotes, how many people will be infected before that? And how many people can a few antidotes save? In the player era, people are the foundation. Without enough people, you can’t supply enough players.”

”By then, you will truly regret everything you’ve done in Capital City today.”

”Today, every single life lost to the black rain in Capital City will be paid for with the lives of your countrymen.”

”Shut up!” The Crew-cut Blonde Man roared. He brought his hands together, and every piece of metal in the entire floor flew toward Xu Huo at the same time!

”Show me something new.” Xu Huo ignored the flying false images. He accurately swept away the items mixed in among them, then raised his hand as if turning a doorknob. A door appeared out of nowhere in front of him. Passing through the door, he was instantly behind the Crew-cut Blonde Man.

The Crew-cut Blonde Man turned and retreated. He slapped one hand on the ground, and the tiles of the entire floor simultaneously turned to sand, curling into several tornadoes that surrounded Xu Huo. But before they could converge, they were swallowed by a door that appeared on the ground.

”Boom! Boom! Boom!” Several doors closed in succession. The Crew-cut Blonde Man stared at this scene in confusion. ”Mental power can at most interfere with a person’s judgment! How can it possibly block physical attacks!”

Xu Huo didn’t plan to enlighten him. He raised his hand, and several independent doors rose up around the Crew-cut Blonde Man. He opened one and walked inside, then stepped out from another door.

The Crew-cut Blonde Man stood still. A shockwave-like barrier surged out around him, pushing everything on the ground flat and smashing all the doors to pieces. He had predicted Xu Huo’s position, rushed forward in advance, and used the shockwave to shatter the newly generated door as well!

Xu Huo flew out along with the wreckage of the door. He retreated repeatedly, but the Crew-cut Blonde Man kept charging forward, slamming him straight through the wall of the adjacent room!

With a crash, the wall was blasted open. The debris buried Xu Huo as well. But the Crew-cut Blonde Man didn’t press the attack. Instead, he quickly turned around and opened fire on the office area!

”Don’t forget, I also know how to use mental power!” The Crew-cut Blonde Man shouted at the man who seemed to have never left his original position at all.

Xu Huo opened a door. The bullets all vanished into it without a trace. He reminded the Crew-cut Blonde Man, ”Do you hear a sound?”

The Crew-cut Blonde Man thought it was an attack, so he instinctively listened closely. But what rang in his ears was the sound of human speech. The next moment, he used an item to block his ears and spun a miniature bronze bell flying outward.

The bronze bell flew toward Xu Huo. It grew larger and larger in mid-air, and a tremendous gravitational force released from its center sucked everything around it inside!

Xu Huo saw that the size of the things being sucked in hadn’t changed. He kicked two tables over to block the entrance, then followed the pull of the gravity and leaped up onto the bronze bell, charging toward the Crew-cut Blonde Man!

The Crew-cut Blonde Man revealed a smile. He flipped his hand, and the bronze bell tilted upward, just swallowing Xu Huo’s legs!

”There’s no need to get your whole body in. Limiting your movement is enough...”

But his smugness didn’t last two seconds before the bronze bell started powdering from the edges.

The Crew-cut Blonde Man’s expression changed. He lunged forward to grab the item back, but when would Xu Huo give him the chance? ”Like Repels Like!”

The two repelled each other, separating by three meters. By the time the Crew-cut Blonde Man looked up again, the bronze bell had already turned into a pile of powder on the ground.

Losing an item was painful, but the Crew-cut Blonde Man quickly adjusted his mindset. He threw his hands into the air, and an artificial beehive flew up. A massive swarm of bees poured out!

”You people really have a lot of good stuff.” Xu Huo tossed the Desert Windmill onto the ground.