Chapter 790

Chapter 790

“It’s another team.”

Nicole and Tian Lie saw two dots on their personal radars. This meant that there were either Awakened ones or Players who had entered a state of combat.

“They must also be targeting this place for intel gathering. They’ve chosen to forcibly charge in.” Tian Lie rubbed his chin, an envious look in his eyes. “Damn it! I should have attacked just now.”

“What is it? You are still thinking of getting involved here?” Nicole gave Tian Lie a cold glance.

Tian Lie hesitated for a moment before shaking his head. “Forget it. We have already found the location of the meteorite. If we head there now, it will probably take us around one hour to reach. As for this place, with the other teams attacking, a high number of soldiers will come here soon. It would be troublesome if we get entangled here.”

“Your head is finally working like normal a little.” Nicole nodded in satisfaction. Stepping on the gas pedal, she drove the car forward. “Let’s go!”

...

“Found it!”

Xia Xiaolei had been sitting on the sofa with his head hung down and his eyes closed. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open and he said in a hushed tone.

“Direction? Distance? Level?”

Roddy quickly asked.

They had long since taken off their regular clothes and changed into their protective suits, ready to set off at any time.

“Southeast, five kilometres.” Xia Xiaolei stood up. “There are five people. Two of them used [B] class skills and one used an [A] class skill. As for the other two, they might be participating in battle using weapons.”

Xia Xiaolei had the innate skill, Extrasensory Perception. By consolidating it into his personal radar, the detection range would increase from the usual one kilometre to ten kilometres. At the same time, it can also display the level of the skills used by the detected targets.

“The highest one is only at [A] class. It’s not that problematic.” Roddy smiled confidently.

“Then, let’s move out! Head there first. After confirming their strength, begin operation to capture them.”

...

“Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Do it quickly!”

A Player in a thick and heavy metal armour and a stout-looking face was scanning his surroundings vigilantly. Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

Before him was a thin youngster sporting a pair of goggles. The youngster was tapping the keyboard of a computer.

Inside the office, corpses could be seen strewn all over the place. Most of them wore work clothes. Outside the office, however, many of the corpses wore military garb. They were soldiers assigned to guard duty.

Aside from the two, there were three other team members, each keeping watch at one of the corners of the office space. They aimed their guns at the doors and windows, places where enemies might appear. All of them were focused on keeping watch over their surroundings.

“I’m already doing my best, boss!” the thin youngster snickered.

“The defence level of the US Army’s military network is very average. But why are you so anxious? The guards in a research base like this will not be very strong. More, we’ve already killed off most of them. Even if reinforcements come, should we be scared?”

“The reinforcements are not the problem here. It’s the other teams.” The armoured man shook his head. “Although this is not a competitive-type instance dungeon, there is no guarantee that other teams will not raid us. Hurry it up! Once we obtain the location of the meteorite, we’ve leave!”

“Alright! Found it!” The thin youngster pressed the Enter key forcefully and looked at the screen.

“Alien meteorite crash landed... Greendale... departure time...”

“Argh!”

A ray of bloody light suddenly flashed out.

A Player who was standing between two windows cried out wretchedly as a sharp and invisible blade cut him from his crotch all the way up to his head, cleaving him into two. The protective suit he wore became like a piece of rag, incapable of stopping even a single attack before it was utterly cut.

The thin youngster shrieked in misery, his face pale.

The two electric-type magic wolves were his War Beasts. Although their initial class was not high, they had gone through several devouring and evolution processes. Thus, they possessed considerable combat power. And yet, they were killed in an instant.

Boom!

Suddenly, the floor broke as a Sentinel mech charged into the room from the lower floor. The war blade on its right arm swept outwards.

“A Sentinel mech?!”

The leader of the team, the armoured man, had only just finished up charging when he saw the Sentinel mech jumping in through the floor. His fist, which was meant to shoot towards Xia Xiaolei, turned by half a circle to punch towards the Sentinel mech instead.

For a team to own a Sentinel mech, be they Players or Awakened ones, they were surely not weaklings.

Before this, the armoured man had carefully considered the possibility of them becoming the hunted. Unexpectedly, the enemy would come so quickly.

More, they were also so strong!

Fortunately, the Sentinel mech appeared just as he was done fully charging up his attack.

He punched with all his strength and the air in front of his fist compressed into – visible to the naked eye – a small ball of highly condensed air. The ball of air then shot towards the Sentinel mech.

A massive shockwave erupted against the Sentinel mech, shaking the entire building. As a result, the Sentinel mech was pushed several metres back.

Seeing that, however, instantly caused the expression on the armoured man’s face to sink.

The Sentinel mech had taken his full-powered attack head on, but it was not damaged in the slightest.

He knew very well just how strong his Mountain Quaker Blow was. Its biggest drawback was that it needed too long to fully charge up. But once fully charged, the power of its attack was astonishingly high. Even if it could not utterly demolish a Sentinel mech, it would be able to partially destroy it. At the very least, it would incapacitate it temporarily.

This Sentinel mech... there was something different about it.

But the armoured man had no time to ponder the issue. After his punch pushed the Sentinel mech away by several metres, the Sentinel mech rapidly raised its right arm to fire a line of bullets at him.

At the same time, Xia Xiaolei had also made his way into the Players’ formation.

Wriggling, the tendrils from his right hand transformed from a spear to a giant axe before sweeping outwards. The blue-haired Player raised both his hands – equipped with bracers – to block. Instantly, he let out a wretched cry as the giant axe sent him flying.

In that collision, his [B+] class high-grade alloy bracers only managed to release a clump of faint blue light before the attack tore open two deep cuts through them. The blade of the axe also made its way through the layer of protective suit beneath the bracers, cutting into his two arms halfway.

When the faint blue light burst out, however, it also covered the giant axe with a layer of frost.

After freezing the giant axe, the layer of frost did not stop. Instead, it continued to extend downwards. The rapid thermal expansion and contraction caused non-stop crackling sounds.

Xia Xiaolei’s entire face and even his eyes were covered by crystals. Thus, there was no way to see his expression. He lowered his head and gave his right arm a glance. Seeing the layer of frost continuing to spread, a crystal on his left arm swiftly transformed into a sharp blade before severing his right arm.

The severed right arm and the giant axe that were completely frozen smashed against the ground and shattered to powdery bits.

But countless bits of flesh protruded from the severed part of Xia Xiaolei’s right arm, swirling and intersecting as they rapidly grew.

Another nearby Player held a heavy machinegun, which he used to fire frantically at Xia Xiaolei. However, the bullets only managed to penetrate a few centimetres into Xiao Xiaolei’s body before the wriggling bio armour ejected them out.

Then... blood splattered.

A blurry figure flashed into the room from one of the windows there.

One slash.

The blade cut through the protective suit to cleave open the Player’s belly.

It had just been tens of seconds, but Qimu Xi had circled around the building and launched a sudden attack from a window situated on the other side.

On another side, the armoured man, who was also the leader of this team, had already begun dashing towards another window like crazy.