Chapter 2479: Chapter 2479: Fight Outside the Train
"It’s too early to give up now." Said the female player with the tattoo on her brow, "This is just the beginning. Backing down against the local players now would only make them look down on us."
The accompanying individuals somewhat shared that thought; however, the more important goal was to beat the game. After all, compared to the dangerous will delivery, Xu Huo’s gesture of returning the gift seemed to lack any signs pointing to victory.
Xu Huo didn’t say much and turned back to the Wan Family duo, "Be careful."
The Wan Family duo nodded. In fact, they hadn’t relaxed since the ambush ended; they were even more vigilant than during the attack.
Xu Huo hesitated a little, lowered his voice to exchange a few words with the Girl in the Painting, then called Bubble Bean to go to the dining car together.
When they arrived at the dining car, Bubble Bean said, "Did you intentionally ask me out? Is there a problem?"
"I haven’t noticed anything suspicious yet, but it’s worth trying nonetheless." Xu Huo replied.
"No matter if those people outside are targeting Ling Ling or the old lady’s group, us going out alone won’t make any difference, right?" Bubble Bean continued.
"Not necessarily." The player who attacked earlier occasionally disappeared from Xu Huo’s sensing range, but they definitely followed the train. It seemed their goal wasn’t to kill Ling Ling’s group or steal the will — if they were afraid of damaging the train, stopping the train or simply getting them off wouldn’t be difficult.
Such a tenuous connection must have a reason.
"Please enjoy." The attendant placed the drink in front of Xu Huo.
Xu Huo glanced at it and immediately grabbed the attendant’s wrist, "What did you put in my drink?"
The attendant was about to explain with a smile when he glimpsed Bubble Bean pulling out a prop, at which point he quickly broke free. In an instant, he slid to the door of the front carriage. Upon encountering the unusual energy fluctuations there, he suddenly stopped and leaped out of the window.
"Trying to escape!" Bubble Bean opened his five fingers, releasing a net to catch the person mid-air.
The person who dressed as the attendant fell back into the window, tossed a ball, and after it exploded, the strong shockwave overturned Bubble Bean along with tables and chairs in the dining car. Then he pressed a prop with dual vertical lines, turning it into a triangle, the entire train stopped suddenly as if braked, and the group was thrown forward. Meanwhile, the attendant turned into a shadow and reached a hundred meters away.
Within a few blinks, the attendant ran a kilometer away, slowing down as nobody chased out from the train, stopping on a large tree, watching the train from afar.
"Why ambush me?" A voice abruptly appeared behind him, causing the attendant’s expression to change drastically. He leaped from the tree, wrapped in a transparent bubble, and flew through the forest cleft.
Xu Huo wouldn’t let him escape, "Under the ’Weight of Life’, both him and the flying attendant were forced onto the ground, and while the ’Light of Justice’ shone, a bronze-colored shuttle spun rapidly, breaking through the attendant’s three layers of defensive barriers, coincidentally shattering the interference device he wore.
The confrontation lasted just a few seconds, and the attendant plunged through the mental portal on the ground, transported back within the five hundred meter range of the spiritual world.
The attendant managed to withstand multiple secant lines, then used a prop to distance himself from Xu Huo, only to be knocked back by Xu Huo’s defensive barriers when he resurfaced. Behind him lay the pre-set secant line of the instrument named "Between Two Points."
"Between Two Points" is a spatial instrument; once set at two points, the spatial ray appears between them, its intensity comparable to Xue Lang’s cutting ray, effortlessly slicing through the attendant’s two layers of defense, and shredded a physical defense prop.
"Gentle as water!" As he was about to collide with the spatial ray, the attendant reached towards the back, and when his hand was about to touch the ray, the sharp ray lost its power and became soft, allowing him to dodge this attack by ducking under the ray!
Xu Huo raised his eyebrow slightly at his actions, extracted the "Sealing Door" hammer nail, aiming at the attendant’s back.
"Bang!" The hammer nail struck with a loud crash, piercing through the attendant’s heart, his high-speed figure staggered before disappearing into the forest.
After retrieving the hammer nail, Xu Huo raised his hand, summoning back the shuttle that flew overhead. It was a Rank A Prop he obtained from completing "Hidden Friend," a prop he could freely control, fast in speed, moving according to the direction indicated by the holder. It possessed strong attack power, allowing remote control while sparing the use of spatial powers.
With this test, the effects were quite promising.
He stored it in the prop slot, glanced in the direction the attendant had disappeared, then turned to enter the mental portal, returning to the train.
"Didn’t catch him?" Bubble Bean was waiting for him.
"He entered the train station." Xu Huo said calmly, "The next attack is likely not coming so soon, let’s head back first."
They returned to the carriage where the old lady and Ling Ling were, finding out they had also been attacked, leaving Ling Ling puzzled, "There are so many players delivering gifts for the Wan Family, why were you attacked?"
Could there be an issue with the gift?
"There’s no problem with the gift." Xu Huo said straightforwardly, "The gift was selected randomly from a pile of gift boxes."
"Then it’s..." Ling Ling’s gaze shifted towards the old lady.
"If it were about them, that person would have attacked them earlier." Bubble Bean pointed at the Wan Family duo and then sat across from them, "’You’re locals, you must know the reason, right? Those players seemed to randomly choose their targets."
"We’re sorry, we don’t know the situation." One of them said, "The gift return was supposed to be a small matter, delaying your completion not to mention bringing danger, we really feel sorry. Perhaps you should give the gift to us, convenient for us since we’re on the way."
The reason was reversed, Bubble Bean glanced at Xu Huo, who just smiled, "An accident, there shouldn’t be a next time."
Sadly, he was wrong; not only was there a next time, but also a third time. Between the next four stations, they were attacked twice, each time on the train, while disembarking seemed unchallenged.
The attackers clearly targeted the three Outer Zone players, the Wan Family duo and the old lady were merely caught up in the incident.
"We’ve already separated from Ling Ling’s group halfway, yet we’re still attacked, could we be targeted too?" Bubble Bean couldn’t understand, "Isn’t the frequency and number of attacks a bit excessive?"
"We’ve been watched since we left Cat Fruit Town." Xu Huo said.
