Chapter 235 Simulation: Landmine
After leaving the Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall, Su Jie and the others headed towards the inner circle and soon found a concealed room to let the flying swords absorb the essence of living gold.
Thirty-six sword pellets slowly revolved around the essence of living gold, which under the direction of Su Jie's will, shifted from its original solid state into a liquid form. It then transformed into thirty-six stream-like threads, gradually merging into the sword pellets, giving them a sheen similar to that of jade.
Hum—
All thirty-six sword pellets vibrated in unison, seemingly imbued with sentience, exulting in their own advancement.
"Inhale—"
Su Jie sharply inhaled, drawing the sword pellets into his abdomen and immediately felt them moving rhythmically throughout his body. They constantly vibrated his bones, muscles, organs, and meridians. Even the injuries on his back were healing at a rapid pace.
"It seems that after fusing with the essence of living gold, the artifact can also provide me with an extremely powerful healing effect," Su Jie remarked, taking off his shirt and tearing away the bandages to reveal the completely healed skin on his back.
After putting his clothes back on, Su Jie said, "Next, it's the final round. Hoping for a chance to pick off a lone player like in the previous rounds is almost impossible."
"What's more important is that the players in the final circle mostly have vitality over 7."
That was the key issue.
The opponents were too strong, while they were too weak.
The strongest among them, Su Jie, only had a vitality of 7, while Zhang Manman's was at 4, and Chen Tian Yuzi and Jos, both with a vitality below 3, were ignorable. Forabetterreadingexperience,visitM(VLEMPYR).
However, if Chen Tian Yuzi could launch a surprise attack, she would be able to cause some trouble for those powerhouses, especially since she had acquired the ability to shoot beams of light after fusing with the Angel's Wings.
Caught off guard, anyone with a vitality over 7, if hit, could be injured, or in a more severe case, be taken out completely.
Zhang Manman kept silent for a while before taking out an invisibility cloak and asking, "So, we're going to lie low?"
"Lying low won't get us the victory, but it can help us last until other players are eliminated first," Su Jie agreed with Cao Jingjing's suggestion. "With the invisibility cloak, we can hide very well. As long as we don't move, others won't be able to find us."
The invisibility cloak was a divine artifact for concealment, its only problem being that while it made the wearer invisible to others, it also plunged the wearer into darkness.
A perfect match with the scientific principle of optical invisibility!
Therefore, while invisible, one could only rely on a mental sense to perceive the surroundings.
If they could use it, so could others. However, others likely wouldn't keep their mental sense active at all times as that would be extremely draining. So Su Jie and his team could definitely use the cloak to remain hidden until the end.
Chen Tian Yuzi and Jos both agreed.
Zhang Manman activated the invisibility cloak, covering Su Jie and the others with it as well.
Although there was only one cloak, as long as the others stayed hidden beneath it, they too could be enveloped by its unique waves and enter a state of invisibility together.
Under such conditions, all four of them were virtually blind, reliant only on team communication for coordination.
Only Su Jie's spirit was strong enough to sense the situation among them.
Bang!
The door was kicked open, and a figure appeared outside the room where Su Jie and the others were hidden.
It was Jiang Wuxing.
Seeing no one inside, he left to search the next room.
"We really did fool a player, but who was that? There are still such weak players in the final round?" Zhang Manman couldn't see but could still sense the other person's vitality.
That guy's vitality was very close to 3, but not quite there.
That was too weak.
Could it also be a dark horse team just like them?
Su Jie said, "It's Jiang Wuxing, Jiang Wudao's cousin. He must have met up with his cousin. The reason why he has been able to hold on until now is probably that his cousin has used him as bait."
Zhang Manman huffed, "Large clans always have so much internal strife. I couldn't stand the people in my corporate group, which is why I set out on my own."
Su Jie had no answer to that.
Who else could ask their family for money after going solo and get millions, even billions at a time?
Putting aside Zhang Manman's complaints, Su Jie said, "Since Jiang Wuxing has arrived, then Jiang Wudao must also be nearby, as well as his two teammates. They'll certainly meet up."
Boom!
Just at that moment, a shockwave came from outside the window, shattering the glass; the strong wind made the four of them slightly flustered.
Zhang Manman immediately turned off her invisibility cloak and looked outside.
On the open ground a kilometer away, a mushroom cloud more than fifty meters high rose into the air, the swirling black and red signifying utter destruction.
"Can you withstand the power of that bomb?" Zhang Manman's face showed shock.
At that moment, four figures under the building they were in quickly moved toward the center of the explosion; among them were Jiang Wudao and Jiang Wuxing.
Su Jie noticed the figures and spread out his awareness, careful not to alert them, while also answering Zhang Manman's question, "I can't."
Although he had survived the attack of a cultivator before, the nature of that sword light was different from an explosion. Although both had light and heat, the main essence of the sword light was a kind of energy that destroyed everything.
Moreover, that energy was more concentrated. Even if it didn't hit Su Jie, it would still explode, but it wouldn't spread on a large scale.
Hence, Su Jie had been able to narrowly avoid it and survive.
This explosion was different; the energy released was still meant for destruction, but it mainly consisted of light and heat.
Light and heat, or rather, this kind of energy, was diffusive, unlike the concentrated energy of sword light. Even if Su Jie was not directly hit, the light and heat that burst forth in an instant would sweep over everything.
He couldn't escape it.
He had not expected that players would bring explosives into play!
Modern city...
The operability of this map was extremely high.
It also indicated there were indeed many talented people among the players.
The power of this explosion, below the Embryonic Breathing Realm, meant certain death to anyone it touched.
In today's Earth, modern weapons still held a dominant position. Although Ming Lun had five humanoid nukes at his disposal, outside, technological weapons were still more practical.
Jos checked the map and said, "The moment the explosion occurred, suddenly ten players disappeared. They were probably annihilated by the blast."
Chen Tian Yuzi looked worried, "We might need to be extremely cautious, because we don't know if there are bombs planted underground nearby or possibly in the sewers."
Zhang Manman reassured, "No need to worry so much, there probably aren't that many."
Su Jie nodded slowly, "Indeed, bombs of this level aren't so easy to make, there likely isn't a second one. But smaller bombs probably still exist, perhaps even landmines."
Boom!
As soon as his words fell, another explosion occurred three hundred meters away.
This time, it was only smoke billowing, nothing like that still-lingering mushroom cloud...
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