Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 745 - 743: Countermove

Caught you.

The red-clothed elderly woman, holding a Naginata and an infrared light, was plummeting down the empty elevator shaft. Beside her was a Mercury Blood Amber puppet that looked exactly like her; the puppet held the murky-eyed Wanli Fengdao, its mercury eyes swirling slowly like vortices.

The Soul Splitting Nail skill from Ω could implant ideas into the brain of another living being within a certain distance, after obtaining some of its flesh and blood.

After the red-clothed elderly woman's main body was teleported to the twelfth-floor corridor via the Horror Elder's Black Mud, she first buried the Mercury Blood Amber. She embedded it as mercury silk threads under the carpet, extending them towards Li Ang and the others. Then, she used the infrared light to remotely sever Wanli Fengdao's arm and consumed his right hand. Subsequently, she transferred the Soul Splitting Nail skill to the Mercury Blood Amber puppet. This allowed the Mercury Doll to control Wanli Fengdao and bring him towards her main body.

The aberrations that had been teleported into the corridor instinctively wanted to attack Wanli Fengdao, who carried the scent of a living human. However, they hadn't yet recovered from the aftermath of the Tiangong Kaiwu Mini Missiles and were unable to stop the red-clothed elderly woman and her Mercury Doll from entering the elevator shaft.

They arrived at the eleventh floor.

The red-clothed elderly woman's withered hand put away the infrared lamp, and with a reverse grip, she took out a metallic sphere riddled with countless holes. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

[Name: Cicada Treader Light Mine]

[Type: Consumable item]

[Quality: Perfect Level]

[Special Effect: Light Mine Array. Upon throwing the metallic sphere, it automatically generates a potent light mine trap in a confined space, which can be set to trigger on touch or can be manually triggered.]

[Consumption: None]

[Cooling Time: None]

[Equipment Requirements: None]

[Note: When your parents are out and you want to watch a movie in your bedroom, remember to lock the door or buy a Cicada Treader Light Mine to set up a minefield in the room, to prevent social demise caused by your aunts and uncles discovering you sneak-watching.]

The red-clothed elderly woman casually tossed the metallic sphere. It immediately floated upwards, hovering within the elevator shaft and spinning rapidly. Its countless holes unleashed dazzling beams of light, quickly setting up an inescapable web of light-based tripwires in the elevator shaft. The metallic sphere itself then dissolved and vanished without a trace.

A Perfect Level consumable item was used up just like that, yet the red-clothed elderly woman's face showed no sign of regret—after all, everything she had was plundered from others.

She swung her Naginata, its tip precisely striking the gap between the elevator doors, and forcibly pried them open.

SNAP.

The red-clothed elderly woman and her mercury avatar landed lightly on the eleventh-floor corridor's ground, taking a deep breath.

The power of Liu Wu Dai's Tiangong Kaiwu Mini Missiles... It was far more formidable than she had imagined...

The red-clothed elderly woman clenched her slightly trembling hand. She sent a mental command, and her mercury avatar slammed Wanli Fengdao face down onto the floor. Meanwhile, she herself hurried to raise her Naginata before the effects of the Soul Splitting Nail skill expired.

It was over.

If she could kill Wanli Fengdao on this floor, she would be able to calm the hotel's restlessness and safely make it through tonight and the next...

Hopefully, it was all worth it.

The long Naginata sliced an arc through the air, whistling as it descended towards the nape of Wanli Fengdao's neck.

CLANG—

A clash of metal resounded suddenly in the eleventh-floor corridor. A long-handled scythe had parried the Naginata.

The red-clothed elderly woman's eyes widened in astonishment. She stomped her foot hard on the ground and shot backward more than ten meters. Together with her mercury avatar, she gripped her Naginata and warily stared at the area before the right-side elevator shaft on the eleventh floor.

Wanli Fengdao's right arm had suddenly exploded, shattering and vanishing. In its place stood Li Ang, wearing the Dragon Head Mask and a white lab coat, holding a long-handled scythe.

What's going on?

Wasn't he on the twelfth floor? How did he suddenly appear here?

The red-clothed elder's mind was in turmoil. She instinctively wanted to flee. The aura emanating from the Dragon Head White Lab Coat was indescribably terrifying, and she, with her special insight into the essence of things, was particularly sensitive to it.

The player before her was stronger than any she had encountered and killed. Even after devouring so many players and acquiring all their skills and equipment, the red-clothed elder still felt a strong sense of facing an insurmountable and overwhelming force.

No, she couldn't run.

The red-clothed elder and 'that person' were in the same boat.

If she allowed Li Ang to rescue Wanli Fengdao, then all her plans for tonight would be for naught.

She had to act now. While there was only one player present, she had to kill him here. Then, she would capture Wanli Fengdao and keep him for tomorrow night...

The red-clothed elderly woman's withered hand gently caressed the Naginata's hilt. A series of sharp cracks, like popping beans, erupted from her entire body. Her already taller-than-average frame swelled once more. Horns sprouted from her head, her skin turned crimson, and black, snowflake-like shards of Evil Qi swirled around her.

"Aren't you curious how I was able to appear right next to Wanli Fengdao?"

Li Ang, or rather, the Dragon Head White Lab Coat, pulled the still dazed Wanli Fengdao up from the ground. He used the Origin of Life to heal Little Brother Dao's severed hand and helped him sit against the wall. He then leaned on his long-handled scythe and said leisurely, "The light-based tripwires in the elevator shaft didn't trigger, which means I didn't come down that way. And the stairwell on the left side of the corridor and that elevator shaft are too far. Even if I had a teleportation or Flash skill, it would be difficult to teleport directly from the twelfth floor to this precise location."

"..."

The red-clothed elder didn't speak. She maintained her mystique as an aberration, exuding the baleful aura of the techniques plundered from the Ghost of Hidden Eye. She circulated the Energy within her body, healing the minor wounds inflicted by the Tiangong Kaiwu Mini Missiles.

She was indeed curious how Li Ang managed this, but since her opponent seemed inclined to talk, she didn't mind feigning attention, using the time to adjust herself to optimal combat readiness.

The other players still showed no sign of arriving. Were they held up by the aberrations on the twelfth floor...?

She had placed Scout Shikigami, obtained from the Ghost of Hidden Eye, on the left side of the eleventh-floor corridor. If any players came down from the twelfth floor, she would know immediately.

"The answer is simple."

Li Ang smiled. "13MARK had a fail-safe he didn't tell you about. He knew his life was forfeit. He estimated he wouldn't survive until other players could rescue him and that you would kill and consume him, plundering all his equipment and items. So before he died, he did one thing. On the scrap of paper I gave him, he used a printer to leave information on all his equipment and items. He hid that paper under the landline telephone in the left-side corridor of the 11th floor. That was my arrangement for 'allies' among the other players—something an aberration like you wouldn't know about. However, apart from the scrap of paper with the information, 13MARK also hid an item under the landline telephone. A rechargeable item that could teleport me right next to the Mercury Blood Amber."