Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 802 - 800: Actual Combat

After teleporting back to the real world, Li Ang first dispatched a Hive unit to inform Chaichai that he was safe and sound.

He then chatted briefly with Xing Hechou through the friend system, expressing his gratitude.

After that, he went online to browse for a bit.

He indeed participated in a game of PUBG just now. Even though the Special Affairs Bureau intervened as soon as they discovered the anomaly, contacting relevant personnel and reducing the event's heat on platforms like Weibo, Tieba, NGA, and WeChat group chats,

they still couldn't completely erase the traces—after all, Brother Long from the Tigerfish platform is one of the top streamers with millions of followers. The tens of thousands watching his livestream had already spread screenshots and videos everywhere.

But it didn't really matter. Those live viewers, watching a top streamer get raided by operatives at home and seeing Transcendent players appear in the game,

felt as if they were witnessing a very significant supernatural event, feeling excited, thrilled, and apprehensive.

Little did they know that such things happen daily; it's just that this time the crossover with the real world was more pronounced.

Li Ang didn't feel much about his reputation; he quickly scanned the webpage and found that, as described by the System, the Realms Corridor phase indeed had a certain probability of intersecting with the real world.

There were instances where players intruded into matches of games like Overwatch and League of Legends;

in one episode of a finished animation created by Netflix a few years ago, two players appeared;

at the launch event for the new XBOX console, what was supposed to be a game preview was replaced by player combat footage—making the audience at the time feel abnormally exhilarated, thinking the game graphics of this era were too realistic.

Ah! The light! The water! The character models! The smoothness of the action! XBOX is simply the next-gen god, relegating Sony and Nintendo to mere sellers of marked heads and chicken-feed chickens.

However, before the audience could get too excited, agents from the Supernatural Accident Place of the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived, urgently halting the event and, after some research, announced that a minor issue occurred—what the audience saw was not game footage, leading to great disappointment—especially after seeing the live-play of Halo: Infinite following the event.

Many expressed a feeling of no longer being able to find joy; happiness seems unrelated to them.

Instead, they looked forward to Black Myth: Wukong.

Aside from internet platforms, the interactive attributes of the Realms Corridor also manifest in other arenas.

For instance, the giant LED screens in New York's Times Square,

Niagara Falls,

and the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia (known for its shallow lake which reflects the sky, strikingly beautiful, and is also an Alternate Dimension Holy Land—many anime opening animations use it as a set piece).

At some point today, these places all projected combat footage of the top 500 players.

However, since the Global Occult Coalition had made prior preparations,

promoting on Wind Chaser and some news brief programs that Transcendents might hold small-scale events in the real world on a certain day, it didn't trigger much panic.

Li Ang watched a round of videos, observed his potential opponents, and browsed some forums.

The 500 participants in the Realms Corridor might sound like a lot, but when dispersed worldwide, they seem incredibly rare. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Each of these top 500 is a mighty force, with their own legendary deeds.

After sixteen days of competition in the Sky Fighting Arena, third-party organizations headed by the Watcher's Society recently released their predictions of who is most likely to advance from the top 500 to the top 300,

summarizing the achievements, capabilities, power systems, and combat styles of each top 500 participant,

supplementing the personal power rankings released by the killing game, filling in the gaps—notating, as the Watcher's Society itself states, that this list only records the public strength shown by the contestants and does not account for hidden tactics,

so it's not precise and is for reference only.

This list gets updated periodically, and today, after more than 200 Realms Corridor matches ended, the Watcher's Society urgently adjusted the list.

Li Ang's name rose from the nineties to the seventy mark on the list of players most likely to break through.

This was mainly because he easily defeated FPU,

and previously, the mecha-piloting Ding Zhensi whom he knocked down in the Sky Fighting Arena today also defeated a rank-150-something player from the Germany Bureau of Anomalous Affairs at a score of 10:3, indirectly boosting Li Ang's status.

Li Ang watched that match as well; Ding Zhensi's Kui Ox mecha seemed to have undergone upgrades, becoming more flexible and swift, with even stronger firepower, maintaining the opponent at over 200 meters and preventing any effective counterattacks.

At the end of the match, the opponent attempted to mimic Li Ang's case, using some teleport ability to flash behind the Kui Ox mecha, aiming for a lethal strike.

Unfortunately, Ding Zhensi was prepared, his mechanical right arm holding the high-frequency cutting blade suddenly twisting backward at an eerie angle, predicting the opponent's movement trajectory, slicing open the enemy's waist and abdomen, ending the game.

If that day in the Dueling Field, Ding Zhensi had this strength, perhaps it would have caused Li Ang more trouble.

Apart from Ding Zhensi, there were several matches today that particularly captured Li Ang's attention.

Liu Wu Dai versus a rank-370-something player from the Mechanism Guild, where they engaged in a skirmish in a pitch-black deserted mine.

(The Mechanism Guild is a medium-sized guild adept in crafting exquisite creations using raw materials like metal and wood. They make mechanisms, traps, mines, puppet dolls, portable transport, safes, aircraft, and weapons.)

Liu Wu Dai, equipped with an array of luxurious gear and skill configurations, naturally had the upper hand, chasing the opponent.

The Mechanism Guild player, knowing their hard strength was inferior to Liu Wu Dai, actively avoided combat, lurking in the winding, maze-like underground mine, setting up traps, continuously depleting Liu Wu Dai's resources and stamina, spiritual power.

This strategy was indeed effective, as Liu Wu Dai's equipment and items went into cooldown, and his Spirit Energy Value was nearing depletion.

The Mechanism Guild player, feeling secretly delighted, circled back to the starting point of their encounter, planning to continue wearing down the opponent. But he suddenly heard a collapse in the distant mine tunnel.

Previously, it appeared Liu Wu Dai was arrogantly tanking the trap damages with his luxurious equipment, recklessly charging forward,

but in reality, he had left numerous concealed explosives in the tunnels behind.

When both returned to the starting point of the tunnel, Liu Wu Dai detonated all the explosives, causing the entire mine to collapse.

Using his Earth Escape Tool, he could breathe freely and move through it effortlessly,

while his unprepared opponent was buried beneath tons of mud and sand, dropping out of the match with a score of 2:10.