Chapter 144 Siege

Chapter 144: Chapter 144 SiegeIn the short two minutes after a player suspected of possessing a Super Prop appeared, almost all media in Country X was reporting on the incident. However, due to the different channels of information, the news was very mixed. Eventually, the Hai City Command Center deployed military drones, still in their confidential phase, to track and capture footage of this life-and-death chase.

This was Xu Huo’s request, to make the information about the Super Prop as public as possible.

Both Jing City and Hai City could guess what he was trying to do; they publicized the hunt while worrying about him.

During the back-and-forth chase with the Girl in the Painting, three players followed her to the vicinity of the Pearl Hotel.

The Girl in the Painting, annoyed by the persistent harassment, pretended to be injured by cutting open a blood bag hidden in her clothes with a paper piece while simultaneously controlling a flood of paper to fly into the Skyscraper to rescue people.

"Facing so many players, she’s still rescuing people!" exclaimed a player from another region, astonished.

Others sneered, "What’s the use of saving those ordinary people? Long hair but short on sense, the Super Prop shouldn’t fall into the hands of a woman!"

"This only shows how powerful the Super Prop is!" another person excitedly said, "Even though she is a low-level player, she can control a city. If I were to use it..."

"Bullshit! As if you could!"

While the players from other regions attacked each other, they also besieged the Girl in the Painting. They swiftly cut off her path and, cooperating with the three players who had been chasing her since her appearance, they cornered her into the Pearl Hotel. One of them threw a palm-sized black metal block into the sky above the hotel. When the block reached its peak, the corresponding section of the hotel roof, with a diameter of three meters, suddenly caved in, as if crushed by gravity, instantaneously penetrating over twenty floors from the 29th floor’s glass dome straight to the first floor!

"Gravitational Compression Burst!" As the opponent shouted, the black block split into eight identical pieces scattered across the top of the hotel, replicating the same large holes with their pressure.

The Girl in the Painting zigzagged left and right on a piece of paper, dodging the collapsing floors to reach the rooftop. However, she hadn’t expected the two remaining blocks to suddenly stand upright, blocking her path both in front and behind, evidently intending to flatten her like the hotel!

The Girl in the Painting had no fear for her life, but being hit would definitely make her revert to her painting form, wouldn’t it blow her cover?

For a moment, she became somewhat panicked. However, before she could think of a way to escape, a semi-transparent square box suddenly appeared beside the metal block. As soon as the lid opened, it swallowed the block inside.

The Girl in the Painting looked at the box and instinctively felt fear. She quickly retreated, only to see it leisurely flying toward the roof of a nearby building of nearly equal height. A middle-aged man in a bathrobe stood there, catching the box in his hands, smiling and saying, "So the Golden Disciple is a beautiful woman. Our Holy Sword Society has few women. Why don’t you come with me?"

"It’s Sacred Sword Society Gold Disciple!" someone recognized the tattoo of the Holy Sword emblem on the man’s chest, "I heard the Holy Sword Society sent three Gold Disciples here this time! All Rank-A Players! If one has appeared here, the other two must be close by!"

The three players who had been chasing the Girl in the Painting now stood atop another building. The player without eyebrows, having lost his prop, said, "I have no conflict with the Holy Sword Society, the competition for Super Prop is based on ability. What are you implying?"

The middle-aged man glanced at him, "I remember you. The notorious Cannibal Player, ’Human Tongue’."

The man without eyebrows grinned, revealing his black teeth, "The Holy Sword Society always acts so aloof. You’re joining this chaos too?"

"The Holy Sword Society cherishes talent and welcomes players from any region to join," the middle-aged man said.

"Fine, the person is yours, the prop is mine," the man without eyebrows stated with malice in his eyes. "The Holy Sword Society only came with three, I also have three."

The implication was clear: no one would gain an advantage if they fought.

The middle-aged man didn’t speak, but at that moment two other Sacred Sword Society Gold Disciples appeared, flanking the browless man’s trio from both sides.

The browless man’s face darkened, but as he was about to speak, he suddenly noticed on the rooftop not far away a figure with red eyes. He caught a glimpse of her pulling out a pocket watch, and his expression changed, "Dou Shengnan of the Guile Sound Knights, retreat!"

The trio disappeared from the rooftop in an instant, and the three Gold Disciples of the Holy Sword Society also lost their earlier ease.

"There’s a small errand boy with Lawrence Lee, didn’t he come to find you?" the first Sacred Sword Society Gold Disciple said.

Dou Shengnan looked emotionless, only her eyeballs shifted slightly. In the direction she was looking, a teenage boy wrapped in a faint green aura was descending onto a nearby rooftop with a balloon, his eyes hollow as he spoke in the direction of Dou Shengnan, "If you dare, don’t run. Can’t even beat a blind chap, can you?"

Dou Shengnan frowned slightly and shifted her gaze to the Girl in the painting in the distance, "Hand over the Super Props."

The current situation was the Pearl Hotel, where the Girl in the painting was, situated in the enclosure of these five people. Three Rank-A Players of the Holy Sword Society, Dou Shengnan from the Guile Sound Knights who made the earlier standoffish browless men retreat immediately upon seeing her, and the young boy who could fight Dou Shengnan head-on.

No one moved, each standing atop different buildings, guarding against each other, none making a move.

"Players from the outer areas near Pearl Hotel are retreating." In Hai City Command Center, everyone’s heart tightened at this sight.

Those players from the outer areas were all formidable; they were all retreating, suggesting the intensity of the five individuals’ power.

When Xu Huo called, he had only instructed them to destroy the Pearl Hotel, he said nothing about further plans.

The Command Center staff had thought the Girl in the painting was the player they were in contact with, that she had painstakingly lured people to the Pearl Hotel with the sole purpose of using firearms to eliminate some high-level players. But seeing the situation now, they felt uneasy:

Could these players really be dealt with by artillery?

"Calculate the timing, do your best to create an opportunity for her to leave!" The elder from Jing City commanded.

"The preset time has arrived!"

The top floor of Pearl Hotel had a transparent glass ceiling, but now most of the glass had shattered, leaving the Girl in the painting at the center of the rooftop where she could clearly see everyone else and they could see her just as clearly.

Her surroundings were filled with paper slices sharp as knives, enveloping the entire rooftop as a shield against the five players while she secretly glanced at her watch.

When the time jumped to 7:31, the explosions from below the hotel were accompanied by artillery fire from all directions. Unable to suppress a smile, she stretched her hands high above her and made a rude gesture with her middle fingers at the five who were closely watching her!

"She wants to enter the game." The Holy Sword Society trio took the initiative, parting the dense gunfire and teleporting onto the top floor of the Pearl Hotel, but before they could act, massive amounts of poison gas billowed over from upwind. The teenage boy lifted into the air by his balloon said with a cheeky laugh, "So many of you ganging up on one person, shameless, aren’t you?"