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Chapter 385 (4200) The first round ends

The earth barrier flickered frequently, but no enemies could be seen around except the sniper a few hundred meters away.

Where did the attack come from?
Luo Jun looked around. There were no enemies in the courtyard of the ancient temple, at least he could not detect anything unusual with his perception, but the barrier was indeed under attack, and the severity was very severe.

"It feels like some kind of resonance device..." said Mr. Yang Wenyue. "This energy barrier seems invulnerable, but in fact it relies mainly on energy fluctuations to block attacks. If there is a special device that resonates with the frequency of the barrier, it will cause great damage to the energy barrier!"

"Resonance device..." Luo Jun heard of this method for the first time: "How far can it be activated?"

"Not too far." Yang Wenyue said, "As far as I know, it has to be at a very close distance. In order to achieve the best resonance effect, in most cases, the device has to be installed directly on the barrier."

Very close distance...

Luo Jun looked around, and suddenly, he looked down at the ground.
Could it be that……

He raised his fist and punched the ground, causing the ground to crack, revealing a long-abandoned sewer!

Luo Jun jumped down, walked along the sewer for a while with his back bent, and soon saw a flashing yellow barrier with a strange instrument installed on it. The vibration and flashing were spreading outward from the instrument.

found it!
The earth barrier should normally be a sphere with the mechanism at the center, but in most cases, the earth barrier is installed on the ground, so it looks like a hemisphere. But in fact, there is also the lower part of the barrier under the ground, which does not cut the ground, but can provide the same protective effect.

This feature also prevents someone from digging a tunnel into the barrier.

Now that the barrier has been weakened by the resonance device and there are no enemies nearby, the only explanation is that someone has installed the device somewhere invisible underground... With Luo Jun and Wang Yifan's perception ability, if they were digging a tunnel, it would definitely attract attention. The only way to install the resonance device silently is to use an existing tunnel.

Although it is deserted, it is still a town after all, and there must be an extensive sewage system underground. In this case, the other party may have contacted the underground earth barrier through the sewers!

Luo Jun raised his hand and smashed the resonance device outside the barrier, and the flickering and vibrations immediately subsided.

Luo Jun had just breathed a sigh of relief when he suddenly noticed that the barrier flashed violently, and then... disappeared!

How... Luo Jun was surprised for a moment, and immediately realized that although the resonance device had been removed, the barrier had been weakened too much, and the last bit of energy had been violently removed by the enemy projection!
Thinking of this, he immediately jumped up, broke through the ground and rushed out, just in time to see the chaotic scene.

A projection of the enemy had been shattered under the concentrated fire of the crowd, and its broken limbs were flying backwards; at the same time, Li Xiuzhen clasped her hands together in the chaos, and a circle of flying swords floated behind her, stabbing towards an empty corner. The tip of the front flying sword suddenly turned bloody, and then a translucent shadow emerged.

However, even though the projection was hit by the flying sword, it still refused to give up. It used its last bit of strength to throw the scimitar in its hand towards Zhu Xixi who was closest to it. Zhu Xixi had already sensed the killing intent, and with a flick of his hands, he controlled the flying scimitar to reflect back, and in a flash, it cut off the projection's head.

The moment the barrier was broken, two projections were defeated by the crowd, but the third projection was still aiming at the rooftop several hundred meters away!

"Be careful of snipers!" Luo Jun looked in the direction of the sniper vigilantly, but Zhang Laosan's laughter came from the side: "Don't worry, Teacher Xu has set up a barrier, the sniper will not work."

Luo Jun took a closer look and found that there was indeed a layer of transparent water curtain outside the courtyard wall. Because there was almost no flow, it was like a large piece of glass and it was difficult to find without careful observation.

"A bullet flying at high speed will encounter extremely strong resistance when it hits the water. My water curtain is the nemesis of snipers." Xu Li is very confident in her abilities.

"No..." Luo Jun frowned: "The sniper is no longer there! He is trying to bypass the water curtain!"

After hearing what he said, Wang Yifan also looked in the direction of the sniper: "Indeed!" While he admired Luo Jun's perception, he immediately looked around: "Strange, I can't sense his presence around me..."

At this moment, a ball of blood suddenly exploded in the void, and only half of the mutilated body was left flying out and fell to the ground. Then, a loud gunshot was heard.

The sniper opened fire!

But everyone is here, who is dead?
Just as everyone was stunned, Zhao Xiaoyu's body flashed a few times and disappeared completely...

Luo Jun and Wang Yifan immediately looked in the direction where the gunshot came from, and found that the sniper had not moved, and appeared on the original roof again. However, the water curtain between the sniper and the ancient temple was still calm, without any signs of damage...

Luo Jun frowned, raised his legs and jumped high, rushing over the water curtain. The sniper immediately adjusted the muzzle of the gun, aimed at the leaping Luo Jun, and fired a shot!
boom!
The bullet hit the Ningyuan Gangqi and was easily bounced off. Luo Jun, who was still in mid-air, had already summoned a huge cannon and carried it on his shoulder, aiming it at the sniper from above.

"You like shooting so much? Come to the middle gate for a snipe!"

“Boom boom boom boom boom…”

Under the heavy bombardment of the huge artillery, not only the sniper, but even the house where he set up his gun and half a block were razed to the ground, leaving only a miserable pit on the ground...

At this point, the projections of the three attackers have been eliminated and everyone can relax temporarily.

But the result is not optimistic. At most ten people may be lost. However, this is only the first round and two people have already died.

As for whether there will be sacrifices on the other side, to be honest, thinking about Yu Shan's appearance, no one had any hope.

With less than five minutes left until the end of the first round, everyone began to review this round.

First, there was the sneak attack of the statue. If I guessed correctly, as one of the side quests, the statue should have only the ability to resist energy, otherwise the difficulty would be a bit too high. The ability to sneak and assassinate was almost certainly the ability of the opponent, and after Grandma Li's identification, the one who was killed by everyone's concentrated fire was Feng Tianci's projection.

If Liu Yufeng's death could be considered as the opponent's ability taking advantage of him, then Zhao Xiaoyu, who was later killed by a sniper, was completely crushed...

She had already activated the invisibility spell in advance, and also created an illusion dummy to confuse the opponent, but she was still shot and killed on the spot... What's even more strange is, how did this guy do it? He suddenly disappeared without a trace, and then suddenly appeared, and then sniped Zhao Xiaoyu directly through Xu Li's water curtain... "His bullets can turn." Ma Lei looked at the direction where the body fell: "From the state of the splash, the bullet was not shot straight from the sniper's direction, it should have turned a corner and bypassed the water curtain barrier. Either it's a special effect of the weapon, or he is a master of manipulation."

"I thought of a person..." Old man Yang Wenyue said, "There was once a very famous sniper in [Wild], who was famous for his bullets turning. About seven or eight years ago, he disappeared in the wild. This kind of thing is very common in [Wild], and everyone thought he died in the stomach of a monster... Now it seems that he may have become a polluter."

"The polluter of the Wilderness?" Grandma Li frowned slightly: "Then he should have obvious mutation characteristics..." As she spoke, she looked at Wang Yifan and Luo Jun. Only these two people had seen the sniper's appearance.

Wang Yifan shook his head: "Although that guy is wearing a lot of clothes, judging from the exposed face, he should have the appearance of an ordinary person."

"No..." Luo Jun suddenly retorted: "When I bombarded him, I vaguely saw a piece of skin flying up... At that time I thought it was shattered tissue... Now that I think about it, it could also be a mask used for camouflage."

"That makes it more likely." Zheng Yunshan looked at Yang Wenyue, "Uncle, what's the name of that sniper, and what abilities does he have?"

"I don't know his name, I only know his nickname is Death Gun. We've been on a mission together before. The bullet's ability to turn corners should be a special effect of the weapon. He himself has the abilities of both the spell and illusion schools."

“He practices both the spell and illusion schools?” Wang Yifan frowned and said, “So that’s why he can disappear continuously!”

As the only one with insight, Wang Yifan never relaxed his vigilance around him. He was sure that before the barrier was disturbed, there was no sign of the sniper on the house.

The normal guess is that the guy fired a shot in stealth mode, using five times the damage to try to break the shield... Now think about it, he may not have used the assassination ability assigned by the task at that time, but used his own invisibility ability, with the purpose of confusing the opponent, making Team No. 1 think that he had used the assassination ability, and when everyone was careless, he used the assassination ability to take a head!
After all, with the resonance device, there is no need to waste precious opportunities to deal five times the damage to break the shield. And under this rule, as a projection, there is no need to consider factors such as one's own safety. Everything should be based on taking down the head as the primary goal!

From this point of view, the projection's behavior style is somewhat similar to that of a robot. Although it has no emotions, it has enough intelligence. At least it knows how to combine the real and the fake to confuse the opponent.

An opponent who has no fear but is smart enough is scarier than a real person!
As for the last projection, the one who was killed by Grandma Li and Zhu Xixi, his identity cannot be confirmed for the time being because he did not show any special abilities and no one recognizes him.

But everyone was very curious about how Grandma Li could find the projection in stealth mode.

"Perfectly invisible, perfectly silent, it blocks out smells and heat radiation...the only thing it doesn't block is the sense of touch." Grandma Li explained, then raised her hand and sprinkled out the small flying insects.

"This is..." Zhu Xixi grabbed one and took a closer look. He found that it was not a bug, but a simple flying machine consisting of only wings and a main body, about the size of a mosquito.

Zhu Xixi's eyes lit up: "I see, grandma, you arranged these small flying insects around to hit the hidden target and determine the location!"

Grandma Li smiled and nodded. "Due to my limited talent, I am not good at the art of creation... I can only concentrate on studying the art of creation. This small mechanism is an enlarged version for your convenience. The one I actually deployed for investigation is ten times smaller than this. The courtyard of this ancient temple is now full of these small flying insects. As long as someone approaches, I can detect it."

"Looking at it this way, it's my barrier that limits your ability." Luo Jun immediately realized that he had covered everyone at the time, and Grandma Li's flying insects could not fly out, so she could not sense the hidden enemy until the barrier was broken.

"I just came up with this idea on the spur of the moment. When I was in the barrier, I tried several times before I finally made this little gadget..." Grandma Li smiled and said, "Your barrier is a very useful means of defense. Before you use it next time, let me scatter more bugs out."

As the time limit for the first round ended, everyone was teleported back to the station.

Seeing that they came back with two less people, Xu Shan couldn't help but ask. After learning that Liu Yufeng and Zhao Xiaoyu died in the hands of the projector, he smiled and comforted them: "Everyone... you all tried your best... The opponent was too cunning... there was nothing we could do..."

"At least we have obtained information about the two opponents..." Zheng Yunshan sighed: "By the way, you can see the situation on both sides here. Has the other side suffered any losses?"

Xu Shan said embarrassedly: "I...my projection is not good enough...I didn't kill any of them, and was killed instead..."

This was also within everyone's expectations. After all, he was the only one left and no one had counted on him.

"Tsk, what a waste!" Zhang Laosan pouted and scolded. Xu Shan's face twitched when he heard it, but he still smiled and said, "Third brother is right, I am too useless..."

"Say less..." Yang Wenyue advised, "The enemy's strength is beyond our expectations, and we must not fight among ourselves. The most urgent task is to determine the candidates for this round of attackers."

"The defender must involve Ye, that barrier is so useful!" Zhang Laosan suggested.

"What if the other side takes out the resonator again?" Zhu Xixi asked.

"Not everyone can have a resonator." Zhang Laosan curled his lips.

"Wait..." Wang Yifan frowned. "What if the person who had the resonator in the last round lent his treasure to the attacker in this round? Even if we can't tell whether there is a barrier here through the information board, as an attacker, the resonator is a very advantageous treasure!"

"Can it be done this way?" This was an idea that no one had thought of. Xu Li nodded and said, "In that case, we can also exchange treasures with each other, concentrate the powerful offensive treasures on the attacker, and concentrate the defensive treasures on the defender. Let's give it a try!"

Everyone tried it immediately, but they got a message that the treasure could not be traded during this mission...

"It seems that it won't work..." Xu Li was a little disappointed, but Zhu Xixi comforted her: "But this also confirms that the other party cannot trade resonators. From this point of view, the barrier of night is not so easy to break."

At this time, Luo Jun shook his head: "My barrier can't be used in this round. There is exactly one hour of cooling time. I can only wait for the next round."

That’s right, it would be abnormal for such a powerful treasure to have no cooldown.

"It's okay, we can use it every other round..." Zheng Yunshan looked at Luo Jun and had an idea: "It just so happens that the barrier can't be used this round, so why not leave Ye as the attacker..."

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(End of this chapter)