Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 184 Assassination and Modification

Zhan Lan's arrangement wasn't really problematic; with her help, the telekinetic floating cannons could indeed be very flexible...

But no one expected that Zhang Heng, with his high mobility, would be so easily subdued by Zheng Zha… According to their calculations, if Zhang Heng disregarded his own energy expenditure and fled at full speed in the air, Zheng Zha shouldn't have been able to catch him. However, while Zhang Heng was still in a stalemate, Zheng Zha ambushed him from behind.

The danger to the Overlord is not the fall injury... Not to mention him with his high-level werewolf bloodline, even the priest Long Taobing, with protective items like the True Word Shield, would not be injured.

However, during the fall, the Overlord was unable to utilize his advantages... After activating the werewolf transformation, the Overlord could easily create a biological war machine with a single charge, but he was in the air.

Overlord's reaction was quick enough; he had already entered werewolf form and was now raising his tubular pulse ricochet gun... If Zheng Zha tried to grab him, Overlord would have fired a burst of bullets.

However, the prerequisite is that you can hit the target...

Zheng Zha, enveloped in crimson flames, descended from the sky, appearing behind the Overlord, and reached out to touch the giant wolf's head.

Overlord's sense of danger surged to its peak, but how could he, in mid-air, possibly outrun Zheng Zha's speed? With a muffled thud, Overlord's wolf head was slapped forward. Before he even landed, the three-meter-tall werewolf transformed back into human form and was then picked up by Zheng Zha.

Just then, a Gauss sniper bullet pierced the air and struck Zheng Zha directly behind him.

Zheng Zha didn't even turn around. He simply folded his bat wings back and turned the bullet, which had already been softened by the heat, into a small pancake.

"We can't even break through his defenses..." Zero sighed inwardly.

Zhan Lan remained silent for a while, then said, "Why don't you use the railgun..."

Zero paused for a moment: "Is this alright?"

"Don't worry, he definitely won't die..." Zhan Lan said with a smile, but then her smile faded. "Ah, he's coming in your direction."

After missing its target, Zero immediately began to shift its position. According to Zhan Lan's report, it seemed that Zheng Zha had pursued in the right direction.

Long Taobing's voice echoed through the mind chain, tinged with a hint of helplessness: "I guess I'm out of the game... When Zheng Zha used the Crimson Flame, I had absolutely no chance to react. I can't let him destroy my defensive items for him to win, can I?"

"You're so rigid," Zhan Lan muttered under her breath. "Well, I guess I have to run too." With that, the two Zhan Lans rushed off in two different directions.

Zero couldn't help but smile wryly: "Then I'll see if I can buy you some time."

After losing so many rounds, even Zero was starting to lose his temper... His Gauss sniper rifle was useless against Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha, and it wasn't a good idea to use it directly against others.

This made everyone understand Zero's earlier statement even more clearly: if he had to face close combat, it meant that Mu Xiang and Zheng Zha had either failed in their duties or were all dead. Without close combat experts on the front lines to share the burden, even a highly skilled sniper like Zero would be in danger.

The rest is self-explanatory... Zheng Zha quickly caught up with Ling Dian, and the entire squad that was dealing with Zheng Zha was wiped out.

If we rewind a minute or two, the battle on the other side had just begun.

"If I were Zhao Yingkong, rushing over to slit your throat might be one option," Mu Xiang said, looking up at Liu Xi sitting in the tree and spreading his hands with a smile.

A smile appeared on Liu Xi's lips: "But thanks to you, if she's going to do that, she'll definitely have to leave a flaw."

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. Indeed, as she said, with Mu Xiang's shared computing power, Liu Xi was definitely not an easy opponent... even though her first-order gene lock had not yet been unlocked.

The next moment, Zhao Yingkong appeared behind Mu Xiang, and Xiao Lian ruthlessly slashed towards Mu Xiang's lower back...

Mu Xiang's figure trembled slightly and appeared ten meters away, leaving a large crater in his original spot.

The pit was filled with flying soil and rocks; anyone inside would have been shaken senseless.

However, there was no one in the pit... as if Zhao Yingkong from before was just an illusion.

As soon as Mu Xiang turned around, two more Zhao Yingkongs appeared in front of and beside him at the same time, each holding a blurry shadow, and they were all stabbing at Mu Xiang in the same way! At this moment, the big tree where Liu Xi was was on the other side of Mu Xiang. If he were to dodge to that side, he would probably be completely destroyed... So he could only dodge backward. After all, the rule on Mu Xiang's side was to stop when you touched someone, and you would lose.

At the same time, two ripples struck the chests of the two Zhao Yingkongs. The power of these ripples was suppressed to a very low level; even if they hit Zhao Yingkong, they wouldn't truly injure her. However, both ripples passed right through her heart, as if Zhao Yingkong didn't exist.

Then another Zhao Yingkong leaped from the forest, gripping a blurry shadow in reverse, and slashed straight at Liu Xi's neck. It looked imposing, but in reality, she was just striking Liu Xi with the hilt of her sword, which would only knock her unconscious.

You're so inconsiderate of me...

Liu Xi sat on the tree, silently watching Zhao Yingkong approach... In fact, with her reflexes, Zhao Yingkong was just a blur to her. But she didn't seem panicked at all, and even kicked her calves.

As soon as Zhao Yingkong unleashed her attack, she realized something was wrong... Her speed was incredibly fast, and Liu Xi wasn't sitting very high, so why hadn't she hit her target yet?
Her bewildered eyes swept over the tree, only to find that it seemed to have grown more than ten meters tall out of thin air. She had been standing not far from Liu Xi, but now it was quite a distance away from her feet.

The next moment, a beam of heat shot out and pierced through Zhao Yingkong's abdomen... as if passing through nothingness.

This Zhao Yingkong is still a mirror image.

Mu Xiang missed his attack, but dodged to the side and grabbed a blurry shadow. But behind the blurry shadow was another shadow, not Zhao Yingkong's original form.

He glanced down and saw Zhao Yingkong on the ground—indeed, on the ground. At this moment, the shadow in front of him was three-dimensional, while Zhao Yingkong, with her face and color on the ground, was flat.

A ripple flashed across Mu Xiang's feet as he stepped on the flattened Zhao Yingkong beneath him.

This kick was incredibly fast. Unless Zhao Yingkong, who had used Shadow Shift, immediately dropped her weapon and retreated, there was no way to dodge it. After using Shadow Shift, her body and shadow would switch places, appearing to others as two-dimensional and three-dimensional opposites.

In this situation, ordinary attacks are useless against her main body. And harming her shadow won't affect Zhao Yingkong's main body... "I kick your shadow, is your shadow injured?" What a joke, everyone is also stepping on their own shadow.

To attack Zhao Yingkong's true form, one must shatter the plane she's on... and completely destroy it. For example, Zheng Zha's red flames, or Mu Xiang's kick... but these only force her out; they attack, but don't injure her.

The next moment, the incredibly fast kick swung backward the instant it landed, ploughing up the ground more than twenty meters behind Mu Xiang... Then, a shadow that was stabbing at Mu Xiang from behind suddenly twisted, and another Zhao Yingkong was ejected from the broken ground.

The one behind her was the real Zhao Yingkong; her attacks were undeniably skillful and daring… The one who initially attacked Mu Xiang was her true form, then she used a shadow-shifting technique to evade Mu Xiang's counterattack and hid in the dense forest. All subsequent attacks against Mu Xiang and Liu Xi were mirror images, while the real Zhao Yingkong lurked behind, poised to strike.

Since the mirror image replicates the actions of the original body, it's impossible for the original body and the mirror image to be completely different... However, Zhao Ying possesses a method to conceal her killing intent. As an assassin who stands in the darkness and cannot be detected without using any skills, her original body, mirror image, and shadow are almost indistinguishable.

At this moment, Mu Xiang noticed Zhao Yingkong's attack and forced her to reveal her true form. Zhao Yingkong could not immediately use Shadow Shift again, so she could only use Mirror Image to create a clone of herself in the air while remaining on guard against Mu Xiang's attack.

But the next moment she realized that she hadn't landed yet... her landing time had become longer!

Before Zhao Yingkong could defend herself, Mu Xiang flashed beneath her, grabbed both of Zhao Yingkong's legs, and slammed her down.

The mirror image didn't shatter immediately upon being caught; instead, it flashed out with lightning speed, aiming to pierce Mu Xiang's hand. But she couldn't, because Zhao Yingkong's true form was slammed to the ground and knocked unconscious.

"Well done." Mu Xiang gave Liu Xi a thumbs up in the tree.

Zhao Yingkong's attack missed because, at that moment, Liu Xi used her terrifying calculation ability to forcibly increase the height of the branch she was on by more than ten meters. And when Zhao Yingkong's main body attacked Mu Xiang from behind, she first increased the distance between Zhao Yingkong and Mu Xiang, and then modified Zhao Yingkong's height by several meters.

With her skill combinations, Zhao Yingkong's assassination was already quite terrifying, but unfortunately, her target was a combination of Mu Xiang and Liu Xi...

Mu Xiang had to admit that Zhao Yingkong mostly lost to him in fights because of the difference in physical strength and cultivation level... Don't be fooled by how easily he could throw Zhao Yingkong; if he encountered someone like Zhao Yingkong in the real world, Zhao Yingkong would probably be begging Mu Xiang not to die after just one exchange.

"Then take me with you." Looking down at Mu Xiang, who was deep in thought, Liu Xi shrugged.

Mu Xiang shrugged: "I'd like to... but there's still one more person to take over." As soon as he finished speaking, a drone that had lost power crashed down at his feet. Mu Xiang reached out and grabbed Qi Tengyi, who was falling from the sky with a wry smile.

(End of this chapter)