Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 350 Coincidence
"Oh, so he overestimates us." Zhang Jie took a drag of his cigarette and chuckled. "What are your thoughts?"

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses: "You still need to hide. First, to provide mental support for Zhan Lan and Qi Tengyi, and second, to take action when necessary to shield the other teams from nuclear bombs."

"No problem, I'll do whatever you say."

Liu Xi pondered for a moment: "You only said you would make a move, not that you would show yourself, right... So, you're going to hide Zhang Jie until the very end, and have Zhan Lan and I use our mental and telekinetic powers respectively in the open?"

Zhang Jie smiled indifferently: "Looks like that's what he meant, although I don't understand what he's thinking either... Sigh, you people who use your brains are really dirty."

"No wonder you still split into teams... You're following his strategy of splitting teams, playing along, aren't you?" Zheng Zha frowned. "But I have a question?"

After exchanging a glance with Mu Xiang, Zheng Zha continued, "Chu Xuan's confidence in holding his ground means he definitely has some trump card that we don't know about... This is how he can keep the two of us occupied while the other team members defeat our team members. Considering the special nature of the Demon Team, it's not surprising that their individual strength is stronger."

"But what gives you the confidence to just step in?"

Mu Xiang waved his hand, signaling everyone to step onto Zhang Heng's telekinetic floating cannons and go directly out from the rooftop: "His ideas are not that simple, and neither are ours... This is not that complicated."

“Chu Xuan is very good at open strategies. He simply sits down at Umbrella Corporation, thus revealing his side’s information, and we have no choice but to go. This is true both from the perspective of the mission and the team battle,” Mu Xiang said. “As the team that enters first, one aspect of ‘strategic advantage’ is that we can set up a battlefield that is favorable to our side. Chu Xuan couldn’t possibly not have thought of that…”

"So your reason for going to the Demons' home arena..." Zheng Zha pondered, head down, "is it because you saw the limitations of home-court advantage?"

“That’s right, there’s no such thing as a buff without any logic… Just like in a game, there’s a range to buffing your teammates. To maximize their buffs or minimize our own, we have to intentionally or unintentionally enter that range.” Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses. “Let’s take the magic rune array of the Polar Day Gathering as an analogy. Let’s assume the Demon Team has some kind of array that can provide battlefield amplification.”

It's highly likely that Mu Xiang knew this... The Demon Team must have experienced the movie "Shushan". Under the influence of the "author", their understanding of rune technology would only be more extensive than in the original work!

The group flew forward atop the floating cannons. Upon hearing this, Zhang Heng asked curiously, "So how do we get inside?"

“I know the clone Chu Xuan will give me a reason, and the clone Chu Xuan also knows I know that reason… but he is still confident that he can get me to come. What do you think it is?” Mu Xiang asked in return.

Liu Xi said calmly, "Then it can only be through plot characters, right? Whether it's rescuing or killing plot characters, we should be connected to them. This applies to both the Demon Team and the Central Continent Team."

The members of the Central Continent Team couldn't help but glance at their watches again; indeed, it was true. "Our mission is to obtain evidence of the Umbrella Corporation's crimes and escort the five main characters from the movie out of Raccoon City. Judging from the God's design, our missions will inevitably overlap with those of the Demon Team, which will be the starting point for our conflict or cooperation. Our overlap should be in the characters from the storyline, and the clone Chu Xuan could also guess this. Therefore, as Zhan Lan's scan showed, the characters from the storyline have already escaped from Raccoon City," Mu Xiang explained.

Long Taobing asked with some doubt, "But why would they hand over the characters from the storyline to us so easily?"

“Because this is a team battle, not a regular horror movie.” Zhang Jie took a drag of his cigarette. “Didn’t you guys notice? The main god only said that killing a plot character would deduct points, but didn’t say that the death of a plot character would deduct points. This is to prevent us from being restricted too much. Otherwise, a plot character would be more valuable than our team members. Those who enter the horror movie first can just kill, kill, kill, and we would be killed by the main god’s point deductions.”

Mu Xiang nodded: "That's right. That's why it doesn't matter whether we protect or kill the characters in the story. As long as they're released, we have to go find them. Although the main god didn't say that if we don't escort them out, we'll be wiped out, but if we completely disregard the mission, there might be new troubles."

"Chu Xuan probably guessed that our mission is to protect the characters in the story, so it doesn't matter who has the characters before the team battle ends. Even if we complete the mission and leave in the end, they will only miss out on the reward, and there will be no punishment."

Seeing everyone deep in thought, Zhang Jie exhaled a puff of smoke. "That's right, that's exactly it... In team battles, the main god's task is actually to create an opportunity for the two teams to clash, rather than the most important thing."

"The Demon Team can't bear to part with a team like ours, so how could I bear to part with them..." Mu Xiang laughed coldly. "Besides, I have a reason to wipe them out, or at least severely cripple them, otherwise we'll all die!"

The telekinetic floating cannons were descending to the ground, and a parking lot was right in front of them.

“Zhan Lan scanned the location of the plot characters earlier. They are fleeing south... The general route is quite obvious, so we will proceed slowly.” Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses and jumped off the floating cannon first. “As I said, the Demon Team will not launch a nuclear attack yet, and considering the range of the deployment, the later we meet up with the plot characters, the safer we will be.”

Although, given Chu Xuan's thinking, the scope of the formation is not that simple...

"They're waiting in comfort, and so are we. Every second of safety makes our predictions about the nuclear bomb more accurate, and makes our subsequent operations safer." Mu Xiang stomped his foot on the ground, shattering all the zombies in the parking lot into dust. "Whether it's us or the Demon Team... whoever gets impatient will reveal their weakness."

The group followed, and Zhan Lan touched her forehead and laughed, "No wonder you made me compress my mental scan to this range, when I could have scanned much larger... It turns out that not only did you want me to appear slightly stronger, but you also wanted to keep our approximate location marked so that we could lure them at any time."

"Chu Xuan is still quite composed..." Mu Xiang smiled and opened the door of a bus. "Get on, everyone."

While the mental shield prevented the Demon Team from seeing the specific situation, the movement of the shielded area could reveal the Central Continent Team's movement trajectory... and so the Central Continent Team continued to travel north, waiting to encounter the characters in the story and even the Demon Team.

(End of this chapter)