No strange things are allowed to evolve!

"How is this going?"

Suddenly, countless white threads burst forth from the seemingly seamless obsidian, swirling towards the Hiroshima heatwave from all directions.

"Not good!" Even though he didn't fully understand what had happened, he was absolutely certain that Jiang Shu was still alive and had begun to fight back.

Getting entangled in those strange threads will definitely not end well!

With this in mind, Hiroshima's heatwave instinctively sought to escape.

Those threads were much faster than his lava, but since he could fly, dodging them wasn't a big problem.

But just as he was thinking this, suddenly...

Something tugged at him in mid-air.

In that instant, he had no time to dodge. One of his legs was entangled by white silk threads and completely wrapped up, leaving him with no chance of escape.

His face showed horror, and then he suddenly realized.

Just like before, when Jiang Shu was clearly hit, he was completely unharmed. He must have some kind of invisible substitute, and more than one at that.

And these stand-ins approached him in the air through the towering obsidian mountain without his knowledge!

It wasn't that Jiang Shu couldn't handle his own magma; he just wanted to use his skills to get closer to him!

Damn it! We've been tricked!

Whoosh!

White threads swirled rapidly, and the Hiroshima heatwave could only watch helplessly as it was slowly swallowed up...

Chapter 302 The Dance Senior Doesn't Dream About the Civil Engineering Guy

No matter how much he struggled against the Hiroshima heat, he simply couldn't break free from those white threads.

These threads are not only numerous, but also incredibly tough. Even if he were to exert all his strength in his current state, he wouldn't be confident that he could break them with brute force alone.

In his view, they were like piranhas that rushed up at the smell of blood; once entangled, they could not escape and could only be torn apart.

Just as Hiroshima Rei's head, which was almost bound like a mummy, was also wrapped with white silk threads, the only eye that was still exposed saw Jiang Shu standing on the top of Obsidian Mountain, looking at him calmly.

Seeing that, a nameless anger suddenly surged up from the depths of Hiroshima's heart.

"Tch!" he spat. "You think you've got the victory in the bag?"

As he spoke, he mustered all his strength, trying to use "Mount Fuji's Burst" again.

However, this time the target is not Jiang Shu.

Given the current situation, although Hiroshima Heatwave doesn't know how he did it, he's certain that his signature move is probably useless against him.

Even so, surely burning these threads wouldn't be a problem?

You can run, but they can't move.

Ultimately, no matter how resilient it is, it's still only thinner than a strand of hair...

The Hiroshima heatwave suddenly stopped me from thinking.

Then his eyes suddenly widened.

He realized that his strength was rapidly depleting.

Normally, he could fire three shots in one go without any problem, but now, even after only one shot, his Mount Fuji was already unable to stand up.

An overwhelming sense of exhaustion filled his entire body.

He instantly understood the problem.

These threads are not only tough, but they can also draw upon their own strength!

"How...how is this possible..."

"So, I was the one who fell into the trap?"

Finally realizing where the confidence on Jiang Shu's face came from, Hiroshima Heatwave was filled with resentment.

Jiang Shu's every move seemed like a headless fly running around aimlessly, and his reactions were so natural, just like an incompetent husband who only realized something was wrong after the die was cast.

But now you're telling me it's all fake, and that I'm just part of the play?

Swish!

The last glimpse of the view was also blocked by the silk threads. The Hiroshima heatwave was finally completely wrapped up like a mummy, like a cocoon entangled in a spider web, suspended in the air.

Immediately afterwards, the silk threads that emerged from the obsidian and connected to the giant cocoon from all directions seemed to receive some kind of command, and slowly moved, causing the giant cocoon to hang down in front of Jiang Shu.

The once invincible heatwave in Hiroshima has suddenly become a sitting duck.

The people outside the arena were somewhat bewildered by the situation that had been reversed in just a few seconds, and some of them were even slow to react and had not yet processed what was going on.

When they came to their senses, they were drawn to Jiang Shu's unprecedented methods.

"What kind of move is this?"

"I don't know... I've never seen it before..."

"It's probably some kind of control skill, right?"

"However... this skill doesn't take effect instantly; rather, the whole process is actually quite slow. So why didn't the Hiroshima heat wave put up any resistance from beginning to end?"

Everyone felt that this skill was definitely not as simple as it looked, but no one understood the underlying principles.

Just then, the Sugar Knight, who had been observing closely and hadn't missed a single detail, slowly said, "Perhaps it's not that he didn't resist, but that we didn't see it. In other words, all his attempts at resistance failed."

His expression was extremely solemn.

Even he was fooled by Jiang Shu just now, thinking that he was going to take the final blow of the Hiroshima heat wave and then be blasted away from the hatchery.

But he never expected that Jiang Shu would turn the tables at the last moment.

No...that's not right.

This doesn't seem like a counterattack, because if his judgment was correct, Jiang Shu was actually in complete control from beginning to end. It just looks like a premeditated counterattack.

This made Sugar Knight involuntarily wary.

He had to put himself in Hiroshima's shoes and think: if he were Hiroshima's heatwave, would he have been fooled as well, and would he have turned his own flesh and blood into a sharp knife aimed at him?

"What does it mean?"

"Have you noticed anything amiss?"

Seeing that the Sugar Knight seemed to have figured something out, the crowd quickly asked him out of curiosity.

The Sugar Knight quietly adjusted his mindset, concealed his vigilance, and then revealed his signature smile again.

"Normally, out of the instinct for survival, even when faced with a desperate situation, a person cannot do nothing; they will definitely try their best to do everything they can."

Just like a drowning person who, even when unconscious, will instinctively grab onto anything they can, in the face of the will to survive, as long as they can breathe fresh air, they will use any object they can lean on, even if the other party is a rescuer.

Like us, the Hiroshima heatwave had no idea what the threads were for, so they certainly wouldn't give up easily just because they were entangled. On the contrary, they would exert all their strength because they realized the danger.

He paused here:

"Unless, he can't do it."

What does "cannot do" mean? Are you being restricted?

“It’s certain that they’ll be restricted.” The Sugar Knight thought for a moment, then shook his head. “But it’s unclear what kind of restrictions they’ll be in. It could be that their power flow and use are restricted, or that they can absorb power to weaken their opponents, or it could be something else entirely. In short, we’ll only know once they come out.”

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded, then couldn't help but complain, "With such powerful skills, how could he endure until the end? Is this guy deliberately messing with us?"

"Maybe he just enjoys the feeling of playing dumb to fool others?"

"It seems like it's not impossible."

"Is this the kind of thing? Pretending to be cornered, then saying at the end that it was just to make you laugh and tease you, that kind of disrespectful behavior towards your opponent, right?"

"He really is wicked!"

Just as everyone was making malicious speculations about Jiang Shu, Sugar Knight said somewhat helplessly, "It's a pity, but I think the truth may not be like that."

"What is it?"

"I guess he might have had to do this to get closer to the Hiroshima heatwave."

Sugar Knight explained:

"Hiroshima Heatwave can fly, but he can't, so he pretended to fall into the trap and waited until Hiroshima Heatwave used his finishing move."

If Hiroshima Heatwave uses a finishing move, it will either be a powerful long-range skill that he can exploit like he is now, or it will be a close-range attack that leaves him with no way out but to withstand it.

Regardless, the result is that his control can be released as close as possible to the Hiroshima heatwave, greatly reducing the possibility of the heatwave escaping.

He anticipated that Hiroshima Heatwave wouldn't be too wary and wouldn't choose the safest way to wear him down; he would definitely give him an opportunity, which is why he timed his attack so precisely.

Of course, even if the Hiroshima heatwave had been careful enough not to give it a chance, the result would probably have been the same as now: turning the lava into harmless rocks. At most, it would have just brought them back to the starting line, and he wouldn't have been threatened in any way.

After listening to Sugar Knight's explanation, most people fell silent.

They felt ashamed not only because of their previous judgment, realizing that they hadn't understood it at all, but also because they felt a sense of defeat due to the gap between themselves and the top evolvers.

Is this what high-level gameplay looks like?

Even in the final match, there are differences.

Listening to the Sugar Knight's explanation, Boya quietly asked the Snow King, "Have you ever seen this move before?"

While feeling happy about Jiang Shu's ability to lock in health, Xue Wang subconsciously shook her head, not having had time to pay attention to the specific method Jiang Shu used.

But just after saying "I've never seen it," he suddenly remembered something.

This thread... seems somewhat familiar.

Isn't this the same move used by the big boss, Sand Demon, in "The Lone Smoke of the Desert"?

Inside the arena.

Jiang Shu was admiring the giant cocoon that enveloped the heatwave of Hiroshima.

[Catastrophe-level skill: Earth and Wood Sealing Technique]

[Description: Can utilize the power of the earth to seal the target and restrict its movement]

Although Jiang Shu never used this skill in actual combat, he did try to use it when he first acquired it.

These white threads are actually the work of a plant with extremely strong roots that can survive in the desert. They can draw energy from the sea and transform into silk threads that appear to be alive.

Once entangled by these silk threads, they become nourishment, constantly draining energy to achieve the sealing effect.

When Jiang Shu used it for the first time, he discovered that these silk threads did not appear all at once, but rather went through a transformation process that, although extremely brief, did exist.

During this process, a mysterious giant tree growing in the desert and a vibrant, azure sea will truly appear.

Jiang Shu made use of this process.

He used this ocean, which only appears for a moment, to block the magma of Hiroshima's heat wave and cool it all into obsidian.

Then, just as Sugar Knight said, he used the obsidian mountain to greatly shorten the distance to the Hiroshima heatwave and greatly reduce his reaction time.

At the same time, taking advantage of what Sugar Knight hadn't noticed but Hiroshima Heatwave definitely knew firsthand—his right-hand man, the Undead Puppet Technique—he held off his opponent at a crucial moment, preventing him from using his extremely fast speed to break free of control.

However, Sugar Knight overlooked one detail.

Jiang Shu also deliberately chose the edge of the stadium, far away from the Hiroshima heatwave, as her final destination.

Because he didn't know what his opponent's finishing move was, he gave himself as much time as possible to react.

Moreover, this creates a relatively safe angle, so even if the opponent's finishing move does indeed produce some strange form of magma from that crevice, they won't fall down and kill themselves after turning into obsidian.

It can only be said that Jiang Shu was too cautious.

At this moment, he had already slowly put on brass knuckles.

Disaster-level item - Five Poison Lotus.

【All Five Poisons (Calamity): When afflicted with one of the five negative statuses "Curse," "Plague," "Weakness," "Frenzy," or "Charm," the effectiveness of attacks is increased by 20%, and the status can stack up to ten times】

After being kicked by Hiroshima Heatwave for the first time, Jiang Shu discovered that the opponent's attack had a burning effect.

This burning sensation will cause weakness and slow down one's movements.

So Jiang Shu silently withstood all of the opponent's fierce elbow strikes, while using the Great Wilderness Heart to purify the negative status and stack up his own stacks.

So when he said he was going to get serious, it wasn't just him showing off; he was really showing off.

Add to that the Five Poison Lotus and other miscellaneous enchantments, which are only barely worth mentioning when your stats are low, but once your stats increase, you'll find that their values ​​are actually a bit exaggerated.