Li Yao was running like a frightened rabbit. While he was running, he released countless black, shining metal balls from the waist of the Bloody Blade Battlesuit.
The moment the metal balls hit the tree, they immediately exploded into clusters of intense black fog, blocking the vision of the two pursuers. They also vaguely interfered with their brains, giving them the feeling that they were going around in circles.
The two pursuers were both distinguished Exos. Naturally, they didn't care about the smoke grenades that were carved with interference rune arrays.
Besides, even without the scanning of the crystal cameras, Li Yao's glittering figure was clearly visible on the map after he gathered the ten light spots.
The two of them dashed through the smoke and chased Li Yao to the depths of the forest where the trees were densest.
Suddenly, as if she had been whipped, Long Qianyue came to an abrupt halt and crouched down, hiding herself among the branches.
She smelled an extremely dangerous aura.
But Yuan Yeshi had no idea what was going on. He kept moving forward and soon discovered that Li Yao was struggling in the middle of a cluster of Red Ring Thorns.
The Red Ring Thorns were also a terrifying demonic plant. They were thicker than human thighs. They usually hid in the bushes and could camouflage themselves. At first glance, they looked like messy weeds.
But once someone stepped on them by accident, the camouflage would be torn apart, revealing bloody rings. The thorns, which were full of sharp thorns and sawteeth, would entangle the prey and slowly dissolve and devour them.
Although Li Yao was wearing the Crystal Suit, he was still delayed for several seconds by the Red Ring Thorns.
Yuan Yeshi sneered. He waved his scythe-like curved chainswords and sprinted forward.
Suddenly, there were noises above his head. A cluster of Red Ring Thorns fell down.
Li Yao, who had been in a hurry when he was entangled by the Red Ring Thorns a moment ago, got rid of them and lunged forward.
"I knew it was a trap!"
Yuan Yeshi had been prepared for it. He twisted his body in a weird way and dodged the Red Ring Thorns above his head. Instead of slowing down, the two chainswords went for Li Yao's neck and lower abdomen.
Li Yao did not expect Yuan Yeshi to react so quickly. He was caught off guard, and his body twisted awkwardly in the air.
Although he dodged the attack of the two chainswords, Yuan Yeshi stomped on his chest and made him fall to the ground like a boulder.
"You're finished!"
Yuan Yeshi sneered and crossed his arms. Thousands of sparks burst out from the chainsword, and he stomped heavily on the tree trunk, trying to use the force to dive down.
But to his surprise, the subtle sensation that came from beneath his feet was incomparably empty. There was no feeling of "standing on solid ground" at all.
The towering tree that he was stepping on immediately tilted backwards.
Yuan Yeshi immediately understood what was going on.
Li Yao had chopped off this tree from its roots long ago. However, the speed of the saber was too fast, so the tree was still able to stand.
Now, he stepped heavily on the tree trunk. The power of the Crystal Suit was more than a thousand pounds.
Of course, the tree was kicked down by him.
As for him, he did not borrow the strength that he expected. He felt that he had stepped on nothing, and his balance was broken. He felt depressed that he was neither up nor down.
This was just the beginning.
The moment he stepped on nothing, the dozens of towering trees around him all collapsed to the middle after a series of deafening explosions.
The roots of the trees had all been chopped off by Li Yao. And he had planted the crystal bombs.
Yuan Yeshi suddenly had a bad premonition.
This was the battlefield that Li Yao had set up a long time ago.
He and Long Qianyue did not chase Li Yao to this place. Li Yao had led them here on purpose.
The Red Ring Thorns was not a trap. It was just a disguise.
The giant trees that were placed right in front of his eyes were actually Li Yao's trap.
Right then, he heard thunder.
All the crystal cameras detected a sandstorm that contained wind and thunder sweeping over from the bottom to the top at the same time.
Thunderous Tornado Saber Art!
For a moment, Yuan Yeshi felt that he was standing in the middle of a desert naked in front of a sandstorm that was as overwhelming as a tsunami. He was overwhelmed by fear.
In a battle between experts, victory and defeat could be decided by a single thought.
Yuan Yeshi stepped on nothing and lost his balance. He had already lost the initiative.
He was also intimidated by the towering trees that had collapsed. He paused for half a second, calculating how to dodge the impact of the trees.
Before he figured it out, the aura of Li Yao's saber had already covered his head.
The fierceness of the attack was far beyond his imagination.
Yuan Yeshi was a student of the Battlesuit Department of Deep Sea University after all. At the moment of life and death, his head was quite clear.
He knew that Li Yao's saber attack had been completed. If he kept dodging, Li Yao's saber attack would be more and more aggressive.
Besides, there were dozens of trees above him. One moment of carelessness, and he would hit the trees. He had to spare some of his computational ability to figure out how to move among the trees.
Li Yao, on the other hand, had calculated the speed and direction of the falling trees. Chances were that he had predicted Yuan Yeshi's dodging route and was waiting for him to take the bait.
If he kept dodging, he would fall into the rhythm of Li Yao's attack.
He would be killed before the trees hit the ground.
Brutality flashed in Yuan Yeshi's eyes. His face turned extremely brutal. Instead of retreating, he moved forward. He even gave up his defense and assumed the posture of dying together with Li Yao.
"Li Yao!
"Even if your trick works and you take the initiative, you can still kill me!
"But before I die, I can still severely injure you!"
"Long Qianyue, the best expert in the training camp, is waiting outside the trap. Let's fight and let her benefit!"
Yuan Yeshi spoke very fast. His words darted at Li Yao like flying swords.
But he was sneering in his heart.
Li Yao had gone through so much trouble to set up such a trap. He was about to succeed. Obviously, he would not die together with Yuan Yeshi. He would definitely retreat!
As long as Li Yao retreated, or even if he didn't, as long as his mind was shaken by Yuan Yeshi's words, there would be a flaw in his unstoppable momentum.
Yuan Yeshi had dozens of ways to counterattack!
But out of his expectation —
Li Yao turned a deaf ear to Yuan Yeshi's words. His speed soared to the maximum!
Yuan Yeshi's sneer turned into desperation. He was both confused and furious. He roared, "Then, Long Qianyue will have it easy!"
The two Crystal Suits crashed into each other. Dazzling brilliance burst out of their spiritual shields. They broke into pieces.
Two broken curved chainswords flew high into the treetops.
Li Yao's saber was blown away, too.
Half a second later, Yuan Yeshi was "dead" and Li Yao was "heavily wounded"!
Most of the power rune arrays of the two Crystal Suits had exploded. They lost the ability to fly and fell to the ground helplessly.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! "Dozens of trees finally fell and covered their bodies. An enormous mausoleum had been built.
"Why?"
To this moment, Yuan Yeshi still couldn't figure out why Li Yao was willing to die together with him.
It was true that he had been eliminated. But he had dealt a heavy blow to Li Yao 'before his death'.
Any random Exo would be able to take Li Yao's life!
But Li Yao didn't say anything. He was lying in the mud with his arms and legs stretched out. He waited in the darkness quietly.
He looked at the intertwining trees above his head. Yuan Yeshi suddenly realized what was going on.
"Asshole!"
"He blew up the trees not just to disturb me, but more importantly, to bury him so that he could buy himself more time!"
Outside of the trap, Long Qianyue stared at the dozens of trees that were piled up in a daze.
She knew that Li Yao was hiding right below the trees. But it was a big problem how to get in and search for him.
Each tree weighed hundreds to thousands of tons.
It was not difficult to cut them apart, but it was not so convenient to move them away one by one.
Long Qianyue pondered for a moment. She waved her hand and launched a streak of silver brilliance at the tree at the top.
After a crack, the tree was broken into halves.
But the two halves of the tree were still covering it after rolling for a while.
Long Qianyue frowned. She felt helpless.
It was impossible to cut the trees into pieces in several minutes.
She simply gave up on cutting the trees and tried to go to the bottom through the gaps between the trees.
"BOOM!"
Right then, a dull noise echoed from the bottom of the tree. A crystal bomb had exploded.
"He planted crystal bombs on the trunks, too?"
Long Qianyue felt that her blood was freezing.
She did not know how many crystal bombs Li Yao had planted on the trunks. It would be terrible if the bombs exploded the moment she passed through the gaps and Li Yao ambushed her nearby.
Long Qianyue did not know how badly wounded Li Yao was. She only knew that Yuan Yeshi must have been killed by him.
It was definitely not a wise thing to compete with such a formidable enemy in such a complicated terrain on the enemy's predetermined battlefield.
However …
A moment later, coldness flashed in Long Qianyue's eyes. She dashed into the gaps between the trunks without any hesitation.
"Li Yao, if you think that I will be scared off by your tricks, you couldn't be more wrong!
"Time was tight at the beginning. It was already your best that you could set up such a complicated trap. There was no way that you could plant so many crystal bombs on the trunks!
"Otherwise, why did you have to detonate one to scare me? Wouldn't it have been better to detonate dozens of bombs at the same time after I got in? "
Long Qianyue had calculated everything clearly. She jumped agilely in the gaps between the trunks.
Li Yao was running under the trunks and intentionally leading her to the area where the Dry Snake Vines and the Red Ring Thorns were everywhere.
Several minutes later, she caught up with Li Yao.
Li Yao gave up resisting. He leaned against a tree and fell to the ground.
Every rune array on his body was spurting out colorful sparks of spiritual energy.
Without hesitation, Long Qianyue locked onto the target with all her attack magical equipment.
However, when she was about to launch a fierce attack, the target was nowhere to be seen.
The identification system automatically identified Li Yao as an 'unassailable target'.
Li Yao persisted for ten minutes!
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