Players, Please Board the Train

”Painting Woman” was the codename the command room had given Xu Huo.

”Aside from one phone call fifteen minutes ago, she hasn’t contacted us temporarily.”

Fifteen minutes ago, Painting Woman had called to inform them that the name change effect was even better than expected. Capital City had simply designated all the city’s land to her, though property title transfers weren’t that fast yet. Still, it had exceeded the maximum range Painting Woman had requested and was now expanding throughout all of Harbor City.

Now advanced players from outside districts were fighting each other. Around Harbor City’s periphery, some players were moving toward the amusement park direction. This was actually good news for them—it drew the players’ attention, giving Painting Woman the perfect opportunity to act while also making it easy to identify those outside district players. With all of Harbor City’s citizens evacuating outward, those running inward instead stood out especially conspicuously.

”The call is coming through.” The Commander-in-Chief perked up, answering and putting it on speakerphone.

”I’m fully prepared now.” The slender voice sounded again through the phone. ”I’ll begin operations in one minute. My destination is Pearl Hotel. Six minutes from now, exactly 7:31 PM, you must blow up the hotel.”

”The perimeter around the hotel is already properly arranged.” The Commander-in-Chief stated.

”Good, then I have nothing else.” Xu Huo finished preparing to hang up when the elderly man from Capital City said, ”The nation will remember your contributions. Please make sure you return safely.”

The call then disconnected.

Xu Huo casually tossed aside the things in his hand and said to Painting Woman, ”Do you remember clearly all the steps I told you?”Painting Woman nodded, mouthing the words as she recited his arrangements back to him.

After confirming there were no errors or omissions, Xu Huo took out the Gentleman of Light medal and hung it around her neck, smiling slightly. ”Giving this to you early.”

Though somewhat confused, Painting Woman still happily hugged it, kissed it twice, then ran out of the coffee shop. As she stood on the street, all those scattered papers on the ground flipped up into the air. She nimbly jumped onto one of them, flying away with her back to the skyscraper.

This was an unexpected surprise brought by changing the land ownership. After Harbor City’s land transfer completed, Painting Woman suddenly discovered she could control all paper materials within Harbor City’s scope. Of course, this didn’t include buildings—buildings still required name changes.

So up to this point, throughout all of Harbor City’s outdoor areas and one-third of the buildings covering the black and white roulette wheel’s range were under her control. She could even use photographs or character posters to observe distant situations.

It was she who discovered Nie Xuan was surrounded.

Having seen Nie Xuan before, she went forward to help.

She had even secretly watched for a while the fighting between the wheelchair player and the Phantom Sound Knights.

Among the Phantom Sound Knights, just one Undertaker was this difficult to deal with—one could imagine the other players’ levels weren’t low either. That five or six of them were fighting together against that wheelchair player showed how formidable the wheelchair player was.

Although Xu Huo had left himself ten seconds, he didn’t dare guarantee he could successfully enter the station within ten seconds. What he needed was advanced players to witness, not to be surrounded by advanced players. So the stalemate in fighting between both sides was an excellent opportunity for him.

Hoisting his pre-prepared backpack, he walked out of the coffee shop and moved toward Pearl Hotel.

Simultaneously, Painting Woman, pretending to flee, used her ability to search for outside district players across the maximum range. Anyone who could be wrapped into mummies and dragged away got tossed through the multiplayer life-and-death round before being pulled out to settle matters. When there weren’t enough players in the big roulette wheel, she searched outside for more. Thus, within just half a minute, a continuous series of human explosions erupted throughout the big roulette wheel’s range.

Some people died in the multiplayer life-and-death round, some died at the big roulette wheel’s edges. Some players with insufficient reaction speed bewilderedly lost their lives.

However, most players had fought their way out of dungeons. Their reaction speed facing crisis was extremely fast. After escaping the first attack, they quickly discovered the paper pieces had become as sharp as blades beginning indiscriminate attacks. They realized such wide-range attacks absolutely couldn’t be achieved by slightly lower-level items. An item that could cover a city with tens of millions of population could only be a super item!

”The super item has finally appeared!”

Instantly, outside district players both inside and outside the roulette wheel erupted. Whether hiding for self-preservation or watching fires from across the shore, those who came for the super item successively plunged into the big roulette wheel!

Those flying papers weren’t just killing people but also saving people, so outside district players quickly discovered Painting Woman’s traces and began surrounding and chasing to intercept her.

Painting Woman standing on paper flying was precisely to attract attention. Discovering more people following her around, she simply increased altitude to expose herself within everyone’s sight!

Several arrows shot toward her from different directions. Painting Woman dodged sideways, only to be perfectly covered by a giant net appearing inexplicably in the sky. She flew at low altitude quickly passing under the net, but the two buildings ahead suddenly collapsed toward the middle, crashing together with roaring sounds!

Painting Woman made an emergency stop, avoiding the tragedy of being crushed flat. However, just as she prepared to turn around, her clothes suddenly caught fire. Before she could jump around, a water stream poured over her head, extinguishing the flames but freezing her into an ice block!

”Damn bastard, are you blind? Didn’t you see me setting fires and you still dare use water!” Shouting came from somewhere on the street, but what answered him were several water jets comparable to water cannons!

One building got cut into several pieces, collapsing down toward the multiplayer life-and-death round on the ground!

Seeing this, Painting Woman quickly shook off the ice, gathering all nearby papers to prop the collapsing building aside.

People trapped in the life-and-death round temporarily got saved. Rescue personnel among them fired at nearby players, shouting at her: ”Quick, escape! Absolutely can’t let them get the item...!”

But before finishing, his head flew off—killed by someone unknown.

Painting Woman blinked, rolling all flying papers into cylindrical pillars, raining down like a storm toward those players hiding inside buildings!

Hardened papers comparable to steel could even penetrate reinforced concrete buildings. After this barrage of violent attacks, some players hiding inside buildings had to jump out.

And this was exactly what Painting Woman waited for—intercepting some people mid-air and directly throwing them into the multiplayer life-and-death round.

The remaining players didn’t fare much better. Although they dodged Painting Woman’s attacks, shortly after revealing themselves, they got suppressed by the life-and-death round’s power. New black and white roulette wheels quickly appeared on the ground. Whether willing or not, once entering this game, unless breaking through, they could only leave using train tickets.

This Black and White Life-and-Death Game originally meant to create trouble for Nation X had now become a sharp weapon restraining outside district players!

The vanguard fell for it, so those coming later learned to be smarter, maintaining distance from Painting Woman for ranged attacks. Painting Woman took several hits herself. Originally thinking about running over to drag out and beat those who hit her, but just then the electronic watch Xu Huo had set for her started beeping ”beep beep beep.” She had no choice but to change direction, pretending to be forced back toward the skyscraper.