Chapter 112 Clumsy Tactics

When the system's "fight" rang out, the isolation barrier suddenly disappeared.

In that instant, Barcode, who had been aiming for a long time, launched his attack the moment the barrier vanished, without any delay. The twin guns in his hands erupted with dazzling golden light.

Bang, bang, bang, bang...

A total of twelve gunshots rang out, tearing through the air.

The skill Barcode used was called [High Noon], a special technique that only "male players" could learn, and only if they were "equipped with revolvers."

Its "special" aspect was... besides the two "necessary conditions" mentioned above, if the player also met some "additional conditions," the move would receive extra boosts.

For example, activating this skill on arid yellow earth would increase the bullet's flying speed; if the user dressed up as a cowboy to activate it, he could make the skill simultaneously effective on two revolvers, shooting at two different targets; of course, the strongest additional condition for this skill was—if the skill was used when the time was "high noon," then the user could completely forgo aiming before firing, blindly shooting and still hitting vital points every time, and the destructive power of the bullets would be greatly increased.

Right now, this battlefield was obviously not arid yellow earth; in this place without a sun, there was no "high noon" either; however, because Barcode wore a Western cowboy outfit under Order's coat (just to enhance the skill), he could at least unleash the additional effect of "shooting with both guns simultaneously."

In a flash, twelve bullets gleaming with golden light flew towards twelve vital points on Vishnu and Garuda's bodies. This rapid-fire attack was not only as fast as lightning, but its power was also unshakeable, far beyond what ordinary defense methods could withstand.

But who knew, before the gunshots had finished, a series of bell-like sounds, "clang, clang, clang, clang," rang out, as if echoing the gunshots, and finally... sounded twelve times as well.

"Tch... so that's why they weren't running or dodging, they were confident in their defensive abilities..." Barcode muttered to himself when he saw the "thing" that appeared in front of his two opponents, blocking the bullets.

At this moment, guarding Vishnu and Garuda was a giant "Orichalcum Arm"; this object was cyan-blue in color, with a metallic texture, and its overall shape was like a very bloated and thick arm, almost gourd-shaped.

As early as the S1 finals, Vishnu had already demonstrated his ability to manipulate this type of "Orichalcum substance" to fight, but at that time, he was not very proficient in using his spiritual energy weapon, the [Orichalcum Module], and at most, he could only condense it into various small cold weapons for offense and defense.

But now, Vishnu's ability to use this thing had reached perfection. With the terrifying true power of his spiritual energy weapon, withstanding Barcode's skill... was at most a warm-up.

"Can't be careless..." Before his teammate's offense and defense had ended, Sashimi suddenly turned his gaze to the other side, muttering, "Faster than expected..."

As he said the word "faster," a figure had already appeared beside him.

The person held a strangely shaped scimitar with a reversed blade, and with an unbelievable speed, he closed in on Sashimi's left blind spot, slashing at the latter's waist.

"Got him!" The moment he swung the knife, Garuda was certain that this strike was guaranteed to hit.

As a player who excelled in speed, he had sparred with countless people in this way, so he didn't even have to wait for the knife to strike. As long as he saw the subtle movements of the opponent's body when the knife intent arrived and the blade hadn't yet, he could basically tell whether the person could avoid or block the move.

This time... was no exception.

With Sashimi's speed, he was indeed powerless to dodge this kind of sudden attack at this speed.

However, just as this knife was about to slash Sashimi's body, Garuda felt a strange sensation in his hand, as if... his blade had suddenly plunged into a super-tough piece of rubber candy...

Along with that heavy sense of sluggishness, Garuda's blade slightly deviated, and finally brushed past Sashimi's body, without harming him in the slightest.

"What the hell?" Garuda was immediately shocked in his heart when his surprise attack was blocked.

He knew that he should have been blocked by an invisible thing, like a "gelatinous armor," and what made him feel a little depressed was... before the match, he had not heard the data analysis team talk about Sashimi having this kind of ability at all. Fortunately, this was a defensive skill. If it was a counterattack ability, it would be difficult to say how much of a threat this kind of "unknown information" would pose.

"Although you're fast, you're still far from those 'monsters'..." A second later, Sashimi continued the sentence he had just said and snapped his fingers.

The "monsters" he was referring to were undoubtedly experts at the level of Devourer, Feng Bujue, and Xu Huaishang.

The experience of being ambushed and instantly killed by Xu Huaishang in Linlu Town a few months ago had already created a certain psychological shadow on Sashimi... Although the main reason for being killed that time was due to his own carelessness—thinking that there were absolutely no enemies around, so he was completely defenseless; but it was undeniable that with Xu Huaishang's speed, even if Sashimi had a certain amount of defense, he could still be killed.

Therefore, after that day, Sashimi began to study... how to deal with players who were faster than him, or even much faster; after a period of experimentation, he found a way—since it was basically hopeless to be as fast as those people in terms of speed, it was better to change his thinking...

Thus, after months of training, he skillfully mastered the following tactical combination of skills and items...

Teng—

As the snapping sound of his fingers rang out, the radio that Sashimi had placed on the ground was activated, and it released a burst of sound waves along with the surrounding loudspeakers.

At the moment when the sound wave bloomed, Vishnu and Garuda's movements stagnated, and from their point of view, they could clearly feel... the "gravity" they were subjected to had more than doubled.

"Destroy the props on the ground!" Vishnu was experienced and wise. While relying on the "Orichalcum Arm" to approach and put pressure on Barcode, he loudly reminded Garuda, who excelled in speed, how to break the move.

Indeed, Sashimi's "gravity suppression" ability needed to rely on these props.

The basis of this move was actually the passive skill [Bass Region] that he had displayed in S2; this was originally an A-level spiritual skill, the effect of which was: to buffer and eliminate (with a certain tolerance limit) all non-solid attacks and negative effects that entered within a radius of 7.4 meters of oneself.

After Sashimi's training (don't ask me how passive skills are trained), [Bass Region] had now been upgraded to an S-level passive skill. Not only had the range and tolerance limit of the original effect been increased, but it had also added the ability of "Sound Armor"—the principle was similar to Brother Jue's equipment [Echo Armor], but it was even stronger. The reason why Garuda's ordinary attack was ineffective just now was because his speed-seeking strike did not have enough attack power to break through the defense of the "Sound Armor."

Then... let's talk about the current "gravity suppression," which should be regarded as the active attack form of [Bass Region]; although the skill itself did not have any aggressiveness, with the help of those props on the ground, Sashimi could impose this extra negative effect on all enemies in the [Bass Region].

"Understood!" Garuda, who had been reminded by his senior, responded with a shout, and with a stride, he left Sashimi's side... His next target was obviously those loudspeakers.

"I've been waiting for you..." Sashimi was well aware of the weaknesses of his own moves, and he had already prepared for this situation...

Buzz, buzz, buzz—

In the next second, Sashimi's hands had quickly released several [Subsonic Wave Fingers], chasing after Garuda.

Bang, bang, bang—

At the same time, Barcode, who was forced to retreat step by step because he couldn't break through the defense of the Orichalcum Arm, also launched a barrage of fire on Garuda with his two golden guns while retreating... For him, shooting while running was a basic skill anyway, and it was better than being idle.

Although Garuda was young, he was a very calm player, simply put, he was the type who "never took chances and put rationality first"; at this moment, he analyzed the situation and felt that... it would be very uneconomical for him to forcibly destroy the props under the dual suppression of sound waves and bullets with his speed slowed down by the gravity effect.

After weighing the pros and cons, he suddenly made a change of direction and began to flee in the opposite direction.

After running about twenty meters in a few short seconds, Garuda felt his body lighten and immediately turned his head and shouted, "The range is only here!"

Vishnu glanced at his teammate's position and responded, "Got it."

Then, he also controlled the Orichalcum Arm to protect himself and slowly withdrew from the effective range of the [Bass Region] in another direction.

They originally thought that after their side made this response, their opponents would have no choice but to change their moves, but who knew...

"Sigh... did they find out so quickly..." Sashimi, seeing the actions of the two opponents, actually stood still and crossed his arms in front of his chest, muttering with a rather helpless expression.

"Find out what?" Even Barcode didn't understand what he was saying, so he asked.

"Well..." Sashimi's face under his bowl-cut hairstyle replied without any emotion, "The real weakness of my move is not that I'm afraid of the opponent destroying the props on the ground, but... as long as the opponent runs twenty meters away, it's useless."

"Huh?" Barcode glanced at his teammate and lowered his voice, "Can't you..."

"Move with those devices?" Sashimi knew what he was going to say, so he directly interrupted, "Unfortunately... no, I've tried all kinds of methods; if I use portable loudspeakers to activate this move... it will hurt myself because the devices are too close to me; but if I reduce the power, I won't be able to unleash the 'gravity suppression' effect."

After he finished saying this in his usual deadpan tone, the field ushered in about five seconds of awkward silence.

Five seconds passed, Barcode looked at him with a lifeless expression and calmly replied with one word, "Oh."

"Isn't your reaction too bland?" Sashimi himself was also very calm when he said this, "You can say whatever you have in mind, you don't have to hold it back."

"Okay." Barcode replied with another word, then took a deep breath and shouted at his teammate, "You're a damn idiot! You call your secret move that you secretly practiced for months this kind of trash! It's not even as lethal as square dancing!"

"Sigh... I'm also very desperate..." Sashimi actually didn't deny the fact that he was an idiot, "After a long period of research, I realized that 'as long as you cultivate some specific ability, you can compete with those monster-level geniuses in their field' is itself a wrong proposition..."

"You need to think for a long time to understand such a trivial matter? Oh my god! You [beep][beep]! Ask me earlier! I can give you the answer in three seconds! If there was such a method, I would have squeezed out Guixiao and returned to the first team a long time ago!" It seemed that Barcode had been badly tricked, and at this time, his desire to complain had burst out uncontrollably.

At the same time, in the spectator space, Ye Zhi, who was watching the situation on the field, lowered his head and supported his forehead, pretending to cry without tears, and sighed with a long voice, "Ah... two big idiots..."

This S3 competition will not broadcast the situation in the spectator space to the public, but the situation on the battlefield is broadcast live and recorded; it can be imagined what kind of mood Ye Zhi, as the team leader (default main scapegoat), would be in when he saw his teammates fooling around on the field like this...

"Are they fighting internally..." On the other hand, Garuda on the field also undoubtedly heard the conversation between Sashimi and Barcode... after all, the two of them were not talking quietly at all.

As a professional player, no matter what problems arise in the enemy team, even if they openly scold each other, hang up, or feed kills, his side should naturally fight as they should; therefore, Garuda saw this situation and did not hesitate to take advantage of this opportunity, and once again relied on his speed advantage to circle half a circle in an arc... killing behind the enemy.

This time, his target was Barcode.

Since Sashimi's defensive ability was strong, he would turn to Barcode, a player specializing in shooting... this was indeed a very reasonable judgment.

Garuda's knife was very fast, although he had now re-entered the edge of the [Bass Region], his instantaneous burst of speed was still first-class. Barcode's physical skills could not keep up with this speed, and his main energy was focused on "complaining loudly to his teammates" at this moment.

Whoosh—

Instantly, the reverse-blade scimitar cut through the wind.

As soon as the wind started, blood appeared.

It was blood spurting from his mouth, the owner of the blood... was Garuda.