This wasn’t a killing move that you could simply avoid by hugging the ground—Xu Huo, who was crouching, immediately realized this fact. He turned around and retreated, leaping directly down from the hotel building!
Yan Jiayu and the players originally in charge of security, the ones who were not the main force in combat, jumped down with him. As the situation had become irretrievable, they evacuated the main battlefield at the first opportunity.
As they jumped, the warped space directly sliced off the entire floor. The floors above momentarily hovered in the air before falling down. Right before the two halves of the building merged, Jin Feixue, Ashis, and others also flew out of the building!
The banquet hall was located in the middle of the building. If the upper half had settled down, the views from various directions for people like Jin Feixue would have been blocked undoubtedly. However, owing to someone’s interference, the building did not merge fully and instead floated upward upon contact.
Half of the building thus remained suspended in midair, and one vehicle after another flew out of the building. Although it belonged to Yongxing industries, Yongxing staff had no complaints as the final expenses would be charged to each player’s account. No one would prevent them from collecting debts, and all they needed to do was evacuate in time to avoid becoming names listed for issuing condolence money and funeral expenses.
Not everyone ran, but those who could, did. At that moment, the suspended building moved—it shifted laterally then smashed down towards Jin Feixue, while nearby players coordinated to restrict his actions—firstly, darts flew from every direction like they had trackers, repeatedly attacking to buy time. Then, numerous flashes of light moved quickly around the perimeter. The intense brightness nearly made it impossible to keep one’s eyes open, and even if one did, it was hard to see anything. Soon after, a polyhedral space box enveloped the outer area and completely blocked off the road beneath the building.
That meant, if Jin Feixue wanted to escape either from the side or beneath the approaching building, he first needed to break through these barriers and the players beyond them.
However, he didn’t choose to escape in the players’ direction; instead, he kicked off the ground, soaring directly through the building!
From outside, one could hear the sounds of each floor exploding in sequence, but the players in Zone 011 had intentionally left this flaw open, obviously not for his convenience.
A white-haired man stood on top of the building. With his black palms, he touched the structure, and the half of the building immediately turned black as if it had been painted. Everything from the walls to the glass seemed to be coated with a thin layer, which added some elastic properties to them.
"Boom!" A force burst from the inside, but it only created a sharp protrusion on the outer wall, which quickly shrank back—the black outer wall remained unbroken!
"Compression technique!" The player standing on the roof clasped his palms together, and the black material on the building’s exterior began to compress and shrink inward. Though the process wasn’t particularly fast, one could directly see that the building was indeed shrinking towards the center!
By this time, Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu had successfully landed. They could see that the players in Zone 011 intentionally wanted to reduce the combat area, but this was just a warm-up. The situation ahead could be unpredictable, so staying nearby wasn’t safe.
However, before they could leave, the evacuation alarm for Zone 011 was officially activated. Autonomous rescue robots quickly shuttled on the ground and in the air, capturing living beings or pets they discovered, placing them in pods, and swiftly transporting them away from risky areas. Defensive barriers set up on every building in the city were activated, forming ten layers of protection centered around the hotel. Weapons with great destructive power also emerged at high altitudes, and large-scale advanced items with the ability to restrict properties were activated as well... All these measures, hardly requiring much player coordination, were completed in an extremely short time.
Moreover, countless AI analyzers hovered in the air, swiftly evaluating types of items and characteristics through analysis of the combat scene, estimating the possible range of their effects—these reports were directly transmitted to the temporary strategic command center, where professionals and cutting-edge technology would quickly analyze them and decide which players to dispatch and how they should coordinate.
Even impact pre-warnings were issued to city residents, advising them not to panic and to take refuge at home.
After Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu were transported to a distant refuge by robots and looked back at the setup in Zone 011, they couldn’t help but feel impressed.
Quick response, meticulous preparation, and a good integration of players and advanced technology—from just this scene, no one would feel uncertain at heart, especially since they were only facing a Rank-A player.
Thus, without disturbing the combat, designated media outlets provided live broadcasts, and large screens projected the battle across various parts of the city.
Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu also saw the combat footage.
That half of the building, wrapped in the black material, had already shrunk to less than half its original size. In such a condition, the interior space must have been almost completely compressed, but this prop couldn’t make the materials disappear entirely, so it just hung in midair.
Jin Feixue definitely couldn’t have died from the building’s compression, so the players in Zone 011 covered the exterior of the building with several layers of items to transfer him elsewhere.
At that moment, a sudden event occurred—a white light burst through the black sphere, slicing it in half. The black material coating the building’s debris rebounded first, knocking away the players controlling the items, and only then did the remains of the building begin to fall.
Jin Feixue, protected by an arc of light, moved gracefully out from the debris. Wielding two palm-length Short Swords, he broke through the two outer barriers and returned to the top of the building.
Although the banquet hall’s floor had been cleaned up, the platform was still there. The moment Jin Feixue stepped onto it, that strange music even reached every spectator’s ears through the broadcasting equipment. As the music suddenly peaked, everyone was stimulated to cover their ears!
At this moment, Jin Feixue raised a violin.
The ground beneath his feet changed, pale golden light spreading like a thin carpet, not only covering the range of the building but also expanding in a circular pattern to encompass all areas within the first defensive barrier of Zone 011, creating a massive banquet venue in midair.
The players floating in the air were uncontrollably fell onto the "floor" made of golden light, and as Jin Feixue pulled the violin strings, the golden ground transformed into several fan-shaped sections that started to rotate alternately.
The players forced to stand on it also began to move with it. In less than a second, two players were subjected to a strangling attack. Unlike those crushed in the face earlier in the banquet hall, these two seemed to be in a fan-shaped meat grinder. Despite wearing protective suits, their bodies violently shook, trapped and powerless to escape the force!
"He can’t leave a ten-meter radius from the center of the venue, force him out!" Ashis Verna conveyed the order.