When the sealed transport vehicle was being inspected, the defensive barriers around the residential district also lit up, shifting from hidden to visible. Besides adding another layer of defense, this made it easier to spot anyone trying to force their way in at the first opportunity. The transport vehicle was about to reach the place where the painted woman was hiding. Just as Xu Huo was preparing to interfere with it using a device, a burning fireball suddenly flew in from afar. It came from the direction of the city center, pierced all six layers of barriers around the mansion district and its outskirts in one go, and landed squarely in the lake district!
No one knew what the fireball was carrying. The instant it struck the lake, it exploded, and the liquid inside quickly spread, causing the flames to grow.
The defensive barriers around the mansion district and along the city streets weren't one-use defenses. The moment a barrier was breached, it automatically patched the gap. But before it could rise again, interference began as several figures approached. The robots inspecting the transport vehicle, the instruments sealing it off, and even the defense and surveillance devices outside the residential district all began making faint clicking sounds, as if they had jammed.
They hadn't actually jammed; the interference had disabled them. The defensive barriers failed to rise again, and several masked Players racing toward them had already entered the mansion district. Three ran straight across the lake of fire toward the buildings on the other side, while the fourth stayed behind to deal with the nearby devices. A brief disruption might not destroy every device, so the best course was to smash them all and keep the defensive barriers from re-forming for a while, lest the intruders be trapped inside.