Caught in the Battle

Caught in the Battle

But as soon as the metal had covered part of the sphere, the masked player put away the item and tossed a piece of white material into the molten metal. The car immediately began bouncing as if it were boiling, forcing the Black Shoulder Badge player to retreat.

By then, Ran Ying had caught up. Relying on her speed, she charged straight at the masked player and swung a punch at his face. She was still some distance away, but several afterimages seemed to overlap in front of her fist. Even though she never actually touched the masked player, she still struck the defensive shield he had hurriedly deployed.

Ran Ying must have used an item, because the masked player's shield cracked from the blow. But then a beam of red light shot up from the ground, abruptly slicing through the floor!

Ran Ying quickly withdrew her hand and leaped back, but the next second, the same red light appeared behind her. Unable to stop herself in time, she bumped into it, and her Protective Suit was immediately burned through.

Red beams began appearing around her, varying in length and direction, crossing over one another to form a shrinking polygonal grid that steadily curtailed her movements.

She couldn't get out to the front, back, or either side. The only opening was above.

The space deliberately left open was surely no easy way out. As Ran Ying looked up, a balloon happened to drift over her head.

The Black Shoulder Badge player raised a Vacuum Cleaner item and aimed it at the balloon, but it sputtered out as soon as he activated it. He was about to move forward when the masked player pointed at the balloon from a distance.

The balloon burst with a pop, spilling