District 013 Specialty: Skin-Left Worm
Two Players exchanged glances. The female Player laughed and patted the shoulder of the person beside her. "Senior, this little girl's pretty interesting. Leave her to me."
She lifted her chin at Yan Jiayu. "And you're calling us Cannibal Players based on that?"
Yan Jiayu didn't bother arguing. She swung her Stone Staff at them.
The female Player didn't take the skinny girl seriously. Rather than retreat, she charged straight at her and reached out to catch the Stone Staff with her bare hand.
But when the Stone Staff came down on her palm, she realized she'd misjudged. She forced it aside, hiding her trembling right hand as she leaped back. Yan Jiayu shot forward like a cannonball, closing the distance in the blink of an eye and bringing the Stone Staff down three times in quick succession!
Seeing his companion driven back, the male Player known as "Senior" immediately moved to help. But a Thin Thread tipped with a metal hook flew over and wrapped around his wrist. The other end was in Xu Huo's hand.
It was an item he'd obtained after killing the String Controller. It was fairly tough, so Xu Huo had brought it along to test its effects in real combat. When his opponent tried to pull it off, Xu Huo flicked his hand, and the thread looped around the man's other wrist. But controlling it from a distance wasn't as easy as he'd imagined. It wasn't easy to tangle, either; instead, it was remarkably smooth and came off with little effort.
Watching his clumsy movements, Senior yanked on the thread, pulling them closer together.
As Xu Huo kicked off the ground and charged, he coiled the thread around his left hand and drove a full-force punch with his right.