Sudden Clash
The bright spots seemed to draw closer by hopping across a continuous stretch of mirrors. They didn't look particularly dangerous, but the players' instincts kicked in, and the burly player at the front tossed out an artifact. "People, people, people!"
A plastic sumo wrestler doll instantly filled the passageway. But the mirrors didn't budge. Instead, the inflatable dolls crowded together, squeezing the Special Defense Department players into a tight space until they were pressed against one another. Yet the dolls did nothing to stop the bright spots!
Whoosh! A bright spot shot out of a mirror with a piercing whistle, struck a player's Defense Artifact, then ricocheted into another mirror!
"Light!" the burly player roared. But by the time the artifact lit up, the same bright spots had appeared in all the mirrors around them!
"There are more of them!" The player holding the lantern put away his artifact at once, but the bright spots already in the mirrors didn't disappear. They quivered, then shot out one after another, ricocheting through the cramped space like super-bouncy tennis balls.
In a cramped, crowded space, even one "tennis ball" bouncing around would be trouble. Now there were eight!
The players took turns using Attack Artifacts and Defense Artifacts. They could block the bright spots, but had no good way to stop them. One player was careless and had a hand bone broken.
"Put the doll away and make some room!" the short player shouted at the burly player.
The burly player snapped back, just as irritated, "You think I dare? What if they keep multiplying as they bounce?"
"We shouldn't have tried it!" one of them grumbled.
It wasn't that they shouldn't have tried. It was that Xu Huo had dragged them all in with him!
"Don't just hide in