Gourd Brothers, Gourd Brothers

"Good heavens, what's going on?" Xiao He grabbed Andre by the neck, pulled him in front of him, and asked the woman.

"My Superpower, 'Fantasy Slayer,' can eliminate the abilities of everyone around me, nothing more," the beautiful white woman said with a slight smile. She was dressed in a white and gold missionary robe, and her smile was gentle and sweet.

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"To be honest, this flaw is really embarrassing..." Xiao He said, a little embarrassed.

Now, after Xie Haining brought it up, he belatedly realized: Nash's movement technique, "Explosive Leap," which relies on explosions to move, isn't that the only explosion he can instantly detonate?

Because they would blow themselves up, they don't explode instantly, but instead rely on timed explosions to attack enemies.

Furthermore, Nash often uses "Explosive Leap" to move while setting detonation points during combat, precisely to avoid the blast radius of his own detonation point.

"No wonder this guy always gets stuck within thirty meters..." Xiao He frowned and thought to himself.

The arena has a diameter of 100 meters, so if Nash is more than 50 meters away from the enemy, his explosion could threaten him. Thirty meters would provide him with a safe reaction time and allow him some space to move if the enemy has planted a bomb behind him, so as to avoid being caught in his own explosion.

Knowing when Nash sets up his bomb sites and their range makes finding a safe zone on the court much easier. However, this weakness isn't fatal, because even knowing Nash's bomb site setup rules is useless; only Nash can see the bomb sites, and most people simply can't remember them...

But Xie Haining is no ordinary person. If anyone can remember Nash's explosive moments, it's Xie Haining. However, Nash isn't stupid either. Xiao He always felt that this game was either exceptionally exciting or completely incomprehensible to everyone.

After the initial panic subsided, Nash regained his composure and began to increase his range of movement on the court. As long as he left enough explosive opportunities throughout the game, he could compensate for his lack of Superpower.

However, Xie Haining wouldn't let him set up the minefield so easily. Xie Haining moved around the court while firing his gun. His shooting accuracy was not a problem, but Nash also began to be on guard.

Nash's instantaneous explosion will definitely hit himself, but he can set up some very weak explosions, which can help him move and also deflect the bullet's trajectory.

Xie Haining continued firing on the court, trying to deduce Nash's bomb sites based on his movements and calculate the absolute safe zone. However, this wasn't a sustainable strategy. Once Nash had set up bomb sites across the entire court, Xie Haining would find it difficult to advance. Therefore, Xie Haining also increased his attack pace in an attempt to finish the game before Nash could complete his bombing runs.

"Tsk, what an annoying guy..." Nash muttered to himself as he moved.

He knew Xie Haining couldn't see the detonation points, so Xie Haining didn't actually know the exact location of the minefield. The other man had only deduced an absolutely safe area based on the locations of the detonation points and remained within that safe zone. In reality, just one misjudgment would have been fatal, but this man never made a single mistake...

"Don't get impatient..." Nash muttered to himself, beginning to expand the scope of the explosion settings.

Increasing the blasting range does indeed increase the possibility of Xie Haining making a mistake, but it also poses a significant risk to him.

The farther the detonation point is set, the larger the blast radius, and the more restricted his own space will be.

This is also the origin of the "thirty meters" safe distance. But at this moment, Xie Haining suddenly threw a flashbang from his pocket and then fired a shot at it. The bullet did not hit the flashbang directly, but grazed the edge of the flashbang, so the flashbang changed direction in mid-air and accelerated towards Nash.

"Hmph..." Nash snorted coldly, waved his hand to set up an explosive point between himself and the flashbang, and used Explosive Leap to create distance. But at this moment, Xie Haining pulled the trigger again, changing the position of the flashbang with another shot.

But Nash had already guessed that Xie Haining would do this, so at the moment of his Explosive Leap, the detonation point he had just set also exploded, pushing the flashbang into the air. "Bang!" A distant muffled sound came as the flashbang exploded in mid-air, but the moment Nash landed on the ground, two bullets accurately hit his forehead and chest.

With a loud "whoosh!", Nash felt his mind explode. Of course, he was still Mutant, and even with less than LV2 defense, he wouldn't actually have his skull pierced by such a weapon. He fell to the ground, unable to help but curse, "That bastard, deliberately forced me to do Explosive Leap so he could predict my landing point! But, hmph..."

The moment Nash fell to the ground, an explosion erupted from the court, stopping Xie Haining from continuing his pursuit. Then, explosions followed one after another, crackling and popping like firecrackers.

Of course, Xie Haining was in an absolutely safe zone, and none of the explosions hit him.

Although Xie Haining's clothes and hair were whipped about by the aftershocks of the explosion, he was unharmed. Xie Haining slowed down time, thinking carefully...

"Is the enemy planning to..." Xie Haining pondered for a moment, "A feint attack? No, is it to use explosions to cover their movements, trap me here, and then shrink the encirclement of the minefield, thus trapping me in a dead end?"

Suddenly, Xie Haining accelerated and charged towards the explosion zone.

Although the explosion was quite powerful, Xie Haining could withstand it as long as he avoided the epicenter.

After all, Nash didn't use his strongest explosives, which allowed Xie Haining to take advantage of the situation. Of course, Xie Haining was also constrained by the competition rules; otherwise, in actual combat, if he had a high-powered weapon, that headshot would have ended the fight long ago.

"Tsk, have we been spotted?" Nash, behind the explosion zone, spat in annoyance and moved towards Xie Haining's group.

The two players were outmaneuvering each other on the field, but most people watching from the sidelines didn't really understand what was going on.

However, Xiao He got goosebumps all over. He was the kind of person who was a little clever, and he could roughly guess the intentions of both parties. He couldn't help but admire the intelligence of these two people.

"If these two hadn't 'changed their names,' I would never want to run into them again in this lifetime..." Xiao He thought to himself.

To the audience, it might seem like two chess players are neither attacking nor defending, but just making random moves on the board. However, what they don't know is that both players are "setting up" and "breaking the deadlock." If either of them makes a mistake, they will lose the entire game. The fierce battle on the field continues, but Xie Haining is at a significant disadvantage in one aspect.

Ammunition.

Nash's "ammunition" is inexhaustible, but Xie Haining's is not, making a protracted battle clearly overwhelmingly disadvantageous for Xie Haining.

Perhaps realizing this, Xie Haining slowed down the pace of the attack, which gave Nash an opportunity. He continued to roam the court, quickly setting up his own minefield.

"This is bad..." Xie Haining muttered to himself, pulling two smoke grenades from his pocket and throwing them on the ground.

"Hmph, futile struggle." Nash sneered and moved the detonation time forward by one second.

When setting up the "minefield," he would continuously adjust the detonation time of the previously set explosive points, extending the time uniformly. When a temporary detonation was needed, he would advance the detonation time of the explosive points by one second.

Several explosions occurred as a result, and just then, Xie Haining's figure burst through those explosions. Nash was startled and immediately began to adjust his position.

In fact, Nash didn't plan his next actions and minefield in advance; rather, he adjusted his actions based on the timing of the minefield's detonation.

"It's useless, I know everything..." Nash sneered, but then a sudden chill ran through him: something's wrong...

"There's an opening." Xie Haining passed through the several explosion points and then rushed along the edge of the arena.

Nash had set up explosive opportunities in almost every area of the court, with one exception: the area where he first confronted Xie Haining, the area where Xie Haining first exposed his weaknesses.

Thinking of this, Nash suddenly recalled that when Xie Haining was introduced by the host when he first came on the court, Xie Haining had subtly adjusted his position. Only then did he realize: this man had already set up his strategy when he came on the court.

Xie Haining's strategy actually only had one step, which was the step that forced him to make a move at the beginning of the game.

As soon as the two players entered the court, Nash began setting up his minefield while the host was introducing them.

However, the game hadn't officially started yet, so Nash couldn't attack and had to maintain a safe distance of 30 meters. When Xie Haining came on and adjusted his position, Nash followed suit and ended up being forced against the wall.

"Damn it, they actually started back then..." Nash gritted his teeth and thought to himself, "But there's still a chance to make amends."

After passing through the several explosion points, Xie Haining landed in the safe zone near the edge, forcing Nash into a corner. Now, Nash is facing Xie Haining who is approaching, and behind him is the minefield that was just laid.

"Tsk..." Nash spat in annoyance, then Explosive Leap leaped into the minefield behind him.

While entering the minefield would indeed put him at risk, he could safely traverse it if he adjusted the detonation time of the explosives. However, Nash discovered another problem: the detonation time.

Because Xie Haining was constantly fighting him from a distance, the detonation times of the bomb sites he set were all too close together, making it impossible for him to attack Xie Haining without harming himself by staggering the detonation times.

However, Xie Haining suddenly made a "mistake" and entered one of Nash's detonation points, the blast radius of which was just enough to hit Xie Haining without harming him...

"Wait, what if this guy did it on purpose? No, that's impossible... He can't see my detonation point, it can't be intentional. His Superpower is reaction time, not super intelligence, how could a normal person remember it?" Nash struggled internally, but he didn't have much time to hesitate. At this point, he could only take a gamble. Therefore, Nash adjusted the detonation time and detonated the detonation point in front of Xie Haining ahead of schedule.

However, in that instant before the detonation, Xie Haining suddenly lunged forward, thus throwing the center of the explosion behind him. Xie Haining was not knocked back by the blast, but was instead propelled forward by the shock of the explosion, rushing towards Nash.

"Damn it!" Nash thought to himself, realizing the situation was dire: if Xie Haining got close, he was doomed.

Xie Haining rolled to his feet, quickly raised his gun, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" The moment the gunshot rang out, Xie Haining fired the last bullet, but Nash also groaned and fell backward. Xie Haining immediately threw down his gun and rushed forward, preparing to defeat Nash in a final close-quarters fight.

However, at that moment, a powerful explosion erupted around Xie Haining, engulfing both Xie Haining and Nash. The deafening roar echoed throughout the arena, and the two figures flew out of the smoke and dust.

"Goodness, knowing he couldn't win before being hit, he simply planted a time bomb, opting for a mutual destruction..." Xiao He chuckled, resting his chin on his hand. "Shel Nash... what a respectable opponent. I like this guy."

The referee checked on the two players, then raised his hand and waved, indicating that both were incapacitated. The score was a draw...

"My goodness, this is the first time we've had a draw in this arena!" the host exclaimed excitedly. "They've put on a truly spectacular match, both evenly matched. Let's give them a round of applause, folks!"

"Tsk, this guy probably didn't even understand it at all, did he?" Xiao He rolled his eyes and thought to himself.

However, the explosion seriously injured both people at the scene, so medical personnel immediately rushed to their aid.

After taking half a bottle of the treatment, the two temporarily regained consciousness and were carried off the field on stretchers.

"Do you really remember all my detonation points?" Nash asked Xie Haining suspiciously as he lay on the stretcher.

"How could that be? I'm not a prodigy." Xie Haining laughed. "I only remembered the general outline. I mainly judged whether there was a detonation point by observing your body language. When I was about to enter your detonation point, you would always subconsciously tense up and adjust the detonation time. All the information was given to me by 'you.' I had enough time to observe."

"Ah..." Nash frowned and sighed, "Indeed, my true enemy is time..."

"Time is not your enemy," Xie Haining said with a smile and a wave. "Eternity is."