Fantasy Game: Infinite City

On the city streets near the beach park, a burly man wearing a clean old man's vest and loose flowered shorts and flip-flops exudes a powerful aura under his unkempt clothes.

Opposite him was a pair of identical twins. They were agile and coordinated with each other seamlessly. A battle was breaking out between them.

The fight between the three was extremely fierce. Each attack brought about a huge collision of power. The surrounding buildings were shaking in their fierce battle. The strong man's fist was like a hammer, hitting the twins fiercely, while the twins flexibly dodged the attack and launched a swift counterattack.

The walls of the building were smashed by the strong man, bricks and stones were scattered everywhere, windows were broken, smoke and dust filled the air. Vehicles on the street were overturned, glass was shattered, and parts were scattered all over the ground.

The intensity of the fight continued to escalate. The twins cooperated well, one attacking and the other defending, which seemed to put the strong man in a passive position. However, the strong man did not seem to fight with all his strength. His desire to attack was not particularly strong, and he seemed to be observing the twins' movements.

As the battle progressed, the streets became a mess, as if they had been hit by a violent storm. But in this chaos, the battle between the strong man and the twins continued. Their figures were looming in the ruins, and the sound of fighting could be heard from time to time.

"Hey! You're doing well! Look at Garcia, he's able to skillfully use a variety of fighting techniques, unlike me, who only knows how to use electric cannons and flying kicks, and the most technically demanding move I have is just a naked choke."

At the edge of the beach park, at the top of the Ferris wheel at the sightseeing pier, Han Zu and Garcia sat in the top cockpit, watching the fierce battle that broke out not far away. Han Zu, holding a cigarette he found from somewhere, commented seriously on both sides of the battle, while Garcia next to him was looking at some documents, occasionally looking up and glancing at the battle situation below.

"It seems that there should be quite a lot of players in this instance, and they are all fighting in small groups. It seems that your previous analysis of the guild war format is more than 80% correct."

Garcia's focus now is not on the battle below, but on the documents in his hand. These documents are among the things that the Death Hounds found before.

"The hounds are becoming more intelligent, don't you think? They can now find important items like documents on their own, which means they can analyze situations and find ways to expand our advantage. I think this has something to do with the last time you absorbed the Gift of the Dead Realm. If you continue to absorb it, maybe one day they will be able to speak."

"Pretty much what I thought."

Han Zu nodded, exhaled a puff of smoke out of the open window of the cockpit, and continued to observe the battle below.

At this time, the battle below changed. The strong man suddenly exerted his strength and broke the twins' defense in one fell swoop, forcing them into a desperate situation.

"So amazing!" Han Zu pretended to be amazed, "This guy must be hiding his strength."

"Maybe." Garcia frowned slightly.

"But your expression is too exaggerated."

As the two were talking, a powerful energy wave came from a distance. Han Zu and Garcia looked at each other, Han Zu smiled, and Garcia put away the documents in his hand and looked in the direction of the energy wave.

"It's really lively tonight." Han Zu exhaled a puff of smoke and looked excitedly at the direction of the energy fluctuations in the distance. Suddenly, several light spots appeared in the sky, and each small light spot exuded a terrifying aura.

Three of them rushed straight towards the strong man and the twins. The strong man and the twins temporarily stopped fighting to deal with this sudden threat together. The twins used their agility to avoid these light balls, but they seemed to have some kind of tracking ability and it was difficult to avoid them by simply dodging. The twins also used some kind of power to attract the two light balls that attacked them and led them to the building next to them.

The location where the building was hit by the light ball did not explode, but was pierced through. After penetrating many walls, the light ball immediately dissipated due to the weakening of its energy.

As for the sturdy man, he was quite confident in his own strength. He swung his fist and hit the light ball head-on. The huge force collided with the light ball, and the light ball exploded like broken glass, turning into points of light that quickly dissipated. The sturdy man also had some small wounds on his hands, which made him a little more serious.

Han Zu and Garcia were also surrounded by the light balls. "Looks like we can't watch the show comfortably." Han Zu held a cigarette butt in his mouth, stretched his muscles, and without any big movements, he stretched out his hand and grabbed a ball of light directly.

Garcia summoned a stand-in who was almost identical to himself and it was difficult to tell the difference. The stand-in jumped off the Ferris wheel and fell into the sea. The light ball that was originally about to attack Garcia instantly changed direction and chased towards the sea.

"What do you think?" Garcia looked at Han Zu who had grabbed the ball of light. The ball of light was shaking violently in Han Zu's hand, trying to penetrate Han Zu's skin and break free. However, this was simply impossible. Han Zu played with the ball of light in his hand and blew a puff of smoke at it.

"I thought the touch would be an indescribable sense of energy, but it actually felt like a decorative crystal ball, the kind of toy you often see in children's hands at Christmas, and it felt cool."

Han Zu originally wanted to crush the ball of light directly, but changed his mind and decided to use this thing to try out an ability whose specific function he was not clear about at the moment. However, before he could activate the ability, the ball of light was suddenly absorbed by himself. This was not a conscious action of Han Zu.

"Where's the light ball? Why did it suddenly disappear?"

Han Zu was very puzzled. He knew that this was definitely related to him, but he didn't know the specific reason. And it definitely had nothing to do with his ability in this copy, because he hadn't activated it yet.

He kept thinking about the ball of light in his mind and looked at his palms back and forth. After clenching his fists and opening his palms, a transparent spherical black energy body suddenly appeared in Han Zu's hands.

"Is this your ability?" Garcia couldn't help but ask.

"No," Han Zu was also surprised. "I didn't have time to activate it just now. I don't know what's going on. Is it related to the Gift of Death Realm, or... ah! Oh, I almost forgot about it."

"Are you talking about the black shadow that feeds on energy that you absorbed before?"

Garcia also thought of this possibility, and Han Zu nodded. They both had similar ideas.

"Being able to absorb other people's energy and then transform it into its own energy, this may be the secret of the black shadow. It seems that we have been overthinking it before."

The spherical energy body generated by Han Zu is much more stable than the light ball just now. Han Zu can even toss it around like a small ball. It feels very strange to the touch, sometimes cold and sometimes warm.

"I think you can try to inject some more energy into the energy ball and then test its power." Garcia was very interested in this energy ball and put forward his own ideas. Han Zu also thought this idea was good, so he began to try to input more energy into the energy ball.

As energy was injected, the originally transparent spherical energy body gradually became turbid, but its volume continued to shrink, eventually becoming the size of a glass marble, and then it was no longer possible to inject energy. Its texture also became extremely hard, and its weight became very large.

"It has reached its limit of the energy it can receive. That's all. Let me see where to throw it..."

"In the sea. The battle in the building complex is still going on. They haven't noticed us. As for those light balls, they don't seem to be heading in our direction. I guess they don't have very accurate tracking capabilities. In addition, my stand-in just jumped into the sea. If there is an abnormal energy reaction in the sea at this time, then extra attention will definitely be drawn to the sea. We will have a chance to observe and make a judgment."

"Makes sense."

"Bah."

Through the open window of the Ferris wheel cabin, Han Zu launched the energy body in his hand, which was condensed to the size of a glass marble, toward the distant sea. Using his powerful vision, Han Zu saw that after the "marble" fell into the sea, there was no effect.

"It may take some time, wait..."

“Hua La La…”

After the sudden fainting incident, Garcia's physical fitness was improved to a higher level. From the perspective of visual ability alone, she was almost the same as Han Zu, so she could see Han Zu's movements clearly. While she was talking to Han Zu, she saw a huge whirlpool with a diameter of more than ten meters suddenly appeared at the place where the "marble" fell into the water, and the speed was gradually increasing. After careful observation, Garcia discovered that the sea water in the middle of the whirlpool was not squeezed by the energy, but disappeared directly.

The overflowing excess energy calms the surging sea surface to a certain extent. Unless you observe it closely, you will think that nothing is happening on the sea surface. It is just the normal rise and fall of the tide, with occasional sounds of waves.

"Good." Han Zu and Garcia both nodded, looked at each other with a smile, and continued to watch the battle in the distance. The battle was nearing its end. The sturdy man looked at ease, while the twins looked more and more embarrassed.

The twins' figures suddenly faded and merged into one. Energy wrapped around them began to surge. The burly man opposite them did not interfere with their movements at all. Instead, he stretched out his hands and hooked his fingers in their direction.

The surge of energy was completed, and the twins merged into one. Their injuries were quickly healed, and they rushed towards the strong man again. Their speed was twice as fast as before, and their lightning-fast attack mercilessly attacked the strong man. However, the strong man was still very relaxed and blocked all the attacks with just one hand.

As if he felt he had had enough fun, the sturdy man's speed suddenly increased to a level invisible to the naked eye. His body seemed to become extremely slow. However, if you look closely, you will find that those sluggish figures are actually afterimages of the movement trajectory left behind by high-speed movement.

I don't know what he did, but the sturdy man suddenly stopped, shook his wrists, and stood there with his hands on his hips. The twins' attacks were about to touch his body.

However, just when the attack was about to hit the sturdy man, the twins' combination was suddenly attacked by a violent storm. Countless sturdy men appeared in every corner around them. Those were the afterimages left by the attack. Within a few seconds, the twins didn't know how many attacks they had endured. Even their combination was forcibly dissolved. The two bodies were severely injured and unable to get up again. After the last attack, they fell heavily to the ground. The twins lost their ability to fight and lay on the ground dying.

"boom!"

Just when the sturdy man was about to go up and complete the final blow to send them out, a transparent object flew towards the sturdy man, but the sturdy man also noticed it and punched back. However, after a brief explosion, the sturdy man's body was quickly frozen.

“Buzz~!”

After a sound of space distortion, the twins suddenly disappeared. At this moment, the ice that froze the strong man was shattered by him and he broke free.

Seeing the two enemies who were not dead yet suddenly disappear, the sturdy man took out a phone from his pocket, which he found in the copy. He dialed a number and started communicating with the person on the other end of the phone.

"Is he informing his companions that other players have run away?" Garcia gave his own inference.

"Almost the same. Maybe it's because of the previous attack by the light ball. The people who used the light ball to attack are not the same as the strong man and the twins. This means that now there are at least three more players besides us."

"What are you going to do?" Looking at Han Zu's malicious smile, Garcia had some guesses in his mind about their next move.

"Of course we have to find the guy who threw the marbles first. It is very rude to disturb others watching the show, and it is even more wrong to attack them in the dark."

"So we have to take him out first, or them."

"Hey, that's right. Let me think about it. The direction just now was... this way. Strange, isn't this on the sea?"

"When we first arrived at the beach, there was a sightseeing boat that had just left the pier. At the time, we thought it was an ordinary person who wanted to escape from here, but now it seems that we were careless."

Han Zu waved his hand, not caring at all.

"Since they are players, they cannot leave the dungeon until the mission is completed, so they cannot leave the mission area. They are not too far away, they should be at the edge of the dungeon range, so it should not be difficult to find them."

Taking Garcia with him, Han Zu climbed down from the cabin on top of the Ferris wheel. In order not to make any noise, he went down to the ground little by little along the steel frame of the Ferris wheel.

He walked to the dock, found a speedboat, got on board, checked the fuel in the speedboat, and prepared to start the speedboat and head out to the sea.

"Are you in a hurry to go out to sea?"

However, a voice attracted Han Zu's attention. He thought it was the burly man from before, but when he looked up, it was someone else.

"It depends on the situation."

"How to say?"

"Depends on whether you're here to fight or to chat."