Fantasy Game: Infinite City

A few minutes later.

"Zizi...zizi...Hello?...zizi...Hammond...you?...zizizi..."

"It's me! Boss! I'm trapped in Skand, the abandoned shopping mall! A large number of soldiers have surrounded the place and I'm in urgent need of reinforcements! Hello? Boss? Can you hear me? Hello?"

In a cleaner's lounge between the fifth and sixth floors of an abandoned shopping mall, Ledger's deputy Hammond was using an old-fashioned communication device to contact his boss. Although the communication was successfully connected, due to the presence of signal interceptors and jammers set up by the "Night Owl" organization soldiers around, neither side could hear the content of the communication clearly and could only repeat the same words over and over again.

"Zizi...underground...road...another exit...zizi is parking...zizizi...meeting...zizi...one hour...zizi"

Fortunately, there were no soldiers chasing Hammond near where he was, so he had time to hear what Layed said. Through constant repetition, Hammond heard from the communication with Layed that the second wave of support was on the way, and they would meet Hammond at a secret exit of the Skonland Shopping Center. In order to reach the meeting point, Hammond needed to ensure his survival while passing through the underground parking lot of the Skonland Shopping Center, taking the maintenance passage, entering a drainage system, and from there reaching the abandoned subway station. The volunteer team that would meet Hammond would wait for him in the abandoned subway station tunnel.

Hammond breathed a sigh of relief when he received the news that support was on the way, but then he heard footsteps coming from a distance outside, so he quickly turned off the communication equipment, raised a submachine gun seized from the "Night Owl" soldiers, hid behind the door, and prepared for battle.

However, the footsteps soon faded away again. It seemed that the soldiers did not find Hammond's hiding place. After the footsteps outside the door completely disappeared, Hammond immediately left the hiding room and began to carefully look for a route to the underground parking lot of the shopping mall. Taking advantage of the opportunity to avoid the soldiers' search, Hammond returned to the fifth floor and took a look at the position below. Through the light from the tactical flashlights on the guns of the soldiers of the "Night Owl" organization on the lower floors, he could see that the large force had completely occupied the third and fourth floors. There were fewer soldiers on the first and second floors, but all the exits were still blocked.

The escalator from the fifth floor to the fourth floor, there were many heavily armed soldiers gathered on the fourth floor below, and there were lasers on the weapons of six or seven snipers on the opposite side of the fifth floor. If you want to go down from here, it is no different from suicide, so Hammond can only look for other routes. While he was hiding and observing, he found that somewhere on the fourth floor, there were three people who were completely out of tune with those "Night Owl" soldiers. Judging from their hair and figure, they were obviously women, and they did not have any guns on them.

Hammond suddenly remembered that earlier, before he ran into the Skand Shopping Center to avoid the pursuers, three women seemed to have appeared between him and the pursuing soldiers. Hammond was sure that they were not in the same group with him, and judging from the fact that the "Night Owl" organization soldiers had also attacked them before, they were not in the same group as those soldiers.

"That's directed at me. If that's the case, don't blame me!"

Hammond reached for the weapon belt he had snatched from the Night Owl soldier in front of his chest, took out a flash grenade, aimed at the direction of the three women, pulled the ring and threw the flash grenade out, then immediately hid behind the bunker and observed secretly.

"Ding!"

"when!!!"

However, the flash bomb was not thrown at the feet of the three women, but in mid-air, just in front of the bunker where the women were hiding. Something hit the flash bomb and triggered it in advance. Hammond cursed inwardly, but he didn't expect that the women's reactions were so sharp that they could see through his plan in advance.

But Hammond's work was not in vain. Although the flash bomb did not have a direct impact on the three women, the explosion sound and huge instantaneous flash when the flash bomb was triggered did successfully attract the soldiers of the "Night Owl" organization.

"What's going on! Is this an enemy attack?! Go, go, go!!!"

At the same time, behind an obstacle on the fourth floor.

Chizuru, Yukiko, and Saki actually didn't notice that a flash bomb was thrown at them until it exploded. Although they were not hit, the explosion of the flash bomb attracted a large number of soldiers to search. The three of them were confused and angry, but if they confronted the soldiers head-on, they would only be used as targets by snipers in the distance. So before the soldiers surrounded them, the three of them immediately evacuated their original positions under the cover of the black mist released by Yukiko.

"Someone wanted to use that flash bomb to attract the attention of those soldiers, but it was too dark around, and I couldn't see where the flash bomb was thrown from! Damn it!"

"It can't be those soldiers. If it were them, they would have just opened fire."

"Is it that deputy?! He wants to use these soldiers to kill us!"

"What Chizuru said makes sense. He should have discovered that we are not soldiers of the Night Owl organization."

"Xuezi, if we can confirm which deputy threw the flash bomb, I think I know what he is going to do. Look over there."

Saki thought quickly and suddenly found that the heavy soldiers who had blocked the escalators on the fourth and fifth floors had left their original positions and started looking for the fourth floor. The escalators were also temporarily without soldiers guarding them. Saki pointed to the escalator and after careful observation, the three of them saw a shadow grabbing the handrail of the escalator and flipping down from the side. After hanging under the escalator, it swung to the pillar next to it and quickly went down to the fourth floor from the pillar. After avoiding the patrolling soldiers, it disappeared into a corridor near the center.

"Lure the tiger away from the mountain? But why would he run down there?"

"I think he must have found a secret exit that would allow him to escape the encirclement. Let's go! We'll follow him right away!"

They quickly came to the place where the black shadow disappeared. Saki was on guard, while Chizuru and Yukiko jointly performed an ability. Yukiko summoned a ball of black mist, which combined with the shadow next to it. Then Chizuru injected some frost magic into this small ball of shadow and mist mixture. The two spread their hands, and this mixed energy fell to the ground and spread quickly. Two or three seconds later, a clear trace of footprints appeared on the ground, which only the three members of the assassination team could see.

"This way!"

The combined ability of the two can accurately find targets within a certain area, although there are limitations on its use, that is, it requires a dim environment. However, the abandoned Skandar Shopping Center, which currently has no lighting or electricity, is undoubtedly the best place to use it. Following the continuously extending energy footprints, the three quickly chased in the direction that Deputy Hammond left.

Hammond location.

Because of the small disturbance just now, the attention of those heavy soldiers was successfully attracted. Hammond's pressure on the fourth floor was reduced a lot, but it was not enough for him to be careless, after all, there were still many ordinary soldiers on the fourth floor. And it seemed that the small group of soldiers was killed by the surprise attack before, causing the remaining soldiers to no longer act alone. The smallest team now has five or six people. This made Hammond's pressure increase again. It was not that he could not beat these ordinary soldiers, but that their number was large enough to make up for the gap in strength.

Hammond could only hide again, looking for a possible opportunity. Finally, Hammond suddenly discovered that the statue erected in the middle of the hall on the first floor was high enough, and the highest position was flush with the third floor. Moreover, there was no hiding place on the statue, and the distance between each floor and the statue was not too close, so the soldiers of the "Night Owl" organization patrolling on each floor did not put any effort near the statue.

This discovery made Hammond excited. As long as he could get closer, he could jump to the top of the statue. As long as no one discovered him in the middle, Hammond could pass directly through the statue, quickly avoid the soldiers on each floor, and quickly descend to the first floor. As long as he reached the first floor, he could even crawl into the underground parking lot.

"These snipers are a problem. My attack methods and abilities cannot reach their positions, and firing rashly will attract soldiers. The three-story searchlights are also a problem that needs to be solved."

Just as Hammond was thinking about countermeasures, he suddenly felt a chill. He immediately looked behind him, but nothing happened.

"Someone is chasing us very closely."

This is one of Hammond's abilities. If someone uses an ability or something with high energy to lock his position, he will have this feeling. However, if you just see him with your eyes, this ability will not be triggered.

While changing his current position, Hammond searched his body, but he did not find anything unusual. The feeling was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that it would soon catch up with Hammond. However, Hammond did not panic. He clenched his right fist and stretched his arm forward with his thumb. An illusion that looked exactly like Hammond suddenly appeared on the side of Hammond and quickly ran in the direction Hammond pointed. After running for a distance, it hid in the shadows behind some obstacles and stopped.

Hammond himself ran to the other side and hid in the shadow at the corner, slowing down his breathing. Not long after hiding, Hammond saw three agile women quietly and quickly passed Hammond's position and chased towards the position of the illusion. Hammond immediately controlled the illusion and continued to run away. After he left the three women, Hammond immediately ran out of the shadows and quickly and quietly ran in the opposite direction of the three women.

The fourth-floor snack street, near an abandoned store.

"It's right here. The guy is hiding in the shop in front."

"Finally I found him."

"There are no patrolling soldiers nearby for the time being. Chizuru, Saki, get ready to take action!"

Chizuru, Yukiko, and Saki quietly moved towards the store. Yukiko gave a few glances at the wall on the side of the store, and Chizuru and Saki climbed in from the windows at the back and side of the store respectively, while Yukiko came to the front.

"Om~"

As the friction sound of Saki's samurai sword being drawn out of its scabbard was heard, the three of them immediately began to attack. "Hammond" also took an attacking stance, ready to fight. However, when the attacks of the three hit "Hammond", his body suddenly dissipated. The three of them immediately stopped attacking, only then realizing that they had been tricked.

"Damn it! That guy actually has an illusion that can avoid our pursuit!"

"This type of ability should not have a large range. The illusion just disappeared not long ago. Let's go back! We should be able to catch up. Chizuru, help me use the search ability again."

"it is good!"

The three used their tracking ability again. As the energy footprints reappeared, they locked onto Hammond's position again and quickly chased him. However, just as they left the snack street, the searchlights from the three floors below swept over, and the three quickly lay on the ground to avoid the searchlights. But after the searchlights left, the energy footprints disappeared again.

"That guy was able to cut off the energy that was locking him, but it certainly wasn't without consumption."

"Before the footprints disappeared, they were heading that way. We should follow them and see for ourselves."

"go!"

Following the direction indicated by the footprints before they disappeared, the three continued chasing.

Hammond had just used an illusion to cut off the tracking. He calculated in his mind that he could use the illusion three more times before he needed to rest. After that, he would need to rest for ten minutes before he could use it again. Fortunately, the tracking disappeared again, but Hammond did not stop because he knew that the other party must be close enough to him.

Perhaps it was luck, Hammond saw a semi-automatic sniper rifle hanging on the damaged railing while dodging the searchlight. It seemed to have fallen from above. It should be that after a sniper above was killed, the gun fell down and happened to be hanging here. After the searchlight passed, Hammond immediately climbed up, took down the sniper rifle hanging on the damaged railing, checked the magazine, and found that it was still full of bullets. It seemed that the owner of the gun was very unlucky and was killed without even firing a shot.

"I'm so lucky! This gun actually has a silencer!"

Hammond immediately found an obstacle as a place to set up his gun, adjusted his breathing, and shattered the searchlights on the three floors below with one shot. Then, he destroyed all three searchlights that could illuminate the vicinity of the statue. With the help of the silencer, Hammond's position was not discovered, but he still left his original position, found a new place to set up his gun, and began to search for and kill snipers who might aim at the statue. After killing them, Hammond put on his sniper rifle, threw out two illusions, and immediately rushed to the railing on the edge of the fourth floor. He aimed at the statue and flipped out directly.

Holding tightly onto the statue's raised arms, Hammond steadied himself after swaying a few times, and immediately began to climb down along the statue's position. He soon reached the second floor. Just as he was about to continue climbing down, he saw a searchlight on the fifth floor shining down. He hurriedly climbed up a few steps again and hid on the side of the statue, constantly moving to avoid the searchlight's beam.

Although Hammond was not discovered by the searchlight, a bazooka soldier somewhere on the fourth floor noticed the reflection of the scope of the sniper rifle that Hammond was carrying, and he immediately used the bazooka to aim at the location of the statue.

"boom!!!"

However, just as he put his finger on the trigger, the rocket from the bazooka he was carrying suddenly exploded, blowing him and one or two soldiers nearby to pieces. The sound and fire from the explosion once again attracted the soldiers' attention, and a large number of soldiers quickly surrounded the fourth floor.

Although Hammond had no idea what was going on, he would never miss this opportunity. He immediately climbed down the statue and successfully reached the first floor. Then he ran towards the stairs to the underground parking lot without looking back.

Somewhere on the fourth floor.

"what happened?"

"Someone just fired the first shot! It wasn't an accident!"

"I heard it too. The sound seemed to come from above!"

"One of my snipers has lost contact! The last location was on the seventh floor, in an air corridor that was blocked on both sides!"

"Go quickly!!"

A scout team consisting of twenty people immediately rushed to the seventh floor and kicked away the obstacles on both sides of the sky corridor. They raised their guns and quickly surrounded the middle, but they found nothing. There was only an anti-material rifle without a scope and a large piece of black cloth torn from some construction waste.

"Where's the man who fired the gun? He ran away! Did he grow wings or is he a spider?! Search him!"

Just as the scout team on the seventh floor was shouting and yelling, a strange gray mist floated into the stairwell leading to the underground parking lot on the first floor.