Chapter 62: One Move Ahead


    Trantor: Strivon / Ash Editor: Geoffrey / Lancent


    “Don’t be fooled! I’m his true target! It’s absolutely not Helian Lie!”


    Gao Ye shrieked. His short figure curled up into a ball and rolled backwards on the ground in apletely sorry manner.


    Upon hearing Gao Ye shriek, severalrge and strong Blue Teampetitors immediately threw themselves towards him, disregarding their own safety.


    Gao Ye had long since calcted the possibility of the Red Team executing the “Beheading Tactic”, thus he had his teammates practice Anti-Beheading Tactics since the start.


    In less than half a second, a sturdy and robust meat wall appeared in front of Gao Ye. Seven to eight ordinary des danced vigorously, crisscrossing to form an unstoppable de formation!


    And sure enough, Li Yao had stopped and changed directions in an utterly strange fashion while in the air, as if he had fiercely stomped on a transparent wall of air to throw himself towards Gao Ye, ignoring Helian Lie.


    It seemed like Li Yao did not foresee Gao Ye reacting so quickly. He suddenly crashed into the de formation!


    Fortunately, the Blue Teampetitors had yet to recover from their dazed state caused by the sh Glyph Array. Their visions were blurred and unclear, and all they heard were “Ding Ding Dang Dang” sounds of colliding swords. Li Yao shouted a blood-curdling shriek and threw himself back into the forest to fade away without a trace.


    He left behind only a sentence: “Just y’all wait. I’ll be back!”


    Three secondster, every Blue Teampetitor recovered from their dazed state. Each of them had deathly pale faces, were sweating like pigs, and looked at each other in dismay. They all saw panic in the depths of each other’s eyes.


    “What a fearsome fellow. He actually tailed us without making a single noise and infiltrated ourmand center, all without being discovered!”


    A Blue Team scout member had spoken traumatized. He could not hold back from looking at the crisscrossing branches above, as if Li Yao was still concealing himself in the darkness amidst the branches.


    “However, he’s still no match for Gao Ye. In the instant, he threw out the sh Glyph Array, we all thought his target was Helian Lie. Only Gao Ye still maintained a clear head, forcing Li Yao to fail in the end. Gao Ye, you sure are a naturalmander!”


    A different male had spoken cheerfully.


    Gao Ye’s expression was iparable grave as he spoke, “This is an extremely formidable opponent. He does not possess as strongputational abilities as I do, but he possesses a certain innate beast-like keen intuition. He knew for certain the difference between himself and Helian Lie. He knew that even an ambush may not have instantly killed Helian Lie!”


    “What’s more…Although Helian Lie possesses tyrannicalbat strength, he is not someone who is key for determining victory and defeat. Even if he ys Helian Lie, he would be beheaded from thepetition a secondter by our numerous des. It would have been a mutual defeat between him and Helian Lie!”


    “This… was something he absolutely did not want to happen!”


    “I’m different, however. I follow the road of admin-type cultivators and my expertise lies in myputational and analyzing abilities. Mybat strength is ordinary and mediocre. It would be very likely for him to y me in a single blow!”


    “And once I’m out of thepetition, the Blue Team would be reduced to a sheet of loose sand. Chaos would emerge for certain shortly. If the Red Team was able to seize this opportunity, they may have been able to turn the tides!”


    “This fellow figured this out, so he purposely used Helian Lie as his pretense. He made it appear that there were personal grudges between him and Helian Lie on the surface, so he recklessly tailed behind to settle things. Actually, his true target had been me from the start!”


    “Even more, I truly doubt this was all deliberately nned from the time when we first found him. I’m certain that once he first discovered Helian Lie from the shadows, he took the initiative to show himself for the sake of discovering the location of our Command Center!”


    “Formidable! This fellow is way too formidable! If it weren’t for myputational abilitiesputing a move ahead, finding out his n in thest minute, he might have sessfully pulled this off!”


    Gao Ye had spoken with lingering fear. His forehead was drenched with sweat.


    “However, he’s still no match for you, Gao Ye. Theyers of tricks that he schemed with all his might were all seen through by you. He’s already lost the initiative. Now, we’re the hunters and he’s the prey!” a Blue Teampetitor had shouted with excitement.


    Gao Ye forced augh and spoke, “That’s true. Today, things have gone this way, but ourprehensive strengths are still on par with each other. Today, I was just lucky. If it were another battlefield, I can’t say for sure whether he would sessfully y me or not.”


    Helian Lie remained silent and unspeaking to the side. Shame and anger were mixed in his heart; he felt the greatest humiliation and disgrace!


    Li Yao’s target from the start hadn’t been him all along!


    Li Yao absolutely did not pay a single ounce of attention to him. Li Yao only took him to be a pretense — to be bait!


    Only Li Yao and Gao Ye were the opposing striving yers in this chess match. He was nothing more than a mere chess piece being controlled!


    Even if Li Yao was no match for Gao Ye, Li Yao still exceeded Helian Lie, a chess piece, by leaps and bounds. If Gao Ye had notid things out clearly, he would have absolutely been unable to guess what Li Yao’s plot was. Just then, he even retardedly adopted the tightest defensive stance!


    It was as if Li Yao had ruthlessly pped the proud and arrogant Helian Lie across the face. Helian Lie’s anger caused his eyes to turn bloodshot and his teeth to clench tightly. He wished with all his hate to tear and consume Li Yao’s bloody flesh bite by bite.


    Through gritted teeth in anger, his voice hoarsely sounded, “Gao Ye, then what are you waiting for!? Let’s mobilize ASAP! And hunt down Li Yao!”


    “WAIT!”


    Gao Ye’s entire face was entwined in aplicated knot. He looked as if he was considering every angle. He muttered, “Strange. I’ve factored in every detail in my calctions. I also seeded in fending off his attack. Why do I still feel restless? It’s like I missed something… WHAT’S THAT!?”


    Gao Ye’s expression changed and he pointed to a military pack amidst the center of everyone, letting out a shriek.


    This military pack’s surface was smeared all over with mud, and even a few weeds and moss. It had been casually tossed in the core area of themand center.


    It was like a rock at first nce. None had noticed when this pack had appeared.


    “How is there a pack? Whose is it?”


    All the Blue Teampetitors were at a loss. They looked at each other with dismay. It seemed that none of them had ever carried a pack such as this.


    In the eyes of Gao Ye, thismonly found pack transformed into arge demon egg, as if an iparable fearsome existence was about to break through the cocoon and burst forth. Gao Ye’s face warped and he shrieked, “Do you all still remember when dealing with Li Yao? He would hold an explosive deviceposed of over twenty crystal cells connected in series. He would say its might is tremendous, enough to tten an entire supply point, and he would threaten us with mutual destruction.”


    When these words were spoken, everyone’s faces underwent enormous changes. They all remembered!


    “We’re f*cked!”


    Gao Ye’s, Helian Lie’s, and several dozen Blue Teampetitor’s pupils shrank simultaneously to their minimum!


    500 meters away in the forest.


    Li Yao had his back leaning against arge tree. He stood unmovingly and extended 10 fingers. One by one, they bent down: “9… 8… 7… 6… ”


    “Who is it!?”


    Two Blue Teampetitors had suddenly emerged from the forest. They never thought a Red Teampetitor would actually appear in a location so close to theirmand center. They could not help but be shocked.


    Li Yao nced an eye at them faintly and didn’t reply. He continued being engrossed in his countdown: “5… 4…”


    “There’s something weird with this fellow. I think he’s that Li Yao that themunication channel was talking about just now. Let’s quickly drop our artifacts, use ordinary weapons instead, and notify themand center!”


    The two Blue Teampetitors were on high alert as they maintained a distance of 10 meters between themselves and Li Yao. They gave not a hair of opportunity to Li Yao.


    Li Yao continued as before doing what he was doing. He counted down leisurely: “3… 2… 1!”


    When the number “1” was spoken from his mouth, a loud earth-shaking rumbling boom exploded 560 meters behind him in the forest!


    The entire forest shook and swayed, and arge gigantic white mushroom cloud gradually rose. A surging heatwave rolled and spread at high speeds, soon reaching out over 500 meters.


    The two Blue Teampetitors’ pupils were captured by this mushroom cloud. The hair on their heads was roasted and scorched by the heatwave. Broken branches and crushed rock were mixed in the shockwave, cleaving onto their craniums and smashing onto their bodies!


    In a sh, the two were stunned and covered in dirt and grime, bing like two y statues.


    Static came from themunication channel. Not a single person was still capable of answering their shouts.


    “What... What the hell did you do?” The two Blue Teampetitors could not hold back from trembling.


    “I’m terribly sorry. From now on, the Blue Team’s Command Center no longer exists.”


    Li Yao slowly took out his ck daggers and walked over to the two Blue Teampetitors with a smile.