Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 279 - 29 Alice’s Outcome

Chapter 279: Chapter 29 Alice’s Outcome

In the end, Lu Fan was just a little girl. After fighting together, she was uncomfortable with the idea of using the other newcomers as cannon fodder after Han Zifeng’s death. She also didn’t have the heart to make Xinlan and the others make a move, so she ended up directing her focus on Zhang Hao, who often overtly complied but covertly opposed Tang Zheng’s orders.

Zhang Hao, cursing and swearing, fought off a poker soldier - much to his displeasure. However, as a conqueror, the victory eventually went to him in a hair-raising battle. But before he could even catch his breath, he was moved to the next cell to face Andrew the boxer, which set him off.

"Is this loli playing me?" Zhang Hao wanted to call it quits, but Andrew’s relentless offence left him no chance. He was compelled to fight. Fortunately, in close-quarter combat, his steel-hard skin gave him the advantage. Andrew, although being a seed ability user from the healing system, was able to heal but was slightly lacking in terms of attack prowess. Coupled with the fact that he couldn’t dodge on the chessboard, Andrew eventually lost.

Looking at the corpse of the boxer, the heavily panting Zhang Hao was ecstatic. He didn’t even bother to rest and began gathering his spoils of war.

"It seems we are in trouble." Sitting in the black cell, Tang Zheng didn’t feel relieved at the death of one of the Conquerors. His face even darkened. Lu Fan was unwilling to sacrifice students to alleviate Zhang Hao’s nervousness. Thus, even a fool could see that there was a problem. Besides, Zhang Hao, who was always shrewd, wouldn’t let others manipulate him. Pushed too far, he would definitely react fiercely.

Yin Shang Wu also detected the anomaly and signaled Tang Zheng, pointing at Alice and then at him in turn, assigning tasks.

"Why me again? Lu Fan, are you deliberately plotting against me?" Upon discovering that he had been relocated to face a poker guard once more, Zhang Hao refused to comply and burst out shouting, "If we are going to die, we should all do it together!"

Zhang Hao pulled out his Howling Reaper and fired a barrage at the poker guard, instantly riddling it with holes from the spiritual power bullets.

"Inferior human bugs, dare to defy Alice’s command, are you rebelling?" Alice was enraged. She waved her hand, but the expected head-exploding didn’t occur, causing her to wonder, "Why is your head still on your neck? It should have been blown off."

Breaking out in a cold sweat, Zhang Hao realized he had narrowly escaped death. As he admired Tang Zheng’s keen observation, he couldn’t help but burst into jubilant laughter.

"This is impossible!" Alice shrieked, randomly pointing at the members of the Eastern Team. All were unharmed. She hurriedly pointed at a North American newcomer, and bang—his head shattered like a watermelon.

"So that’s it, you’ve destroyed the head-exploding magic array." Alice had figured out the cause and flew off the handle, "Servants, attack, kill them all."

"Kill your bloody hell." Zhang Hao roared, aiming his muzzle upwards and pulling the trigger moving the gun in a spray pattern. A chain of bullets blasted towards Alice’s hanging basket.

Watching over a hundred armored knights and poker guards charge towards the Eastern Team, the Supermen Team was taken aback. What was going on? They then begged the question of how they had managed to break the "curse" of head-exploding, which made them incredibly envious.

"Supermen Team, you have won the competition and will have a day to rest. Now join me in killing these losers." Alice shouted fiercely, intent on putting Tang Zheng at death’s door.

"The worst-case scenario really happened." Tang Zheng fervently wished that Alice could kill Brant and the others in her fury. But it seems that it was just wishful thinking.

"Tang Zheng, you deal with Alice." Yin Shangwu could no longer contain the flames of vengeance boiling within him. He charged towards Brant. He didn’t use the Tang sword, knowing it would be deflected.

"Foolish." Brant had been waiting for this moment, planing first to kill these people, and then interrogate them on how to destroy the magic array, then he would have managed to get through this round too. Therefore, he only limited the magnetic field locally to not deter the monsters from attacking the Eastern Team.

Watching the poker guards and armored knights surge towards them like a tidal wave, the high school students’ faces went bloodless. If they hadn’t already faced life-or-death struggles, they would have broken down by now.

"What do we do?" The anxious Pang MeiQin asked Li Xinlan. She took out her AK74 and opened fire, but the sparse barrage was not enough to suppress the monsters.

"Stop talking, don’t put more pressure on Tang Zheng." Li Xinlan shouted, immediately casting Ice Age. An ice tower rose slowly, standing tall in the room.

MeiQin and Zhang Hao fired calmly, driving away the monsters attempting to climb the ice tower. Once the high school students had regained their composure, they also joined the battle. But without weapons, they were forced into hand-to-hand combat. As they kicked the monsters off the ice tower, two unfortunate students were dragged down by the monsters and torn to shreds.

Watching their classmates being torn apart, the faces of the high school students turned grim. Keeping them afloat was the ice tower, but before they could breathe a sigh of relief, they saw several agile poker soldiers attempting to jump up, while armored knights were forming a human wall.

"Go defend the perimeter." MeiQin shouted, but seeing their colleagues ripped apart had already made them lose courage.

"Defend, or we all die." Xu Guanlin, who had no fingers, was the first to charge towards the platform, kicking away the climbing poker guards with his feet.

In order to maintain the large ice platform, Li Xinlan’s power was being consumed rapidly. After all, there were almost twenty people. If she were only carrying Qin Yan and Pang Meiqin, it would be much easier for her.

"Damn bugs." Seeing Li Xinlan’s resistance, Alice pulled out a deck of poker cards from her apron and threw it down.

The poker cards landed like snowflakes and then exploded into a cloud of black mist, from which one poker guard after another began to emerge.

Tang Zheng pushed himself into a sprint, then squatted and burst into a leap. Like an arrow piercing the sky, he rose more than three meters high and grabbed onto the basket overhead.

Alice was preparing to throw a second deck of poker, but the impact from Tang Zheng instantly bent the basket into a 90-degree angle, forcing her and the butler to grab onto the basket to stabilize their bodies, thereby sparing Tang Zheng from an attack.

Tang Zheng originally planned to use his arms to flip himself into the basket, perhaps even using the inertia to kick Alice off the basket. However, the butler reacted quickly. He lunged with a step and pulled out his dagger, waiting for Tang Zheng to come up.

Tang Zheng’s fingers caught in the holes of the basket, abruptly stopping his flip and hanging back under the basket. Then he gripped hard with his five fingers and moved swiftly, causing the basket to shake violently as he shifted positions.

The butler and Alice immediately lost their footing. Seeing that there was no chance to climb into the basket, Tang Zheng decisively gave up, pulled out his bronze sword, and stabbed up fiercely. Then he slashed forcefully, tearing the basket apart with a ripping sound.

Butler hugged Alice and they landed on the ground with a thump. Tang Zheng let go and also descended vertically. As soon as he landed, he threw himself at Alice, while the butler stepped forward with his left foot, shielding his master behind him.

Thump, the pale-faced butler’s hand chopped down on Tang Zheng’s arm, almost smashing his wrist bone. Then he turned and swung his leg towards Tang Zheng’s temples.

Tang Zheng blocked with his bent arm and simultaneously grabbed the butler’s trouser leg with one hand, pulling hard to make him lose balance, then launched a kick at his chest.

The butler was thrown tumbling away. Tang Zheng didn’t have time to follow up with another attack and charged directly at Alice. The crazy girl, using the butler’s delay, succeeded in summoning nearly fifty poker guards to protect her. The guards, their heads wearing red hoods, growled low in their throats and lunged at Tang Zheng upon seeing him.

"Warrior!" Tang Zheng unleashed the Furious Queen. The warrior brandished his long-handled war hammer with an overwhelming sweep as soon as he was summoned, sending the leading poker guards flying like baseballs.

Hisss, Tang Zheng’s bronze sword also penetrated the chest of a guard. With a swift slice, he cut it in half. But in the next second, his bronze sword was torn away by a great force. The long-handled war hammer in the warrior’s hand met the same fate, causing the entwined iron chain to tense up.

"Yin Shang Wu." Tang Zheng roared angrily at Yin Shangwu’s tactics. He glanced and saw that It was Brant controlling the magnetism. Not only them, but the firearms in the hands of Xin Lan and Qin Yan both flew away as well. This momentary break in firepower was immediately seized upon by the poker guards. They charged the ice platform, turning the situation into a melee. Several students were thrown over by the car.

Yin Shang Wu didn’t respond, but his body instantly emitted a blood-colored mist, boosting his attack power instantly by more than three times. Due to his high-speed movement, afterimages of his body began to appear as he clashed with Brant, leading to a clash of air currents everywhere.

Brant also couldn’t be bothered to create trouble for others anymore and likewise entered the explosive Seed state. The fighting spirit of the two immediately affected almost half of the room. Alice’s face changed, she snapped her fingers, a stone door opened, and she attempted to flee without hesitation.

"Warrior, use your ultimate ability." Tang Zheng was getting anxious. If Alice escaped, encountering her next time would be a big problem. In his fury, he once again entered the explosive Seed state.

The warrior swung his war hammer and harshly smashed it into the ground. The visible shock wave immediately scattered out in ripples, causing the nearby guards to fall down like wheat swept by a hurricane, while even the butler and Alice were knocked over. The stone pieces that had shattered like a spider web from the center of the war hammer shot out like bullets, piercing holes into the poker guards.

Because he was standing behind the warrior, Tang Zheng avoided the damage. The moment the shock halted, he darted out, pouncing towards Alice.

"You’re not getting away." Tang Zheng swiped his space wristwatch with one hand, grabbed a crossbow, aimed at her back, and pulled the trigger.

Whoosh, whoosh, the crossbow arrows hit Alice’s back one after another, but only made her stagger and didn’t cause any damage.

"Damn, I forgot, this guy seems to be immune to physical attacks?" Tang Zheng was shocked and angry. He caught up with Alice, grabbed her wrist, pulled her towards him, and kicked her chin. "Be effective!"