Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 1225 Jealousy

Chapter 1225: Chapter 1225 Jealousy

After listening to him, Xue Lang, who was originally staring straight ahead, suddenly turned around. With a flick of his index and middle fingers in the air, two thread-like invisible lines appeared, sweeping across from one side of the maze wall to the other!

"Did you think hiding would make you invincible?" Xue Lang sneered, then raised his left hand similarly, but from top to bottom—four lines intersected, slicing everything from where he stood to the end of this maze passage, including the maze wall on the opposite side, into several pieces!

The subtle vibrations of the threads slicing through the air were virtually invisible to the naked eye. Even to someone like Xu Huo, who had undergone Super Evolution, these vibrations appeared minuscule, almost negligible. In such proximity, let alone the moving Spatial Power, he should have sensed the mere presence of the Spatial Rays...

Yet, the fact was, even face-to-face, Xu Huo had to carefully discern to detect the presence of the rays.

Changing position to avoid the rays, he once again shifted behind Xue Lang, using "Death of the Holder." When the black Metal Bead struck Xue Lang, his body flickered like a malfunctioning video, momentarily producing two images, half overlapping and half diverged, indistinct between reality and illusion, appearing as if the Metal Bead had passed through the air.

However, in the instant of catching the Metal Bead, Xu Huo’s blade had already swept to Xue Lang’s neck!

"Ding!" As Xue Lang turned back, a metal piece perched on his shoulder blocked the "Cake Cutter," effortlessly bouncing back the force Xu Huo had applied!

The "Cake Cutter" was deflected, and Xu Huo spun around, the blade disappeared from his right hand, and the "Eye of the Deceased" appeared in his left, striking Xue Lang from another angle.

Yet Xue Lang calmly drew out a sword sheath, and the "Eye of the Deceased" veered into the sheath itself, even pulling Xu Huo off balance by two steps in the process.

"Line of Life and Death." Xue Lang smirked disdainfully, and with a flick of his downturned left hand, a red line appeared on the ground, swiftly encircling the two of them. As the circle formed, a faint red barrier also materialized in the air.

The "Eye of the Deceased" vanished from his hand, replaced by the "Cake Cutter," striking vertically at Xue Lang!

If the speed was fast enough, evading the frontal attack of the "Cake Cutter" wasn’t difficult. Xue Lang easily dodged, quickly sidestepping Xu Huo, striking his left hand with his right, shooting a needle as thin as ox hair straight at his eye!

Dodging the needle wasn’t difficult either, but at that moment, Xu Huo suddenly felt a heaviness underfoot. A pulling force from nowhere held him in place, compelling him to stay, and when he looked up again, the needle had already passed through his right eye!

The expected beautiful image of an eyeball bursting did not occur. Xue Lang’s smile instantly vanished as he sharply turned to the right—outside the "Circle of Life and Death," Xu Huo stood merely ten meters away.

"When did you get out?"

"That doesn’t matter," Xu Huo replied, pulling down forcefully with both hands on the "Everything Wants to Slice" threads!

The threads outside the "Circle of Life and Death" instantly tightened, shattering the circular barrier, dozens of meters tall, into fragments, but not injuring Xue Lang.

As the threads closed in, he used a metal ring to forcefully widen the gap in the threads to exit the encirclement, then pulled the rays taut again.

These rays couldn’t cover the entire space, so evading was not difficult. Xue Lang clearly understood this, frequently using Advanced Items in addition.

Both held quite a few Rank A Props, alternating between offense and defense, quickly turning into a persistent battle.

However, in terms of prop reserves, Xue Lang had noticeably more than Xu Huo. Thus, Xu Huo more often compensated with spiritual power, which clearly wasn’t Xue Lang’s strength. Though Xue Lang could sense Xu Huo’s location, he couldn’t effectively interfere with Xu Huo’s Spiritual World.

Of course, Xue Lang wasn’t entirely without countermeasures for spiritual power. During their exchanges, he placed a Gyro prop outside, which would unexpectedly pop up, always just when Xu Huo was changing position.

In a mere five minutes, they clashed no fewer than a hundred times. After an impatient Xu Huo struck out the Gyro during another of its attacks, they temporarily pulled apart.

"You’re quite cautious," Xue Lang said mockingly, "using spiritual power yet unwilling to reveal your Spiritual World, always changing the coverage range of your Psychic Power. What are you afraid of?"

"Afraid?" Xu Huo shook his head slightly, "Maybe you can’t see it, but meeting you here excites and surprises me."

Xue Lang stared at him, "Look at that deadpan face of yours. Excited? You probably can’t wait to kill me. Doctor Zhang took me, but left you behind."

"I’ve always thought you weren’t too smart, but not entirely foolish either. I’ve looked into your background; over twenty direct and collateral relatives died before you went missing. You’re certainly ruthless in that regard, but I just can’t understand how someone claiming to be smart got brainwashed so easily."

Xue Lang laughed strangely, "You’re jealous."

Xu Huo’s expression darkened, "Is your brain filled with water?"

Xue Lang wasn’t angry. His smile grew brighter, "Aren’t you searching for Doctor Zhang?"

"Back then, we both received guidance from Doctor Zhang. Only those who qualified could leave with him. Only you were left behind."

He tapped his head with his finger, speaking meaningfully, "Have forgotten many things, haven’t you?"

"When Zone 014 appeared, I knew we’d meet again, though I didn’t expect it to come so soon."

"When I left back then, I wanted to kill you too, but on second thought, I figured we’d meet again, at a time when you’d be just a powerless mortal, merely an ant for me to crush underfoot—a different kind of satisfaction, so I held back for ten years."

"Meeting you today makes me so happy I couldn’t resist approaching you..."

Xu Huo raised his hand to interrupt him, "Stop talking. Any more and I’ll feel like vomiting."

"I’m not interested in your psychological journey. I just didn’t expect the childhood shadow I left for you to be so large that you’d hold it in for ten years just to regain your pride..."

"Or not, can you regain your pride?"

Facing each other, Xu Huo looked at the person not far away, "So, do you think you can crush me now?"

Xue Lang’s gaze turned cold, sweeping out a palm through the air, four lines fiercely cut through the domain covered by the Cubic Space, completely severing the Spatial Rays within!