Chapter 1053
Chapter 1053 - 139 Encirclement and Pursuit
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The battlefield this time was the primal jungle, dense with traps and terrain kills.
Though there was no explicit statement, within the fighter’s cognition, The Martial God Who Dominates Three Sides is a deity fond of thrills....It detests schemes outside the battlefield, but even more so, It abhors one-sided crushing defeats; therefore, if in your "confrontation" you encounter your own home ground, do not misunderstand, it is not a good thing, but rather a pity for you.
"Even this god believes my chances of winning are almost non-existent..."
Dressed in camouflage, "Thousand Archipelago" Bai Xiyi, looking at the battlefield most familiar to his memory, felt somewhat helpless.
He had once been a soldier, active as a guerrilla fighter in forests and mountains. Now, this perfect primeval forest is undoubtedly his strongest battlefield.
In such an environment, he was confident of defeating an opponent far superior to himself...to say that the opponent had more than three times his combat power was probably an understatement, various ambush fights, trap battles, guerrilla warfare, as long as he was not caught outright, he was confident of wearing down a whole team.
But now, Dominating Three Faces had given him such an environment and also a sufficiently safe distance, almost as if saying...
"Loser, without this help, you’d stand no chance at all."
As a former "Border Defense Army Staff," "Thousand Archipelago" Bai Xiyi was the type of warrior skilled in using brains and experience, with intelligence gathering and fighting almost an instinct.
And due to the uniqueness of mountain forest warfare, he had also developed from military physical combat to the extremely personalized "Environmental Combat."
Gathering intelligence, understanding the opponent, formulating strategies, were almost his instinct...he didn’t regret one bit the booed "extraneous moves" during the match, even prepared to be detested by the deity and receive a natural disadvantage bonus in the arena.
For him, being at a disadvantage was better than facing a completely unknown opponent, only...
"The reality and the discrepancy in intelligence are just too great. What ordinary person from over a year ago, the student soldier lacking practical experience....if this were intelligence provided by a scout, I’d make him serve as a sanitary soldier for three months!"
But at this point, Colonel Bai had no way out.
He retreated continuously, laying traps, creating distance.
However, from the beginning until now, not a single "trap" had been triggered in feedback!
"...Now I’m in trouble."
He had not awaited the expected "malice of the god," instead got full environmental favor, which made him even more uneasy...it’s as if they’re saying, even with the best conditions possible, you still have no chance of winning!
".....You cheat too much. I mean, how come none of my mines exploded?"
Finally, he stopped and spoke to the forest outside the clearing.
"You’ve planted mines, and you’re saying I cheat?"
The youth who walked out from the dense forest was calmly floating by.
And he was sitting on a floating platform, with one giant metal magic arm on each side. One hand of gold held food, while the other of silver shaded the sunlight of reality, making one wonder if he was here for a vacation or a death fight.
"These? Believe it or not, they’re just part of my limbs."
The plain words of Lu Ping’an were probably not something many would truly believe.
But indeed, this was "fact."
Watching the floating youth, Bai Xiyi was feeling uncomfortable.....simply the floating state itself was likely the reason why most mines and traps hadn’t been triggered, as clearly laid out before him.
And along the way, the intelligence he collected only returned to him layers of despair.
".....Those ’blinded eyes,’ indeed the Blind Seer..."
For Bai Xiyi, what truly unnerved him were those "Blind Eyes."
To low-end professionals, Blind Eyes might be considered a weakness, but among high-end professional circles, "Blind Seer" actually refers to a specific type of person.
"Not a single landmine triggered, all traps circumvented, merely relying on levitation couldn’t have done it, he... has seen through everything."
In the Extraordinary World, there are too many invisible beings, and for Mortals, inferior senses might not be a bad thing, but truly being blind, in fact, can be even more dangerous.
And the most top-tier "Peepers" often lose the perception of an ordinary person because of their overly sensitive senses, or after directly facing an existence they shouldn’t have seen.
"Blind Seers" are either those who have paid the price for observing higher-dimensional beings, or those who already feel that discarding physical sight is of no consequence... The wife from the couple of mercenaries that Lu Ping’an once hired was one of them.
Therefore, in the domain of high-end professionals, encountering a blind person often doesn’t lead to thinking their senses are subpar, instead, one might consider the opposite, that perhaps his/her vision is too good.
"...Such a young Blinder, should it be considered a gift, or a curse."
Actually, from the almost straight-line route that Lu Ping’an took to get there, Bai Xiyi had already sensed that Lu Ping’an’s "Magic Eyes" were probably of an absurdly high level... and having such Magic Eyes often comes with an extremely heavy price.
While marveling at Lu Ping’an’s youth, Bai Xiyi did not give up; having had a blind partner before, he certainly knew how to handle them.
"...You, the path you deliberately took, I’ve almost figured it out. Your perception of Extraordinary curses, potions, and mechanisms is extremely high, while for mechanical creations and automated machinery, your perception is somewhat lower... You may possess an Extraordinary-strong radar sensing trait, all of your powers would instantaneously activate the Magic Eyes."
Lu Ping’an smiled, offering no response, but this noncommittal attitude in itself also revealed information.
Bai Xiyi’s guess was correct, and the information he gathered using the advantageous Terrain was also correct. Lu Ping’an’s perception of the "Extraordinary" was extremely sharp, but for the old Mechanisms and mechanical Creations, those "Mortal" things, Lu Ping’an could see them but not instantly trigger his danger perception.
𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
And this, being highly sensitive to the Extraordinary, seemed to be a "weakness" that could be exploited...
Lu Ping’an was just silently looking at his opponent. Mr. White, famed for his "thousand traps," elicited anticipation from Lu Ping’an for a little surprise.
"Creatures like you with Magic Eyes, to avoid misjudgment, often prioritize dynamic entities, similar to how a frog would prioritize entities ’acting on their own’... so, you would stand in front of me, listening to my ramblings."
A sudden explosion occurred without warning, right in front of Bai Xiyi, turning the Forest Land into a sea of flames.
The location where Lu Ping’an stood... or rather, the "location" Bai Xiyi chose for him to appear, was the epicenter of the blast!
"...Caught."
Looking at the blaze before him, Bai Xiyi showed a slight excitement on his face.
For this moment, he had used up nearly all of the "Chemical Explosives" on him... and for the effectiveness and suddenness of the explosion, he had even calculated Lu Ping’an’s arrival time so that he would step right onto the timed bomb’s explosion.
Is this Fighting? Yes, the military Fighting technique that spares no means for Victory... The Bai Xiyi who criticized Lu Ping’an for exploiting loopholes was actually the one truly intending to do so.
Other paths of Extraordinary powers would be suppressed, indeed, so from the very beginning, I won’t use Extraordinary powers but will come with military weaponry and all sorts of Chemical Explosives.
Only, even after repeatedly overestimating him, he came earlier than I had anticipated...
"Fortunately, he was willing to stop... Eh?!"
But when the smoke and flames dispersed, the scene that revealed itself left Bai Xiyi’s face filled with disbelief.
— End of Chapter 1053 —