Chapter 688: Escape (1)

The sudden turn of events startled everyone.

After the massive fireball exploded, the entire arena was filled with a thick, lingering yellow fog.

Footsteps rang out continuously from all around.

"Shit!"

Lieutenant Pang Ze swept his hand back, and an immensely powerful gust of wind pressure exploded outward.

The thick fog was pressed hard against the surrounding walls, and the view immediately opened up.

Over a hundred spectators had already vaulted the low wall and were charging toward the center of the arena.

Those were probably not spectators.

They were all rebels.

Among those people, quite a few women were wearing those pale-yellow silk stockings, just as had been guessed earlier.

Host Li Ping immediately operated the system, raising and enlarging the surrounding walls to stop the rebels from approaching.

But the next moment, control was seized again, and the walls once more became low.

A massive cloud of poison was gathering, about to sweep over them at any moment.

Vice Mayor Zhuo Yi pinched his fingers, and the poison cloud immediately condensed, shrinking into a small-area rain of poison that fell onto the ground.

Large amounts of smoke immediately rose from the ground, burned into pitted, uneven craters.

A large patch of water suddenly appeared on the ground to the left, with dozens of water elements swaying about, nearly fully formed.

Lu Hongyan roared, and a massive wave of fire exploded out; the water patches evaporated, the water elements grew smaller and smaller, and ultimately never truly appeared.

The ground beneath their feet began to tremble.

The award podium was deforming, rising higher.

The outline of a human head had already appeared on the award podium—it looked like it was going to turn into a large earth element.

The entire award podium was the earth element's head; Jiang Die, who had been standing on it, hurriedly leapt down, landing beside it.

"Interesting, hehe."

The earth element captain's mouth opened, revealing rows of ghastly teeth.

His bent leg stomped down lightly.

The ground immediately stopped trembling, and the head formed from the award podium collapsed, turning once more into yellow-brown earth.

At that moment, lightning flashed in the sky above.

An extremely thick bolt of lightning had already formed, howling down toward the crowd!

Du Li raised his palm high.

The thick lightning immediately veered, striking Du Li entirely.

But the instant it struck Du Li, the lightning immediately drilled into his palm and vanished.

Du Li shook his smoking hand: "Damn it, who dares launch a surprise attack? The rebels?"

"Who else could it be? Rush out first, we can't do anything in this virtual space."

"Gongsun Ning, lift your virtual space!"

"Can't lift it, I've lost control."

"You son of a bitch, useless trash!"

"Don't say that, the rebels are incredibly powerful—it's normal that Gongsun Ning alone can't fight them."

"Then what do we do now?"

"Shit! Communications are cut, and we can't force-teleport back to our territory either—are you all the same?"

"Yes!"

"Me too!"

"Then we can only rely on dying to get out, to leave this virtual space first."

"Damn it, those rebels must be lying in wait outside. Zhao Quan, how the hell do you manage things? This is your territory, isn't it?"

"Shit, Mayor Yin Cheng, what do you have to say? Is this the result of your encirclement and suppression of the rebels?"

"Cut the crap, get out first, then talk."

"Damn it, going out like this, we'll definitely fall right into the enemy's trap."

"Then there's no choice—that's what we have to do now: get out, then kill those people."

"Ambush or not, fighting in here is pointless, we can't hurt them."

"Damn it, I don't need them to do it—I'll leave on my own!"

A noble immediately exploded, his body scattering into a mist of blood.

"Shit! I'm leaving too!"

Another noble and Mayor Yin Cheng also killed themselves, leaving the virtual space.

Immediately after, the remaining nobles all departed one after another.

Seeing this, the rebels attacking around them also left in large numbers.

Only a dozen or so rebels remained, still attacking.

And in the center of the arena, only Zhao Chi's group of nine contestants and the representatives of five villages were left.

Everyone was completely dumbfounded.

Everything had happened too fast.

From the moment that fireball appeared to the nobles and officials leaving, only a few dozen seconds had passed.