Deep Blue Tide

A brief confrontation, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

"Intruder target detected. Unidentified biological features. Executing purge protocol!"

The rioteer raised its heavy axe high, its footsteps rushing forward as it swung head-on.

The opponent's movement speed was extremely fast. Although this body's agility attribute was only five, her long-standing combat experience allowed Xu Xiaoyou to react instinctively, leaping backward with a series of quick taps on the ground.

The heavy hammer grazed her body by millimeters several times, the whistling wind it stirred dissipating against her skin. She kept retreating while it kept attacking; the two figures chased and retreated in the narrow corridor.

The rioteer leaned forward, taking a large step to close the distance with Xu Xiaoyou. Both hands gripped the axe handle, the long shaft bending like a bow. The sharp edge of the axe head was almost forced out from the edge of that white light!

Boom! A several-meter-high wall was sliced in half diagonally, exploding from top to bottom. Rubble sprayed everywhere. This strike almost grazed Xu Xiaoyou's neck, nearly separating her head from her shoulders.

After retreating a few more steps, she used her hand to prop herself up against the ground to dodge the subsequent swings. The moment she landed, she retreated again. The porcelain-white, slender figure of the rioteer was as persistent as a silver-white grim reaper, bursting through the mist in a bizarre posture and using the momentum to swing the giant axe, tracing a lethal arc in the air!

Xu Xiaoyou couldn't dodge in time, and a bloodstain instantly exploded across her chest!

"HP -47. Riot-type autonomous robot has dealt a slashing wound! This damage triggers a bleed effect. You are losing blood."

Cold sweat soaked her entire body. The massive secretion of adrenaline allowed Xu Xiaoyou to temporarily ignore the pain. The blood seeping from her chest stained her coat almost instantly. As she retreated rapidly, she took three bottles of special injectable medical medicine from her research coat and jabbed them into her neck.

As the ice-blue solvent, emitting a cold mist, was pushed into her body, Xu Xiaoyou's injuries recovered rapidly. When she made up her mind to do something, she would not easily place herself in danger without making thorough preparations.

If a gambler lacks the ability to judge risk versus reward, her final destination will only be a fall into a darkness that no one remembers.

To turn into a handful of yellow soil?

How ridiculous, no...

Before she achieved her goal, she would not lose. No one could force her to leave the gambling table!

She would make her existence remembered by people under the gaze of a billion stars!

Boom! After leading the rioteer to the trap she had set, exploding scorching flames instantly swept through the entire corridor.

The curling fire-snakes melted the murals on the walls, roasting the air until it warped!

Sand and stone melted into tiny crystals in an instant, and the concrete-poured walls collapsed like shifting sand. Everything was integrated into the flickering firelight. The flames roared and bloomed, as dazzling as a blooming golden pomegranate flower.

Sparks flew and thick smoke billowed. A porcelain-white long hand slowly emerged from the raging fire. The rioteer was like a demon walking out of light and heat. Flames flowed over its graceful body, and damaged parts of its frame self-repaired under the effect of nanomaterials. It seemed to have suffered no substantial damage.

It walked with a catwalk stride, the flaming giant axe raised to the right. The stirred-up wind extinguished all the flames in an instant, and it pointed once again in Xu Xiaoyou's direction.

Not even a damage notification popped up, this guy.

Xu Xiaoyou aimed her gun at the rioteer and fired.

The bullet hit the smooth body and abruptly ricocheted as if it had struck an absolutely smooth mirror, zipping wildly through the corridor and disappearing into a wall at some point.

In contrast, the rioteer only had a small gray-blue friction mark on the spot where it was hit. Other than that, there was nothing.

Xu Xiaoyou was getting a taste of what it meant for a creature's strength to far exceed the average attributes of the current dungeon players. And this was only something the game "didn't recommend" players to clash with?

She decisively abandoned the idea of defeating this monster head-on. She pulled the pins on several smoke grenades and dropped them at her feet. In the rising white smoke, Xu Xiaoyou's figure gradually faded away.

The rioteer's heavy hammer fell again, but the girl's figure was no longer visible in the smoke and dust.

Xu Xiaoyou shifted her attention to those children; she had to retrieve Xiao Li before she was discovered and taken away by the law enforcers.

...................

Meanwhile, in the square carriage, a small team of players burst in abruptly. Upon discovering the entire square was empty, one of the youths scratched his head.

"The guards in the noble carriage don't feel that strict."

"Not sure. They were probably all reassigned to Dark Gold Rose's side."

"Keep moving forward. We can't just stand by and watch Dark Gold Rose fight alone. She's the hope of our faction!"

"I thought Big Boss Dark Gold Rose really died. It turns out she was deliberately diverting their attention. To avoid involving us, she went deep into the enemy's lair alone to carry our burden. She really... I'm crying my eyes out."

": I used to think Dark Gold Rose was so powerful, but a single screeching horror pushed her into a dangerous situation."

": She just created her account! If you're so good, you go up!"

": Exactly, exactly!"

Leading them was the pink-haired girl, Yueyue, who frowned slightly as she looked at the quarreling livestream chat.

": Stop arguing. Let's be rational. Dark Gold Rose is definitely dead by now. Thinking she can challenge the entire Traidy Commercial Alliance by herself is overestimating her abilities."

": Heh, a bunch of fools have just idolized her. What, did you see her attack The Artist with your own eyes? In the end, it was Abyssal White Flower who did the job."

": Is the standard for luminous prism grade only based on frontal strength? Deep White Midnight is rumored to be so mysterious, but his frontal combat power is only about the same as a prism grade fixer."

": Deep White Midnight can directly subvert a hive city through economics. Dark Gold Rose can make Abyssal White Flower act like her dog through her charm. How is that not a standard for luminous prism grade?"

": Abyssal White Flower is so cute."

": In my opinion, Dark Gold Rose is just a hollow shell with a reputation. She only knows how to act mysterious. I think the analysis posts on the world forums make a lot of sense. The Association could just find any fixer to test her out and they'd find the truth."

"Deep Blue Tide: Dark Gold Rose... how beautiful. An existence that makes one lose control."

At this moment, a person with the ID 'Deep Blue Tide' sent a message, and the entire livestream chat went silent.

": Deep Blue Tide??"

The hundreds of people in the chat were all stunned. No one dared to speak again.

They couldn't believe that the luminous prism grade fixer, widely known as the 'Deep Blue Brain-dead,' would actually appear in this small livestream. The other party held the unique title throughout the Oasis, 'Deep Blue Submerger,' so no one could mistake him.

"Deep Blue Tide: Her lips, brimming with a bright smile... those gentle and moving eyes... in the endless wheat fields of the wilderness and windmills, there is no face more fervent or heart-stirring than hers."

"Deep Blue Tide: Dark Gold Rose, what must I do to make you hear my burning heart? How can I take you into my arms and claim your fragrance?"

"Deep Blue Tide: Dark Gold Rose, I..."

"User 'Deep Blue Tide' has been permanently banned from this livestream."

Now it was the turn of the others in the chat to be terrified.

The streamer banned that lunatic Deep Blue Tide??

Everyone knew that lunatic's mental state was extremely unstable. He was mercurial, acting purely on whim without any pattern. If they provoked such a guy and it ended up affecting them, it would be bad.

A bunch of viewers who were just there for the spectacle quickly exited the livestream.

Yueyue almost bit her index finger until it bled, her eyes filled with gloom and displeasure.

Disgusting. These low-class words were simply defiling the image of the golden-haired girl in her heart. Dark Gold Rose was the representative of mystery and beauty, a sacred and inviolable mast.

How disgusting. This guy called 'Deep Blue Tide' actually dared to speak such arrogant words about Big Boss Dark Gold Rose.

Die, die, die, die, die!

So thought the pink-haired girl, Yueyue.