Chapter 322: Evenly Matched
“How could you all…” Nightmare Angel spat out a mouthful of blood in disbelief.
Yu Jiang looked at them expressionlessly, “A guess. We predicted your prediction.”
No matter how perfect the dream, fake is fake, there will always be a flaw; it just depends on whether Shi Xu has the ability to find it.
He said 9 o’clock direction, he and Yu Jiang began to act.
In someone else’s domain, any of their movements were impossible to hide, so Nightmare Angel would definitely make a move.
Yu Jiang’s whip was aimed right at Shi Xu’s position.
Nightmare Angel’s attention was on Shi Xu, he was also afraid of Shi Xu seeing through the clues, so while covering up his own attack, he couldn’t quickly deal with Yu Jiang’s attack.
The long whip hadn’t arrived, but the strong wind came first.
Before the whip landed on Nightmare Angel, Shi Xu had roughly judged Yu Jiang’s position. He dodged, and it just hit Nightmare Angel.
10 seconds of seeing nothing, to say not panicked or scared is impossible.
In team battles between teams with similar skill levels, there’s never a 100% winning chance; timing, terrain, and teamwork are all very important.
They had also barely won by cracking Nightmare Angel’s skill.
So, Yu Jiang had to take Nightmare Angel’s life while he was low health and still carrying the weakness buff.
She didn’t want to face this skill again in the future; just now, the other teammates had almost been trapped to death too.
“Hold them off.” Yu Jiang said in the team chat, grabbed the poison vine whip, and rushed toward Nightmare Angel.
The opponents saw her intent and would of course try their utmost to stop her, but her teammates had also arrived.
Arrows and electric light shot out from behind Yu Jiang, one left and one right, flying toward Nightmare Angel’s teammates.
Yu Jiang took the opportunity to quickly run forward, closing the distance, swung her arm to lash out the poison vine whip, flipping over the abandoned car frame in front of Nightmare Angel in one strike.
Nightmare Angel panicked and dodged backward frantically; he was squishy too. Even though his health points had returned to 40, he couldn’t withstand the damage—not panicking would be strange.
“Her skill weapon has a time limit, help me block it first!” Nightmare Angel shouted to the healer teammate.
Both alchemists, but no mercy in rivalry. If she held back because of that, Yu Jiang would be letting down herself and her teammates who had nearly been killed just now.
Her face showed no expression, but her strikes were decisive and ruthless.
Couldn’t kill the healer in one go, but could beat him half dead, the kind that couldn’t get up from the ground.
Take out Nightmare Angel first, then come back to kill him later—Yu Jiang thought this as her skill weapon time ended, perfectly switching to the bayonet with higher damage.
The change happened at this moment.
Yu Jiang’s blade was just that tiny bit away from stabbing into Nightmare Angel’s chest when a wide bone chopping knife that looked extremely fierce came chopping down vertically, clashing with her bayonet.
Immediately after, the blade turned, chopping toward her neck.
Yu Jiang had to retract her attack and lean back to dodge; this sense of oppression was rare for her.
Earlier in the blinding state, it was because she couldn’t see.
Now, it was the overwhelming strength coming head-on that brought the sense of oppression; her emotions at this moment were complex—nervous, yet excited.
Kill her or kill Nightmare Angel? Clearly, Life is Like a Play chose to kill her first.
Yu Jiang held the bayonet in her right hand, took out monster spikes in her left, tempered poison, wanting to seize the opportunity to stab.
Life is Like a Play’s strength was undeniable; even the good timings Yu Jiang calculated were discovered by her.
She lifted her leg to kick toward Yu Jiang’s hand, and the bone chopping knife in her hand swept over too.
Facing off head-on against a melee combat player, after a couple more moves Yu Jiang would be at a disadvantage; she had no choice but to use her skill weapon again.
The cooldown time she’d finally saved up was gone just like that.
Yu Jiang used the long whip to block Life is Like a Play’s bone chopping knife, smoothly stowed the spikes, and retreated backward.
With the poison vine whip in hand, Life is Like a Play couldn’t easily get close to her.
A cold arc hooked at the corner of Life is Like a Play’s mouth; in three steps she caught up to Nightmare Angel and smashed a knife into the back of his neck.
Crack.
The sound of bone cracking; Nightmare Angel’s skill hadn’t even been released when his neck broke.
“Thanks, the mission needs it just right.” Life is Like a Play raised an eyebrow, picked up the equipment that dropped from Nightmare Angel, and conveniently chopped off the head of a zombie walking out from behind.
“Black eat black like this, you do it pretty cleanly. Knowing your moves, how could I not be on guard this time.”
Darkness sank in Life is Like a Play’s eyes as she recalled how she had been black eaten black by Yu Jiang before, robbed of equipment.
“But honestly, I really do admire you.”
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to take each other out; it was just that when they met again, both had developed, and neither was confident they could kill the other.
It was also that Life is Like a Play couldn’t enter Nightmare Angel’s domain; otherwise, she would have come in to kill Yu Jiang earlier.
“I also really acknowledge your strength.” Yu Jiang smiled.
She said that, but when it came to fighting, neither held back.
Life is Like a Play’s smile deepened, her gaze falling on Shi Xu.
[Player ‘Life is Like a Play’ uses skill ‘Plunder’.]
Stealing The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain’s skill—poison wouldn’t kill her, but stealing X’s skill could quickly boost output or teleportation.
The moment Life is Like a Play shifted her gaze, Yu Jiang realized something and immediately swung the long whip, attacking Life is Like a Play with full force.
Life is Like a Play didn’t come alone; her main team was there too, and they weren’t the type to uphold martial virtue and 1v1 Yu Jiang.
Life is Like a Play and Yu Jiang’s teammates moved almost simultaneously.
The moment Shi Xu saw the system notification, his eyes changed; he stepped on the abandoned vehicle, borrowed strength to leap over, swung his dual blades horizontally to open up against Play Shadow who was preparing for a quick battle—kill Yu Jiang first, then deal with the rest.
“She took teleportation, skill only has one segment, range 5 meters.” Shi Xu sent a reminder to Yu Jiang.
“Got it.” Yu Jiang’s eyes brightened, anticipation appearing on her face too.
She’d teamed up with Shi Xu for so long and knew his skills well; Life is Like a Play wouldn’t use it more proficiently than him.
Yu Jiang’s poison vine whip wasn’t for show either—long attack range, fierce offense. She wanted to force Life is Like a Play to use the plundered skill within the skill weapon’s effectiveness period.
Yu Jiang stared tightly at Life is Like a Play’s movement trajectory; poison vine whip had 20 seconds left, 10 seconds.
Life is Like a Play was getting closer and closer to her.
5 seconds—Life is Like a Play seized the flaw in Yu Jiang raising her hand to swing the whip, teleported forward, raised the bone chopping knife, and chopped toward Yu Jiang’s crown of the head.
No doubt, if her strike landed a critical hit, it could crack the skull of a squishy player.
But Yu Jiang had deliberately left that flaw; when Life is Like a Play advanced, she was already prepared.
She awkwardly dodged the killing move; as she was knocked back, her bayonet stabbed into Life is Like a Play’s shoulder—paralysis plus bleeding buff, skill weapon adding another layer, two layers of bleeding buff total.
Both retreated, neither gaining an advantage; everyone had lost half a health bar.
Yu Jiang propped herself up with one hand, her arm to her entire back bones shaken painfully; she took a deep breath, stood up, and locked eyes with Life is Like a Play.
Both sides’ eyes held evenly matched killing intent.
Players who came to the camp to pick up things or scout intel all warily retreated several steps.
Too ruthless; looking at both sides’ eyes, it was like they were saying, come on, mutual harm.
Hard to say who would kill who first between them, but whoever rushed into the middle right now would definitely die.
