Chapter 29: Ball of Lightning

In the endless and deep space, two reincarnations stood on two opposite cliffs, about 30 meters apart. Between them was an unfathomable canyon, and the dark clouds in the canyon were surging, as if there was something terrible rolling inside.

After entering the battlefield, Fang Lin was automatically put on a mask with a randomly obtained number written on it. His number was 641, and the opponent's number was very auspicious: 88. The surroundings were pitch black, giving people the feeling of standing quietly in a starless, moonless and lightless desert. The whole world was filled with loneliness and desolation, and only the burning hostility in the eyes of the two people was interspersed in the deep, quiet and silent darkness.

The Nightmare Mark gave Fang Lin a hint:

"You currently have a total of 120 minutes of rest time. Do you want to rest?"

"To ensure fairness, after the battle is over and the winner is determined, the physical strength and mental strength of each reincarnation participating in the Top Ten Battle will be replenished, and the cooldown time of all skills/sustainable items will be reset."

"Everyone will have two hours of preparation and rest time before the battle, but this time cannot be accumulated. From the first time you participate in the battle to the final withdrawal/winning the title of the Top Ten." (In other words, if Fang Lin uses up these two hours now, then every time he meets his opponent in the future, he will not have any preparation time.)

Fang Lin immediately raised a crucial query with his Nightmare Mark's high authority:

"After each battle, if the energy value is consumed, will it be replenished again?"

Fang Lin has a disadvantage in the Top Ten Battle, which is that he cannot use powerful magic to summon and charm the characters in the plot in advance, so he cannot extract the life energy of the summoned creatures. This greatly limits the duration of his use of the blood of the Heavenly Kingdom God Clan, so this problem must be clarified.

"The energy value you mentioned is actually everyone's vitality. The sudden death of some young people and middle-aged people in the real world is actually a manifestation of their exhausted vitality. The same is true for vegetative people. For reincarnationists, vitality is divided into two stages. The first is the vitality of stage i that can be replenished. After this part of vitality is depleted, dizziness and weakness will appear. This part of vitality can be replenished through sleep and long-term rest."

"If the vitality of stage i is exhausted and you still have to fight hard, you will use the vitality of stage ii. Consuming this part of vitality will make it difficult to continue breathing, the heart load will suddenly increase, and severe cases will cause cardiac arrest and blood vessel bursting. At the same time, it will cause irreversible damage to the internal organs of the body, shorten the life span, and easily lead to loss of life."

"Therefore, the answer to the question of consumed vitality/energy value you mentioned is that it cannot be replenished. The damage to the body can be repaired, but the vitality must be replenished through long-term rest, recuperation and sleep."

This answer is basically within Fang Lin's expectations. The only good news is that after each battle, the refresh time of the historical records can also be reset. From this, it can be seen that the ability of this golden item is indeed magical. To some extent, it can accomplish things that even the nightmare space cannot do.

Fang Lin began to further inquire about the schedule. Seeing how many challenges he would face on the most days, he realized that his advantage as the defending champion of the top ten had been brought into play. At least in this regard, he received a lot of preferential treatment:

The usual reincarnations would compete in at least four venues in the first two days of the competition, but the defending top ten could wait for the opportunity. At most, three games would be arranged in the first two days. After about two days, after entering the competition for the top sixteen, the pace of the game will be slowed down. The defending top ten basically only have one battle a day.

When the last five people are left. The competition system will become a round-robin tournament. The five people will definitely fight one by one. In the end, the reincarnation with the most net wins will win the crown of the strong and become one of the top ten.

The remaining four will also be ranked according to the number of net wins. If there is a tie, there will be an extra game between the two sides. Although all four will be awarded the title of candidate, the price paid to become a candidate and the power of the skills attached to the candidate title are different. The second place is definitely better than the third place. Not to mention the ranking behind.

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A ray of light flashed in the cliff between the two people, and then a transparent screen with a width of four meters and a length of more than ten meters appeared. Such a scene will appear after passing through some worlds, and it is not too rare. However, it is divided into more than ten small screens, including deserts, grasslands, swamps, snow mountains, primitive jungles, mountains, squares, cities, oceans, ships and other terrains that may appear in the real world.

Each small screen is numbered with a, b, c, d... English letters in turn, which is supposed to be convenient for making choices.

The Nightmare Mark gave a hint: Before you draw the terrain on the battlefield, both sides can have two chances to remove the most disadvantageous terrain. Please make the first removal within 30 seconds.

The elimination of terrain can be said to be a very technical attempt before the start of the battle. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a battle of wits. The battle of the top ten can be said to be quite fair. Before the fight, you can know nothing about the opponent. From the terrain eliminated by the opponent, you can probably infer his weaknesses, abilities, and even the way he is good at fighting. If the elimination of terrain is used well, it is a double-edged sword. Not only can you eliminate the terrain that is most unfavorable to you, but you can also try to eliminate the terrain that the opponent is best at. Of course, this not only requires very strong analytical ability, but also to avoid the opponent's trick.

Although Fang Lin is very smart and cunning, 100% of those who come to participate in the Fool's Battle are mentally strong. If you want them to fall into the trap easily, I am afraid it is impossible.

After both parties make a choice, they cannot see the result of the other party immediately, but have to wait until the end of 30 seconds. Only then will the answer of the other party's choice be revealed together. This is also a very fair thing. Fang Lin smiled slightly, but chose to abstain directly. The No. 88 on the opposite side eliminated the square terrain.

From the first elimination of terrain, Fang Lin left people with a sense of confidence in himself, which also means that his ability is very little restricted by the surrounding environment. It can be said that he is confident. The opponent eliminated the square terrain, which is open and without any cover, indicating that he should be extremely lacking in close combat ability. He is very afraid of others getting close, or it takes a certain amount of time to launch powerful skills, so he likes complex terrain environments with cover. This is also a common problem for people with mental strength, which is quite common.

However, when eliminating the terrain for the second time, the opponent seemed to have discovered that he had accidentally "exposed his bottom" and was tricked, so he continued to honestly eliminate the "desert" terrain. Fang Lin took the initiative to attack again. But he chose the "grassland" terrain.

There is no doubt that this is undoubtedly helping the opponent. According to common sense, after Fang Lin detected that the opponent's home court is likely to be an environment with extremely complex terrain, he should do the opposite, or consider himself. Eliminate terrain related to water, or think from the perspective of the enemy, and eliminate terrain such as swamps and mountains that are not easy to move and cannot be approached quickly.

Therefore, Fang Lin has only one purpose for doing this. That is to give this reincarnation an illusion that he is also a player who is good at long-range attacks. The battle between the two will be similar to the way of bombarding with cannons!

Just after entering the battlefield, just like entering the nightmare world, there is a one-minute protection time. During this protection time, both parties can see each other's position. But once the protection time is over, they will lose each other's position. There is no unified regulation on the time of the battle. It is divided into half an hour, one hour, two hours, and the longest is five hours. There are four options in total. If the time chosen by both parties is different. Then add up the time chosen by both parties and divide it by two.

For example, Fang Lin chose a one-hour battle time, and No. 88 chose a five-hour battle time. Then their actual battle time is 1 hour + 5 hours, divided by two. Then it is 3 hours.

If both sides remain in the battle space after the battle, and no one is defeated because their physical strength is reduced to zero, then the remaining physical strength will be used as the criterion for determining the winner. Whoever has more physical strength left will be the winner. At this point, Fang Lin undoubtedly has a terrible advantage because of his abnormal simulation skills. He only needs to simulate his physical strength to the limit in the last minute. Unless a bitch like Lei Luo can win against him, it is really difficult for people with special mental strength to do so.

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"Both sides have eliminated terrain. The terrain you have eliminated is: grassland, square, desert."

"The battle site will be drawn from the remaining terrain."

"Drawing in progress..."

"The terrain type drawn is: city."

"Five, four, three, two, one."

"The straight-line distance between reincarnations will be forced to be within 500 meters."

"When you attack each other, all your attack power will be weakened to 1/6. Defense and resistance remain unchanged."

"Teleportation begins!"

Fang Lin stood quietly on the crowded street. There was a lot of traffic around, the sound of the horn was shocking, the flow of people on the street was bustling, the clock in the store next to it pointed to 9:10 pm, the clerks and the boss were talking and laughing loudly, this was the most prosperous and leisure time of the day. Judging from the dress of the pedestrians on the street, it should be in an environment similar to India.

When choosing the time to fight, the two of them chose half an hour at the same time. Fang Lin was preparing for a rainy day. His plan was to end the battle as soon as possible and return to the nightmare space once he used the blood of the Heavenly Kingdom Protoss to consume his life, so that he would have enough time to recover. But no one knew why No. 88 did this.

"He's to the west... one hundred and forty meters away!" Fang Lin waited until the protection time was over, but did not rush out in a hurry, but quietly left the place. Although Fang Lin's mental detection lost the blessing of the Fool's Eye, he still relied on his identity as the chosen one to reach several hundred meters away. He immediately detected the approximate location of No. 88 and the surrounding terrain. It turned out that he was next to a building next to him when he appeared. His current position is constantly rising. It is obvious that he ran directly to the top floor from the stairs to attack Fang Lin from a high position. And the mental power of No. 88 is also not low. Although it is a fuzzy lock, it still firmly locks Fang Lin's basic position.

"If I guess correctly, it's too late to rush over now." Fang Lin smiled calmly, but turned and walked away. Sure enough, if he inferred, there were continuous explosions in the building. Obviously, No. 88 had started to use weapons to cause large-scale damage to the elevator and stairs while going up, and Fang Lin wanted to chase him. I'm afraid it's futile, and I'm attacked by him from a high position in vain.

Fang Lin was in a busy, simple and dilapidated alley at this time. There were crowds of people inside. Fang Lin, who changed his clothes when he entered the world, mixed in the crowd, like a drop of water dissolving into the sea. No. 88's mental power was much inferior to his. At most, he could know where Fang Lin was. He didn't even know how many people were next to Fang Lin or whether there were any obstacles. Unlike Fang Lin, he could not directly lock his mind on him.

Time passed slowly, and No. 88, who successfully seized the commanding heights and climbed onto the rooftop, began to become anxious. His original intention was to bombard Fang Lin from a high position and carry out long-range attacks. Who knew that he could not grasp Fang Lin's specific location, but only knew that Fang Lin's approximate location was less than 200 meters away from him. But it was blocked by a large number of houses.

The measures taken by Fang Lin were very simple: to remain unchanged in the face of changes.

Because compared with the other reincarnations. Fang Lin and the other two were already used to the power of the team, and used to having someone to protect them and doing their own job, so they were a little unfamiliar with fighting alone. Most of the other reincarnations were always on guard against others when they were adventuring in the dangerous world. Their personal combat capabilities were naturally much stronger.

So since Fang Lin entered the battle for the top ten, his style of doing things has changed drastically. First of all, he sought stability and firmly grasped the advantage of his physical strength being higher than others.

So No. 88 couldn't wait any longer.

Fang Lin raised his eyebrows, and he could clearly feel that a large amount of violent energy was gathering on the opposite floor. But the hiding place he chose was very hidden and safe. Not only was it hidden in a solid brick and stone building, but it was also in the basement. He didn't expect to be able to block all the enemy's attacks. But at least he could find out the enemy's underground.

After a period of accumulation, an elliptical object suddenly floated in the air in front of the house where Fang Lin was hiding. The shape of the object was roughly the same as that of a football, and most of it was transparent, but inside it was a light green mist that was floating around like a substance, just like the ink that had just fallen into clear water and had not yet completely dissolved, quite beautiful.

At this time, the crowd on the street also noticed something was wrong. They had heard that a "terrorist attack" had occurred in the building, so a large number of people came to watch. Seeing this abnormality again, they all came to watch. Even as the oval sphere formed and fell, many people dared to touch it. The oval sphere did not react at all, but just flew away gently like a hydrogen balloon, but these unlucky guys did not know that behind this beauty, there was a terrible murderous intent that would even move Fang Lin!

Fang Lin, who closed his eyes, suddenly sighed, and he immediately rolled to the ground, dragging the cabinet next to him over his body. No. 88 on the far floor showed a trace of viciousness in his eyes, dodged to the front of the window, and pressed his left hand in this direction. His whole body was trembling slightly, obviously controlling something!

An invisible circular shock wave was immediately shaken out in the air! Flying at high speed! This shock wave was transmitted in the air, which distorted people's vision for a moment, but it returned to normal immediately.

At this moment, the surroundings were originally full of a lively and prosperous atmosphere, but now all disappeared, leaving only murderous aura. A panic atmosphere of impending disaster suddenly wrapped tightly around the hearts of everyone present. They instinctively began to cry and flee, but they were still confused in their hearts looking for the reason why they were running and crying.

But Fang Lin knew that the shock wave was transmitted in an instant, and quickly changed into an invisible big hand in the air, aiming at the oval object and pinching it tightly, and the oval transparent sphere suddenly exploded!

A dazzling and terrifying light flashed out! It almost filled the sky and the earth!

Everyone's eyes were blinded by a flash of white. A sharp, long, twisted lightning bolt flew out from the broken part of the oval sphere like a snake and struck straight down!

After this lightning strike, in terms of grandeur and might, it is naturally not as powerful as the title skill of the Thunderer: the Thunder Arrow of Destiny. But after it fell, it gave people a very sharp and dazzling feeling. If the Thunder Arrow of Destiny was like a huge hammer falling from the sky, smashing people into a bloody mess, this electricity gave people the feeling of a slender and sharp needle, piercing people's hearts!

With a "crack", a strong smell of burnt flesh and blood spread, and a layer of flesh and blood was splashed on the glass of the surrounding shops, just like a heavy truck running over a muddy street at high speed, and mud splashed everywhere! It was extremely tragic. After this lightning strike, a white light circle quickly formed on the ground, and a large amount of electric current spread out like a small snake, and instantly transmitted to Fang Lin's position!

"Is he... using the spread of electric charge to confirm my position?" Fang Lin had such a thought in his mind. But just after this thought came to mind, another lightning exploded, blowing up the house where he was, and the bricks and stones flew everywhere!

But Fang Lin flew out at this time. He chose this basement as a hiding place, so naturally he left himself a way out. After the lightning fell, it still left a white halo in the original place, and then turned into countless electric lights like snakes and wandered around, and soon confirmed Fang Lin's position again.

Another terrible electric light shot out from the place where the ball broke! With a snap, it hit less than two meters in front of Fang Lin. A car exploded with a bang, and the flames were surging. In the debris, Fang Lin flew out from the billowing black smoke. He was less than two hundred meters away from No. 88. At this time, he was running at high speed and was within a hundred meters. But he had been affected by the aftermath of the lightning, and the large amount of electric light left by the lightning had completely gathered on Fang Lin's body! Seeing that the next lightning would completely hit him, No. 88 was full of confidence in his special move. If the remaining two lightning strikes completely hit the opponent, then even if he couldn't kill him, he would definitely win when the time came!

No. 88, who was controlling the lightning in front of the window, suddenly saw Fang Lin pull out a silver-shining gun from his waist and aim at him! No. 88 showed a grim smile at the corner of his mouth: "Are you finally willing to fight me head-on? You rat! It's a pity that it's too late!"

At the same time, another extremely dazzling glare flashed and disappeared, and the fourth lightning had already shot out, lashing Fang Lin's body like a sharp whip!