This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1615 - 691: Showdown in the Dead Zone_2

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Chapter 1615: Chapter 691: Showdown in the Dead Zone_2

Red Sleeve, with her head cracked and bleeding from the fall, ignored her injuries and immediately sprang up upon landing, lunging toward the boy once again.

Because opposite her, Mu You had already drawn the Hell Knife of the God of Decapitation, slashing through the air from a distance.

The crescent-shaped Sword Qi Slash formed, rapidly slicing toward the boy still airborne.

A streak of red dashed in front of the boy just before the Sword Qi could reach him, facing the incoming Sword Qi head-on, arms raised in a blocking position, seemingly intent on taking the blow for the boy with her own body.

Mu You furrowed his brows as he watched Red Sleeve recklessly risk herself.

Lin Xue’s earlier probing had allowed them to deduce that Red Sleeve might possess some mental perception authority, akin to a Mind Reading Technique, enabling her to directly read their thoughts; otherwise, she wouldn’t have pointed out Lin Xue’s abilities and preparations so accurately upon meeting them.

Mind reading, while seemingly simple, in the context of the Sky High World is an extremely powerful ability, because it means no secrets can remain hidden from her.

However, now it seemed that her mind-reading ability was not perfect; otherwise, she would have known that Mu You had a way to counter the Dead Zone and would have warned the boy before he acted, rather than trying to save the situation at the last minute.

If the guess was correct, her mind reading likely could only reach the surface thoughts of the person being read, requiring verbal guidance to elicit the desired information from the person’s mind.

For example, when she first met the two of them, she deliberately asked, ’Is it just the two of you?’ If she could read all their memories, there would be no need for such questions.

Returning to the matter at hand, during that brief moment of thought, Mu You had mostly figured out Red Sleeve’s ability.

Meanwhile, the Sword Qi he had unleashed was about to hit Red Sleeve.

Just when it seemed she would be torn to pieces by the Sword Qi, the boy behind her suddenly placed his hand on Red Sleeve.

In the next instant, both of them disappeared silently from the spot.

At the same moment the boy and Red Sleeve vanished, the Dead Zone was automatically lifted, and everything resumed operation.

The Sword Qi slashed through, missing its target, exploding against the mountain rock behind and reducing the sandstone along the way to fragments.

Mu You, gripping the long knife, frowned at the spot where the two had vanished without making a move.

After waiting four or five seconds, Red Sleeve and the boy reappeared at the exact same spot, their positions and expressions perfectly intact as if they had never disappeared.

Mu You raised an eyebrow, realizing what was happening.

The two had disappeared for about five seconds, and upon reappearing, their actions and positions hadn’t changed at all, indicating this was not some kind of teleportation ability, but the power of time—the boy had erased five seconds from their timeline.

"Extension ability of time authority?" Mu You speculated inwardly.

Erasing someone’s time out of thin air was a formidable ability when used well, potentially even trickier than the Dead Zone.

Fortunately, it could only erase a few seconds and was not significant, plus it had activation conditions; judging from the boy’s previous actions, it seemed to require direct contact with another person to activate.

This limitation greatly restricted its effectiveness in high-level battles.

The Dead Zone now lifted, Lin Xue resumed from her stasis, observing the exploded Sword Qi and the altered positions of the other three, suddenly aware of what had transpired. She quickly gripped her scythe in both hands, summoning her Divine Skin, and prepared for battle.

On the other side, Red Sleeve, upon reappearing and after a brief moment of bewilderment, realized the cause and effect, urgently retreating with the boy in her arms to create distance from Mu You.

"Little Snow, fall back," Mu You reminded.

This type of battle involving time manipulation was not one Lin Xue could engage in.

Lin Xue knew this, quickly leaping backward, not going too far, but staying back to watch the situation.

Opposite them, the boy did not rush to attack, instead watching with an extremely grave expression, eyes filled with evident confusion.

The earlier clash had evidently made him realize the difficulty of dealing with Mu You, preventing him from making careless mistakes.

Red Sleeve whispered a few words to the boy.

"So it was the Time Artifact; no wonder it followed me into the Dead Zone..."

The boy listened, comprehension dawning, but then he frowned again: "But why did his attack still manage to explode directly?"

The rules of the Dead Zone are complex; unless imbued with the ’World End’s Shield,’ attacks generally freeze and remain stagnant in the Dead Zone only to resume once it ends.

Yet his slash, clearly devoid of any temporal power, bypassed the Dead Zone’s rules, coming straight for them.

Zuo Qiu could sense, had they not dodged, that slash would have indeed killed them on the spot...

"That I can’t read; there are many aspects about him that I can’t discern..." Red Sleeve stated gravely.

"Let’s test his limits first!"

The boy snorted coldly, his spirit expanding, opening the Dead Zone once again.

The surrounding winds and sand stagnated, freezing everything once more.

This time, the boy didn’t dare approach Mu You directly but circled around, pushing his hands forward repeatedly.

Several stones on the ground floated up with his movements, surfaces covered by an invisible energy.

With a point of his finger, the stones shot toward Mu You.

Mu You remained still at first, only moving when the stones entered within roughly twenty meters of him.

Suddenly, Mu You swung his knife, effortlessly shattering the stones in midair, and retaliated with several Sword Qi Slashes.

The boy grimaced, quickly disappearing, only reappearing safely after the Sword Qi exploded.

Neither side dared approach directly, opting instead to exchange a few ranged assaults.

"I get it now!"

After several trials, the boy’s face lit up with a confident smile.

"You don’t have the ability to initiate the Dead Zone; it’s your Divine Artifact that does. That thing is a creation of the Time God using the Dead Zone authority, so it triggers alongside my Dead Zone, but only when a threat comes within twenty meters of you does it automatically activate!"

"So what?" Mu You raised an eyebrow.

His speculation was almost correct, but the Endless-spinning Top was not passive; it was activated by the Time Elf.

When Mu You faced the Z-World Travelers before, he defeated them with Vivian’s aid; she could nullify various time abilities and acted as his eyes when the enemy activated the Dead Zone.

Now, without Vivian in the Sky High World, she couldn’t fight beside him again, but Mu You had a more powerful companion—the Time Elf within the Pocket Watch.

The Time Elf is equally immune to time abilities, seeing the enemy’s every move within the Dead Zone and would backtrack time or activate the Endless-spinning Top at any sign of danger to Mu You.

"So? Heh, your Divine Artifact clearly has a cooldown; your Dead Zone can only last ten seconds at most, whereas mine can continuously open!"

The boy sneered: "Which means if I drag you into the Dead Zone and delay for ten seconds until your artifact cools down, when I re-enter the Dead Zone, you’ll be helpless before me!"

Mu You’s expression turned peculiar as he pondered but had to admit the plan’s feasibility.

His previous success against the Z-World Travelers wasn’t solely due to Vivian’s presence; importantly, they couldn’t attack him directly in the Dead Zone and had to prepare an attack before releasing the Dead Zone.

That slight time gap allowed Mu You an opening.

But now, this old man was like an upgraded version of the Z-World Travelers, able to attack within the Dead Zone, rendering Mu You’s previous strategy inapplicable.

Mu You looked at the boy, nodded in acknowledgment: "Hmm, it’s a solid plan..."

"But where do you get the confidence to think you’ll survive ten seconds in my presence?"