CHAPTER 357: CHAPTER 300: THE STRANGE INSTANCE

With Sakura and Poli’s combat strength, encountering just one or two purple-skinned people shouldn’t be a big problem.

But from the chaotic gunfire, Li Zheng knew that Sakura and the others had definitely encountered more than two purple-skinned people.

"There’s something wrong with the difficulty of this level. Sakura is with a few useless burdens, she might not be able to protect them. I need to help out." Li Zheng forced himself to stand up, opened the door of the hiding shop, only to see two robots standing at the entrance.

Meeting face-to-face, Li Zheng decisively retreated, raising his gun to shoot.

Those two robots had no intention of attacking, instead, they raised their hands to signal Li Zheng to calm down, making some gibberish sounds using their voice systems.

"Seems like they mean no harm?" Li Zheng hesitated with his trigger finger, hearing more gunfire in the distance, he couldn’t worry too much, gave a glance at the robots, and broke out through the side window.

His left leg, numbed by drugs, was weak, but luckily Li Zheng’s physique had already reached Gold Level, so even hopping on one leg, his speed wasn’t slow.

Not to mention, he also had a flying device.

Although it couldn’t fly very high, it could still realize low-altitude flying if he controlled the power output well.

The only discomfort was that the streets were somewhat too narrow, making low-altitude flying inconvenient. Otherwise, Li Zheng wouldn’t have been left with one crippled leg.

Li Zheng stumbled and dashed towards the direction of the gunfire, while the two robots exchanged a "look" and followed him.

At this time, it was less than ten minutes since entering the level, Li Zheng had not walked far and could quickly return to the circular building.

However, when only a street away from the circular building, the gunfire suddenly lessened.

Li Zheng felt a pang in his heart, had they lost members of the team?

In the next moment, the gunfire became chaotic again, it was only reloading...

As the circular building connecting the entrance got closer, Li Zheng could already see four purple-skinned people forming a diamond shape, slowly approaching the blown-out gap.

Perhaps having fought Li Zheng before, the purple-skinned people feared others might have the same power and chose a steady, strategic approach.

One of them stood at the front, using blood qi to form a curtain, causing bullets hitting it to spark and fly off.

The three in the back used strange ray weapons to counter, but stone pillars rising from the ground were blocking them.

Not knowing how the red rays worked, they easily cut through flesh when hitting a person, even Li Zheng’s Gold Level physique couldn’t fend them off.

But hitting stone, they seemed somewhat powerless.

"No wonder why when I hid inside the shop, they didn’t use those weapons to shoot through the walls at me; they couldn’t penetrate them," Li Zheng noted this in his mind.

After learning a lesson from a previous incident, he decided to get serious. The Bloody Battlefield level differed from conventional levels; it seemed every creature in it had power between a BOSS and a minor monster.

Having suffered from prior experiences, Li Zheng thought the creatures encountered early on were minor monster types, which led to his carelessness and getting ambushed.

"Now it’s my turn for a counter-ambush!" Li Zheng hefted the Daiyu Spear, aimed briefly, and flicked the fin.

The energy bomb shot out silently, targeting the last purple-skinned person in line.

Yet at the instant Li Zheng fired the first shot, that purple-skinned person seemed to sense it, immediately gathering dense blood qi around to form a membrane, blocking the energy bomb.

Despite missing the first shot, Li Zheng was relentless, shooting three more times while controlling the flying device, diving into a nearby shop.

Whizz~

The red ray penetrated the street, as the purple-skinned person reacted, retaliating against Li Zheng.

"Hmph, if I’m prepared in advance, dodging these rays doesn’t seem too difficult." Li Zheng looked at the wall beside him. With his strength, he could easily remove a piece and use it as a shield while charging forward.

Just when he was about to put this plan into action, two electric-blue flashes suddenly lit up the street.

"What’s this..." Li Zheng was a bit startled by the sight, did those purple-skinned people have another weapon?

The next moment, two beams entirely composed of electric light shot back toward the purple-skinned team.

Simultaneously, four red rays counterattacked, shooting in the direction the electric light had come from.

Li Zheng cautiously poked his head out and found that the two beams of electric light were actually fired by the two robots he had encountered earlier. The barrels behind them were indeed weapons, and very powerful plasma cannons at that!

As Li Zheng peeked out, he saw two purple-skinned people appear behind the robots. These two had been on-site for some time, hiding in the roadside shops so well that even Li Zheng hadn’t detected them.

"Watch out!" Li Zheng instinctively wanted to warn as the two purple-skinned people were already raising their weapons, aiming at the robots’ backs.

At this moment, the cannon behind the idle robot rotated, quickly locking onto the two suddenly emerging purple-skinned people, firing a dazzling plasma beam.

The electric-blue current sliced through the air, and Li Zheng had no doubt that even steel being hit would melt.

Yet the purple-skinned people merely condensed their blood qi into armor, which neutralized most of the plasma cannon’s damage.

The robots’ attack methods were very limited, with only the plasma cannon at their disposal.

The purple-skinned people’s blood armor perfectly countered this, forcing the robots to increase their firing rate, launching more plasma bombs to hinder the purple-skinned people’s advance.

The hostility between the robots and purple-skinned people seemed of high priority. Since the appearance of the robots, the purple-skinned people didn’t even bother with Sakura and the others, collectively launching an assault on the robots.

There were six purple-skinned people, with some condensing qi into armor to actively shield against the plasma cannons.

Others formed qi into weapons, bypassing the attack zones, rushing towards the robots.

The response of the two robots was also straightforward: escape on foot while launching multiple plasma bombs to buy time.

Li Zheng noticed that once the robots appeared, the purple-skinned people only fired red rays once at the beginning; afterward, they unanimously used blood qi abilities to charge at the robots.

"Are the red rays ineffective against metal too?" Li Zheng observed carefully, realizing that all the purple-skinned people had indeed put those strange weapons away.

"Odd, why does this feel like both roles have completely reversed their behaviors?" Li Zheng found it somewhat strange.

The two robots were agile in both counterattacking and fleeing. Knowing they were outmatched, they would break into roadside shops, smashing their way through and retreating sideways.

In contrast, the purple-skinned people’s actions were rather rigid, like following a program, employing various measures during pursuit yet never outright destroying buildings.

"Are they really this considerate?" Seeing this, Li Zheng hesitated no longer; the battlefield of pursuit between the purple-skinned people and robots wasn’t far from him, now was the perfect time to make his move.

"Then I won’t hold back!"

"Power Demon·Frenzy!"

Li Zheng decisively activated his transformation ability, morphing into a two-meter small giant, barging through the shop and limping towards the purple-skinned people.

Li Zheng’s involvement instantly threw the scene into chaos.

In front were the robots in retreat, followed by the purple-skinned people in pursuit, and behind was Li Zheng retaliating with a vengeance.

With the two robots serving as bait, the purple-skinned people wouldn’t fight back unless Li Zheng posed a threat, opting instead to ignore him.

Li Zheng smashed one purple-skinned person’s head with a punch, yet a thought flashed in his mind: "This level is really damn weird!"