The short-haired female player traveling with the white-haired player clasped her hands together, and the entire cockpit was sealed off. This forced the two crew members who had already rushed to the door to turn back. One of them blew on his empty palm, and a small balloon the size of a fingertip flew out of thin air. It surrounded the white-haired player and the others like foam, then exploded like a bomb!

“Haha! I love watching this scene!” the bomb-crewman laughed.

The captain who had ambushed the white-haired player quickly walked to the door. He reached out and touched the wall, causing the wall covering to peel off in strips, wrapping around the players shrouded in the explosion smoke. He then took out a bomb the size of a thumb and stuck it to the door, precisely disarming it.

However, before he could step out, the floor rapidly froze, forming a wall of ice about three meters from the door. Ice spikes several meters long shot out from the ice wall, forcing him back into the cockpit.

The wall covering shattered into ice shards, and the floor began sliding backward like an automatic walkway, pulling the captain and the crew members toward the white-haired player!

Unable to break free from the floor, almost simultaneously, the captain and his men all raised their guns and opened fire on the players!

The light and sound of the bullets were all blocked by items, so the staff outside, apart from the initial explosion and the ice wall in front of them, had no idea what was happening inside the cockpit.

“I’ll go get the players from the Municipal Hall…” one staff member said, turning to run toward the rear deck. But at that moment, the cruise ship violently shook, forcing the staff to cling to fixed objects to steady themselves.

“The ship is rising!” people shouted from both the bow and stern. In fact, the hull had been slowly lifting ever since the ship stopped. Otherwise, people would have come to the cockpit by now. It wasn’t just that other players disguised as staff were creating chaos; it was because the entire cruise ship had been hijacked!

The ship wasn’t flying; the seawater was rising—a perfectly square section of seawater split from the sea level and lifted, holding the cruise ship aloft like a container, trapping it in place.

“We’re trapped!” the elderly man said anxiously. “Get Duke Tal out of here first!”

“The flying cars are damaged, the speedboats can’t go down, and spatial items can’t be used on the ship!” a bodyguard quickly explained the current situation.

“Those people disguised as staff definitely came prepared. Their player levels are probably not low. Our people are holding them off for now, but that won’t last long,” the elderly man said to Duke Tal. “Your Grace, you should find a place to take shelter!”

“Shelter? The ship is only this big! Where can I go?” Duke Tal roared angrily. “Deactivate the Item Balancer immediately! I’m getting out of here!”

The Item Balancer is a weapon manufactured based on the characteristic difficulty of compatibility between space-type items. Although not as effective as special instruments designed to restrict space-time items, it is sufficient for use on a cruise ship.

The special cruise ships of the Rongxin Group are all equipped with Item Balancers to prevent theft of goods. Today, the authority for the Hero’s balancer was in Duke Tal’s hands.

“Your Grace, you can’t do that!” the elderly man hurriedly said. “If you deactivate the Item Balancer, the other side might use spatial items to transfer the supplies away!”

“Is that little bit of supplies worth more than I am?” Duke Tal shouted. “Zhao He, deactivate the balancer!”

Zhao He was torn, but as the cruise ship rocked more and more violently in the seawater, he hesitated, then opened the controller on his wrist and turned off the balancer.

Duke Tal relaxed slightly and ordered the bodyguards to take him away. Just as the two of them disappeared from the ship, a shout came from the rear deck: “The boxes are gone!”

And in the sky about a hundred meters away from the cruise ship, several flying cars appeared. The undersides of these cars were welded with specially made metal chains. Six cars were lifting a massive cargo rack, and the cargo boxes that had disappeared from the ship appeared one after another on the rack.

“They don’t have container items. The transport distance for spatial items is limited. Open fire!” Zhao He commanded from the ship.

But if the flying cars on the ship were damaged, how could the weapons still be operational? Therefore, only the players could act.

One player used an item to stir up a fierce gale over the sea. The strong wind, carrying seawater, rushed toward the six flying cars, but halfway there, it was blocked by an invisible wall. Then, the elevated seawater sank, and the entire ship crashed toward the sea surface!

The players leaped into the air, surrounding the flying cars from all sides. Unexpectedly, these flying cars were equipped with considerable firepower and immediately unleashed a barrage of fire at them. After two players were shot down, another player chased to the rear of the car formation, thrust a steel pipe as thick as two fingers into the seawater, and said, “Pipe clogged!”

“Boom! Boom!” The guns on two of the flying cars exploded. The vehicles became unstable, and the cargo beneath them began to tip into the sea.

“Damn it! Some weapons can’t get wet!” someone in one of the cars above stuck his head out and cursed. “Hurry up and stabilize the cars!”

“Are you an idiot? The cargo boxes are waterproof!” another person roared.

The first speaker cursed back, “So what if they’re waterproof? You gonna dive in and retrieve them if they sink to the bottom?”

Not just them, but the players on the cruise ship side also couldn’t just let the cargo boxes sink into the sea, so they split up to retrieve them.

What no one expected was that a flying carpet intercepted them, scooping up the cargo boxes mid-air. Two players holding the edges of the giant flying carpet carried the cargo boxes to the side—where a transport plane was slowly materializing.

“Who?!” The cargo boxes were snatched away. Although the flying car team quickly detached the chains, they were still dragged and capsized into the sea. Whether players who had sunk or those still on the surface, they instantly struggled in place like fish out of water.

A man with a scar on his face jumped down from the deck of the transport plane. He landed steadily on the sea surface, then his feet sank below the water. He looked at the water and said, “Chopped Fish Head!”

The seawater separated into several blade-like water edges, skimming the surface from above and below, harvesting lives.

The players floating on the sea surface were relatively better off. Seeing the water blades coming, most had defenses or directly escaped into the game. However, the players trapped underwater, suffocating but not leaving, had their necks silently severed.

Blood surged from underwater, and several heads floated to the surface. Seeing this, the players on the cruise ship quickly retreated.

“I never expected this group to even have fighter planes!” On the cruise ship, which hadn’t capsized thanks to the players’ protection, Zhao He entered the cabin with a grim expression. He pressed a palm holding a magnet against the outer wall of the cockpit. After a brief, low hum, the injured captain and the two remaining crew members flew out from the other side of the cockpit, passing through the metal.

Avoiding the white-haired player and the others who followed them out, Zhao He was about to head to the rear deck when, unexpectedly, a knife stabbed through his heart.

Behind him, the cowboy-hat-wearing player responsible for delivering goods from the station took off his hat, revealing his wheat-colored skin, and smiled at him, saying, “Surprised? Or shocked?”

“Ran Ying…” Zhao He reached out a hand, but she kicked him flying first.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep