Chapter 138 Hidden

Hui Bu Juan lay prone in a clump of bushes. Forget the mist, even without it, the concealment was thorough. The broadcast showed a close-up of Hui Bu Juan’s hiding place, and the audience had to strain their eyes to find the character's figure in the bushes.

However, this kind of cover, while deceptive, was easily overlooked by the human eye if not observed carefully. But for system-determined summoned beasts, this deception didn’t exist. As long as a piece of Hui Bu Juan’s clothing was visible, they would definitely notice it.

Mo Fan had escaped the map search of a summoned army before, so he was clearly aware of the system's superior judgment of summoned beasts compared to the players themselves. He hid Hui Bu Juan in the bushes, originally to ambush Bayin Fu, but seeing that his opponent was late to appear, he knew that his concealment was the same as not concealing for the summoned beasts. So, he immediately emerged from the bushes.

To avoid summoned beasts, one had to completely evade their line of sight. Compared to avoiding the line of sight of biological summoned beasts, dealing with elemental summoned beasts was more troublesome. These large and small spirits were formed from elemental energy, and their symmetrical shapes made it difficult to judge which way they were facing, unlike biological creatures with eyes and noses. Peeking around corners while trying to sneak away, like avoiding player characters, was a bad idea. A human might overlook half a head due to momentary negligence, but summoned beasts never would. With biological types, you could peek around their backs, but with elemental types, don’t even think about it. Their randomly shifting field of vision might catch you.

So, to avoid tracking by elemental summoned beasts, one had to be quick and decisive. Hiding your movements as much as possible was more suitable than observing the opponent's actions before making a plan.

And that's what Mo Fan did. After Hui Bu Juan emerged from the bushes, his movements weren't very fast, but they were small and concealed. Eighty percent of the time, the character moved by crouching or even crawling.

"This should be recorded as a video tutorial for stealth movement!" Li Yibo exclaimed, watching Hui Bu Juan under Mo Fan’s control.

What about Li Yuan?

Li Yuan remained unhurried.

After Hui Bu Juan’s shadow clone ended, he had lost his direction, but the summoned beasts he had deployed were already in their designated positions. After that, he didn’t make any extra moves. Bayin Fu seemed to be moving casually in one direction.

The spirits in their positions soon stopped moving. The elemental glow emitted by the spirits flickered faintly in the dense forest mist. At this moment, they no longer looked like they were chasing a target. They were like landmines, like traps, hiding in the dense forest mist, quietly waiting for their prey to stumble upon them.

"Brilliant!" Li Yibo suddenly shouted.

"Huh?"

"Li Yuan's approach is more effective than actively searching. In this map's visible environment, the human eye's judgment is definitely inferior to the system's determination of summoned beasts. Stationary spirits can definitely react faster than Mo Fan. Mo Fan's way of avoiding the spirits also severely weakens his own field of vision," Li Yibo exclaimed.

"Got it!" At this time, Pan Lin also noticed the change in the situation.

As Hui Bu Juan’s lowered figure darted between two trees, a light-elemental spirit hidden in the mist suddenly moved, accurately moving towards the direction Hui Bu Juan was darting.

"Caught! Mo Fan doesn't seem to have noticed!" Pan Lin shouted.

Hui Bu Juan continued to move forward, paying attention to concealment, seemingly unaware that a small spirit was catching up behind him.

"But the spirit's movement speed is not as fast as the character's. If Li Yuan doesn't take further action, he might just be shaken off," Li Yibo said.

Would Li Yuan not take action?

Of course not!

The spirits he deployed were all under his control. When one suddenly moved, he immediately knew it had discovered a target. On this map, other than Hui Bu Juan, his summoned beasts had no other targets.

Based on the movement of the light-elemental spirit, Li Yuan quickly determined Hui Bu Juan’s direction. Immediately, all the spirits received clear instructions.

The instructions weren’t simply to charge forward blindly. Each spirit received different instructions based on its position. Some of the more distant ones were abandoned by Li Yuan without hesitation. Bayin Fu restarted the summoning circle, summoning new spirits to replace the distant ones, and then charged out with clear instructions.

The initial light-elemental spirit that bumped into Hui Bu Juan was eventually shaken off, but then two new small spirits bit him again.

After analyzing the details of how he shook off the initial spirit, Pan Lin and Li Yibo believed that Mo Fan had noticed it during the process, so Hui Bu Juan's movement had sped up, trying to shake off the spirit.

He did it, but now two more spirits had bitten Hui Bu Juan.

"Wonderful static defense!" Li Yibo's commentary level this match was quite high.

In this round, Li Yuan was truly being static. Bayin Fu had released many spirits. The eight small spirit slots were full, and the large spirits had merged into ice and fire types. They were distributed across the map, seemingly chaotic but not disorderly.

Was he inspired by how Ye Xiu dealt with Yu Wenzhou in the first round?

Pan Lin and Li Yibo had now retracted that statement.

This was Blue Rain's home map, and Li Yuan was indeed Blue Rain's home player. This map, which seemed unfavorable to summoners, was fully utilized by him. The spirits were densely packed, turning everything into traps. Did it matter how well Mo Fan could escape tracking? There was no tracking now; all the spirits had done was stand in position, waiting for Mo Fan to let Hui Bu Juan run into them.

On a normal map, Mo Fan would have plenty of room to escape after colliding. But in this map, visibility was so low, and the distance between them was so close when they met, making it much more difficult to escape.

Li Yuan fully utilized all of this. At this point, Blue Rain’s arrangement for this team competition became clearer.

Yu Wenzhou and Song Xiao, who were arranged to play the first two slots, did intend to exhaust Ye Xiu. Blue Rain ultimately failed in this arrangement. But Blue Rain's team competition wasn't just for that purpose. They didn't place all their bets on the final team match.

Li Yuan's performance on the field at this time was demonstrating this point. After Yu Wenzhou and Song Xiao, Blue Rain truly unleashed their key to winning heads in the team competition. In the misty forest environment, Bayin Fu seemed incredibly powerful after being played by Li Yuan. Before he even appeared, the spirits were already wearing Mo Fan down.

He shook off one, and two more came. Before he could shake off those two, a third and fourth came...

These weren't all actively attached by Li Yuan's command. Instead, they were predicted, waiting for the rabbit, and as a result, Hui Bu Juan kept running into more and more in this environment. He was eventually entangled to the point where he couldn't move easily.

Substitution Technique, Shadow Clone Technique...

Smoke Grenade, Caltrops...

All kinds of escape ninjutsu and restraining ninja tools were used, but he couldn't shake them off.

Bayin Fu's spirits seemed endless. If he shook off one, he would soon run into a new one.

Compared to Mo Fan's chaos, Li Yuan's operation continued in an orderly manner. The spirits changed positions, or summoned replacements, with measured control. And those that were to be replaced weren't completely wasted. At this time, the four large spirits were in position, and the spirit army that Mo Fan had to face became even larger.

"This can't go on!" Li Yibo commented again.

"Yes, he won't be able to shake them off this way; he'll just be worn down..." Pan Lin said. Hui Bu Juan hadn't escaped the pursuit without taking any damage. The spirits always touched him at some point, and the ice-type large spirit's falling ice and the light-type large spirit's lightning were both ranged attacks.

Then, at this moment, Hui Bu Juan suddenly stopped his constant movement.

Shuriken!

Hui Bu Juan suddenly attacked, throwing a shuriken straight at the light-elemental spirit on the left. He charged forward, but no longer in the direction he had been going, but behind him.

Sky Cry Double Kill! (kongchan shuangsha)

Hui Bu Juan, rushing out, attacked with both his ninja blade in one hand and the scabbard in the other.

Zzz...

The attacks hit two small spirits coming from behind, making a strange sound like an electric shock. The spirits were formed from elemental energy, not flesh and blood, so the sound effects after being hit by various attacks were bizarre.

Sky Cry Double Kill’s damage wasn’t low, and the small spirits were extremely fragile. Although this attack didn’t kill them, their health was almost gone.

Flame Slash!

One of the two small spirits was ice-type, and the other was dark-type. Neither had high resistance to fire attacks. The ice-type would have negative resistance to fire.

Boom!

As long as they didn’t have fire resistance, they couldn't withstand this attack. A ball of flame fell with the blade, and the two small spirits disintegrated into elemental energy, disappearing after flickering a few times in the flames.

"Mo Fan is no longer running; he's starting to fight the spirits head-on," Pan Lin said.

"The purpose of doing this is to force Bayin Fu to appear! In this kind of battle, the spirits' autonomous consciousness alone can't compete with professional-level skills. The summoner must personally operate and command them. Bayin Fu will appear in Hui Bu Juan’s line of sight..." Li Yibo said.

"That's right... We see that Li Yuan is indeed controlling Bayin Fu forward," Pan Lin shouted.

For the first time in the match, the two characters finally appeared in each other's field of vision.

"Will Mo Fan just charge straight up like this!" Pan Lin shouted.

"Ah, he charged, he charged very decisively!"

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