Infinity: Our Zhongzhou team is really amazing!

Chapter 197 The Devil Team's Counterattack
The clouds were low and the sky was gloomy, as if covered by a huge curtain.

The moonlight can only shine faintly through the corners of the dark clouds and reach the earth.

The gentle breeze had died down, and a stronger storm seemed to be brewing.

A place for playing chess.

The clone Chu Xuan stared at the chessboard. He placed his hands on the bridge of his nose, half of his face hidden in the darkness, and began his first long thought after the start of the game.

The faint moonlight fell on his shoulders, and his shadow formed an iron curtain on the ground.

He didn't move, and the air was suffocatingly silent. The dark clouds dared not move, the night dared not make a sound, and the moonlight dared not shift. Everything held its breath under his gaze.

At the beginning of the game, keep a distance from the opponent's pieces. This has been the basic concept of Go for thousands of years and an iron rule.

But their game entered a close-range stranglehold at the very beginning. After only forty moves, the battle had reached a bloody stalemate. Many iron rules were shaken and broken in this game.

After a long time, the clone Chu Xuan slowly stretched out his slender fingers.

Pa tower.

A chess piece falls—

The devil's roar came from a height of a hundred meters in the sky!

The thirty-second move.

Four out of seven, stars.

It wasn't until the move was made that everything began to flow slowly.

A breeze began to hum.

On the chessboard, the battle situation has reached a stalemate, although the dragon shape that the white piece had initially condensed was directly cut off in the middle.

But the white pieces, which were divided into two plates, resisted very tenaciously, and even completed the encirclement and counterattack of the black pieces in the lower right corner. The two white pieces, which were equivalent to abandoned pieces, blocked and ate up a small corner of the black piece that protruded.

The more powerful black player was the first to leave.

The black piece seemed to be hesitant. Faced with two white pieces of obviously different strengths, the consequence of trying to capture both pieces at the same time was that he would not be able to get rid of either piece.

"Interesting design. Your wisdom in creating humans can be utilized to this extent. It's commendable." The expression of the clone Chu Xuan did not change at all, and his tone remained calm.

Chu Xuan did not respond. His computing power was far weaker than that of his clone, and the effort he put into each step was several times more than that of the other party.

"It seems that the useless guys in the Demon Team can only do this much. There is no need to waste the resurrection side story." A hint of coldness flashed in the eyes of the clone Chu Xuan, and he had already determined Dechai's ending.

He pointed to the lower right corner and said calmly, "You used yourself as bait to resolve the situation perfectly."

"But, you and I both know that it doesn't matter here."

"The place where victory is decided is not here."

The light shifted slightly, casting rust-like shadows across his features, making him look even more like a demon from the abyss.

The clone Chu Xuan did not show much emotion when the expected attack did not go as planned, as if it was just a trivial episode in the war.

He seemed to be in the clouds, looking down at the insignificant resistance on earth. At the same time, he was high above everyone else and did not hesitate to praise his opponent's quick wit for the slight victory he had achieved.

After all, it doesn't matter and doesn't hurt the overall situation.

Chu Xuan knew what the replica was evaluating.

No matter how strong the Demon Team is, the team besieging the Umbrella headquarters lacks melee fighters. Moreover, the Astartes are guarding underground, so the Demon Team's long-range attack weapons are difficult to use.

This battlefield has reached a stalemate due to the lack of external interference.

But this is not the decisive battlefield.

The outcome of the fourth level is the key.

"Time is on the side of the Zhongzhou team." Chu Xuan looked a little tired and said in a dull tone in response to the clone.

Then the chess pieces fell one after another, and the white pieces continued to tear the situation on the chessboard apart.

Sharp punch.

Lower support.

Continuous touch.

Defense, counterattack, confrontation, Chu Xuan is gradually making up for the disadvantage.

Roar!
The roar of the spiritual world is infinitely resounding.

The black clouds rolled faster and faster, and the monster behind the door was getting closer and closer, as if it was breaking through layer after layer of illusory barriers and invading the real world.

With each move, people have the thrilling feeling that a building is falling, and the chessboard is dragging the building into the bottomless abyss.

Chu Xuan understood that the inner demon would not give him much time and choice.

So the chess game collided like a spinning top from the first move. The team had limited time, and his time was also limited.

A huge amount of computing power flowed through Chu Xuan's pupils, and all the strength in his body rushed to the corners of his eyes, and red and blue electric currents kept rushing out from his forehead.

But in addition to the shadows gradually spreading across the chessboard, he seemed to hear some unusual sound.

The shrill whistling sound gradually became louder, and seemed to be the sound of a huge wind.

"Good job." The clone's objective and cold voice sounded.

"But all your current layouts rely on one node."

"As long as you pull out this point, all your plans will fall apart and collapse in an instant."

"Do you think it's hidden well enough?"

The clone Chu Xuan picked up a black chess piece and placed it in front of his eyes. His glasses reflected a cold light in the moonlight.

A shocking black flame ignited on the chess piece.

He stretched out his finger, and the burning black chess piece fell from the sky—

"right here."

Pa tower.

The 42nd move, a divine move.

"Got you."

As the black piece fell, it directly hit the waist and abdomen of the white piece. The black flame spread along the chessboard, spread to the corner of the table, and even spread all the way to the outside world.

As if receiving an order, the wind in the city suddenly howled violently!
In an instant, it was like the wailing of thousands of ghosts, and the trampling of death was approaching step by step, and finally turned into a charge order in a shrill roar!

As the Death Scythe was swung, there was a crackling sound and something cracked.

With just one move, the situation changed in an instant. The black pieces connected together and had already formed a stranglehold on the white pieces.

The areas where the white ones were fighting on their own seemed to be surrounded by the radiation from the black one, and their disadvantage was already very obvious.

"This is."

Facing the darkness, Chu Xuan saw with difficulty and clearly the huge shadow falling from an infinite height.

Just when Chu Xuan wanted to take another look.

Crack! Under the continuous attack from outside, the power supply of the Umbrella Corporation's building was cut off, and the whole room was instantly plunged into darkness.

The only source of light was the faint glow from an old-fashioned decorative oil lamp above the chessboard.

Chu Xuan stared blankly at the situation that suddenly reversed. The door of the heart began to tremble violently, as if the monster inside was about to break out in the next second.

He held back the fishy sweetness in his throat, and with difficulty moved his eyes away from the chessboard, looking in the direction of the wind.

Between the dark cities.

A huge bronze skeleton statue with its shoulders coated with silver light stood on a high-rise building in the dark night, overlooking the entire Raccoon City.

The sound that echoed through the wind was just his breathing.

He suddenly swung the sickle in his hand towards the top of the cross.

It is ultimately unavoidable.

Chu Xuan held up his glasses and sighed softly, "Zhan Lan."

In the church, Zhan Lan struggled to maintain his mental shield. Although the Buddha Wheel could repair physical damage, it was powerless against the loss of mental power.

She was emitting a faint fluorescent light, which was the protection of the psychic protection bracelet taking effect.

But the combined suppression of the two psychics from the Demon Team still kept her on the verge of collapse. If they hadn't relaxed their suppression during this period, Zhan Lan probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until now.

After all, the mental shielding range she needs to maintain is much larger than that of the Demon Team.

With the help of Red Queen, the Zhongzhou team's communications and surveillance have actually never been interrupted. However, the Demon Team has been unable to scan the Zhongzhou team with their mental power and has been unable to find out their intelligence.

It's unknown how many of them are at the Raccoon City headquarters and how many are at the church.

The Zhongzhou team wanted to buy time, so even though they knew the Demon team had begun their attack and could even hear the roar of gunfire several kilometers away, they could not act rashly at this moment.

Zhuang Boshi and Zhao Yingkong have already set out to lure Zhao Zhuikong.

Zheng Zha was ready to support the battlefield at any time. As long as Zhao Zhuikong appeared and Zhuang Boshi held him back, Zheng Zha could rush over and form an instant encirclement.

With the intelligence advantage in Zhongzhou, they can try to capture the Demon Team individually and fight against the larger force in a local area.

But as long as they go to support Chu Xuan, not only will their intelligence be exposed in advance, but the trump card of nuclear deterrence will also become ineffective.

Moreover, apart from the clone Chu Xuan, the strongest combat force of the Demon Team has not yet appeared. Once they are exposed, it will easily cause the subsequent plans to collapse.

Zheng Zha held the Dragon Slaying Sword and closed his eyes to rest, but the bulging blue veins on his forehead showed that his heart was in turmoil.

"What's going on now?" Saito Ichi kept pacing back and forth, and finally couldn't help but look at Lingdian and asked.

"The battle outside the Umbrella has stabilized. About half of the mercenaries and biochemical monsters have been killed, but the Devil Team's offensive has also subsided."

"The battle in the basement is over. Ventris and Arnold II were slightly injured and took down Dechai, a Southeast Asian from the Devil Team." Lingdian sat in front of the computer, constantly observing the battlefield at the Umbrella headquarters.

Saito Yi breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, everyone saw in the video that a small team of the Demon Team was able to defeat the armed forces of Umbrella. On the one hand, they angrily cursed Umbrella for being strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and on the other hand, they were also worried about Chu Xuan's safety.

But fortunately, the two Astartes, who had gathered the most sophisticated technology of the Zhongzhou team, held the last line of defense and even killed one of them.

The Demon Team was frightened and continued to consume each other with the Umbrella on the periphery.

In such a high-pressure confrontation environment, it is really encouraging to be the first to score a point.

"It seems that the Demon Team is not that strong. Our robots can kill them." Cheng Xiao's eyes rolled and he began to be optimistic.

Zero shook his head slightly and said, "Don't forget, it's two against one. If that demon team member hadn't been stupid, he wouldn't have been blocked by two Astartes in such a small space."

"Besides, he was an unarmed melee fighter, relying solely on his fists and feet. He was completely restrained by the Astartes, which is why he looked particularly foolish."

"Among us, only Zheng Zha and Dr. Zhuang can easily defeat multiple Astartes. Even for you, Cheng Xiao, it would be difficult to fight against the Astartes with just your fists and kicks."

Cheng Xiao's smile froze instantly, and he said awkwardly, "It's OK for me to fight one fully armored Astartes, but fighting two...it might be difficult."

"They also have the inner strength of the Sunflower Manual, their reaction and speed are not bad, plus they have strong bodies and power armor."

"Of course, I will win in the end."

Cheng Xiao has a third-level gene lock + A-level equipment + C-level internal force and C-level third-level golden silkworm Gu, which makes him much stronger than Dechai. He can definitely kill two Astartes in a real life-and-death battle, but like Dechai, he lacks armor-piercing means and is relatively passive.

The Zhongzhou version of Astartes not only has a full set of extraordinary organs, but also strengthens the Book of the Golden Flower, which is considered the most cost-effective among the main gods, and then uses the T virus essence to open the first-level gene lock.

According to the Lord God's evaluation, each of them is a first-level BB grade, and can be a main force in many weak teams.

It was natural for Dechai to be suppressed in close combat, but it was impossible for Astartes to block the Gauss sniper rifle and high-level magic items.

As long as the Demon Team clears out the biochemical troops on the periphery, Astartes will inevitably be defeated.

"Yeah, there are no weaklings in the Devil Team." Saito raised his head and looked at the sky through the window, his eyes slightly empty.

I don’t know if the game between Chu Xuan and his clone went smoothly.

Raccoon City is extremely lively tonight.

Ok? !

"That is?"

Suddenly, in the distant sky, a ripple of air came from far away and rushed towards the church at a terrifying speed.

The speed of this ripple was so fast, even several times faster than the bullet of a Gauss rifle. As soon as Saito saw the ripple appear, it had reached him in the blink of an eye.

Then it passed through Saito Hajime's body and affected Zhan Lan who had his eyes closed.

"Buzz!" The ripples passed by Zhan Lan's position for only a moment, but she suddenly knelt down on the ground.

"what!!!"

Then, a heart-wrenching cry of pain came from Zhan Lan's mouth.

Without any warning, an incomprehensible demonic rune suddenly burst out with a blinding light and appeared on Zhan Lan's body.

The light was like a ferocious beast, instantly enveloping Zhan Lan at an astonishing speed.

Zhan Lan widened his eyes in shock. Before he could react, he was pulled by this powerful force and fell into an unknown space.

Zheng Zha, who was standing aside, was still thinking about his next move a second ago. The incident happened so suddenly that his brain went blank for a moment.

But in just a moment, rage ignited in his eyes.

"No!" Zheng Zha roared angrily. He drew out the Dragon Slaying Sword at unimaginable speed and slashed fiercely at the light.

The blade flashed, however, the light seemed to not exist in this space. The blazing blade light shattered half of the church behind it, but it seemed to penetrate the phantom and could not interfere with the strange magic runes at all.

Zheng Zha's eyes became extremely resolute. Without any hesitation, he rushed towards Zhan Lan.

At the moment when the light was about to completely close, he grabbed Zhan Lan's arm tightly.

Zhan Lan looked at Zheng Zha in astonishment, his eyes filled with emotion and worry. He just uttered one word: "Let go..."

The two of them were drawn into the seal of another dimension by an irresistible strong suction force.

In an instant, the mental shield that Zhan Lan had placed over the heads of the Zhongzhou team disappeared without a trace.

It all happened so quickly that it caught people off guard.

In the huge church, only Qi Tengyi, Ming Yanwei, Lingdian and Cheng Xiao were left.

Everyone's mind buzzed and suddenly went blank.

"Something happened!" Saito forced himself to calm down, but he was so nervous that he even talked nonsense.

"I recognize that magic rune just now. It affects space. The two of them must have been trapped in an alternate dimension by some kind of magic or item. They should be safe."

"No, the Lord God doesn't have any negative score hints, they must still be safe!"

The Demon Team's counterattack came so silently, but was as deadly as a venomous snake, instantly crippling the Zhongzhou Team's psychics and fourth-level warriors.

All the arrangements and plans collapsed in an instant.

It took less than ten seconds for the Zhongzhou team to go from having an advantage to facing the crisis of annihilation.

Cheng Xiao stood up, his face as solemn as iron, biting his lips tightly and said, "Then can you untie it?"

"I can't do it - no, I'll try, give me some time!" Saito was panicked and hurriedly took out his wand, with sweat already slightly on his forehead.

Cheng Xiao turned to look at Lingdian and Ming Yanwei. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his pounding heart. "Zhan Lan is not here. We no longer have any mental shielding. The Demon Team will find us immediately."

"There are only four of us left now. We must be prepared to face their fierce storm!"

"At midnight, use the communicator to inform Dr. Zhuang of the changes that have occurred here, and tell him—"

There was a glint of determination and fierceness in his eyes, as if he had made some kind of resolution.

"Don't worry about us! Please kill Zhao Zhuikong with all your strength!"

"We will definitely hold back the clone Zheng Zha!"

It only took a few words for his tone to go from trembling to calm.

Lingdian looked at Cheng Xiao with a little surprise. This funny character who was always laughing and joking now really had the decisiveness and responsibility of a captain.

He nodded slightly and said only one sentence: "Believe in Zheng Zha, he will definitely come back."

Ming Yanwei also stood up, her expression cold and calm: "They have shielded us from the wind and rain for so long."

"It's time we do something for them."

Above the church, a huge crack extended from the spire to the ground, and a drop of dew hung on the cracked face of the statue.

The bitingly cold wind from outside slowly squeezed in through the hideous crack, driving away the last bit of warmth.

Darkness is coming.

(End of this chapter)