112: Chapter 112 Breaking the Stalemate! The Fatal Flaw in the Invincibility Cheat

On the edge of the War God Alliance's position.

Xiao Zhantian rested his hands on the metal console of the black rhino fighter, staring intensely at the tactical monitor showing the freelance fighters being unilaterally slaughtered.

His brain was like an overclocked computer, frantically filtering through every combat detail regarding these high-dimensional beings.

Their physical defense was formidable, their speed broke the sound barrier, and they could catch missiles with their bare hands.

What was most lethal was that eerie ability to predict danger; any lock-on aimed at them would be evaded in advance.

"Prediction… lock-on…" Xiao Zhantian chewed on these two words repeatedly.

A thought, so insane it was practically suicidal, suddenly formed in his mind.

Since these monsters' predictive ability was based on sensing malice directed at themselves, what if the target of the attack wasn't them at all?

What if it were a case of pure collateral damage?

A look of resolute ferocity erupted in Xiao Zhantian's eyes. He was betting his own life on a possibility.

He slammed open the encrypted communication channel, connecting directly to the Vice Alliance Leader, Zhao Xiaolan, who was responsible for covering the flank five kilometers away.

"Xiaolan, listen clearly to what I'm about to say." Xiao Zhantian's voice was cold and hard, his speech rapid. "Immediately adjust your fire control system and lock the two most powerful tactical missiles on your plane onto my ride. Wait for my command, and be ready to fire at any moment."

There was half a second of dead silence on the communication channel.

On the battlefield, such a request was no different from ordering a subordinate to shoot and kill oneself. In any other guild, the subordinates would think their boss had gone insane.

But this was the War God Alliance.

"Understood, Alliance Leader." Zhao Xiaolan's voice held not a shred of hesitation.

Beep, beep.

A glaring red warning flashed on the black rhino fighter's radar, indicating that the fuselage was locked on by friendly missiles five kilometers away. Zhao Xiaolan had absolute obedience and trust in Xiao Zhantian; she executed the order without asking for the reason.

Xiao Zhantian reached back to the pocket of his combat suit and pulled out a roll of parchment exuding an ancient spatial fluctuation. This was his trump card for survival—a Teleportation Scroll.

After doing all this, he slammed open the weapon safety on the main console and activated all 5 remaining high-explosive micro-missiles on the black rhino fighter.

His finger tapped heavily on the fire control panel, and the radar crosshair locked directly onto the 7th-tier Xiao Hong Warrior who was slaughtering indiscriminately in the high sky in the distance.

The moment the lock-on was complete, the Xiao Hong Warrior, kilometers away, suddenly stopped his actions.

He turned his head, looking with pinpoint accuracy toward the direction of the black rhino fighter through the smoke-filled sky and clouds.

Their gazes met.

Xiao Zhantian glanced at those pure white eyes, and it felt as if a massive, cold block of lead had been forced into his mind. An intense sense of loss and palpitations swept over him instantly; his heart pounded uncontrollably, his limbs went weak, and even the strength to grip the control stick was rapidly draining away.

This was the terrifying pressure of a high-dimensional being; just making eye contact was enough to make a person completely lose their will to fight.

Xiao Zhantian bit his tongue hard, the thick taste of blood rushing to his brain. The intense stinging pain forced him to regain control of his body.

"Fire!"

Xiao Zhantian slapped the fire button with his palm.

The 5 micro-missiles dragged bright exhaust trails, tearing through the air, heading straight for the Xiao Hong Warrior.

A trace of mockery flashed in the 7th-tier Xiao Hong Warrior's pure white eyes. He didn't even dodge; he simply raised his right hand casually, and a dark red energy spear instantly condensed in his palm, which he then hurled with force.

The dark red spear carved a straight red line through the air, colliding precisely with the foremost micro-missile.

Boom, boom, boom!

A sea of chain-reaction explosions erupted in mid-air, detonating all 5 missiles prematurely.

Before the curtain of fire had dissipated, the red-and-white afterimage had already violently torn through the flames. The wings behind the Xiao Hong Warrior flapped violently, turning him into a death-dealing arrow that broke the sound barrier, charging straight toward the black rhino fighter.

The speed was too fast.

The red dot on the radar screen spanned the distance of several kilometers.

Through the windshield, Xiao Zhantian could even see the intricate patterns on the Xiao Hong Warrior's armor. The sickle of death was already pressed against his neck.

"Xiaolan! Fire!" Xiao Zhantian roared into the communicator.

Five kilometers away.

Zhao Xiaolan's finger pressed heavily on the launch button. Two heavy tactical missiles whistled out with a sharp piercing sound, aiming directly at the black rhino fighter.

At the same time, the Xiao Hong Warrior had already reached the black rhino fighter.

He condensed a dark red spear in his hand once more, muscles bulging, and with a high-frequency vibrating energy field, he thrust it without any flair toward the left wing of the black rhino fighter.

Rrrrip!

The heavy armor he was so proud of was as brittle as paper before the Xiao Hong spear. The spear pierced directly through the wing and then slashed upward, intending to split Xiao Zhantian, along with his seat, in the cockpit into two.

"Teleport!"

Xiao Zhantian used the Teleportation Scroll in his hand without hesitation.

A blinding white light instantly swallowed his plane.

The spear slashed fiercely into the empty air.

In the fraction of a second that the Xiao Hong Warrior's attack missed, the two tactical missiles arrived.

From launch to approach, these two missiles had been locked onto the black rhino fighter the entire time, not the Xiao Hong Warrior. As far as the Xiao Hong Warrior's acute danger perception system was concerned, these two missiles contained no "malice directed at himself" and were entirely in his perception blind spot.

It wasn't until the moment the missiles impacted the hull of the black rhino fighter that he realized something was wrong.

But it was already too late.

Rumble—!

The two heavy tactical missiles detonated instantly. A terrifying fireball expanded in an instant, with temperatures of several thousand degrees mixed with a violent negative-pressure shockwave.

The Xiao Hong Warrior was at the very center of the explosion; he didn't even have time to make an evasive maneuver before being thoroughly enveloped in this sea of destructive fire.

Four kilometers away.

Beside a War God Alliance escort fighter, a white light flashed.

Xiao Zhantian's fighter appeared out of thin air in the sky. He gasped for air, drenched in cold sweat; it had been a hair's breadth escape.

Zhao Xiaolan immediately opened the hatch and pulled him into the cockpit.

"Switch to the drone feed! Quick, see if he's dead!" Xiao Zhantian, still catching his breath, stared intensely at the control screen in front of him.

In the feed, the light of the explosion was gradually fading, and amidst the thick smoke, a red-and-white figure slowly emerged.

The Xiao Hong Warrior was not dead.

But he looked exceptionally disheveled at this moment.

At the very last moment of the explosion, he had instinctively folded the two huge fleshy wings behind his back, wrapping himself tightly within them.

At this moment, those wings, which had originally been pure and flawless, were scorched black; large patches of feathers had fallen off, revealing the blood-soaked flesh underneath. Dark red blood dripped continuously down his slender legs, hitting the glacier below.

The invisible force field he was so proud of had failed to trigger when faced with a non-targeted explosion in his blind spot.

Xiao Zhantian looked at the injured Xiao Hong Warrior on the screen, and a fanatical gleam erupted in his eyes. He slammed his fist onto the control console and laughed wildly.

"I bet correctly! These monsters aren't invincible at all!"

Xiao Zhantian quickly organized the information in his mind and summarized it with rapid speed:

"First, their physical bodies cannot withstand heavy firepower! They rely entirely on that invisible force field to block bullets.

Second, their predictive ability has a fatal flaw; it can only sense malice directed at themselves. As long as we use blind-spot attacks or induced collateral damage, we can break his "lock-health" cheat!

Third, in the instant of the explosion, he instinctively used his wings to protect his spine; that is his weak point!"

The death trap that had plagued 400,000 players had been forced open, creating a path to survival by Xiao Zhantian risking his life.

The situation was now completely clear.

"Xiaolan, package this combat footage and the analysis data." Xiao Zhantian's eyes were cold and sharp. "Send it directly to Boss Yu's eerie red fighter. And synchronize it to the regional public channel as well!"

"Understood!" Zhao Xiaolan's hands blurred over the keyboard, quickly sending out the intelligence.

The wasteland players who had just been fleeing in all directions, filled with despair, suddenly saw the pinned intelligence sent by the War God Alliance pop up on their light screens.

The few dozen seconds of combat footage clearly displayed the image of the Xiao Hong Warrior injured and bleeding, along with the three-point analysis of his fatal weaknesses attached by Xiao Zhantian.

The regional public channel instantly erupted.

"Damn! As long as he bleeds, that's fine! If he can bleed, I can kill him!"

"The "lock-health" cheat is broken! As long as we don't aim at him, it's fine, right? Use area-of-effect damage to bomb him!"

"War God Alliance is awesome! Boss Xiao is a tough guy! This intel saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of us!"

The freelance players and the remnants of the major guilds, who had previously been crushed by fear, felt their extinguished fighting spirit reignite upon seeing this arrogant monster injured. Unknown gods are the only things that are terrifying; as long as a creature is proven to be able to bleed and has weaknesses, in the eyes of wasteland players, it's just an elite monster with a thicker health bar.