188: Chapter 188 Guerrilla Warfare

Although there was more than one Transcendent with the ability to teleport objects, portal equipment was extremely delicate and easily damaged by mistake.

The only one capable of precisely delivering portal equipment remotely was the A-Rank Transcendent who had previously facilitated Wan Chaoren's teleportation.

At this moment, he was frantically busy, teleporting portal sub-devices to their corresponding locations one by one.

"I choose you, Fate-Weaving Witch."

"I choose you, Dr. Myriad-Faces."

"I choose you, Giant-Saw Man."

"I choose you, Shadow Controller."

...

The squad leaders of the various Fugitives camps strictly followed the instructions issued by Lv Ling. After quickly arriving at their designated locations, they began summoning heroes.

They threw out the red and white balls in their hands one after another. Upon landing, the balls instantly expanded, forming a series of portals.

Immediately after, one fully armed hero after another stepped out from the portals.

The enemy they were facing this time not only possessed the strength to kill Wan Chaoren in a head-on confrontation but also had the ability to ignore tracking marks.

This gave these usually arrogant A-Rank Heroes a sense of impending death.

They had to muster every ounce of focus and respond with extreme caution.

"I've arrived. Where is the enemy?"

A hero inquired through his earpiece.

He wore protective gear over his entire body, leaving only his eyes exposed. Like a bolt of black lightning, he leaped past the summoner and moved forward rapidly.

"The enemy is approaching your position at high speed! Shadow Controller, rendezvous with the Fate-Weaving Witch nearby first. Do not engage alone!"

Tense and urgent instructions came through the earpiece.

"What?"

Shadow Controller's eyes froze, and an ominous premonition surged in his heart. He subconsciously followed his intuition and looked overhead.

A figure appeared in the sky ahead like a ghost, radiating a chilling aura.

The opponent threw a punch through the air, and a sharp punch-glow instantly blasted toward Shadow Controller.

Shadow Controller made a split-second decision, unhesitatingly activating his Special Ability and swinging his hands upward with force.

The shadows cast by all surrounding objects seemed to answer his call at that moment, quickly surging from the ground and condensing into a shadow shield in front of him.

Meanwhile, his own feet quickly sank into his own shadow.

*Bang—*

A shattering sound, like glass being struck with great force, suddenly rang out.

The shadow shield was smashed to pieces in an instant before Chen Moxuan's terrifying punch-glow, turning into countless black fragments flying through the air.

But with Shadow Controller giving it his all, the shield successfully neutralized part of the punch-glow's power.

The punch-glow hit Shadow Controller squarely in the chest, leaving a deep fist print on the armor covering his chest.

Shadow Controller immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, and his body quickly dove into the shadows under the impact.

Seeing that the strike hadn't succeeded, Chen Moxuan clicked his tongue in annoyance.

However, he knew this was not the time to linger in battle. He stepped through the air and sped toward his next destination.

The positions where Lv Ling instructed the squad leaders to summon the heroes had been planned in advance according to the strategy.

For heroes who were troublesome to coordinate with, they were kept further apart.

Those who were a bad match for Chen Moxuan were made to appear at locations further away from him.

What Chen Moxuan had to do was follow the route given by Lv Ling to guide these heroes to eventually converge in one place.

Chen Moxuan already possessed intelligence on which heroes he would encounter during this period and what abilities they had.

He would deal with those he could easily eliminate, and for those he couldn't, he would use a show of force to intimidate them, prompting them to call for more companions to pursue him.

In any case, not a single one would escape in the end.

It wasn't until more than ten seconds after Chen Moxuan had left that Shadow Controller tremblingly poked his head out from the protection of the shadows.

His cautious manner suggested that at the slightest movement, he would shrink back into the darkness again.

"Cough... I almost got instakilled right after landing."

Shadow Controller spat out some clotted blood, his heart still racing with fear.

If not for the intuition honed through a hundred battles that allowed him to react in the nick of time...

Chen Moxuan's punch just now would have been enough to directly shatter his heart.

It would have made him, the twenty-sixth ranked A-Rank Hero in District G, a laughingstock for everyone to gossip about after this suppression operation.

If Shadow Controller had any doubts before about the claim that Chen Moxuan could kill Wan Chaoren, those doubts had now completely vanished.

"Shadow Controller! What's the situation on your end?"

"Please respond!"

Anxious shouts came through the earpiece.

"This is Shadow Controller. I'm mostly fine."

"I just encountered the enemy. He moved in the southeast direction from my position."

Shadow Controller replied.

"Understood. Please rendezvous with the heroes near you immediately."

In this operation, every A-Rank Hero was equipped with a dedicated operator responsible for communication to ensure the timely and accurate transmission of information.

After the operator received the intelligence from Shadow Controller, they immediately relayed it to the command center.

Inside the command center, the operators were focused and serious. Upon receiving the news, they quickly used computing power to search according to the reported orientation.

Chen Moxuan had been moving at an incredible speed, far exceeding the tracking range of the drone equipment.

Therefore, they had to search for Chen Moxuan's position in real-time.

Searching after knowing the general direction was much more efficient than searching aimlessly.

"Found him! This position is..."

Just as the command center captured Chen Moxuan's location, an operator relayed another alarming piece of news:

"Report from Dr. Myriad-Faces! He was attacked by the enemy; half of his body has been shattered!"

"Notify the nearby heroes to rush there immediately!"

"The enemy is no longer there... Replicator just sent word that he and another hero encountered the enemy together. After a brief exchange, the enemy quickly retreated."

"Damn it!"

The Branch President was fuming with rage and slammed the table.

"Continue searching for his position! Have those heroes with strong control abilities speed up and flank him from the other direction!"

The current situation was completely different from what the Branch President had envisioned; it was entirely out of control.

Among the summoned A-Rank Heroes, there were all kinds of Special Abilities.

There were heroes who excelled at head-on combat, crushing enemies with sheer strength, and those with powerful firepower who could eliminate enemies invisibly from a kilometer away.

There were also heroes with super control abilities capable of restricting an enemy's movements.

For example, there was a hero named 'Sluggish Beat'.

His Special Ability could slow down an opponent's movements by dozens of times.

There was also a hero named 'Inverter' who could turn an opponent's five senses upside down, making them unable to tell north from south.

Logically, as long as these heroes united—with the control-type heroes using their abilities to firmly restrict the enemy first, followed by the combat and long-range specialists attacking en masse—

Then, in just a brief moment, the enemy would be reduced to ashes.

But as luck would have it, the locations where those control-type heroes responded to the summons were all very far from Chen Moxuan.

Furthermore, Chen Moxuan was employing guerrilla tactics and moving at an extremely fast, unpredictable speed, making it impossible to form an effective containment net.

They were like headless flies, constantly exhausted from chasing after Chen Moxuan.

"Chase him! Keep chasing, don't give him a chance to breathe!"

The Branch President roared at the top of his lungs, veins bulging on his neck.

"I don't believe he can avoid those heroes for much longer!"

"Once he's controlled, the only thing waiting for him is death!"