Serial Player
Chapter 494 - 170: The Little Girl Selling Bombs

Chapter 494: Chapter 170: The Little Girl Selling Bombs

The special squad members beside Li Changhe were taken aback and glanced at him, thinking that this guy must be very bold.

The little girl was clearly stunned as well, probably having never encountered such a situation before. Who goes to college for matchsticks?

But she didn’t answer Li Changhe’s question and instead walked forward again, asking, "Would you like to buy a matchstick?"

In response, the special squad members cocked their guns.

Chen Yu had warned them even before the girl appeared that there were no other living people nearby.

So the one in front of them... was an enemy!

Regardless of appearances, the special squad members would not show mercy. They had already seen too much.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Someone in the crowd saw the squad pointing their guns at the girl and couldn’t help exclaiming.

"Soldiers, don’t be nervous, that’s just a little girl."

"Are you going to shoot an unarmed girl?"

"Idiot! Do you think in this situation anyone would cosplay a little match girl?" Someone else yelled back, "Look at her shadow!"

As the girl got closer, her shadow was cast on the wall behind her by people’s flashlights.

Even though the girl hadn’t moved, her shadow was crouching and crying, and in the center of the shadow was a small, flame-like light.

Just by looking at the shadow, it was clear that this girl was not human!

People who realized this turned pale, including Jiang Wei in the crowd.

After the quick march before, he and many others were already exhausted. Seeing this scene made them feel even heavier.

He suddenly understood why the Education Bureau had added physical training to the high school curriculum.

Faced with such non-human beings, it seemed that the only thing ordinary people could do was run.

Meanwhile, Li Changhe thought, "So we were found after all. Those who hindered the evacuation of the public are all because of this... little match girl? A character from a fairy tale?"

Li Changhe didn’t know anything about the girl’s matches and college, but at least he now knew that the girl was from a textbook.

In a sense, she was a household name—the little match girl.

"So how will she stop us?" Li Changhe wondered. Since she wouldn’t attack on her own, there was no need for him to make a move either. It would be embarrassing if he couldn’t clean her up.

Her goal was to keep them in the Northern Shore Area. That’s the main reason why she hadn’t attacked the crowd.

But once they showed resistance... she wouldn’t hold back either.

The special squad members did not attack, worried about this point. Once they attacked, the consequences might be total annihilation.

On the other hand, the little girl did not approach the group. Instead, she held out the matchstick from afar. As soon as the spark burst out in her calloused fingers, the match began to burn.

The faint flame carried a kind of extreme heat. Even tens of meters away, people could feel the heat wave rolling towards them.

At the same time, her shadow began to change too, the small flame in the middle of it expanding rapidly.

Squad members and Chen Yu, who were at the front, exchanged glances and shouted, "Everyone back! Hurry up!"

The already nervous crowd hesitated for a moment and then ran back in panic.

Blending into the crowd, Li Changhe quietly sent out the Black Hawk drone while assisting the old man to move.

The Black Hawk quickly flew over the crowd and approached the girl.

The match in the girl’s hand burned rapidly. And then...

"Boom!"

The Black Hawk, which had approached the girl to within about ten meters, suddenly vanished.

It was as if a high-explosive bomb had been detonated in the alley, releasing intense light and heat.

In the darkness of the Northern Shore, a bright pearl was added.

The powerful impact caught up with the crowd, knocking many people down.

Li Changhe supported the old man who had previously said he’d carry them one by one, and with his other hand, scooped up Monitor, who had almost kissed the ground.

Enduring the shared pain of the Black Hawk’s destruction, Li Changhe looked back.

"If these matchsticks were really for sale, I’d want to buy some," he couldn’t help thinking.

The crowd looked back in terror, and the alley where the girl had stood was completely scorched black. The intense heat had rapidly exploded and dissipated, leaving the buildings in the area covered in a black, burnt coat.

If anyone had been in that area, they might not even have left a complete body behind.

The girl in her torn dress, looking pitiful, reappeared among the charred buildings.

She didn’t speak but just looked at the crowd in the distance as if she was waiting for customers to buy her matches.

A few minutes later.

The group retreated back to a roadside. After what had just happened, the crowd was filled with lingering fears and tension.

In fact, the explosion just now was more of a deterrent.

To deter the group from approaching and to hinder the evacuation.

Although the evacuation point was only a few hundred meters away, the group still cautiously retreated.

Special squad members dispersed to guard the surroundings. Chen Yu moved through the crowd, using his psychic powers to comfort those who had been frightened.

Li Changhe and Xiao Nan discussed in the [Friends] chat how to break through the blockade of the little match girl.

Unfortunately, there was very little information. Even the girl couldn’t guarantee whether she could kill her in one shot.

The opponent had a self-destructive ability and could regenerate after self-destruction.

It was difficult to defeat her without finding her limitations.

Once an attack was launched, her target for revenge would be more than just the attacker.

"The other teams have encountered more or less trouble," the girl replied in [Friends]. "There are still more than five hundred people in the Northern Shore Area."

"We’ve already been very efficient," Li Changhe responded. "But that’s what makes our situation difficult."

The Great Wall’s response had been fast. In less than an hour since the incident began, the Northern Shore Area had been largely evacuated.

However, it was really difficult to evacuate the remaining people.

Before, other groups had been able to distract the enemy to some extent.

But as the Great Wall’s evacuation progressed, their attention was no longer divided, making it very difficult for the remaining teams.

For example, the route the group had taken earlier had been successfully traversed by another team just ten minutes before.

Now, though, it was blocked by a little girl selling explosive matches. On the bright side, the enemy seemed desperate and short on manpower.

On the downside, the remaining teams would be targeted.

As Li Changhe was thinking, he heard another piercing whistle.

At the same time, screams came from the crowd.

The moment the whistle sounded, more than ten people vanished.

Not far from Li Changhe, the monitor Jiang Wei, who was reassuring the students, also disappeared with the sound of the whistle.

"Is this the reason they’re holding us back?" Li Changhe’s face twitched slightly, as a prompt appeared in his mind.

[Trigger task clue - Dream Cruise]

[You have been selected, and perhaps soon you will set foot on this paradise.]

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