The sudden explosion left everyone unable to react.
Lü Feihang and Zhang Yanghui bore the brunt of it.
The moment the explosion erupted, faint purple shields lit up on their bodies, blocking the blast damage for them.
But not everyone had purple gear.
Even in their entire studio, they had only crafted a few sets.
Mainly because the newbie phase was too easy to get through—no one would think of investing effort into newbie equipment.
Normally, blue gear was already enough.
Therefore, purple gear was extremely scarce.
Sure enough, as the explosion sounded, the seven youths wearing blue newbie protective suits in the front were instantly blown away.
Under the terrifying damage of the explosion, blue protective suits were completely useless.
The seven crashed heavily to the ground, their bodies twisted at unnatural angles—dead beyond dead.
[Warning, you are under attack by a “Bomb”.]
[Warning, your Purple Newbie Protective Suit has shattered.
Defense is now zero.
Please pay attention to your defense.]
A system voice sounded in Lü Feihang’s ears.
He shook his head and crawled up from the ground, his mind completely blank.
Zhang Yanghui and the others also slowly got up, many of them covered in injuries.
“What happened?” Zhang Yanghui was the first to react, roaring in anger when he saw the corpses of his brothers.
“Damn it, why is there a bomb?!”
“You’re asking me?
I want to ask you!
Weren’t you sure there wouldn’t be traps?!” Lü Feihang said coldly.
This was a wall-mounted trap bomb, a weapon specifically designed to kill players.
In [Doomsday Dawn], players often invaded others’ “safehouses” to steal resources.
Trap bombs were the best defensive measure.
They were attached to walls, and the moment the wall was broken, the bomb would explode to heavily injure enemies.
Before coming here, Lü Feihang repeatedly warned them that Chen Han might set traps, but he received Zhang Yanghui’s assurances.
Now Zhang Yanghui was also stunned from the blast.
“Impossible—how could he use a [Trap Bomb]?”
Zhang Yanghui couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
He had plenty of these [Trap Bombs] himself.
But right now was the [Cold Weapons] phase—any hot weapons in storage were all grayed out and unusable.
Because of this, he had dared to boldly break Chen Han’s safehouse wall.
“Fuck, this brat is hacking!”
Zhang Yanghui’s first reaction was that Chen Han was cheating—otherwise, how could he use locked weapons?
In the surveillance room, when Chen Han saw this scene on the screen, he couldn’t help but laugh.
Of course he wasn’t hacking.
The [Trap Bomb] was something he obtained from a Supply Drop Box—likely the only hot weapon in this entire phase.
These guys were just unlucky.
“What are you waiting for?
The wall’s blown open—rush in!” Lü Bufan didn’t feel any pity for the lost underlings.
Instead, he was excited.
They even used bombs—the wall definitely couldn’t hold.
With so many people charging in, even if Chen Han were stronger, he would still be doomed.
“Charge!
Avenge the brothers!”
Reminded by Lü Bufan, Zhang Yanghui immediately led people forward through the smoke.
However, with a dull thud, Zhang Yanghui slammed into something and fell flat on the ground, his head buzzing.
Everyone froze—what happened?
When the smoke cleared, they finally saw what Zhang Yanghui had run into.
Before him was a faint golden alloy wall, with a line of text displayed on it.
[Orange Alloy Steel Wall]
[Total Defense: 9900500/1000000]
“Fuck!”
Seeing this, everyone couldn’t help cursing aloud!
They had worked themselves half to death and even lost seven brothers—yet they were being played with!
Inside the blue alloy wall, there was another orange alloy wall—how the hell were they supposed to break that?!
Who would even think of designing something so scummy?!
Even top-tier professional players like Lü Feihang had never seen something like this.
It was absolutely disgusting!
This orange steel fortress—forget now, even at level forty or fifty with strong abilities, they could only stare helplessly!
A million defense points—play your ass!
“That damned Chen Han, I knew he wasn’t simple!” Li Chuanqi cursed.
“What do we do now?” He Dongfa looked at Lü Bufan, his face equally troubled.
“What else can we do?
With our strength, there’s no way we’re breaking this steel fortress.” Lü Bufan snapped, face ugly.
Not only did they come for nothing—they also lost seven men.
A complete loss!
“Gather our brothers’ corpses and resource boxes.
We’re retreating!” Lü Feihang gritted his teeth and ordered.
He had brought forty men back to Jianghai City, thinking he would make a name for himself.
Instead, fourteen were now dead—he was furious.
“Young Master Feihang, we’re just leaving?
What about our brothers’ revenge?” Zhang Yanghui suppressed his grief.
Behind him, the squad members were also filled with rage, itching to tear Chen Han apart.
“Go!
If force didn’t work, then they’d use strategy.
Luckily, he hadn’t shown his face.
As long as he still had contact with Chen Han, those resources would eventually fall into his hands!
In business, Chen Han was still too green.
“Move out!”
Lü Feihang led the group away.
At that moment, a small hatch opened atop the steel fortress, and a chilling crossbow slowly extended outward.
Chen Han’s lips curled.
“You think you can walk away after fighting?
Did you ask my crossbow?”
Bang!
An arrow shot out, and a young man fell instantly.
“Ah!”
The sudden scream snapped Lü Feihang and the others to attention.
“Ambush!
Scatter!”
In the darkness, arrows fired continuously like Death’s scythe, madly harvesting lives.
Screams rang one after another as nearly thirty people scattered in panic.
The smarter ones even zigzagged to dodge.
But Chen Han loved killing these so-called smart types.
With his perfect judgment, three more dropped.
“Fuck—run!”
Lü Bufan and the other two running at the front were terrified out of their minds.
It was their first time feeling death so close!
In the end, they abandoned six corpses before fleeing back to their manor.
“Ahhh!”
“Chen Han, I won’t forgive you even if I die!” Zhang Yanghui’s eyes were blood-red.
In just a few hours, he had lost half his brothers.
How could he accept that?!
In the hall, the atmosphere was suffocating, and the three tycoons’ faces were dark.
“Enough.
This time, we underestimated him.
With that steel fortress protecting him, we can’t touch him for now,” Lü Bufan said.
“Time for Plan B.”
He looked at his two partners and his son.
“Hand over all the gold coins you have.
Let me teach him a lesson!”
“He hoarded so much equipment—he has to sell it eventually, right?”