Chapter 171 Tupareison

"Hey... Old man, what are you doing... Ah!" Little Tan had only spoken half a sentence after being snatched into the sky. He looked up... and discovered that the black-robed old man had transformed into a giant black-feathered crow, and the hand holding him had turned into a massive bird claw.

"Don't be afraid, young man." The old man's voice emerged from the crow's chest and abdomen, "Don't move around, I'm just taking you somewhere, I won't hurt you."

"Uh... to be honest, old man." Little Tan hesitated, "Before finding bread for you, I still had some things to take care of..."

"If you're willing to help me with my business... I'll help you with yours," the old man replied.

"Hahahahaha..." Feng Bujue, who was following Little Tan from a spectator's perspective, burst into laughter, "He actually proposed this kind of deal, this is a guaranteed win for us."

Jue-ge's thinking was very clear. As soon as the NPC spoke, he had already calculated the gains... No matter what the old man asked Little Tan to do, it was part of the plot. If he succeeded, that would be great, and there would be extra rewards to get. If he failed... as long as he didn't lose his life, it wouldn't be a loss. And the thing Little Tan needed the old man's help with was naturally dealing with the members of the Corn Fruit Team... It would be best if he could handle it and the opposing team was directly annihilated by the NPC. If he couldn't handle it... anyway, the Infernal Front had nothing to lose, and as long as the enemy team suffered some damage, then they'd gain.

"Um... okay then..." Little Tan replied, "By the way, old man, I haven't asked what your name is yet?"

"Name?" The other party's tone seemed to carry a hint of doubt, "Oh..." Perhaps it had been too long since anyone had asked him that question, he seemed to think for a moment before remembering his name, "Tupareison."

...

At the same time, in another part of the ruins.

"Strange..." Hua Jian muttered as she looked at the statue in front of her, "Nothing special is happening..."

"Yeah..." Ruoyu said, "Maybe we're overthinking it."

They spent ten minutes carefully examining the statue from top to bottom. Ruoyu even jumped onto the statue's head and looked around, but to no avail.

"Could it be... that this statue is actually something like a sundial?" Hua Jian's associative ability was quite strong.

"But there aren't any刻度什么的啊 on the ground..." Ruoyu continued, "Even if it could be explained as... the刻度什么的啊 on the ground are no longer visible due to the passage of time..." She paused, "I don't think that 'king' is the kind of person who would use his own statue as the pointer of a sundial..."

"Hehe..." Hua Jian smiled, she also felt that this reasoning was quite槽点的 upon closer inspection, "Perhaps only Feng Bujue would do such a thing."

"Hmph..." Ruoyu also chuckled, "If Bujue were the king... he wouldn't just use his own statue as the pointer of a sundial, he would also use his various facial expression浮雕做出所有的刻度呢..."

"Hahaha..." Hua Jian laughed, "Ruoyu, your吐槽 skill has improved recently."

"Yeah..." Ruoyu shrugged helplessly, "Although I don't want to admit it... it's probably influenced by someone..."

"Eh~" Hua Jian continued, "Do you think... he might be watching us right now?"

"It doesn't matter if he hears us." Ruoyu said calmly, "He's not the type to get angry after being teased, ridiculed, or made fun of..." As she said this, her gaze unconsciously glanced behind her, "He's the type who waits for an opportunity to return the favor tenfold after being teased, ridiculed, or made fun of..."

"Tsk... acting like you know me so well..." At this moment, Feng Bujue was indeed behind Ruoyu, but it was impossible for Ruoyu to notice his existence, so that previous look back was probably just intuition...

"In any case, since there's nothing here, let's continue along the main road." After a few seconds, Ruoyu turned her head and pointed back to the route they had taken earlier.

Although the land of the White Kingdom had become a barren wasteland, the original layout of the roads could be roughly guessed based on the location of those architectural ruins.

"Okay, let's go." Hua Jian nodded, and the two turned back.

And at the moment they turned to leave, neither of them, including Feng Bujue in the spectator's perspective, noticed... the eyes of that leaning statue behind them... actually moved.

...

Let's look at the other side...

"Hmph... found them..." Little Ling only spent ten minutes catching up with the Corn Fruit Team, and locked onto three enemy team members within her line of sight without the enemy noticing her.

"Only three people..." She thought as she quietly followed, "The fourth person is either scouting ahead, or ambushing near these three, acting as a protector in the shadows..."

Thinking of this, her concentration increased a bit, and the speed of her sweeping gaze and her thinking accelerated again.

"At this distance... I can already use [Divine Arbitration]..." Little Ling thought after chasing in another few dozen meters, "But after firing a shot, my position will be exposed..." She hesitated for a few seconds, "Hmm... but no matter how I think about it... it's more worthwhile to shoot, there's no reason to give up this opportunity to heavily injure the enemy first..."

After making up her mind, she took out her perfect quality sniper rifle [Yao Tao Ban Tu Chuan Fang Xun] from her knapsack and accelerated forward.

"Whoa~ This is going to be a sniper ambush..." At this moment, Feng Bujue, who had just turned his gaze from another place, happened to see the scene of Little Ling taking out her gun. He muttered with interest, "Let me see... um... there are three people on the other side, their specializations, skills, and equipment are all unknown... and after hearing the gunshot, presumably that fourth person will also arrive in a short time." He thought for a moment, then continued, "For the sake of caution, she has to immediately change position after firing the first shot. If it were me... I would also casually release a signal flare before moving; anyway, I'm not afraid of being seen by the other party at this moment, maybe I can use this to confuse the other party and create some psychological pressure."

Jue-ge's analysis was very reliable, coinciding with the strategy drawn up by Little Ling. However, as the person involved, Little Ling's current deduction was even more far-reaching than Jue-ge's... In the few seconds before taking out her gun, she had comprehensively considered what would happen after "changing position."

According to her estimation, the worst-case scenario for this preemptive ambush was—one member of the enemy team would be severely injured, and she would be in a situation where she was being chased by multiple people.

In this situation, there were two possible developments: the first was that the enemy was chasing very closely, not only quickly closing the distance, but also launching effective attacks, successfully dragging her into an encirclement.

In this case, Little Ling would give up on escaping and use her title ability at a suitable time.

[Name: Rampaging Fortress]

[Special Ability Type: Active]

[Consumption: 30% of Stamina Value Limit, 70% of Spiritual Power Value Limit, at least four shooting weapons and a total of 400 rounds of ammunition (any type) within a radius of two meters are required]

[Effect: Uses psychokinesis to drive all shooting weapons in the area to launch continuous indiscriminate attacks on the surroundings]

[Note: Cooldown time is three hours, duration is thirty seconds.

When activated, all usable (meeting the user's equipment conditions), unowned (not bound to other players, NPCs, or monsters), and all shooting weapons owned by the user (whether inside or outside the knapsack) within a radius of two meters centered on the caster... will all be absorbed by this skill, and spread around the caster's body in a ring shape, firing at high speed in a revolving manner.

The caster cannot prematurely end the effect of Rampaging Fortress, even if the ammunition is exhausted, the shooting will not stop, but the damage of "overloaded" ammunition will be reduced to 30% of normal damage.

During the activation of Rampaging Fortress, all non-physical damage received by the caster is increased by 20%; damage from the physical level is reduced by 50%, and there is a chance that it will be directly blocked by the weapons surrounding them. After the skill ends, weapons owned by the caster will return to their original equipped positions, and the remaining weapons will fly outward at their corresponding rate of fire, creating a final wave of spreading impact.]

This title ability is really not easy to coordinate with teammates, because this move can really accidentally injure or even kill teammates... but when trapped in an encirclement, this move can be called a heaven-defying life-saving skill.

Of course, its specific power depends on how many firearms are around Little Ling at that time and place. For example, in the current script, there is no possibility of the existence of a "gun shop," so when Little Ling activates her title ability, she can only offer her own weapons.

And the shooting weapons on her body are a total of eight pieces... namely: Shi Yue, Yun Xing (spiritual energy weapons), FN57 (a type of high-performance semi-automatic pistol), MP5 (submachine gun, German-made, fast rate of fire, high precision), KRISS Super V (which company's submachine gun recoil is low? Find the Americans across the ocean), Ultimax 100 (a light machine gun that you can say you'll carry away and carry away), Yao Tao Ban Tu Chuan Fang Xun, and Fen Yan Propulsion Cannon.

Basically... if it were in the real world, in a place with a relatively high population density... she could kill a company of people with this skill once. But in the game world, the lethality of this move has to be marked with a "question mark" because she has not yet encountered a suitable opportunity to activate this skill.

The above is the response to the first situation.

Let's talk about the second situation—that is, the enemy is not chasing very closely, but Little Ling cannot get rid of the other party's situation.

In this case, she can fight and retreat, controlling the rhythm. As long as she chooses a good escape route, she can release a signal flare again after a period of time, and she can quickly welcome the support of her teammates, taking advantage of the situation to launch a wave of counterattacks.

The above two are still changes derived from the "worst-case scenario," as for the relatively "good" results... such as the other party directly being shot in the head, being shot in the head in a panic, or even being gradually consumed and even annihilated in the process of chasing... all are possible.

Therefore, Little Ling's preemptive ambush is imperative. This kind of business with an excellent risk-to-reward ratio is definitely not a loss to do.

"Six hundred meters... is enough, any closer and there is a risk of being discovered." After another minute, Little Ling had approached an ideal distance (after her reconnaissance specialization increased, her sense of distance became unusually acute, even for targets far away, she could judge the precise distance by visual estimation), "Even the团长's zero-time difference calculation may not be able to avoid a sniper within six hundred meters..."

When sniping Feng Bujue at Wushuangyuan, Little Ling did not dare to get this close. At that time, she deliberately chose to launch a surprise attack from more than one kilometer away. Thinking about it now... this distance was actually not far enough, because Feng Bujue's rushing speed was really terrifying; if it could be further, Little Ling might be able to gain more time and opportunities.

"I hope to kill one person..." Little Ling muttered while finding a remnant wall of a building and quickly setting up her sniper rifle.

Selecting the target, aiming, activating the skill, pulling the trigger... The entire process was completed in one go, like instinctive and skilled movements, bringing out a deadly attack...

Bang—

At the moment the gunshot rang out, [Wei Wu, Ba Qi]'s head exploded like a watermelon.

Just as Little Ling had predicted and expected... this long-range preemptive ambush directly completed a kill. The other party didn't even have room to fight back before turning into an incomplete corpse and disappearing into white light within seconds.

"Flash!" [Xiao Xue Gou] was, after all, a professional. Before Brother Wei Wu's corpse had completely fallen, he had already understood what had happened. At the moment he jumped sideways, he turned his head and shouted violently, giving his teammates a short and clear instruction.

It was also thanks to the "flash" word that he shouted out in time that Brother Lonely managed to regain a life...

Perhaps out of the subconscious reaction of "obeying the captain's orders," in this critical and shocking change, Brother Lonely did what Dog-ge said in the first moment. Although he didn't know where to flash, it was always right to curl up and roll on the ground... Unless facing an attack from the ground, this was an almost omnipotent means of evasion.

Thus, before the sound of the first shot had dissipated, Dog-ge and Brother Lonely had flashed behind two pieces of cover in different ways.

"Tsk..." Little Ling saw the reaction of the two through the scope, pursed her lips, and muttered, "Since that's the case... let's call it a day."

She put the sniper rifle back into her knapsack, turned around and ran, and in the process, she casually took out a [Spirit Vision Signal Flare], pressed the switch and threw it towards the sky directly above.

Chirp—Pa!

But seeing the signal flare accelerate into the sky after leaving her hand, it suddenly exploded when it reached a height of about two hundred meters, blooming a dazzling flower-shaped pattern like fireworks in the air.

This pattern can only be seen by people with D-level or higher spiritual arts specialization. Even if ordinary people hear the sound nearby, they cannot see the spectacle in the sky.

The four players of Infernal Front can naturally all see this signal, and the remaining three members of the Corn Fruit Team can also...

"Dog-ge! What's going on?" The shocking changes that followed one after another in a matter of seconds made Brother Lonely appear a little flustered. He lowered his voice and said to Xiao Xue Gou, who was squatting behind another piece of cover six or seven meters away.

"Don't panic." Xiao Xue Gou's psychological quality was not bad. If he couldn't withstand this kind of storm, he wouldn't be leading any team, "We should have been ambushed by the enemy team's shooting specialization player."

"Then what do we do now?" Brother Lonely asked again.

"Hmm... judging from the gunshot and the blood that Wei Wu sprayed out, the person who launched the attack is in that direction..." Xiao Xue Gou carefully pointed out the approximate direction for his teammate with his hand, "What was just released into the sky was a signal flare. I have seen people use it in other scripts. If there are no accidents... this is to notify teammates to come." He paused and continued, "If the other party has the advantage in numbers, there is no need to do this... so I speculate that there is only one enemy, at most no more than two... Now we split up to the left and right and approach at high speed... and then..."

"Wait... wait..." Brother Lonely interrupted the captain, "Listening to the gunshot, the other party is at least four or five hundred meters away from us... In the absence of cover, we are likely to be shot half to death by this shooting specialization guy on this stretch of road."

"Heh..." Xiao Xue Gou replied with a wry smile, "Combat is a matter of life and death... It would be too naive to want to win without taking any risks, right?" As he spoke, he took out a shield-shaped piece of armor from his knapsack, "If we think about it from the other person's perspective... isn't the other party also taking a huge risk, launching a surprise attack on us in a situation where they are at a disadvantage in numbers?"

"I understand..." Brother Lonely's expression stiffened, "I am prepared! Let's go!"

"Okay... you go that way, I'll go from this way..." Xiao Xue Gou gestured a few times with his hand, and then rushed out first.

Dog-ge was, after all, a professional player with rich combat experience. According to his experience... at this distance, after a shooting player scores a hit, they will mostly stay in place and continue to aim, waiting for the remaining target to enter their line of sight again and fire a second round. There are also a small number of people... who will choose to immediately switch positions after scoring a hit, giving priority to ensuring their own safety and concealment.

But regardless of which situation, there is one thing that is unquestionable, and that is... as long as the target is still within the kill range, the shooting specialization player will not actively close the distance with the target. That is to say... regardless of whether the other party is aiming in place or moving around, their range of activity can never intrude into the trajectory of the previous shot.

Little Ling... also did meet this situation.

After releasing the signal flare, she ran while turning her head to spy, but after waiting for nearly thirty seconds, she didn't see anyone pop out, and the distance between her and the other party had already increased to eight hundred meters.

"These two guys... could it be that they were frightened by that shot and simply don't plan to chase after them?" This thought quickly appeared in Little Ling's mind. Of course, this was also one of the situations she had deduced in advance. Faced with this kind of reaction from the enemy, she also had corresponding countermeasures...