Chapter 1 A Shot Rings Out

A shot rang out!

Lord Grim suddenly fired a shot at this moment. The bullet flew out, but the person used the recoil to fly backward, just barely dodging the sweeping broom swung by Scorching Flame.

However, his shot also missed. This Magician could complete a six-hit combo in the air because this class can give itself a floating effect when wielding a broom for attacks in the air. Otherwise, even with the fastest hand speed, they could only complete two normal attacks in the short time they are jumping.

Wang Jiexi was no ordinary person. He fully utilized this point, controlling his character's body while attacking with his broom, all to avoid possible attacks from his opponent. This shot was fast and close, but it still failed to hit him.

"Li Ji!" Wang Jiexi called out a name, and someone immediately responded. While running on the ground, they pulled out a gun and started shooting at Lord Grim.

Li Ji, a main force of Team Tiny Herb, was currently wielding a Level 27 Sharpshooter named Bullet Marks. As a ranged attacker, he immediately chased after Lord Grim and attacked.

The marksmanship of professional players was naturally beyond question. While they couldn't guarantee 100% accuracy against moving targets, their accuracy rate was still much higher than that of ordinary players. Bullet Marks held a Level 25 purple Western Revolver and fired six bullets in an instant.

Unlike other weapons, the attack speed attribute of guns doesn't refer to the speed of the bullets, but rather the speed of reloading. The fastest is the automatic pistol, with an attack speed of 10, allowing for eight consecutive shots; next is the revolver, with an attack speed of 7 or 8, allowing for six consecutive shots; then the crossbow, with four consecutive arrows, and an attack speed of 5; then the rifle, with an attack speed of 2 or 3, usually allowing for two consecutive shots; and the slowest is the hand cannon, one shot at a time, requiring reloading after each shot.

Through this system, the five types of guns have differences in attack speed. Players choose according to their habits and their character's needs. Each type of gun not only has a different attack speed but also different attack power, and the damage calculation method is also different from other weapons.

Taking the revolver as an example, the attack data the weapon carries is the sum of all six bullets, so the damage of a single bullet can be considered one-sixth of the attack power. The same applies to other types of guns. There are also some special effects, such as the area damage of hand cannons and the penetration damage of rifles, which are inherent in normal attacks.

Bullet Marks fired six bullets in a row. Lord Grim, moving in the air, found it difficult to dodge. He immediately raised his Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, and when the umbrella surface opened, all six bullets hit the umbrella, causing sparks to fly. The result was a force that pushed Lord Grim out even faster.

Everyone was a little speechless. This weapon changed too much! It could even become a shield.

After landing, Lord Grim ran without looking back.

To win against nine professional players in a head-on fight was absolutely impossible. Even if the unspecialized class had the advantage of multiple skills in the early game, it wasn't to such an exaggerated extent.

Ye Xiu could easily defeat Liang Fang and Liu Xiaobie, first because he was indeed more skilled, second because of the unspecialized class's early advantage of multiple skills, and third, because these two had no experience against unspecialized classes. It was because of these factors that the gap between the two sides was widened to the point of being worlds apart. Especially the latter two reasons were particularly important. Otherwise, even a god-level player wouldn't be confident of winning against ordinary players. They would still have to consider things like on-the-spot performance. Otherwise, why even have matches? The outcome would be decided by comparing names on the roster. This principle is the same as in soccer or basketball.

"Xiaojie!" Wang Jiexi called out. Gao Yingjie responded, and his character, Fallen Leaves, quickly rode his broom to chase after Lord Grim. Wang Jiexi's Scorching Flame also immediately flew up again after landing. Both Magicians were flying extremely low, almost skimming the ground. The lower they flew, the faster they were. Because the flying distance was limited, the faster they jumped off the broom and landed, the faster they were. This faster speed was gained in the process of transitioning.

The flying height of Fallen Leaves and Scorching Flame was already at its limit. This was achieved through operation, and extremely fast hand speed was required to complete the flying operation in the instant of jumping.

Lord Grim suddenly stopped and turned around, firing a Gatling Gun. With shaking-gun operation, a string of bullets was forcibly divided into two rows to attack the two of them. Fallen Leaves and Scorching Flame flew away diagonally to the left and right, dodging the bullets and creating a distance that even shaking-gun couldn't cover.

This stop immediately brought them into the range of the Sharpshooters. Li Ji and Liu Fei's Sharpshooter characters fired at the same time. For a moment, bullets flew everywhere, and the PK temporarily became a gunfight.

As two of the same class in the team, the presence of Li Ji and Liu Fei's two Sharpshooters was a tactical choice. Their cooperation was ingenious. Liu Fei's Fallen Angel shot and chased after Lord Grim, while Li Ji judged Lord Grim's movements to predict and attack.

Bullets continued to rain down around Lord Grim's feet, kicking up dirt, but they couldn't hit Lord Grim's body. Li Ji and Liu Fei's cooperation was certainly wonderful, but how could Ye Xiu not understand this double-gunfire trick? Li Ji predicted his movements, but he predicted Li Ji's judgment in return.

Li Ji and Liu Fei were helpless. Being under Level 30 really limited their performance. If they had more skills, at least the area of control they could coordinate would be larger. But now? Normal attacks had become their main attack method. Who relied on normal attacks in PK? It was mainly about the use of skills. But these low-level skills below Level 30 didn't help Li Ji and Liu Fei's cooperation much.

However, the two of them finally managed to hold Lord Grim back. Meanwhile, Wang Jiexi and Gao Yingjie's two Magicians continued to fly low and quickly advanced.

Flowing Land wasn't a flat plain. Ye Xiu had Lord Grim dodge all the way, having already identified the direction. After running a few steps, he jumped over a low wall, squatted down on the spot, and the two Sharpshooters' attacks could only vent their anger on the earthen wall.

"Li Yihui and Zhou Yebai, go left. Xiao Yun and Qiao Yifan, go right. Sharpshooters, continue frontal suppression," Wang Jiexi commanded.

"Yes!" The team members responded and acted according to the arrangement.

Li Ji and Liu Fei's two Sharpshooters continued to advance while maintaining their attacks, suppressing Lord Grim so he didn't dare to show his face behind the wall. Li Yihui's character was a Grappler, and he charged up from the left with Zhou Yebai's Ghostblade; Xiao Yun's Battle Mage, Cloud Piercer, and Qiao Yifan's Assassin, Gray Moon, went to the right, and the two Magicians took the middle route.

Among the three routes, the Magicians, taking the shortest route, were naturally the fastest. The left and right routes were to prevent Lord Grim from escaping to the sides behind the wall. Wang Jiexi's considerations were very thorough, but after he and Gao Yingjie's Magicians took the lead in flying over the earthen wall, they swept left and right but couldn't see Lord Grim's whereabouts at all.

Wang Jiexi turned his view and finally landed on a dilapidated earthen house not far from the earthen wall.

The people on the left and right also jumped over the earthen wall one after another, and they were also stunned when they didn't see Lord Grim. This time, Wang Jiexi didn't shout but sent instructions to everyone in the team channel.

The people on the left and right continued to split up and go around the left and right of the earthen house, stepped forward and looked behind the house, and reported in the team channel, "No other exits."

Wang Jiexi nodded. The Vice-Captain Deng Fusheng's Knight and two Sharpshooters behind him had also arrived. Wang Jiexi had already made arrangements, and the nine people were in their positions, starting the conflict together.

The two Sharpshooters each took a character and kept shooting into the house.

Deng Fusheng's Knight shielded with his shield, followed by several melee characters. The two Magicians flew on their brooms above their heads. They wanted to rush into the earthen house as quickly as possible to occupy the space completely, not giving Lord Grim a chance to block the door.

In the blink of an eye, they rushed to the door. Deng Fusheng's Knight crouched down and rolled into the house, and the space given up allowed the two Magicians to fly in almost side by side. Without even looking, they each threw dispelling powder to one side. The people behind them also squeezed into the earthen house. As a result...

As a result, there was no sign of Lord Grim in the room. Everyone was stunned. At this time, only the two Sharpshooters outside the house didn't know what had happened. Their task was to cover, and they were still holding their guns at the entrance of the earthen house. When Lord Grim rushed out again, their task would be to intercept him again.

"Where is he?" Finally, someone asked the question in confusion.

Wang Jiexi was also stunned for a while. After his character walked out of the earthen house, he carefully looked around again.

There were indeed many dilapidated earthen houses like this in Flowing Land, but in that short amount of time, Lord Grim's crouching and movement were only enough to move into this room. If he moved to other rooms, he would definitely be exposed in everyone's vision.

"What's wrong?" The Sharpshooter outside the house noticed something was wrong.

"He's gone," someone answered the two.

"Strange, did you see it?" In Team Tiny Herb's training room, everyone even started real communication, feeling that their character's vision wasn't enough and went to other people's computers to look for clues.

"The one on the right, Sharpshooters, suppress!" Wang Jiexi suddenly instructed.

Everyone was stunned. The two Sharpshooters turned their views, and there was indeed another earthen house on the right. Without asking any further questions, they immediately opened fire.

"Yifan, go check behind. Everyone else, follow me!" Wang Jiexi instructed. Qiao Yifan's Gray Moon ran to see if there was an exit behind the earthen house, and the others ran towards the earthen house in the same formation as before.

Almost forgot, that guy also knows Shadow Clone Technique. If it's used as teleportation, this distance is also achievable.

Wang Jiexi thought of this and re-estimated the moving distance of Lord Grim. He found that this earthen house was also where Lord Grim could have hidden.

Shooting suppression, Knight shield cover, roll in, Magicians fly in together, throw dispelling powder, Qiao Yifan reports that there are no other exits behind, everyone rushes into the house together.

Everything went smoothly. The action was basically a perfect copy of the surprise attack just now, and even the result was exactly the same: Lord Grim was not in the house.

Wang Jiexi jumped out of the house and carefully assessed again.

No, apart from this house, Lord Grim couldn't have any other choice, not even using Shadow Clone Technique.

"Could there be some low-level skill that I overlooked?" Wang Jiexi started searching the 120 skills below Level 20 of the 24 classes in his mind.