Fatal Shot
chapter-156

At that moment, the Heavy Armor Warrior realized that he had made a big mistake. The first target of the Snipers would always be the Machine Gunner, since only the Machine Gunner had the ability to suppress others. As such, protecting the Machine Gunner was his main task; it might have even been said to be his only task.

Prior to this, he had already considered this principle. However, the moment he had seen the team Doctor fall to the ground with a heavy injury, he had quickly forgotten about it and abandoned the task of protecting the Machine Gunner to save the Doctor. This was simply because not all players could calmly make the right decision when faced with emergencies.

In this game that was brutally realistic, most people were too easily affected by visual stimulation. Even if, in the previous moment, one was extremely logical, the same person might be driven crazy by the contents of a scene the next moment. As such, real experts needed to have a calm or perhaps even a cold-blooded head.

For example, a Sniper!

Bang!

Yet another light-blue shield-breaking energy bullet hit the corpse of the Machine Gunner, striking the head of the Machine Gunner whose HP had already hit zero.

"Ah!" the Heavy Armor Warrior roared with his mouth wide open.

His eyes widened so much that it seemed like they would pop out. It was a battle between players. This sort of "corpse-whipping" behavior that defiled the dead had always been considered the most despicable method of provocation.

However, Feng Luo, who was holding his sniper rifle, didn't give it much thought. After he fired the shot, he shifted his position because the shot had exposed his position. Several guns were already firing at his general location. But Feng Luo had long ago obtained information regarding the position of everyone within the visual field of the Scout Beetle. As such, the attacks of the opponent all missed as he dodged in advance.

For him, the hunt in the storm had just begun.

Player Feng Luo killed an enemy player. Reduce mission requirement of defending the town by half an hour. Current time remaining to defend Roguetown: Two hours and 25 minutes!

And as he was changing position, the corner of Feng Luo's mouth curled upward into a smile as he read the system notification that appeared in everyone's visual field.

The shot that had taken out the Machine Gunner's remaining HP had been fired by Sha Lang. However, over the course of his previous kills, he had probably gotten used to head-shotting for the kill, so he didn't yet know that when dealing with the players from Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, he had to shoot the head before the system recognized it as a kill. His previous shot had missed slightly.

Feng Luo initially only wanted to be careful and add another shot. However, he had accidentally "stolen" the kill. He was guessing that Sha Lang was probably feeling quite depressed right now.

In fact, on the rooftop of another building, Sha Lang was, indeed, quite depressed. He had left the team to solo the mission this time mainly because he had disagreed with the plan of Brother Ling. That was why he had decided to do things his way. At the same time, he also didn't want to be led by Brother Ling.

However, he hadn't forgotten one of his original intentions for this mission, which was to compete against Feng Luo—once and for all—during this mission.

Even though in the previous clearing mission he'd had the double advantage in both weapons and levels, he had still lost in the rankings in the end. However, ever since then, almost everyone could see that Feng Luo had triggered some condition in the end that had helped him obtain a huge amount of points, so Sha Lang didn't think he had really lost.

He was extremely confident in his technique, especially when he obtained another unique talent that was extremely well-suited for the Sniper profession. As such, this last battle was, without a doubt, the time for the two of them to duel each other. The only unexpected factor was that extra shot just now.

It was quite clear that I was the one who got the last hit on that Machine Gunner, taking away his remaining 300-plus HP, so why did the system display that it was Feng Luo who killed him? he wondered. Furthermore, he had already killed two other enemy players, previously. So our current kill count ratio is already one to three—an absolute disadvantage for me.

"As expected, you can't underestimate him!" Sha Lang mumbled, his eyes glowing brightly. "This makes things interesting." Now his face showed resolution that had never been seen before.

Feng Luo, who was on the other side, didn't know Sha Lang's thoughts, but as an ex-mercenary, his professional principle that was developed throughout his career was that he would give it his all to complete the mission. So, he did not hold back.

In fact, the current situation on the battlefield didn't allow them to hold back. It was because, in a situation where every one of their opponents had the T-virus and enjoyed the bonus of potions, the enemy's attacks weren't any weaker than theirs, and the enemy's HP far exceeded theirs. They had the ability to two-shot the enemy's low-HP people, but the enemy probably only needed one skill to dispatch them. The two of them could only exert their full strength and rely on the natural advantage of Snipers fighting inside a city to equalize the situation.

The third minute:

Player Feng Luo killed an enemy player. Reduce mission requirement of defending the town by half an hour…

The fifth minute:

Player Sha Lang killed an enemy player. Reduce mission requirement…

The eighth minute:

Player Feng Luo killed an enemy player…

The tenth minute:

Player Sha Lang…

The battle between the two expert Snipers also gradually revealed the final victor of the mission.

Although the players from Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group were elites and their attacks and stats were not weaker—and might have even been stronger than the two of them—when it came to awareness and techniques, they could not compare to top Snipers like Feng Luo and Sha Lang. Moreover, the two of them still had their own unique trump cards.

Sha Lang had excellent equipment. Paired with his unique talent and bullets, any hit from him in a situation like this would be able to completely break the opponent's defense, even to the extent of placing someone in a "heavy injury" status.

As for Feng Luo, he still had the visual field advantage from the Scout Beetle, allowing him to easily find the best shooting angle.

Of course, the weather was also an extremely important bonus factor. If it weren't for the fact that there was a storm and it was already deep into the night—both of which greatly affected the monitoring of the Umbrella Corporation and made it extremely difficult for the enemy to pinpoint their location—it would have been quite difficult for them to get this battle result.

The result of this secret confrontation between the two was…

After ten minutes, among the five remaining players, four had died in the hands of the Snipers, and the result of the competition was: two to two. A draw!

If one were to discount Feng Luo's previous lead of two kills, then the final deciding factor would have to be the body of the last man standing, which was the Heavy Armor Warrior captain.

******

Inside the defense construction that was supposed to be used for attack, the last remaining Heavy Armor Warrior player from Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group had already been forced into a position at the corner of a wall. Even with the bonus of all kinds of potions, his HP, which was almost 20,000 overall, had dropped to less than one-third of its original.

With his back to the corner, he looked at his battered alloy shield riddled with bullet holes and the corpse of the Doctor player who had been head-shot earlier. His dark, crimson eyes, which were upset and filled with anger, suddenly became calm.

"Two Snipers. I really did miscalculate this time!" said the Heavy Armor Warrior softly. "However, the ultimate victory belongs to us!"

Determination filled the face of the Heavy Armor Warrior as he grabbed a dark red syringe from the backpack with his right hand before jabbing it into his neck.

"Ah!"

The dark red potion flowed into his body like blood. Immediately after that, the Heavy Armor Warrior's muscles all over his body began to bulge. His spine and the bones in his thigh started to change shape. The skin on his body started to tear, layer by layer, and blood came gushing out of the cracks! From his mouth came blood-curdling screams. He could not endure the excruciating pain.

After a dozen or so seconds, a three-meter humanoid figure slowly stood up inside the room. A red light, filled with murderous intent and bloodlust, could be seen within its gaze.