Chapter 372 - Rise of the Snipers?
Chapter 372: Rise of the Snipers?
“Da, da, da!”
The wall of the shot had a cluster of bullet holes hit into it by machine gun bullets, and the transparent strengthened face of glass had been shattered, creating spider-shaped crack lines!
“Boom!”
A white fireball combo the size of a soccer ball flew in to the ground from outside, setting ablaze a huge area of products, quickly creating a sea of flames!
The other few members of Dan Hen’s team and four Veterans Tribe members were then all stuck at the bottom level of a shop by the roadside.
In front of them across the street of over 20 meters long were all sorts of skills, fireballs, ice blades, submachine gun bullets and machine gun bullets sealing a blockade of death.
Whereas behind them was a horde of infected zombies with broken limbs, open stomachs and intestines, blackened blood dripping from their mouths and grey eye sockets shining with bloodthirsting lust, continuously charging at the shop which they were in!
On the metallic walls of the surrounding buildings on both sides were three of four Lickers of a body size of more than two meters rapidly leaping, attempting to eat the flesh of the clustered, delicious-smelling fresh human beings!
“F*ck it! These jerks of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group jamming up the road, trying to make use of the zombie hordes to kill us all!”
“Two Manipulators, one Machine Gunner, and a Scout are fine, the cruelest is that there are actually three Snipers – whoever goes out dies!”
A Heavy Armored Warrior player wearing a Veterans Tribe badge on his chest raised his sturdy right arm, violently ramming his black Alloy Shield forward.
“Bash!”
A pair of vein-bulging hands which had already attached themselves to the window panes and had marked them with reddish-black bloodstains were violently smashed down upon by the Alloy Shield – half-sections of the hands together with the bones inside weakened by the T-Virus infection were smashed into flesh rubble with blood splattering all over!
“Ow!”
The owner of the two hands let out a groan, its eyes without any look of pain.
It stretched its fleshy head with half its skin gone past the window, opened its blood-stench mouth and attempted to bite the arm of the Heavy Armored Warrior!
“Screech!”
But even the sharpness of a stiletto could not break the full-defense-type Alloy Heavy Armor with a thickness of over two centimeters. Let alone teeth, even this male zombie biting onto the Alloy Heavy Armor had only produced a disturbing metal-screech!
“Chop!”
An Alloy Sword stained with a reddish-white substance followed up and chopped down from a side, slicing off the head of this zombie which had already had half its neck bitten off by others infected. Then, as the Heavy Armored Warrior wiped off the blood on his face with a “pei”, he kicked the headless body of the zombie out!
“Leader Dan Hen, what now, are there anymore members replying to the SOS signal in the surrounding? Damn it, must have been that the signal is cut off, it can’t even be sent out to 50 meters!”
Standing outside the door that had already been completely broken down behind the shop, Frozen Red Giant withdrew his Alloy Sword and yelled loudly!
The gorgeous Alloy Armor set on him which was originally like crystallized frost had now become like something just picked out from a trash can, and it even had some fresh-looking, foul-smelling blood on it.
Other than that, at the chest part of this Excellent-Grade equipment set which defense coefficient was a D+-Grade, there were three deep slash marks which had already been stained red with blood and had completely cut through the armor, looking like they had been torn open by some huge-sized wild beast with sharp claws.
“F*ck, if we hadn’t been ambushed by that Tyrant from before, causing Old Gun and Monkey to be killed, we wouldn’t be taken advantage of by this bunch of Roaring Dragon Mercenary rascals!”
The Heavy Armored Warrior said viciously as he withdrew his Alloy Shield, ignoring the two sections of half-broken fleshy fingers still stuck on it.
Previously, this team of 10 people was originally on its way to save Skynet and his people on the platform but had accidentally met a Tyrant here. In the end, the two Veterans Tribe players originally with the team had been killed by the Tyrant in a second; even Frozen Red Giant, the Light Armored Warrior with decent equipment, had only half his HP left!
Fortunately, the Tyrant’s Level was not very high, only above Level 30 – being all-out attacked by the remaining people, it had only killed two members before jumping up the surrounding buildings and escaping!
But unfortunately, the Tyrant had just left when they were ambushed by the people of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, who had forced them into the shop with their long-range firepower.
Even more unfortunately, the fresh corpses of two players from before had as if aroused the appetite of a batch of zombies, sending them into a situation now of being contained by two enemies!
“The others will do; it’s the Snipers!”
“If these rascals didn’t have short-range professions and really got short-ranged by me, it’s nothing difficult at all to face them, but them f*ckers actually have three Snipers hiding in the dark!”
“I say, even though Ion and Old Gun are dead, is your team’s Skynet still uncontactable? If he’s still there, at least we wouldn’t be so stuck!”
The Heavy Armored Warrior complained as he applied a blood tonic onto himself.
“The static in the Communicator is getting more intense, I’ve tried infiltrating Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group’s secret communication channel but it’s not successful!”
“Very likely, this is a facility provided to them by the rebellion, considered as a restriction for our camp by the plot!”
Hiding himself in a corner and continuously using Chip expert skills to activate the Communicator, Ion Flames who was attempting to contact Skynet and his people was grim.
He did not participate in defense or attack, not because he was freeloading, but because he already had no means of attacking!
The range of the skills of Manipulator players was huge, but their weakness was that the usage was too much – compared with weak-skilled Gunners who would almost never have their MP depleted, it was very easy for Manipulators to lose their MP!
This was also the reason why “Intelligence-type” basic permanent Enhancement Potions were so wanted by Manipulators. The “+20% MP recovery speed” was actually an even more useful attribute in the eyes of Manipulator players than the main attribute of “+10% Intelligence”!
“Skynet and the others probably are outnumbered, a Level 50 Commander monster with 300,000 HP technically can’t be taken down by anything less than more than 10 better players with Level 50 equipment!”
“Plus their position is more of a dead end than ours here!”
“Seems like there’s no way to return Old Brother Feng the favor this time, perhaps we’ve even done something terrible, that NPC might be very important to him…”
Dan Hen, whose combat uniform was cleaner than those of close-range professions but whose stiletto on his tactical vest had thick bloodstains, stretched out his submachine gun from the side. He pointed it at the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group Sniper found by Detection to be behind a sculpture at the back of the square, continuing to fire a string of bullets!
“Da, da, da, da!”
“-345, -445, -456, -344…”
Four consecutive damage coefficients flashed across his vision; that Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group Sniper quickly hid behind the sculpture and the following bullets completely missed him!
The submachine gun had fast speed and could even consecutively fire quite a few bullets with the “Continuous Shooting” skill learnt, which was specially used by Scouts.
However, as the damage of each bullet was not high, at such a situation whereby it was difficult to adjust the shooting spot and angle, Snipers only had to hide behind their cover after hitting a bullet, and they would not be killed by the submachine gun at all!
On the other hand, Snipers had high single damage; they just had to aim at a dying player and hit a lethal damage and they would very likely be able to use one shot on each person.
There was already a Veterans Tribe Doctor player beside Dan Hen who had fallen into a pool of blood, with a cavity hit into his temple by a sniper bullet, his eyes wide open as he died!
In the game, in some missions or plots, players’ corpses would not immediately vanish after their deaths, and were likely to exist until the end of the plot or until they were cleared away by NPCs!
In actual fact, even in PK, players’ corpses did not disappear at the moment of the white light of death but would similarly stay a period of time.
Of course, these corpses in the eyes of players who had switched off their gory visual mode would turn into a few set types of default appearances. As for female players who died, if some private parts were exposed, they would turn into default roles even in the eyes of players who had their gory visual mode switched on.
There was naturally no need to explain the reason!
“In such city environments, it’s indeed too easy for Snipers to perform, there’re no better ways to face a Sniper than using a Sniper!”
Dan Hen’s face turned grave as he quickly changed the magazine on his submachine gun.
Although Snipers were powerless when fighting monsters in training, there was a need to admit that especially in group PK in cities, they stood with an extremely huge natural advantage compared with the other professions!
But because there were not many in-city battles in the past, in addition to everyone focusing their attention more on the aspect of raising their Level, the Snipers’ advantage was not taken seriously, and was even discriminated against for their freeloading in XP during training!
But now that many people had already reached full-level, in addition to the openness of the camp system, this type of city PK would probably be greatly expanded and even become more of a norm.
Then it was very likely that there would be more people choosing to Advance to be Sniper – some guilds might even develop into organizational Sniper teams!
The status of Snipers would very likely be raised!
“However, it’s not so easy to train a high-leveled Sniper out of this game. It’s very hard for most Snipers without skills to guarantee the accuracy rate of hitting critical points, plus once at close-range, they would be lacking in combat ability and would be easy to die!”
“Speaking about Snipers, Old Brother Feng’s sniping ability is rather really astonishing!”
Dan Hen recalled the process of ambushing the rebellion commander with Feng Luo previously at Dark Moon Valley, admiration appearing in his eyes.
He could not help but let a thought surface: if Feng Luo were really here and together with Skynet, even if there were three Sniper players on the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, there probably would not be much of a problem?
“It’s just that by this time, I’m afraid they’ve already been wiped out!”