Volume 4 - CH 36

Book 4: The Return of the King

Chapter 36

Words began to appear on the large screen: Counter Terrorist Night Mission

The mission rules were as follows:

1. The first team to find and kill 100 patrolling enemy units, win.

2. The first team to kill all five opposing players, win.

It was…...magical.

For almost every important match, the game system always chose

Counter Terrorist Night Mission.

Ai Qing pursed up her mouth and laughed.  “I have more than a hundred

strategies in my head for this mission, but it’s my first time actually playing it.”

“Gou Gou is in charge of sniping and field control. Gun and I for offense and

defense respectively.”  Solo said, “All and Xiaomi are in charge of blasting.”

Three snipers and two grenadiers, an extremely offensive setup.

The map showed a ship deck on the ocean.

Ai Qing looked around,  “A cruise ship?”

What a strange place for a mission, it would be too difficult to destroy 100

enemy soldiers.

She expected that Dt and his people would think the same way when they

The ocean waves are rather rough, rocking the cruise ship.  There was an

outdoor swimming pool about three footsteps away from Ai Qing.

She looked down.  There were four layers of swimming pools, each one

larger than the other

Before she could get a good look, seven to eight grenades flew up at her.

Grenades? !

Amid the series of loud explosions, five people rolled off the rooftop. Their

actions were coordinated, like they had practiced together hundreds and

thousands times before.

They still had the same mutual understanding, even the position and the

order had not changed.

After landing on the ground, Ai Qing raised the sniper rifle, looking through

the scope.  Solo and Gun were on either side of her, slightly up front.

All and Xiaomi landed on the third level, they then rolled again.  They

jumped down simultaneously and rushed at the two shadows on the second

level.  Seconds before they came into contact, the two switched to knives,

Xiaomi had already thrown an incendiary grenade at them.  It instantly

became blindly white------.

Xiaomi and All simultaneously slashed at an opponent's throat.

A death notification appeared.

……

It was only less than 30 seconds after the match started!  One person

was already out!

Before the audience could react, two gunshots rang out.

Another death notification appeared.

……

At 45 seconds, two people were already out!

The match became 4 v 4 in a very short time.

Xiao Mai stood up from his chair abruptly.  “Dt cooked the incendiary grenade

just enough that it exploded in Xiaomi’s face.  Xiaomi from Solo’s team and Inin

from Dt’s team, the teams respective grenadier, have been eliminated!”

Nobody had taken the advantage.  Both grenadiers were impaired.

It became quiet again.

This rhythm was the same as CS competitions in the past.  If the map wasn’t

so large, it would be as fast as finishing a match in one minute and 20 seconds

like before.

Withdrawing immediately right after the attack, it was always alternating

between hiding and attacking.

Ai Qing leaned her back against the wall.

“I shot one person.”  She locked one shadow also when Dt shot.  “It’s on the

leg.” She said. She estimated how Secret Room registered damage.  “They

have one person with only 70% health left.”

She just didn’t know where this person was hiding.

Solo’s team had landed in the open.  After the exchange of fire, Dt led his

team into hiding again.

Since Solo’s team had been exposed from the beginning, they had no choice

Solo looked through the scope of his gun and took a look around. He shortly

found a blood stain.

They were at the second level now.  The first level was below them and

further down was the cabins below the deck.  The layout of the cabins was

overly complex. It was difficult to defend and difficult to attack as well.  Dt

would never enter the cabins.

So, the fighting must all occur on the third and the fourth levels at the decks

with the pools.

Solo made a quick assessment.  “Ai Qing and All go down the ramp.  Gun

follow me to sweep the second level.”

Ai Qing pursed up her mouth.  “You’re asking me to go down a ramp again.”

Ramps are very dangerous in first person shooters.  An opponent with a

sharp eye and steady aim could shoot the instant they saw your head or foot.  

So it required skill to go up or down a ramp. There were many rookies that

just run down the ramp carelessly and die to a headshot.

Ai Qing switched to her pistol and moted towards the ramp.

This ramp had a square entrance.  It was a little narrow. She had to go down

at least 1/3 of it to be able to jump forward to roll onto the first level.

“I go first, you follow.” Ai Qing aimed her pistol at the horizon.

She walked close to the entrance, repeatedly squatted and aimed, slowly

moving down.  Her vision to the front opened wide gradually…….while she

was looking for opponents, she moved closer and closer to the 1/3 location.

Good.  Only a little bit more, only a little bit more------

Now.

She made sudden forward somersault.  A split second later, the place where

she just was now had two bullet holes.

Very accurate.

If she wasn’t a professional, she would have been out long time ago.

The minute Ai Qing touched the ground, she switched to her sniper rifle and

crouched to defend herself.  All jumped to the ground right after her. She took

two steps back. A dark shadow suddenly showed up in her scope.  As she was

pulling the trigger, the shadow had already reached her. He crashed into her.

The two rolled into the swimming pool that was two meters away.

Ai Qing didn’t have a chance to react before falling in.

She lost her balance.  She struggled out of the opponent’s embrace.  Her feet

touched the bottom of the swimming pool and turned around to see the person

who had shoved her into the swimming pool…...Dt.

There had never been any large swimming pool in any mission before.  Even

when there was the ocean, it was only in the background. Under several meters

of water, what would be the result of their fight as they could not use guns?

She didn’t know, even Dt couldn’t possibly know.

Under the water, their characters could only hold their breath for 65 seconds.

She had to kill Dt within a minute and take the last 5 seconds to get out of the

pool, or…...she would die by Dt’s hands.