True harassment.
Just as its name implied, the strategy revolved around harassing other teams and making them think they weren't safe.
This job fell to Max and Ferin, as both of them had sniper rifles in hand. Before the 1st wave started, they stumbled upon a base with the players stumbling up and down to get magazines to the top of the wall.
They didn't know which team this base belonged to from the top of sand dune. And they also didn't care enough to see their logo before bursting their heads into a paste with sniper rifles.
Just two shots from each sniper was enough to annihilate them. Only then did they know which team this base belonged to.
[Team OrangeSquash has annihilated Team MiceMice.]
[500 Annihilation Points have been rewarded.]
"..."
Speechless, Max looked at the notification with a blank stare.
"Yay!"
Meanwhile, Ferin exclaimed excitedly and threw her arms in the sky.
"We annihilated the strongest team!"
This was truly something to celebrate. Their worst match-up, a team that could hold themselves until the 9th wave if they wanted to, was eliminated pretty early.
Max blamed them for lowering their guard in the final and focused on resupplying instead. Getting annihilated early on was definitely their fault.
"We're pretty lucky." He said as he rose from his prone position and slung the sniper rifle on his back. "Let's move and find more bases, Ferin. We will locate all of them in this 1st wave."
"Got it, Captain!" Ferin mock saluted him and imitated his movement. "Soldier Ferin is ready!"
"Good. Let's split and report our findings through the communication device."
"Got it!" She repeated and turned around. "Soldier Ferin taking off!"
With that, she ran and kicked the dust into the air. Max looked at them for a second before running in the opposite direction.
Finding enemy bases in the first wave would be pretty easy. He just needed to find a swarm of black bugs instead of a base that blended with its surroundings.
3 to 5 minutes. That was how long the professional teams usually annihilated the first wave's cockroaches. He didn't have that much time to find up to 9 bases with Ferin.
Still, he truly didn't expect this. The final match's RNG was pretty good.
Just a minute. There was nothing wrong with waiting for that long.
As much as it tormented him, Ferin finally arrived.
"Where is the enemy?" She immediately asked as she prone beside him.
"That way," Max answered and pointed his finger at the base around 300 meters away from them. "You can hit the left? I will hit the right and kill the two people between them from the crossfire."
"Easy peasy." Ferin grinned and set her finger on the trigger. "On three?"
"On three."
Max nodded and began counting. When it reached three, they shot at once.
Bam– Bam!
Two heads exploded at once. They were downed immediately without any chance to resist. However, the two people who got caught in two explosions in the middle somehow could still stand.
"Over there!"
They reacted at once, and one of them pointed their sniper in Max's direction. In response, Max pulled his trigger once again, but that was too late.
"Oh no." Ferin's last word rang before her head exploded.
The explosion hit his body and pushed him away slightly. He grunted in pain and looked up. The base was crumbling into dust.
[Team OrangeSquash has annihilated Team MoMaMi.]
[500 Annihilation Points have been rewarded.]
The notification came, but he didn't look at it. Instead, he looked at Ferin, who crawled on the desert with a wry smile.
"They got me." She said with a weak smile. "Can you revive me? I don't think we can afford to wait."
"You're right." Max nodded and proceeded to revive Ferin by injecting a needle into her arm. The process needed 5 seconds, and he couldn't move until then.
However, he could still move his head around to survey the surroundings. And the situation isn't that good.
"Four teams sent their members to our locations. They will clash if they meet, but we will get caught if we stay here any longer. Our choice is to fight them or flee. Which one do you prefer?"
The revival process was gone, and he proceeded to heal himself with a healing pod.
"Do you even need to ask?" Ferin slowly raised her body and healed herself with a healing pod. "Fight is good."