Chapter 264: Chang Ning Gg!
Thick smoke blocked Chang Ning’s view, causing him to only see a vague shadow of the opponent.
However, this didn’t stump Chang Ning. The shooting feel practiced on the training ground could compensate for aiming issues, and he still had his cheat.
Thus, the smoke’s influence on Chang Ning was almost negligible, but compared to Black Tiger’s side, the impact was huge.
Due to the smoke grenade’s effect, they couldn’t see Chang Ning’s position clearly. With this shift in advantage, Blue Team’s comrades were eliminated one after another by the enemy, and the Blue Team squadron’s captain was burning with anxiety.
A person whom He Da Dui praised endlessly must have many shining points. Lei Keming had real skills in selecting and leading soldiers.
The squadron captain leading the pursuit of Chang Ning saw that prolonged attacks yielded no results and their side was continuously losing members, so he came up with a quick idea: “Throw hand grenades!”
Since aiming was impossible, they could only expand the kill area to increase the hit rate.
As soon as the order was given, several dark round lumps flew into the smoke in mid-air.
The enemy’s gunshots stopped, and Chang Ning thought they were reloading. He didn’t know Black Tiger’s pursuers intended to blow him up.
Since the gunshots had stopped, Chang Ning wouldn’t just wait around doing nothing.
He hugged his gun, crouched low, and quickly fled backward.
Earlier, Black Tiger’s firepower was too dense, so he didn’t dare make big moves and was forced to exchange shots with the enemy.
Now that opportunity had come knocking, he naturally had to seize it tightly and make a run for it.
“What is that?”
Just as doubt arose in his mind, the next second, when Chang Ning clearly saw the things flying toward him from the sky, his face changed drastically in fright.
Visually, more than ten hand grenades were flying straight toward his direction.
“They’re coming again!”
Chang Ning didn’t expect Black Tiger to throw hand grenades this way too.
Now he didn’t dare run around randomly; evading the hand grenades was the priority.
But the problem was there were too many hand grenades, so the explosion range would naturally expand.
In a short time, Chang Ning couldn’t run out of the explosion range of so many stacked hand grenades, even if his instant burst could let him cover ten meters in just three seconds.
“Can’t run now!”
Originally, Chang Ning could have used the smoke grenade’s cover to retreat, but now the hand grenades blocked his path, the smoke was gradually dissipating, and he knew he had no chance to shake off Black Tiger’s pursuit.
“Hope I don’t get beaten too badly.”
Chang Ning knew he had done something infuriating, and he’d offended two parties at once.
He hadn’t followed Gao Zhong Dui’s order to retreat—that was one; he’d eliminated Black Tiger Special Forces’ Captain Lei Keming, and now he was about to fall into Black Tiger’s hands—that was two.
These two things alone were enough to give Chang Ning a hard time, especially since he’d caused enormous losses to Black Tiger.
From the start of the exercise until now, Black Tiger’s forces had lost more than half, and a detailed review would show most were related to Chang Ning.
If he fell into Black Tiger’s hands, his fate could be foreseen as miserable.
Sadly, the result was already doomed.
In that instant, Chang Ning thought of many things. He knew to Black Tiger’s people, he was like a ginseng fruit, tempting from head to toe.
Those guys on the other side wished they could swallow him whole, skin and bones!
Since the outcome was already doomed to be unpleasant, Chang Ning figured it might as well be broken pot broken—might as well go all out.
Anyway, no matter what, he wouldn’t end up well, so he might as well resist fiercely to the end.
At worst, just a few more beatings, but he wouldn’t die.
If there were any way to shake off the pursuers behind him, Chang Ning wouldn’t think of fighting desperately.
After running five or six meters with all his effort, Chang Ning smoothly dropped to the ground, rolled forward using momentum, then curled his body tightly into a ball to minimize the area affected by the hand grenades.
Would this work?
Honestly, it didn’t make much difference—there were too many hand grenades. Whether he could dodge them depended on probability.
Chang Ning knew it wouldn’t make much difference, but he couldn’t just do nothing—that would be surrendering without a fight.
Originally, because he hadn’t followed orders to return to the Red Army position, Gao Zhong Dui was already angry and very frustrated.
If he knew Chang Ning had surrendered without a fight, it would be like pouring gasoline on the fire—he’d be furious and could skin him alive!
So, facing more than ten hand grenades, Chang Ning still tried his best to evade. Maybe luck would have it and none would hit.
“Boom~”
Explosions sounded one after another from beside him, with rolling heat waves carrying soil and grass clippings flying everywhere.
Chang Ning felt surrounded by explosions; at that moment, he was so small, feeling like the next second he’d be blasted to pieces.
Although he knew these were exercise hand grenades with no steel balls or shrapnel inside.
But his heart still raced with nervousness, uncontrollably.
Perhaps Chang Ning’s evasion spot was good, or maybe he was lucky—so many hand grenades and yet none eliminated him.
However, being hit by so many hand grenades, even with his top-notch physical quality year-round, he couldn’t withstand it.
His ears buzzed, like tens of thousands of mosquitoes swirling back and forth beside them.
As a result, his perception of changes in the surrounding environment was affected, and he became much more sluggish overall.
The pursuit squadron captain led his men through the now thinning smoke, and what met their eyes was the ground ravaged by hand grenades, still steaming hot.
Seeing this scene, no one thought Chang Ning could continue fighting; he was probably eliminated.
The squadron captain’s tense nerves relaxed: “So many hand grenades should have eliminated that Red Army soldier, right?”
“Later, when we catch that kid, we must give him a good taste of our hospitality, so Southeast Military Region’s people know how enthusiastic and hospitable Black Tiger Special Forces are!”
“Captain, just watch. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed!”
One of Black Tiger’s soldiers followed up immediately.
“Captain, I see him!”
Someone in the pursuit squad spotted the dizzy Chang Ning.
Seeing Chang Ning at the edge of the explosion range, the squadron captain immediately reacted and secretly felt fortunate: Luckily, he’d decisively ordered the hand grenades, or that kid would have gotten away!
“Go, capture him while he hasn’t recovered. Hurry.”
Black Tiger Special Forces’ people hurriedly ran toward Chang Ning, not daring to pause, fearing he’d react.
They’d clashed several rounds; they considered themselves no slouches, elites from rigorous training, but today they met this monster with no shortcomings in marksmanship or physical fitness—they had to be careful.
He took a deep breath, worked to calm his nervous emotions, and let his heart rate decline.
Chang Ning gradually shook off the negative state from the hand grenade explosions this way.
Compared to being eliminated, just being in poor condition meant he was already lucky.
Rustling footwork sounds gradually grew louder from far to near; Chang Ning forced himself to perk up despite the negative state and aimed his gun muzzle at the direction with the loudest sounds.
“Bang~”
Chang Ning pulled the trigger without even aiming.
On a real battlefield, there’s no time for aiming—it’s raise and shoot.
After the gunshot, one red and one blue smokes slowly appeared.
Chang Ning’s marksmanship remained precise. Even without deliberate aiming, even dizzy with tinnitus, he still hit Black Tiger’s people.
But this time, his luck wasn’t so good—Black Tiger was very alert and reacted the same way upon seeing Chang Ning raise his gun.
