Chapter 29: You’ve Been Surrounded By Me
The dull gunshot sounded very abrupt in the quiet forest.
The search team was caught off guard by Chang Ning; they didn’t expect anyone to sneak attack them in the Blue Team Heartland.
It wasn’t that they lacked vigilance, but this matter was completely unreasonable. Shouldn’t the Red Team’s scouts focus on striking the Blue Team’s vital areas? Why suddenly expose themselves to attack their useless search team?
“Why are you all looking at me? Counterattack!”
The search team’s Squad Leader saw his teammates stunned and shouted angrily. If it weren’t for this exercise, he really wouldn’t have known his comrades were so incompetent.
Though not elite, they couldn’t be so incapable as to not even counterattack when attacked!
The search team members snapped out of it and fired a burst of intense firepower toward the direction of the gunshot, but Chang Ning had already withdrawn by then.
The moment the gunshot rang out, he was exposed. As an apprentice sniper, he naturally had to run away quickly.
For a sniper, exposure meant death; otherwise, why would they frequently change sniper positions and never stay in one place for long?
Of course, this excludes those who bully others with range advantage. But usually, such people die quickly too—rifles have short range, but rocket launchers do not.
The sharp sound of assault rifle fire instantly rang out. The Blue Team’s search team still had some skill. If Chang Ning dared to show his head, he would be focused fired in an instant.
Unfortunately, Chang Ning was too cunning, and with his range advantage, they couldn’t hit him, but every time Chang Ning fired, he took a head. As this gap widened, the blue smoke in the search team grew thicker, and more people were eliminated.
How could they fight like this? It was simply an unequal massacre.
“Retreat! Anyone who doesn’t want to be eliminated, retreat quickly.”
The situation was clear now—there was no point in fighting! Preserve strength, call more people later, and get revenge with 40 fire was the way to go!
The search team’s Squad Leader couldn’t care less about breaking the rules and quickly shouted.
Besides, his teammates wouldn’t report him for giving the order, and the Red Team scout opposite couldn’t hear it anyway, so who would know he broke the rules?
“Fifth one.”
Chang Ning calmly recited his battle record; these were completely insignificant to him. Though he was an apprentice sniper, he had trained specifically—don’t underestimate him!
Worth mentioning was that among these five battle records, one was the military dog named Hu Zi that had tracked Chang Ning earlier.
Utterly heartless, not even sparing the military dog.
Upon receiving the Squad Leader’s order, the others withdrew in relays.
Chang Ning watched everything clearly through his telescopic sight from afar. He hadn’t returned along the same path just to let this Blue Team group go; that way, his plan could still proceed, but it would inevitably lack some excitement.
What Chang Ning wanted was to let the Blue Team see him openly eliminating people in the Blue Team Heartland.
This would enrage the search team’s commander, making him focus attention on this area and relieve pressure on other reconnaissance units.
In this Red vs. Blue Confrontation Exercise, the Red Team’s reconnaissance units weren’t just Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company; there were other companies too.
As for why only Night Tiger suffered heavy losses, it was because of their fame—they were called the dagger of the Great Merit Regiment, and the Great Merit Regiment was the army’s dagger.
Plus, Miao Lian was familiar with Wolf Fang’s people, so if not targeting you first, who?
No time for chit-chat; Chang Ning saw the duck in his mouth about to fly away—how could that happen?
He quickly packed up his sniper position, shouldered his rifle, and chased after the remaining search team members.
If these people escaped and brought a crowd to surround him, that would be bad.
Though his plan was to attract the Blue Team search team’s attention here, that was after he had long disengaged from the area, not now.
At this moment, the physical fitness gap between Chang Ning and ordinary soldiers became apparent.
Clearly, the initial distance between them was at least five hundred meters or more, and even with the search team withdrawing first, the distance between both sides was now visibly closing.
If not for the search team occasionally firing to interfere, Chang Ning would have closed in for close combat by now.
Of course, close combat was impossible unless Chang Ning ran out of bullets.
The question was, would Chang Ning run out of bullets? He knew his own situation best; he had carried the maximum load of bullets.
If not for his own landmines being tricky to use, he would have brought a few common landmines—don’t underestimate Chang Ning’s vigilance.
‘It’s just one person!’
When Chang Ning passed the Blue Team Squad Leader, the Squad Leader was somewhat surprised; he didn’t know the sniper who attacked them was the same person they had chased earlier.
Talk about fortunes turning.
The Squad Leader glanced at Chang Ning’s military rank and understood. No wonder he attacked them in the Blue Team Heartland—he was just a new recruit.
Chang Ning, busy pursuing the search team, had no idea the non-commissioned officer standing by the road had so much inner monologue.
According to exercise rules, eliminated personnel must stand in place and wait to be received.
This group of Blue Team search team’s eliminated personnel finally watched obediently as Chang Ning sped past them.
Otherwise, they would have at least tried to block Chang Ning.
“That was close!”
While running, Chang Ning couldn’t dodge in time and was scratched on the face by flying tree bark, leaving a shallow blood mark. If he hadn’t instinctively turned his head just now, his eye would have been destroyed by now.
That tree bark had been flung up by the Blue Team’s bullets.
‘I’ve caught up to you all—how could I let you escape? Ridiculous!’
Chang Ning quickly slung the 85 sniper to his back, grabbed the Type 95 assault rifle slung across his chest, and, with the bonus of rifle shooting experience, raised it and fired a burst at the search team a few hundred meters ahead.
In the blink of an eye, he eliminated three more.
The familiar formula appeared in his mind; he fine-tuned his shooting posture while moving according to the formula, making the bullets seem guided—every shot hit.
The squad responsible for searching this area was thus eliminated by Chang Ning.
Chang Ning looked at the last remaining soldier, whose face was full of disbelief; he had never seen anyone so strong.
No, that battle record probably wasn’t something a human could achieve!
“Buddy, can you tell me which unit you’re from?”
The last soldier eliminated by Chang Ning asked; he was shocked by Chang Ning.
“Me? Great Merit Regiment Night Tiger Reconnaissance Company.”
After speaking, Chang Ning vanished into the jungle without waiting for the soldier to say more. He had no time for chat; other search teams might be heading here now.
If he didn’t leave soon, all his previous efforts would be wasted if he got surrounded.
