vrcanaries Chapter 317 - 182: Assault_2
Chapter 317 - 182: Assault_2
Chapter 317: Chapter 182: Assault_2Lin Wu’s idea was indeed sensible, and since Maya was someone who valued reason, she had no choice but to dive back down to
Players were divided into two units, supply point in Zone 1 and digging site in Zone 6 as one unit, and supply point in Zone 4 and digging site in Zone 7 as another unit. About 20% of the people were at digging sites, around 40% were doing hard labor at supply points, approximately 30% were receiving treatment and sleeping at supply points, and the remaining 10% were on the road.
Maya said, "Unless the Hunters start a massacre."
"A massacre?"
Maya asked, "Aren’t most players equipped with just handguns? They don’t have many bullets, which are very valuable to them. The supplies we gathered from killing and looting shortly after entering the copy were abundant, indicating that the Hunters’ points are very plentiful."
At that moment outside the tent, people who had escaped death returned to the digging site, all still shaken by the attack they had just experienced. Soon, someone discovered that new tasks had appeared at the digging site. Just as everyone was bustling about taking on tasks, three players appeared in the open land to the northeast. They were wearing protective suits and walked slowly toward the digging site, suddenly pulling out automatic rifles and opening fire.
When the gunfire sounded, panic set in among the crowd, and two other players pulled out assault rifles, firing wildly at people close by, cutting down players beside them like wheat.
After losing hundreds of people, the players were driven by the gunmen toward the southwest direction, which led to the tunnel and subway entrance. Five players occupied the center of the digging site, switching magazines behind cover, and kept firing into the crowd 30 meters away. They didn’t even need to aim, with hardly any shots missing their mark, only wishing their guns could fire faster. Bullets tore through the protective suits and as players were exposed to radiation, the blood loss from radiation left their protective mechanisms null and void. Fully-healed players were left with critical health, dying if they were a moment too slow to take medicine.
These five Hunters had herded people towards the southwest from the start, calculating that as long as there was a place to run to, players wouldn’t immediately fight back. And there was no cover in the southwest direction.
Facing overwhelming firepower, the players caught by surprise were very weak in their counterattacks. People were packed so tightly that they couldn’t even hold their guns steady, and those in the front row desperately burrowed into the crowd, causing even more chaos at the scene.
There were also players who bravely charged at the Hunters, but the 30-meter distance saw them dead on the spot.
Fortunately, a leader quickly emerged among the players, and under his shouting, the people charged together at the Hunters. The Hunters immediately began a fighting retreat, continuously eliminating players who reached them. However, the number of players was simply too much, and before long, the tide of people overran the five Hunters.
No one expected that the Hunters had filled their backpacks with bombs. As they were tackled, they pressed the detonation buttons, and five bombs exploded in succession, shaking the ground incessantly. The massive shockwave left players either dead on the spot, critically injured with tattered clothing waiting to die, or with their protective suits riddled with holes.
While a frenzy of killing raged outside, the inside of the tent for guests who had paid points was very quiet. Lin Wu had no idea what was happening outside and objected to Maya, "With so many players, if each fired a single shot, even 30 Hunters attacking together wouldn’t stand a chance."
Maya said, "You’ve forgotten people can panic. The players are all ordinary people who have never experienced an attack."
Lin Wu had never experienced an attack in a crowd, so he simulated it in his mind, realizing that even if he could confront the attackers with firearms, he would be scattered by the fleeing people, hence the best course of action would be to run with them. After thinking for a while, he still felt he could counter-attack in such a situation but couldn’t come up with a good method due to limited imagination.
Since he couldn’t come up with anything, Lin Wu said, "Let’s sleep, we still have defense duties tonight."