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Book 2: You’re Beautiful

Chapter 41

Their tactic was quite insidious.

Such a large number of traps was the same as sacrificing two players by not giving them any weapons. Instead, they used all the money to buy traps and flares.

They had turned what normally was a fierce round of shooting into a stalling game by rigging everything.

But they had to admit.

It was a sound strategy for the defenders on the hostage rescue game mode.  It was a tactic quite suitable for bandits.

Ai Qing looked at the countdown timer on screen.  There was still three minutes left.

The game would finish in three minutes.  They would lose if they couldn’t find the hostages in those three minutes.

Ai Qing and Dt made the decision to take a moment to prepare. Facing each other, they began to exchange the resources they had.  All weapons and ammos were given to Dt.  The supplementary tools were all thrown to her.  Ten seconds later, she sold all the supplementary tools to trade for weapons and ammos.

Not a tool was left.

All they carried were weapons.

The life detector still hadn’t found anything.  In other words, the hostage was not in this area.

But the enemy was around.

In order to win, they needed to swiftly attack and kill the remaining bandits.

There was little difference in the time it took for either of them to change guns.  Ai Qing felt at this moment the same pa.s.sion she had as a CS player ten years ago.

How long had it been since she had worked with such a well-matched partner?

Appledog:  “Dt and I will rush up north, group up with us there.  We don’t have time to find the hostage.  Let’s kill them all.” She and Dt, guns in hands, jumped onto motorcycles on the roadside one after the other.

They rode over empty, devastated streets.

Only several npc pedestrians wandered around without any expression.

They were driving two motorcycles at high speeds.  Shooting outside and reckless driving would trigger attacks from the game.  They had tried to avoid this situation before, but now they didn’t have the time to care.

Suddenly, all the stationary tanks on the road started to turn around slowly.  In the sky above the tall buildings, ten beams of light swept over their position.  Tanks fired after them as they pa.s.sed by, the sound was deafening.

On screen, buildings quickly flowed backwards.

Dt skillfully dodged through the fire.

“I see them!”  Ai Qing’s eyes shined.

She pressed s.p.a.cebar to jump off.  The moment she landed on the ground, she made a forward somersault again and rolled over to one side of the street.

Not bad, she only lost half of her health.

She and the enemy lifted their guns simultaneously and fired without stop.

Suddenly, she was shot.

Her breathing slowed down.  The lifelike heartbeat and the blurring of her vision both reminded her that she had been shot in a vital part of her body.

Slowly.

The screen returned to normal.  She had only one tenth of her health left.  But at the street corner, the enemy was already lying on the ground with a hole through its head.

“I killed one.”  She said.

She looked at Dt’s computer screen from the corner of her eyes.  Amid the fireball of the exploding motorcycle, Dt had rolled to one side.  The moment he hit the wall, he aimed and shot.  Tatami’s head popped.

Very good.  Three down.

Unfortunately, there was only 30 seconds left.

29……

28……

27……

The four of them gathered in the middle of the street.  They had run out of time.  There was still one enemy that hadn’t showed his head.  They didn’t know which corner he was hiding.  Grunt spoke first,  “d.a.m.n. This can’t even be counted as a tactic. I have never seen it before.  Do they hide a guy just to prevent their entire team from dying?”

She lightly exhaled.  “Winning the game is the purpose of the tactics.”

Ten seconds in countdown.

Ai Qing took off her headphones first.  She stood up with smile and stretched out her hand to the guy who had lost his head to her.  After that, Grunt, Inin and Dt logged off one after the other and stood.

As the captain, Dt naturally stretched out his hand to his counterpart.

Tatami laughed and punched Dt’s left shoulder with a fist.  “No need to shake hands.  You already killed me twice today.  How frustrating!  I can’t even win in shooter against you.”

Dit didn’t dodge and took his punch.  “You played well.  I expect to meet you again in the Asian Tournament.”

Someone was willing to give up their offensive power and trade it for supplemental items.  Someone was willing to hide so they could stall the game.  They did all these things towards one goal, winning.

It was very effective.

Because it was a private compet.i.tion, there was no rule to play a best of five.

Perhaps, if it had been a different map in a different game mode, they might have lost instead.

But since both sides agreed that one game was enough, that was it.  After all, the Asian Tournament was only several months away.  No one wanted to give away all of their secrets just yet.

They walked out of the room.  The TUMA club people, who had waited for a very long time, all stood up.  After they heard that they had won, it was impossible for them not be excited.  They were very disappointed in the afternoon after they lost the StarCraft compet.i.tion.  This victory made up for some of it.

Suddenly a little figure walked over nervously.  “Dt, can I take a picture with you?”  The expectation in Wewe’s eyes surprised Ai Qing.

“I’m sorry, but, no.”  Dt’s eyes underneath the brim of the hat were very calm and he refused straightforwardly.

It was a bit too direct.

Ai Qing silently shed tears in her mind for Wewe…...She saw Grunt mischievously nudged Dt with his shoulders, while keeping his eyes pointed at Ai Qing.

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