“I’m fine.”
Just three short words, and Ye Tong felt a tickle in her throat, immediately falling silent.
Any more talking and she’d cough up blood.
As long as she wasn’t dead, with the Power Bank, she’d recover fully in a few days at most.
In Ye Xi’s view, it wasn’t actually serious.
Of course, it really hurt…
“Are you really okay…?”
Mu Bai was somewhat skeptical, but besides looking a bit pale, Ye Tong didn’t seem to have any other reactions.
Now wasn’t the time to dwell on this.
By the moonlight, they could see the Gray Fog was visibly contracting at a speed discernible to the naked eye.
The Mountain God Temple’s location was already obscured by the Gray Fog.
They didn’t have much time left.
“Let’s take Xiao Wei back first… Also, we must be wary of the other team of Players. It’s highly likely they’ll choose to ambush us. Chacha, use your Talent to scout ahead. Notify us privately if there’s any situation.”
Mu Bai arranged the plan.
Xiao Huang and the Wooden Sword Talisman still needed after-sales service.
Mainly, it was a matter of conscience.
After all, it was on the way and not too troublesome.
As for the other team of Players…
Earlier, when she still held the possibility of cooperation, the fact that they chose to hide meant they were already prepared to be enemies.
Now, they had obtained the Upgrade Module, and the Site was about to close.
Judging by that team’s ruthless methods, Mu Bai didn’t believe they wouldn’t try to ambush them.
Ye Qi was probably quite seriously injured, limiting her mobility, so Mu Bai distributed the two Assault Rifles to Tang Shifu and Mo Cha.
Xiao Wei watched this.
Previously, she had only seen firearms on TV.
This was the first time in her life she had seen real, pitch-black Assault Rifles.
Never mind that Xiao Wei was just a little girl, even an adult would probably be startled.
However, although not many things had happened tonight, the sheer amount of information received was immense.
Xiao Wei hadn’t digested many things yet, and not long ago, she had experienced parting with Xiao Huang.
Xiao Wei couldn’t spare the extra energy to panic.
Sigh…
Throughout this night, even though she could tell Mu Bai and the others were hiding something from her, overall, they were indeed trying to help the town solve the haunting Weirdness.
Even though Xiao Huang had sacrificed itself and her talisman was used up, realistically speaking, she had lost her use value.
Yet, Mu Bai and the others were still, intentionally or not, protecting her.
In Xiao Wei’s eyes, Mu Bai and the others’ identity as “Official Organization Members” was further confirmed.
They were trustworthy.
However, they had sacrificed Xiao Huang without the slightest hesitation, which was somewhat cold and unfeeling.
“Let’s go, stay close to me.”
Mu Bai was still holding the Jade Gourd Pendant, her body enveloped in White Light.
“Yeah…”
Xiao Wei silently followed.
***
On the opposite riverbank, near the Stone Bridge.
Four people were hidden, lying prone in the weeds by the Riverbank.
Night was not like daytime.
Even with sparse plants and bright moonlight, you couldn’t clearly see four people hiding here without getting close and looking carefully.
“Captain, messages from Old Five and Old Six are in. There are indeed people coming from the other side of the bridge.”
“Are they in position?”
“They’ve been in position for a while now, just waiting for your order, Captain. We’ll attack from both sides in a pincer movement. The other side only has two people, plus two brats…”
“Why only four?”
“Maybe they lost members dealing with the Mutation Source. One of the two older ones is injured. I thought a Five-Level Site would be harder, but it seems not so much… This wave is all thanks to your thorough planning, Captain, letting us be the oriole stalking the cicada.”
“A Level 3 Train can’t be a pushover. Tell Old Five and Old Six, the moment we open fire, they immediately block the rear of the bridge. Everyone opens fire at full force. No one is allowed to underestimate the enemy!”
“Got it!”
Time passed slowly.
The brief few tens of seconds felt exceptionally long.
About half a minute later, several figures finally appeared on the bridge, exactly as described in the communication.
Seeing this, the Captain of the group felt relieved instead, a slight smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
The prey had stepped into the trap they had set.
Taking a deep breath to adjust his aim, he watched the “prey” gradually step into the center of the Stone Bridge—the perfect terrain with nowhere to hide.
“Open fi—”
Before the word “fire” could leave his mouth, a faint sound of glass breaking rang out nearby.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat…
An Assault Rifle spat out a stream of fire at close range that made everyone’s hair stand on end.
A string of bullets poured directly into their hiding spot like a chain of pearls.
One person was instantly headshot, half his skull splattering on the ground, motionless.
The survivors, ignoring their injuries, urgently swung their muzzles around, firing at full force while trying to evade.
What followed next made the brains of the three survivors short-circuit for a moment.
The bullets hitting that strange figure didn’t make the sound of piercing flesh, but rather a ping-ping metallic clanging sound.
In combat, a moment of distraction could be fatal.
The Assault Rifle’s barrage continued unimpeded, with nowhere to hide.
One magazine emptied in less than five seconds.
Four more corpses with unseeing eyes lay on the ground, dead without knowing what they had encountered.
Gunfire sounded from the bridge only then.
An Assault Rifle of the same model, with the advantage of waiting for fatigued enemies, opened fire the moment two figures appeared at the bridge entrance on the opposite bank.
Similarly, they were wiped out before they could even fire a shot.
Two battlefields, opened and closed within ten seconds of each other.
Mo Cha didn’t let her guard down.
She went to each corpse and put two extra bullets in their heads, confirming they were thoroughly dead before relaxing, standing quietly in place waiting for her teammates.
Soon, Mu Bai and the others arrived to regroup.
“Chacha, how are things here?”
“Don’t worry, I’m not injured. But there were four here. I wasn’t confident I could take them all out without injury, so I used one Metal Agent…”
“It’s fine. The Metal Agent only costs eight Train Coins… cough… Your safety is more important than anything.”
Mu Bai had originally wanted to say, “We’re definitely making a huge profit this time.”
But the words reached her lips, and she suddenly realized she couldn’t be that blunt.
Providing emotional value to teammates was also important.
So she changed her words on the spot.
Mo Cha smiled, clearly quite pleased, and proactively suggested, “We still need to confirm if the two on the other side are completely dead. Let me go.”
Of course, it was to loot the bodies.
“Yeah!”
Mu Bai naturally had no objections.
Ye Tong’s breathing seemed a bit heavy, as if she was holding something in her mouth.
Mu Bai thought it was because Tang Shifu had to be responsible for firing earlier, and the act of handing Ye Xi over for her to support might have aggravated Ye Tong’s injuries.
She quickly stepped forward to speed up the looting.
They still needed to go to the other team’s Train to plunder supplies.
Ye Tong’s injuries were probably severe and couldn’t be dragged on for too long.
If they were too serious for the Power Bank to heal, it would be bad.
Ye Tong had been the main powerhouse from the start, and Mu Bai had been relying on her until now.
This time, she was injured protecting her.
If she couldn’t be healed properly or was left with aftereffects, Mu Bai would feel guilty for a lifetime.
Three minutes later.
Mo Cha returned, now carrying an extra Submachine Gun and with a Pistol tucked at her waist.
Mu Bai had also stuffed all the loot into the bags these people had brought, handing them over to Tang Shifu.
The four of them headed back along the road.