"Don't worry, that's just how he is. Being a sniper is just his identity, but his close-quarters combat skills are even more terrifying. Did you hear about how he caught an axe and threw it back? When I turned around and saw the axe, I thought I was dead for sure. But in the end, he caught the axe with his bare hands and even killed a barbarian with it."
"So don't worry too much. Let's just go shopping in peace," a soldier from the recon company said calmly.
Ren Xiaosu probably did not expect the recon company to start educating their other comrades.
It seemed that they had killed enough barbarians, and perhaps because it was too easy, the infantry brigade's soldiers gradually let go of their fear and nervousness.
Ren Xiaosu was picking up the axes from the rear when he heard the voice from the palace say, "Quest complete. Awarded two unassigned attribute points. You may assign them to the Host at will."
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment before he assigned the attribute points to his Strength and Dexterity. His Strength and Dexterity had reached 17.5 and 17.1 respectively.
"That's strange. Why did the quest suddenly complete?" Ren Xiaosu was still a little puzzled. This was the first time he did not know how he had completed his quest.
However, when he picked up the axes, Yang Xiaojin saw him taking off his helmet. She asked curiously, "Are you taking the helmets with you too?"
"No, those helmets smell like head oil. Who would want something like that?" Ren Xiaosu said, "I just wanted to see how old these barbarians are."
But when he looked, Ren Xiaosu realized the barbarians he encountered this time were all elderly!
At the beginning, only 20% of the barbarians he encountered were elderly, so it did not arouse Ren Xiaosu's vigilance. But now that they were all elderly, Ren Xiaosu realized something was wrong.
If they did not have enough soldiers and had to send the elderly to the battlefield, why not just retreat? The elderly were so weak.
It was no wonder the Pyro Company's main forces were advancing triumphantly. It was not that everyone had become stronger, but that the barbarians had become weaker!
Ren Xiaosu switched on the radio and shouted, "P5092, P5092, reply if you can hear me."
The soldiers of the 3rd Division lowered their heads and did not speak. This was the first time they had seen someone yell at their commanding officer like that. However, they could not afford to offend Ren Xiaosu, so they could only pretend not to hear …
P5092 wondered, "What's the matter?"
"I'm in Area B11. Come over here. I have something to discuss." Ren Xiaosu was not far from the Third Division. The other party rushed over quickly.
P5092 immediately saw a pile of white barbarians on the ground. He asked, "What's this?"
"This is the barbarian I just killed," Ren Xiaosu said.
P5092 took a look and saw these barbarians were all covered in saber wounds. It looked like Ren Xiaosu had ambushed more than a 100 of them.
These words sounded strange, as if one person had surrounded more than a hundred people, but it was the truth …
Ren Xiaosu said, "Look, these barbarians are all elderly. I seriously suspect that the reason the barbarians suddenly put on their helmets is to hide the fact that these soldiers are elderly. "
P5092 crouched down to check. "Are the barbarians we encountered earlier the same? Why aren't they carrying any axes? "
"Uh …" Ren Xiaosu looked around. "I don't know either …"
It was not that the barbarians did not carry any axes, but that they had all been put away by Ren Xiaosu.
But that was not the main point. P5092 asked, "Did you check on the barbarians we killed earlier? Recon Company, quickly go back and check on them. Check their ages and the proportion of the elderly among them! "
P5092 reacted quickly. He immediately felt that something was wrong and wanted to analyze the battle situation based on the previous situation.
However, Ren Xiaosu hurriedly stopped him. "I've already checked on them. There's no need to go back. Among the barbarians we encountered earlier, the proportion of the elderly was either 37 or 28. There weren't many of them. But it's different this time. They're all elderly."
Ren Xiaosu had to stop the recon company from going back. Otherwise, they would discover that the axes had gone missing.
At that time, it would no longer be a war incident but a supernatural one.
Ren Xiaosu changed the topic and said, "Why do you think the barbarians did this?"
"I'm not sure." The first thing P5092 thought of was the lack of troops. But after some thought, he said, "I keep getting the feeling that something's not right."
But at this moment, a communications soldier ran over. "Sir! The 6th Division has announced that they've captured the leader of the expeditionary army's advance guard, Valentin! The barbarians' main forces have been defeated and are fleeing north! "
In all wars since ancient times, capturing the leader first was a shortcut to victory. Once the enemy's highest-ranking officer was captured or killed, 99% of the troops would be routed. On one hand, they would be leaderless, and on the other hand, their morale would decline.
As a matter of fact, morale was one of the most important factors for victory in a war.
And now that Valentin, the highest-ranking officer of the expeditionary army's advance guard, had been captured, the defeat of the barbarians in the forest was a foregone conclusion.
But P5092 felt that something was amiss. He said to the communications soldier, "Connect me to the 6th Division immediately!"
When the call connected, P5092 said, "I'm P5092. I'm looking for P5031."
P5031 was the highest-ranking officer of the 6th Division. However, the deputy commander who answered the call said, "I'm sorry, our commander is busy commanding the battle at the moment, so he doesn't have time to answer your call. Why don't you tell me what's the matter? I can pass on the message to him."
P5092 sneered in his head. He knew 031 was right next to the communications device, but he just did not want to answer his call. How could a deputy commander have the right to speak on a confidential call between the P5s? If the deputy commander dared to say that he would pass on the message, it must have been instigated by 031. Otherwise, how could a P4 deputy commander dare to speak like that?
After the barbarians captured Valentin, 031 probably felt that the position of the supreme commander was already in his bag, so he did not intend to bother with P5092.
Then if 031 were really promoted, this deputy commander would immediately become a new P5 commander and be on equal footing with P5092. Therefore, there was no need for him to take P5092 seriously.
P5092 said coldly, "Don't be in a hurry to pursue the barbarians to the north. Let me ask you this: How did y 'all know that the person you captured was the barbarians' commander, Valentin?"
The deputy commander seemed a little impatient. "When we captured him alive, he was surrounded by a group of barbarians. After we captured him, we interrogated him, and he admitted to it himself! Moreover, after we captured him, the barbarians started fleeing north. Could that have been a lie? "
P5092 sneered, "What if he's lying? I'm warning y 'all, don't continue pursuing him north!"
However, the deputy commander said, "The battle in the forest ended when we captured Valentin. You're no longer the interim supreme commander, so our 6th Division can come up with our own battle plan. There's no need for you to worry. If you're worried that all the credit will go to the 6th Division, why don't you take the initiative and kill more barbarians? "
After that, the deputy commander took the initiative to hang up on P5092. P5092 said coldly, "Idiot."
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