The map for this battle was a strange stone formation that occupied a huge area. Thousands of cylindrical stone pillars stood in an irregular pattern in the desert, each of them different in height and thickness. The thickest one was like a pagoda, and the thinnest one was like a flagpole. Even though the stone pillars were arranged closely, there was no pattern to them.
A bright moon hung in the sky, and the wind caressed the clouds.
This kind of environment was an assassin's heaven.
Walking on the sand didn't leave any footsteps in the first place. With the cover of the wind, it was hard for the opponent to notice Xiao Tan's movement.
The surrounding stone formations provided multiple cover. Even if Xiao Tan appeared in the enemy's line of sight, he only needed to take three to five steps before he disappeared again.
Under such conditions, if one of the two parties was an Agility-based fighting player and the other was a marksmanship specialist, then the latter would basically lose.
And this battle was unfolding under such preconditions ….
Some people might find it strange. Although the two players were randomly matched, the map should be determined according to the data of the players. Why would the system generate such an unfair map?
The answer was simple … because the environment of the stone formation had no effect on Bu Tiange.
Bang bang bang!
Accompanied by a continuous and dull sound, two swift shadows crossed each other and rushed over.
Since the start of the scenario, this was the umpteenth time Xiao Tan had faced this kind of attack. He knew very well … even though the attack was not fast, it was powerful, and the angle was tricky. If he blocked it with his own power, he would lose a lot of Life Points. Therefore, he had to use a very awkward posture to evade it and keep moving.
"This is not going to work …" Xiao Tan gasped for air, and he kept moving. "Without realizing it, half of my Life Points have been depleted, and one-third of my Stamina Points have been depleted. Now that I think about it, his long-range attack is very strange … Could it be a Sorcery Weapon?"
He was not wrong. At that moment, Bu Tiange, who was standing on top of one of the giant stone pillars and controlling two boomerangs to attack from a very long distance, was indeed using a Sorcery Weapon.
Item Name: Thunder Boomerang
Item Type: Sorcery Weapon
[Quality: Excellent]
Offense Points: Slightly Strong
Attribute: Electricity
[Special Effect 1: Fly Back (Sense the user's position and fly back to the user's hand)]
[Special Effect 2: Hunt (Lock onto target and attack accurately)]
[Special Effect 3: Ultrasonic Wave (Able to sense and avoid obstacles during return or pursuit if conditions permit)]
[Special Effect 4: Thunder (Release a powerful electric shock, can only be used in melee combat. Thunder Boomerang will lose all special effects within 1 hour after usage.]
[Note: In 1977, a tourist in Australia was accidentally hit in the back of the head by his own boomerang and died. In the end, his soul traveled to tens of thousands of years ago and became a Kooris. They did not have a fixed residence and were scattered throughout Australia. Before the Europeans occupied Australia, the Kooris had more than 500 tribes with a population of more than 750,000. From then on, he began a domineering journey where he had one lucky encounter after another. He swept across the continent and slaughtered gods and demons, becoming a legendary existence. Many years later, a weapon that he had once used reappeared somewhere in the multiverse, and that was the Thunder Boomerang!]
From the item's description, it could be seen that this thing would not be affected by the Strange Stone Formation. With the help of the ultrasonic effect, the Thunder Boomerang could sense the existence of obstacles, just like a bat, and make appropriate acceleration and swerve in the air to bypass the obstacles and go straight for the target.
Of course, this did not mean that the Thunder Boomerang was a weapon that would definitely hit its target. In the special effect, there was still the phrase "if conditions permit". This meant that there were situations where conditions did not permit it. For example, if the obstacle was a wall that was 10 meters tall and the user was standing at the foot of the wall and throwing the boomerang at a 45-degree angle, that would be a situation where the conditions did not permit it. No matter how powerful the boomerang was, it was impossible for it to spin in the opposite direction as soon as it left the user's hand and fly up vertically, bypassing the wall from the top and then descending diagonally to pursue the opponent …
Generally speaking, the general direction and angle that the user of the Thunder Boomerang aimed at when throwing the boomerang could not be too outrageous, and there could not be any particularly huge obstacles between the user and the target … such as something like a dam. This way, the advantage of the weapon could be brought into play.
Right now, Xiao Tan was in a difficult situation because of this repeated accurate attack.
Ten minutes ago, when the battle had just begun, Xiao Tan had also tried to get close to the opponent, but he had been forced back by the opponent's heavy firepower.
At that time, Xiao Tan was not in a hurry. He was a very patient person, and he was able to maintain enough calmness under such circumstances. He thought, At worst, I'll drag it out into a protracted battle. I just need to rely on cover to deal with you, and you'll run out of bullets sooner or later.
Unexpectedly … Bu Tiange's psionic weapon greeted him again and again.
Therefore, Xiao Tan was caught between a rock and a hard place. If he forced himself to get close, there was a high chance that he would be turned into a sieve before he could even get close to the opponent's attack range. But if he wandered around, the opponent would not even care about him.
In conclusion, Bu Tiange's tactic was to deal with all kinds of changes by sticking to the same spot and using long-range attacks to harass the opponent.
This cycle repeated over and over again. Whether it was his Life Points or Stamina Points, Xiao Tan became the one who was being drained.
"Tsk … If it weren't for the boomerangs, his crouching fighting style would have been judged as AFKing a long time ago …" Xiao Tan said gloomily as he dodged another round of boomerangs. "What should I do?"
If Feng Bujue was there, he probably would have come up with more than ten tactics that were even more shameless than the opponent's. But when it came to tactics, Xiao Tan was still in the state of 'following his instincts'. Sometimes, when he had a flash of inspiration, he could do something shocking, but most of the time, he was not as resourceful as those tactical players.
"Wait a minute … even if this guy's attacks are automatic tracking, how did he lock onto my position in this pile of rocks?" Finally, after ten minutes of running for his life, Xiao Tan realized this problem that he should have thought of earlier.
It was night time, and he was several hundred meters away from the opponent. He was surrounded by stone pillars, so how did the opponent manage to aim at him?
"Is it some kind of heat sensing skill?" Xiao Tan thought anxiously. "Hmm … it has been more than ten minutes, and his attacks have not stopped. If it is an active skill, then how much energy would it consume? Could it be a passive ocular skill? "He quickly rejected this speculation." No … a passive ocular skill would make it impossible to see things normally, so it shouldn't exist. "
Thud thud thud —
Another round of attacks. Xiao Tan took two steps on a stone pillar beside him, somersaulted in the air, and dodged again.
"If it is not a skill, then it must be a piece of equipment." Xiao Tan thought to himself. "It can't be a Soul's Eye …" Even though he had heard Brother Jue and Sister Rain describe the concept of Soul's Eye before, he had never experienced it himself, so he did not know much about it. Furthermore, Soul's Eye was indeed very rare, but it was not something that could be found everywhere.
"I didn't see anything on his face earlier, but facial equipment can be hidden, which means …" Xiao Tan thought about this and leaped up.
He chose a large stone pillar that was several meters in diameter, stepped on the vertical surface of the pillar, and ran around the pillar.
After running a few rounds, he dodged and leaped onto another pillar beside him, and did the same thing.
At the same time, Bu Tiange, who was standing at a high point several hundred meters away, actually stopped attacking. This was because a strange scene had appeared in his heat-sensing goggles. Near the originally clear hot spot, a blurry high-temperature area had appeared. It was like an orange fog, concealing the target's whereabouts.
"What is he doing?" Bu Tiange thought. "Is he making a big fire?" Thinking about this, he quickly changed the goggles to display mode and lifted it to his forehead to look with his naked eye.
However, it was still pitch black in the distance.
This was to be expected … the footprints left by Xiao Tan's Flying Lycan's Traces were burning with black flames.
"Huh?" Bu Tiange put on the thermal goggles again and realized that there were more and more areas of high temperature.
On the other side, Xiao Tan saw that the opponent had stopped attacking for a while, and he knew that his method was working. He increased his speed and leaped between more pillars, leaving behind as many footprints as he could to increase the visual effect.
"What is going on?" Bu Tiange lost track of his opponent, and he panicked. His Terror Points rose. "There is no fire, but the area of high temperature is getting bigger and bigger. It can't be that he's spraying his body fluid all over the place, right?"
Without being able to pinpoint his opponent's location, his Sorcery Weapon lost its use, and the special effect of Pursuit could not be activated.
Xiao Tan made use of this opportunity to close in on his opponent and started to create a 'circle of footprints' around Bu Tiange's hiding spot.
"He is a player from a gaming studio, so his overall power level is definitely higher than mine. Even though his level is the same as mine, he has the advantage in terms of his equipment and skills. With more options, his teamwork will be better. "After Xiao Tan escaped from the passive situation, he started to plan his attack." But … he is not one of the top players on the combat stat ranking, so his power level should not be that much higher than mine. As long as I can find his weakness and create an advantage at a specific time and place … I have a good chance of winning. "
"Is he coming?" Bu Tiange was not dumb. He saw that the area around him had turned into a high temperature zone, and the area was getting smaller and smaller. Naturally, he knew that his opponent was at a very dangerous distance.
"Tsk …" Bu Tiange removed the goggles. After all, he could see through the heat sensor. His surroundings were already covered in orange fog, so there was no point in wearing them anymore.
"Ha … Hmm …" Bu Tiange used deep breaths to calm his emotions so that his trembling hands could stabilize.
He and his sister, Not a Scaredy Cat, were polar opposites. His sister was a tough woman, and his personality, to put it more elegantly, was a coward. To put it more simply, he was a sissy.
The reason Bu Tiange chose to specialize in marksmanship was because he wanted to avoid direct physical combat. (He had entered the game during the closed beta, and at the time, there were no Sorcery or Summoning specializations to choose from.) He had been treated like a human punching bag by his sister since he was young, and physical combat had left a strong psychological trauma in him. From his fixed position, it was not hard to see that the kid's style was to not give others the chance to get close.
Tss tss!
Suddenly, two soft sounds came from Bu Tiange's left. Without saying a word, he turned the machine gun around and fired a barrage of bullets in that direction. But without the heat sensor, he had no idea what he was shooting at.
The fire from the machine gun is not enough to disperse the shadows between the stone pillars. The gunshots and the sound of the shells hitting the ground can be my cover … Xiao Tan hid behind a stone pillar and thought calmly. As expected … he is using some kind of heat sensor to confirm my location. Now, he has basically been blinded …
The soft sound earlier was made by Xiao Tan when he grabbed a handful of sand and threw it at the stone pillar. It was a deliberate attempt to test his opponent.
At that moment, the tables had turned. Wang Tanzhi was like a beast hiding in the dark, testing his opponent's reaction with ease, looking for a chance to kill him in one hit.
And Bu Tiange's lackey … after his opponent saw through his fighting style and broke through one of the links, he was forced into a passive position.
As a player who majored in marksmanship, Bu Tiange's eyesight was not bad, but since Xiao Tan hid in the dark and wore a dark-colored outfit (Xiao Tan's assassin outfit was a dark red jacket with a golden cape), it was difficult to catch sight of him with the naked eye.
On the other hand, Xiao Tan, who also had a Level C Sleuthing, did not have such concerns … Bu Tiange stood at the top of the giant stone pillar, using it as a lookout and defense point. Xiao Tan only needed to poke his head out from behind one of the pillars, and he would be able to catch a glimpse of his opponent.
"Ha ah … Ha ah …" Bu Tiange tried his best to lower the sound of his breathing. Fear sharpened his sight and hearing. He thought to himself, I need to calm down … The opponent is testing me; I cannot fall for his trap. He calmed himself down. I am too nervous … Actually, there is no need to rush to open fire. I am on top of him, and I have the machine gun. No matter how fast he is, he will not be able to get close to me instantly. At the start of the scenario, he was forced to retreat like this … There will be no difference now. He made his decision. Yes! Wait for him to appear in our line of sight before opening fire. Rashly shooting randomly will instead give him an opportunity to take advantage of. "
Tss tss — There was another sound.
This time, Bu Tiange only turned his head around cautiously. He widened his eyes to look in that direction, but he did not pull the trigger.
Fufufufu … Following the previous sound, another string of sound floated out from the darkness in an arc. Three seconds later, it stopped abruptly.
"He did not fall for the trap this time …" Xiao Tan thought to himself. He wanted to repeat the same trick, to use the method of tossing sand to attract the opponent's attention. When Bu Tiange opened fire, he would circle to his blind spot, step onto the pillar, and complete the assassination.
But he did not expect … after he tossed the sand and started to move at high speed, the opponent did not fall for his trap.
Therefore, Xiao Tan quickly stopped and lowered the sound of his footsteps to hide himself.
In these few short minutes, neither of them spoke, and they did not use any actual killing moves, but this battle of wits and courage had entered its climax.
Suddenly, the wind picked up …
The sound of the wind passed through the strange stone formation that was shrouded in the night, and it echoed with a mournful wail.
With the push of the desert wind, a dark cloud slowly covered the moonlight …
At that moment, with a click, a dot of light lit up from behind a stone pillar. Then, a man wearing a miner's hat walked out from behind the pillar.
With the dark clouds covering the sun, the light source was very eye-catching. The miner's hat was a striking yellow color, so it was difficult to ignore it.
"Hey … You're too arrogant." In an instant, Bu Tiange's mind flashed such a comment, but his actions did not slow down. He immediately pointed the gun at Xiao Tan and pulled the trigger.
However, at that moment, the dot of light turned into a belt of light.
Bu Tiange also expected that the opponent would not sit still, so it was reasonable for him to move at high speed. "Hmph … You want to force your way up … Can you be faster than a bullet?"
Of course, Xiao Tan could not be faster than a bullet, at least not for now. But he did not need to be faster than a bullet, he just needed to be fast enough to deceive the opponent's eyes …
The gun was fired, and the concentrated fire of the machine gun poured down.
In the same second, the dot of light in the darkness split into two, and a second later, it split into three again. Three blurry ribbons of light appeared and disappeared intermittently, circling around the stone pillar in a slanted manner.
"I knew you would use this skill!" Bu Tiange did not panic. When Xiao Tan first tried to break through the net of fire, he had already used the skill, Flowers Vanish in the Wind. At that moment, Bu Tiange had already seen through his trick of using afterimages to create overlapping shadows.
"The result won't change this time!" Bu Tiange adjusted the barrel of the machine gun slightly and increased the coverage of the bullet. It covered the three shadows within the net of fire. Last time, he had used the same method to push Xiao Tan back and had shaved off quite a bit of Life Points.
But this time, something that confused him happened.
One, two, three … The three dots of light disappeared one by one.
The darkness returned, and Bu Tiange's eyes … were empty.
"They are all afterimages?" At that moment, Bu Tiange's Terror Points soared. "Where is the real body?"
This question was soon answered.
A cold hidden blade pierced through the back of Bu Tian Ge's neck. It pierced through his cervical vertebra and came out from his throat. The blood that gushed out formed a blood mist in the air and dispersed with the wind.
Ten seconds earlier …
Xiao Tan ignored the exhaustion of his Life Points and purposely turned on the light on the miner's hat. Using his afterimage skill, he forced his way up the stone pillar. When he reached a certain height, he left behind three afterimages. At the same time … he reached out to turn off the light on the miner's hat. Then, he curled his body and used Shadow of the Devil Bat at the stone pillar before him. Using the skill's effect … he instantly appeared on the other side of the stone pillar.
Therefore, he successfully disappeared from his opponent's sight.
Three seconds later, under the cover of gunfire, Xiao Tan had sneaked behind Bu Tiange … and claimed his ninth victory.
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