Mantis Catching Cicada

the crowd lurking in the dark, a motionless surveillance.

This is an open-ended task, so no matter how long it takes, as long as you can complete the task.

Taking advantage of this brief gap, Thorne sat aside and opened the panel alone to check the career quests he had completed earlier.

That's the beauty of being a leader, you have someone to help you police and watch your enemies anyway, so you can concentrate on your own business.

Thorne has completed the first phase of the Hunter mission, killing an impostor.

[Congratulations, you have completed the first stage of the primary hunter mission and opened the second professional skill! [You now have the ability of "Shooting Evasion"! As long as you are firing, your reaction, speed and danger perception will be greatly enhanced! So that you can fire at the same time, in time to dodge most of the attacks, but dodge during the hit accuracy is greatly reduced.

Once the firing stops, all abilities regain their basic state! Thorne was pleasantly surprised, this shooting dodge ability could be said to be very useful for fire, as long as he was in the continuous fire phase, he could dodge most dangers.

Although you need to fire continuously in order to use this ability, the benefits are undeniable.

For example, he can immediately fire continuously and then dodge the attack when he encounters a strong enemy like a tracker and attacks.

And this skill is very suitable with his hunter ability.

The hunter attaches importance to offense, so he plays a shot of power, almost equal to the average player to play several shots, his bullet consumption will be slower, just as the shooting dodge to supplement.

Although the dodge will sacrifice the hit rate, but if the critical moment can save lives, the number of empty shots is worth it.

A new Hunter Quest Card was added to the item screen, and Thorne immediately redeemed it.

[Junior Hunter Stage 2 Mission! Kill at least two intermediate impostors! Mission time: unlimited mission reward: strengthen the ammunition penetration caused by the hunter when firing, your bullet penetration of bulletproof protective gear is enhanced by 20%, if the enemy does not have bulletproof protective gear, your bullet has the power to penetrate at least one enemy! You can even put a normal bullet through the heads of two zombies! If the mission is completed, this skill can greatly strengthen his bullet penetration ability, which is equal to enhanced firepower. Imagine, for every bullet he fires, he can penetrate two or three monsters, which is equivalent to eliminating more monsters with the same number of bullets.

What's more, his bullets enhance the penetration of bulletproof armor by 20%, making it more effective against powerful monsters like trackers.

Thorne immediately received the task and opened it.

Secretly, Derek said he was a third-level impostor, although it is possible that he was lying, but is a third-level impostor a low-level or mid-level? Ask him later, most likely he will not answer honestly.

After completing this, Thorne returned to the group.

"Well, what do we have?" "No movement.

""Keep monitoring.

""Yes!" "Team leader, should we ask Derek to send a licker to see what's going on?" Adam suggested, "After all, if he uses a licker, he won't be easily spotted.

"Thorne pondered for a moment, said:" Derek hiding in the shadows, it is best not to act rashly, especially the other side has a heavy machine gun, the strength is not weak, once they detect an impostor in the vicinity, he will be on high alert, then we will be more difficult to do.

"Time passed, five minutes later.

"Something's going on!" Stu suddenly whispered.

Thorne immediately padded over to the window.

"Look guys, there's someone going over there!" Thorne raised his gun and began to observe the specific situation through the night vision function of the scope.

Sure enough, in the alley next to the basketball court, four figures appeared, and they were covering each other, advancing alternately, with three on guard on the perimeter and the other walking towards the basketball court, approaching the empty drop box.

The man was wearing what appeared to be an Embraer costume and seemed to be from the UBCS.

"Are we going to move out?" Stu asked a little eagerly, "These guys are going to grab supplies!" Thorne calmly dismissed him.

"No, these guys are not carrying heavy machine guns, obviously not all of their men, we are in the shadows now, with the help of Derek's lickers, even if they take the airdrop away, we track them over, we can still find a chance to grab it back, the key now is to find out exactly what they are, how many men they have and what their strength is.

"The crowd slowly nodded, feeling that his analysis is very reasonable, if the character of the previous group leader, now absolutely have rushed out.

"Da-da-da-da-da-da!" The sound of heavy machine guns rang out again, this time from a small bungalow next to the basketball court! A line of fire instantly engulfed the man who was near the drop box, the man didn't even have time to scream, his entire body was shattered by the heavy machine gun bullets, and he died immediately.

The three people in the alley were obviously terrified and were about to run away.

Suddenly several black shadows appeared behind them, and the three gradually retreated and had to put down their weapons and meekly raise their hands in surrender.

The group was deeply impressed by Thorne's precise analysis. If they had rushed out just now, it would not be the man who was now killed by machine gun fire, but them.

"Pete, have Derek think about checking out how many local heavy machine guns the other side has and where they are! Hildo, you occupy the roof of this small building, responsible for sniping the other side's heavy machine gun positions, if we fight here, you need to eliminate them as soon as possible!" Hideaway nodded and acted immediately.

Thorne continued to observe.

As those three were pushed onto the basketball court, all disarmed, a strong searchlight shot out from the top of the small building where the flat-firing heavy machine gun had been fired, illuminating the place.

Those were indeed three armed men from Embraer, and one of them was actually Carlos! In front of them stood six heavily armed, but all topless, burly men who were dressed like the look of Rambo in the movie.

Each man was holding a high-powered AK assault rifle, a large-caliber rifle that uses 7.62mm bullets and could easily tear through their body armor at such close range.

They kept talking about something, and you could tell that Carlos seemed to be trying to explain something, but the voices on both sides were getting louder and louder, and there didn't seem to be a good deal.

One of the big men suddenly turned his gun around and shot one of Carlos' companions, hitting the man in the leg.

The man cried out and fell to the ground.

Carlos tried to get up to help, but was stopped by a couple of big men with stern voices.

"Things are getting a little off.

"Adam got a little worried, "That's the main character Carlos, right, what if he dies?" "The three of you shooting skills, who is sure of this distance, accurate kill those big men?" Thorne asked.

Pete shook his head.

"This one, it's a little hard.

"Adam also shook his head slightly, "I have no problem strafing, but precise point blank shooting, and can not hurt the hostages, I'm afraid I'm a little hung up, if Norton is in-" "I can do it.

"Stu said confidently.

"Okay, those six big men, you are responsible for the two on the right, the other four I will clean up.

"Thorne set the weapon to single-shot sniper mode and set up the mission," I would give the order to fire.

""You want to hit four at once?" Stu asked in surprise, he knew that Thorne used this gun, there is a special sniper mode, but the problem is, how this distance is more than 50 meters, and there are hostages, once the other side dead, at most less than a second to shoot, if you can not kill everyone in another second, you may threaten the hostages.

The first time I saw it, I had to kill four people in one second. This must be extremely high marksmanship and judgment to do, not to mention that he opened the sniper mode, the scope is clear to see, but a little turn a little angle, the target in the sniper scope will be a big deviation, just this fast alignment of the next target is very difficult.

"Concentrate on your aim, I may fire at any moment!" Thorne warned without looking away, still holding his gun in a standing position, not at all prone like Stu, and without the slightest wobble in his arm.

Stu stopped talking and carefully aimed at his target and adjusted his form.

On the basketball court, the two sides were still arguing fiercely, the expressions of those big men were getting more and more impatient, and soon, one of them shot the injured man in the head.

"Get ready!" Thorne, seeing that the situation was critical, said immediately.

"No!" Carlos roared.

The big man seemed to ask something, Carlos did not answer, and the big man's gun was immediately aimed at another companion.

"Fire!" "Ta-da-da-da!" "Ta-da!" Thorne's gun almost sounded like a sweeping shot, it was impossible to hear that he was sniping! Blood sprang from the heads of six burly men almost simultaneously and they fell to the ground, all shot dead.

"Run!" Carlos reacted extremely quickly and saw this and immediately picked up the weapons on the ground with his companions and quickly left the basketball court, but the searchlight was following them dead on.

"Dang, dang, dang!" The heavy machine gun fired again! A bright line of fire swept toward the two men, and Carlos hastily turned the corner of an alley to avoid the sweeping fire.

The companion was shot in the shoulder, and he stumbled into the alley and fell to the ground.

Since the sniping was done in almost less than two seconds, the other side didn't even notice exactly where the fire was opened. After a few seconds of sweeping the heavy machine gun on the roof of that building in the direction of the gunfire, Thorne heard a distinctive growl from a shotgun overhead.

The heavy machine guns on the opposing side's high ground went silent.

But because the sound of gunfire was confused with the sound of heavy machine guns, the other side apparently still didn't distinguish exactly where the sneak attack was.

"Well done, Hideaway!" Thorne said darkly.

The alley, only to see Carlos up to rack up his injured companion to prepare to leave, but soon found that the front is a dead end, the two had no choice but to temporarily hide behind a dumpster.

Thorne saw seven or eight dark figures approaching their position from the outskirts of the basketball court.

"You guys stay in place and prioritize striking the opponent's heavy firepower if you are in a position to do so!" Thorne gave the order, "These people are not of high military quality, there is no pressure to take them down as long as they are without heavy fire support! Remember, you can only fire in support when we are in a critical situation!" "What about you, team leader?" "I'll draw their fire and save the men!" Thorne said, agilely flipping out of the window, and the others were dumbfounded.

Thorne did this not only to save Carlos and the others, but more importantly, to cover Hideaway's sniping.

Sidor if continued firing, will certainly expose the position, especially this small building is not high at all, it is only three floors, it is easy to be struck by the other side.

And that flat-firing machine gun fire point is shrunken inside a store, Hido simply can not hit.

If there are other undiscovered points of fire, they can completely overwhelm Hido to lift his head.

So as soon as someone continued to approach the heavy machine gun on the roof and attempted to re-fire, Sidor would shoot them dead.

And as soon as Hideaway fired, almost simultaneously, Thorne would also fire a few point blank shots to keep his opponent's attention on himself.

He moved quickly, in front of the crowd, demonstrating an extremely high level of combat ability.

Quickly approaching the area of engagement, he concealed himself behind a concrete planter, his orientation perpendicular to the alley where Carlos was located, giving him good support for Carlos.

Those big men in a straight line, lined up by the wall, and not even cover, just like this and Carlos shot at each other, such poor combat literacy, let Thorne a burst of frown.

"They are not even half trained in combat, they are just a bunch of idiots with guns!" Thorne adjusted his rifle to continuous fire melee mode and suddenly opened fire, the gang of teasers were simply lined up to be shot, and five or six of them fell down at once.

The other people reacted, yakking and screaming and hiding.

Carlos also began to counterattack at this moment, and immediately two more people fell to the ground.

A bright searchlight shot through, marking out Thorne's hiding place.

"Dang, dang, dang!" The flat-firing heavy machine gun found Thorne's position and frantically strafed up! The powerful firepower caused a strong force even when it hit the concrete, and there were constant cement debris bursting out! Before Thorne left, he also brought two grenades and two flashes, but that fire point was at least a hundred meters away from him, he could not throw the mines to save himself, and the effective range of the flashes was within five meters, and if it was further away, others would only see a cloud of smoking flashes, and there would be no obvious soft killing effect.

"Bang!" The shotgun went off, the searchlight went out, and the surroundings fell into a darkness.

"Ta-da-da!" In the other direction, a machine gun opened heavy fire, striking at the opposing fire point.

Although it was strafing and the bullets mostly hit near the store, it still left the other side's heavy machine gun mute for a short while, apparently the other side thought they had been spotted by the sniper again and were taking cover.

Thorne saw that it was Stu who had sneaked out in the dark and had maneuvered to the side of the street, echoing himself.

And Adam had already occupied a vantage point on the periphery of the alley, constantly firing point blank at those enemies who were hiding, hitting the opposite side and daring them to venture out.

"Cover me!" Thorne gestured and quickly weaved between several flower platforms while the machine gun was briefly dumbed down.

By the time the machine gun fired again, he had burst into position less than fifty meters from the point of fire.

For him, fifty meters was enough! But that fire point was inside the store, surrounded by various iron plates and wooden boards mixed into a simple fortress, and it was difficult for his weapons to hit the people directly behind him.

Even grenades are difficult to throw inside, I'm afraid.

The grenade is a fragmentation kill, if not thrown directly near the person, the fragments of the explosion simply can not effectively penetrate the surrounding iron plate.

Thorne quickly scanned the opposite terrain and found a pile of messy household garbage outside that fire point, piled half a man's height.

A grenade was immediately thrown towards there.

Fifty meters, in his enhanced opinion, is not too difficult a goal.

"Boom!" The grenade exploded next to the garbage pile! The sky outside the fire point was suddenly filled with garbage and all sorts of messy things.

Thorne took advantage of the obscured view of the firing point and sprinted towards it as fast as he could! A few seconds later, as the trash returned to its place, he was outside the fire point, fished out the last grenade, pulled off the pin, stored it in his hand for five seconds, and then threw it quickly at the firing hole! The grenade hit the barrel of the gun and rolled into the interior of the fortress, where there was a shout of surprise, followed by a violent explosion! The fire point was completely ruined.

Thorne uneasy, and so on the smoke is slightly smaller, search inside to check the situation, inside a mess, three big man has been blown to a bloody mess, Thorne all to the head to fill the gun, do not leave any worries.

"Team leader, the fire point on the opposite floor is empty.

" came Hideaway's voice over the intercom.

"Good job, I've taken the level fire point here too, stay alert, the rest of you clean up the remnants of the enemy!" "Good!" Everyone surrounded the men hiding outside.

Those last three men, knowing that the momentum was over, raised their hands in surrender, were disarmed and escorted to the basketball court where, five minutes earlier, they had killed Carlos' companions, and now, they themselves were experiencing the same treatment.

"All kneel down and put your hands on your head!" Stu bellowed.

These three immediately did as they were told.

"Adam, Stu, you two go to that building to guard the heavy machine gun position, if there is any situation below, you two directly support us with heavy machine guns, when you go up there, pay attention to search the building for any remaining enemies, once found, shoot to kill!" "Yes!" The two men immediately took action.

"Pete, interrogate them, ask them what's going on, which squad they are, who the leader is, how many others, and why they suddenly killed someone!" "Yes, team leader!" After instructing everything, Thorne finally sighed with relief.

After taking that heavy machine gun position, it will be a mutual echo situation with the Hideaway sniper point across the street, which will definitely effectively block this intersection, and if the enemy comes back, without heavy firepower, it will almost be a death sentence.

Carlos then assisted his companion to come over and nodded towards Thorne in greeting.

"Is he okay?" Thorne asked.

"Luckily, it missed the artery, the bullet went straight through!" Carlos said thankfully, while helping him bandage his wound.

"The back wound is not large, lucky indeed, and the average person would never believe that you got this wound from a 12.7mm heavy machine gun.

"Thorne reassured the man.

This is the truth, this kind of heavy machine gun bullets, the entry wound is very small, but from the body when drilling, but can cause a palm-sized wound, unless emergency surgery, it is almost impossible to survive! The wounded man is a bald black man with glasses, he smiled bitterly and said: "Thank you, if not for your help, I would really be in trouble today, my name is Tyrone, responsible for the team's information processing work, of course, I am also a hacker, this mission is my crack.

"Tyrone said looked at his companion lying in a pool of blood and shook his head.

"Why are you guys here?" Thorne asked curiously, the mission mentioned that there might be other squads or survivors coming to loot, but how he didn't expect it to be Carlos and the others.

And they were separated only after the big battle against the trackers, and this is less than an hour before they meet again.