Chapter 380 Stone Array Assassination

The map for this battle is a huge strange stone array. Thousands of cylindrical stone pillars stand irregularly in the desert, each with different heights and thicknesses. The thickest one looks like a pagoda, and the thinnest one looks like a flagpole. Although the layout among the stone pillars is tight, there is no order to follow.

A bright moon hangs in the sky, a gentle breeze blows, and thin clouds spread over the sky.

This environment is simply a paradise for assassins.

Walking on the sand, there will be no footsteps left behind. Coupled with the cover of the wind, it was difficult for the opponent to detect Xiao Tan's actions.

The surrounding strange stone formations provide countless bunkers. Even if Xiaotan appears in the enemy's sight, it only takes three to five steps to disappear again.

Under such conditions, if one of the two parties is an agile fighting player, and the other is a shooting expert, then the latter is basically in trouble.

And this battle started under such prerequisites...

Some people may wonder that although the two players who meet are random, the map should be determined based on the player's data. How could the system generate such an unfair game map

The answer is simple... because the environment of the strange stone formation has no impact on [Bu Tiange]...

Hun Hun Hun——

Accompanied by continuous, dull noises, two swift shadows intertwined.

Since the beginning of the script, Xiao Tan has faced this kind of attack for the nth time. He knows very well... Although the speed of this attack is not fast, the force is really strong and the angle is tricky; if he blocks with his own strength, You will definitely lose a lot of survival points. Therefore, he had no choice but to dodge in a very awkward posture and continue to move.

"This is not the way to go..." Xiaotan gasped and kept walking, thinking in his heart, "Unknowingly, half of the survival value has been consumed, and the physical value has also been reduced by one-third. Now I can't even get close to him. Can't do it... Speaking of which, his long-range attack is very strange... Could it be a psychic weapon? "

His guess was correct. At this moment, Bu Tiange, who was standing on top of a giant stone pillar and controlling two boomerangs to carry out ultra-long-distance attacks, was using psychic weapons.

[Name: Thunder Boomerang]

[Type: Psychic Weapon]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Attack power: strong]

[Attribute: Electricity]

[Special Effect 1: Flying back (sensing the user’s position and automatically flying back to their hands)]

[Special Effect 2: Hunting (lock the target and make precise attacks)]

[Special Effect 3: Ultrasound (during flight or hunting, if conditions permit, obstacles can be sensed and avoided)]

[Special Effect 4: Thunder (releases a powerful electric shock, can only be activated in close combat, within one hour after use. The Thunder Boomerang will lose all special effects)]

[Note: In 1977, a tourist in Australia was accidentally hit in the back of the head by a boomerang thrown by himself and died. As a result, his soul traveled tens of thousands of years ago and became a Kooris (Australian indigenous people, a nomadic people with no fixed settlements, scattered throughout Australia, before Europeans occupied Australia. There were 500 Kooris in total) (multiple tribes, with a population of 750,000). From then on, he embarked on a domineering journey of adventure, romance, sweeping across the continent, and killing gods and demons. Became a legendary existence. Many years later, a weapon he once used reappeared somewhere in the multiverse, and that was the Thunder Boomerang! 】

You can tell from the item description. This thing will not be affected by the strange stone array. With the help of ultrasonic effects, the thunder boomerang can be like a bat. It senses the presence of obstacles and makes appropriate acceleration, rotation, and direction changes in the air to bypass obstacles and reach the target.

Of course, this does not mean that the Thunder Boomerang is a sure-hit weapon. There is also a sentence "if conditions permit" in the special effects. This means that there are still situations where conditions do not allow it. For example, if the obstacle is a ten-meter-high wall, and the user stands at the base of the wall and throws the boomerang 45 degrees toward his feet, then the conditions are not allowed. No matter how powerful this dart is, it cannot spin backwards as soon as it leaves the hand, then fly vertically upward, go around the wall from the top, and then descend diagonally to hunt the opponent...

Generally speaking, the general direction and angle that the user of the Thunder Boomerang aims at when throwing cannot be too outrageous, and there cannot be any particularly huge obstacles between the target and himself...such as a dam. In this way, I can take advantage of this weapon.

At the moment, Xiao Tan was in a state of utter confusion due to these repeated precise attacks.

Ten minutes ago, when the battle just started, Xiao Tan also tried to get close to his opponent, but was forced back by the heavy firepower of the weapon.

Xiao Tan was not in a hurry at that time. He was a very patient person and remained calm enough in this situation. He thought: At worst, it will be a protracted battle. As long as I rely on the bunker to deal with you, your bullets will eventually run out.

Unexpectedly...Bu Tiange's psychic weapons came over again and again.

As a result, Xiao Tan was caught in a dilemma. If he approached forcefully, he would probably be beaten into pieces before he even reached the attack range. If he wandered around and was consumed... the other party would simply ignore him.

In short, Bu Tiange's tactics are to remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing situations, stay put and use long-range means to harass.

This goes on and on, whether it is survival value or physical energy, Xiao Tan becomes the one who is consumed.

"Tch...if it weren't for the pair of boomerangs, his squatting style would have been judged as a passive game long ago..." Xiao Tan muttered depressedly while dodging a new round of boomerang attacks. , "What should we do..."

If Feng Bujue were here, he would probably have come up with a dozen more rogue tactics than his opponent. But at the tactical level, Xiao Tan basically still "goes with his feelings". Sometimes he can do amazing things when he has a flash of inspiration; but in most cases he is still far less capable than those strategic players.

"Wait... Even if this guy's attack is automatically tracked... But how did he lock my position in this pile of rocks?" Finally, after running exhausted for more than ten minutes, Xiao Tan realized this. Questions that should have been thought of long ago.

It was night, and he was already hundreds of meters away from the other party, surrounded by stone pillars. So how did the other party aim?

"Is it some kind of heat-sensing skill..." Xiao Tan thought anxiously, "Well... I have been fighting for more than ten minutes, and his attacks have never stopped. If it is an active skill, how much consumption will it cost? Is it still Passive pupil technique..." He quickly rejected this speculation, "No...Passive heat-sensitive pupil technique will make people unable to see objects normally, and it should not exist."

Hunhunhunhun——

There was another round of flanking attacks. Xiao Tan took two steps on a stone pillar beside him, flipped back in the air, and dodged it again.

"If it's not a skill... then it's just equipment." Xiao Tan said in heart, "It's not necessarily soul power..." Although Brother Hearing and Sister Yu had described the concept of soul power, he had never experienced this kind of thing. Ability, I feel, is also half-understood. Again. The soul thing is indeed extremely rare, and it's not like it's everywhere.

"I didn't see anything on his face before...but the facial equipment can be hidden, which means..." Xiaotan thought about this and jumped up.

He picked a huge stone pillar several meters in diameter, stepped on the vertical surface of the pillar, and started running around the pillar.

After running like this for a few laps, he dodged again and jumped lightly to another pillar next to him. Follow the same pattern...

At the same time, Bu Tiange, who was standing at a high point several hundred meters away, actually stopped attacking. Because a strange scene appeared in his heat-sensing goggles - a vague high-temperature area appeared near the originally clear hot spot. Like an orange fog, it hid the target's whereabouts.

"What is he doing..." Bu Tiange thought, "Did he light a big fire?" Thinking of this, he quickly turned his goggles into display mode. And he raised it to his forehead and looked at it with his own naked eyes.

However, there is still darkness in the distance...

This is natural... Xiao Tan's footprints left by the [Flying Nightmare] left behind. It is a black fire.

"Eh?" Bu Tiange put on the heat-sensing goggles again and found that there were more and more high-temperature areas...

On the other side, when Xiao Tan saw that the opponent stopped attacking for a while, he knew that his method worked. He speeded up, bouncing between more pillars, leaving as many black fire footprints as possible, expanding the effect of visual interference.

"What's going on..." Bu Tiange lost the whereabouts of the other party, and suddenly became a little panicked, and the fright value also increased slightly, "There is obviously no fire, but the high temperature area is getting bigger and bigger... It's not necessarily spraying high temperature everywhere. Body fluids..."

When the opponent's position cannot be determined, his psychic weapons lose their usefulness, and the [Hunting] special effect cannot be activated at all.

Xiaotan took this opportunity to gradually approach the opponent's area and began to create a "footprint encirclement" around Bu Tiange's camp.

"He is a studio player, so his overall strength is definitely better than mine. Even though his level is the same as mine, he definitely has the advantage of resource integration in terms of equipment and skills. With more choices, the combination will be more reasonable..." Xiaotan After getting rid of the passive situation, he began to plan an offensive strategy in his mind, "But... he is not a player at the top of the combat power rankings, and his strength will not be drastically different from mine... as long as we can catch him The flaws create an advantage at a specific time and place... I have every chance of winning.”

"Are you coming..." Bu Tiange is not stupid. Seeing that the area around him has gradually become a high-temperature area, and the area is getting smaller and smaller, he naturally knows that his opponent has reached a very threatening distance. .

"Tch..." Bu Tiange simply took off the goggles. Anyway, he looked out through the heat sensor... There was already an orange mist all around, and there was no point in wearing it anymore.

"Haah...huh..." Bu Tiange took a deep breath to calm down his emotions, so that his trembling hands could stabilize.

The personalities of him and his sister [I'm Not Afraid] are simply two extremes. His sister is a ferocious tomboy, while his character is timid and cowardly to put it mildly, and a sissy to put it plainly.

Bu Tiange chose the shooting specialization because he wanted to avoid direct hand-to-hand combat (he entered the game during the closed beta, and there were no spiritual skills or summoning specializations to choose from at that time). Having been treated as a human punching bag by his sister since he was a child, he has already had a strong psychological shadow on physical conflicts. It is not difficult to see from his fixed-point defense tactics that this kid's style is not to give others a chance to get close.

Thorny——

Suddenly, two extremely slight sounds came from Bu Tiange's left hand side. Without saying a word, he turned the heavy machine gun he had set up and aimed it over there, blasting out a barrage. But without the heat-sensing device, he didn't even know what he was fighting.

"The burst of fire when the machine gun fires is not enough to dispel the shadows between the stone pillars. The sound of the gunfire and the sound of bullet casings falling to the ground can also serve as my cover..." Xiao Tan hid behind a stone pillar and thought calmly. "Sure enough... he relied on some kind of thermal sensing device to confirm my position, and now he is basically blind..."

It turned out that the soft sound just now was caused by Xiaotan grabbing a handful of sand and throwing it hard on the stone pillar. It was a conscious test.

At this moment, the battle situation had completely reversed. Wang Tanzhi was like a beast dormant in the darkness, testing his opponent's reaction with ease, looking for an opportunity to kill with one strike.

As for Bu Tiange... after his opponent saw through the combat mode and cracked one of the links, he fell into absolute passivity.

As a player who majors in shooting. Bu Tiange's eyesight is not bad, but since Xiao Tan is hidden in the darkness and the clothes on his body are dark-colored (Xiao Tan's assassin suit is a dark red coat with a golden shawl), it is difficult to catch his figure with the naked eye. Extremely difficult.

On the contrary, Xiaotan, who also has C-level investigation expertise, has no such worries... Bu Tiange always stands on the top of the huge stone pillar, using it as a viewing point and a defensive point. Xiaotan could catch a glimpse of the other person just by peeking her head slightly from behind a certain pillar.

"Haah...haah..." Bu Tiange lowered his breathing as much as possible. The fear made his vision and hearing more sensitive. He thought to himself: "Be calm...the other party is testing me. "You can't fall into the trap." He calmed down, "I'm too nervous... Actually, there's no need to rush to fire. No matter how fast he is, he can't get to me in a hurry." In the beginning, he was forced to retreat like this... It won't make any difference now." He made up his mind, "Well! Just wait until he is actually in sight before firing. It will only make people lose their temper. He has an opportunity."

Jab--another noise.

this time. Bu Tiange just turned his head warily and looked over there with wide eyes, without pulling the trigger.

Furofur...follows the previous movement. Another string of sounds floated in an arc from the darkness, and then stopped suddenly three seconds later.

"Aren't you fooled this time..." Xiao Tan thought to himself. He wanted to repeat his old trick and attract the opponent's attention by throwing sand. When Bu Tiange opened fire, he went around to the blind corner of his sight and stepped on the second pillar. , complete the assassination.

But he didn't expect... after he threw the sand and started it at high speed, the other party didn't fall into the trap...

Therefore, Xiaotan quickly stopped, suppressed the sound of footsteps again, and hid them.

In these few minutes, neither of them spoke, nor did they use any substantive killing moves, but this game of wits and courage had already entered a feverish stage.

Suddenly, the wind picked up...

The sound of wind passed through the strange stone array shrouded in night, emitting a sad echo like a howl.

Pushed by the desert evening wind, a dark cloud slowly blocked the moonlight...

Just at this moment, there was a "click" sound, and a little light came on from behind a stone pillar. Then a man wearing a miner's hat stepped out from behind the pillar.

When dark clouds cover the sun, this light source looks so dazzling, and the miner's hat is eye-catching yellow, even if you want to turn a blind eye, it is difficult to ignore it.

"Hey... you're too arrogant." In an instant, such a complaint flashed through Bu Tiange's mind, but his actions did not slow down because of this. He immediately pointed the muzzle of the gun at Xiao Tan and pulled the trigger. trigger.

Suddenly, at that moment, that little light turned into a strip of light.

Bu Tiange also expected that the opponent would not sit still and wait for death, and it was reasonable for him to move at high speed. "Hmph... Do you want to charge forward with force... Can you still be faster than a bullet?"

Of course, Xiao Tan can't be faster than a bullet, at least not yet. But he doesn't need to be faster than a bullet, he just needs to be fast enough to deceive the opponent's eyes...

Gunfire rang out, and heavy machine gun fire poured down.

At the same second, the glowing point in the darkness split into two, and a second later, the two split into three. Three blurry bands of light appeared intermittently, disappeared again, and spiraled upwards around the stone pillars.

"I knew you would use this skill!" Bu Tiange didn't panic. When Xiao Tan tried to break through the fire net for the first time, he had already used the trick [The wind abides in the dust and the fragrant flowers are gone]. At this moment, he used the afterimage The method of creating light ghosting has long been understood by Bu Tiange.

"There will be no change in the result this time!" Bu Tiange fine-tuned the muzzle of the machine gun to increase the area covered by the barrage, covering all three lights and shadows in the fire net. Last time, he also used this method to push Xiao Tan back, and also lost a lot of survival points.

But this time, something puzzling happened to him.

One, two, three... three light spots disappeared one by one.

Darkness came again, and there was nothing in front of Bu Tiange's eyes.

"Are they all afterimages?" At this moment, Bu Tiange's fright level soared, "Where is the real body?"

This question was quickly answered.

A cold hidden sword penetrated the back of Bu Tiange's neck, penetrated the cervical spine, and emerged from the front of the throat. The spurting blood burst into a blood mist in the air and dispersed with the wind.

Ten seconds ago…

Xiao Tan ignored the consumption of survival points and deliberately turned on the light of the miner's hat. With the afterimage skill, he forced himself to rush up along the side of the stone pillar. When he successfully reached a certain height, he left the last three afterimages, and at the same time... reached out to turn off the light on the miner's hat. Then, he curled up his body and used [Devil Bat Ghost] towards the stone pillar in front of him. With the help of the skill special effects... he instantly appeared on the other side of the stone pillar.

So, he successfully disappeared from the opponent's sight.

Three seconds later, under the cover of gunfire, Xiao Tan had come behind Bu Tiange without anyone noticing... and won his ninth victory. (To be continued...)