Chapter 406: A Joint Ambush
‘Feng!!’
This was the first sign of an attack by an animal.
‘Bang!’
It wasn’t the sound of a gunshot, but the sound of a slim and long snake falling upon Gu Qingjiu’s helmet.
A snake with the width of a human’s wrist fell from the tree branch above. It was initially planning to launch a sneak attack on Gu Qingjiu but ended up knocking against her helmet.
Thankfully, that snake fell onto her helmet. If she was bitten elsewhere, the fangs of that snake might have pierced right through her clothes and into her skin.
Gu Qingjiu had sensed that a snake was above her head, hence she didn’t jump about.
The snake fell onto the ground. But after shaking its head, it seemed to recover instantly.
‘Bang!’
Gu Qingjiu fired a shot at the snake.
She couldn’t tell if it was a venomous snake. But just in case, she decided to just shoot it to death!
What was going to happen if it ended up biting other students?
She had all along thought that Lu Yixin was only kidding, and she never expected other than rabbits and pheasants that there were also snakes in this forest.
In this wilderness, there was a high possibility it was a venomous snake.
Having fired a shot, it had compromised her location. After a slight pause, Gu Qingjiu sped away.
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Those that were outside glanced at the time and saw that an hour had passed since the competition started.
In an hour, thirteen people had already been eliminated.
Compared to the past, where not necessarily as many people were eliminated over two hours, the number of eliminations exceeded expectations today.
Commander Yang was in a foul mood. Because out of those thirteen eliminated players, seven came from the National Defense University.
That was more than half of them!
How could he feel happy about it?
The National Military University of China caught up afterward, with four eliminations.
Whilst there were only three eliminations from Haihe Military University.
Commander Chen was grinning from ear to ear.
Commander Yang looked furious on the other hand.
Lu Yimei didn’t appear upset at this result. Her attention was on what was going on in there.
There was a deep conflict in her eyes.
Could that really be Gu Qingjiu?
Was Gu Qingjiu really the one causing all of this?
Just then, another tiny red dot dimmed on Commander Yang’s device.
His countenance turned completely dark.
Commander Chen wanted to laugh. But when he thought about it, eight out of fifteen players from the National Defense University had been eliminated. Something didn’t feel quite right.
Hence, he went up and asked, “What’s going on today? There are so many eliminations. Did the National Defense University fail to perform today?”
Irritated, Commander Yang rolled his eyes. “How am I supposed to know?”
They had always ranked the first, but now it seemed like they were going to place bottom today. Anyone would be in a bad mood in his shoes.
Commander Chen pursed his lips and stopped adding oil to fire.
Just then, that eliminated National Defense University student came down with a terrible countenance. “Two people from Haihe Military University ambushed me together!”
So it turned out a Haihe Military University student eliminated him.
There weren’t rules stating that they must fight in groups or solo. In any case, if one wished to go about it jointly, they were free to do so.
But it was easy for a group to be attacked and eliminated all at once. Still, Haihe Military University decided to do it, anyway.
Either the two of them happened to bump into each other, or they had planned this in advance.
Commander Yang snorted once more.
Commander Chen smiled helplessly but said nothing.
Ambushes weren’t forbidden.
It could only be said that the National Defense University guy was too unlucky.
To put it more viciously, it was his lack of observation skills that led him to be killed in an ambush by the Haihe Military University folks.