Chapter 15: The Original Future
Chapter 15: The Original Future
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
A Dong and Da Mao thought they were the reapers, never realizing that Kamiyu, hidden in the shadows, was the true reaper.
She had been monitoring the entire battle on the street from start to finish. She had long since spotted A Dong and Da Mao and had been waiting for the right moment.
To take on multiple opponents alone and wipe them all out in one go required patience.
Through the scope, Kamiyu was quite surprised by A Dong’s sudden betrayal—he actually picked up a gun and fired at his own companion.
She snorted. Just as expected of Huang Kun’s quartet, all of them were scum.
However, this didn’t hinder Kamiyu’s reaping; instead, it made her shots easier.
Being slashed by a blade or shot in the body didn’t necessarily mean immediate death. The Black Sphere Game had its own criteria for determining a player’s death.
Back in the Black Sphere Room, Kamiyu had noticed that even after stabbing Huang Kun in the back, he didn’t die right away, and the player count didn’t immediately decrease by one.
So, relying on the player count on her game Interface Panel, she knew that Da Mao, who had been shot and fallen, and Mohawk, who was kneeling on the ground after being stabbed, weren’t dead yet.
Good that they weren’t dead. Who gave you the right to steal my kills?
Kamiyu steadied her Signature Sniper Rifle and activated the 【Headshot Strike】 skill, which tripled her damage, instantly killing Mohawk with a single shot.
Mohawk’s entire head exploded into a Blood Mist in an instant, his upper body torn apart.
The player count on the Interface Panel immediately changed to 10/12.
Mohawk was dead beyond any doubt.
Enemy eliminated. Gained 1 Enhancement Point.
The duration of the Headshot Strike skill was five seconds. Even at one kill per second, it was enough for her to take out five.
The battlefield in the street was too chaotic to pinpoint where the gunshot had come from.
Seeing Mohawk instantly killed, they were momentarily stunned.
Xu Liwen, having fought alongside special Troops, had more combat experience and quickly realized this was an enemy attack.
She shouted loudly to the other members, “Take cover!”
A Dong, still unaware of what was happening, stood frozen in place.
“Hide in the shadows! Why are you just standing there, you traitor?” Xu Liwen yelled at A Dong, frowning.
Xu Liwen was extremely anxious. A Dong’s skill paired perfectly with hers—Immobilize plus Nullification—allowing them to steamroll through the game effortlessly. No matter how powerful the enemies they encountered later, they wouldn’t be a threat. She could level up more smoothly. He couldn’t die here.
Just as she was about to pull out a Smoke Grenade from behind her back—
“Whoosh.”
A Dong’s upper body exploded.
The player count on the Interface Panel immediately changed to 9/12.
Enemy eliminated. Gained 1 Enhancement Point.
“Dammit!” Xu Liwen immediately turned and fled behind the wreckage of an Infantry Fighting Vehicle, using it as cover.
She had no idea what was happening.
Where was the Attack coming from? Was it a player’s Skill?
This kind of Destructive Power, from such a long distance, killing someone without even seeing them—it had to be a player’s Skill. But what Skill was it?
Her mind raced through the intelligence she had gathered from Zhang Wei, but none of it matched.
“Could it be that last player who made contact with the Black Sphere, the pink-haired girl Zhang Wei mentioned?” Xu Liwen thought to herself.
Zhang Wei’s intel only mentioned that she used guns, but she couldn’t hear any gunshots, meaning the firing range was extremely long—at least several kilometers.
She could land a headshot from this far away? She stared at the two headless corpses on the ground.
One had no head, the other’s upper body had completely vanished.
Wait a minute—had she been within that person’s firing range this entire time? Xu Liwen thought with a creeping dread.
Before she could ponder further,
Da Mao, who had been lying on the ground in a pool of blood, was completely blown into a blood mist.
This was, of course, Kamiyu’s doing.
She pulled the trigger once more.
The bullet fired, followed by a “boom.”
Headshot.
Due to the immense power of the large-caliber anti-materiel sniper rifle, hitting a person would shatter them into pieces.
The player count on the Interface Panel immediately changed to 8/12.
Enemy eliminated. Gained 1 Enhancement Point.
All three players within her line of sight had been killed by her. Mohawk, who posed the greatest threat to her, was the first to be instantly eliminated.
Five seconds passed in a flash. The 【Headshot Strike】 skill entered its 10-minute Cooldown Time.
No matter how strong the other players’ Talents or Skills were, no matter how promising they seemed as potential final victors, as long as Kamiyu, lurking in the shadows, held a favorable position, a single shot from her could end their dreams of victory.
Xu Liwen hid behind the wreckage of an Infantry Fighting Vehicle, lying flat on the ground, not daring to move. She didn’t even dare to throw a Smoke Grenade, fearing she might provoke the unseen killing star.
She didn’t know the other’s Skill or Talent, nor whether they could hit an enemy without direct line of sight.
Xu Liwen’s Experience and timidity saved her. Currently, Kamiyu couldn’t penetrate two layers of armor to instantly eliminate Xu Liwen behind the wreckage.
But if Xu Liwen threw a Smoke Grenade and charged into the smoke, Kamiyu could easily take her out.
However, it wasn’t just Xu Liwen. Three other players were hiding behind a store, trembling.
These three were the Leaders from the previous Black Sphere Room: the Gloomy Suited Man, Slaughter City’s Brother Dong, and a man wearing a thick down jacket.
“Thankfully, Brother Zhonghao’s Talent 【Future Perception】 warned us, otherwise we’d be lying dead on the street right now too,” Brother Dong said with a sigh of relief.
“Right, we almost rushed out to kill those four just now. Luckily, Brother Zhonghao came through,” the down-jacketed man said.
The suited man, Zhong Hao, wiped cold sweat from his forehead.
The situation just now had been extremely critical. Xu Liwen had nearly killed Mohawk, and they thought they had a chance to clean up the Battlefield.
They were about to rush out and mop up. With their combined strength, taking out the two remaining standing players would have been easy.
But the moment they stepped out, Zhong Hao’s Passive Skill 【Vigilance】 instantly set off alarm bells in his mind. An intense Death Premonition flooded his brain.
He had no choice but to activate his Talent 【Future Perception】 in advance to foresee the next 5 seconds.
He discovered that the moment he stepped out of the store, he would be instantly headshot and killed.
Then, Brother Dong and Brother Chills behind him, followed by Mohawk and A Dong, and finally Da Mao on the ground.
In his future vision, a total of 6 players died in that battle.
Zhong Hao pretended to be calm, but he was utterly terrified inside. This hidden enemy was far too terrifying.
Five seconds. Just five seconds to kill six people.
Who was it? Who possessed such ability?
Back in the Black Sphere Room, he had, of course, memorized everyone’s Talents and Skills. Could it be that seemingly fragile, delicate-looking girl with pink hair who looked like she’d topple over with a push?
Impossible, absolutely impossible. She doesn’t look like someone who would kill.
Wait, she was the first one to kill. Zhong Hao realized—the first to kill the strongest Talent Player was this pink-haired girl.
If it really is her, then the remaining situation will be extremely difficult to handle. He considered whether to cooperate with the others and treat the pink-haired girl as a Dungeon Boss.
He didn’t tell Brother Dong and Brother Chills about the total annihilation outcome he had seen, to avoid shaking everyone’s confidence.
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