Damn… damn, damn, damn!
Lin Xi, in his Gun Master identity, was transported to Jiangcheng's food street.
His real body was still at the Supreme War Team Club. It was after he saw the special mission "Abyss Hunt" that he clicked the descend option.
His initial thought was the same as Zhao Mingwei's, that it was a kind of 'mini-game' made by the gaming company.
As a result, not only did he log into his game character, he appeared on the familiar Jiangcheng food street!
At this moment, half of the food street had turned into ruins, and the wailing of monsters could be heard everywhere.
Lin Xi was a bit confused at this moment. He couldn't tell if this food street was reality or a game.
But a group of people pulled him out of his pondering! Armed forces, a group of fully equipped soldiers, were running briskly to the outskirts of the street.
Game NPCs? Lin Xi glanced at the armed forces.
A soldier in the front shouted as he ran towards Lin Xi, "A large number of terrorists have appeared in Sector A. The advance team is obstructed! I repeat, the advance team is obstructed! Requesting support! Requesting support!"
The soldier was running towards Lin Xi while using his walkie-talkie to seek support, but before he ran a few steps, an arrow pierced through his leg.
The soldier fell at Lin Xi's feet. At this moment, Lin Xi saw that his face and clothes were already covered in blood.
Instance storyline event? Or some side mission?
Lin Xi looked up into the distance. A skeletal knight in armor holding a longbow was standing atop a two-story building. Beneath the knight, a large group of orcs were waving clubs and running in Lin Xi's direction.
In an instant, Lin Xi didn't think and directly cast a scouting technique.
'Gray Orc Slave, common creature, level: 7, health points: 1000...'
'Strong Orc Soldier, common creature, level: 15, health points: 2340...'
'Annihilation Legion Archer·Rainer, elite creature, level: 29, health points: 9791...'
A group of orcs ranging from level five to twenty, plus a level twenty-nine elite... Lin Xi felt confident in his ability to handle it.
He took out his main weapon, a semi-automatic pistol, and walked towards the orc horde.
"Kid! What are you doing! Get back!" The soldier who had requested support saw Lin Xi walking towards the orcs. Lin Xi, wearing a leather jacket and a cowboy hat, looked like a reckless troublemaker.
"Don't worry, friend. I have a gun." Lin Xi waved his main weapon, the 'Ranger Semi-Automatic Pistol'.
This was a blue-quality semi-automatic pistol. Normally, the Gun Master's main weapon should be a hand cannon, but Lin Xi had just switched professions yesterday and hadn't had the chance to change his main weapon.
"How do you have a gun? Kid, a pistol won't work on those guys!"
The soldier couldn't care less about such details. In his eyes, Lin Xi was a cocky teenager trying to show off because he had a small pistol.
"The pistol is useless? Then is this useful?" Lin Xi suddenly swung his hand, and mechanical components began to appear on his left hand, ultimately forming an anti-tank rocket launcher.
"You... you... you..." The soldier was utterly dumbfounded. If he had encountered Lin Xi on the street a day ago, this scene would have been enough to get Lin Xi executed!
Illegal possession of a firearm was already a serious crime, and this guy illegally possessed an anti-tank rocket launcher!
"Leave this to me." Lin Xi raised the anti-tank rocket launcher in his hand. This was the Gun Master's basic advancement skill at level twenty-five.
He aimed at the orc horde charging in the distance and pulled the trigger.
"Run, baby!" Lin Xi felt a massive recoil travel from his arm to his shoulder. The cannon roared with a deafening sound, and a missile flew into the vanguard of the charging orc horde.
"Shit..."
At the moment the missile fell, Lin Xi saw two soldiers running towards him, who were likely still within the missile's blast radius.
Flames erupted, the scorching firelight spread with the explosion's impact, and at the same time, orc limbs and flesh scattered everywhere.
A series of numbers like -123, -179, -157 popped up in Lin Xi's view, and his experience began to slowly increase.
The two soldiers who were running towards Lin Xi emerged from the fire unscathed.
"Captain!" The two soldiers ran to the captain behind Lin Xi and raised their submachine guns at this... unfamiliar young man with a smoking anti-tank rocket launcher in his hand, an imposing sight indeed.
"No friendly fire damage? This setting is really considerate." Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the two unscathed soldiers and said, "Wait here, I need to get some oranges... no, I mean, I'm going to take the orcs' heads."
"Stop!"
One of the soldiers wanted to order Lin Xi to stop, but was held back by the captain beside him.
"Captain, who is he?" the other soldier asked the captain softly.
"I don't know either." The captain watched Lin Xi's back. The next second, a heavy Gatling gun appeared in Lin Xi's hand.
Lin Xi aimed at the orc horde in the distance and pulled the trigger. The Gatling gun's barrel started spinning rapidly, and bullets swept out like a storm.
"None of our team possesses such equipment. Where did his heavy weaponry come from?" The soldier watched Lin Xi's back, shooting with the Gatling gun, thinking this guy should be classified as an extremely dangerous person.
"No idea. And isn't there a bunch of strange people appearing in the war zone's center, too?"
The captain looked up at the sky engulfed in flames and saw a witch flying on a broomstick.
What has the world come to? This question popped into his mind, but he was brought back to reality by the message on the walkie-talkie: "Support troops have arrived."
"Friend, can you still move?"
Suddenly, Lin Xi's voice rang in the captain's ear again. The Gatling gun in his hand was glowing red, too hot to continue firing.
"Not for you to ask." The captain stood up, supporting himself.
"Please evacuate quickly. I might not be able to hold back that guy for long." Lin Xi dropped the over-heating Gatling gun and took out a grenade launcher, eyeing the Annihilation Legion Archer standing atop a building in the distance.
Earlier, the archer had shot an arrow into Lin Xi's character's chest, reducing his health by nearly a third.
"It's they who should retreat." As the captain spoke, the support troops had already set up a defensive array at the entrance to Jiangcheng food street.