624 Chapter 624 - Ambush! A Clash of Daggers! (1/2)
Broken Water Arrow and Sniper God rushed to protect Ye Xiaowu even as they pelted Eternal Dominion with arrows. The two really appeared to be veteran soldiers who had experienced countless battles, for they were not in the least bit daunted by the scene before them. Sniper God looked at Ye Xiaowu's broken forearm, which had been bent like a chicken wing, and exclaimed, ”Ah! Even your bone is showing; how is it so realistic?”
Ye Xiaowu was no longer howling by now. There was a limit to the pain he was feeling, and it was completely tolerable at this point. He only screamed at first due to the suddenness of the pain. People would often shriek when they were involuntarily pricked with a needle, would they not? When he howled for the second time, it was a result of the terror he was feeling. Anyone who saw their arm suddenly be in such a state would naturally have quite the scare. When he heard Sniper God's exclamation, he could not help but lower his head to take a closer look.
Peering down and seeing the white of his bone protruding from his flesh, coupled with the grisly sight of his flesh hanging with bits of skin and bone fragments dotting around a mess of mosaic, Ye Xiaowu felt a wave of nausea overcome him. A system prompt soon rang in his head: [An increase in the user's abdominal pressure as a result of stomach discomfort was detected. If you are unable to recover to a stable state, you will be forcefully disconnected from the game.]
The VR gaming equipment players of Parallel World used could detect some of the real-world conditions the players' physical body might be under, and this was the same system warning Traversing Four Seas' guild leader had received back then when his heart rate severely spiked up. Ye Xiaowu was experiencing something similar right now, except his issue was not with his heart but stomach, instead.
Ye Xiaowu was of course no stranger to this set-up, so he quickly turned away from the gruesome sight and pulled out a bottle of water from his pocket. He then took two full gulps of water to suppress the nausea he was feeling. Sniper God gazed astonishingly at his action. ”What, did the game you designed give you a fright?”
Ye Xiaowu was at a total loss for words.
”What do we do about… this?” Broken Water Arrow asked.
”Even Cure is unable to completely heal up this sort of heavy injury. I'll need to return to the city and locate the dedicated Healer NPC to get it treated,” Ye Xiaowu answered. Cure was a level 40 skill Light Priests learned, and it was a potent remedy for effects that caused continuous loss of HP or attacks that lowered the maximum HP of players, but with his arm broken to such a vicious manner, even Cure could not heal him up.
”Seeing how my HP is steeply dropping, there's no point in making my way back; I'll be perfectly fine once I respawn, so there's no rush,” Ye Xiaowu said.
”Will bandaging the wound stop the blood loss?” Broken Water Arrow asked again.
”If the triage is done properly, it will indeed be effective.” Ye Xiaowu nodded.
”Quickly get Xiaochen over,” Sniper God ordered.
”Hang in there.” Broken Water Arrow said to Ye Xiaowu as he fired off a message. This 'hang in there' Broken Water Arrow had uttered was not merely a show of solidarity for Ye Xiaowu, but a prompt for him to keep himself alive. The Priest designated his left hand as his dominant hand and waved his magic staff to keep himself topped up with HP even as he asked Sniper God. ”Who's Xiaochen?”
”He's a medic from our squad back in the day; All our first aid skills are rudimentary at best, so it's better to get him over here!” Sniper God laughed even as he kept peppering arrows at Eternal Dominion.
Eternal Dominion, who was being suppressed by the enfilade of arrows from Broken Water Arrow and Sniper God combined, was temporarily unable to close in. Gu Fei had reached him at this point and very excitedly asked, ”Was that Fire Dragon Fist?”
”Yup.” Eternal Dominion nodded.
”I've heard so much about it!” Gu Fei commented.
”It seems a little brutal…” Ye Xiaowu's Priest robe was already dyed in his own blood, even as a puddle of blood pooled beneath him; Eternal Dominion found the sight to be somewhat unbearable.
”Have you never seen blood before?” Even though martial artists would not deal a brutal hand to their opponents during such technical sparrings, the very nature of the activity would place the two exponents in danger of death. Any accident that happened in the process would lead to rather disastrous results. Even Gu Fei had experienced his fair share of stitches and fractured bones as well.
”I've seen nosebleeds,” Eternal Dominion answered.
Gu Fei was left a little speechless after hearing that. Even children fighting would often result in nosebleeds.
”See; it's clearly the game over exaggerating. Anyone would have already died if they lost so much blood.” Gu Fei consoled Eternal Dominion.
Ye Xiaowu spat out another mouthful of blood when he heard this.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
Unexpectedly, even Sniper God agreed with Gu Fei's assessment. ”It is a little outrageous; haven't you guys ever considered such a problem when making this game? There's a limit to the amount of blood any human has, so even if the blood isn't staunched, there's no way you should be bleeding endlessly like this!” Sniper God glanced at Ye Xiaowu's broken arm, and the blood was still gushing out!
Gu Fei nodded. ”That's right. Blood takes up about 7 to 8% of our body mass. Look at how skinny he is; I reckon he weighs a little over 100 pounds, yet the amount of blood he's lost so far looks to be about 10 pounds.”
Sniper God shook his head. ”That's too much. I think it's only 8 pounds or so.”
”Eight pounds is already too much! Let's say he's about 120 pounds in weight, so if we take 8% of his body mass as the total blood a human has in their body, that will come at about 9.6 pounds, so even if we round it up to 10 pounds, won't losing 8 pounds of blood be a bit too much still?” Gu Fei wondered aloud.
”It is indeed too much. Losing just 3 pounds out of the 10 pounds of blood is enough to kill him already,” Sniper God concurred.
”Look; he's lost eight pounds of blood so far. It's fake. Everything is fake here.” Gu Fei reasoned to Eternal Dominion.
”To think you'd even know such things!” Eternal Dominion was utterly impressed.
”It's just the basics.” Gu Fei tried to play it off casually.
Ye Xiaowu was still steadily losing his blood while the three men were discussing this topic. Broken Water Arrow, who was standing at the side, rolled his eyes while he listened to this conversation. Still, even as they talked, Sniper God never stopped firing his arrows at Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion with great acuity. The two dodged and evaded these shots as they chatted with one another, mainly focusing on the wavering thoughts Eternal Dominion had after that lethal strike he had just executed. Gu Fei was attempting to open his eyes, and the two were not rushing ahead at all. By the time Gu Fei was done giving his enlightening speech, Eternal Dominion was invigorated once more now that Gu Fei successfully convinced him that the heavy injury Ye Xiaowu had sustained was fake to the point of blatant exaggeration.
”Go on! Show me your Fire Dragon Fist,” Gu Fei encouraged.
With Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion advancing together, Broken Water Arrow and Sniper God found it more difficult to seal either of their movements. However, being Archers and having plenty of experience in actual combat, both of them knew that they could still retreat even if they could not fend them off. Hence, in such a fashion, the two men withdrew as they attacked – their attack slowly formed into the kiting fighting style often seen in MMOs. In the end, Broken Water Arrow was crying out after they retreated no more than several steps. ”F*ck! Bring the injured along as you move!”
”D*mn!” Sniper God saw that Ye Xiaowu was still foolishly planted in one spot, so he quickly dashed over and dragged him. ”Bro, you gotta follow the group!”
”Stop, stop, stop! You're breaking it!” Ye Xiaowu hurriedly yelped. Who was it that said that there was no use for blood to continue spurting out like this? His HP had been consistently declining this whole time! He was only surviving up to now because he had been tossing Heal after Heal on himself. Sniper God dragging him interrupted his cast of Heal twice, and his HP was steadily decreasing.
”It's already broken.” Sniper God thought that he was referring to his arm.
”My spells; I mean you're breaking my casting!” Ye Xiaowu yelled in panic.
Sniper God was not a day-one newbie, so he more or less understood how this game worked. Realizing what Ye Xiaowu was saying with a brief pause, he quickly shouted to Broken Water Arrow. ”We need to provide cover! Wait for the injured to make the first move!”
Broken Water Arrow darted over to receive Gu Fei. ”I'll deal with him.”
Ultimately, Broken Water Arrow had experience exchanging blows with Gu Fei, so he had a better understanding of the latter's fighting style, which was why he had picked this tough to deal opponent. Even though Gu Fei was seen as an expert in Sniper God's eyes, at least the man did not end up breaking someone else's arm, so Broken Water Arrow's choice of opponent meant that he could deal with the savage brute Eternal Dominion himself.
Sniper God's heart was beating with trepidation when he came up to take on Eternal Dominion. Even though these soldiers were not a job class in the game, and were all proficient in a single style of combat, they each had their strong suit as well. Sniper God was previously the squad's sniper, he was definitely the best out of the rest in terms of his marksmanship. While his skills in close quarter combat was not particularly awful, Mountain Breaker Axe was still considered to be one of the most skilled close combatants among them, and he had lost quite badly when facing Gu Fei. It appeared that some of these kung fu 'scientists' were not just blowing hot air. Sniper God knew that he was not as good as Mountain Breaker Axe, so if he were to go up against such an opponent, he could not help but feel quite troubled.
However, being troubled was one thing; acting on it was another thing entirely.
Being troubled would only mean that Sniper God had to be extra careful when he struck. If the theoretical gap between people could simply decide the outcome of a fight, then there would be no need for there to be confrontation in this world.
Sniper God's hand dove into his pocket and pulled out a pristine poniard. It was not a particularly top-tier piece of equipment, but its shape and specifications suited him very well. The way these people allocated their stat points and chose their equipment was extremely similar with how Gu Fei initially started out as well: these ex-soldiers had all picked the weapons that they were most handy with.