415 Regardless of method (1/2)

Ren Xiaosu regretted that his shot missed. His marksmanship still was not good enough. Merely calculating the wind speed 0.1 seconds too late had allowed the enemy sniper to get away.

The enemy sniper was also quite the ruthless person. Otherwise, he would not be wandering in the mountains alone.

After Ren Xiaosu fired off his rifle, he moved off to another location. From the side of a hill, he quietly observed the Brambles as the guerrillas battled them. As a matter of fact, he had placed more than a dozen Brambles at that mountain pass, as well as over a dozen Potato Shooters.

In the face of firearms, these plants actually turned out to be pretty useful. If the enemies did not have flamethrowers, it would be very difficult for them to kill the plants with bullets, especially the Brambles with their bloodsucking ability that made them extremely lethal. They made the enemies lose their ability to resist in a short time.

These plants were an essential item to bring on a trip to the wilderness and commit murder and arson with.

Ren Xiaosu had already unlocked his second weapon, while the third weapon was still far in the future. So Ren Xiaosu loosened his purse strings and got more generous with his usage of the gratitude tokens in order to kill more enemies. After he got back, he would have to get Zhang Xiaoman and the others to help him earn back even more gratitude tokens. All in all, the benefits would be greater than the costs.

In fact, only 20 gratitude tokens had been consumed in the destruction of this particular Zong Consortium company. When he led Zhang Xiaoman and the others to victory and headed back to base for their celebratory drinks, they could earn him a few hundred more gratitude tokens.

Ren Xiaosu regretted that he didn't kill the Zong Consortium's sniper this time. But that was alright. He still had time to slowly toy with him.

It was very difficult to advance under the cover of the shrubs on a hillside while staying crouched. The shrubs growing here were at most half the height of a full-grown person, so remaining crouching for an extended period hurt his back badly.

If it were the average person who was pursuing the opponent, they would probably expose themselves to the sniper very quickly. However, Ren Xiaosu was not the average person.

That afternoon, Ren Xiaosu continued tracking the enemy sniper and headed east along the mountain range. By evening, just as Ren Xiaosu couldn't determine whether he was heading in the right direction, he suddenly saw some hardtack crumbs on the ground.

Hardtack was a standardized food item in military field rations. It seemed like his opponent had replenished his energy at this spot.

For something like hardtack crumbs, even the person eating the hardtack would generally find it very hard to notice them as they were tiny.

This was the right direction. Ren Xiaosu crouched within the shrubs and looked around. He felt that he was very close to the sniper.

As the sun went down behind the distant mountains, the last sliver of twilight turned from red to gray. The moment night fell, the sniper noticed a helmet moving at where he had scattered the hardtack crumbs earlier. He sneered. Did he have to shoot at the helmet?

With a bang, a sniper bullet flew an unknown distance and towards the bottom right corner of the helmet. If someone were raising the helmet with their right hand, that person's body would have to be at the bottom right side of the helmet.

It was very quiet in the mountains, but the sniper was too far away to determine from the feedback if he had hit the target or not.

He asked on the comms channel, ”Anyone lying in ambush in the vicinity heard the sound of a bullet hitting something?”

”Heard a bullet hitting flesh,” someone replied. ”We're about 300 meters away from the target and kinda heard it.”

The sniper said on the comms channel, ”Then the target should've been hit. Go over and check it out.”

”Roger that.” Some guerrillas moved quietly towards the spot the sniper had shot at.

A group of 120 soldiers from a guerrilla company was moving within the mountains. If one did not look carefully, they would not even notice the presence of this group.

Beiwan River was considered a key strategic location. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many guerrillas hidden in this mountain range that led there. There would also definitely be more than one sniper lying in ambush.