Chapter 890 - Idiot (1/2)

Not only had the recon company gained experience by strolling through their missions, but they also imparted that experience to their comrades. “Don’t worry, that’s just how he is. Being a sniper is only his title; his close combat skills are actually even more terrifying. Have you heard how he caught the axe below the Great Wall and threw it back at the enemy? When I turned around and saw the axe, I thought I was dead for sure. But he caught the axe with his bare hands and even killed a barbarian with it….

“So there’s no need to worry too much. We can just march forward in peace,” a soldier from the recon company said calmly.

Ren Xiaosu probably did not expect the recon company to actually start telling their comrades not to worry.

After seemingly enough barbarians had been killed, and the fact that they had it so easy thus far, the soldiers of the infantry brigade gradually let go of their fear and nervousness.

As Ren Xiaosu detoured back to pick up the axes, he suddenly heard the voice from the palace say, “Quest complete. Awarded two allocatable attribute points.”

Ren Xiaosu was stunned. He added one each to his Strength and Dexterity. His Strength and Dexterity now reached 17.5 and 17.1, respectively.

“That’s strange. Why was the quest suddenly completed?” Ren Xiaosu was still a little puzzled. This was the first time he did not know how he had completed a quest.

As he was picking up the axes, Yang Xiaojin saw he was also taking off the barbarians’ helmets. Curious, she asked, “Are you collecting their helmets too?”

“No, those helmets smell of their greasy heads. Who would want them?” Ren Xiaosu said, “I’m just checking out the age of these barbarians.”

As a result, Ren Xiaosu realized the barbarians he encountered this time were all their elderly!

At the beginning, only 20% of the barbarians he encountered were their elderly, so it did not make Ren Xiaosu too suspicious. But now that this group of barbarians were all elderly people, Ren Xiaosu realized something must be wrong.

If the barbarians did not have enough manpower and had to send their elderly into battle, why not just retreat? The old barbarians’ combat power was way too weak.

It was no wonder the Pyro Company’s main forces were able to advance so smoothly until now. So it turned out that it was not that they were strong, but that the barbarian troops had become weaker!

Ren Xiaosu switched on the radio and shouted, “P5092, P5092, answer me if you can hear me.”

The soldiers of 3rd Division lowered their heads and did not say anything. This was the first time they had encountered anyone shout at their commander like that. However, they could not afford to offend Ren Xiaosu either, so they could only pretend not to have heard him.

Puzzled, P5092 asked, “What’s the matter?”

“I’m in bravo-one-one. Come over here for a moment, I have something to discuss with y’all.” As Ren Xiaosu was not far away from the 3rd Division, they arrived very quickly.

P5092 immediately saw a bunch of gray-haired barbarians scattered across the ground. He asked, “What’s this?”

“These are the barbarians that I just killed,” Ren Xiaosu said.

P5092 took a look at them. The barbarian corpses were all covered in slash wounds, and it looked like Ren Xiaosu had directly attacked over a 100 of them.

His way of putting it sounded really strange. It was as though a person had surrounded more than a 100 people, yet that was just what happened.

Ren Xiaosu said, “Look, these barbarians are all the elderly. I seriously suspect that the reason why they suddenly put on their helmets was to cover up the fact that they’re old barbarians.”

P5092 crouched down to have a look. “Were the barbarians we encountered earlier the same? Why weren’t they equipped with their axes?”

“Uh…” Ren Xiaosu looked around. “I’m not sure either….”