Chapter 242 The Empty Camp Trap (2/2)
”That should be Zhang Tong! After him!”
Hearing the commands of the soldier captains, Tong was astonished once again.
'Holy-shit-damn! They even knew that I'll be here!'
The adrenaline within Tong's body rushed into his blood vessels. His overclock mode activated once more, and his legs exerted power while he moved over the natural obstacles as if he was a parkour master.
”HAHAHA, he's running toward the net! Form lines and block his escape route!” The soldier captain issued another order, which alerted Tong.
'A net!? There's another ambush party ahead? But I don't see a lighted torch. Wait, they want to catch me off-guard?'
Tong narrowed his eyes and expanded his sense to the limit. Just like the enemy captain had said, there were thousands of life signature a hundred meter ahead of him. The troops had positioned in a half circle formation, surrounding Tong.
A few seconds after Tong had sensed the ambushing force, the ambushing army lighted their torches, revealing themselves to Tong. Every direction around Tong had torchlight.
'It's really a net. I'm surrounded.'
The legs stopped moving as Tong knew that the pursuing parties had stopped chasing but circling around him from the back. He took out his bow again and aimed toward the front.
'I wonder how the lock-on works.'
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[Homing Arrow] LV. 5 (337/1,600)
- Fire a magic homing arrow at a locked target.
- Convert an ordinary arrow into a magic homing arrow.
- Passive skill [Bow Mastery] will be applied to the host once the skill is equipped.
Skill Cost:
- 1 Lifespan for firing a homing magic arrow with an ordinary arrow.
- 10 Lifespan for firing a homing magic arrow without an arrow.
Skill Restriction:
- Homing effects only applies to a locked target in the range of 300 meters or lower.
- Range restriction depends on the level of the skill
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Tong stared into the distance where he sensed the ambush soldiers. It took him a second of waiting, and a red crosshair appeared in his vision.
'Is this the lock on?'
Tong activated the homing arrow skill in his mind and fired a shot. The arrow glowed in white light. It flew high into the sky and chased after the target by itself.
It did not take long for Tong to hear a scream from the soldier.
'This is convenient. Much better than snipping with a rifle.'
Tong remembered that Hua Shi used to fire several homing arrows at once. He picked four arrows from the quiver and nocked them onto his bow.
As Tong was aiming forward, four red cross-hair appeared.
'The number of lock-on targets depend on the total arrow I'm using?'
Tong fired the arrows, but he pulled the string again without using a real arrow this time.
'What will happen if I fire 10 arrows without a live arrow?'
By thinking that he wanted to shoot ten arrows, ten cross-hair flashed again.
'How about 20?'
More targets appeared in his vision.
Tong released the string, and twenty light arrows manifested out of thin air, flying toward the targets.
'Sweat, how about a hundred?'
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Tong raised his eyebrows in disappointment. He pulled his string again and continued his one-man-arrow-rain.
As Tong continued firing, the commotion in front was getting louder. He ignored the shout and the command from the enemies and repeated his action as if he was grinding in an MMORPG game.
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For every kill, Tong got lifespans in return as the passive skill of [Sword Mastery] was at work. Meanwhile, his [Homing Arrow] EXP skyrocketed in a short time.
'Now, I know why her skill level increases so fast. Damn, she's OP.'
Two minutes after the unstoppable barrage of arrows, the ambushing troops decided to charge toward Tong's direction.
Tong narrowed his eyes as he realized that arrow barrages took a few seconds to lock-on and shoot, so he switched his weapon. He hung his composite bow behind his back and drew his gun.
'Time to bail.'
Tong scanned the area and looked for the gap in their encirclement. The south and east side was packed with thousands of Liu Yan's men. There were the trench troops from the west, but the north was thin in number.
At first glance, the north should be the target to break the encirclement.
'They intentionally left a gap toward the north, but that should lead to a more ambush site.'
Tong recalled the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14th-century novel where Cao Cao broke through the series of ambushes of Liu Bei force one after another after he had lost the Battle at Chibi. It was a stratagem of Zhuge Liang which he forced Cao Cao to move to the direction that he had placed the ambush forces. In the end, Guan Yu managed to capture Cao Cao, but Guan Yu let him go.
He had a feeling that he would be Cao Cao in this scenario if he were to break through to the north.
'I'm forcing my way through the south!'
Undaunted by the thousands of soldiers, Tong ran toward the south with a handgun in his left hand and his blade in his right.</+24></+41></+25>