86: Professional soldier

At the same moment, the black man also pulled the trigger. However, after taking out the survivor upstairs earlier, his first choice wasn't to reload, but to bandage himself to restore health.

Consequently, within two seconds, the black man took six or seven shots to the head and chest, depleting his remaining two-thirds of health, and he died on the spot.

A wisp of white smoke rose from the muzzle of the P92. Li Xiao looked at the black man lying in the corridor with an expression of terror mixed with reluctance, and finally felt a sense of relief.

He immediately picked up all three guns from the ground and then scavenged for bullets in their backpacks.

Two of the guns were a P92 and a P1911 that used 9mm pistol ammunition, while the revolver used 0.45-inch pistol ammunition.

The revolver's power was significantly greater than these two guns, but its rate of fire and magazine capacity were its fatal flaws, requiring better marksmanship.

Li Xiao felt that players with Level 10 bases hadn't appeared yet. This might be because the required resources were vast, or perhaps the construction time was very long.

After all, everyone had transmigrated at the same time; even with abundant resources, the further one progressed, the longer it took to upgrade the base.

Perhaps many people's bases were already in the process of upgrading to Level 10.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the Transmigrators one encountered were basically at full health of 500.

Stuffing the supplies from all three backpacks into the black man's larger bag, Li Xiao hurriedly left this place of trouble.

In this skirmish, Li Xiao managed to scavenge six bottles of drinks, over seventy pistol rounds, and a first-aid kit that could restore one hundred health points at once.

He loaded the revolver and the P1911, which could only hold seven rounds, and put them into his backpack as backups.

As for the remaining two P92s, he held one in his hand and tucked the other into his waistband at the back, ready to switch guns at any time.

Li Xiao observed that the circle seemed to be shrinking, so it was more advantageous to move toward the center of the circle while he had time.

However, the map was too large, and having to walk while guarding against sneak attacks really tested one's patience.

After quickly slipping out of the Lion City, the vast Wheat Field lay to the north; at a glance, there was almost no hidden forest to take cover in.

However, after crossing the two-kilometer-long Wheat Field, there was an isolated Hongshi Mountain, where a long, narrow town was located.

"Hmm... I'd better find a mountain hollow to lie down in."

The enemy situation in the city was too complex, making him highly susceptible to sneak attacks. He decided to detour to the northeast of Hongshi Mountain, where there was some sparse vegetation he could utilize, and it was closer to the center of the circle.

But just as Li Xiao slipped out of the northern part of Lion City and prepared to climb over a small mound, he encountered enemies again.

And there were two of them, opening fire simultaneously from front and back.

The player waiting for him on the mound was holding a submachine gun of an unknown model. Without any greeting upon seeing him, the player directly unleashed a barrage of bullets at him.

Li Xiao was knocked back repeatedly by the bullets, getting hit all over his body; the pain made him grit his teeth.

That wasn't all; another player lying in ambush behind him rushed out, wielding two pistols, and unleashed another fierce barrage, causing Li Xiao to be knocked over by the inertia of the bullets.

Once down, Li Xiao simply closed his eyes and played dead.

Seeing Li Xiao lying motionless on the ground, the two players began to reload their ammunition.

Then he heard someone shout from the mound: "You go and take his things, I'll cover you. We'll find a place to ambush a patrol later, and then head straight for the center of the circle!"

Hearing this, Li Xiao thought to himself, "Good grief, they dare to ambush a patrol with just one submachine gun and two pistols? Could it be they have something heavy in their hands?"

Thinking of this, he decided he must keep these two, to see what they were up to.

The player behind was quite obedient and came straight up to search Li Xiao's bag.

When Li Xiao felt the opponent had arrived in front of him, he suddenly opened his eyes.

This scared the person quite a bit, making him jump up on the spot.

"He's not dead yet!"

The opponent roared, and his pistol fired reflexively.

However, Li Xiao reacted faster, rolling to the side to dodge the bullets, then lying on his back, he aimed at the opponent's chest and emptied a magazine.

The teammate on the mound saw this and hurriedly opened fire to stop Li Xiao, but unfortunately, it was already too late.

With only a meter of distance between them, every one of Li Xiao's shots hit, sending him away immediately.

By the time Li Xiao climbed back up, the player on the mound had realized something was wrong and slipped behind the slope.

"Consider yourself lucky for running fast, kid!"

When Li Xiao ran to the mound, he could no longer see the opponent's shadow, so he returned to search his teammate's backpack.

To his surprise, this person's backpack really had some good stuff; there was actually a fragmentation grenade and a syringe.

Not to mention the fragmentation grenade, the syringe was called Adrenaline; after intramuscular injection, it could restore five health points per second for three minutes!

"A life-saving artifact!"

Li Xiao happily packed everything into his backpack and then left, feeling satisfied.

As he walked, Li Xiao secretly lamented that if he had managed to take out the person on the mound earlier and gotten the submachine gun, things would have been much more stable.

Not long after entering the Wheat Field, the system prompted that the second death zone had begun to advance. This time, the zone's refresh speed was significantly faster; upon opening the map, one could see with the naked eye that the red area was rapidly covering the ground.

At the same time, the next safe zone had also refreshed. The isolated Hongshi Mountain he was heading to was located on the southeast side of the circle.

However, just as Li Xiao was about to quicken his pace, a bullet suddenly flew over, striking him right in the chest and piercing through his already tattered bulletproof vest.

The instant, sharp pain caused Li Xiao to immediately lie prone in the forty to fifty-centimeter-high weeds of the Wheat Field.

From that shot, Li Xiao discovered that his Life Pool had instantly dropped by 110 health points. Factoring in the damage reduction from his bulletproof vest, he immediately judged that the opponent was using a sniper rifle!

However, because it happened so suddenly, Li Xiao couldn't determine the exact location immediately; he only knew it was roughly to the west, and at a distance of at least five hundred meters away.

But soon he was hit again; a 7.62mm caliber bullet struck his waist, taking away another hundred-plus health points.

"This won't do; lying here makes me a target!"

This time, he saw the location where the opponent was firing from: it was in a small wooden shed of less than two square meters, located halfway up a slope on the western side.

The opponent had the high ground and could still easily see Li Xiao's body.

He glanced forward; there were a few haystacks in the Wheat Field fifty meters away, which were the only reliable cover nearby.

Li Xiao decisively stood up and rushed over, but just as he stood up, another bullet came, this time striking his head directly.

Li Xiao felt a bit dizzy from the pain, but after the effect of being hit subsided, he quickly rushed toward the haystacks.

While running, Li Xiao was hit by two more shots in succession.

"Damn! So accurate!"

After taking a few more shots, Li Xiao ran behind the haystack and lay down.

At this moment, he also realized that the opponent was definitely not an ordinary person. At a distance of five hundred meters, hitting both stationary and moving targets with every shot without missing once, they must be a professional sniper, perhaps even a former professional soldier!