"Hey! Who's willing to light this place up!" Luo Jun hid behind a large tree, more than fifteen meters away from those people, yelling at them in English.
Instantly, countless rifle bullets were fired towards Luo Jun's direction, as dense as rain.
The bullets penetrated through the short trees and bushes, hitting the trees behind Luo Jun, sending countless branches and wood chips flying outward. Fortunately, their bullets could not penetrate the trees, otherwise Luo Jun would have had nowhere to hide.
Luo Jun was not worried that they would throw grenades towards his current position. The reason was simple - there were too many trees around. If thrown blindly, the grenades would likely be obstructed by the trees, or even bounce back from the branches above them, inadvertently injuring themselves.
However, Luo Jun could not just stand behind the tree forever. After a while, they would encircle and ambush him from the surroundings.
At this moment, some noises were heard from where Luo Jun had just bombed. Luo Jun quickly realized that the survivors were trying to retrieve the guns and grenades from the corpses!
"Damn it!"
Luo Jun cursed in his heart. If they started a fire, the others could still hide, but now that they were going for the guns, those surviving mercenaries would definitely open fire or throw grenades at them!
Keep in mind that they were the closest to those mercenaries, probably no more than ten meters away.
At such a distance, even with just the remaining embers and moonlight, they could effectively throw grenades.
"Run away, quick!" Luo Jun shouted at them, no longer caring about anything else.
But it was too late. At the place where the survivors had just laid down, a few grenade explosions boomed!
Countless sand and stone fragments, mixed with blood and flesh, splashed in all directions!
Those people didn't even have time to scream before they were blown to pieces. Some who were further away were either knocked unconscious or temporarily deafened!
"Damn it!"
Luo Jun could no longer stay there. He directly abandoned those people and turned to walk towards the back of the woods.
It wasn't that he didn't want to save them, but he simply couldn't. The night completely obscured everything, and some of them had rifles, even assault rifles!
Whereas Luo Jun only had a pistol - not to mention a sniper rifle which would be useless in close combat, especially at night.
His scope also didn't have night vision capabilities.
So he decisively abandoned them. Additionally, the explosions here might attract the attention of those monsters, whether it was one or countless numbers. If they came and started a massacre, no one would survive.
Luo Jun took out the flashlight he had taken from the snipers, shining it through a layer of cloth. Utilizing the dim flashlight, he swiftly maneuvered through the valley like a nocturnal wolf.
He decided to rush back to the beach overnight and confirm whether the large ship was still there or not.
If it was still there, he would board the ship and kill off the remaining six mercenaries on board.
With no other obstacles, Luo Jun's solo traveling speed was rapid. After night-trekking for five hours, he felt utterly exhausted, but he did not intend to rest.
Firstly, it was too difficult to find a place to rest in the middle of the night. Secondly, time was so crucial - in case those mercenaries also returned by the same route, he would miss the opportunity to ambush the mothership.
Luo Jun continued marching until dawn, with a five-hour journey remaining to the beach.
Having not slept the entire night, Luo Jun's eyelids now felt heavy.
He took out a few chocolate bars to eat, replenishing his energy, then drank some water. After resting for about ten minutes, he resumed his journey towards the beach.
At noon, Luo Jun had arrived at the beach. Hiding behind a palm tree, he suddenly realized that the large ship at sea was gone.
Although he had anticipated this result, he was still gritting his teeth in frustration.
Driving this kind of diesel-electric hybrid passenger ship required only one person, although normal safe operation needed four people. In reality, it didn't require four people to operate simultaneously. Jones only needed to have turned the ship's head under the woman's coordination, then drove the women off the ship to leave smoothly.
Luo Jun noticed that those stupid women were still waiting in the tents.
The survivors hiding in the tents
If it wasn't himself returning this time, but those mercenaries instead, those women would definitely not survive either.
Now what Luo Jun was thinking was, if he brought those women away from here, the space in his shelter would definitely not be enough, and he wouldn't have time to expand it either.
Moreover, some of these women were physically weak and sickly, unable to walk such a long distance.
Furthermore, they would not easily trust a stranger like himself.
So Luo Jun did not plan to take them away. He would let them stay here for the time being. If those mercenaries killed and returned, he would come back to ambush them again.
In the meantime, some sacrifice from the women would be inevitable.
Luo Jun was no saint; he would only help others if he could ensure his own survival. If they were smart, they should have hidden in the woods themselves.
After observing the situation at the beach, Luo Jun headed back to the shelter.
When he returned to the shelter, the sun was about to set.
Both women were shocked to see Luo Jun returning alone. First, Luo Jun replenished his water, then ate some food before telling them that Li Shi was in the stone cave on the northern slope.
Luo Jun had thought Li Shi would return on her own, because even if she was injured, as long as she set out in the morning, she would have had enough time to make it back to the shelter before nightfall, even alone.
Luo Jun had no choice but to plan to go and pick her up in the morning.
Due to the continuous journey and lack of proper rest, after Luo Jun returned, ate and drank his fill, removed his excess belongings, laid his firearms by his side, he fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
Lorna covered Luo Jun with a bearskin, and she and Jennie did not disturb him that night.
Luo Jun slept until dawn.
Meanwhile, Li Shi, still in the cave by the tree, had not come out. Her food and fresh water had been depleted, and without energy, she could only lie there.
It wasn't until noon that Luo Jun returned to the stone cave and found Li Shi barely clinging to life.
He dismantled the stakes at the entrance and rushed inside.
"Li Shi! Wake up, quick!"
Luo Jun woke Li Shi up. When Li Shi opened her eyes groggily and saw Luo Jun, she thought she was hallucinating, thinking that Luo Jun had abandoned her like her family did when she was a child...
"Uncle, you're back!" Li Shi hugged Luo Jun tightly and burst into tears.
When Luo Jun had entered earlier, he had already noticed that for the past two days, Li Shi hadn't even gone out of the entrance, as the smell of urine outside was particularly obvious.
This girl was more timid than he had imagined!
But this was completely different from her usual display of courage and enthusiasm!
This really shocked Luo Jun!
He had originally planned to retrieve those sniper rifles on the way, but with Li Shi's condition, he clearly could not leave her alone here anymore.
"It's okay now. I promised to come back, and of course I would definitely come back. Now eat something and we'll go back!" Luo Jun gave Li Shi the food and fresh water he had brought.
Li Shi gratefully accepted it and ate. Luo Jun then asked her, "Did you notice anything unusual these past two days?"
Hearing Luo Jun's question, Li Shi's big eyes lost focus for a moment, then exchanged for a pair of terrified pupils.
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
