Joining Forces Against the Enemy

Bang!!!

Just as Wang Zhifan was marveling at how outrageous those bandits were for leaping from horseback onto the main gate, a muffled gunshot suddenly rang out from the center of the stronghold. Before the sound even reached his ears, he saw the head of one bandit who had just landed on the gate burst like a watermelon. The man died instantly, and his corpse fell straight to the ground outside the stronghold.

One sniper shot, one headshot... Looks like those guys who knew lightness skills still had defenses within the normal human range.

As Wang Zhifan considered this, he began his own barrage. He quickly stepped several paces toward the main gate, then raised his gun to fire at the other three bandits atop it who had not been sniped.

These bandits were clearly somewhat stunned by their companion's sudden death, but they reacted quickly. The moment they realized some kind of long-range weapon was ambushing them, they immediately jumped down from the main gate and landed amid the nearly hundred young, able-bodied villagers armed with sickles and hoes behind it. Faint currents of force surged around their bodies. Like wolves among sheep, they endured every attack from the villagers around them and sent them flying one after another, knocking down a huge swath of people like dominoes.

Wang Zhifan had initially wanted to shoot these bandit experts, but he judged that his marksmanship would make it difficult to hit the three swift opponents under these circumstances. He could also easily injure the villagers by mistake, so he gave up on using his pistol and prepared to draw his blade and rush in for a sneak attack.

But before Wang Zhifan could charge over, the young man in the suit hiding on a nearby rooftop opened fire downward with a burst of automatic gunfire. He had absolutely no concerns about friendly fire. He emptied an entire magazine at the locations of the bandits below, regardless of whether he truly hit the bandit experts or the villagers surrounding them.

For a time, flesh and blood flew behind the main gate amid the hail of bullets, and screams rang out without end. Most of them were agonized cries from the villagers hit by the suited young man's rifle, but there were also pained grunts from wounded bandit experts. Clearly, even with some sort of defensive force surrounding them, they could not truly withstand bullets.

"Dying under allied firepower coverage—this is the tragic fate of close combat!"

Wang Zhifan was very glad that he had not planned to fight at close range from the start. Otherwise, if he had gotten mixed in with the villagers, even if his long-range teammates probably would not have sacrificed him to the enemy as carelessly as an NPC, he would certainly have suffered some accidental injuries.

Seizing the moment when the suited young man on the nearby rooftop was reloading, Wang Zhifan suddenly burst forward. In the blink of an eye, he rushed into the chaotic pool of blood behind the main gate and decisively swung his blade twice in succession! His first slash struck a bandit expert who had been hit in the body by the suited young man's rifle fire. The man looked badly injured and was preparing to flee outward. With the chaotic villagers around them blocking his view, the bandit expert did not even see Wang Zhifan before the Blade of the Wolf Fiend severed his neck. Blood sprayed out as he collapsed on the spot.

His second slash struck another bandit expert who had been more seriously wounded in the rifle barrage and was already slumped crookedly on the ground. The blade pierced through his chest from behind, ending his painful struggle.

As for the last remaining bandit expert, when Wang Zhifan located him amid the chaos, he discovered that the man had somehow made his way to the main gate. He was unleashing all his strength against it, making the huge wooden gate shake violently as though it were about to collapse at any moment.

Fortunately, he was closer to the long-haired woman in black. Before the bandit expert trying to break open the main gate could succeed, she fired several bullets at him, swiftly taking the life of the last bandit expert who had entered the stronghold.

"The first wave has been stopped."

With all three bandit experts who had forcibly entered through the main gate dead, Wang Zhifan, the other players, and the NPCs of the stronghold had completed the first round of defense. But the dungeon was far from over.

Just as Wang Zhifan retreated to the fence near the main gate and prepared to shoot the two hundred bandits outside who might be approaching, he suddenly heard a boom from the gate. Then he saw a figure crash through the main gate from outside, smashing down the gate built from thick timber and simultaneously sending several surviving villagers inside flying more than ten meters away! It's that bald, scar-faced bandit leader from outside... He should be this dungeon's BOSS.

Wang Zhifan did not rashly rush forward to confront him. He judged that this BOSS might not be easy to deal with, and that the best way to handle him was to have his teammates fill him with bullets.

"Brothers, charge!"

"Charge!"

"Charge!"

As the bald, scar-faced bandit forcibly broke through the main gate, the nearly two hundred bandits who had been waiting outside swarmed into the stronghold.

There should originally have been some defensive forces inside the stronghold, but the suited young man on the rooftop had just unleashed indiscriminate gunfire, and the bandit leader charging in from outside had knocked over the remaining villagers. As a result, the nearly two hundred bandits outside stormed into the stronghold without restraint, and the situation instantly became extremely dire.

"These bandits rushing in seem pretty ordinary. There are just a lot of them."

Wang Zhifan did not hesitate in the slightest. He turned and took cover beside a nearby house, then drew his gun and began firing, causing the bandits swarming through the collapsed gate to be hit one after another.

At the same time, as though they understood each other without a word, the long-haired woman in black on the other side of the main gate also fired at the incoming bandits while retreating.

The suited young man on the nearby rooftop had just finished reloading. His rifle spat fire once more as he continuously swept the enemies swarming in below, every bullet potentially piercing through several bandits.

But firing down from the rooftop so conspicuously naturally drew the attention of the bald, scar-faced bandit leader who had just crashed through the gate.

With a stomp of his foot, the ruthless-looking bandit leader leaped high into the air as force erupted around him, hurtling toward the suited young man on the nearby rooftop who was pouring out firepower.

The suited young man did not seem particularly nervous as the powerful enemy closed in. First, he aimed his rifle at the bald, scar-faced bandit leader leaping up from the ground and fired continuously, rapidly weakening the defensive force erupting around the BOSS.

Then, just as the enemy was about to reach him, he suddenly performed a Backstep Shot, using this skill unique to the Gunner profession to buy himself a little time against the close-range ambush.

After that, a man in a coat at some spot in the center of the stronghold behind him instantly pulled the trigger. A powerful sniper round crossed more than two hundred meters in an instant and struck the dungeon BOSS, who had happened to pause in midair.