Join Forces Against the Enemy

Bang!!!

Just as Wang Zhifan was marveling at how outrageous it was for those bandits to leap from horseback onto the Great Stronghold 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 a bandit who had just landed atop the gate burst like a watermelon. The man died beyond doubt, his corpse falling straight down outside the stronghold.

One-shot headshot... Looks like the defenses of those guys who know Light Body Technique are still within the range of normal humans.

As Wang Zhifan considered this, he began his own barrage. He quickly stepped several paces toward the Great Stronghold Gate, then raised his gun, preparing to shoot 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. Realizing that some kind of ranged weapon was ambushing them, they immediately leaped down from the Great Stronghold Gate and landed amidst the nearly hundred young and able-bodied villagers wielding sickles and hoes behind it. Qi Strength faintly surged around them as they charged into the crowd like wolves among sheep, withstanding every attack from the villagers around them and knocking them flying one after another. A large swath of them fell like dominoes.

Wang Zhifan had originally intended to shoot these expert bandits, but he judged that his marksmanship would not easily hit the three highly mobile enemies in this situation. There was also a high chance of accidentally injuring the villagers, so he gave up on using his Handgun and prepared to draw his blade and rush in for a sneak attack.

But before Wang Zhifan could charge over, the Suit Rifle Youth hiding on a nearby rooftop opened fire downward with a rat-a-tat-tat. He had no concern whatsoever over friendly fire, emptying an entire magazine at the bandits below, regardless of whether he actually hit the expert bandits or the villagers around them.

For a time, flesh and blood flew behind the Great Stronghold Gate under the barrage, and screams rang out continuously. Most were clearly agonized cries from villagers struck by the Suit Youth's rifle, but there were also pained grunts from the expert bandits after being hit. It seemed that even with some kind of Qi Strength defensive technique, they could not truly withstand bullets.

Dying under the friendly fire of your allies... that is the tragic fate of melee fighters!

Wang Zhifan was grateful that he had not planned to engage the enemy up close from the start. Otherwise, if he had mixed in with the villagers, even if his ranged teammates would not casually sacrifice him to the enemy as though he were an NPC, he would certainly have suffered some accidental injuries.

Seizing the moment while the Suit Youth on the nearby rooftop was reloading, Wang Zhifan suddenly burst forth with speed and dashed into the chaotic pool of blood behind the Great Stronghold Gate in the blink of an eye. Then he decisively slashed twice in succession! His first slash struck an expert bandit who had been hit in the torso by the Suit Youth's rifle fire. The bandit looked badly injured and was preparing to flee outward. His view was blocked by the chaotic crowd of villagers around Wang Zhifan, and before he even saw Wang Zhifan himself, the Wolf Slayer Blade severed his neck. Blood sprayed as he collapsed on the spot.

His second slash struck an expert bandit who had been injured even more severely in the earlier rifle barrage and was already sprawled crookedly on the ground. The blade pierced through his chest from the back, ending his painful struggle.

As for the last expert bandit here, when Wang Zhifan located him amid the chaos, he discovered that the man had somehow made his way to the Great Stronghold Gate. He was erupting with all his strength as he struck the gate, making the huge wooden doors shake violently, as though they were about to collapse at any moment.

Fortunately, he was closer to the Long-Haired Black-Clothed Woman. Before the expert bandit attempting to break through the Great Stronghold Gate could succeed, she fired several bullets at him, swiftly ending the life of the last surviving expert bandit who had entered the stronghold.

"The first wave has been repelled."

With the three expert bandits who had forced their way through the Great Stronghold Gate all dead, Wang Zhifan and the other players, along with the stronghold's NPCs, had completed the first round of defense. But the Dungeon was far from over.

Just as Wang Zhifan retreated to the fence near the Great Stronghold Gate, preparing to shoot the two hundred bandits outside who might be approaching, he suddenly heard a booming crash from the gate. Then he saw a figure smash through the massive gate built from thick timber from outside, sending several surviving villagers inside the gate flying more than ten meters away at the same time. It's that Bald Scarface Bandit Leader from outside... He should be this Dungeon's Boss.

Wang Zhifan did not rashly rush forward to meet him. He judged that this Boss would not be easy to deal with, and the best way to take him down was to let his teammates fill him with bullets.

"Brothers, charge!"

"Charge!"

"Charge!"

As the Bald Scarface Bandit forcibly broke through the Great Stronghold Gate, the nearly two hundred bandits waiting outside flooded into the stronghold in a swarm.

There should originally have been some defensive force inside the stronghold, but the indiscriminate barrage from the Suit Youth on the rooftop had wounded both friend and foe. Then the bandit leader charging in from outside knocked down the remaining villagers, allowing the nearly two hundred bandits outside to pour into the stronghold unchecked. 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 building, then drew his gun and opened fire, causing the bandits pouring through the collapsed gate to be hit one after another.

At the same time, as though they shared an unspoken understanding, the Long-Haired Black-Clothed Woman on the other side of the Great Stronghold Gate also fired at the incoming bandits while retreating.

The Suit Youth on the nearby rooftop had just finished reloading, and his rifle spewed flames once more as he continuously swept the swarm of enemies charging in below. Every bullet could potentially pierce through several bandits.

But standing so conspicuously on the rooftop and firing down below naturally caught the attention of the Bald Scarface Bandit Leader who had just smashed through the gate.

The bandit leader, who looked like a truly ruthless character, stomped his foot. Qi Strength erupted around him as his entire body soared high into the air, shooting toward the Suit Youth on the nearby rooftop who was pouring out firepower.

The Suit Youth did not seem particularly nervous as this powerful enemy approached. First, he aimed his rifle at the Bald Scarface Bandit Leader leaping up from the ground and fired continuously, rapidly weakening the defensive Qi Strength erupting around the Boss.

Then, just as the enemy was about to rush in front of him, he suddenly executed Backflip Shooting, using this Gunner Class skill designed to deal with close-range ambushes to buy himself some time.

After that, a Coat Man somewhere in the center of the stronghold behind and to the side of him instantly pulled the trigger. A powerful Sniper Rifle bullet crossed more than two hundred meters in an instant, striking the Dungeon Boss as he happened to be suspended in midair.