The Annihilated 4AM Team!

003. The 4AM Team Wiped Out!

But what crushed hope was that the enemy's head appeared again, then instantly ducked back, leaving Wei Shen no time to react.

What's more, the enemy popped up from a different spot each time. By the time Wei Shen swung his scope over, the guy had already slipped back.

This time, the target was Yongyuan. Luckily, Yongyuan was moving, so the snap shot didn't hit his head—just his chest.

But before Yongyuan could breathe easy, the enemy reappeared like a ghost. Another bullet streaked in, tearing through flesh and blooming blood. Two shots left Yongyuan with a sliver of HP.

If not for the Level 3 Armor, he'd have been down.

"Damn, this guy's insane. Did we queue into G Shen?" Yongyuan grumbled as he pushed forward, gritting his teeth.

He was already in too deep, with no choice but to hope Wei Shen could finish the enemy.

But reality and dreams were as far apart as ever. That godlike snap shot came again—three bullets, and Yongyuan was gone.

Wei Shen forced himself to fire two shots, but both missed. Frustrated, he swapped to his rifle and sprayed wildly at the enemy's slope, praying for a lucky graze.

But luck wasn't on his side today. Not a single shot landed, and he only pissed the enemy off.

The enemy treated him like an annoying pest—popped up, fired once, and nailed Wei Shen's Level 3 helmet. His HP hadn't even been full, and this time he couldn't hold on. He fell, unwilling.

Only the Female Player was left.

"Wahhh! Don't kill me~ Big bro~~" Her voice was sweet, but the plea was hilarious, making the three 4AM members roll their eyes.

Her usual squealing routine.

But Jiang Siming didn't hear her wailing. Calmly, he gave her a mercy bullet and ended the fight.

The 4AM team, plus a famous female streamer, taken out by a random stranger in under a minute.

"Xiao Jiang, why aren't you running? What the—"

Wang Jun, focused on fleeing, was about to vent his missed-shot anger on Jiang Siming. But a glance at the kill feed in the top-right corner choked the words back.

Then Jiang Siming heard a sofa scrape from the other side of the internet cafe. Zhou Qiang and Yuan Bing rushed over to his computer.

"Jiang Siming, are you cheating?"

"You sniped an entire team solo? No way?"

They searched for evidence of hacks but found nothing. Reluctantly, they returned to their seats and kept running from the zone.

Jiang Siming continued the game, a grin plastered on his face. Not because of the kills, but because he saw that two of the four crates were glowing!

The same light as the Kar98k fragment earlier—coming from two of those boxes!

He hurried over and picked them up.

"Picked up Rifle Mastery Fragment*1 (1/1). Fragment count full. Can be used immediately."

"Picked up Voice Actor Skill Fragment*1 (1/3). Fragment count insufficient. Cannot be used yet."

He used Rifle Mastery right away. Another wave of heat surged into his mind, and Jiang Siming found a flood of PUBG rifle techniques filling his brain.

Things like recoil control, 4x Scope spray, 6x Scope spray, tap-firing tips. All of it.

Jiang Siming was ecstatic, his blood boiling.

This bizarre stuff was really happening. His game was different from everyone else's!

How was this possible?

Then he remembered. Earlier, when he'd stepped out of the internet cafe to buy cigarettes, a muffled thunderclap had struck nearby—right where he was standing. He'd felt a jolt like an electric shock but shrugged it off, too focused on getting back to his game.

Now it clicked. That must be the reason.

Skills could spawn from the game!

And judging by the Voice Actor Skill, it wasn't just game skills. There might be other things too!

Did other games work the same?

To test this, Jiang Siming made up an excuse, quit the match, told Wang Jun and the others he had something to do, and bolted.

He needed a different internet cafe. Otherwise, Wang Jun would keep dragging him into PUBG.

At a new cafe, he booted up a computer and opened League of Legends. But after several matches, nothing happened.

He tried over a dozen other games—MOBAs, FPS shooters, even MMOs. Nothing unusual.

Switching back to PUBG, he killed just four people before spotting another note fragment! Gold this time!

"Picked up 5000 Yuan Fragment*1 (1/1). Fragment count full. Can be used immediately."

"So it only drops in PUBG? And I can get money too!"

This discovery thrilled Jiang Siming. Skills and cash—this was a dream he wouldn't dare imagine.

He selected "Use," and a small stack of red bills appeared on his desk. He pocketed them instantly.

Jiang Siming grinned like an idiot.

He dove headfirst into PUBG, grinding all day long.

As time passed, he slowly figured out the fragment drop rate.

Fragments would spawn at various points, but the drop rate was tiny—out of dozens of rounds, Jiang Siming might only encounter one.

Another way they dropped was from kills. In enemy loot boxes, the fragment spawn rate was significantly higher.

The more people you killed, the greater the probability of fragments dropping.

Eating chicken could also drop fragments, and the odds were pretty good too. But winning wasn't that simple. Jiang Siming's skills were strong, but he couldn't hold up against all the sneaky bastards—he'd get picked off before he could react.

He spent the entire afternoon grinding in PUBG, and in total, he got four fragments.

Two of them were Gold Fragments, both worth ten thousand each.

The other two were a Voice Actor Skill and a PUBG Driving Skill.

The PUBG Driving Skill could be used with just one fragment, but for the Voice Actor Skill, Jiang Siming was still one short.

He kept at it until evening, when he finally couldn't hold on anymore, so he logged off and went to sleep.

But while he was farming fragments all afternoon, a stir had kicked up in the livestreaming circle over Jiang Siming's sniping performance from before.

A well-known entertainment streamer on Shark Platform, the newly rising Jedi Sister Tuan Tuan with millions of fans, along with Mouya's Jedi President, a top-tier pro team, the wildly popular gaming prodigy Wei Shen, and two of his key teammates.

They'd all been wiped out by a random stranger using just a Kar98k. And when they watched the replay, Wei Shen and the others realized that Kar98k only had a Red Dot Sight on it!

That discovery sparked a heated debate among the fans of both teams over whether Jiang Siming was cheating.