The Naming of the Night
Chapter 369

Qing Chen's Counterattack

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A ferocious Wilderness People.

Anxious Time Walker.

Qing Chen noticed that Sun Chuci's hands were trembling slightly, a result of adrenaline secretion.

This wilderness hunter must have been terrified. A college student who has been in the Inner World for two months would inevitably feel fear when facing real combat. Qing Chen did not look down on him because of this.

On the contrary, even though Sun Chuci was afraid, he did not make the wrong choice to run away blindly, nor did he show it in a way that would cause others to panic.

At this moment, Sun Chuci remained calm and said to the others, "If a fight breaks out later, everyone hide behind the car and provide cover fire. Set all your guns to burst fire mode, and don't use up all your bullets at once."

This group of Time Walker, who were even short of ammunition, were able to make a living in the wilderness, which impressed Qing Chen.

Sun Chuci turned to Qing Chen: "What should we do? Should we strike first?"

Qing Chen calculated the distance between them and the forest: 200 meters, which was exactly the effective firing range of an automatic rifle.

He had asked Sun Chuci to stop the car earlier because he didn't want to get into that distance, but Sun Chuci was still too slow to apply the brakes.

He thought for a moment and said, "Get in the car, run! Create distance between us!"

After saying that, Qing Chen got into the driver's seat and started the car. "Get in!"

The Time Walker were all bewildered. Run?

Just moments ago, everyone was surprised that Qing Chen could detect the weight of the gun so quickly and thought they might have met a master. But the next moment, Qing Chen's choice was to get in the car and run away.

A group of Time Walker are being hunted by Wilderness People in this desolate wilderness. Running away is the most unwise and unavoidable option, because the other side is the one who knows this place best.

Sun Chuci hesitated for a moment, but finally shouted, "Get in the car! Listen to him!"

This was not a blind decision, but a judgment made based on the information previously presented to Qing Chen!

Since we believe the other party is a skilled gun user, we should also believe in their ability to devise tactics.

When the Wilderness People in the distance saw Sun Chuci and his group suddenly get into the car, they immediately ran back.

Not only that, the leader of the Wilderness People waved into the woods, and in the blink of an eye, six more dilapidated off-road vehicles rushed out of the woods!

Sun Chuci and the others were stunned by what they saw; they had no idea that so many people were hiding in the woods!

It's impossible that there wasn't some other sinister or malicious intent behind this!

Only at this moment did everyone finally believe Qing Chen's judgment and understand that their captain, Sun Chuci, had once again made the right choice.

Tuanzi sat in the passenger seat of the pickup truck, silently looking at Qing Chen. She thought to herself that she had misunderstood him.

Sun Chuci asked from the back row, "Should we just run away?"

"Don't run away," Qing Chen glanced at the fuel tank. "The car can only go another fifty kilometers or so before we need to stop and refuel. It won't go very far anyway, so hold on tight."

Just then, Qing Chen suddenly slammed on the brakes, opened the car door, and jumped out.

Just as Sun Chuci was about to get out of the car to help, he saw Qing Chen kick his half-open car door, forcing him back into the car.

Qing Chen steadily picked up the automatic rifle and calmly said, "Stay in the car."

At this point, he had increased the distance between himself and the Wilderness People to 400 meters.

It's a very delicate distance; he can hit the Wilderness People, but the Wilderness People has a hard time hitting him.

For someone who is an expert in firearms, distance is everything.

The next second, Sun Chuci said into the walkie-talkie, "Don't get out of the car, wait inside."

Then, he and Tuanzi stayed in the car, silently watching the boy outside pull the trigger again and again to fire.

The firing rate was very high, as if the boy never needed to aim when he fired.

The high-frequency gunshots were like drumbeats in music, possessing their own unique and intricate rhythm.

Sun Chuci's vehicle was facing away from the Wilderness People, so he turned around, leaned on the back of the seat, and looked back through the car window.

He wanted to see how accurate Qing Chen's shooting was.

In his astonishment, he watched as the Wilderness People's vehicles overturned one after another, and every time Qing Chen fired a shot, a burst of blood would explode inside the Wilderness People's vehicle.

Some Wilderness People leaned out of the vehicle and fired back, but the off-road vehicle's bumpy road caused the bullets to drift, making it impossible for Bengen to aim properly at Qing Chen.

Moreover, these Wilderness People could only fire one shot at most before being killed by Qing Chen, and the boy did not give them any chance to correct their trajectory.

In less than ten seconds, the Wilderness People were wiped out before they even had a chance to catch up.

Qing Chen approached the vehicle without saying a word. He reviewed his memory and made a judgment: there should still be two people alive in the convoy. They were in the overturned vehicle, in his blind spot, and protected by the vehicle.

Seeing Qing Chen move forward, Sun Chuci quickly called his companions to get out of the car and follow behind.

Time Walker watched Qing Chen's retreating figure, they felt that his arm, holding the gun horizontally, remained perfectly still, as steady as a rock.

"Don't rush in. There are still two people alive," Qing Chen said calmly.

The next moment, he changed direction and finally found a new shooting angle, and pulled the trigger.

Qing Chen lowered his arms and exhaled a long breath of white air. His warm breath sounded like a sophisticated steam engine in operation in the cold winter.

He turned back and smiled at Tuanzi and the others, saying, "Go on, see if there are any spoils you need. Don't worry, there's no danger."

Sun Chuci didn't speak. He strode towards the Wilderness People's vehicle, pried open their trunk, and took out the two cages containing falcons.

Surprisingly, both cages were empty; there was nothing inside.

Seeing this, Qing Chen guessed, "Are these Wilderness People going to trade falcons for antibiotics with you?"

Sun Chuci glanced at him and no longer hid it. "Yes."

"Some of these people have contracted severe influenza, and many others in their camp may have been infected as well, so they urgently need antibiotics to save their lives," Qing Chen said. "However, they haven't found the falcons you need, so they can't complete this transaction."

Falcons are not as easy to catch as one might imagine. The Qin Family came to the wilderness earlier to catch Kite Falcon, but after two months they hadn't even seen Kite Falcon.

Therefore, the Wilderness People decided to take a risk and directly steal the antibiotics.

Qing Chen looked at Sun Chuci: "When you made the transaction before, did you just take the medicine from the car and give it to them?"

Sun Chuci nodded.

Qing Chen laughed and said, "Next time you'll have to be smarter. You should bury the medicine somewhere first, and then tell them where it is after the transaction is complete. Otherwise, if they kill you, they can find the medicine in the car, which will inevitably tempt them. Of course, the safest option is to have stronger military force yourself."

You don't need many reasons to kill someone in the wilderness. All you need is for you to have a piece of bread when I'm hungry, or medicine when I'm sick.

Logic is that simple, brutal, and direct.

At this point, Sun Chuci inspected all the vehicles, collected all the Wilderness People's firearms onto the vehicles, and took photos as evidence.

He said to Qing Chen, "City No. 10 has issued a bounty for the Wilderness People Hunters. It's 5,000 yuan to kill a Wilderness People. There are 17 Wilderness People here, which can be exchanged for 85,000 yuan... We can transfer 80,000 yuan to you after we receive the bounty."

Qing Chen was taken aback. He knew before that Wilderness People were also one of the targets of the wilderness hunters, just as the target of the Autumn Hunting Group was not only wild animals.

But he didn't know that the lives of the Wilderness People could actually be exchanged for money in the Federation!

Moreover, it's so cheap.

Qing Chen looked at Sun Chuci and laughed, "After all that work, you only left me five thousand yuan? The rest is all for me?"

Sun Chuci said seriously, "You killed all those people, so you essentially saved us. Taking five thousand is already a bargain for us."

The main problem is that they are facing some difficulties; otherwise, they probably wouldn't even accept the 5,000.

Qing Chen smiled and said, "You guys saved me too."

Sun Chuci said, "Judging from the abilities you've demonstrated, you would have been fine even without our help."

At this moment, Sun Chuci had thought it through very clearly. How could someone like Qing Chen be abandoned halfway and rushed to be reincarnated in City No. 10?

Therefore, all the excuses Qing Chen gave before were just stories made up by the other party.

But whenever Sun Chuci thought about the boy lying on the road pretending to be pitiful, he found it a bit unbelievable...

What kind of behavior is this? Just want to have fun, huh?

Qing Chen looked at Sun Chuci and shook his head with a smile, "It's alright. You can keep the money after you receive it from the Federation. Consider it my travel expenses. It will save you from robbing me and killing me on the way. Isn't that how it is in the wilderness?"

Sun Chuci paused for a moment. "We won't do that."

Qing Chen continued, "The Immigration and Customs Administration has been very strict with antibiotic control lately. It's generally difficult for wilderness hunters to bring out so many antibiotics from the city. So you're Time Walker, right? And you brought the antibiotics from the Outer World?"

Upon hearing this, Tuanzi felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, as if their greatest secret had been exposed.

Qing Chen laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't report you. Although I am what you call a native of the Inner World, I have no ill intentions towards the Time Walker."

Sun Chuci breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the lives of Time Walker were now far more valuable than those of Wilderness People.

Qing Chen got into the car first to turn on the heater. "Don't forget to search their car thoroughly, after all, the guns and ammunition are quite useful to you."

Sun Chuci and Tuanzi blushed upon hearing this, because they knew that Qing Chen had already guessed their predicament.

After Qing Chen got into the car, Tuanzi whispered to Sun Chuci, "Senior, I just counted. This boy only fired 13 shots in total, and 17 of the Wilderness People died. I now think his identity must be extraordinary; he's very likely a big shot in the Federation..."

Sun Chuci lowered his head in deep thought. The automatic rifles they were using were 7.62 mm in caliber.

Even if this caliber can inflict a penetrating wound on a human body, it is unlikely to penetrate the human body or vehicle seat and cause fatal injury to those behind.

He examined the wounds of the Wilderness People and discovered that four of Wilderness People had died from graze wounds to their carotid arteries caused by Qing Chen's bullets.

Those bullets sliced through the carotid arteries like knives, hitting the Wilderness People in the back row with almost no loss of kinetic energy.

If one Wilderness People died this way, it could be a coincidence, but if four of them did, it can't be a coincidence!

What kind of marksmanship is that?!

Tuanzi added, "Senior, his surname is Qing."

Qing is a very rare surname.

As she spoke, she turned to look at the boy who had already gotten into the car. He was looking at her with a smile, a smile that remained pure and innocent.

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