Luring

One AP Round took out a Chemical Pig. Li Qinwu was delighted, feeling lucky, but there was no way he could go over there and retrieve the Rage Spine device!

The pig side was a complete mess, with people from both sides there. He did not dare go over to collect the spoils.

What he regretted most was the Rage Drug. That stuff was high-grade padding material; he had to get more of it.

After thinking it over, Li Qinwu looked at Little Knife beside him.

Little Knife was now looking at Li Qinwu with utter admiration. He had been counting—more than sixty Chemical Dogs had died by Li Qinwu's hand, along with one Muscle Dog, and now he had dropped a Chemical Pig with a single shot!

This guy was practically a god of war! Wasn't he afraid?

Li Qinwu was not afraid at all. It was not like he could die. At worst, he would lose his gear and redeploy. Still, it was a shame he could not retrieve the loot, so he decided to change strategies.

He said to Little Knife, "Are you fast?"

Little Knife froze, then instinctively answered, "Uh, I'm alright."

"Alright is good enough."

Li Qinwu wore a meaningful expression as he pointed toward the chaotic battlefield. "It's about 280 meters from here to the battlefield. There's roughly 150 meters of unobstructed ground in front of us."

Little Knife had no idea why he was telling him this and looked confused.

Li Qinwu smiled and patted Little Knife on the shoulder.

"You go lure a Chemical Pig over here. I'll kill it with an Armor-Piercing Round!"

Little Knife's face went pale. He was a senior lackey in the Fertilizer Gang, and the only requirement for being a senior lackey was living long enough.

Little Knife had lived too long and seen too much. He knew all too well how vicious Muscle Dogs and Chemical Pigs were.

Chemical Pigs loved slurping noodles. They pinned people down, bit open their bellies, and slurped them alive. Their victims stayed conscious through the entire thing. How horrifying was that?!

At the thought of being caught by a Chemical Pig and slurped like noodles, Little Knife's legs trembled like sieves.

"C-can't we fight it from here? Sir Scavenger, d-didn't you just drop a Chemical Pig with one shot?"

Li Qinwu said, "That one knelt down to eat someone, so its head wasn't moving. I gave it a shot and killed it instantly.

But look at the battlefield. These things are running all over the place. How am I supposed to shoot them?"

Little Knife looked toward the battlefield. It was true. The Chemical Pigs were running everywhere, chasing down and killing people.

The crowd had no good way to deal with the Chemical Pigs. People from both sides were being killed by the rampaging monsters.

The battlefield was gradually spreading outward because the soldiers were fleeing in all directions. That actually benefited Li Qinwu—the bigger the battlefield, the lower the density of people, and the more chaotic it became, the easier it was for him to profit.

When he saw Little Knife standing there without moving, he knew the guy was too scared to act as bait and decided to abandon the luring plan.

"Fine, if you don't want to—"

"I'll do it!"

To his surprise, after trembling for a while, Little Knife actually blurted that out, determination flashing in his eyes.

Li Qinwu was somewhat surprised. He had been scared out of his mind just now, so why had he suddenly changed? His gaze was as resolute as that of a gangster revolutionary.

Li Qinwu could not be bothered to ask why. "Listen carefully. Lure only one Chemical Pig at a time, then run straight across the 150 meters of open ground in front of us. You must run in a straight line."

Little Knife was still nervous. Gritting his teeth, he asked, "Why do I have to run straight?"

"Chemical Pigs have armor and thick fat. My Armor-Piercing Rounds can only kill them with headshots.

These things have no intelligence. If you run straight toward me, the Chemical Pig will chase you in a straight line. I'll be lying on the container. From my perspective, its head will be a target that keeps getting bigger with a simple movement pattern. It'll be easy to hit."

Now Little Knife understood. He decisively climbed down from the container and crept toward the battlefield.

Li Qinwu removed the magazine and loaded it full of AP Rounds. Then he dragged over the Muscle Dog's corpse, propped his gun on it, and quietly waited for a target.

Little Knife slowly crept to the edge of the battlefield, moving with great care and making no sound.

He crouched behind a pile of Ceramite scrap metal and poked his head out.

Ahead of him, more than ten Chemical Gang members wielding steel pipes and machetes were hacking wildly at a Chemical Pig.

But those cold weapons could not break through its defenses at all. They struck its armor with loud clangs, yet the Chemical Pig was completely unharmed.

A Fertilizer Gang member let out a shriek and drove a knife into a gap in the Chemical Pig's crotch armor, bursting its balls.

An ordinary person would have gone into shock, but the Chemical Pig merely let out a howl. It clenched one huge hand into a fist and smashed it down viciously, hammering the man's head straight into his chest cavity.

Then it flailed its massive arms around. Everyone it knocked down suffered shattered bones and torn tendons, coughing blood until they died.

In the blink of an eye, ten Chemical Gang members had become corpses on the ground, utterly helpless against the monster.

After killing the annoying pests, the Chemical Pig knelt down, grabbed someone's limb, and prepared to slurp noodles.

By then, Little Knife had steeled himself. He took several harsh breaths, scooped up a chunk of Ceramite from the ground, and hurled it viciously at the Chemical Pig.

With a clang, the fragment struck the Chemical Pig's iron helmet. It immediately raised its head like a predator interrupted while feeding.

Little Knife threw a second stone and shouted excitedly, "You bastard! Come chase your daddy!"

"ROAR ROAR ROAR!!!"

The Chemical Pig roared, tore the limb in its hand in half with a powerful tug, then hurled it hard at Little Knife.

Little Knife turned and ran. The corpse struck the ground in front of him and rolled several times, its intestines trailing behind it like a string.

"God-Emperor above!!"

Little Knife shrieked, running even faster.

"ROAR ROAR ROAR!!!"

The Chemical Pig rose to its feet, and its mountain of flesh suddenly burst forward in a furious charge.

Hearing footsteps behind him like massive iron hammers pounding the ground, Little Knife was so scared that tears nearly came out. His mind began flashing with scenes of being violently violated after getting caught by the Chemical Pig, and he sped up again.

Fortunately, Li Qinwu's plan was extremely reliable. An ordinary person running at full speed could roughly match a Chemical Pig's pace. As long as he could overcome his fear, he could keep it occupied for several minutes without a problem.

Little Knife weaved through the chaos and reached the open ground. At a glance, he saw Li Qinwu 150 meters away, lying atop a container with his rifle braced. Gritting his teeth, he wished he could run on all fours!

The Chemical Pig smashed several empty containers aside and chased tightly after Little Knife, swiping forward with its huge claws as drool streamed from its mouth.

Unlike Little Knife, whose soul was practically leaving his body, Li Qinwu remained very calm atop the container.

He slowly inhaled and exhaled, locking the rifle's sights onto the running Chemical Pig.

Just as he had expected, the Chemical Pig ran in a straight line. Its movement pattern was simple; its enormous pig head only swayed naturally from side to side.

Finally, when the target reached around one hundred meters, Li Qinwu fired.

Bang!!

Bang!!

Bang!!

Bang!!

After four shots, the Chemical Pig's head burst with a boom. It crashed to the ground, its body twitching a few times before it died.

Little Knife sprinted all the way beneath the container and hammered frantically against it, shouting hysterically, "I was fucking scared to death!!!"

Li Qinwu removed the magazine, loaded it full of AP Rounds, and calmly said, "You were very brave."

Little Knife knelt on the ground, gasping violently. He felt as though he had been redeemed, but Li Qinwu was not finished.

"Keep going. Lure the second one."