The reports from Mountain Dog's first two battles quickly reached Winter and Evil God through the players' private channel.
On Winter's side, he had already engaged the Wilderness Hunters alongside Wheelchair, Polar Bear, and Big Watermelon.
Like Mountain Dog, Winter had struck first himself, helping the players behind him acquire their first batch of starting equipment.
Once the players got that basic equipment, they quickly distributed it among their teams.
They split into groups of ten, each with two guns and four melee weapons, and launched scattered attacks.
By then, the intelligence Mountain Dog had gathered had also arrived.
Seeing that Mountain Dog's situation was much the same as theirs, Winter and the others relaxed.
They could pretty much confirm that this was the overall combat quality of this batch of Wilderness Hunters.
The enemy wasn't feigning weakness or deliberately planning to lure them in.
Once they confirmed that the enemy vanguard really was this weak, the players, who had been cautious and tightly clustered until now, immediately spread out.
Veteran players above level 20 each led nine players around level 15 and began hunting through the city.
In an instant, the city that had been utterly silent erupted with endless bursts of gunfire.
After a century of silence, the whole southern district of Diamond City became noisy again.
It all seemed to have plunged into fierce fighting.
And what that uproar actually signified was the collapse of the first five hundred Wilderness Hunters.
A Wilderness Hunter who had been shot blind in one eye was now swearing loudly into his Communicator.
"Fuck! Didn't you say there were fewer than a hundred of them?! I've seen at least five hundred here!"
"Goddammit! These people are absolute lunatics!"
"A bunch of completely insane savages!!"
Nine members of his ten-man squad were