This was an ability obtained from the world of Kung Fu Hustle. Because, like martial arts, this was an ability obtained from the world of Kung Fu Hustle, and because, like martial arts, it consumed internal force, Xu Long had classified it as a chicken rib.
But after using it now, he felt it was decent enough.
Although he still couldn't burn someone alive in an instant, burning them for a few dozen seconds longer would do the job.
Blondie was a waste. At most, one of his attributes had just reached 50 points, and he had then passed the assessment by luck and risen to D-rank. Who knew where he had found the confidence to enter this newly released Wolf Warrior world?
Xu Long released a burst of internal force to scatter the ashes, lifted the jamming, and moved toward the flank.
The Wolf Warrior Squadron was an elite special forces unit. The exercise simulated a decapitation operation deep in enemy territory.
Thus, apart from the large-scale deployment of countermeasures to cover the soldiers' initial landing, there would be no other fire support.
These D-rank reincarnators' combat discipline was far inferior to that of rigorously trained special forces soldiers, but their combat strength was more than a little greater.
All twenty-nine members of Squad Two infiltrated from the rear. After planting bombs and mines, they began their feint as planned.
Their objective was to cause chaos and create an opportunity for Squads One and Three.
Leng Feng would then make his move and kill the Red side's commander.
The plan had been drawn up by the Red Queen. If robots were carrying it out, it could be considered absolutely foolproof.
But with these reincarnators carrying it out, that wasn't necessarily the case.
They were a mixed bag, each harboring ulterior motives. They might not manage to do good, but every last one of them was certainly skilled at causing trouble.
Still, Long Aotian's reputation carried weight, and this was a military exercise with no danger to their lives. With Blondie's fate as a warning, no one dared jump out and cause trouble for the time being.
After reaching their designated positions, the reincarnators began waiting for Squad Two's signal.
"Xiaomeng, was that Long Aotian just now? So overbearing, so majestic! I like him so much!"
"He's all right, I guess!"
Sun Yameng nodded, reminded once again of Xu Long.
Their appearances were completely different, yet the more she looked, the more alike they seemed.
"By the way, how's that boyfriend of yours doing? How far is he from reaching D-rank?"
"His first mission world was Resident Evil. To reach D-rank, he'll probably have to go through at least three more mission worlds."
Sun Yameng added, "He survived a mission like Resident Evil, where the death rate is over ninety percent. He should reach D-rank soon."
"What are you talking about?"
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded beside them.
The two turned to see that Long Aotian, whom they had just been discussing, had come over.
"We're discussing when my boyfriend will become number one in the world and marry me in an eight-man bridal sedan!"
Sun Yameng looked at Xu Long, her expression as radiant as a flower in full bloom.
Xu Long felt a little unnerved by her gaze and hurriedly changed the subject.
"Be careful. Stay behind me in a moment."
Has this woman seen through me? Impossible. The Main God's disguise is so powerful, there's no way it could be exposed.
Xu Long shook his head, feeling there wasn't much of a problem.
Rumble!
A series of violent explosions reached their ears, and amid flashes of fire, the distance erupted into chaos.
"It's started!"
With that, Xu Long charged out first.
With Xu Long taking the lead, Squads One and Three behind him didn't dare remain where they were.
Not counting on the reincarnators, Xu Long used the cover of darkness to shoot down the pathfinder bird in the sky, then sprang into the grass.
The pathfinder bird was actually a military micro-reconnaissance aircraft, with a function comparable to that of a satellite overhead. It could operate over all kinds of complicated terrain, but its weakness was that it could easily be disrupted by electromagnetic interference or shot down.
"Go!"
Xu Long signaled with his right hand. Although none of the people behind him understood it, that didn't stop them from charging forward with him.
Under the cover of chaos and darkness, the foolish ones opened fire, while the clever ones slid underneath the armored vehicles.
"Retreat!"
Xu Long shouted into his headset, then pulled back and ran.
Of course, he didn't forget to pull Sun Yameng along.
Rumble!
Explosions rang out one after another, and the entire Red headquarters was instantly engulfed in a sea of flames.
Xu Long and Sun Yameng lay prone in the grass. He then pressed his headset. "Sharpshooter, it's up to you!"
"No problem!"
Leng Feng replied calmly, an intense aura of showing off soaring into the sky!
"Thank you!"
Sun Yameng said softly to Xu Long.
"Don't mention it. Since I said I'd get you all out alive, I intend to do it."
Xu Long smiled. With the distant flames reflected against his utterly ordinary face, he had an indescribable quality in Sun Yameng's eyes.
He's so much like him, just like when he did homework at my house as a child.
Sun Yameng composed herself, a hundred thoughts springing up in her mind.
She had mentioned to Xu Long before that she might come to the Wolf Warrior world.
But Wolf Warrior was D-rank, and Xu Long had said he was only E-rank and couldn't enter it.
Could this Long Aotian really be Xu Long?
Sun Yameng was startled by her own thought. If that really was the case, she'd have to give him a good lesson when they got back.
Bang!
They weren't kept waiting long. A sharp report came from behind them, followed by a notification sounding in their minds.
[Hidden mission: 1. Win the exercise! Complete! 1,000 points awarded!]
"Not bad. That wasn't a wasted effort!"
Xu Long glanced at Sun Yameng, whose face was full of delight, and knew the others had received a notification too.
But Xu Long's was a hidden mission, while the others' was a side mission.
"Let's go. Next up is hide-and-seek."
Xu Long pulled Sun Yameng to her feet, said something to the other team members over the headset, then turned and ran toward Leng Feng's position.
"Hide-and-seek? What do you mean?"
Sun Yameng was still a little dazed. A side mission, completed that easily?
Thinking back to her previous two missions, she had struggled desperately to survive both times. Neither had been as easy as this.
"Since when were the Reincarnation Temple's missions so easy? The Red side's commander was taken out on the first day of the exercise, so they'll be furious with humiliation. Next, we'll have to evade their pursuit and face all sorts of dangers in the jungle. Luckily, there are less than two days left, so we won't need to worry about food or water."
Xu Long ran at full speed. Now that they had reached this stage, everyone was on their own.
The Red side had a whole regiment. Even if they stood still and let them kill them, they couldn't kill them all.
"The captain said everyone's on their own. What does he mean?"
The reincarnators hadn't understood the situation, but it wasn't long before they did.
A huge crowd of Red soldiers came surging toward them like madmen. From their furious expressions, they looked ready to tear the reincarnators apart.
"Fuck! That's cheating! Your regimental commander has already been killed, and you're still fighting?"
A startled cry rang out. Everyone else began running wildly, all fleeing in Xu Long's direction.
Completing a side mission so easily had instantly made Xu Long loom larger in their minds.
Reincarnators were pragmatic. Whoever could get them out alive and help them complete missions was the boss.
Thus, when the Red side began its sweep, the reincarnators instinctively started running after Xu Long.
The night was dark, the terrain was complicated, and the Red Queen had jammed the signals. Everyone soon escaped the Red side's pursuit and gathered around Xu Long.
"A great god really is a great god. That was godlike! I can hardly believe a side mission could be completed so easily!"
Zhang Dawei's face was full of admiration. If he'd been a woman, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist offering himself to Xu Long.
"Exactly. It's better to stick with a great god. The life we led before was like a living hell. We went through endless trouble just to barely stay alive. It was nothing like how satisfying this is."
Everyone chatted away, their mouths full of compliments for Xu Long.
As for Blondie, who was nowhere to be found, who would care about him? It consumed internal force, so Xu Long had classified it as a chicken rib.
But after using it now, he felt it was decent enough.
Although he still couldn't burn someone alive in an instant, burning them for a few dozen seconds longer would do the job.
Blondie was a waste. At most, one of his attributes had just reached 50 points, and he had then passed the assessment by luck and risen to D-rank. Who knew where he had found the confidence to enter this newly released Wolf Warrior world?
Xu Long released a burst of internal force to scatter the ashes, lifted the jamming, and moved toward the flank.
The Wolf Warrior Squadron was an elite special forces unit. The exercise simulated a decapitation operation deep in enemy territory.
Thus, apart from the large-scale deployment of countermeasures to cover the soldiers' initial landing, there would be no other fire support.
These D-rank reincarnators' combat discipline was far inferior to that of rigorously trained special forces soldiers, but their combat strength was more than a little greater.
All twenty-nine members of Squad Two infiltrated from the rear. After planting bombs and mines, they began their feint as planned.
Their objective was to cause chaos and create an opportunity for Squads One and Three.
Leng Feng would then make his move and kill the Red side's commander.
The plan had been drawn up by the Red Queen. If robots were carrying it out, it could be considered absolutely foolproof.
But with these reincarnators carrying it out, that wasn't necessarily the case.
They were a mixed bag, each harboring ulterior motives. They might not manage to do good, but every last one of them was certainly skilled at causing trouble.
Still, Long Aotian's reputation carried weight, and this was a military exercise with no danger to their lives. With Blondie's fate as a warning, no one dared jump out and cause trouble for the time being.
After reaching their designated positions, the reincarnators began waiting for Squad Two's signal.
"Xiaomeng, was that Long Aotian just now? So overbearing, so majestic! I like him so much!"
"Yes. He obviously isn't tall or handsome, but he has such an imposing aura."
Sun Yameng nodded, reminded once again of Xu Long. Compared with Long Aotian, the former was instantly crushed without even a scrap left.
"By the way, how's that boyfriend of yours doing? How far is he from reaching D-rank?"
"His first mission world was Resident Evil. To reach D-rank, he'll probably have to go through at least three more mission worlds."
After saying that, Sun Yameng suddenly lost some interest.
"What boyfriend?"
Just then, a voice suddenly sounded beside them.
The two turned to see that Long Aotian, whom they had just been discussing, had come over.
"It's nothing."
Sun Yameng shook her head and glared fiercely at her companion, signaling her not to speak.
"Be careful. Stay behind me in a moment."
Xu Long spoke, then fixed his gaze ahead.
Rumble!
A series of violent explosions reached their ears, and amid flashes of fire, the distance erupted into chaos.
"It's started!"
With that, Xu Long charged out first.
With Xu Long taking the lead, Squads One and Three behind him didn't dare remain where they were.
Not counting on the reincarnators, Xu Long used the cover of darkness to shoot down the pathfinder bird in the sky, then sprang into the grass.
The pathfinder bird was actually a military micro-reconnaissance aircraft, with a function comparable to that of a satellite overhead. It could operate over all kinds of complicated terrain, but its weakness was that it could easily be disrupted by electromagnetic interference or shot down.
"Go!"
Xu Long signaled with his right hand. Although none of the people behind him understood it, that didn't stop them from charging forward with him.
Under the cover of chaos and darkness, the foolish ones opened fire, while the clever ones slid underneath the armored vehicles to plant bombs.
"Retreat!"
Xu Long shouted into his headset, then pulled back and ran.
Of course, he didn't forget to pull Sun Yameng along.
Rumble!
Explosions rang out one after another, and the entire Red headquarters was instantly engulfed in a sea of flames.
Xu Long and Sun Yameng lay prone in the grass. He then pressed his headset. "Sharpshooter, it's up to you!"
"No problem!"
Leng Feng replied calmly, an intense aura of showing off soaring into the sky!
"Thank you!"
Sun Yameng said to Xu Long, her face red.
"Don't mention it. Since I said I'd get you all out alive, I intend to do it."
Xu Long smiled. With the distant flames reflected against his utterly ordinary face, he had an indescribable quality in Sun Yameng's eyes.
Bang!
They weren't kept waiting long. A sharp report came from behind them, followed by a notification sounding in their minds.
[Hidden mission: 1. Win the exercise! Complete! 1,000 points awarded!]
"Not bad. That wasn't a wasted effort!"
Xu Long glanced at Sun Yameng, whose face was full of delight, and knew the others had received a notification too.
But Xu Long's was a hidden mission, while the others' was a side mission.
"Let's go. Next up is hide-and-seek."
Xu Long pulled Sun Yameng to her feet, said something to the other team members over the headset, then turned and ran toward Leng Feng's position.
"Hide-and-seek? What do you mean?"
Sun Yameng was still a little dazed. A side mission, completed that easily?
Thinking back to her previous two missions, she had struggled desperately to survive both times. Neither had been as easy as this.
"Since when were the Reincarnation Temple's missions so easy? The Red side's commander was taken out on the first day of the exercise, so they'll be furious with humiliation. Next, we'll have to evade their pursuit and face all sorts of dangers in the jungle. Luckily, there are less than two days left, so we won't need to worry about food or water."
Xu Long ran at full speed. At this stage, it was every man for himself.
The red side had an entire regiment of troops. Even if they stood still and let them kill them, they couldn't kill them all.
"What did the captain mean by 'every man for himself'?"
The reincarnators didn't understand what was happening, but it wasn't long before they did.
A huge crowd of red-side soldiers came swarming toward them like madmen. Judging by their furious expressions, they wanted nothing more than to tear them all apart.
"Fuck! That's cheating! Their regimental commander's been killed, and they're still fighting?"
A cry rang out, and everyone else broke into a mad dash, all fleeing in Xu Long's direction.
Completing the side quest so easily made Xu Long's stature shoot up in their minds.
Reincarnators were practical. Whoever could lead them out alive and help them complete their missions was the boss.
So when the red side began its encirclement, the reincarnators instinctively started following Xu Long.
The night was dark, the terrain was complex, and the Red Queen had blocked the signals. The group soon escaped the red side's pursuit and gathered around Xu Long.
"A great god really is a great god. That was incredible! I can hardly believe a side quest could be completed so easily!"
Zhang Dawei's face was full of admiration. If he had been a woman, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist offering himself to Xu Long.
"Exactly. It's better to follow the great god. The days we had before were hellish. We went through all kinds of trouble just to barely stay alive. Nothing like how satisfying this is."
Everyone chimed in, their words full of praise for Xu Long.
As for the blond guy who was nowhere to be found, who cared about him?