Under normal circumstances, wolves might be ferocious, but there was no way they could throw their lives away like zombies as they were doing now.
When the enemy was too powerful and the casualties grew too heavy, the pack would break and flee.
Forget the Wolf King-even a wolf emperor couldn't stop that.
But something was clearly wrong with what was happening now.
Xu Long suspected that the stupid dog was no ordinary dog, but he would have to return to the Reincarnation Temple to find out the details.
The battle was exceptionally fierce, and both the wolves and the mercenaries suffered heavy casualties.
In less than ten minutes, almost the entire pack had been killed or wounded.
In exchange, only four of the mercenaries' main members remained: Old Cat, Mad Bull, Monkey, and Assassin.
"The small fry have all been cleaned up. Now it's time for the real targets."
Xu Long lowered his binoculars. The two hundred robots beside him had already charged forward.
He had no intention of fighting these people head-on, or rather, not so soon.
Killing the drug dealer Min Deng was worth only 1,500 points, while killing the mercenary leader Old Cat was worth a full 2,000.
Xu Long suspected that Old Cat was no ordinary man. In terms of individual combat strength, he was probably no weaker than the Wolf King, Rice Bucket.
The wolves were all dead, but four mercenaries remained.
Xu Long planned to send the robots in to wear them down first. It would be best if they could kill the mercenaries; if not, he would step in himself.
"Damn it, what the hell is going on?"
Looking at the wolf corpses piled up in mountains around him, Old Cat felt as miserable as if he'd fucked a dog.
This was fucking bullshit. These wolves had gone mad.
It might have made sense if they'd had a grudge from before, but this was their first time setting foot in this area. What the hell had they done to deserve this?
"Report your remaining ammunition and injuries!"
Old Cat needed to make a new plan and decide whether to keep fighting or retreat immediately.
"Less than a thousand machine-gun rounds left. Gunner Mad Bull is uninjured!"
"Thirty sniper rifle rounds left. Sniper Assassin is uninjured!"
"Two hundred submachine-gun rounds left. Assault man Monkey is wounded on the right side of his abdomen and needs treatment as soon as possible!"
"What the fuck..."
Hearing his men's reports, Old Cat was so furious he nearly coughed up blood.
They'd had a full complement of more than ninety men, and before they'd even caught sight of the enemy, they'd nearly been wiped out.
They were almost out of ammunition, and one of the four survivors was wounded.
If Monkey didn't get treatment soon, it wouldn't be long before he became a dead monkey.
"Let's retreat. We'll find another chance to deal with the mission!"
Old Cat sighed and prepared to leave.
But just then, he caught sight of something, and his nerves instantly went taut.
"No way! Again!"
Old Cat wailed inwardly and raised his binoculars. Sure enough, there it was.
"Sniper!"
Old Cat let out a roar, followed by an ear-splitting blast.
Boom!
The enemy sniper, hidden somewhere unknown, had fired again.
And this time, the target was none other than their own sniper, Assassin.
"Fuck! Motherfucker!"
A curse mixing Chinese and foreign gibberish burst from Old Cat's mouth. His eyes were bloodshot, and he was beside himself with rage.
"Mad Bull! Monkey! Fight for your lives!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Old Cat pulled a syringe from the small pouch at his waist and plunged it into his neck without hesitation.
"Aaaah!"
The red drug entered his veins, and Old Cat doubled over in pain. His screams gradually turned into roars.
The white man's already long body hair grew wildly as if it had been fed growth supplements, turning black and coarse, with tawny markings appearing among it.
Savage fangs jutted from his mouth, and his sharp claws gleamed coldly.
"Raargh!"
In less than three seconds, the already tall and muscular Old Cat had turned into a vividly striped tiger standing on two legs.
Savage and wild, he sent chills through the heart even from a kilometer away.
Old Cat wasn't the only one who changed. Mad Bull and Monkey did too.
These mercenaries hadn't been given their codenames for nothing. Mad Bull turned into a black bull, while Monkey became an ape.
Madness and brutality beyond imagination.
[Hidden mission: 4. Kill Assassin! Complete! 1,000 points awarded!]
A deafening blast rang out, accompanied by a pleasant notification tone.
So far, Xu Long had earned a full 5,700 points, far more than other reincarnators of the same rank.
Without knowledge of the plot, other reincarnators could only feel their way forward bit by bit. It was already an achievement to return alive, let alone complete side missions and hidden missions.
At E rank, surviving reincarnators earned less than five hundred points per run on average. At D rank, they generally earned a little over a thousand.
If anyone else learned that Xu Long had earned nearly six thousand points without counting the main and side missions, they might die of jealousy, smashing their own balls.
"I was wondering why a modern warfare world had turned into science fiction, and why it was D rank. So this is where the problem was."
Looking at Old Cat, Mad Bull, and Monkey, who had finished transforming in the distance, Xu Long's lips curved into a faint smile.
It was much as he had expected. Old Cat was no ordinary man after all. And it wasn't just him-Mad Bull and Monkey were far from ordinary too.
After transforming, the three beasts threw away their weapons and charged at the two hundred robots like mad.
Boom!
The earth trembled, and dust filled the air.
Old Cat, Mad Bull, and Monkey slammed into the mass of robots, instantly wrecking five of them.
The robots were replacements for the lowest-tier cannon fodder, and each one cost less than five hundred Chinese yuan.
That was right-they were that cheap!
Iron was cheap, chips were cheap, and the intelligence program was free. The biggest expense in those five hundred yuan was actually the synthetic skin.
The cost of all the technology was negligible. The only things that cost money were the most basic raw materials.
Under those circumstances, Xu Long wouldn't feel a thing even if tens of thousands of the robots were smashed.
Unfortunately, his storage space was limited. Otherwise, Xu Long could have simply made hundreds of thousands of them. What was the big deal?
"Roar!"
"Moo!"
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
Piercing cries rang out as the three beasts crashed into the robots.
Mad Bull stood in front like a meat shield, while Monkey and Old Cat were two assassins.
Every swipe of a claw could smash a robot, but the robots' pistols and short blades couldn't pierce their skin.
Two hundred robots weren't enough to be thrown away like this. Less than ten seconds after the two sides met in close combat, more than a tenth had been lost.
In three minutes at most, the robots would be exhausted, and the three beasts would come charging toward Xu Long.
"Die... for me... roar..."
The roar was full of madness, its owner already close to losing his mind.
Just as Mad Bull impaled the robot in front of him with a horn, a thunderous blast rang out again.