Game Development: Taking the World by Storm, Starting with Minecraft
Chapter 40

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

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The grenade flew through the window and into the house, landing with a dull thud.

"Boom!"

As the grenade exploded with a deafening blast, Xiao Dingdang quickly jumped through the window, using the explosion to mask the sound of shattering glass.

He swiftly entered the first floor and heard footsteps coming from upstairs.

Gripping his SCAR-L, Xiao Dingdang concentrated as he reached the stairwell. When he saw several people healing, he quickly raised his gun, aimed, and fired.

"Rat-a-tat-tat."

In a second or two, Xiao Dingdang knocked two of them down.

But he didn't get greedy and force a fight with the other two, who had better positions. Instead, he withdrew to the stairs.

Above him, the fierce gunfire told him that if he had retreated a second later, he might have been riddled with bullets.

"Hiss!"

Upstairs, smoke began to spread. Xiao Dingdang saw the white smoke billowing around the entrance to the second floor and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He spoke to Grandpa Niu, Dance at the Rooster's Crow, and the others over the game mic. "Throw whatever you have into the second floor."

"If you're out of throwables, shoot at the windows. Don't let them escape through them."

When Grandpa Niu and the other two heard him, they immediately pulled out grenades, smoke grenades, and the like and aimed at the second-floor windows.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

Grenades, flashbangs, and smoke grenades went off one after another on the second floor.

Xiao Dingdang held his SCAR-L rifle ready halfway up the stairs, quietly aiming at the second-floor hallway.

"Boom, boom."

Two muffled blasts sounded upstairs, but he noticed the sound of someone reviving a teammate was still going.

After mentally calculating the enemy's position, he shouted.

"Fire!"

Outside the house, his teammates' gunfire rang out continuously. Xiao Dingdang had already pulled out a grenade and begun counting down, keeping his crosshair trained on the hallway wall as he calculated where it would bounce.

With just one second left on the grenade, he threw it without hesitation.

The grenade bounced once in midair before landing squarely on the person reviving his teammate.

Seeing the grenade appear in front of him, he thought, ...This is bad!

The grenade exploded right in his face, and the damage knocked him to the ground from half health.

His other teammate wasn't in good shape either. After several grenade blasts, his health had dropped below half.

Just as he was about to heal, a figure rushed out from the doorway.

"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat."

Xiao Dingdang quickly aimed at the only enemy crouching on the ground and fired, hitting him accurately and wiping out his remaining half of health.

All four enemies turned into loot crates. Excited, Xiao Dingdang said over the team mic, "Come up and loot the crates."

As soon as he finished speaking, his three top teammates appeared at the doorway.

The three stood up, lay down, stood up, and lay down again in front of him, looking hungry.

"God Zuo, you're awesome! Too strong!"

"One against four. As expected of God Zuo!"

"God Zuo, got room for someone to cling to your leg? I can throw grenades, throw smoke, and throw away my dignity."

Zuo Zixuan hurriedly told the three of them to loot the crates. He was excited too. It had been that feeling again just now-so thrilling, so satisfying!

Once all four had geared up and were ready to go, Zuo Zixuan led the other three around the zone, constantly searching for kills.

Perhaps because everyone was playing the game for the first time, many players weren't very skilled yet. At any distance over ten meters, their shots went all over the place.

As a result, Zuo Zixuan had already eliminated four or five squads by the time they reached the final circle. He'd had a blast.

When the four reached the final circle, it was so small that there was almost nowhere to take cover. They could only rely on accurate shooting and positioning themselves behind trees.

Even with all of Zuo Zixuan's skill, his teammates fell beside him one after another.

Only three teams remained in the final circle: a three-person squad, a duo, and Zuo Zixuan, the lone wolf.

It could be said that Zuo Zixuan now had almost no margin for error.

If he had teammates, he could have had them throw smoke and cover him, but now he could only rely on his own skills.

The pressure was immense, but it set Zuo Zixuan's blood boiling.

He now had two guns, a SCAR-L and a Kar98k.

The Kar98k fired quickly, and its damage could be said to be the highest of any gun apart from the AWM and Lynx AMR.

A headshot was almost enough to knock someone down outright, unless they were wearing a level-three helmet. In that case, one shot to the head wouldn't kill them.

Xiao Dingdang hid behind a tree and carefully analyzed the information on the field.

The three teams were positioned roughly in a triangle, keeping one another in check. One team was behind a rock, another was hunkered down in a pit, and he was hiding behind a tree.

From his position, the team behind the rock was the easier target.

As it happened, that team was the three-person squad. He had to try to make the situation more manageable by eliminating one of them.

With that in mind, he switched to the Kar98k and tentatively peeked toward the rock.

The moment he showed his head, he quickly pulled back. A heavy sniper shot rang out.

"Bang!"

Just from the sound, he could tell it dealt more damage than his Kar98k. Getting hit would definitely be the end of him.

After some thought, Xiao Dingdang decided not to fight that way. Instead, he switched to a smoke grenade and looked toward the team in the pit.

The team was hiding in the pit and wasn't looking his way, which gave him an opportunity.

He peeked out from the other side to test their reaction. Sure enough, they remained quiet.

After aiming carefully, he threw the smoke grenade toward the front of the pit, directly facing the team behind the big rock.

He wanted to give the team in the pit an opportunity and get the two teams fighting each other.

One smoke grenade, two smoke grenades, three smoke grenades.

He blanketed the grass in front of the pit with smoke.

Seeing that, Xiao Dingdang pulled out grenades and flashbangs and threw them from the other side toward the area near the rock.

The grenades and smoke caused a great commotion, instantly drawing the attention of the team behind the rock.

Was the team in the pit rushing them?

Thinking this, the team behind the rock pulled out their own throwables and lobbed them at the team in the pit.

In the pit, the two players saw what was happening and decisively chose to act. The blue zone had already begun to shrink, and they were outside the safe zone. With smoke now in front of them, they had to seize the chance to charge.

Within a few seconds, the two teams were exchanging fire.

Seeing this, Xiao Dingdang took out his Kar98k again and probed toward the rock. He didn't hear a sniper shot, so it seemed that team's attention had been drawn elsewhere.

He looked toward the rock through his eight-times scope, and a head appeared.

Holding his breath and concentrating, he calculated the bullet's trajectory and pulled the trigger.

The Kar98k rang out in the small circle, and a notification appeared in the upper-right corner saying a player had been knocked down.

At that very moment, Xiao Dingdang pulled out his rifle and charged from behind the tree.

He kept throwing the grenades in his hand toward the rock.

The original team wasn't the only one over there now. The team from the pit had already rushed up, and the two sides were exchanging fire. It was his chance.

He decisively threw all his remaining throwables.

Flashbangs and grenades flew toward the rock one after another.

They were highly effective. Only two players remained on the field. Seeing this, Xiao Dingdang gripped his SCAR-L and jumped around beside the rock, searching for the enemy.

His gaze landed on someone in a corner. He immediately climbed onto the rock and leaped down.

In midair, muzzle flashes flared from his gun, aimed at the last player.

"Rat-a-tat-tat."

The bullets hit their target, leaving no other players on the field.

The screen instantly went black, and two lines of yellow text appeared at the top.

[Winner winner, chicken dinner!]

P.S. Great God Tudou is updating today, hehe.

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