Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 52 Don’t stop
"Dongyao Dongyao, I'm Dongguai. Please answer if you hear me. Please answer if you hear me."

Zhang Xianzhong placed his left index finger on his ear, but received no response.

Looking at his teammates who were all looking expectant, Zhang Xianzhong shook his head helplessly. "The bad news is that we're too far away to communicate. The good news is that invalid communication won't deduct any merit points."

"Hey, we can obviously go offline to notify the enemy, what's the use of this function?" Jiang Xiaobai scratched the back of his neck in confusion.

"It takes at least a minute for the offline notification to come back online. This communication is equivalent to giving you a mobile phone with a signal, which can convey the message in three seconds. It seems useless now, but you will know its power when the fight starts." said the breakthrough player.

The Qihuo Army led the main force out of the city to fight, and ten combat teams spread out to the west, constantly capturing the movements within a radius of several miles.

Zhang Xianzhong was a member of the reconnaissance team.

Because of his high reputation, the "honorary title" next to his name, the homophony with the Eight Kings and many other factors, he was elected by the players as the seventh captain.

The reconnaissance team is basically a small group of ten people. It is basically a small group formed since the server was launched, and some tacit understanding has been formed when playing in a group.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't need to fight in person, but Huang Zilong and others tried their best to persuade him to gain more merits so that he could get a "custom COS costume" after the war. Only then did he reluctantly sign up.

Huang Zilong and other guys who often played with him became his team members in this reconnaissance mission.

Lu Xiaobu pulled out his monoculars and peered forward. The world through the lens seemed to be pulled right before him: sparse forests, earthen mounds, and slowly advancing refugees...

"Oh my god, why do you have a telescope?" Huang Zilong typed on the keyboard with his hands in front of his chest, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked greedy as if he wanted to snatch the telescope.

"The equipment department bought it. They copied some telescopes from the system mall..." Lu Xiaobu proudly handed over the monocular, with the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Me, me, let me feel good too!" Ajie made the sound he wanted.

"Me too." Liu Changsheng also came over.

Although Zhang Xianzhong didn't say anything, he followed the other players over.

"I don't think I've gotten much closer. How many magnifications does your scope have?"

"Quadruple magnification mirror."

"Damn, it's like not using a telescope."

Huang Zilong handed over the monocular and saw Lu Xiaobu's proud expression. He immediately understood that this boy was showing it off on purpose. The effect of the prop itself was not important.

The point is, I have it and you don't.

"Speaking of your Yulin Army, I haven't seen your teammates since the first time." Huang Zilong suddenly remembered this.

"Hey, aren't you my teammates in the Yulin Army?" Lu Xiaobu blinked and smiled sincerely.

"Okay, you lied to me! You're full of nonsense, how many of your words are true?" Huang Zilong raised his middle fingers to the other party, ""

"Of course I'm telling the truth. I thought you were good friends in a team!" Lu Xiaobu was lying under a tree with a leaf in his mouth, staring at the blue sky quietly.

"Heh, friend. I'm afraid it's the friend who was tricked by you and had a red temperature explosion."

"Hey, how did you know I was going to trick you?" Lü Xiaobu said with a smile, "When the fight starts later, you'd better be prepared. I'll definitely use the 'camera function' to record your embarrassing moments."

"Heh, let's see who has the fastest photography skills."

Just as the two of them were chatting, Liu Changsheng vaguely saw some figures appear at the end of his field of vision through the lens.

"Hey guys, I think I see someone coming."

Liu Changsheng's reminder attracted everyone's attention. The reconnaissance team quickly stopped making noise, clenched their weapons, took combat positions, and turned around to look forward.

Liu Changsheng handed the telescope back.

Ajie knelt on his knees and put his ears to the ground. He heard a thumping sound coming slowly. "There's the sound of horse hooves! I wonder if it's the enemy or my teammates."

Huang Zilong also imitated them and bent down to listen, but he didn't hear any obvious movement. "You can even hear movement?"

"I deal with horses often, and I know everything about horses." Ajie waved his hand, indicating that it was nothing to worry about.

"No, buddy, you are from Inner Mongolia and you are going to take the horse riding and archery test in the college entrance examination, right?" Huang Zilong looked surprised.

"Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. I won't tell the students in the neighboring province that they have to ride a camel for the college entrance examination..." Ajie pressed his index finger against his lips.

"Is this true? I have little education, so please don't lie to me." The breakthrough player looked confused and almost believed it.

"It's true," Lü Xiaobu said righteously. "I'm from Hubei and we have to take the driving test on the college entrance exam. If you can't fight your way through a busy highway, you won't get a high score."

"I know your mother." Huang Zilong said suddenly, causing Lu Xiaobu to look at him.

Then the two of them seemed to exchange information with their eyes and burst into laughter.

There was only the sound of an arrow piercing the air, and the breakthrough expert angrily shouted, "The enemy is right in front of us, and you're still laughing!"

The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer. Huang Zilong felt adrenaline rushing through his blood like crazy, and the tension was like lead piercing his capillaries.

He took off the bow from his shoulder, drew his bow and shot an arrow, but missed.

"Here they come!" Zhang Xianzhong shouted, and the enemy scouts rushed over on horseback.

The players quickly dodged, but one newcomer failed to dodge in time and was knocked away by the horse's powerful chest muscles. "Ahhhhhhhhhh, I'm knocked away! Medic, help me!" the newcomer shouted as he lay on the ground.

Huang Zilong drew his bow and shot an arrow at the cavalryman, but the arrow missed. However, the cavalryman's horse suddenly lost balance and fell forward, throwing the scout on its back far away.

He turned his head and saw that it was Ajie who shot the warhorse with an arrow.

"You're awesome, kid."

Just as his praise reached Ajie, whose lips curled up, a scout threw a spear and pierced Ajie's chest.

"Damn it!" A majestic warhorse galloped past him. Huang Zilong only felt a light tank passing in front of him, and a gust of wind blew behind the horse's tail.

"Watch me!" Liu Changsheng and the breakthrough man picked up the muskets that looked like toilet pegs, pressed the fuse to ignite the gunpowder at the scout who was turning and slowing down.

There were only a few gunshots, the neighing and screaming of war horses and scouts, and several heavy objects fell heavily to the ground.

"Don't be afraid, King Qin, go around the pillar! The cavalry's turning speed is not fast enough!" Lu Xiaobu shouted and reminded them to circle around the big tree, forcing the scouts to dismount and fight on foot.

As expected, after several rounds of fighting, both sides lost several people, and the scouts had to choose to dismount and fight on foot.

A scout just came down and raised his bow and shot three arrows in a row. One arrow hit Jiang Xiaobai in the stomach. "I'm shot, I'm shot, I'm bleeding all over the ground! Someone, help me!"

"Ahhh, Shabi shot me, I was hit by an arrow!" Another player fell to the ground.

Seeing his teammates' numbers continue to decrease, Liu Changsheng quickly reloaded the ammunition, raised the musket again and depressed the fuse. With a bang, he shot a scout in the chest again. The man groaned and fell to the ground with his head raised.

But before he could cheer for the victory, he was shot through the throat by an arrow and died in battle.

"No, we can't win. Retreat! It's enough to know that the main force of the enemy is nearby."

Zhang Xianzhong and another newcomer reacted quickly. While calling on the remaining people to evacuate, they took a detour and killed the war horses with short spears, depriving the scouts of their mobility, but they both died in the siege.

The remaining few players fled desperately.

"It seems we can't get back to the main camp." Lu Xiaobu's face froze, and then he smiled bitterly.

"What are you talking about? The enemy has no horses. If we hold on a little longer, we'll be safe!"

Huang Zilong glanced back and found that there were only four of them left among his teammates.

"According to the NPC's thinking, this kind of outpost battle will not let us go."

While running, Lu Xiaobu took out a monocular telescope from his arms and handed it to Huang Zilong, like handing over a baton in a 100-meter race.

"What are you doing!"

"As long as you can come back alive, our mission can be recorded accurately." Lu Xiaobu suddenly stopped, and the other two injured players also stopped.

"Why don't you cheat me?"

"Although I'm often full of nonsense, unreliable, and prone to spouting nonsense, believe me, today I've decided to leave the hope of survival to you—I believe you can carry our 'will' back to the main camp! Just keep moving forward, as long as you don't stop, the road will... continue to extend!"

Lu Xiaobu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. In fact, he was stabbed in the abdomen by a knife during the fight. Although the chain mail cushioned the injury, he could not hold on for long.

"Don't give up, let's run together!"

Huang Zilong never expected that Lu Xiaobu, this unreliable boy, would become such a heroic and handsome man today.

"Without anyone stopping the scouts, you won't get far."

Lu Xiaobu took out barbecue ingredients, sugar packets, and Molotov cocktails from his arms... It was like he had sewn a four-dimensional pocket and kept taking things out.

Then they were stuffed into Huang Zilong's arms one by one.
"Go."

Lu Xiaobu turned his back, and the still sharp long sword fell obliquely to the ground, and the carefully crafted sword body reflected a bright metallic luster.

"No! Xiaobu!" Huang Zilong tried hard to keep the tears from welling up in his eyes.

"In fact, Lu Xiaobu spent his merits on buying too many things, and it would be a waste if they fell into the hands of the enemy." The "Breakthrough Hand" ruthlessly exposed Lu Xiaobu's touching effect.

"Fuck! I just turned on the camera to record a touching scene. How disrespectful!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

The breakthrough man took the lead, raised the unloaded musket and used it as a hammer, and Lu Xiaobu followed closely behind with a helpless smile.

"Come on, run fast and keep our hope alive!"

After saying that, Lu Xiaobu rushed forward quickly with a long sword in hand.

Huang Zilong no longer remembered how fast he ran. He only remembered that in the "photography function", the backs of Lu Xiaobu and the breakthrough expert were frozen at the moment when they rushed towards the scout.

Huang Zilong ran desperately holding a bunch of props.

As he was escaping, he seemed to see a vision: Lu Xiaobu was lying on the ground, drawing a crimson path forward with his blood-stained index finger.

Don't stop!

(End of this chapter)