Girls und War

But Xia Shu didn't give her time to think. He pressed her to the ground with his strong hand and gently covered her mouth with his other hand.

The running sound quickly approached the small house and stopped at the windowsill.

It looked like the man had already climbed over the windowsill into the room.

The two of them were currently on the second floor of the small house, near the window.

There is a staircase extending from the bottom, and you can't see what's going on upstairs by looking directly at it.

So as long as they don't make any sound, the people below won't know whether it is safe above.

It was still the darkest time before dawn. The two of them were silent, listening carefully to the movements downstairs.

Elena gripped the sniper rifle tightly in her hand.

The muzzle of the gun was pointed towards the stairs, and if someone came up, she would pull the trigger immediately.

610. Killing Techniques as Perfect as Art

The footsteps downstairs were very light, and the crackling sound of wood echoed repeatedly in every corner of the room.

The sound was sometimes urgent, sometimes slow, as if the intruder downstairs was searching every room in the house.

Elena didn't know whether the other party would go upstairs, but she knew very well that the person downstairs was an enemy, and Xia Shu on her body was also an enemy.

Although Xia Shu used his eloquence to lower her mental defenses, the cold chill on her neck kept reminding her that Xia Shu was a demon who killed without blinking an eye!

That's what she did at the beginning, smiling as she thrust the tip of the knife into her own heart!

The footsteps downstairs gradually approached the stairs. Elena tensed her nerves and aimed at that location.

At the same time, a hand quietly pulled out the dagger from the leg without making any sound.

Elena didn't know what the best decision should be at this time.

But she knew she couldn't leave her life in Xia Shu's hands.

Xia Shu couldn't let her go here for both emotional and logical reasons.

——Because that’s the rules of the game.

After a while, the footsteps downstairs turned in other directions and gradually began to move away.

It seemed that the person downstairs felt that the risk of going upstairs to search was too great, and whether there was anyone there or not, he should not risk going upstairs at this time.

Because what is more important at this moment is that the pursuers outside are getting closer and closer.

What that person should have done was to defend himself at the window and prepare for the subsequent indoor and outdoor sniper confrontations.

Elena knew that this was a good time to take action, and Xia Shu might have let his guard down at this time.

So he quietly put away his forearm, hid the dagger in his chest, and made a preparation for a stab.

Suddenly, a gunshot was heard downstairs, and an exchange of fire began in the dark inside and outside the small house.

Elena was about to take action, but she felt Xia Shu's hand already on her elbow.

Just a slight lift blocked all the angles of Elena's force.

Before she even had time to think about whether this action was intentional or not, Xia Shu's hand slid down Elena's forearm and grasped the dagger on her chest, disarming her easily.

Although Xia Shu said nothing and his movements were incredibly gentle, this all-seeing attitude still made Elena blush.

This is a kind of control that is extremely terrifying. It seems that all of Elena's conspiracies and tricks are a joke in front of Xia Shu.

In order to save Elena's face, Xia Shu didn't even say anything to point it out.

Just used behavior to simply illustrate a truth -

Women, don't try to challenge something you can't resist.

In other words, don't play with fire.

Xia Shu didn't say a word at this point. After removing the dagger from Elena, he continued to hide and remain silent as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, Elena's last bit of resistance was finally worn away.

She was now like a fifteen-year-old Mary Sue princess with ten-meter-long rainbow-gradient hair who had been completely conquered by the evil and eccentric twenty-five-year-old designated heir of a Fortune 100 company. She had completely lost the desire to resist.

Lost, lost completely.

So Elena gave up the treatment directly, her expression was numb, her hands loosened, and she made an expression that said, "You can move as you like, I'm out of energy."

Of course Xia Shu would not say at this time, Elena, do you know that I hate you most for being like a stone.

She only moved the blade slightly further away from Elena's neck after realizing that she had given up.

The sporadic gunshots downstairs continued for a while and then stopped.

It seemed that the day was about to dawn, and the pursuers outside felt that there was no point in continuing to stay here, so they simply left this broken place.

The guy downstairs hesitated for a while, and seemed to be worried about being ambushed by others here, so he also left the house and disappeared.

When Xia Shu heard the gunshots outside gradually fading away, he knew that there was no longer any threat outside.

So now, it was back to Natsuki and Elena's happy alone time.

Elena suddenly felt her hair stand on end and her body began to tremble unconsciously.

It seemed as if Elena recalled some panic-inducing scene, and she suddenly felt like a fish on the chopping board.

Natsuki felt Elena trembling, so he asked kindly, "Are you scared?"

Elena gritted her teeth and said nothing.

But the fear of facing death is real, even if that death is virtual.

Xia Shu naturally couldn't let her go at this time, so he comforted her, "Actually, there's nothing to be afraid of. You'll get used to it."

"Can you get used to this kind of thing?" Elena couldn't help but turned around and complained.

Xia Shu was stunned, as if he didn't expect Elena to react to such a thing.

So he said with some amusement, "Don't you usually have death training?"

The training she was talking about was a near-death experience conducted alone in a holographic space.

This kind of training is extremely inhumane, but it is indeed necessary, because anyone who fights on an imaginary battlefield will experience this sooner or later.

It is better to train soldiers to get used to this feeling than to suffer from PTSD after the war.

Elena had naturally undergone death training, or rather, she was often captured by Hawkeye to play a life-and-death "ghost catching" game.

But this does not mean that Elena's fear of Xia Shu's death has been alleviated in the slightest.

Because normally there is no Xia Shu who can come and help her get used to this feeling.

You know, Elena is probably the person with the most severe dendrophobia in the world.

Seeing that Elena didn't say anything, Xia Shu felt a little reluctant to do it.

So she started talking about all sorts of things to help Elena divert her attention.

"So what are you going to do first after you get out?" Xia Shu said without any murderous intent, turning the dagger lightly with his fingertips.

"I...should I go back to training?" Elena said with a slightly lost expression.

"Hmm... is it that hard?" Xia Shu pondered for a moment and said, "Come to think of it, Smiley Face mentioned earlier that he was planning to invite everyone over for a get-together—oh, everyone, I mean the top-ranked snipers—we have a pretty good relationship."

"Really?" Elena didn't seem to expect that these snipers who fought each other to the death on the battlefield actually had a good relationship.

"Yeah, are you coming?"

"I can too?"

"Sure, aren't you in the top 20 now?"

"Then..." Elena hesitated, forgetting for a moment that her life was in Xia Shu's hands.

Xia Shu asked again, "What do you like to eat? I'll talk to Smiley Face."

"Eat..." Speaking of this, Elena became excited.

Xia Shu chose the right moment and inserted the tip of the knife very accurately and fiercely along the second section of the spine behind Elena's head, deeply inserted into it.

The audience and commentators watching the live broadcast were all shocked. They had never expected Xia Shu to act without hesitation.

Elena lost consciousness instantly before she even had time to feel the pain.

This move is Xia Shu's fastest and least painful killing method.

Because it requires the target to completely relax and expose all the dangerous parts of the spine, Xia Shu rarely uses this move.

However, at this time, Elena's fear of death had already made Xia Shu reluctant to cause her too much pain.

So he calmed down and used this extremely unpopular method of killing.

This move is a bit like the distraction during tooth extraction. Before the child can react, the baby tooth disappears directly into the gum.

Although it is essentially an extremely gentle killing method, it is precisely this kind of effortlessness that makes the audience extremely frightened.

What a familiarity with the human body's weaknesses, and what a skillful killing technique!

What kind of training did Xia Shu go through that allowed her to kill people so beautifully and effortlessly, like an art form?

At this time, coupled with the fact that Xia Shu pulled out the dagger and wiped the blood without any care, everyone's perception of her rose to a new level.

It can be said that no one who has killed more people than Xia Shu has killed as beautifully as she does.

And those who have a sense of beauty in killing are definitely not as good as her.

Xia Shu is undoubtedly the most perfect sniper in this arena, and even in this era - no doubt about it.

After leaving the battlefield, when Elena woke up in the holographic chamber, she had not yet realized that she had been eliminated.

She was still foolishly thinking about what she would eat next.

611. A narrow escape from death

After killing Elena, Xia Shu did not waste the rest of the time.

As the light of dawn slowly appeared in the distant east, the dark earth seemed to slowly awaken. The surrounding scenery gradually became clearer, and the previously indistinct areas gradually appeared in everyone's sight.

Xia Shu collected Elena's meager equipment and simply took some items that looked useful. Then he walked out of the room and headed in a certain direction.

Careful viewers can notice that the direction Xia Shu is pursuing is the same direction the girl who was downstairs from them was heading.

Their destination at this time was not the small town area in the center of the map.

Instead, it was heading towards the river where the north and south competition zones met, where one of the supplies was dropped.

Xia Shu roughly drew a walking route in his mind, thinking that the girl who came to the small house not long ago had just been evacuated from the supply area.

Maybe she was targeted by a sniper during the fight for supplies.

Then the two of them fought and retreated all the way to the small house in the suburbs.

The sniper who was fighting against the girl left the area after the pursuit failed.

The girl who was forced to leave had already figured out the battle situation in the airdrop zone and felt that it was profitable, so she made a half circle and returned to the airdrop zone from the river area.

In that case, biting this girl from behind would be the most advantageous decision for Xia Shu.

Firstly, that girl was more familiar with the battle situation near the drop zone and wouldn't stray into a large group of people, so she could be an excellent mine-detecting dog for Xia Shu. Even if they encountered an ambush, Xia Shu wouldn't be the first target.

Secondly, as long as Xia Shu follows behind her without exposing himself, even if the girl becomes the final beneficiary, Xia Shu will be the hunter behind the oriole.

The sky was not yet fully bright, and the surrounding visible distance was only three or four hundred meters at most. Any farther away, it was all gray and black, and nothing could be seen clearly.

If you want to get close to the drop zone, you have to be quick.

Later, when the sun rose completely, everything on the field became visible.

By then, you won’t be able to find a place to hide.

The girl in front was not far away from Xia Shu, and she didn't pay much attention to the concealment of her movements. Therefore, Xia Shu easily tracked her footsteps and followed her to the vicinity of the plain.

After Xia Shu saw the girl's figure quietly hiding in a bush on the plain not far ahead, he hid under a short tree not far behind her.

As the sky gradually brightened, the sporadic gunshots in the distance stopped.