Before long, they were back on the winding mountain road.

Qin Ye asked, annoyed.

"Are they all taken care of?"

"Young Master, they’re all taken care of. We can get going now."

Zhao Chen quickly nodded in response.

"Fuck, they really had a death wish."

Qin Ye and the others cursed, fuming.

Just then, Dino walked over and said.

"I’ve checked the road ahead. No mines."

"With how pathetic and poor they looked, they didn’t even have a decent gun. How could they afford mines?"

Qin Ye’s face was full of disdain.

"Yeah, but the road ahead is blocked by large rocks. We’ll need some people to move them."

Dino continued.

"Let’s go!"

Long Ming and the others immediately followed Dino forward.

A moment later, they moved the rocks serving as a roadblock and returned to the truck.

Zhao Chen started the truck again and drove forward. However, the motorcycles that had been clearing the path were all wrecked, so they had no one to scout ahead for the rest of the journey. Zhao Chen lowered their speed.

Along the way, Long Ming and the others watched their surroundings vigilantly, guarding against another ambush.

These rolling mountain ranges were perfect for an ambush. They were lucky the previous ambushers didn’t have decent equipment or weapons, or they would have been done for.

But this kind of risk was unavoidable. After all, not taking the truck was out of the question.

...

「Over two hours later.」

「Outside Observatory Base City, at the north bridge.」

The bridge was a hundred meters long, spanning a turbulent river.

At the far end of the bridge, large metal crates were stacked on both sides. Behind the crates stood a seven-meter-high stone wall with an open gate at its base.

Over a hundred players were hiding behind the metal crates and the wall.

At that moment, a man in a gray bulletproof vest was sitting on a wooden crate, smoking. He had thick eyebrows, large eyes, a black mole by the corner of his mouth, and wore an armband with a red short-blade insignia.

"Big Bro Obi, a vehicle’s coming!"

A scrawny underling with shifty eyes ran over and said excitedly.

"Jiafei, quick, tell everyone to hide properly. Don’t give us away."

"Got it!"

Jiafei quickly replied.

Just then, Zhao Chen’s truck appeared in the distance. As it neared the bridge, he braked and came to a stop.

"We’re at the bridge."

Bai Xiu said, gazing into the distance.

"Let me see!"

Qin Ye picked up a pair of binoculars and began to observe.

After looking for a long time, he spoke with a deep frown.

"Strange. I can’t see a single person."

"Big Bro, it’s impossible for there to be no one here. They must be hiding."

Qin Ying reminded him with certainty.

"That’s right. It’d be weirder if this place was empty."

"I remember the only time we didn’t get ambushed was when we were doing a speedrun. We found a vehicle right away and headed for the observatory. Every other time, there’s been an ambush waiting."

...

Wang Yin and the others were also certain.

"Let’s get out of the truck first!"

Long Ming jumped down without hesitation.

Qin Ye and the others also climbed out of the truck.

Meanwhile, Obi, who was hiding on the city wall, saw Long Ming’s group hesitating to cross the bridge and started to get anxious.

"Shit, cross the bridge already!"

"Big Bro, do you think they’ve spotted us?"

Jiafei asked hesitantly.

"Bullshit! My setup is flawless. And we cleaned the place up so well. How could they possibly have discovered us?"

Obi was still very confident in his masterpiece.

"You’re right, Big Bro."

Jiafei nodded quickly.

Meanwhile, Qin Ye’s group looked at the silent bridge and felt that this was getting troublesome.

"What do we do? These guys are just hiding. We can’t just keep waiting here, it’s not a solution."

Bai Xiu asked, looking at Qin Ye.

"Watch me!"

Qin Ye said disdainfully.

Bai Xiu and the others all turned to look at Qin Ye.

Qin Ye then yelled at the top of his lungs.

"You don’t have to hide anymore! We can already see you, so come on out!"

When Jiafei heard this, he immediately said to Obi.

"Big Bro, I think they really have spotted us."

"Pah! Trying to bluff me? Not a chance. I’m not falling for it."

Obi replied with a cold sneer.

When Qin Ye saw no reaction after yelling for a while, he started to have his own doubts.

’What’s going on? They’re not responding?’

Seeing this, Long Ming activated the thermal imaging of his Red Ghost mask and looked at the metal crates at the head of the bridge. He soon spotted the tip of a foot sticking out from the edge of one crate.

He decisively put away his Carbine, switched to an M24 sniper rifle, took aim, and quickly pulled the trigger.

WHOOSH!

In an instant, Long Ming hit the exposed foot.

"AHH!"

A blood-curdling scream suddenly rang out.

Seeing Long Ming’s move, Qin Ye excitedly gave him a thumbs-up and praised him.

"Nice one!"

Hearing the scream, Obi and his men were speechless. Now there was no hiding it. He angrily yelled at his subordinates.

"Fuck, get them!"

Obi’s men immediately popped up and unleashed a barrage of fire at Long Ming’s group.

At that moment, Zhao Chen floored the gas pedal, yanked the steering wheel, and then slammed on the brakes.

The entire truck swung sideways, becoming a barrier for cover.

Long Ming and the others immediately ducked behind the truck!

PING! PING!

A dense rain of bullets peppered the large truck.

Qin Ye and the other sponsors quickly hit the deck, while Long Ming, Zhang Wei, and the other escorts immediately began to return fire.

BANG! BANG!

The frequency of their shots wasn’t very high.

But their accuracy was extremely high!

"AHH!"

One by one, Obi’s subordinates were hit and cried out in pain.

The two sides exchanged a few rounds of long-range fire. In the end, not a single person on Long Ming’s side was hurt, while sixteen of Obi’s men were taken out.

Watching this, Qin Ye shouted excitedly.

"Give ’em hell! Whoever gets the most kills, I’ll give them an extra 2,000,000 one-dimensional credits!"

"I’ll add 2,000,000!"

"Count me in!"

...

Wang Yin and the others excitedly raised the stakes.

’Rich people are really something else,’ Long Ming thought, glancing sideways at Qin Ye and his friends. ’They don’t care about money at all.’

Hearing the offers from Qin Ye’s group, Xu Lie and the others became even more ruthless, continuously picking off the players on the bridge with single shots.

"Three."

Dino counted excitedly.

.....

Even though Obi had more people than Long Ming’s group, they were completely suppressed, unable to even lift their heads.

Basically, the moment they peeked out, they were instantly killed.

The combat effectiveness of the two groups wasn’t on the same level at all.

Seeing this, Jiafei said anxiously to Obi.

"Big Bro, this isn’t working! These sons of bitches are too damn strong!"

"A bunch of trash. But to think they can beat us like this is just wishful thinking. They’ll get what’s coming to them in a moment."

Obi said, grinding his teeth.

Just then, several "water ghost" players silently climbed out of the turbulent river. They crept up on Long Ming’s group from the sides and then opened fire violently!

BANG! BANG!

In that instant, a hired gun on their team named Jose was shot in the thigh and fell to the ground.

Long Ming reacted with incredible speed. He immediately drew his "Viper" and rapid-fired at the approaching water ghosts!

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

He instantly killed two of them.

Guardian Chapter and the others also quickly turned their guns and fired.

"AHH!"

One after another, the water ghosts were hit and fell.

At this point, an energetic woman on the team with wheat-colored skin and flaxen hair reacted with lightning speed, pulling the fallen Jose back behind the truck.

Then, Feimi pulled a syringe from her tactical belt and injected it directly into Jose’s arm.