Chapter 54 The Sneak Attacker

The giant spider hissed and shook its body, trying to shake off the person climbing on its back.

Jiang Baiyue put away her weapon, staggered and fell onto the spider's back. She condensed a fireball with intense heat in her right hand, which quickly expanded to cover more than her entire palm before being thrown at the spider's head.

The fireball, upgraded to level 2, has more than doubled in power.

Hiss!

The spider monster screamed in agony as it was burned by the flames, and went berserk, crashing into nearby buildings. Its spider legs even trembled so badly that it almost stood upright.

After teleporting away from the spider monster's back, Mercenary Number One fired two shots.

The roar abruptly stopped, the monster's body shattered, and the surrounding area was a scene of devastation.

Just as Jiang Baiyue was about to pick up the resource box, a whooshing sound came from the air. Almost instantly, her combat awareness, cultivated over the past few days, made her teleport to a safe place.

The mercenaries moved in perfect unison, retaliating in the direction the bullets were fired, and a low shout could be faintly heard from afar.

If a sneak attack misses with a single shot, there's no follow-up.

Jiang Baiyue adjusted her slightly crooked night vision goggles and looked around... It's like this again. Ever since the past two days, when we've been fighting monsters, someone has been launching sneak attacks.

At first, there were flying knives, suddenly ejected metal pieces and pipes, time bombs, and so on.

Today it was a surprise attack with gunfire. They fired one shot, but stopped when no one was hit.

She's so slippery, she doesn't even know who it is, and if she chases after them now, they'll probably be gone by the time she gets there.

Logically speaking, she hasn't offended anyone, unless someone is eyeing her supplies.

By now, Jiang Baiyue's identity as the base chief is almost completely transparent.

Because a player in the chat area revealed a very important piece of information—base administrators do not need to pay 50% tax when opening shops in the mall.

Jiang Baiyue used the online store to acquire materials and sell supplies from the very beginning, and almost everyone who knew her understood her identity.

If Jiang Baiyue hadn't had mercenaries following her around every day, many people would have swarmed around her trying to get close to her.

Because her identity was exposed, Jiang Baiyue hired four more mercenaries; otherwise, there would definitely have been many people openly robbing her.

Jiang Baiyue patted the shoulder of the mercenary who was blocking her way, and the mercenary moved aside so she could put away the resource box.

She has already explored most of the underground city in the past few days, and has just discovered another spatial rift, which she plans to explore further.

Unexpectedly, a spider monster appeared out of nowhere as soon as I got close.

After packing up her supplies, she led six mercenaries straight into the spatial rift, ignoring the watchful gaze from behind.

Jiang Baiyue was unaware that she was troubled by the person who attacked her from behind, and that the person who attacked her from behind was also annoyed by her superpower being too cheating.

"Holy crap! This woman has two superpowers!"

"Didn't I tell you to wait until she's almost out of energy before shooting? Don't you have a brain?"

The sniper, wearing a mask, was quite skilled. Before being transported to the game world, he was a shooting game player, and surprisingly, he was very adept at using guns in this world.

His gaze was calm. He glanced at the bearded man, put away his gun, and said, "Then you come? Source energy can be replenished with energy crystals. If we wait any longer, we'll enter the spacetime rift, and we don't know what's going on inside. I'm not going in."

Big Beard had been used to being flattered by his cousin, the base commander, and this was the first time he had encountered someone so disrespectful.

"Damn it, you need to get this straight, I hired you to do the work. So many coins, and you still can't do a good job after getting paid..."

"Huh? You left after I said something? You come back here—you're so handsome it's unbelievable! Damn!"

"Coward, it's just a spacetime rift, why don't you dare go in?"

The sniper was so cool that he had no friends and ignored the furious people behind his back.

When they first asked him to do something, they didn't say it was murder; they just said they wanted him to do some work, which turned out to be giving him coin materials.

If he hadn't wanted to upgrade his gun and the materials hadn't been so hard to collect, he wouldn't have done this kind of killing.

In this world, as long as you work hard, you can obtain resources equally. You can support yourself by killing zombies and collecting resources. Why would he do something so unscrupulous?

Moreover, that person was protected by six people, so his strength was obviously not simple. He was so handsome that he had no friends. After some hesitation, he decided to give up before he completely offended anyone.

The bearded man's underlings exchanged bewildered glances. This guy left so casually, they were going to get scolded, but if they didn't appease him, they'd have their supplies confiscated.

"Brother, let's go back and tell the base chief not to pay him."

"Yes, I heard he really wanted to upgrade his gun. If you don't give him the materials or let him use the workbench, you can force him to give in."

"Too arrogant. Back at base, he still has to listen to the base commander. He calls himself a sharpshooter, but I don't think he's ever really working. He always goes easy on us, just trying to..."

The bearded man spat on the ground, thinking about how he could get revenge for being ignored by this person.

Someone who still relies on his cousin dares to talk back to him.

Jiang Baiyue didn't expect that the people who launched the sneak attack also had internal conflicts. As soon as she entered the spatial rift, she encountered a wave of spider monsters.

The spiders hissed excitedly, their blood-red eyes filling the entire road.

Jiang Baiyue took out a torch, lit the Molotov cocktail, and threw it one by one.

With a loud bang, the flames illuminated the entire space, and the smell of burning gunpowder spread.

Molotov cocktails are surprisingly effective and efficient when used against groups of monsters.

Three Molotov cocktails were thrown out, and a group of level 1 spider monsters were almost all killed.

Jiang Baiyue was a little regretful, as killing it would prevent her from increasing her evolution value.

The remaining spider monsters were killed by the mercenaries through a combination of melee and ranged attacks, while she rested to replenish her strength and collected supplies after the battle.

They broke down and eliminated the spider nests at the entrance one by one, and after clearing them out, they continued to explore further inside.

Before long, a highly technological laboratory appeared, built against a rock wall, with broken iron pieces and mechanical equipment scattered on the ground outside.

The laboratory door was occupied by a black monster with many eyes and no specific shape.

Jiang Baiyue raised her double-arrow crossbow and fired, but the damage was zero!

Immune to physical damage?

The arrow touched the monster's black skin, causing the skin to cave in in an arc, and then the arrow lost its momentum and slipped away.

Their eyes, which had been half-open and listless, now all turned to look at Jiang Baiyue and the others.

This is so depressing!

Jiang Baiyue felt uneasy. When she saw that her stress level had increased by 5 points, she immediately took a stress reliever. She couldn't pay attention when she was fighting, so she had to lower her stress level from time to time.

There was no way in, so she would have to deal with the monster if she wanted to get in.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand and threw a fireball at the eyes. The eyes widened, and the blood vessels in the whites of the eyes bulged and twisted. The next moment, countless blood vessels burst out and tangled into a net covering the surface.

【Little Eyeball Monster (Lv3: 401/460)】

The black skin on the surface of the eyeball monster bulged and rippled, and then the eyeball itself, covered by a layer of black skin, peeled off and rolled down.

The eyeballs rolled and bounced on the ground, making a dense, clattering sound as they collided with the earth.