Chapter 497: Modern Era (If-Things) (25)
"Groups of five, scored according to class."
"Ten points for capturing a stronghold flag."
At seven o'clock in the morning, the freshmen gathered on the playground as usual. Today was the tenth day of military training. The students had been practicing how to hold and fire guns at the shooting range for several days, and today they could finally have a live-fire exercise.
Of course, all the guns in the students' hands were high-quality replicas of toy guns, weighing about the same as real guns, and filled with blank cartridges filled with paint.
Each student was dressed in the professional equipment provided by the base, with a day's worth of food and water in their backpack. They were to be dispersed to a mountain forest five kilometers away from the base to prepare for a day of live-fire exercises.
After more than ten days of military training, the freshmen were finally having a training session that was interesting to them, and they were all excited and more energetic than in any other training session.
"Finally, we can play a live CS game!" The boys were excited, holding their guns and eager to start fighting.
A student asked the instructor, "Instructor, what reward will the winning class receive?"
The instructor said, "We have individual awards and team awards, and individuals and teams receive different commemorative medals and prizes."
Upon hearing this, the students booed, clearly dissatisfied with the reward.
"I haven't finished yet!" The instructor raised his hand to signal them to be quiet: "The class that wins first place can have half a day off tomorrow and have a barbecue tonight. The individual who wins first place can visit our 29th Military Region!"
Upon hearing that they could have a half-day off and a barbecue, the students instantly screamed with excitement. Compared to the half-day off, the prizes were practically worthless.
They had been undergoing military training for ten consecutive days without a single day of rest, and they were already looking forward to a good rest.
Upon hearing the word "barbecue," Anuo's closed eyes snapped open instantly.
Barbecue, I haven't had it in ages.
Her eyes swept over the eager students with a glint in them. There were seven classes in total, and only the class with the highest score would receive the reward.
She absolutely must get this first place!
After instructing each class on some important points, the instructors drove military pickup trucks, shuffling the classes and taking them to the competition venue five kilometers away. Once there, the students had ten minutes to prepare and find a place to hide.
Anuo's group consisted of Lin Xu and three boys from the class.
"Come with me, I'll protect you!"
Three boys volunteered to protect the two girls in the group. Li Luming, the tallest of the group, volunteered to be the captain and led the other four to find a secluded place.
Anno wasn't in a hurry. This was just the beginning. One point was awarded for each kill, and ten points could be earned for occupying a stronghold for half an hour. They all decided to find strongholds first. The instructor gave each group a map with strongholds marked on it. There were ten strongholds in total.
The fact that bases can only be occupied by groups has motivated students to avoid them crowding together by forming teams with their classes.
The nearest stronghold was quite far from them, so they followed the stronghold's route and encountered two other teams also searching for a stronghold.
Judging from the direction, they should be heading in the same direction as them.
After exchanging glances for a while, the students from the three teams suddenly charged forward.
Anuo and Lin Xu didn't move. After Captain Li Luming noticed that they had fallen behind, he hurriedly ran back, saying, "Hurry up and catch up, don't fall behind, or you'll get beaten up."
“There are still three minutes left. Those who can’t run across will all be crowded together and easily get shot,” Anno said.
After hearing this, Li Luming hesitated for a moment, but still called his teammates back.
"Forget it, it's still early. They might not be able to hold out for half an hour. We can take them out later."
After ten minutes of preparation, a loud gunshot rang out in the mountains, signaling the start of the competition.
After the first shot, Anno, as expected, heard a burst of gunfire, like a cannon, not far from them.
Upon hearing the gunshot, the three boys in their group felt both nervous and excited.
"Let's go, let's go to Outpost Three and wipe them all out!"
Li Luming led the charge forward, while Anuo, holding a gun, cautiously surveyed her surroundings. Lin Xu also raised his gun to protect her side, just like her.
The trees here aren't very dense, so it's easy to spot people.
Before reaching Outpost 3, Anno had already shot and killed two of them, obtained their number tags, and written his own name on them.
The firefight at Outpost No. 3 was fierce. Anno could see the two teams exchanging fire from afar. The outpost was a bunker-like defense surrounded by sand. As long as they kept firing, they could defend their outpost. It was a kind of protection for students who were bad at shooting or didn't know how to use a gun.
Another team crawled forward on the ground, while two others hid behind trees to defend against other students.
Li Mingliang led two other boys and rushed forward. Before Anuo could even shout, she saw that the two boys had been shot.
Li Luming was startled, but reacted quickly and immediately lay down.
Anno quickly fired and eliminated the team attacking point number three, then pulled Lin Xu to hide behind a tree.
She glanced at the locations where her teammates had been shot; they were all in the chest, and the marks were green. These were students from the temporary fifth class, and the student who fired the shot was clearly a good shot.
She waited a while, and the student didn't fire again. Li Luming, who was lying on the ground, shouted to them, "He's gone!"
Anno quickly scanned the surroundings, and after confirming that it was temporarily safe, he began to make his way towards the stronghold.
"Each of you hide under a tree and cover me," Anuo said to Lin Xu and Li Luming.
Having lost two teammates, Li Luming had clearly learned his lesson. He knew that Anuo had been performing exceptionally well in training these past few days and was willing to listen to her, so he hid behind a tree and fired to cover her.
Although this level of exercise was also Anno's first time, her physical agility and reaction ability were far superior to those of ordinary students; it was nothing more than child's play for her.
She quickly dealt with the group of students at the stronghold.
"It's Anno. I knew it! Who has such good marksmanship?"
The group of students who had been dealt with all sighed and walked out with their guns, looking dejected.
After Anuo and her two companions occupied the stronghold, she began to explain her tactics to Lin Xu and Li Luming.
"You two hold the position and fire to draw the enemy's attention. I'll go up to the tree over there and wait for half an hour. Then we'll move to another position."
Each stronghold has an automatic timer. Students who occupy a stronghold can enter their team name on the timer and score points after half an hour.
It's still early, and there are still quite a few students alive. She'll stay here for a while and probably catch quite a few people.
Sure enough, within half an hour, a steady stream of teams crept over. Anno hid in a tree to the side, taking down enemies one by one. If it was a team, he could usually eliminate them all within two or three seconds.
"Damn, how is Anno's marksmanship so good!" Li Luming, hiding behind the bunker, was stunned. Anno's shooting record over the past three days wasn't the best, so they didn't have much of an impression of her marksmanship.
As a result, she took down more than a dozen enemies by herself in just half an hour.
They held their stronghold and immediately moved on to the next one.
They would head towards whichever stronghold was closest along the way, and if a stronghold had been occupied for more than half an hour, it could not be reoccupied, so they would plant a small flag to remind people.
In the morning, they found five strongholds. Apart from their own stronghold, only one was occupied. The rest of the strongholds were all occupied by them.
At noon, the three of them huddled in the occupied stronghold and ate some dry rations to fill their stomachs.
"Amazing, Anno!" Li Luming excitedly jotted down their battle record with a pen. "We captured four strongholds, that's forty points. I took out five, and Lin Xu took out..."
He looked up at Lin Xu, who made a seven-point gesture.
Li Luming coughed, feeling a little embarrassed that he couldn't even beat Lin Xu. "Lin Xu took down seven, so that's seven points. An Nuo, what about you?"
Anno chewed on a biscuit and tossed her backpack to Li Luming, "Count them."
The backpack was almost entirely filled with students' number tags.
Li Luming grabbed a handful of cards in each hand and exclaimed, "My goodness, this game is over! How can we play like this?"
Li Luming carefully counted the number plates; there were a total of sixty-seven plates.
With the addition of the four strongholds and his and Lin Xu's scores, their class now has 119 points.
The seven classes together have less than 300 students, and even including the points from the strongholds, they have less than 400 points. Their team has 119 points. Unless another team has a player like Anno who is exceptionally gifted, their class will undoubtedly be number one.
"It's all set, we can have barbecue tomorrow night!" Li Luming laughed and stood up excitedly. The next second, with a crisp "biu!" sound, his helmet was stained with orange paint.
"Damn it!" Li Luming took off his helmet and couldn't help but curse, "This outpost has already been captured, and I didn't see a flag!"
Huo Xuan shouted at him, "Who said you can't fight just because you occupy a territory, you coward!"
Li Luming couldn't stand being called a noob, but the instructor had said that if you were shot, you had to retreat to the safe zone and couldn't seek revenge or fight on your own, or you would be punished. So he could only grumble and carry his gun away.
However, with Anuo in their class, things were pretty much settled, and thinking this made Li Luming feel a little better.
When he reached the open space in the safe zone, he discovered that many people had already been eliminated.
"Hey, the sharpshooter is here."
Other students saw Li Luming and teased him with a smile.
Li Luming wasn't angry at all, and laughed, "Our class's Anuo is the real gun god. With her around, you guys don't even need to play."
"That's right, our team was wiped out by her in the blink of an eye."
Li Luming roughly counted and found that more than two hundred students had been eliminated. He exclaimed in surprise, "How come so many people are gone in just half a day?"
"Huo Xuan from Class One, his marksmanship is also quite good. He probably took down forty or fifty people by himself and captured several strongholds. He's comparable to Anuo from your class."
"I think this game is fine for the two of them to play," the student who was eliminated early said dejectedly, lying on the ground.
Upon hearing this, Li Luming knew something was wrong.
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