"Bang!"
A crisp gunshot shattered the silence of the mountain forest.
The bullet whistled past Su Tang's temple, striking a tree trunk behind her and splattering blue paint everywhere.
"Zhang Man, are you crazy! We're not even close! Why did you fire!"
Zhou Zhihui, who was hiding in the bushes, was startled by the sudden gunshot. She never expected that the usually calm Zhang Man would make such a basic mistake, and she couldn't help but growl angrily.
But Zhang Man could no longer hear.
All she knew was that she had been exposed.
The moment she fired her last shot, she completely exposed their ambush location.
“Little Grass!” Su Tang’s voice rang out.
She quickly pulled a small stone bag wrapped in a handkerchief from her training uniform pocket, and with a sudden burst of strength, she aimed at the mountain wind blowing from behind them toward the pile of rocks, and with all her might, slammed the stone bag hard onto a protruding rock about five meters in front of Zhang Man and the other girl.
"Smack!"
The cloth bag tore open with a snap, and a cloud of grayish-white, extremely fine powder was instantly swept up by the wind, like a sudden thick fog, enveloping Zhang Man and Zhou Zhihui in a dense mass of rocks!
"What the hell?!" Zhou Zhihui was taken aback by this unexpected turn of events.
Before she could figure out what the other person had thrown at her, the powder with a slightly strange, sweet scent hit her face.
She took a breath instinctively.
"Cough...cough cough!"
A strong, irritating sensation instantly shot up from her throat, rushing straight to her lungs. Then, it felt like someone was frantically sweeping a feather through her trachea, and an uncontrollable itch made her cough violently.
But this is just the beginning.
In less than two seconds, her exposed neck, cheeks, and the backs of her hands, wherever the powder came into contact with them, began to feel an intense itch as if she were being bitten by countless ants!
"Ah! It itches! It itches!"
Zhou Zhihui could no longer maintain her facade; her reason was instantly overwhelmed by the terrifying itch. She dropped her rifle and frantically scratched her face and neck.
Her eyes were stinging from the powder, and tears and snot streamed down her face. She rolled and struggled in the bushes, becoming a live target writhing wildly under the enemy's guns.
Zhang Man was horrified. She reacted quickly, covering her mouth and nose with her sleeve the moment the powder drifted over, and closing her eyes tightly, thus avoiding inhaling a large amount of powder like Zhou Zhihui.
Even so, the tiny bit of powder on her face and the back of her hands made her itch so badly she was almost going crazy.
"Zhou Zhihui! Don't move! Lie down!"
But it was too late.
The moment Zhou Zhihui couldn't help but move around and was completely exposed in the bushes, Su Tang's gun was already firmly locked onto the bushes where she was.
"Bang!"
Another gunshot rang out.
This time, a blue paintball exploded precisely in Zhou Zhihui's chest.
The paint exploded, staining her training uniform blue, and signaling her "death."
Zhang Man's heart sank to the bottom in an instant.
She looked at Zhou Zhihui, who had lost the ability to fight, and then at Su An, who stood in the distance with a gun, his figure calm and composed. Only one thought remained in her mind.
run!
Without any hesitation, and without even glancing at Zhou Zhihui who had been eliminated, Zhang Man made the most decisive decision.
She suddenly ducked down, like a startled raccoon, and turned to flee frantically behind the pile of rocks, using the complex terrain as her means of escape!
"Trying to run?"
Su Tang didn't immediately give chase, but calmly issued instructions: "Xiao Cao, go through the woods on the right, and be careful to use the plants for cover! Wang Xiaoya, stay close to me and listen for any sounds!"
"yes!"
The two girls responded in unison and immediately went their separate ways.
Zhang Man was indeed clever; instead of simply running away in a straight line, she made full use of the complex mountainous environment.
Sometimes she would disappear into the dense thickets, sometimes she would climb steep rock faces with both hands and feet, her route was unpredictable, and she could always find a new hiding place just when Su Tang was about to lock onto her.
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