Chapter 17: Brutality
After lying on the slope for a while, Su Xiao felt something was wrong.
In the past, when locked onto by a sniper, he always had a prickling sensation on his back. To describe it in detail, it felt like someone was pointing a sharp object at his eye from close range, ready to stab at any moment.
Now, without that feeling, his first thought was that his perception had been blocked, but he quickly dismissed that idea.
Among the same rank, there might be someone who could block his perception without firing a shot, but after firing, it was absolutely impossible.
Su Xiao stood up and looked around. The surroundings were pitch black, and his field of vision was reduced to the extreme.
Although puzzled, a few Red-skinned Natives were already holding torches and searching nearby.
With a sniper present, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't act rashly; that would be suicide.
Taking advantage of the night, Su Xiao returned to near Bubu Wang's location. He was going to retrieve the Spider Empress.
As he approached Bubu Wang, he saw Bubu Wang observing the enemy through the Spider Empress's scope.
Connecting this to the previous situation, an idea emerged.
"Did you fire that shot?"
Noticing Su Xiao's somewhat stern gaze, Bubu Wang quickly shook his head. That shot had startled Su Xiao badly.
Although Bubu Wang vehemently denied it, there was a shell casing beside its front paw.
"Ubalala (Unknown Language)."
A Red-skinned Native in the distance let out a loud roar, and all the Red-skinned Natives began to converge.
Su Xiao wouldn't let this happen. Red-skinned Natives were harder to deal with when gathered together.
Based on the number of torches, there were still twenty-one Red-skinned Natives capable of fighting. Most of them had been shot or severely wounded by Su Xiao using the Spider Empress.
Su Xiao raised the Spider Empress. Bubu Wang had indeed fired a shot earlier, but that didn't mean it could handle the gun well.
The recoil of the Spider Empress was terrifying. Bubu Wang had only fired one shot, and its health dropped by about 15%, with blood seeping through the white fur on its chest.
Bang, bang, bang.
Su Xiao fired three precise shots, and three natives fell. Although not all were killed, these natives were incapacitated for a short time.
Bang, bang...
Su Xiao stopped hiding and fired from a half-crouch position.
The moving torches in the distance stopped one by one. Each torch that stopped moving represented a Red-skinned Native falling.
The Red-skinned Natives could survive in the Red Soil Region, so they naturally had their unique traits. Moreover, with this sniping method, the Red-skinned Natives quickly located Su Xiao's position.
Being discovered was inevitable; the key now was to reduce the number of Red-skinned Natives as much as possible.
"Batadada... (Unknown Language)."
After a round of shooting, there were fourteen Red-skinned Natives left capable of fighting. These natives shouted loudly and charged at Su Xiao.
Bang.
Firing the last bullet in the Spider Empress's chamber, Su Xiao tossed the gun to Bubu Wang.
"Hide well."
Without needing Su Xiao's instruction, Bubu Wang had already merged with the grassland.
Thirteen Red-skinned Natives remained, forty meters from Su Xiao. Considering the terrain, they would close in within about five seconds.
Su Xiao drew the black and white dual pistols from his thighs. There was no time to fire one shot at a time now; he directly switched both guns to burst-fire mode.
Guns pointed forward, he pulled both triggers simultaneously.
Rat-a-tat-tat...
The black and white dual pistols momentarily erupted with the rate of fire of submachine guns.
Each gun had a magazine capacity of thirty rounds. When fired simultaneously, they formed two streams of bullets.
In burst-fire mode, the bullets were emptied in an instant.
Clatter, clatter...
A rapid series of muffled sounds came. The natives charging at the front were directly cut in half by the bullet streams.
Blood mist billowed, and severed limbs scattered across the slope. The number of Red-skinned Natives capable of fighting was reduced to ten.
Since this was his first time using the black and white dual pistols, Su Xiao hadn't expected them to have such a high rate of fire. Some bullets hit the corpses of the enemies.
The Red-skinned Natives' eyes were bloodshot. The tribe of several dozen people was now down to just ten.
The natives ran barefoot on the ground, producing rapid stomping sounds. Their momentum suggested they intended to tear Su Xiao apart alive.
Holstering the black and white dual pistols, Su Xiao drew the Dragon-Slaying Flash.
The Azure Steel Shadow energy was very conspicuous at night. Su Xiao activated the Azure Steel Shadow energy to its maximum.
"Three, two, one."
After silently counting three seconds, Su Xiao detonated the Alchemy Bomb not far in front of him.
Boom!
Flames shot into the sky, turning the night as bright as day.
A blast of wind hit him head-on. Su Xiao raised one hand to shield his face, his gaze fixed on the center of the explosion.
Two natives had their legs blown off, and the remaining eight charged to Su Xiao's vicinity.
"Uta ta!"
One native shouted, baring its white teeth as it rushed at Su Xiao.
That row of white teeth was extremely conspicuous. For these natives, teeth were very important. Without healthy teeth, it meant death. They cleaned their teeth with charcoal every day.
Although the natives appeared ferocious and brutal, they didn't swarm forward blindly.
One native charged straight at Su Xiao, six natives encircled him, and one older native stopped at a distance, holding a blowpipe.
These natives had been fighting dangerous beasts for years, so they didn't need verbal communication to coordinate.
In fact, human ancestors were the same, but these abilities were lost in the process of evolution.
While gaining civilization, humans also lost some things, such as incredible bite force, survival skills, and the strong bodies needed to fight beasts.
Noticing this formation of the Red-skinned Natives, Su Xiao became alert and felt relieved that he had reduced their numbers with ranged weapons earlier.
The native directly in front of Su Xiao was very strong, arguably the strongest among all the natives.
This native wielded a stone axe, made entirely of a black material, likely some kind of metal ore.
The stone axe native's attacks were unskilled but had a wild, brutal feel.
An axe swung down at him. The bulging muscles and the whistling wind made the strike daunting.
Su Xiao sidestepped to dodge, the stone axe grazing past the tip of his nose.
This was intentional on Su Xiao's part; too large a dodge would waste time.
The stone axe struck the ground.
Boom!
It was as if explosives were buried in the rock. The strike sent broken stones flying everywhere.
As soon as he dodged the axe, Su Xiao stepped forward and stomped on the axe embedded in the rock.
The stone axe native exerted force with both hands, but the axe didn't budge.
Pinning the axe with his foot, Su Xiao swung the Dragon-Slashing Flash horizontally. It was a very ordinary slash, but the angle was exceptionally tricky.
If the stone axe native let go and dodged, the slash would sever its hands. If it didn't dodge, it would cut its throat.
Pfft.
Blood sprayed as the Dragon-Slashing Flash slashed across the stone axe native's throat, along with three fingers flying off.
The stone axe native didn't dodge. It endured Su Xiao's slash while reaching out to grab the Dragon-Slashing Flash.
After cutting through the stone axe native's throat and three fingers, the slash stopped. The native's body was too tough.
Su Xiao exerted force again, and the native's remaining two fingers snapped off with a crack.
Crack. Something unexpected happened.
Just before its fingers were severed, the stone axe native bit down on the Dragon-Slashing Flash.
Although all its fingers were cut off, the stone axe native had blocked Su Xiao's slash. As a result, its arteries, veins, and five fingers were severed.