Chapter 488: Hssss—Huuuu— |
With Big Bro's loud shout!
All the viewers in the livestream chat perked up, focusing with rapt attention!
An unprecedented CQB experience!
Rappel assault!
Breaching in swiftly through a powerful explosion, taking out the enemy with a flying kick, then making a cool getaway with the hostage under the cover of a smoke grenade!
A scene previously only seen in action movies was now about to be realized in a game!
The exciting moment was about to unfold right now!
Here it comes!
*Click!*
And the next second—!!!
The expected explosion did not ring out.
Instead, a few strange noises came from the window blocked by wooden planks—
*Thump—Thump—Thump—Thump—Thump—*
"Huh?"
Big Bro was dumbfounded, letting out a sound unique to Golden Wind game players.
"Why didn't it explode?"
Puzzled, Big Bro moved his feet, about to step over to the device to investigate!
The next moment!
*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*
Violent explosions suddenly erupted within the room!
The powerful shockwave instantly blasted the wooden planks blocking the window into pieces!
Amid the flying wood splinters, small black bombs, shaped like chess pieces, exploded one after another like strings of firecrackers set off during the New Year!
*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*
The floor was blown apart by the fierce explosions, and the soft plaster walls framed by wooden beams were blasted with huge holes!
One bomb exploded, its intense shockwave setting off the surrounding bombs.
Uncontrolled explosions, like a sky full of scattered blossoms, filled the entire room.
Three White Mask enemies were tossed every which way, blown to smithereens.
The hostage flying upside down through the air clearly hadn't suddenly learned qinggong or reversed gravity, as one could tell from his eyes just how colorfully he was cursing.
In the blink of an eye.
Everything happened in an instant.
It didn't even give Big Bro a shred of reaction time.
Because in those few hundredths of a second, a bomb that had been blasted from who-knows-where also arrived right in front of him.
*Ding! Clang! Thump! BOOM—!!!*
[APLUS eliminated extremist]
[APLUS eliminated hostage]
[APLUS eliminated APLUS]
[Objective Failed]
*Bzzzz—!!!*
The entire livestream chat instantly exploded!
'What! The! Fuck!'
'Ah—???'
'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA holy shit! A penta kill!'
'What the hell is this?!'
'He's gone on a rampage! Big Bro's gone on a rampage HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'
'A true Mao-style rescue.'
'Wait? Isn't that thing for breaching doors/windows?!'
'HAHAHAHAHA so it really is fucking explosives! Looks like a device that fires explosive charges through walls into the next room!'
'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA insane—!'
'I thought he was about to pull off something cool, but instead he dropped a massive deuce.'
'This skill is too damn wild!'
'This isn't for rescuing hostages at all, it's for clearing rooms. Those explosives fly everywhere, the whole room gets leveled!'
'Gotta say, that's very Maozi...'
'"Don't be afraid, hostage! I, FUZE, am here to save you!"'
'Report, sir! Four enemies in the room, one unarmed!'
'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA damn....'
'"The hostage is key to the mission. When the enemy has no hostage, the mission is complete."'
'Fits perfectly with all my stereotypes about Maozi.'
'The best episode yet! I'd call it a masterpiece!'
'Him blowing himself up at the end really made me laugh my guts out...'
'Heaven! Earth! Share! The! Same! Fate!'
'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...'
......
Everyone was laughing their heads off!
A program effect never before imagined exploded forth along with Big Bro and the hostage ascending to heaven!
And Big Bro himself was completely silent for a full half minute!
So idiotic!
It's hard to imagine this is a skill/gadget designed by a carbon-based lifeform!
Place a projectile explosive device and just flip the entire room upside down?
"I fucking...!"
Big Bro nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.
If he had played normally, he might still have had a chance to clear it.
But now, great, with the *thump-thump-thump* installation, the extremists inside truly had no escape.
But the hostage was the same!
In that instant just now, even though the hostage's mouth was taped shut, he could tell from the hostage's eyes just how fiercely he was cursing.
"How the hell was I supposed to know that thing fires explosives?!"
Big Bro was practically going crazy, angrily restarting the game:
"Now I get it, now I completely understand. Watch me this time, this time I definitely won't use that gadget!"
As he spoke!
Big Bro once again skillfully circled to the south side of the Mansion.
Rappel rope, kick off the wall, quickly ascend.
He arrived once more beside the large window outside the Master Bedroom.
This time, Big Bro didn't choose to install the projectile explosives above again. Instead, after carefully reading the item description, he stuck the [Breach Charge]—which replaced the smoke grenade—onto the wooden planks covering the window.
*This* thing is for blowing up windows and soft walls!
"No mistakes this time!"
As he said this!
Big Bro planted both feet on the window frame, his whole body swinging backward!
At the same time, he squeezed the detonator in his hand!
*Click!*
—!!!
A sky-shaking explosion rang out!
The breach charge instantly detonated. Amid the surging flames and smoke, wood splinters and glass fragments scattered like snowflakes!
And Big Bro's figure, like a ferocious leopard, pierced through the layers of flames, swinging on the rope, and stabbed into the bedroom like a sharp sword!
Instantly drawing a chorus of gasps from the livestream chat, with "So cool cool cool" chat barrage flying across the screen!
"I'm going straight in—Huh???"
However!
Before he could be cool for three seconds!
Big Bro, who had just barged into the bedroom, suddenly let out a sound of utter confusion!
Everything! Seemed to freeze at this moment!
In the spacious bedroom, three White Masks were aiming their guns, their dark muzzles pointed directly at him.
And the hostage who should have been tied up beside the bed was nowhere to be seen.
A+ : ......
AI : .....
Half a second of silence.
"Go fuck your uncle!!!"
*Rat-a-tat-tat—! Rat-tat—! Rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat—!!!*
Intense gunfire instantly erupted within the room!
Gunshots rang out, followed by the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground!
Amid a spray of blood, the viewers could even hear the gnashing of Big Bro's teeth!
"This damn... hostage... can be moved too?!"
This game is a dog, I swear!
I know you're going for realism, but you don't need to go this far!
The hostage's position is different every single round?
Does this thing randomly spawn too?!
"Fuuuu—ck!"
Cursing, Big Bro's blood pressure was already nearing the alarm threshold:
"Thank goodness I'm a three-armor operator! Thick health! Otherwise, I'd have fucking died right there!"
One sliver of health!
Gotta say, the AI on realistic difficulty is really fucking accurate!
In that instant just now, his flick-shot aiming was almost maxed out, but he still got shredded down to a sliver of health in a one-versus-three situation.
Looks like drone reconnaissance is still an essential step!
But it's okay!
Having played up to this point, he could say he fully understood the basic mechanics of this game.
Even though he only had one bar of health left.
Don't forget, he still had three projectile explosives.
As long as he first used the drone to scout the location of the enemies in the room, he could easily launch a *thump-thump-thump* bombardment on the target area from the adjacent room!
In other words!
Apart from the hostage room, which required extra caution and a direct confrontation!
Most other rooms could be dealt with using the projectile explosives through walls!
"Got it, got it, got it!"
Thinking this, Big Bro brimmed with confidence. He walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, pulling out his phone:
"Watch my moves, bros. I know how to play this thing now."
As he spoke!
Big Bro tossed out his drone, switched to its perspective, and began scouting the second floor.
Perhaps misfortune had reached its limit and turned to good fortune!
With almost no effort, the drone traveled down the second-floor hallway, and not far out, in the Tool Shed at the northwest corner of the Mansion's second floor, diagonally opposite the Master Bedroom, it found the hostage!
"Hey, it's that close, easy then."
Big Bro breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself how lucky.
If the hostage had spawned on the first floor, or even in the unscouted basement level, with his tiny bit of health, he'd likely have been killed midway.
As he spoke!
Big Bro made a neat turn with the drone, spinning it in place, preparing to scout the other rooms on the second floor.
But just as he turned!
Suddenly, Big Bro heard a strange sound coming from the direction opposite the Tool Shed.
*Hssss—Huuuu—*
*Thump—Thump—Thump—*
Very heavy, labored breathing and dull, heavy footsteps sounded.
The reason this sound was strange was that the breathing sounded as if it was muffled inside a diving helmet, thick and heavy.
The footsteps were also unusually heavy, and accompanying the movement was a *rustle-rustle* sound, like a hazmat suit rubbing.
With the support of Aurora Games' top-tier panoramic stereo sound technology, the details and location of the sound were so clear and distinct.
Allowing Big Bro to effortlessly determine the sound was coming from the room diagonally opposite.
*Bzzz—*
Driving the drone, Big Bro searched towards the direction of the sound.
The drone slipped through the door crack into the nursery opposite the Tool Shed, then passed through a drone hole in the soft wall into the walk-in closet. Then, looking up—!
A burly figure nearly two meters tall was walking forward with heavy steps.
He wore a thick, snow-white jumpsuit combat uniform. His black vest was stuffed with C4 strips, crisscrossed with a network of detonation wires.
Inside his hazmat suit-like helmet visor, a white flashlight beam, like a searchlight, flashed.
At this moment, this special extremist was walking through the walk-in closet, heading towards the Master Bedroom...
Heading towards the Master Bedroom...
Master Bedroom...
Heading...
"Holy shit!!!"
A scream!
Big Bro instantly reacted, quickly shutting off the drone feed!
However!
That ominous, unsettling heavy breathing sound did not disappear because he switched his perspective!
Instead, it was closer!
So close—it was right behind him—
*Hssss—Huuuu—*
Turning his stiff neck, A+ slowly rotated his head backward.
A thick, white, burly figure stood right behind him.
In the piercing white light like a searchlight, he couldn't see the face of this burly enemy.
Big Bro seemed to want to open his mouth and say something: "You..."
Before he could speak! In that split second! The blinding white light turned into a blood-red death announcement!
*Beep—*
*BO00000000M--!!!*