Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 257: 255: Death from the Sky!

Translator: 549690339

“The real battle has begun!”

Watching Camille Victoria’s car team charge into the core area with their tanks leading the way, Ren Jian, the commentator, was thrilled!

Although his “killing the match” prediction was just debunked by Camille Victoria’s team, he didn’t mind at all.

Being proven wrong by the game’s outcome is a normal part of being a commentator, isn’t it?

More importantly, the competition has become unpredictable and suspenseful once again!

The chaotic skirmishes in the border area between the middle and inner circles are now drawing to a close.

Everyone is stopping the battle and finding a place to hide, anticipating the earthquake that comes when the play area shrinks.

The natives hiding near the boundary had a plan: they would either join forces with allies of the same color or attack enemy alliance players of different colors when surrounded by the natives.

However, as the number of remaining players dwindles, and even more natives gather from the inner area, the ambushers themselves may be trapped in the middle.

Otherwise, they really wouldn’t want to leave this spot: What a relaxing and enjoyable way to score points!

Plus, they can eliminate potential enemies right here.

But there’s always a price for everything. As they hide indoors, struggling against the earthquake…

A large number of natives break away from their original positions and surround their hiding places!

They are completely unaware.

Only when hand grenades and Molotov cocktails smash the glass and drop on their heads do they react, hastily rolling away to the side.

Stumbling to the window, they finally realize they’ve been surrounded! They have no choice but to fight against the natives while their abilities are severely weakened by the earthquake.

With their aim practically useless in this situation, everyone’s shots are as random as shooting with their rifles raised above their heads, just like the African guys do.

Put it another way – it’s all up to luck.

At this point, the advantage of having more natives becomes apparent!

As we all know, with equal probability, the larger the base number, the more hits.

Players are already outnumbered by the natives, and their limited firing windows make the battle even more frustrating.

To make matters worse, the damn house is even on fire!

Similar dire situations unfold simultaneously in various player groups.

The players caught in the chaos desperately search for a way to break the impasse.

Meanwhile, the audience outside the game can’t stop laughing and even taunt them with comments:

“Serves you right hahaha!”

“This is the consequence of acting inhuman!”

“Scoring points isn’t that simple! You can’t handle it!”

“For every gift fate gives you, the price has already been marked in secret. [smile”

At this moment, Lance’s player alliance, consisting of professional players, is probably in the best condition.

The earthquake’s intensity is much milder in the core area than in the inner circle, and they’ve also set up their base early on.

Although they are also attacked by natives, who target their base constantly, the sturdy defense is not too much trouble for them.

Lance even stands by the second-floor window without activating his [Assassin Bloodline] skill to save energy.

While trying some shots, he wonders if Shuihua has been eliminated yet, and if not, where is she now?

But in between gunshots, he vaguely hears something.

He stops shooting and listens carefully, but all he hears are sounds of battles between both sides and occasional explosions.

However, after focusing his mind and even activating [Assassin Bloodline], enhancing his senses, he finally distinguishes a unique sound among the echoing gunfire.

Teammates around Lance looked at him as he suddenly stopped, feeling a bit puzzled, but soon, they also noticed something: “Did you guys hear any strange noises?”

Lance didn’t move. He focused his entire attention on catching that sound. Then he actively turned off the skill’s effect to listen to what the sound would be like at normal speed.

Then, he heard a series of high-speed, continuous sounds:

“tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat…”

Surprisingly, the sound came from above!

Subconsciously looking up where the sound was coming from, Lance’s expression instantly turned into horror. He shouted desperately to players outside the window: “Helicopters!! Take cover!!”

But it was too late. A heavily armed helicopter had already lowered its altitude above their heads. Players in the cabin leaned out and frantically threw high explosives and hand grenades downwards.

After that, they lit Molotov cocktails and tossed them down too.

When they ran out of Molotov cocktails, two players approached machine guns on both sides of the helicopter and ruthlessly fired at the ground below!

They drew a death line across the battlefield!

Players in the trenches were relaxed, hiding behind covers and occasionally taking shots at the natives outside.

Who would have thought that sudden death would descend from above!

Lance and other professional players attempted to counterattack.

But the rifles in their hands had a range of only five or six hundred meters, and the shaking on the ground constantly interfered with their shooting, making their accuracy frighteningly low.

Not to mention the helicopter was a heavily armed one with excellent bulletproof performance, and the shooters in the cabin were experts. It was not a problem to intercept bullets with their skills fully activated.

Due to a combination of factors, the players on the ground were like sitting ducks, only able to dodge bullets that poured down from the sky!

To make things worse, the players on the helicopter also brought individual rocket launchers to help the natives on the ground, blasting through the defensive lines!

They carefully controlled their firepower coverage to let the natives charge into the base without worry.

In the blink of an eye, the Green army was plunged into a perilous situation of almost being wiped out!

The carefully built favorable situation was ruined in an instant!

While carefully avoiding the helicopter’s line of sight and trying to snipe at the rushing natives, Lance couldn’t help but curse in his heart: “Where the hell did this helicopter come from!”

Only the audience could tell him the answer, as they had been looking forward to this scene for a long time!

In the main live broadcast room, players watched Camille Victoria’s team advancing layer by layer, eventually breaking into the gang’s arms depot, driving out a tank, and becoming extremely excited.

In the secondary live broadcast room, Super Tomato’s team was not to be outdone. They hadn’t gone too far north and soon stopped in front of a building not far from the border between the core area and the inner circle.

This was the iconic symbol of Metropolis’s strongest force – the Metropolitan Police Department!

As everyone knew, the Metropolis Police had unlimited firepower!

There had been cases where players were blasted into the sky by police helicopters armed with RPGs.

Considering the ecology of Metropolis, there were very few randomly spawned items, so Super Tomato reasonably speculated: the Metropolitan Police

Department must have armed helicopters and individual rocket launchers!

More ingeniously, not only had the Metropolis Police gone on strike, but they were also taking advantage of the opportunity provided by the competition that brought more than two hundred players together!

This was a full 20 times the maximum number of players that could normally form a team in the game!

If they missed this chance, who knew when the next opportunity would come!

Could they afford not to take a risk?!

As a result, they captured the virtual Metropolitan Police Department at the cost of a quarter of their team members being killed. They acquired a truly top-level firepower – a Heavy Armed Helicopter!

Not only that, they also had a car team led by three Police Armored Vehicles, which was coming in fast!

This wave was about to tear the Green Army apart!