Trembling At A High Altitude

"Alright!" Liu Hui replied and walked over to place the basket on the ground. Then she suddenly grabbed the store owner's wife by the neck at the entrance and pulled her into the shop.

Over here, Li Teng had already taken down the store owner and laid him on the ground.

A quick search of their bodies indeed revealed a handgun on each of them, along with two magazines apiece.

Additionally, they each had an entry permit for Storm Ridge, with no photo, only the seal of the Storm City Defense Troops.

After knocking them out with a punch and binding them, Li Teng closed the shop door, then rushed upstairs to search. He found an important item and confirmed there was no one else on the second floor before returning downstairs.

Liu Hui tore off the masks of the shop owner and his wife, recognizing that these two were among the eight actors who were with them.

"How did you recognize them?" Liu Hui asked Li Teng in surprise.

"Although their mask technology is much better than ours and seemed flawless, looking towards the south gate while eating was very suspicious. But that alone proved nothing. It was when I mentioned their son A Qiang, and the store owner's reaction was too strange," Li Teng pointed at the photo on the wall.

The photo on the wall was a family portrait of the store owner.

Other than the store owner and his wife, there were only two daughters; besides the store owner, there was not a single male member of the family.

A Qiang was a name Li Teng had made up on the spot.

Li Teng specially emphasized "a few days ago," suggesting that the store had changed hands in that time frame.

Who did it change hands to?

Of course, it was the six actors stationed at the south gate to gather information or to assassinate Li Teng and Liu Hui directly.

"Are they too foolish, or are you just too clever?" Liu Hui couldn't help but admire Li Teng even more.

"Hard to say, catching two so easily was also unexpected for me," Li Teng smiled.

Next, of course, it was time to extract information.

After waking the man and woman with cold water, Li Teng brought various tools, but before he had really started, both of them confessed everything.

They were the first line of defense arranged by No.5 to assassinate Li Teng.

No.5's instructions were to hide their identities and hold the south gate. If they had a good opportunity, like seeing Li Teng and Liu Hui blatantly walking through the south gate, they could shoot to kill from a close distance.

If the opportunity wasn't good, they were not to act rashly but to pass the message to the small town two kilometers north of the north gate, where the shotgunner was, for the shotgunner to make further decisions.

No.5 said that Li Teng and Liu Hui would likely have difficulty traversing the dangerous area between Qingfeng Village in Area A and Storm Ridge in Area C, but they were also to stay alert. According to No.5's analysis, if Li Teng and Liu Hui managed to get through, they might arrive at Storm Ridge tomorrow or the day after.

They had considered the possibility that Li Teng and Liu Hui might disguise themselves to enter the city but didn't expect it to be the nearly eighty-year-old old man standing before them, nor did they expect it today.

Soon, the pair had also spilled No.5's tactical plans they were aware of.

Besides the two handgunners and the shotgunner, No.5 armed with a rocket launcher, as well as the sniper and the assault rifleman, all stayed with the Black Dragon Association, along with over eighty NPCs armed with firearms. Together, they built a large barracks near Point B, the final goal for Li Teng and Liu Hui's mission, to ensure Li Teng and Liu Hui could not reach Point B alive.

Of course, from Storm Ridge to the Black Dragon Association headquarters, along the way, there were NPC soldiers they had stationed to strictly check passersby.

"As long as you don't kill us, we can take you to the shotgunner," the man offered Li Teng a deal.

"No need."

Li Teng took out a dagger and slit the throats of the man and woman.

Six hunters, four remained.

"Do you have a plan?" Liu Hui asked Li Teng.

The situation looked dire.

Especially since the enemy shamelessly established a military camp at their mission endpoint, Point B, equipped with their own rocket launchers, assault rifles, and sniper rifles, as well as over eighty NPC soldiers armed with guns.

If the enemy stood their ground, the two of them had absolutely no chance.

"Only eighty people? Just kill our way through," Li Teng said with a nonchalant expression.

To topple a barracks with two hundred fifty-five men, all given top AI and various types of NPC gunners single-handedly, were eighty armed NPCs even worth mentioning?

He had speant more than fifty years of his life doing nothing but this kind of thing.

"Kill our way through?" Liu Hui thought Li Teng was bluffing.

"Yes, kill our way through, and take out a few of Director Yuan's favorite actors. I'd like to see how he plays me then," Li Teng huffed.

"He really does like those actors from No. 5. If you kill them all, he'll definitely cry himself to death," Liu Hui mused excitedly at the thought.

But, how could that be possible?

"We're heading to that town now, to take out the shotgunner first... assuming these two weren't lying, and I don't think they dared to lie," Li Teng said, unable to wait any longer.

"How are we supposed to find that shotgunner? You should have kept one alive," Liu Hui glanced at the man and woman Li Teng had killed.

"I have my ways." After hiding the bodies in the store, Li Teng left the building with Liu Hui and locked the door behind them.

Storm Ridge was a neutral camp.

The camp also had its own NPC soldiers for defense.

To enter the camp, one had to show an identity token or pass they had made, but leaving required no such thing. The pass that Li Teng found on the man and woman was of no use; NPC soldiers did not bar their exit.

If these unarmed guards had deliberately tried to stop Li Teng, he wouldn't have minded using fists and kicks to fight his way out.

Similar to the town they visited when coming from Qingfeng Village, there was another town two or three kilometers away from Storm Ridge in the direction of the Black Dragon Association.

Calling it a town was generous, as it only had about a dozen buildings, most of them shops.

According to the man and woman, the shotgunner was coordinating with them in this town.

Of course, Li Teng would not stride over there conspicuously, searching and verifying each room one by one.

There was no need.

He asked Liu Hui to take out the climbing gear and climb up to a high point in the nearby mountains alone, from which she could overlook the entire town.

Once there, Liu Hui took out something Li Teng had found on the second floor of the shop where the man and woman were.

It was a Short-Distance Communicator.

After turning on the communicator, Liu Hui followed Li Teng's instructions and said something indistinct into it.

A man's voice came through from the other side, indicating he couldn't hear clearly.

Liu Hui continued to speak indistinctly.

After a while, a man emerged from one of the shops, with a cloth-wrapped long object on his back, incessantly saying "Hello! Hello! Hello!" into a communicator.

Then, God Teng appeared behind him stealthily as a ghost.