Chapter 29: Miss Wang cosplays as Sun Tzu.

A few hours later, the urban combat simulation.

On an empty street, Miss Qingqing was advancing rapidly.

A shield wall formed from metallic waves was spinning swiftly around her, resembling loyal guards instinctively protecting her.

The strength of the metal she manipulated was barely enough to withstand direct shots from rifles and handguns, but if faced with anti-material rifles or armor-piercing grenades, it wouldn't provide effective defense.

As Princess Nankang had said, without reaching the fifth grade, a supernatural might have some useful tactical means compared to an unarmed ordinary person, but they were still vulnerable against modern technology weapons.

The fifth grade, with a bloodline concentration of one million horses, was the threshold from quantitative change to qualitative change. It was said that supernaturals who reached the fifth grade would enter a state called 'intermediate state,' causing their abilities to undergo nearly unimaginable transformations and enhancements... of course, these were still far out of reach for everyone.

For supernaturals below the fifth grade, they are both powerful and fragile on the battlefield. They can breach fortresses and penetrate positions, but they might also be taken out by a stray bullet at any moment.

Therefore, the practical training exercise set by the princess this time is: survival.

To put it more precisely, it is about moving freely in an urban combat environment, trying to kill the opponent while ensuring one's own survival.

Chu Qingqing suddenly stopped, cautiously and vigilantly surveying her surroundings.

She was very familiar with the terrain ahead. At the intersection, the view was wide open, and it could be seen from the tall buildings in the southeast, northwest, and south. The potential sniper points were almost countless.

She couldn't proceed any further.

So far, including the first mutual destruction, everyone has been wiped out by Su Zizhong seven times. Among these, three times were due to sniping in open areas (incidentally, Miss Wang was always the first to be killed each time).

Of course, Su Zizhong is a Tianluo ranking elite and can't spend all day giving the newcomers practice. Therefore, if everyone wants to recover from the frequent defeats and save face, the time left is running out.

Chu Qingqing turned to retreat, but it seemed as if the opponent had anticipated her hesitation before the crossroads. A sniper bullet, sudden and serpentine like a viper from afar, pierced through her figure.

However, unlike the previous seven times when she would disappear in a flash of light after being shot, girl Qingqing , now penetrated by the bullet, urgently dashed into the nearby alley, vanishing from Su Zizhong's sight.

Su Zizhong, hidden in the distant sniper position: ???

As a top Tianluo elite known by the title 'Viper Hand,' his most fearsome skills were long-range sniping and close-quarters knife fighting. He was certain that the bullet he fired just now had pierced through the metal barrier and hit the girl squarely in the chest.

So why wasn't she dead?

There was no time to dwell on it. Su Zizhong quickly gathered his weapons and swiftly left his sniping position.

He had barely run a short distance when he suddenly darted into the shadows behind a corner. A long sword had already descended from above, stabbing into the spot where he had just stood.

More long swords floated in the air, encircling the hovering figure of Cheng Jinyang.

The algorithm of Qiong Biluo was something he had mastered, though he was not yet adept at its application. Therefore, Cheng Jinyang was using the jet propulsion of his jet suit to hover in mid-air this time.

A multitude of flying swords descended from the sky, leveraging the force of gravity from above to strike the ground with immense kinetic energy.

Since he couldn't see where the opponent was hiding behind the cover and feared getting shot if he got too close, Cheng Jinyang could only use concentrated fire, bombarding the area around the target with more flying swords. He aimed to suppress the opponent with firepower, gradually shrinking their space until he could finally kill them.

Su Zizhong hid behind the cover, estimating the frequency of the flying swords hitting nearby. He realized that hoping for a break in the enemy's firepower was impossible.

Flying swords were not like magazines; they wouldn't run out of ammunition. Due to the 'Fly-Back' algorithm, the swords could be recovered after being shot out, meaning Cheng Jinyang's ammo was virtually limitless...

Su Zizhong suddenly fired a grenade, aiming at the wall opposite the alley entrance.

Cheng Jinyang quickly controlled his powers, shooting the flying swords downward at an even faster speed to prevent the opponent from using the grenade's explosion and resulting smoke as cover to escape.

However, when the smoke gradually cleared, there were no signs that the opponent had rushed out. Cheng Jinyang hovered slightly in the air and slowly flew towards the top of the cover. Only then did he see that behind the wall where the opponent had been hiding was a dead-end alley, impossible to escape from the ground.

But the lifted manhole cover on the roadside indicated where Su Zizhong had escaped...

Cheng Jinyang felt rather helpless; he had actually managed to escape.

Earlier, Chu Qingqing's route had been calculated by Wang Wanrou. It was expected that she would encounter Su Zizhong's ambush at this intersection.

Miss Wang had calculated the most probable ambush points, and Chu Qingqing manipulated metal to create decoys, substituting herself as the target while advancing.

Due to often covering her skin and clothing with metal, girl Qingqing's metal decoys were lifelike (though they were hollow inside).

Simply following the route given by Miss Wang, she managed to lure Su Zizhong, who was observing from a distance, into taking the bait.

As for Cheng Jinyang, he was originally positioned by Miss Wang in a spot that was the closest to all the sniper points.

Once the opponent fired at the dummy and revealed their position, he would immediately fly out using his jet suit, carrying a large number of prepared flying swords. He aimed to bombard the opponent with a thunderous force from the air to the ground, striving to kill him instantly on the spot!

In the end, the opponent's position was pinpointed, and the firepower of the flying swords successfully suppressed him.

However, unexpectedly, at the last moment, it was all for naught, as the opponent found an entrance to the sewers and escaped!

If this failure led to the mission being ultimately unsuccessful, he would definitely be scolded harshly by Miss Wang for his mistake. He might even be stomped on by her in anger while sleeping at night...

Upon reaching this point, Cheng Jinyang shook himself awake, determined to chase after Su Zizhong through the sewer entrance, ensuring not to let him escape.

Inside the sewer, Su Zizhong ran swiftly, grabbing an emergency bandage to wrap the abrasions on his arm from the exploding debris, securing it with a makeshift knot clenched between his teeth.

Raising his gun again, he scanned ahead and behind vigilantly. If someone intercepted from the front, he'd shoot them swiftly; if there was pursuit from behind, he'd use a grenade to both intercept and collapse the sewer ceiling, blocking the pursuers' path.

Reaching the end of the sewer, he found the passage ahead sealed with iron bars and a metal door, vaguely seeing a metal lock hanging on it.

As an elite on the Talinluo list, Su Zizhong was skilled at picking locks. However, he had no time to spare for a lock right now.

After all, being outmaneuvered by a group of junior newcomers earlier had already embarrassed him enough; if he were to be caught and killed by the enemy in the sewer, it would be even more humiliating, especially in front of Her Highness.

So he quickly pulled out his shotgun, skillfully loaded it with breaching rounds, then switched off the emergency light on his tactical helmet, aiming the muzzle of the gun at the hinges and hinges of the iron gate in the light.

Bang bang, two shots, the connection between the iron gate and the fence broke.

Su Zizhong pushed open the iron gate and was about to pass through the iron gate to continue forward when he suddenly noticed on the wall near the broken hinge, conspicuously painted in two vertical rows of large characters, like half of a quatrain.

Once again shining his helmet light on the wall, Su Zizhong could clearly see the font written on it, which was:

Seventh expert on the Tianluo list,

Death of the Viper Hand lies here.

Immediately after, his body was torn apart by the roaring torrent of metal.

[T/N: Sun Tzu was a well-known chinese military strategist, philosopher and a writer.]