Chapter 113: Is There Only One Chance?

After all, while improving Basic Movement Technique, the proficiency of Basic Footwork was also increasing simultaneously; practicing one skill while being able to improve two was undoubtedly a good thing that killed two birds with one stone.

Moreover, Basic Footwork had also unlocked a new characteristic.

He looked carefully,

【Evasive Level 1: Each time the skill level increases, dodge probability increases by 30%】

"It's actually a characteristic that improves dodge effects!" Lu Yu could not suppress the joy in his heart, his happiness showing on his face.

In this way, his probability of winning when facing a Martial Artist with a gun would undoubtedly be greatly increased.

Currently, Basic Movement Technique had not yet reached Level 1, and unlocking 【Water-Walking Lightness Skill】 required Basic Movement Technique to reach Level 3.

Lu Yu pondered to himself, in the process of improving Basic Movement Technique, couldn't Basic Footwork at least go up another 2 levels?

By then, the Level 3 Evasive characteristic could increase the dodge probability to 90%! To say nothing else, it would likely be no easy task for an ordinary person to hit him with a gun.

Of course, this was merely his speculation; what the specific effect would actually be still had to be tested in actual combat.

"Continue!" Harboring expectations of increasing his strength, Lu Yu jumped onto the wooden stakes once again.

About ten minutes later, a more intense feeling of lightness surged through his entire body like a tide, as if his whole body had become much lighter; this feeling was simply worlds apart compared to the changes brought by Basic Footwork before, and it even faintly carried a sense of familiarity.

He hurriedly looked at the skill bar.

【Basic Movement Technique: lv1, Characteristic: Light and Agile Level 1】

"It really is you." Lu Yu could not help but laugh despite himself.

No wonder it felt familiar; it turned out this was exactly one of the characteristics of Taiji Fist, which increased the Agility attribute by 3 points for every level gained.

"Basic Footwork increased by 4 levels, plus 1 level of Basic Movement Technique, my Agility attribute has already increased by 7 points."

Lu Yu was so excited he could hardly contain himself; if one counted the 2 levels that might be gained later, that would be an increase of 13 points in the Agility attribute—this speed of improvement was truly too fast.

Time passed quietly without him noticing, and Lu Yu was completely immersed in his practice, not even realizing that the sky around him had gradually darkened.

"Lu Yu." A voice sounded abruptly.

"Wang Shu?" Lu Yu's figure paused violently, and he turned his head; he did not know when Wang Liang had quietly arrived nearby.

"It's almost time." Wang Liang reminded him with a grave expression.

Lu Yu took a deep breath and looked at the Basic Movement Technique on the skill bar; it was less than ten percent away from Level 3 proficiency.

It was just that little bit short of meeting the completion condition.

Fortunately, Basic Footwork had already successfully increased to Level 9, which could be considered as meeting his expectations.

Right now, with the enemy about to strike, the matter of improving Basic Movement Technique could only be discussed later.

……

On the wilderness ten miles away from Song Family Fort, an off-road vehicle sat quietly.

The vehicle was full of people, each person gripping various types of firearms in their hands—there were Rifles, Submachine Guns, and Light Machine Guns, and without exception, every muzzle was equipped with a silencer.

The sky outside the window grew increasingly dark, and in the distance, the roars of Fierce Beasts could be heard faintly.

"Brother, is it time to set off?" Su Chungui, sitting in the back row, asked nervously.

The longer they stayed here, the easier it was for the scent they emitted to attract Fierce Beasts, and the longer they stayed, the greater the number of Fierce Beasts attracted, and the stronger they would be.

"Wait a while longer." Lv Mingliang, sitting in the passenger seat, narrowed his eyes and said, "If we go over now, there is still a possibility of being discovered."

"Mm." Su Jie, in the driver's seat, nodded in agreement.

There was only one chance; once a mistake occurred, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to succeed next time.

Another half an hour passed.

The roars of the Fierce Beasts in the distance seemed to be getting closer, and there was a faint trend of them closing in from all directions.

Inside the vehicle, let alone Su Chungui, even the others began to feel waves of panic in their hearts.

Fortunately, just at this moment, the vehicle body trembled slightly, and then it slowly began to drive forward.

"Phew..." Several people let out a long breath in unison.

"Hahaha," someone couldn't help but laugh out loud, "No matter how vigilant the people inside the Zhai are, they would never think that we would launch a surprise attack under the cover of night."

"That's right, come to think of it, we took quite a big risk this time—success or death!"

"Don't talk nonsense, this time, we will definitely succeed."

Listening to everyone's words, a smile gradually appeared on Su Chungui's face.

According to what was discussed before, the two brothers would get half the money from this operation. With so much money, he wouldn't have to go guard the city walls in the future and could focus on practicing martial arts with his big brother.

Lv Mingliang in the passenger seat was using night-vision goggles to observe the movement ahead.

Even though he had already reached the Body Tempering Third Layer Realm, in night conditions, he could only see a distance of a little over 100 meters at most.

"How is it? Have you seen the walls of Lu Family Stockade?" Su Jie asked while holding the steering wheel.

"Not yet." Lv Mingliang shook his head, "I estimate we still need to drive another one or two kilometers."

"Alright, as long as the direction is correct." Su Jie said; the front of his car was facing the direction of Lu Family Stockade, and as long as they kept driving, they would definitely see it.

Su Chungui nervously gripped the gun handle tightly.

Although he had seen many dead people and had used a gun to shoot targets, this was his first time using a gun to kill a person. Thinking of this, his body couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"Nervous?" The man next to him patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "If it really doesn't work, you can just stay in the car; it won't take more than a few minutes for us to finish the fight."

"Waiting in the car probably won't do; in my opinion, you should come in with us. That group of people doesn't have guns in their hands, so just be a little careful and it'll be fine."

"No, I'm fine." Su Chungui puffed out his chest and was just about to say something when he suddenly heard an exclamation from Lv Mingliang in the passenger seat.

"Someone!"

"What!" Su Jie slammed on the brakes, looking at Lv Mingliang in shock.

Everyone in the vehicle was thrown forward instantly due to inertia.

But no one blamed Su Jie; everyone looked toward the front of the vehicle with nervous and puzzled expressions.

How could there be someone here? One had to know that it was night now, the world belonging to the Fierce Beasts.

Just as someone was about to open their mouth to ask what was going on, they heard Lv Mingliang let out a loud roar while simultaneously diving out of the vehicle.

"Get out, fast!"

Almost the instant his voice fell, a violent sound erupted from not far ahead, followed immediately by a "whoosh."

An arrow over a meter long pierced through the windshield in front of the car like lightning; accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of shattering glass, it went straight through Su Jie's chest, pinning him firmly to his seat.

Su Jie didn't even have time to let out a scream before he went still.

The arrow, its momentum undiminished, pinned the thigh of someone in the back row to the car; that person let out a hysterical scream, the sound echoing across the silent wilderness.

Everything happened so fast that the others in the car still hadn't reacted to what had occurred.

"Get out, fast!" Lv Mingliang, who had already escaped, roared at the top of his lungs, a trace of fear in his voice, "It's that guy! That guy is here!"

As he spoke, he violently pulled the trigger of the Submachine Gun in his hands, the muzzle spitting tongues of fire toward a spot in front, bullets pouring out like raindrops.

Over 200 meters was exactly the effective range of the K8 Submachine Gun in his hands, with a magazine capacity of 30 rounds and a rate of fire reaching 90 rounds per second; in other words, he could empty the magazine in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, the muzzle velocity reached 380 meters per second; in other words, at a distance of over 200 meters, the bullets would arrive in less than half a second.

However, the next moment, his expression froze instantly, because through his night-vision goggles, he saw that person disappear from the spot almost the exact moment he opened fire.

Immediately after, the sound of something breaking through the air rang out again.

A sharp arrow, accompanied by a shrill whistle, pierced through his chest, leaving behind a fist-sized, shocking bloody hole.

The powerful kinetic energy contained in the arrowhead sent his entire body flying more than ten meters through the air before he landed heavily on the ground.

"Ah!" Only then did screams erupt from inside the car.

Two of them scrambled out of the off-road vehicle, because they knew in their hearts that staying in the car meant certain death.

"Save me! Save me!" The person pinned through the thigh by the arrow cried out to the two who had escaped, their eyes glancing from time to time at the thigh, which was bleeding profusely.

They didn't want to die, they really didn't want to die!

As for Su Chungui, he had long since been scared stiff, sitting blankly on his seat with a dull gaze.

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

Two sharp, shrill whistles rang out in succession; the two who had scrambled out from inside the car were each firmly pinned to the ground by an arrow, not even having time to fire back.

Or rather, they had no idea at all who was attacking them, where the enemy was, who it was, or why they were doing this.

"Ah! Help! Help! Someone save me!" Watching their companions fall one by one under the arrows, the person pinned by the thigh tried to pull the arrow out, but the moment they moved even slightly, they let out a blood-curdling scream.

Immediately after, in the next second, an arrow tore through the night sky, flew through the front window, pierced through their chest, and flew out of the car.

The screaming stopped abruptly.

The air was filled with a thick, bloody stench.

Just then, a figure holding a bow in the left hand and an arrow in the right slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"I thought so, there should be one more," Lu Yu muttered to himself; he had seen Su Chungui.

His Constitution was close to 100 points, and he possessed the Aiming Skill, but in this pitch-black night, he could only see clearly for a distance of about two hundred meters at most.

The reason he was able to launch an attack was that he had long since heard the sound of tires crushing the wild grass, and he only acted decisively once the outline of the car appeared in his vision.

And the moment the person in the back opened fire, he saw the muzzle flash and instinctively dodged to the side; the speed of that dodge was so fast that even he himself felt a bit surprised.

"Don't, don't kill me!" Su Chungui finally came to his senses, pleading bitterly toward the front, "Don't kill me, I beg you, I'll give you whatever you want, just don't kill me."

He vaguely guessed who it was that had killed his big brother and the others.

It was that master archer from the Lu Family Stockade! It had to be him!

He didn't have time to think about why the other party was here; at this moment, he only wanted to save his own life!

The sound of a bowstring rang out.

The next moment, all sound ceased abruptly.

One could see blood gushing like a fountain from Su Chungui's chest, the arrow having pierced through the steel plate at the back of the car, leaving a hole.

"If you knew it would come to this, why act that way in the first place?" Lu Yu whispered to himself.

He had no intention of getting close to this guy and wasting his breath; if he were to capsize in the gutter, that would be embarrassing.

The roars of Fierce Beasts nearby were getting closer; the bloody scent permeating here would soon attract countless Fierce Beasts.

He didn't have much time left; he had to hurry and scavenge for spoils—no matter what, he had to take the guns.

By comparison, a few Iron Arrows were nothing; he could come back to retrieve them tomorrow.

As for this car, he could only hope that the pack of Fierce Beasts wouldn't destroy it too badly.

He let out a long breath; the crisis brought by this group of Horned Horse was finally resolved, right? He could finally breathe a sigh of relief.