Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 116 - 116 21 Spoils of War

116: Chapter 21 Spoils of War 116: Chapter 21 Spoils of War With gritted teeth, Zhang Yan tried to keep up with Tang Zheng, using all her strength.

However, after only about twenty seconds, she was left lagging several meters behind.

In the dense forest, this much distance was enough to get lost.

Her face was full of embarrassment, and her heart was full of unease.

Apart from fearing being scolded by Tang Zheng, she was also worried about being eliminated by others.

Even without radar, she knew that the airdropped supply boxes from the aircraft would lure out numerous players in hiding.

“Switch on the radar.” Tang Zheng roared at Zhang Yan.

The radar was already showing enemy traces.

The traces faded quickly, but this was not a good sign.

He kept glancing towards the sky, estimating the location where the parachutes would land.

Tang Zheng knew he had to race against time, but he couldn’t leave the girl by herself—it was too dangerous.

But having her tag along was a burden.

“I should have left her at the abandoned factory.” Tang Zheng sighed, self-criticizing for his miscalculation.

He looked back and shouted, “Hurry up!

Didn’t you have anything to eat?”

Zhang Yan remained silent, panting heavily as she ran.

Fortunately, she was wearing sportswear today, otherwise, her body would be covered with scratches from tree branches.

“I’m always one to take advantage of cheap deals and can’t bear to leave.” Tang Zheng was running towards the nearest supply box, but its location was on the far end.

If someone was running from that side, it would obviously be their first target.

Tang Zheng was actually aiming for the one in the middle, but it was seventy, eighty meters away, which made him hesitant.

What he had to do now was not merely running and grabbing the nearest supply box.

He had to consider wind direction, all the locations where the supply boxes fell, the positions of the gamers on the radar, which supply boxes they might go for first, which box he had the best chance of getting, how to put maximum pressure on competitors and how to force them to give up.

All these factors needed to be considered.

Tang Zheng felt his brain was being stretched.

At that moment, he wished he could just charge blindly and run.

Zhang Yan was already exhausted, her brain unable to think.

But aside from Tang Zheng, some participants understood that the few minutes of parachute descent were their bidding time.

Now, avoiding conflict and acquiring supply boxes in the fastest and most convenient way were the priorities.

Several triangles once appeared and disappeared on the radar.

Tang Zheng estimated that those players must have changed their targets and run towards the box they thought they could most probably secure.

“These guys, they’re quite clever, they won’t be easy to deal with.” Tang Zheng didn’t want to face these shrewd opponents.

It was too troublesome.

He preferred dealing with brutes.

“Three…

three people.” Zhang Yan glanced at the radar and wailed in her heart.

Sure enough, a fight was inevitable.

She was about to warn Tang Zheng when she saw him change his running direction.

She immediately panicked, “Wrong, you’re going the wrong way!”

Tang Zheng ignored Zhang Yan and continued running.

Sure enough, within five seconds, another player appeared on the eastern part of the radar screen, aiming straight at the supply box that Tang Zheng had given up.

“Four people fighting for a box, and I’m neither the nearest to it.” Tang Zheng decisively abandoned the target and changed his mind, only praying that the second supply box wouldn’t be too attractive to others.

A minute later, all parachutes had fallen into the dense forest, and the sound of explosions started to ring out intermittently.

At this time, looking at the radar screen, it was a total mess.

Every gamer had at least three or four enemy traces above them, and this was only in the range of three hundred meters.

Beyond that, there were bound to be more.

“I thought that after two and a half days, a lot of people would have died.

But it seems that there are still a lot of survivors.” Two enemy traces appeared again on the radar, and their direction was towards the supply box Tang Zheng was about to take.

However, he had an advantage—he was the closest to the supply box.

“Zhang Yan, catch up yourself.” Seeing the triangle accelerate, Tang Zheng picked up his pace again, leaving Zhang Yan some meters behind.

The tree branches scraped his cheeks, leaving scars, but Tang Zheng didn’t care.

Even if his face got scratched, it didn’t matter.

He adjusted his breathing, calculated the best points for his footsteps, and tried to push his speed to the limit.

At this moment, he was like a steel war chariot, his determined sprint causing all others to falter or even give up.

Glancing at the radar screen in his spare time, those two triangles didn’t back off as he expected.

However, it didn’t matter.

As long as the opponents wanted to get the supply box, they had to speed up.

This would consume more of their energy.

“If you guys are too weak, I wouldn’t mind taking you down after getting the supply box, making a big harvest.” Tang Zheng wanted the situation to develop according to his rhythm.

He also kept an eye on his surroundings, which might become a battlefield.

Protecting his head with both hands, Tang Zheng saw his target after running through a patch of dense shrubbery.

The parachute was stuck in towering tree branches, and the supply box was suspended from it, spinning leisurely in the air about three meters off the ground.

There was no time to check the radar for enemy shadows.

Tang Zheng lunged straight for the box, jumped up and grabbed the box, used his body weight and inertia to yank it down.

After a steady landing, Tang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Thankfully the parachute was not tied tightly, otherwise, it would have been trouble.

Having seen Black Long Straight’s tactics the previous day, Tang Zheng didn’t use his folding knife to cut off the parachute ropes, but grabbed the black buckle instead.

After flipping it over once, he found the answer.

He pressed the square button in the middle of the buckle, and with a crisp click, the buckle came loose, and the parachute ropes naturally fell off.

“Lucky!” Tang Zheng didn’t cheer, but it was clear from his face that he was pleased.

The supply box weighed approximately thirteen to fourteen pounds, which somewhat affected his load.

He didn’t think about putting it in the Space Backpack because he didn’t have the time.

“Should I run towards Zhang Yan, or towards another supply box and grab another one?” Tang Zheng still remembered the approximate dropping locations of the other supply boxes.

However, there was another question bothering him, “Should I engage with the enemies to test the waters or should I simply leave?”

Tang Zheng didn’t need to think hard.

The enemy directly answered for him.

A slightly faster guy broke out of the shrubbery and appeared before him.

The gamer wearing a white leisure suit didn’t appear to surprise by Tang Zheng’s presence.

He probably had already confirmed Tang Zheng’s location on his radar.

Upon seeing him, the player only cursed before pulling out a bomb and aiming at him.

Tang Zheng immediately darted into the forest, inevitably retreating towards Zhang Yan.

He couldn’t abandon the girl.

But upon turning back and seeing the incoming bomb, his face went pale.

“A new type of bomb!” The thought flashed through Tang Zheng’s mind.

He tried hard to dodge to the side, but it was of no use.

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