Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 95 - 95 8 Tactics and First Victory Part 1

95: Chapter 8: Tactics and First Victory (Part 1) 95: Chapter 8: Tactics and First Victory (Part 1) “You can’t escape, kiddo.

Just lay down and die!” Seeing Tang Zheng run down the rocks, the young man didn’t falter but instead quickened his pace.

He howled loudly, hoping to put psychological pressure on his first prey.

When the distance between them had decreased to fifty meters, the young man didn’t hesitate.

He lunged a bomb directly towards Tang Zheng.

The metal cube flew across forty meters and dropped to the ground, exploding with a loud BOOM, shrapnel scattering everywhere.

The young man knew that the bomb would not hurt his prey.

His only aim was to frighten his adversary.

If his opponent was flustered and disorganized, his tactics would have achieved their desired effect.

“Ha!

Carrying such a big backpack, you must be draining your energy quickly.

Sooner or later, I’ll catch up with you.” The young man checked his handheld radar, then tucked it into his waist bag.

He took out three timed bombs.

Feeling pretty smart, he was confident that he could account for all the possibilities in an instant.

Nodding his head, a confident smile played on his lips as he yelled at Tang Zheng, “Haha, there’s no escaping me.”

“Isn’t there room for negotiations?

I’m not your enemy!” Tang Zheng took the route back the way he came.

At least he was familiar with the terrain and hoped to persuade the man.

However, he knew there was no hope for negotiation.

From the man’s words and actions, he understood that this was an extremely conceited person.

He just saw Tang Zheng as prey he would inevitably capture.

The man’s greedy look as he stared at Zheng’s backpack told him everything.

Saying these things was mainly to lower the man’s guard.

“We can negotiate, but my interlocutor will be your corpse.” The young man continued to provoke Tang Zheng, not particularly anxious.

Seeing his weary condition, he didn’t believe that Tang could escape.

In fact, he thought Tang might just drop dead from exhaustion.

“Damn, again?” Tang Zheng’s heart sank.

He realized he couldn’t avoid the fight.

He didn’t want to kill without reason, but he would not allow these contemptuous men who disregarded lives to exist.

And they certainly would not be allowed to trample upon him.

With these thoughts, he actively readied himself to counterattack.

While thinking of tactics simultaneously, he pretended to be exhausted, his face full of fear, and running in a disoriented panic.

He even stumbled and fell.

Seeing Tang Zheng in such a mess, the young man laughed loudly before throwing another bomb.

“Bloody hell.” Tang Zheng cursed under his breath.

He was upset.

These bombs were to have been his spoils of war, and now this guy was wasting them all!

However, Tang Zheng was also quite confident.

He never thought he could lose.

Still, he cooperated, covering his head with his hands and falling to the ground.

After the explosion, he got up quickly, falling over himself in his rush to escape.

The young man continued to taunt Tang Zheng.

He wanted to throw another bomb and enjoy watching the floundering mess it would make.

But he held himself back.

He knew he didn’t have many bombs left and should use them sparingly.

“Could you let me go?

I’ll give you all the food and water in my backpack, okay?” Tang Zheng turned his head and shouted, pretending to wipe off sweat.

Everything Tang Zheng was doing was to appear weak and to lower the man’s guard.

He wanted to feed the man’s conceit and make him more reckless.

He made the man believe that he had his prey cornered.

As for tactics, Tang Zheng hoped to obtain the greatest reward at the lowest and safest cost.

“You have food and water?

Haha, I’ll take that.

But only from your dead body.” The young man laughed triumphantly, quickening his pace.

He was hungry and hearing about food, he didn’t want to waste any more time.

The distance between them was about sixty meters.

After the young man put his full strength into his pursuit, it began to shrink.

Tang Zheng was somewhat vexed.

He had plenty of energy and could run faster, but that would raise the man’s suspicion.

Moreover, the man might even give up the chase.

After all, Tang Zheng was currently pretending to be a weak dog who had run out of energy.

“Damn, you’re still running!

Go to hell.” The young man didn’t want to play cat and mouse anymore.

He took out a bomb and threw it towards Tang Zheng.

This time, the explosion site was only thirty meters away.

Tang Zheng heard the man’s words and guessed that he would throw the bomb.

He glanced back and his sharp vision allowed him a clear view of the bomb—it was the same as the one in his hands.

“All set.” Tang Zheng rehearsed his entire action plan again in his mind.

Then he continued in the same frantic manner, took out a bomb from his waist bag, and carelessly threw it behind him.

The bomb landed about twenty meters in front of the young man.

And cocky or not, the man didn’t want to be bombed.

So he had to pause, but the bomb didn’t explode.

“A ten-second countdown?” The young man mentally counted down ten seconds, yet the bomb was still silent.

“Damn, what’s going on?

Why isn’t it exploding?”

Looking confused, he turned to Tang Zheng.

He saw his prey also looked clueless and anxious.

The man watched as Tang took out another bomb and threw it.

It too, didn’t explode.

“Ha!

Could it be that this kid is an idiot who doesn’t even know how to use a bomb?” Seeing Tang Zheng mopping sweat off his brow in a fluster, and once more throwing out a bomb, the young man’s sense of superiority soared.

He burst into laughter, and without any further hesitation, he dashed off.

As he ran past the unexploded bomb, the young man picked it up.

Turning over the LCD screen, he saw that the idiot hadn’t pressed the button and the bomb’s fuse hadn’t been activated.

“Ha!

After consuming several bombs, someone sent me supplements.” The young man hummed contentedly.

He picked up all three of the bombs that Tang Zheng had thrown.

Seeing his target fall into the trap, Tang Zheng heaved a sigh of relief, but then immediately went on high alert.

Whether his tactics would be successful depended on this last throw.

Tang Zheng threw the fourth bomb—towards a point forty meters away, just three meters from the young man.

The man, unfazed, picked up the unexploded bomb with a smile and tucked it into his waist bag before continuing the chase.

“Why hasn’t it exploded yet?” Tang Zheng shouted, pretending to lose control of his emotions, but his eyes lit up.

The man’s reaction meant that he had completely let down his guard.

The time had come for Tang Zheng to counterattack.

“You idiot, because you can’t use it.” The young man explained to himself.

He had no intentions of sharing this secret with Tang Zheng.

His heart was full of arrogance, confident that he had this in the bag.

He could see that his prey seemed desolate, kneeling on the ground with his hands on his head, murmuring something.

Then, as if mad, he emptied out the contents of his waist bag onto the sandy beach.

Unceremoniously, he grabbed a bomb and threw it out.

Luckily, the bomb landed where Tang Zheng intended, just three meters away from the young man.

The timing should be just right.

The two of them were only thirty-odd meters apart.

The young man was sure that throwing his bomb would kill the prey.

Besides, he was tired after running for so long.

Hence, he wasn’t in a rush.

He slowed his pace and when he walked past the last bomb that Tang Zheng had thrown, as usual, he picked it up.