Chapter 41: Chapter 41 Everyone Injured_1
Chapter 41: Chapter 41 Everyone Injured_1
Fleeing in the face of an unbeatable monster is normal.
However, Chen Dalong, even during his escape, still maintained his rationality.
Looking at the Mutated Buffalo close behind, he bellowed, “Split up and run, get into the areas with more trees, or none of us will escape!”
“Li Huosheng, Zhang Chenggang, Zhao Rong, we just need to get 30 meters away from the Mutated Buffalo, then start shooting to draw its attention and buy time for our brothers to escape.”
As he spoke, he proactively pulled the trigger, using his actions to prove his words weren’t empty.
Following his gunshot, the Mutated Buffalo, hurt by the pain, instantly changed its course and charged at him.
Li Huosheng and the others had been through life and death experiences when they first followed Chen Dalong to fight for territory, and it was not just once or twice, they were the kind of people who could give their lives in a critical moment.
Seeing their leader firing first, they didn’t hesitate; those who were at a farther distance immediately began to shoot, drawing the Mutated Buffalo’s attention back to them.
If they were facing a normal Mutated Buffalo, there was a real chance they could’ve outsmarted it, but unfortunately, this particular Mutated Buffalo was ‘possessed’.
When Ye Feng saw that the Mutated Buffalo was being led by the nose, he directly used ‘Possession’ to personally pursue and kill.
Then Chen Dalong and the others discovered that their gunfire no longer attracted the Mutated Buffalo’s attention; once it had locked its sights on someone, it pursued them relentlessly until it made contact.
“Ah!”
A scream resounded through the jungle as Li Huosheng became the first person to be hit by the Mutated Buffalo.
He felt as if he had been struck by a large truck, his arm snapping instantly with a crack, probably broken, and he was flung five or six meters away, landing on the ground.
Just one hit severely injured him, and this was with Ye Feng pulling his punches at the critical moment; otherwise, Li Huosheng wouldn’t be just severely injured, he would’ve been killed on impact.
After flinging him away, Ye Feng immediately turned his gaze to Chen Dalong and several others.
After ‘Possession’, even while the Mutated Buffalo could withstand the gunshots, he still felt pain.
Especially when hit by armor-piercing bullets, it felt like being viciously stabbed with a needle deep into the flesh, not ordinary pain at all.
It’s worth mentioning that Chen Dalong and his people had mixed armor-piercing bullets with regular ones in their magazines.
They each had 10 out of the 50 armor-piercing bullets, and since a magazine could hold 30 bullets, precisely one-third could go in, so roughly every three shots, one armor-piercing bullet would fire.
In pain, Ye Feng naturally wanted to end the fight as soon as possible.
In the following half a minute, Chen Dalong, Zhang Chenggang, and Zhao Rong were also successively knocked away by him.
Then, Ye Feng leisurely pursued the others.
Only after driving everyone out of Sunset Valley did he return.
And by this time, not one of the twenty people was without injuries.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Watching the Mutated Buffalo leave with heavy steps, the five who escaped Sunset Valley finally took a long breath, relieved as if they had escaped death.
“Why isn’t it chasing us anymore?” someone panted, asking quietly.
“If you can’t talk, shut up, no one will take you for a mute. If it really comes back, I’ll be the first to not let you off,” his companion immediately snapped back viciously.
The one who had just spoken realized his mistake and fell silent promptly.
Another companion ventured a guess, “Don’t they say that animals have a sense of territory? Maybe it stopped chasing us because we left its territory.”
This speculation was instantly accepted by the rest.
It was the most reasonable explanation.
“Then we probably can’t come here anymore, but what about the mission?”
“Who cares! It’s not like I can handle this sort of thing anyway, and if I ever come to Sunset Valley again, I sure as hell won’t. Let whoever wants to come, come.”
“Who knows if there will even be a next time? When I was running away, I saw the boss get knocked flying. I’m afraid he’s probably dead.”
“Watch your mouth and show some respect! If it weren’t for the boss and the others firing their guns, drawing that monster’s attention, could you have escaped?”
While the five of them were all talking at once, they saw a comrade limping out with a twisted left leg.
Then two more came towards them, supporting each other.
“Holy shit! Some really did make it out.” Someone exclaimed in surprise and hurried over to help.
More and more wounded escaped from Sunset Valley, including Chen Dalong.
He clutched his chest and used the butt of his gun for support, taking one step at a time to get out, with seven injured subordinates following behind him.
He was hit directly in the chest by the Mutated Buffalo, but thankfully he was wearing a bulletproof vest, otherwise he would probably be dead.
Even so, he had still broken two ribs in his chest.
Then Chen Dalong noticed that after knocking people flying, the Mutated Buffalo didn’t seem to follow up with another attack.
After the Mutated Buffalo left, he quickly returned and, as expected, found that the other brothers hadn’t died, so they helped each other out.
“Boss, it’s so good you’re okay!”
“Boss, let me help you. Where are you hurt?”
As soon as Chen Dalong left the range of Sunset Valley, a group of his subordinates surrounded him.
“Alright, quiet down. Huosheng, do a headcount.” Chen Dalong interrupted them with a wave of his hand.
Li Huosheng quickly finished the count and with a slightly somber tone said, “Ah Niu and Ah Guang, they both didn’t make it out.”
The others all understood that it probably meant those two were more likely dead than alive.
After a brief silence, Chen Dalong gritted his teeth and said, “Whoever still has the strength, come with me back in there.”
However, after Chen Dalong finished speaking, the subordinates who had just enthusiastically crowded around all lowered their heads, staying silent and refusing to meet his gaze.
“Boss, let me go with you! It’s just a dislocated shoulder, I’m not too bad off.” The tense atmosphere didn’t last long before being broken by Zhang Chenggang.
He was the strongest of Chen Dalong’s four closest subordinates. Although he too had been hit by the Mutated Buffalo, his injuries were the lightest.
“Okay, let’s go in.” Chen Dalong nodded.
Then he had Li Huosheng and Zhao Rong distribute the remaining scant bullets. After loading their guns, they re-entered the dense jungle.
There was a feeling of a cold wind blowing over still waters.
Of course, Chen Dalong dared to do this partly because he had witnessed the Mutated Buffalo return to the depths of the jungle.
Another reason was, after the Mutated Buffalo showed its power, the previously troublesome mutated insects in the jungle seemed to have all hidden themselves.
He hadn’t encountered any danger on his way out just now.
Going back at this time to save others seemed risky but was actually the safest window of opportunity.
Of course, all this depended on one condition—that the Mutated Buffalo wouldn’t come out again. That was a gamble.
Therefore, he decided to go in for a maximum of 10 minutes; if they couldn’t find anyone, they’d come back out.
After that, he felt his luck was incredibly good.
Not long after entering, they found the two people who were severely injured and unable to get up.
And they managed to drag them out of Sunset Valley without encountering any danger.