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Dam Zero, Single Player Mode.

The birthplace was assigned to the water treatment plant in the North District.

Two rows of gray, circular sedimentation tanks are arranged, and the patterns of moss on the tank walls are clearly visible in the virtual reality scene.

Transcendence scan enabled.

The red humanoid silhouettes and material markers within an 85-meter radius were simultaneously illuminated.

The water treatment plant area was clean, and no other players were detected.

Lin Rui did not open the surrounding supply cabinets.

Today's goal is not to collect supplies.

The Elite Challenge qualifiers brought him rankings and exposure, but also depleted his ammunition and medical supplies.

More importantly, his opponents in the offline finals will study all of his publicly available videos.

He needs to play regular matches before the competition, partly to replenish his equipment and partly to practice his shooting.

He carried an M4A1 that had been modified to the extreme on his back, with a SCAR-H mounted in the secondary weapon slot.

The level 6 armor protects the entire body. Although its durability is only 62%, it can withstand two 7.62mm bullets from the front without any problem.

He moved toward the industrial area to the south.

This route doesn't overlap much with yesterday's challenge route, and the system's random resource allocation is also completely different.

He walked more than a hundred meters, and the X-ray scan first captured a moving red outline sixty meters to the east.

Single player, level 3 armor, weapon is original AK-47, without any modifications.

A player who collects scattered resources has poor equipment and is of little value.

Lin Rui changed his route and avoided contact.

Continue south for another 200 meters, and you'll enter the edge of the industrial zone.

The buildings in this area are mainly medium-sized warehouses and power distribution rooms, with alternating wide and narrow passageways, making it very suitable for close to medium-range combat.

The area of ​​the fluoroscopic scan extends southward.

Four red outlines appeared 120 meters ahead.

They were in close formation, with team members no more than three meters apart, and were advancing in an orderly manner along the outer wall of the warehouse.

All four were wearing level 5 armor, and their weapons were two HK416s, one M249, and one shotgun.

A well-equipped, full-strength squad of four.

Lin Rui stopped at the corner of a power distribution room, using his X-ray vision to thoroughly investigate the movement routes of the four people.

Their advance was directed towards the large warehouse complex to the west, with their target likely being the high-value storage containers in that area.

Judging from their speed and formation, this is a well-coordinated team.

It was a four-on-one situation, and both sides were well-equipped.

If it were a challenge match, he would have waited for them to engage in combat before cleaning up the mess. But today is not a competition.

He needs to regain his touch.

Lin Rui inspected the magazine.

The M4A1 has a magazine with 30 rounds and a reserve of 90 rounds.

The SCAR-H magazine contains twenty rounds, with a total of sixty rounds of ammunition.

Two flashbangs, one smoke grenade, and three first-aid syringes.

enough.

He moved westward along the outer wall of the power distribution room, his X-ray scan constantly locking onto the path of the four-man team.

They were about to pass through a six-meter-wide passageway between two warehouses, which was about thirty meters long.

On the west side of the passage, there is a row of trash cans and several abandoned electrical cabinets. The electrical cabinets are 1.5 meters high and can be used as cover.

Lin Rui walked around the power distribution room to the west side of the passage and squatted behind the electrical cabinet at the very front.

The sound of footsteps grew louder as they approached.

The sound of the four men's military boots clattering on the gravel road was steady and rhythmic. They didn't communicate via microphone; their actions relied entirely on tacit understanding.

The first person entered the passage.

Holding an HK416, he walked at the front, responsible for reconnaissance and clearing the way.

He gripped the rifle's forend with his left hand and rested his right index finger on the outside of the trigger guard—a standard tactical advancing stance.

The second person followed three meters behind him, with an M249 light machine gun at his waist.

The third person also had an HK416, positioned half a body length to the right.

The fourth person was a shotgunner, responsible for covering the rear.

After the four entered the passage, the warehouse walls on both sides compressed their living space to within six meters in width.

Lin Rui threw the first flashbang from behind the electrical cabinet.

The white projectile traced an arc in the air and landed in the middle of the passage.

"flash!"

The HK416 sniper at the front of the line shouted, and the four men turned their heads in unison, their backs to the flashbang's landing point—a reaction honed through long-term training.

But the flashbang was just a decoy.

At the same moment the flashbang exploded, Lin Rui had already stood up from behind the electrical cabinet.

His X-ray vision allowed him to clearly determine the direction the four people were facing away from him.

The M4A1 was aimed at the fourth person, the shotgunner at the rear.

Of the four, M249 posed the greatest threat, but he was positioned in the middle of the formation, sandwiched between his teammates in front and behind, making his shooting angle unfavorable.

The shotgunner was last; he turned his back, exposing his entire back to Lin Rui's gun.

Three shots in quick succession.

The back plate of the level 5 armor withstood two bullets, but the third bullet cut in through the gap between the plate and the belt.

This was not a precise weak point shot, but a hit caused by normal ballistic deviation.

The shotgunner's health dropped by forty percent.

The flashing effect has ended.

The three men in front turned around, and the HK416 gunner at the front was the first to react, immediately firing his gun in Lin Rui's direction.

However, the four people were lined up in a row in the passage, and the person behind blocked the shooting route of the person in front.

The HK416 gunner in the lead couldn't hit Lin Rui because his teammate was in the trajectory.

Lin Rui fired two more shots into the shotgunner's upper body.

The shotgunner fell to the ground, and the four-man squad became a three-man squad.

From the moment the first shot was fired until now, less than five seconds have passed.

The M249 hand reacts faster than the HK416 hand.

Instead of firing directly at Lin Rui, he grabbed his teammate in front of him and pulled him towards the left wall of the passage, while he moved to the right to create a better shooting angle.

This coordinated attack allowed them to switch from a column formation to a parallel firing formation in less than a second, while simultaneously opening fire in Lin Rui's direction.

The trajectories of HK416 and M249 bullets crisscrossed as they poured in.

Lin Rui ducked back behind the electrical cabinet. The bullets struck the metal sheet, creating five or six dents, but did not penetrate it.

He quickly changed positions and peeked out from the right side of the electrical cabinet.

M249's firepower was still suppressing the front of the electrical cabinet, and they thought Lin Rui was still in the same position.

The M4A1 fired four shots from the right side.

The first shot hit the shoulder armor of the M249 hand, but missed, sending up a shower of shards.

The second shot hit his arm guard.

The third and fourth shots both hit the front of the chest.

The level 5 armor took four 5.56mm bullets head-on, reducing its durability by one-third, but the person did not fall.

The M249's muzzle was already pointed at them.

Lin Rui shrank back.

He moved to the left side of the electrical cabinet. There were two stacked trash cans on the left, providing additional cover.

Through the gap in the trash can, he saw a third HK416 hand trying to move along the right side of the corridor, attempting to flank him from the side.

We must first deal with this guy who wants to encircle us.

The M4A1 fired three bullets through the gap in the trash can, all three hitting the HK416-wielding man's leg.

The skirt armor of level 5 armor can protect the upper thighs, but there is no protection below the knees.

Three 5.56mm bullets struck his calf squarely, inflicting damage on all three.

The man's leg was crippled, greatly reducing his movement speed, forcing him to cling to the wall for cover.

The M249 pistol took advantage of the opening to set up its gun and unloaded an entire belt of ammunition towards the dumpster.

The trash can bounced up and down as it was hit, sending fragments and sparks flying around Lin Rui.

A bullet slipped through a gap in the trash can and hit the left shoulder guard of his level 6 armor.

The level 6 armor withstood the attack.

Lin Rui took two steps back from behind the trash can and retreated to the westernmost exit of the passage.

He pulled out a smoke grenade and threw it at his feet.

The grayish-white smoke filled the western end of the passage within three seconds, completely obscuring his figure.

The gunfire from the M24-9 stopped.

The two people opposite dared not rush into the smoke, as they did not know what was waiting inside.

But Lin Rui has X-ray vision.

The smoke had no effect on him.

He moved four meters to the right through the smoke and found a ventilation window against the outer wall of the warehouse. The window was 1.2 meters high, and he flipped inside in one go.

Once inside the warehouse, he moved ten meters along the shelves and arrived at the middle of the aisle.

There was a hole in the warehouse wall that was originally used to install surveillance cameras. It was about 15 centimeters in diameter, just big enough for a gun barrel to stick out.

The barrel of the M4A1 protruded from the hole.

Inside the passageway, M249 and the lame HK416 were crouching against the wall, waiting for the smoke to dissipate.

The M249 pistol was still pointed at the direction of the smoke.

Their right side, the side of the warehouse wall, was completely undefended.

Two 7.62mm bullets flew out of the hole in the wall.

The first shot hit the side of M249's helmet. The level 4 helmet wasn't penetrated, but the huge impact caused his body to tilt to the left.

The second shot hit the edge of his neck armor that was exposed when he tilted to the side.

The M249 operator hurriedly rolled to the other side, but the firing angle from the hole was limited. He only needed to roll two meters to escape the firing range.

Lin Rui abandoned this firing position.

He walked from the inside of the warehouse to the other end and pushed open the iron gate.

The iron gate faces the east exit of the passage.

From this angle, both the M249 and HK416 players have their backs to him.

The two men were still watching the smoke at the west end and the wall from which the bullets had just been fired.

M4A1 switched to fully automatic mode.

The distance from the east exit of the passage to the location of those two people is only fifteen meters.

Lin Rui walked out carrying a gun.

The M249 clerk was the first to hear the footsteps behind him. He reacted extremely quickly, turning his body and swinging his gun accordingly.

But the M4A1 had already begun its fully automatic firing, and seven bullets were fired.

Seven 5.56mm bullets were fired from 15 meters away and penetrated the back of the damaged level 5 armor worn by the M249 pistol.

His armor, which had lost a third of its durability in the previous head-on firefight, could no longer hold on. The fifth bullet pierced through the armor plate, and the sixth and seventh bullets went straight into his body.

M249's hand fell.

The limping HK416 man braced himself against the wall with one hand, raised his rifle, and fired a burst in Lin Rui's direction.

He fired with one hand, and the bullets were scattered haphazardly, all hitting the ground and walls on either side of Lin Rui, with only one grazing his leg armor.

Lin Rui did not rush to retaliate; he waited for the man to empty his magazine.

The HK416's 30-round magazine is emptied in less than three seconds in fully automatic mode.

The crisp sound of an empty wagon echoed through the aisle.

Lin Rui walked to a distance of five meters, and the M4A1 aimed at him.

The man was leaning against the wall, holding an empty gun in his hand.

"Something to say?" Lin Rui opened the team voice chat.

"...I don't have a secondary weapon."

"Then you're unlucky."

Two bullets ended the battle.

He squatted down and began to examine the spoils in the box one by one.

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