Interstellar Hunter Nation 072 We Are Bandits

  The area where the arena is located is one of the driest regions in the Rocky Mountains, known to locals as Flame Hell. The surface temperature can reach 80 degrees Celsius during the day, and the air temperature can easily exceed 45 degrees Celsius. Even your shoes should be specially made if you want to move around here, otherwise they will burn easily.

  At noon when the weather was the hottest, five figures were struggling in the scorching valley. Although they were so hot that their tongues were hanging out, the leader still kept cheering everyone up.

  "Brothers, hold on for a bit longer, just five more kilometers and we'll reach the nearest badge burial point. Once we get one badge, we won't have to suffer anymore, we can directly announce our withdrawal and go back to enjoy a big meal."

  "Come on! Our Beisa State training camp didn't return empty-handed last year, and this year as long as the troops are swift and decisive, I believe we will definitely win again!"

  It turned out that this team was the first opponent they met during the sea selection, and unexpectedly, they also won three games to qualify for the mountain.

  The North Sea State training camp is very cunning, and after many years of participating in the competition, they have gained a very practical experience, that is, to grab the treasure quickly and run away. At the moment of entering the mountain, no preparation work is done, and everyone launches a full-scale attack directly towards the nearest buried point. Before anyone starts to touch it, they have already obtained the medal and immediately announced their withdrawal.

  This seemingly somewhat unscrupulous method does not violate any rules. On the Left Bank Paradise Star, a training camp can receive a medal every year, which is already considered an above-average training camp, and the military's funding is also very generous.

  For three consecutive years, the North Say State training camp has been relying on this rogue tactic, and its scale has expanded by a full double.

  But this year, they didn't have much good luck because they didn't think that there was a guy who didn't play by the rules and actually set his sights on nearby competitors at the beginning of the game, and his purpose was very simple, it was just to rob some supplies.

  As the team from North Say wrapped around the bend in the canyon, a sharp crack of gunfire suddenly echoed above the canyon, and a training round with a blue spark arced straight for the big guy in the middle of the group.

  "Ah……” The big guy didn't even have time to finish his miserable cry before he was already lying on the sandy ground, trembling non-stop. Blue electrical arcs kept jumping around his body, and white foam had already formed at the corners of his mouth.

  "Who is this? Who's so shameless..." The squad leader grabbed his rifle and fired desperately at the top of the canyon, while the remaining three members also refused to show weakness, continuously pulling the trigger at the cliff above.

  Just then, in the shadow of the canyon, an ordinary sand dune suddenly burst open, and a lithe figure sprang out from the sand dune, bringing with it a cloud of yellow dust that rushed straight towards the North Sichuan team.

  "Hu Po! Three-linked nail fist..." A loud shout, the swift and agile nail fist bounced back and forth on the enemy's body, not only hitting people but also hitting guns, several rifles were smashed to pieces by the nail fist.

  "Surrender! I've only used 40% of my power, you're already doomed to lose!" Wu Chang shouted loudly as he locked down the arm of that small team leader.

  At this time, except for the squad leader, the remaining three soldiers were knocked down by the unpredictable force, and Luli and Qianhuan, who came running from the shadows, also made the squad leader completely desperate.

  "Unacceptable, I refuse to accept this. You're too shameless, we've just started entering the mountain and you're not heading towards the core area? You're actually going around the edges? Damn it, we're still 5 kilometers away from where the medals are buried. What's the point of defeating us if you can't even get the medals?"

  "You're all crazy, you're just a bunch of crazies, doing something that's not worth the effort, only a madman would do such a thing"

  The squad leader, ignoring the pain in his back and arm, jumped up and down, shouting in protest. Unfortunately, Lu Li and the others had already taken away all the food, water, and bullets on the ground, only then did the squad leader understand.

  "Ah, you're so sinister? You actually want to drag this out? You actually think you can hold on for ten days?" The squad leader had completely lost his temper, he finally knew what a madman was.

  "Alright alright, I give up. Let go, I admit defeat..." The team leader rubbed his numb shoulders and looked at Wu Chang with a pained expression.

  "So it's you guys, your Black Horse Camp is too crazy this year, the wild battle in the sea selection, and even after entering the mountain, it's still so crazy. But have you ever thought about it, can our training camp really last for ten days?"

  "We're not even talking about top-tier academies like Ice Dragon, Violent Dragon or Elite Fighting, let alone technical schools like Armored Corps and Space Academy. You really think you can escape the fate of being a cannon fodder?"

  When Lu Li and his team finished sweeping the battlefield, Wu Chang, the captain of the small squad, smiled slightly "Sorry about that, it's just the rules, I can only offend you, let's meet again when we have time, I'll buy you a drink..."

  "As for what you said about cannon fodder, I never believed it. All I know is that I don't acknowledge a fate that anyone tries to impose on me." With that, he led his squad deeper into the canyon, leaving behind the brothers of Beise State in stunned silence.

  They entered the martial arts arena around 9 am, and after entering the Black Horse Camp, the warriors were completely out of character, not caring about any medals. All their energy was focused on hunting down their opponents, and victory began with plunder.

  From 9 am until the sky turned dark, they unexpectedly looted four teams and obtained abundant supplies, making everyone delighted. For dinner, they didn't make everyone eat raw snake meat, but instead each person got a single serving of rations.

  Lu Li's eyes narrowed into a line as he ate the high-calorie rations, leaning against the stone and gazing up at the stars in the sky, humming contentedly.

  "Pig, your eating manners are just like a pig!" Qian Yun glared at him.

  "I'm willing, you care?" Lu Li didn't care about Qian Feng's sarcasm at all.

  Wu Chang lightly sipped a small mouthful of water. "Everyone get some rest early, Mei Lin and I will take turns keeping watch. Tonight we'll conserve our energy, and tomorrow we'll continue being bandits. I feel like tomorrow we won't just be robbing supplies..."

  Just as the Black Horse Squad was resting, in a corner of the Rocky Mountains, outside a cave, a small bonfire was burning, and on top of the bonfire, a large lizard was being roasted, weighing over 30 pounds.

  "Haha, what good luck! Not only did I get two medals today, but I also caught such a rare lizard, it's really a great start! A great start!" The speaker was a young man with piercing eyes, he was Ice Dragon Academy's Ice Hail Leck.

  By his side sat the small team sent by Ice Dragon, led of course by the heir to Viscount Left Bank, Lelouch vi Britannia.

  Next to Lek was a beautiful woman with an icy expression, known by everyone as Silent Tang Baihe. This woman was not simple; she had already hacked into the terminals of countless small teams using just the simplest portable terminal on her wrist.

  This is not cheating, it's Tang Baihe's skill. The teams that entered the mountain competition used unified standard terminals. Tang Baihe's methods are superb and can naturally break through one by one. This kind of absolute technical elite can only be possessed by a college like Ice Dragon.

  "Today, 22 medals have been found in one day. Except for our team which collected two, all the other teams only got one..."

  "From 9 o'clock this morning to now, twelve teams have been eliminated. Huh? Which team is this? How come the four teams around him have all disappeared? Did he take them down?"

  Tan Baihe's words piqued everyone's interest, and when the holographic projection appeared in mid-air, people began to speculate wildly.

  "One day, wipe out four teams? This kind of brutal play is just like the style of the Violent Dragon, could it be that this team is from the Violent Dragon Training Camp?" Arthur said, and the Violent Dragon Training Camp he mentioned was the exclusive training camp of the Empire's most arrogant combat troops, the Violent Dragon Armored Battalion.

  Thomas carefully studied the topographic map in mid-air. "This doesn't add up, the Tyrannosaurus may be arrogant but they always charge straight ahead with a strong sense of purpose. Their style has always been to make a direct dash for the location where the treasure is buried and defeat all enemies along the way."

  "But this team is strange, the medal closest to him didn't move at all, as if they were here just for battle?"

  So, Lelouch. Bill also became interested "Oh! Are you specifically going into the mountains to bully people? You disdain the emblem and want to fight? This style is strange, we don't know of any academy that has a madman who would be so arrogant..."

  Lelouch said with a swagger, suddenly making Arthur think of something "Wait a minute, you mention swagger, I just remembered a story I heard the other day... oh yeah, it was about that guy who's rumored to have killed an outer head of the Judicial Council and is also said to be a standout?"

  Arthur repeated the story he had heard, and finally sighed "Awesome, poisoned to death but still dare to attack with all his might, for a wild chicken, not afraid to turn against the law hall, and even kill people. Not only arrogant, but also a romantic... although a bit heavy in taste..."

  Tan Baihe was most disgusted by Arthur's insulting words to women, and before he could finish speaking, she coldly coughed twice. Arthur did not dare to provoke Tan Baihe, so he quickly lowered his head and said nothing.

  "You mean this weird team might be the Dark Horse Battalion? That cannon fodder battalion?" Hailie asked in astonishment.

  "It's possible, really possible" Lelouch. Bill's eyes also lit up "Among the 100 participating teams, we have files on all of them and are very familiar with their combat styles. The only unfamiliar one is the dark horse team that hasn't entered the mountains for two years. And as for this mysterious variable, we don't have any intelligence either."

  "So, a mysterious person does mysterious things, I guess there's a 90% chance it's just unpredictable"

  Just as the Unconstant were about to start their annual summer martial arts tournament, in a ordinary villa at Hot Sand Harbor, an enraged man was desperately smashing the decorations inside the house.

  "What the hell is going on? Why did the military department suddenly change the location of the martial arts competition? Why was it moved 300 kilometers north? Answer me, answer me! How did you guys provide intelligence? I'll shoot you..."

  The man's roar in the room was blocked by the soundproof glass, and in front of him, ten men wearing expensive suits knelt down, their faces already pale and disfigured.

  "Stop being angry, sir! Stop being angry! It's not that we're not trying hard enough. This is clearly the fault of those useless people at the 3rd Sea Star Military Department. They sent out a top-secret order at 4am and by 9am the mountain was sealed off. We really didn't have time!"

  "But sir, think about it, we're hiding so secretly, how could a group of student soldiers possibly find us? Just relax, the martial competition will be over soon"

  In the persuasion of his subordinates, the man finally calmed down, picked up a crystal glass that was left and poured himself a drink, drinking it silently.