Chapter 54: The Vicious Fake Young Master of a Wealthy Family · 54

The shooting club was quite far from the school, situated in a completely different area.

It took about an hour. Su Wenyu and the others arrived at the shooting club around midday.

As soon as they got out of the car, Su Wenyu started looking for nearby restaurants to eat.

That morning, Zhou Xu, Xia Yehang, and Shen Yi had all been doing their physical tests at three different tracks at the same time. To thank them for their support the previous day, Su Wenyu had spent the morning running between all three tracks to cheer each of them on.

Having eaten nothing all morning, Su Wenyu was already starving.

Fortunately, this shooting club wasn’t in some remote location. It was situated in a recreational area, connected to a large park, with many small amusement facilities around, including a roller-skating rink and plenty of nearby restaurants and snack bars.

Perhaps because it was the weekend, this recreational area was packed. Zhou Xu noticed Su Wenyu walking far ahead on his own and quickened his pace to catch up. “Slow down. It’s crowded here; be careful not to get separated.”

Su Wenyu obediently slowed his steps.

Shen Yi caught up and asked, “What do you want to eat?”

Looking at the row of food establishments, Su Wenyu felt a bit conflicted. He wanted to try everything.

Xia Yehang checked the time and said, “Our reservation is for two in the afternoon. We’ve got two hours. Better not pick a restaurant with a huge line.”

Su Wenyu located their current position and checked online reviews for nearby restaurants.

“There’s a Thai place with pretty good reviews.” Su Wenyu had never tried Thai cuisine before.

So the four of them went to eat Thai.

The Thai restaurant had a line, but it wasn’t very long.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Su Wenyu and the others were welcomed inside by a server.

During the meal, Su Wenyu had been fully prepared for 520 to issue a mission. Unexpectedly, even after the meal was finished, 520 hadn’t released any task.

Hearing his internal doubts, 520 spoke up to explain: 【Doing the same type of mission too many times will reduce its effectiveness.】

Su Wenyu responded with an “Oh” in his mind, feeling 520’s logic was sound.

After eating, Su Wenyu visited the bathroom. Then, Xia Yehang took the lead, guiding them to the main entrance of the shooting club.

The scale of this shooting club seemed large—at least twice the size, if not more, of the one they’d seen during the rafting trip.

When Su Wenyu entered, he saw quite a few people sitting in the lobby’s waiting area. Looking further inside, through a transparent glass wall, he could see an archery area. Inside, a woman with an upright, straight posture was drawing a bow. She pierced the bullseye in an instant. Su Wenyu let out an amazed “Wow,” thinking she was incredibly impressive.

“Want to play that?” Zhou Xu noticed his gaze.

Su Wenyu nodded. “Yeah, I want to.”

“Once we’re done with live CS, we can come back and try the other activities,” Xia Yehang said.

Live CS was the event they’d booked in advance. Thirty people were participating in this session—aside from the four of them, there were many other strangers who’d joined the group.

Xia Yehang led them to the front desk to check in. As they were registering, a man with dark skin emerged from inside the club. Upon seeing Xia Yehang, he enthusiastically charged over and punched him in the shoulder. “Long time no see, you brat.”

Xia Yehang laughed and returned the punch, introducing him to Su Wenyu and the others. “A friend of mine, Wan Zhang, the owner of this club.”

Wan Zhang slung an arm over Xia Yehang’s shoulder and greeted them warmly.

“You playing this round?” Xia Yehang asked.

Wan Zhang nodded. “You bet. Watch me blast you to smithereens.”

“Only in your dreams,” Xia Yehang retorted without backing down.

Wan Zhang couldn’t be bothered to argue with him; they’d settle it on the field.

After the group stood around chatting for a bit, Wan Zhang saw it was about time and led them to gear up.

The protective gear was very comprehensive—from helmets and tactical vests to elbow and knee pads, gloves, and goggles, everything was provided.

A coach would specifically instruct them on how to use the guns. Each hit with the laser gun on a person scored one point.

The targets for hits were the helmets and vests they were wearing. Each person’s helmet and vest had green lights lit up, acting as their life bar. Once the life bar was extinguished, smoke would immediately billow out, the player would be eliminated, and staff members would appear to escort them out.

Su Wenyu said, “Then if your life bar gets taken out right at the start, wouldn’t you have zero fun before being eliminated?”

Wan Zhang smiled and said, “Exactly. So you need to hide well and try not to get involved in the early brawls.”

Su Wenyu nodded with deep empathy, vowing to hide well so his money wouldn’t be wasted.

Once everyone participating in this match had donned their equipment and gear, Su Wenyu and the others were finally led into the combat zone—an outdoor scene simulating a shooting game map, spanning a very large area. Su Wenyu, Zhou Xu, and the others were separated. As Su Wenyu, clutching his gun, poked his head over a wall, the entire field was filled with various obstacles. He couldn’t see a single person.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, without even the sound of birds. Su Wenyu quickly hugged his gun and temporarily crouched in a corner. The pre-battle silence, a sense of a storm about to break, inexplicably filled him with tension and excitement. His eyes darted around alertly.

He didn’t know where Zhou Xu and the others were. If he ran into them, should he shoot them or not?

Su Wenyu thought it over and decided: yes, shoot. After all, on this field, everyone was an enemy. It was a free-for-all. Su Wenyu still wanted to try to last as long as possible.

Once the broadcast announced the official start of the game, Su Wenyu resisted the urge to move and instead strained his ears to listen for sounds around him.

Footsteps.

Someone must have been deployed at the same starting point as him. From the sound of it, they weren’t very far away.

Su Wenyu’s hands, holding the gun, were even starting to sweat. He cautiously peeked out along the wall, revealing a sliver of his vision. He spotted a guy bending low, using cover to move toward the right.

A stranger. Su Wenyu didn’t know him.

Su Wenyu licked his lips, pondering whether to pretend he hadn’t seen him or take a gamble.

Before he could decide, a shout erupted from the guy’s direction. Su Wenyu stealthily peeked his head out again and saw that aside from that guy, someone else had crept over.

The newcomer reacted swiftly, firing a close-range shot from his laser gun directly at the guy’s vest. The simulated gunshot was quite loud. When the guy tried to retaliate, his opponent had already immediately ducked behind cover and shifted positions.

Su Wenyu watched as the guy, realizing the health bar on his vest had dropped a notch, instantly crouched to find cover. Su Wenyu knew he’d lost his chance for a sneak attack; the guy was now on high alert.

But Su Wenyu’s current spot was starting to look unsafe, too. The commotion from the nearby fight would likely draw attention. Su Wenyu quietly got up, nimbly avoiding the obstacles on the ground like a cat, and relocated, hiding behind a different obstacle.

Fortunately, he had moved. Not long after he left, someone arrived at his previous position.

Su Wenyu lay prone on the ground. From his angle, he could perfectly see that person’s back, along with the position of their vest.

This was the moment.

Su Wenyu aimed at the person’s vest and pulled the trigger.

“Rat-tat-tat—”

The gun in his hand unleashed a series of shots. The lasers accurately struck the person’s vest, instantly cutting down his health bar.

“Whoa, shit.” That person had never expected someone to ambush him from behind. He immediately spun around to counterattack, but he couldn’t see anyone within his field of vision. He could only urgently switch positions to find other cover.

Su Wenyu suppressed the thrill of landing a hit, holding back his laughter as he crawled along the ground, quickly switching to yet another spot.

Their gunshots were like a spark that ignited the entire battlefield. Gunfire and shouts erupted from every corner of the zone.

Su Wenyu felt his current spot was temporarily quite safe, so he obediently stayed hidden and didn’t move, waiting for the others to thin the herd. He would reap the benefits as the fisherman.

Zhou Xu and the others, on the other hand, had taken the completely opposite approach. In order to find Su Wenyu as quickly as possible, they opted for a path of slaughter.

Zhou Xu vaulted over a wall. As he landed, he caught a player lying prone on the ground completely off guard.

Shen Yi was on Zhou Xu’s other flank. When his peripheral vision caught Zhou Xu, he briefly considered figuring out a way to eliminate Zhou Xu first. But after glancing at how agile Zhou Xu was, he felt targeting him would be a waste of time. He chose to deal with the immediate threats first; finding Su Wenyu was the priority.

And the luckiest of them all was Xia Yehang. Having played at this venue many times before, his familiarity with the map was very high. Along the way, he took out a few people but didn’t linger in the fight. Relying on his knowledge of the map, he quickly broke away from the main battle zones.

Su Wenyu lay prone under a piece of cover and soon spotted Xia Yehang running towards his direction while simultaneously watching his surroundings, as if searching for something.

Su Wenyu stealthily raised his gun and aimed at Xia Yehang.

But Xia Yehang was as agile as a monkey. Just as Su Wenyu thought he had a lock and pulled the trigger, Xia Yehang instantly darted away, running to another spot.

Instead, the sound of Su Wenyu’s gunfire had exposed his own position. After dodging the shot, Xia Yehang was just about to counterattack when his eyes met Su Wenyu’s behind those goggles.

Xia Yehang’s eyes lit up. He immediately lowered his gun and ran toward Su Wenyu, calling out softly, “Su Wenyu.”

Seeing him lower his gun, Su Wenyu felt too embarrassed to attack and obediently crawled out from his hiding spot.

Xia Yehang saw Su Wenyu covered head to toe in dust, having rolled on the ground who knows how many times, his face even smeared with dirt. He couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

“How did you end up like this? Were you just lying on the ground the whole time?” Xia Yehang found a piece of cover to crouch behind, pulling Su Wenyu in front of him. He used a slightly cleaner part of his sleeve to wipe Su Wenyu’s face.

Su Wenyu obediently tilted his head up to let him, asking, “Were you looking for me?”

“Hehe,” Xia Yehang chuckled. “Yep, and I finally found you before those two did.”

After carefully wiping Su Wenyu’s face clean, he checked him over from head to toe. Good, not a sliver of health bar lost. Su Wenyu had hidden quite safely.

At first, Su Wenyu felt going solo was fine, but being treated so gently by Xia Yehang now, he thought that fighting alongside friends might feel even better.

“I just hit someone. Got one point,” Su Wenyu couldn’t resist showing him the score counter on his gun.

Xia Yehang immediately exclaimed in amazement, “That awesome? You hit someone and still escaped unscathed?”

Su Wenyu “hehe’d” softly, fully satisfied with the praise.

“So, want to team up and go take down others together?” Xia Yehang seized the chance to recruit Su Wenyu. “I’ll watch your back.”

Su Wenyu, quite naive, nodded without thinking much. “Okay.”

Xia Yehang clenched his fist in excitement, silently cheering. He was going to take Su Wenyu and utterly destroy his love rivals!

520 used this opportunity to issue a new mission: 【Host Su Wenyu, please ally with Xia Yehang and Shen Yi to eliminate Zhou Xu.】