167: Chapter 167 The entire map is shaking! Is there a world war?

"Plop!"

Halfway up the [Ecological Observation Tower].

Accompanied by Chu Hong and Wang Suming making a sudden leap, followed by a mid-air jet propulsion.

The three members of the squad instantly leaped into the turbulent river water.

Beneath the water surface.

Song Jiaojiao's wand tip flashed with light, and the current resistance around the three of Chu Hong instantly reduced by more than half.

If before the benchmark task was triggered, that bitch Smith Molly had been killed, or even, if they had been killed halfway after that squad obtained the token.

The benchmark task could still have been interrupted midway.

But at this moment, the moment when mutated monkeys began to respawn in large numbers in the mountains and forests on the opposite bank.

The benchmark task of this secret realm match was already irreversible.

Just as the three of them were swimming rapidly from underwater toward the opposite bank.

A grandiose voice suddenly came from above the entire secret realm.

Accompanied by it was the increasingly angry and high-pitched roar from the direction of the [Waterfall Cave].

"Roar——!"

"This is the Headquarters Satellite Monitoring Center. Primitive Valley No. 1 Sub-institute Base, please reply upon receipt!"

"We have detected a large-scale, explosive, high-frequency energy signal in the valley. Please immediately enter the highest alert state and dispatch personnel to conduct an Investigation..."

"Alert! Alert! File code 'Primitive One' target signal activated! Energy out of control, has exceeded the highest recorded peak!"

"I am Cliff Yang, the Chief of Base Security. All Palino Group armed personnel, immediately enter combat status, and all armed machine units of the Emergency Security Department are fully activated!"

"Artillery and armored forces immediately assemble at the shore positions..."

The change came too fast!

And too sudden!

This sudden major move directly stunned many Pioneers who had just entered the secret realm for only a few minutes and were still groping for containers in place.

Clueless!

"What is happening? A benchmark task?"

[Huaxi Wharf].

A full five-person squad was clearing out bots here while searching for containers among shipping containers, cargo boxes, or factory buildings.

The moment the full-map broadcast voice came from overhead.

One team member had just opened the door of a shipping container, inside which were three searchable [Transport Wooden Boxes]. With good luck, one could even loot major gold-tier tool and material items.

Even, some open-air supplies would respawn in the open space inside this shipping container itself.

"Click!"

The container door was opened.

The team member had just stepped inside, when he saw the figure in the container at that moment.

The color instantly drained from his face.

His pupils shrank violently.

Before he could let out an exclamation, he saw that behind a [Palino Riot Shield Soldier] standing in the container, it was as if there was a black hole.

Several fully armed [Palino Group] armed personnel suddenly walked out from it out of thin air.

"Fuc..."

This Pioneer, who felt "admiration" for the mother of the Shield Brother in front of him, had not even had time to express his "love".

A loud shotgun blast rang out.

The body armor in front of the latter was instantly blasted into shattered slag.

The whole person was even like being heavily smashed by a heavy hammer, flying backward directly from the container door.

Meanwhile on the other side, several members of the same squad.

Either were looting containers when suddenly a [Palino Heavy Hammer Soldier] appeared out of thin air with an iron hammer right in their faces.

Or inexplicably, they were surrounded by a large group of [Palino Group] armed personnel whose muzzles could be shoved right into their mouths.

"Holy crap! What is this situation?!"

[Huaxi Wharf], [Old Logging Camp], [Transport Line Station]...

At this time, the Pioneer Squads currently within these areas had no way at all to cope with the sudden, unknown drastic changes before their eyes.

Some lucky Pioneers, relying on the equipment advantage on their bodies.

Temporarily saved their lives.

But the moment two fighter jets roared past overhead, and large numbers of armored vehicles, armed robots, and countless armed personnel drove out majestically from the front gate of the [Parino Valley Base] on the hilltop.

Everyone's gaze became blank.

And the moment the [Lord of the Ape Clan] on the east bank, holding a giant axe with a blue-purple ore blade, chopped an axe onto the shore, instantly condensing a crystallized ice bridge between the [Waterfall Cave], [Jiangxin Islet], and [Huaxi Wharf].

Everyone's brain completely lost the ability to think.

This boss... is of Classified grade?!

At the [Transport Line Station], the Pioneers who finally realized something was wrong.

While gritting their teeth against the surrounding hail of bullets, they sent someone to pull the switch.

However.

When the switch of the train evacuation point was pulled down, the train arrival prompt sound that was imagined to ring across the entire map did not appear.

"Asshole! This evacuation point has failed!"

"We can only take the conventional evacuation point!"

The squads across the entire map were like ants on a hot pan, surrounded and attacked by the large number of "bots" that suddenly appeared around them. Wanting to evacuate was nothing more than daydreaming.

They could only huddle in certain places, not daring to show their heads.

Or start thinking of ways to approach the riverside.

There were bots everywhere on both banks.

Taking two steps would get them discovered, but underwater, they could try snorkeling to swim from beneath the river surface to the conventional evacuation point.

However.

Wu Gang and the others were already not the first time detonating the whole map like this within a match.

They already knew full well what the Pioneers were thinking.

On top of a towering tree on the east bank.

Liu Yanyan had a bow on her back, holding a binoculars in her hand, her gaze closely monitoring the situation on the opposite bank at all times.

"Brother Gang! Someone is entering the water at the shore of the [Old Logging Camp]!"

Seeing the situation on the distant opposite bank clearly, she pressed the walkie-talkie on her chest.

"Received!"

Above the [Waterfall Cave].

Wu Gang put away his sniper rifle, and amidst the envious gazes of the few people around him, he grabbed a large bazooka he had been carrying on his back.

A rocket-propelled grenade was taken out from his backpack by him and loaded into it.

Skill [Bomb Thrower] activated!

The moment he raised the rocket launcher in his hand, on the river surface several hundred meters away within his line of sight, several markings resembling basketball hoops suddenly appeared out of thin air.

Wu Gang gave a ferocious smile.

"Come taste something different!"

"Boom!"

A burst of intense firelight accompanied a slight sway of Wu Gang's body.

A rocket with a sharp whistling sound, dragging a long tail flame, roared toward the underwater area marked by the skill [Bomb Thrower].

Two Pioneers who had just surfaced to breathe and had just opened their eyes.

Saw right above their heads, a huge rocket warhead rapidly magnifying in their line of sight!

"Rumble——!"

In the walkie-talkie, Liu Yanyan's calm report came through.

"Target eliminated!"

"Holy crap! Boss Wu is awesome! This time not only can we comfortably feast on the high-value resource points across the entire map, but we can also comfortably feast on the supplies of so many squads! Will not this wave net an evacuation of five million?!"

"Hahaha, five million? With five million, are you looking down on Boss Wu, or looking down on the gold-quality rocket launcher in Boss Wu's hands?!"

"Those people who came up with strategies like camping evacuation points, compared to Boss Wu's map-wide bombing strategy, are simply like a three-year-old child stepping onto a boxing ring—completely out of their depth!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Everyone laughed and flattered him. Wu Gang had a smile on his face, but thinking of that odious face of Chu Hong, a look of sinister ruthlessness involuntarily flashed across the depths of his eyes.

After playing so many rounds of benchmark tasks, he had not looted a single red-quality collectible item.

Which made him hate Chu Hong even more for snatching the [Duke's Cane] from their hands.

"You bastard, if you have the guts, let me run into you one more time. I would like to see if you can withstand my rocket!"

Meanwhile, on the other side.

"Brother Hong, that benchmark task was claimed by other squads, and we are eating their rewards. Will not this be a bit too hurtful to them?"