403: Could it be him! (Two in one)

"What's going on?!"

"These two big brothers just... died?"

"But there were no gunshots just now, and the team in the Parking Lot didn't report anyone coming either!"

"What in the world is going on?!"

Seeing the two bodies on the ground, especially since Xiao Yun had stripped all the equipment from them.

The Asala Soldiers who came with Seyid were all incredibly shocked.

And within that shock, there was also a deep fear revealed in their hearts.

"Strange, too strange!"

Seeing this scene, even Seyid frowned, feeling a chill in his heart.

The strangeness of this match far exceeded his imagination.

First, the teams in the Cement Factory and Substation lost contact without any communication, completely going offline within ten minutes of the match starting.

Then, these two suddenly appearing bodies subtly hinted at the unusual nature of this match.

"It seems that the squads in the Substation and Cement Factory probably encountered the same thing... You, go call the people from the Parking Lot."

"Yes!"

At Seyid's command, a soldier quickly ran towards the Parking Lot.

While he went to make contact, Seyid also bent down and touched the temperature of the bodies on the ground.

However, Seyid only touched them lightly, and the next second, he quickly stood up, raised his M249, ready for battle at any moment.

"Stay alert! The bodies' temperatures are still normal, that team definitely hasn't gone far!"

Seyid's gaze was as sharp as an eagle's, keenly observing the surroundings.

"You all go ambush around the containers, absolutely do not let this team escape!"

"Yes!"

Seyid commanded coldly, while also feeling a bit uneasy inside.

He couldn't fathom the strength of this team.

A team that could infiltrate the Administrative District without making any noise couldn't just have an equipment advantage.

However, Seyid had never encountered a similar situation before, so he had no way to compare it with past experiences.

And if this team successfully retreated, Asala might suffer heavy losses in this match!

After all, the two major resource areas, the Substation and the Cement Factory, were key areas to protect in this match, with a material value exceeding five million.

Especially, there were many big red materials in this match, which Seyid had scattered in various locations.

Originally, he could have concentrated all these big red items in the Administrative Building, but to test the quality of his subordinates, he resorted to this strategy.

And if these big red materials were successfully carried out by this GTI team...

"No... I've seen this kind of scene before."

Seyid's heart had just been flustered, but he quickly calmed down.

Recalling his past experience at the Ordinary Dam, even encountering such a strange and special situation now, he felt no trace of panic in his heart.

He silently lowered his head, observing the two bodies on the ground.

And soon, Seyid discovered a strange mark on the Shield Bro's shield.

"What is this...?"

On the shield lying on the ground, there was a crack that didn't look like a bullet hole. The crack was long and thin, forming a strip about 20cm long, as if it had been split open by some sharp blade.

"No! Come back! Don't go to the containers!"

Seyid suddenly realized something and quickly wanted to call back the four people who had just gone to the containers.

And just at this moment, the soldier who had just gone to the Parking Lot also ran over with an entire squad that had been stationed there.

"Officer Seyid, what happened?"

The leader asked curiously.

Before Seyid could answer, the soldier who brought them over pointed to the two bodies on the ground, and the three who had just come from the Parking Lot were instantly shocked!

"This is... an eight-level Machine Gunner and Shield Bro?"

"Damn it! How could they die here!"

"No one has come to this Parking Lot from the beginning of the match until now!"

The three soldiers were extremely shocked, and Seyid simply pointed the barrel of his M249 at the shield on the ground, indicating the wound on it.

"The strength of this GTI team is probably beyond our imagination. They can even break through Asala's specially made shields, which is definitely not something that can be understood with common sense. We might have encountered a truly powerful opponent in this match."

"What!? Even Shield Bro's shield was pierced?"

"This is something that even six-level ammunition can't penetrate! How did these people do it?"

"Incomprehensible... Are these even humans?"

The Asala Soldiers nearby were all shocked.

Especially since they were the soldiers who had been stationed in the Parking Lot all along.

In the ten minutes from the start of the match until now, the three of them had not seen any figures or heard any footsteps.

And given the current situation, if this team didn't enter from the Parking Lot, then it made no sense.

"Boss, we're back."

On the other side, the two soldiers who had just gone to the containers also returned the same way.

And seeing that they hadn't encountered anything strange, Seyid also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wait, why are there only two people back?"

Looking at the two who returned, Seyid's brows immediately furrowed.

He remembered that one person had just gone to the Parking Lot and had now returned with the team from there.

The other three had followed his orders and gone to the containers.

So why were there only two people returning from the containers now?

"Damn it! Where's Abu!"

"Yeah! Why isn't Abu back? Did he run into danger?"

"But there's no noise from the containers!"

Realizing that one person was missing from the team, the two soldiers immediately felt extremely terrified.

How could someone just disappear when they were fine a moment ago?

And.

The situation on site was too strange!

"Let's go, we'll go together and see."

Seyid said, and quickly led a group of Asala Soldiers towards the containers.

However.

When they arrived behind the containers, they suddenly discovered the body of a soldier lying on the ground!

His two teammates recognized him; it was Abu, who had just gone to the containers with them!

"Abu... how did he die??"

"This is impossible! Logically, if Abu was attacked at the containers, we should have heard at least some noise! How could he die so silently!"

"You two, calm down!"

Seeing their panicked expressions, an Asala Soldier next to them also reprimanded.

"Calm down? How can you tell us to calm down! We entered this match with five sets of gear! And Abu just died like that, that's nearly half a year's income for him!"

"Boss Seyid, what exactly is going on?!"

All the soldiers turned to look at Seyid, and at this moment, cold sweat poured down Seyid's forehead.

The series of events happening before him all overlapped with scenes from a certain match in his memories.

Especially upon seeing the soldier named Abu die so silently in front of them, Seyid's heart was greatly shaken!

He immediately thought of one person, who had caused him to fail twice, and who also allowed him to stand in this forbidden zone of Endless Night Dam today.

"Could it be... him?"

Seeing Abu's body behind the container, Seyid immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He had experienced such things, beyond his common sense, twice before.

And at that time, he was just an Ordinary Dam leader.

He had always been more talented than ordinary people, whether in combat or other things. Even when he played Chinese chess with friends as a child, he would always quickly grasp the tricks, seeing through others' routines and formulas at a glance, thus easily defeating them.

It was precisely because of this that when he reached the age to go to the battlefield, he also easily mastered the techniques in the forbidden zone, continuously earning Asala points.

From a level one soldier to a level two soldier, then to level three, four, five...

Soon, he became a level nine Asala Soldier and gained the right to become a Seyid.

However, after becoming an existence that ordinary people could only look up to, he gradually found that his talent seemed to be insufficient.

Those who could reach level nine soldiers and obtain the Seyid identity were, without exception, geniuses of the battlefield.

For many years, he had always been stronger than others, but after becoming a Seyid, he could no longer do that.

The forbidden zone, with its unpredictable changes in every match, was not like a simple Chinese chess formula that could be applied at will.

Talent was merely the threshold to becoming a Seyid.

To achieve a higher ranking and escape the ordinary mode to become a confidential difficulty leader, one had to accumulate years, even decades, of experience.

Originally, he thought that he would be hard-pressed to reach that height in his lifetime.

After all, prolonged use of his talent had made him lose patience for anything.

Clocking in on time, clocking out on time, symbolically fighting when people from the Administrative District came, and it didn't matter if he couldn't win.

Most of the Asala Soldiers in the forbidden zone, including the Seyids, had this mentality.

After all, although this was a real battlefield independent of reality, unlike real-world warfare, death here was just routine.

Even if he died and the Administrative District fell, no one would blame him.

After all, he was only stationed at one of thousands of Ordinary Dams. The entire map itself didn't have much material in each match, so even if some was lost, no one cared.

What's more, the agents sent by GTI from another world were truly not very strong.

Even in the lowest difficulty Ordinary Dam, these GTI agents found it difficult to leave alive, let alone take away much material.

Therefore, for him, gaining merit and improving his ranking was the only useful thing in the forbidden zone.

However.

The points that could be obtained in the Ordinary Dam were simply too few.

And those Seyids in confidential difficulty were basically people who were assigned to confidential difficulty Zero Dams from the very beginning; very few had risen by improving their strength and gaining points.

These people either had connections at home or paid bribes. In short, in Asala society, this phenomenon was much more serious than in Hafk.

After all, Hafk would still try to hide things on the surface, while Asala directly displayed them openly with clear prices.

Thus, knowing that his chances of promotion were slim, he also entered a state of 'lying flat'.

However, this situation did not last too long.

One day, about three years ago, he was as absent-minded as usual in the forbidden zone, treating it as just a job to deal with.

Yet, he never expected that in that match, he would encounter a team that would change his life.

He only remembered that the team at that time consisted of three middle-aged men.

The three of them wore vests and slippers, and one of them even held two skewers of barbecue in his hand.

It looked as if they had just gotten drunk after eating barbecue and were bragging to their brothers about going into the forbidden zone to wreak havoc, and so they just came.

And what was most unlucky for these people at that time was that they entered the forbidden zone without any equipment and unluckily spawned directly in the Administrative Building at the start of the match!

At that time, Seyid found it quite amusing.

He had seen countless cannon fodder in the forbidden zone, but this was the first time he had seen a team that literally had the words 'cannon fodder' written all over their faces!

So, he immediately shouted, "Feel my wrath!" which was a line stipulated in the Seyid code to be used when encountering GTI agents.

He raised his M249 and charged towards the three of them.

However.

What happened next was something he would never forget!

This seemingly unreliable team of agents, before he even arrived, actually used handy tools to directly kill an Asala Squad on the first floor of the West Building of the Administrative Building!

The tools they used couldn't even be called weapons!

Barbecue skewers, a half-broken wine bottle, and one person was even more outrageous: he just dragged off the vest he was wearing and directly strangled an Asala Soldier.

This scene completely exceeded Seyid's imagination!

It looked like something out of a dream, not something that would happen in reality!

He had never seen GTI agents so powerful!

However.

At that time, he had already run to the staircase corner of the West Building.

It was too late to retreat at that point, and besides, as a Seyid, he had no reason to retreat.

And so...

He was directly toyed with by this strange GTI team!

These people were elusive; one moment they'd be peeking an arm out from behind a wall to fire a couple of shots, the next they'd be hiding behind a server, and then someone would even directly flank Seyid from behind, giving him a backstab with a whole magazine!

If Seyid hadn't been wearing level four armor at the time, he probably would have been swept to death by that one burst!

But what truly changed Seyid's life wasn't the Three people's bizarre strength, but what one of them said.

Just as Seyid was about to counterattack, preparing for a final stand.

The three of them suddenly threw away their weapons and walked out, laughing.

Then, one of the handsomer men said a sentence that changed Seyid's life.

"Forget it, they're not easy either, we don't need to bully him."