12: Chapter 012 Hardcore Games

Wang Ye was stunned when he saw this panel.

Why hadn't he seen this thing before?

Did it require some specific condition?

However, in the current situation, there obviously wasn't much time for him to think.

"Ahem, Li Yan, you kid, don't even get me started. Where did you run off to just now? I couldn't find you at all. Hurry up and call them over to assemble."

Wang Ye quickly reacted and stepped into the role of squad leader.

The soldier named Li Yan heard this and didn't dare to refute Wang Ye.

"Yes."

Then he turned and ran off to call the others.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoyi beside him looked at Wang Ye with a surprised expression.

"How did you know what his name was?"

"There's a panel, don't you have one?" Wang Ye said, taking it for granted.

"Huh? A panel?" Zhou Xiaoyi looked confused.

Qian Lei, standing next to her, was the same.

"Wait, aren't we playing the same game?" Qian Lei asked, looking somewhat bewildered.

At this time, Wang Ye suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Could it be because I'm the squad leader, and my military rank is higher, that I can see their panels?"

"That seems possible."

Zhou Xiaoyi couldn't think of any other possibilities, so she could only accept this explanation.

At this moment, Wang Ye saw Li Yan running over with five or six soldiers.

"Squad leader, everyone is here."

Wang Ye scanned them, and his heart immediately filled with surprise.

Because these soldiers all looked like players.

They were looking around, their eyes darting about.

Wang Ye tried to check their panels, but he couldn't see them.

There was only one possibility for this, and that was that they were players.

Because he had just tried and failed to check Zhou Xiaoyi's and Qian Lei's information panels.

In that case, didn't that mean Li Yan was the only NPC in his squad?

Damn, is that how it's going to be?

Wang Ye was a bit dumbfounded.

"Squad leader, I've brought everyone here. What should we do now?" Li Yan looked at Wang Ye and asked.

"Let's follow the others from the other squads."

After saying this, Wang Ye led them toward the location of Bazi Bridge ahead.

This was Wang Ye's first time being a squad leader; before, he was just a regular soldier, and all he had to do was charge and fight hard.

But as a squad leader, he really didn't know what to do.

After running forward along the street alleys for one or two hundred meters, Wang Ye heard intense gunfire and artillery fire all around.

At this moment, a figure suddenly darted out from around the street corner.

The group was startled and quickly raised their guns.

After taking a look at the person, they saw it was one of their own, covered in blood.

"Save, save me..." After saying that, the person collapsed to the ground.

Behind him, several Japanese soldiers in dark blue uniforms were chasing him.

Seeing this, Wang Ye immediately ordered: "Engage the enemy!"

He pulled the bolt and chambered a round in one fluid motion.

Gunshots rang out in the alley.

Two of the Japanese soldiers fell the moment they heard the shots.

The remaining four quickly hid behind a wall, raised their Arisaka rifles, and began to return fire.

Nearby, Li Yan quickly pulled the wounded man lying on the ground to safety behind cover.

Zhou Xiaoyi had originally wanted to fight too, but when she thought about her marksmanship, she decided against it.

Seeing Li Yan pull the wounded soldier over and take out bandages to provide first aid, she stepped forward to help.

"Quick, bandage the wound on his leg, don't let him lose too much blood." Li Yan said hurriedly.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoyi took the bandage out of her carry-on bag.

But the next second, she realized she didn't know how to use it.

She glanced at Li Yan's bandaging technique and immediately tried to mimic it to bandage the wounded soldier.

But as soon as she placed her hand on the wound on the soldier's thigh, she got a handful of blood.

The bright red blood shocked her; this was her first time seeing so much blood at such close range.

Her face turned pale, and she stood there stunned.

Li Yan saw Zhou Xiaoyi dazed and shouted: "Zhou Yide, what are you spacing out for? Hurry up and bandage it, do you want him to bleed to death?"

Zhou Xiaoyi snapped back to reality and started bandaging in a panic.

But the more she tried, the worse it got.

Seeing this, Li Yan pushed her aside and started bandaging it himself.

He didn't know why Zhou Xiaoyi was dazed; she had been fine before, why was she like this the first time on the battlefield?

Zhou Xiaoyi sat on the ground, suddenly feeling so useless.

She couldn't even do such a simple thing.

"Brothers, am I really that useless? I can't shoot, and I can't even bandage a wound."

At this moment, the comments in the livestream room were flying.

"Is there a need to make this game so hardcore? You have to learn how to bandage just to play a game."

"Sister Yi, this isn't your fault, it's just that this game is too hardcore and realistic."

"Yeah, if it were us, we wouldn't know how either, we've never learned it."

"What's up with that NPC? How can he be so rude to our cute Sister Yi?"

"What are you talking about? Is Sister Yi even cute in the game?"

Seeing the comments from the audience, Zhou Xiaoyi felt much better.

That's right, she wasn't the only one who didn't know how.

Thinking of this, she cheered up again.

At this time, after firing a few shots, Wang Ye immediately threw two grenades over.

After two explosions, he turned to look at Li Yan and said: "Hurry up and carry them away, it's not safe here."

If the enemy throws a few grenades over in a moment, it won't be easy to run with the wounded.

"Yes, squad leader."

Li Yan picked up the unconscious wounded soldier and walked toward the depths of the alley.

Wang Ye led the others, firing as they retreated.

Since Japanese soldiers had appeared here, it meant there were definitely more behind them.

They were a small squad separated from the main force; if they encountered a large number of enemies, they wouldn't be able to fight them head-on.

Seeing Li Yan carry the wounded away, Wang Ye looked at the players following him and said with a smile: "You are all players, right?"

As soon as his words fell, the expressions of the players behind him changed in unison.

"Don't look like you've seen a ghost, we're all players." Wang Ye said helplessly.

"How did you know I was a player?" One player asked.

Upon hearing this, Wang Ye told them how he had discovered they were players.

He also introduced himself along the way.

"Damn, it can be like that? What's up with this game? Regular soldiers have no human rights; I want a panel too."

"Is this game based on pure luck?"

Hearing the complaints from a few players, Wang Ye quickly waved his hand.

"Alright, stop complaining. There are 100 players in this game, and we only have 8 here right now. We don't even know where the rest of the players are."

After speaking, Wang Ye felt a bit helpless.

He had originally planned to gather 100 players to see if they could capture Bazi Bridge.

Now he couldn't even get everyone together.

At this moment, Wang Ye suddenly saw the comments in the livestream room flooding in.

"Streamer, stop looking, they're almost all dead."

"Some of them were unlucky; they were sent to the front line as soon as they entered the game."

"We went to check other livestream rooms; of the 100 streamer players, there are less than fifty left now."

Wang Ye was very shocked.

More than half had died so quickly.

It turned out it wasn't that the battle wasn't intense enough, but that their squad had been daydreaming and slacking off in the back the whole time.