176: Chapter 176 High-Speed Shots and Leveling
"No, that's not it, I'm definitely not a Jap." Old Hei smiled sheepishly and quickly shook his head.
"If I were a Jap, my ancestors eighteen generations back would have to jump out of their graves to slaughter me."
"Then that settles it, right? Just play the game properly. If you really want to fight the Japs, let's go play Story Mode after we finish this round." Old Kui said, glancing at the weapon in front of him.
"What is this thing? An Anti-aircraft gun?" Old Kui recognized the weapon in front of him at a glance.
Seeing the Anti-aircraft gun leveled and aimed outside, Old Kui fell silent.
Old Hei, standing next to him, also saw the object.
"Holy crap, an Anti-aircraft gun leveled horizontally? No wonder I got taken out in one shot last round! Are the Japs using cannons as machine guns?" Old Hei's eyes widened.
He immediately walked up to the Anti-aircraft gun and circled it a few times.
"Tsk tsk tsk, damn, with this caliber, wouldn't a single shot tear a person to pieces?"
Old Hei looked at the Anti-aircraft gun and marveled.
"Alright, stop looking. Don't you have your own machine gun? Go play with your machine gun." Old Kui waved his hand and pushed Old Hei away.
"Hey, wait, we're both in the same spot, why are you using an Anti-aircraft gun while I use a machine gun?" Old Hei shouted, feeling a bit indignant.
"I chose Artilleryman, you chose Assault Trooper. Guess it's your bad luck." Old Kui looked at the envious Old Hei beside him and laughed.
"Man, I thought you chose Assault Trooper too. Who knew an Artilleryman could use an Anti-aircraft gun? I thought it was just those large-caliber cannons." Old Hei felt some regret; if he had known, he would have chosen Artilleryman too.
"Ha, who said there are only large-caliber cannons? Small-caliber ones are cannons too, alright?" Old Kui said, very smugly.
At this moment, in his livestream room, the audience was laughing like crazy.
"Good grief, an Anti-aircraft gun leveled horizontally, that's really something, really something."
"I noticed it before, but I didn't expect it to actually be there."
"I can already imagine what the opposing attacking players are going to look like. This thing must be one shot, one kill."
"But the other side isn't bad either; they have tanks, planes, and such a huge fleet by the coast."
"Sigh, the defensive side is really having a tough time! I heard them say the attacking side has planes and tanks, while we only have tanks and not even a single plane."
"It's not too bad. At least we have an Artilleryman here, and these fortifications, so it's not too miserable."
At this moment, Old Kui gripped the handles of the Anti-aircraft gun, and a simplified usage guide for the weapon appeared in front of him.
He looked toward the coast, and a massive fleet appeared in his line of sight.
In front of these fleets, dense swarms of amphibious landing craft arrived first.
These amphibious landing craft quickly landed on the beachhead.
The Allied Forces from the attacking side disembarked from the landing craft, but they didn't rush to attack.
Instead, they were waiting for something.
Old Kui waited just like that, for about ten minutes.
The roaring sound of airplanes echoed overhead.
Immediately following that, the sound of violent explosions swept over.
While the planes were bombing, the Allied Forces on the beachhead also began their attack.
After Wang Ye and Liu Yang got off the landing craft, they immediately ran forward.
At this moment, on the mountain, the planes in the sky were continuously bombing.
The smoke from the explosions continuously filled the entire hilltop.
The defending players located inside the caves couldn't see what was happening outside at all.
They could only hear the constant sound of explosions.
Their vision was blocked by this smoke.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Ye and the other attacking players quickly charged up the mountain.
What a rare opportunity.
If they waited for the enemy on the mountain to react, they wouldn't be able to charge up at all.
However, they were only halfway through their charge.
When they were only a few dozen meters from the foot of the mountain, the smoke from the explosions on Mount Suribachi cleared, and the defending players inside regained their view of the foot of the mountain.
When they saw that the Allied Forces players below were about to reach the foot of the mountain, they were all given a huge scare.
"Holy crap, Old Hei, those guys on the other side are charging really fast! They're almost at the foot of the mountain, hurry up and fire! Fire!" Old Kui quickly shouted to Old Hei beside him.
Just now, with the constant explosions, he had to take a few steps back to take cover.
The result was that in just that short amount of time, the other side was almost charging up.
Hearing Old Kui's words, Old Hei immediately returned to his machine gunner position and looked down.
Then he saw that the fastest Allied Forces players had already reached the foot of the mountain.
He gripped his machine gun and fired continuously at the enemies below.
The bunker he was in wasn't far from the foot of the mountain; this distance was perfectly within the firing range of the machine gun.
Old Kui didn't hesitate either; he gripped the Anti-aircraft gun, aimed at the Allied Forces players on the beachhead, and fired continuously.
He couldn't hit the players at the foot of the mountain, so he could only fire horizontally at those on the beachhead.
The ones at the foot of the mountain had to be dealt with by Old Hei's machine gun.
Wang Ye and Liu Yang had just rushed to the foot of the mountain and hadn't even caught their breath when the "da-da-da" sound of gunfire rang out.
Countless bullets whizzed past them.
"Holy crap, Brother Wang, the other side reacted really fast."
Liu Yang was startled by a bullet, threw himself onto the ground, rolled, and tumbled into a small pit.
Wang Ye did the same; standing meant being a target, lying down was a bit safer.
At this moment, behind them, those Allied Forces players were pushing forward against the bullets and artillery fire.
The defending players on the mountain were firing at full capacity, using everything—machine guns, Anti-aircraft guns, and anti-tank guns.
"How come it feels like this firepower isn't as fierce as in Story Mode?"
Wang Ye lay on the ground, listening to the commotion.
Compared to the firepower in Story Mode, the firepower in this ranked match mode was much weaker.
"Seems like it." Liu Yang had the same feeling.
At this moment, in the livestream room, the audience watching the stream had the same feeling.
From their perspective, they could see more clearly that the density of artillery fire and bullets was obviously not as high as in Story Mode.
"There are only two thousand people fighting on both sides in this mode, so it's normal that the firepower is a bit weaker. In Story Mode, I feel like there are tens of thousands of people."
"Indeed, the difficulty of this mode is clearly lower than Story Mode."
"After all, it's players fighting each other. If there were too many people, the game duration wouldn't be guaranteed. This is clearly a more fast-paced, 'snack' style mode."
"In the last Story Mode, I saw them charging for several hours without even reaching the foot of the mountain; the beach was piled with corpses. That difficulty was too high."
Wang Ye didn't see the audience's comments; at this moment, his concentration was highly focused.
When the gunfire from above quieted down a little, he immediately led Liu Yang to sneak toward the bunker above.
At this moment, inside the bunker, Old Kui was having a great time.
Ever since he leveled his Anti-aircraft gun, it had simply become a nightmare for the Allied Forces players on the beachhead.
Whenever those players gathered together, he would aim right at them and blast away.
Those players would fall to the ground immediately upon being hit by the Anti-aircraft gun's shells.
Every time a player fell, a number would appear before his eyes.
These were points gained from kills or assists.
He could open the panel with a thought to check his total points.
At this moment, his points were at the very top of the defensive side's leaderboard.