DF Chapter 61
by VolareChapter 61 A Way Must Be Found to Turn Meng Yeran.
When Sheng Jia rushed from the crater to the edge of the battlefield, she heard a gunshot, followed by a burst of red smoke rising into the sky.
She licked her dry lips behind a tree on the hillside.
Song Ji’an’s gun was out of bullets.
If this shot hit her, she would be eliminated. If it didn’t hit her, but hit Meng Yeran, then Song Ji’an would have even less power to resist.
Dong Zhen could completely begin hunting her down.
Sheng Jia stepped into the woods. Even with a communicator, she didn’t dare to contact them rashly, fearing that she would disturb the battle inside. And there was no sound at all on her communication channel.
The red smoke was still rising, and she hurried towards it.
The location wasn’t too far away. This hillside wasn’t very big either. In just over ten minutes, she reached her destination, but there was no sign of anyone there. The bullet had hit a huge rock, and the shrinking smoke was still floating above it.
Sheng Jia immediately realized something, but it was too late. A sharp whistling sound came from the air, and she felt a huge force behind her pressing her to the ground. Immediately afterward, another bullet whizzed past in front of her.
Sheng Jia’s head fell into the dirt. Before she could think, two strong hands dragged her into the bushes behind her.
Song Ji’an half-covered her body, breathing heavily. Even through the heavy equipment, she could feel the heat radiating from the other woman’s body.
Red and blue smoke rose again on the field, engulfing the entire center and forming a chaotic area that was difficult to see through.
Sheng Jia pushed Song Ji’an and said in a low voice, “I’m fine.”
Only then did Song Ji’an look down at her, shifted to the side, and casually patted the dirt off her pants. “Dong Zhen has been pressing us for a long time. She knows we don’t have many bullets left, and she’s been deadlocked with us.”
“She deliberately fired a shot at the rock just now to lure you over in order to break the stalemate.”
“Our walkie-talkies are broken for some reason, and we can’t send any signals, otherwise, we could have at least reminded you.”
In fact, Sheng Jia had seen this clearly the moment she arrived here. Unfortunately, she didn’t have time to react. Fortunately, Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran were prepared.
“But the good news is that Dong Zhen only has one bullet left, right?” Meng Yeran laughed from the side.
“No,” Sheng Jia lowered her eyes, took out two bullets from her cartridge belt, and slowly said, “She has at least three.”
This was the surprise Julia and Red Moon had left her.
After the two women left, she picked up their equipment. Red Moon’s gun had an empty cartridge, while Julia’s gun only had one bullet left.
This meant that from the beginning to the end, Julia’s talk of cooperating with her was just empty words. Once she didn’t think about wiping them all out and attacked them in advance, she would become fish to be slaughtered.
Their purpose wasn’t simply to kill Sheng Jia, but to disarm and spare her life using the two bullets they had and the lie of cooperation.
Once Sheng Jia fell into their hands, she could become the perfect shield to take the blows and a weapon to sow discord between Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran.
Clearly, they had made this plan when they left the castle or from the very beginning, just like Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran had done, concentrating their bullets on Dong Zhen. In fact, they did it even more thoroughly.
It’s just a pity that Sheng Jia’s role in their eyes was the same as Martha’s and Red Moon’s: to be sacrificed for the main characters of this battle, Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran. So they never thought that Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran would hand all their bullets over to her.
And what surprised Sheng Jia the most was that the bullet in Julia’s gun had Martha’s name written on it.
She originally didn’t believe that Dong Zhen would send Martha to her death with an empty gun. Even if Martha’s gun was empty when she got it, she would assume that there was at least one bullet in the gun.
But the situation at that time told her that it was very likely that Martha was sent as bait to delay them and waste their ammunition, and to give them false information.
Her two bullets had probably been handed over to Dong Zhen and Julia long ago.
Julia replaced them with Martha’s bullets in order to deceive the enemy when she died, while she gave Dong Zhen her own two bullets, and Red Moon only left one bullet in her gun.
Sheng Jia handed one bullet each to Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran, and explained what had happened earlier.
“Tsk, I knew Dong Zhen was a scheming person,” Meng Yeran shook her head exaggeratedly when she heard this. “She even made Julia so scheming.”
As she spoke, she joked, “If the person facing Julia was us, she definitely wouldn’t dare to say that.”
Sheng Jia: “Why?”
Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran exchanged glances and smiled helplessly, “Because if Julia didn’t practice her Chinese specifically, it wouldn’t be enough for her to smoothly say such a long string of well-reasoned words without any logical flaws in the word order.”
In fact, Julia’s Chinese level is very high, but no matter how good she is, she grew up abroad, and many of her language word orders and word choices will be different from theirs.
Those sentences that look like they have been recited in advance are too easy to distinguish.
This is a very small detail. If Sheng Jia didn’t mention it, they probably wouldn’t have thought of telling Sheng Jia about it in advance. But fortunately, Sheng Jia wasn’t fooled.
“What do we do now?” Meng Yeran added a few more branches to her head as camouflage. The red and blue smoke not far away was about to disappear, which also meant that the brief period of peace formed by the unclear visibility was about to end.
The temperature was starting to drop, and the sunlight was getting dimmer and dimmer. Soon they would be plunged into darkness. The temperature difference between day and night here wasn’t very big, but Dong Zhen was likely running out of water and food. She couldn’t hold on for long. Her only advantage was the extra bullet.
“We only have two options,” Sheng Jia said softly, “Either kill Dong Zhen directly, or capture her alive and then kill her.”
“It’s more convenient to sneak and move after nightfall,” she continued, “Originally, when they created the commotion, you could have quietly entered during the blind spot in visibility. It should be even easier for you to attack after nightfall.”
Now it can almost be said that all the clues are with Dong Zhen, and they don’t know where Dong Zhen is hiding the clues.
Killing Dong Zhen would be equivalent to giving up all the clues and placing the last hope in the crater, but who knows what’s in the crater?
They didn’t have much time left, but before they could discuss anything, another gunshot suddenly came from above.
The three of them quickly lowered their bodies a little more, then looked up and saw that the bullet had hit the grass in front of them.
It was the closest distance that could be reached in front of their hiding place.
The red smoke spread in front of the three of them, and the visibility that had just become a little clearer suddenly became blurred again.
“Crap! Dong Zhen must be trying to escape!” Song Ji’an suddenly reacted.
Meng Yeran grabbed her. “What if she’s deliberately trying to lure us out again like just now?”
“In this situation, she’s basically at a disadvantage. Isn’t it most important to protect herself?” Song Ji’an frowned. “If Dong Zhen runs away, it will be difficult for us to find her again. With the loss of two teammates and in a weak position, she may not go to the crater to look for clues again.”
Sheng Jia held them back.
“I’ll go,” she said. “Anyway, I don’t have a gun. I’ll go out and try. If I die, then she only has one bullet left.”
After saying that, she stepped over the red smoke and walked forward.
It was still the same open space just now. Except for four conspicuous bullet holes, there was nothing. Not even a gunshot was heard.
Sheng Jia walked to the place where Dong Zhen had been lying prone. It was already empty.
Seeing that she was fine, Meng Yeran and Song Ji’an also came out. Looking at the scene in front of them, Song Ji’an couldn’t help but sigh.
“Dong Zhen is Dong Zhen after all. She looks like she’s about to reach her limit, but she can actually find a way out for herself.”
Even if they had the advantage in numbers, so what?
Now Dong Zhen was clearly telling them that either they would look for her separately, or she would go back to the island with the clues, and it would be difficult to find her again. There was no other choice. She had thought of her own retreat in just ten minutes.
Whether they split into two or three groups, they would be at a disadvantage against Dong Zhen.
They only had two bullets left.
“Forget it, now we can only go all out,” Sheng Jia also smiled helplessly. “No matter who encounters Dong Zhen, as long as there is an elimination, it means she has suffered losses. She will go from two bullets to one, or perhaps from three bullets to two. She has her advantages, and we have our advantages.”
Then they might as well do as she wished and split into two groups to hunt her down.
It was time for Dong Zhen, who had been planning everything, to taste the feeling of being hunted down in a panic.
Song Ji’an and Meng Yeran had no objections to this. They simply split into three teams and took three different paths to intercept her.
It didn’t matter even if Sheng Jia didn’t have any bullets. It would be interesting if Dong Zhen wasted a bullet on her.
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The sun was about to set. Dong Zhen’s escape wasn’t exactly clean and efficient. Asking someone who spends all year writing novels at home to do this kind of physical work is no less than asking a vampire to work in broad daylight.
Honestly, the deaths of Julia and Red Moon disrupted many of her plans and put her in a predicament where she had to use herself as bait.
What’s worse is that she doesn’t have any supplies at a time when she desperately needs physical strength.
Hiding isn’t her style. What’s more, there are still twenty-six hours left until the end, and she can’t guarantee that she can survive.
She must kill someone with bullets or turn someone to her side.
Almost half an hour had passed since she left. Half an hour wasn’t enough to leave this hillside, but it was enough for Song Ji’an and the others to advance like a carpet in three groups. They would soon reach her position.
If she fired a cold arrow, probably no one could dodge it, but it wouldn’t be worth it no matter who she hit.
No matter what she does before, at the last moment, she believes that her opponent’s two bullets will definitely be in Song Ji’an’s and Meng Yeran’s guns. It wouldn’t be a good thing if any of these three people died by her gun.
If Meng Yeran dies, it means she has to take on two opponents with one bullet. If Song Ji’an dies, she has to duel with Meng Yeran, and there’s still a Sheng Jia watching her covetously. She can pick up their equipment at any time. If their equipment is all used up, then she can just reap the benefits, and she won’t have to worry about her life anymore.
As for hitting Sheng Jia? She wouldn’t waste her bullets on such a thing.
So Dong Zhen’s target at this moment is actually only one person—Meng Yeran.
A way must be found to turn Meng Yeran.
Hiding in the darkness, Dong Zhen’s eyes flickered slightly.