Chapter 426: Duel
Charlie followed Sugitani's Zenjubo all the way forward, past dozens of his ninja men. Those people looked at the willful Sugitani Zenjubo with eyes that dared not speak, but they did not dare to disobey this arrogant adult.
"Where are you going?" Charlie asked coldly.
"The jungle, that's where hunters hunt, the best place." Sugitani Zenjubo laughed twice excitedly, and then pointed to the iron cannon behind Charlie, "Your iron cannon is an imitation of the defective product, it is not authentic at all, and it is not fun to fight." As he spoke, he pulled the other cannon off his back and handed it to Charlie, "Use mine." Leave your handpiece and your projectiles here. β
Charlie took his iron cannon without saying a word, and put his iron cannon and projectiles on the ground as required. One after the other, the two walked into the woods of Koyasan. When the two sides reached an open field, Sugitani Zenjubo laughed excitedly again. He poured all the projectiles in his own bag on the ground, counted out ten of them, and stuffed them into Charlie's hand. He took out ten more and put them in his pocket, leaving all the others on the ground, and kicked them into the river beside them. Gunpowder, he also casually poured half of his bag into Charlie's pocket to ensure that it was enough.
"A total of ten projectiles, and they are pulled down after the fight." Sugitani Zenjubo let out a sigh of relief and slowly began to reload, "You are not allowed to go out of the mountain, just duel in this mountain until one side is killed." Of course, if you're done with ten bullets, find another way to kill me, whatever you want - and if you can do it, you can do it with your bare hands. β
"Understood." Charlie nodded, and put ten projectiles in his pocket, "Is ten projectiles too little?" β
"Ten? Is it less? Sugitani Zenjubo sneered disdainfully, lit the rope, raised his hand and shot a gun, and suddenly shot towards the sky. Immediately after a roar, the wailing of the wild geese was also heard. Charlie looked up and found that a wild goose that had just flown by was shot by Zenjubo Sugitani and was bleeding and planted headlong in the forest not far away.
"Against you, nine is enough."
After Sugitani's Zenjubo "cut", he got up very excitedly, "Let's go, after ten breaths, the duel will begin." β
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Charlie leaped briskly into the grass, then crawled a little further, choosing a thicker tree as cover and hiding behind it. He understands that his opponent is also a master, and he can't afford to make a mistake.
While in England, he also fought bow and arrow duels with others. However, it was a contest between underage longbowmen, and they all used arrows without arrows. In a duel, finding cover, changing positions, and hiding oneself are even more important than archery.
When he finally found cover and began to slowly reload, he poked his head out to observe the location of Sugitani's Zenjubo, and sure enough, he found that Sugitani's Zenjubo was also missing. Charlie did not act rashly, but once again hid in his bunker. If he has a bow and arrow that can be fired quickly, he can also use one arrow to disturb the enemy's position and kill the enemy with the other. However, the reloading speed of the iron cannon is too slow to form such a coordination, and it is necessary to defeat the enemy with one blow.
He slowly rubbed the flint and lit the iron cannon's fiery rope, his eyes continuing to observe the situation intently through the gaps between the bushes. Suddenly, he only saw the bush on the left side of his front move slightly, and he was keenly aware of it, and he almost immediately raised his hand to aim and shoot. After the smoke of gunfire rose, he did not have time to observe the results of the battle at all, but quickly moved so as not to reveal his position.
When he quickly retreated to another well-placed bunker, he looked at the bush again. To his regret, he only saw a rabbit that had been killed on the ground - he didn't expect it to be a rabbit that alarmed the grass.
Before he could react, the roar of the iron cannon suddenly occurred in the back of his head. Charlie rolled over almost instinctively, and a rock behind which he was squatting just now was instantly shattered by a projectile, and a lot of gravel was broken.
"How can it be in the back!" Charlie was taken aback by what he saw. He didn't know that Sugitani Zenjubo had an identity as a ninja in addition to being an iron gunner. For ninjas, hiding their tracks in the mountains and forests and moving quickly is a basic skill.
Charlie had no choice but to dodge with a rolling belt. However, the continuous shooting he expected did not come, and Sugitani Zenjubo seemed to be hiding in the shadows again, which made Charlie feel very bad. The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the open, and for the shooter heads-up, it can't be worse.
He barely had time to think, and the roar of iron cannons rang out again from the left rear. Charlie's nimble reaction saved his life again, and he lunged forward, the bullet grazing his side and shooting at a tree in the distance.
"It can't go on like this." Charlie was running to another bunker as he made quick calculations. Just two times, his life was hanging by a thread, and his life would be lost if he was not careful. If you fight passively like this, you will be shot sooner or later.
When he found cover again, he silently lit the rope of the iron cannon and pressed his hand on the trigger.
"That guy likes to sneak up from behind... The transfer was much faster than mine... So..."Charlie slowly calculated in his mind, constantly looking at the terrain behind him with his spare eyes, and found that there was a rock on the back right side that was very good for hiding. The shooter's perception told him that if he was Sugitani, he would be hiding behind the rock.
He leaped and slammed behind another treeβthe position of which he could see behind the rocks. Sure enough, the gray-clad ninja was crouching behind the rock, and he was finishing the reloading of the iron cannon! Charlie immediately raised his gun to shoot, and Sugitani Zenjubo was also surprised to see that Charlie actually took the initiative to find him, and hurriedly dodged and hid in the bushes under the rocks, and then ran away quickly.
"Yes! Not bad, something! From behind the rock, there was an excited shout from Sugitani: "It's the greatest enjoyment of life to fight with people like you!" Didn't disappoint me! β
"Maniac." Charlie silently made a judgment on this person in his heart. As an archer, he also hones himself in order to improve his archery. But he would never easily get into a life-and-death struggle with others for the sake of pleasure.
He didn't give Sugitani's Zenjubo time to detour behind him again, but moved quickly while loading, following the trail of Sugitani's Zenjubo. After lighting the firerope, he suddenly noticed that the footprints and traces created by the movement of Sugitani's Zenjubo had disappeared under a tree. Charlie reacted almost immediately, raised his hand and shot at the black shadow in the tree, and the black shadow in the tree was about to shoot, but failed to shoot because Charlie was one step faster, but tilted his body in embarrassment to avoid the shot, and fell down the tree himself.
However, Charlie couldn't take advantage of the victory at the moment. Because the iron cannon in Sugitani's hand has already been loaded, but his is not. He had to quickly pull away from a safe distance, hide behind rocks and start loading. This time, his movements became very fast, because the iron cannon in Sugitani Zenjubo's hand had already finished loading, and this time he would shoot immediately after a roundabout.
Charlie, having finished reloading, almost without thinking, fired again at a bush with the shooter's intuition. When the bush heard the gunshot, he immediately shook violently, and Sugitani Zenjubo escaped from it in embarrassment.
"It's kind of interesting! This is a prediction! Sugitani Zenjubo shouted as he ran away quickly, "You're making me want to kill you more and more!" β
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The situation continued like this, and Charlie relied on god-like prediction to shoot again and again, so that there was no way for Sugitani Zenjubo to sneak up on him from the flank and rear. It seems that Charlie has the upper hand in the situation, and several shots have forced Sugitani's Zenjubo into danger, but Charlie understands that he is on the verge of despair. Because there were only ten projectiles on both sides in total, he only had two left, and Sugitani Zenjubo had five left. Sugitani Zenjubo relied on moving and hiding, forcing Charlie to shoot to protect himself, which was already a victory.
Moving through the mountains and forests, Charlie is no match for the ninja-turned-Zenjubo Sugitani. Charlie himself realized this, but Sugitani's Zenjubo stipulated that he could not go out of the mountain. Charlie could only fight and retreat, trying to find a battlefield that was more suitable for him.
The hard work paid off, and with his efforts, he finally saw a two-story hut not far away that resembled an Orion's house in the mountains and forests. As long as he retreats into the hut, Sugitani Zenjubo can't sneak attack from the shadows.
However, in the jungle behind him, Sugitani's Zenjubo is still with him. Sensing the danger, Charlie shot again at the bushes on the edge of a rock, and smoke rose from the bushes at the same moment. The projectiles fired by both sides were derailed by the interference of each other's huge movements. Charlie was able to take advantage of the time when Sugitani's Zenju was reloaded and had no attack power, and rushed into the hut at a rapid pace, slamming the door shut.
He only had the last projectile left. If this projectile doesn't hit either, it's all over. Not only himself, but also Yuqiu and the others who were trapped in the small cabin in the distance were all about to be finished.
The tremendous pressure made the usually calm and calm archer sweat on his forehead, and the sound of approaching footsteps outside the house pushed his mood to the bottom even more. The cabin had two doors and three windows on the ground floor, and there was no way to defend it on the ground floor, so it had to retreat to the second floor.
Climbing up the humble spiral staircase to the second floor, Charlie immediately began to reload with his back against a pillar. The tremendous pressure made his hands a little disobedient, and he trembled and stuffed the last projectile, the last hope for everyone to live, into the chamber of the gun. And at the moment when he lit the fire, the "creaking" sound of the wooden door of the hut being pushed open also sounded.