Chapter 36: One on One (I)

A desolate wilderness as far as the eye can see.

Lee, who was caught out of the car by Zhuo Luo, couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the infantry vehicle that was away in an instant, he couldn't believe that Robin didn't stop the car and wait for him, and threw his heavy sniper rifle down.

What does that mean? Let me duel him?

Looking at the heavy sniper rifle thrown at his feet, Li turned his head to look at Zhuo Luo, who was not wearing any firearms.

With a slight pick on his toes, the provoked sniper rifle was grabbed by Li, and he pulled the bolt hard and said coldly: "Tell me, what do you want to do?" ”

"Let you see your true level." Zhuo Luo turned his back and said in an indifferent tone, "Give you five minutes to distance yourself." ”

"Five minutes?" Li calculated his running speed, looked at the sniper rifle in his hand, and immediately warned confidently: "Hey, don't be too confident, my gun is loaded with live ammunition." ”

"You don't have a chance to hit me."

"You ......" Zhuo Luo's confident tone made Li's face suddenly ugly, he gritted his teeth and roared: "Okay, since you want to die so much, I will fulfill you!" ~”

With that, Li picked up his sniper rifle and quickly left, instantly becoming a black spot in the distance. Zhuo Luo, on the other hand, stood in place like a stone sculpture in the cold wind, allowing Li to use his fastest speed to extend the distance.

In this empty, unsheltered wilderness, the sniper has an overwhelming advantage. Due to the lack of cover, a good sniper can easily lock on to the target, and Zoro also gives Lee five minutes to close the distance, with Lee's speed, five minutes can even allow him to run several kilometers away, so he has enough time to create a distance advantage and find the most suitable sniper position.

More than four minutes later, Lee lay down on the top of a heavily weathered stalagmite three kilometers away, and immediately aimed at Zhuoluo, who was still standing on the wasteland and had not moved.

"Hmph...... Cocky guy, you'll regret saying those things to me. ”

Locking on Zhuo Luo's back in the sniper scope, the corners of Li's mouth couldn't help but curvature. He was confident enough to win the unfair race, so he didn't go farther, just found a sniper spot on the optimal sniper distance of three kilometres, and waited silently for the last second of five minutes to pass.

"Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One......"

Just as Li silently counted seconds and gradually tightened the trigger of the sniper rifle, at the moment when the seconds were zeroed, the figure in his sniper scope suddenly flashed away, as if it had disappeared in an instant, and it broke away from his lock.

"What! ~”

The empty sniper scope made Li's eyes burst into countless bloodshots, and he nervously raised his eyes to look at the wasteland, trying to find Zhuo Luo, who had already begun to move.

"How is that possible...... How could it be ...... so quickly"

Dense beads of sweat appeared on Li's forehead, and he clenched the sniper rifle in his hand, staring at Zhuo Luo, who was rushing in a Z-shaped route in the distance.

Judging by Li's visual inspection, in just the blink of an eye, Zhuo Luo had instantly shortened the distance between the two of them by about a kilometer. Moreover, Zhuo Luo seemed to have locked on to Li's location the moment he moved.

In Lee's mind, this is simply impossible. You know, the straight-line distance between the two is a full three kilometers, and at this distance, even the bioradar that comes with the tactical helmet has lost its effect. And if you rely on your personal ability, unless you have super perception ability, you can't find a hidden sniper in this vast environment.

But this common sense was completely broken today, and looking at Zhuo Luo, who was rushing quickly, Li was very sure that he knew the sniper position he was hiding. And he tried to lock on to the running Zhuo Luo several times, but Zhuo Luo was turned in the first step as if he had predicted it in advance. Using erratic tactics to evade moves, Zoro made it impossible for Lee to lock his eyes and shoot.

"Damn! ~”

Seeing Zhuo Luo, who was moving and jumping like a ghost, quickly narrowed the distance to within a kilometer, Li, who was familiar with the common sense of snipers, immediately picked up his sniper rifle and jumped off the stone pillar, intending to change the sniper position immediately.

However, before he could run a distance of 100 meters, Zhuo Luo, who suddenly appeared, caught up with him like a shadow close to the ground.

Hurriedly taking off the sniper rifle on his back, Li turned around and was about to shoot blindly at close range, when the gun in his hand was suddenly swept away by a huge force, and then, he only felt that his abdomen was like being hit by a drill, and he was kicked out by Zhuo Luo.

Lying on the ground in pain, Li suddenly felt a piercing murderous aura appear behind him, while two strong hands tightly grabbed his chin and neck.

He...... He wanted to kill me......

Lee was well aware that this was the standard throat-cutting move in an infantry combat course.

Listening to Zhuo Luo's heavy beast-like panting in the communication, Li seemed to be able to see Zhuo Luo's scarlet and bloody eyes behind him.

At this moment, Li almost desperately wanted to close his eyes and wait for death, but at this moment, the hands that grabbed his chin and neck were released in trembling, and the fierce killing intent that almost made him collapse gradually dissipated.

Behind the goggles, the blood in Zhuo Luo's eyes had gradually faded, but his breath was as cold as ever.

Looking at Li, who was lying on the ground gasping for breath, Zhuo Luo looked at him as if he was looking at a dead man.

"As I said, against the true elite of the Federation Army, they alone can kill you all. As a sniper, but hiding in a compartment with a narrow field of vision, you simply don't deserve to stand behind Robin with a gun. ”

Leaving these words, Zhuo Luo left Li alone in the wilderness and left alone.

Lying on the hard and steely maroon earth of the wasteland, Lee gritted his teeth and clenched his fists against the ground, letting out a hoarse wail like a beast.

As a warrior, he was humiliated by Zhuo Luo in the most direct way. As a genius who graduated from the A3 training camp, he was completely defeated by Zhuo Luo's self-confidence and arrogance.

In just three minutes, Li still suffered a crushing defeat in such an advantageous situation. Even Zhuo Luo had already dealt with him without even using a knife, and if this was a real battlefield, Li would already be a corpse with a broken neck.

From graduating from the First Military Academy, to being selected for the A3 training camp with excellent grades, to participating in a series of battles on Charon and the TR-735 ship. The smooth course of the battle and the continuous promotion of exploits unwittingly fueled Lee's arrogance.

Although, in Leona and the growing Robin, Lee felt the powerlessness of being surpassed, but because of the special surname of Robin's growth, Lee did not feel too strongly.

And this time, Zhuo Luo used the purest and most direct power to tell Li what the real elite was.

In front of the real elite, the conceited man did nothing, and even keeping his surname became a luxury.

There was nothing more humiliating than this, the pride in Lee's heart was completely torn apart, and his pride was trampled on fiercely.

He hated Zhuo Luo, but looking at the back of Zhuo Luo's departure, Li was unwilling.

He was a proud man, and he couldn't afford to lose in such a humiliating way. As a warrior, he also aspires to be strong, but because he lacks the most direct yardstick, he doesn't know how far he is from being strong, and his training is only the basic training he learned in the training camp. But now in Zhuo Luo's body, he seems to have found what he is looking for.

Taking a deep breath, Li Qiang stood up with the cramping pain in his abdomen, and stumbled to pick up the sniper rifle that fell not far away.

Staring at Zhuo Luo's back as he gradually walked away, Li spat out the blood foam in his mouth and limped after him, this time, his eyes were full of determination.