Chapter 1 The Drone Strike

The explosion of the suicide drone that killed the sniper alerted the gang members blocking the sixth-floor stairwell.

They had somehow managed to haul a large pile of sandbags and stack them on the hallway floor, crouching behind the resulting barricade.

A light machine gun was mounted on either side of the sandbags, and one of them had a long, thick RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) launcher at his feet, seemingly already loaded.

They were understandably panicked. So many walkie-talkie communication signals had disappeared one after another, as if there was some invisible, intangible moving black hole downstairs, devouring everyone who ventured into it.

Especially since there had been an explosion on the upper floors in the distance, yet they had blocked all entrances to the sixth floor and hadn't seen anyone come up.

Could it be that there was someone on the upper floors too?

Just as the gang members were becoming suspicious and apprehensive, the five-man squad led by Li Ang had stealthily approached the stairwell, hugging the wall.

In a corner invisible from above, Li Ang signaled his companions to crouch down and remain quiet.

He aimed his SCAR-H assault rifle at the ceiling for a moment, then pulled the trigger of the FN40GL under-barrel grenade launcher.

With a "bang," the cylindrical stun grenade hidden in the launcher slammed into the sixth-floor ceiling.

Boom—

The intense flash, equivalent to a million candles, directly blinded the gang members ambushing the sixth-floor stairwell. The deafening 170-decibel roar of the stun grenade also caused them to temporarily lose their hearing.

Several of the men closest to the stun grenade had already been knocked unconscious, while the others were dizzy, unable to open their eyes, and unable to grip their weapons firmly.

Some of the more cunning gang members had been cautious and hadn't initially crouched down at the stairwell to prepare an ambush, instead hiding in the residential rooms on either side of the stairs, pointing their guns out through the wooden doors, toward the hallway.

These men hadn't been affected by the stun grenade, but they didn't dare to act rashly either, and could only crouch in the rooms and continue to wait.

On the fifth floor, Li Ang, having just fired a stun grenade, expertly loaded another grenade into the launcher, gestured, and ordered the shield-bearer, who was first in line, to move forward.

The shield-bearer held a handheld light shield in one hand and a silenced pistol in the other, watching the path ahead through the transparent visor on the shield, cautiously walking up the stairs with a stoop.

When he reached the platform halfway between the fifth and sixth floors, Li Ang aimed again and fired a grenade at the left side of the sixth floor, throwing a shouliudan (hand grenade) toward the right side.

Boom—Boom—

Double the explosions, double the happiness. Li Ang listened to the screams coming from the rooms on either side of the sixth-floor stairwell, expressionlessly directing the shield-bearer to continue up the stairs.

Before he had completely reached the sixth floor, the second operative in the team, armed with a submachine gun, fired several shots at the gang members lying on the ground, ensuring that no enemies survived.

Once they reached the sixth floor, Li Ang gestured again, and the five-man squad split into two groups, two on the left and three on the right.

Their lines of fire crossed at a 160° angle, covering each other's backs, sniping the gang members who rushed out of the rooms.

Subsequently, Li Ang led the squad into the rooms on both sides, ensuring that no one there survived,

then picked up the RPG launcher dropped by the enemies on the ground, placed two smartphones in the center of the sand pile,

and, together with the squad members, hid in a room according to the original plan, moving all kinds of debris to block the door, leaving only a crack to serve as a firing port.

They had temporarily cleared the enemies at the first point, but the "poison worms" (drug addicts) in other locations on the sixth floor would probably arrive soon.

The shield-bearer looked at the RPG launcher on the floor of the room, cold sweat trickling down his forehead, and couldn't help but curse, "These lunatics... using an RPG in this position, aren't they afraid of blowing up the stairwell and blasting themselves to kingdom come?"

"Poison worms are among the most brainless creatures in the world. It's not surprising what they do.

The drugs not only damage their minds, but also invade the nervous system, causing irreversible and serious damage to the brain."

Li Ang calmly retorted, "I even saw a news report last time

about a guy in some place who got high and cut off his little brother with scissors, then glued it to his head with super glue, pretending to be a unicorn and streaking down the street."

"..."

The other four operatives looked at each other, speechless. It took them a long time to squeeze out a sentence, "And then what?"

Li Ang casually said, "He was cut off, lost his bird, the situation was desperate. Without a pecker, there was naturally bleeding and death."

Are you some kind of idiom expert?

The four operatives didn't know where to begin complaining, so they could only hold it in and check their equipment.

When players perform script missions, the system not only helps them conceal the incongruity of "taking items from the inventory,"

but also helps them translate languages and solve communication problems.

Therefore, the long string of puns that Li Ang uttered probably sounded like some equivalent idiom or slang to the four operatives.

Ignoring his four comrades who were feeling a tightness in their balls, Li Ang took out his smartphone and joined the video call channel on WeChat together with the two smartphones placed in the sand pile in the hallway,

monitoring the scene in the hallway through those two phones.

Tap tap tap tap tap,

Dense footsteps rang out from the distance. Many gang members ran out from both sides of the hallway.

Li Ang wielded two SCAR-H assault rifles, extending the muzzles through the door crack on the left and right, firing at both ends of the hallway, using the image on the phone screen as a guide.

The muzzle flashes were dazzling and the gunshots deafening. The gang members, who had instantly lost seven men, retreated in panic, returning to the L-shaped stairwell corner, not daring to show their faces again.

Seeing this, Li Ang smashed a gap in the wooden door with an elbow strike, took the RPG launcher from the shield-bearer, and fired a shot at the end of the left hallway.

The first to fifth floors of this apartment building were inhabited by ordinary residents, while the sixth floor and above were inhabited by Tama Riady's men, so there was no need to worry about accidental injuries.

The rocket flew at high speed through the hallway. The poison worm at the hallway corner, catching a glimpse of it from afar, was so frightened that he lost all color in his face, running towards the end of the L-shaped hallway in his slippers, while shouting, "R-P-G-----"

Boom—

The roaring explosion of the rocket drowned out his cry. The wall at the end of the hallway was directly blown open, rubble flying, limbs scattered.

How many enemies did this rocket eliminate? Five? Or ten?

Li Ang casually calculated the number of kills, casually stuffed the RPG launcher into his inventory, and threw a shouliudan (hand grenade) into the right hallway.

His strength and agility attributes, which were as high as 8 points, allowed him to throw a good ball like a top baseball player.

The shouliudan crossed the entire hallway, rotated, hit the wall, and bounced a few times, landing right in front of the eyes of a poison worm at the corner of the right hallway.

Another roar.