Bang!!!

Just as Wang Zhifan was marveling at the bandits who leapt from horseback onto the fortified gate, a dull gunshot suddenly echoed from the center of the village. Before the sound reached his ears, he saw a bandit who had just landed on the gate have his head explode like a watermelon, dying instantly, his body falling to the ground outside the village.

"A headshot from a sniper... it seems that these guys with Lightweight Skill still have Defense within normal human limits."

As Wang Zhifan was contemplating, he began his own fire attack. He quickly took a few steps towards the fortified gate, then raised his gun to shoot at the other three bandits who hadn't been sniped.

The bandits seemed a bit shocked by their comrade's sudden death, but they reacted very quickly. Upon realizing they'd been ambushed by ranged weapons, they immediately jumped off the gate, disappearing among nearly a hundred armed villagers behind the gate. Wang Zhifan saw their Qi Force subtly churning, and they wreaked havoc like wolves in a flock, resisting all attacks and sending villagers flying like dominoes.

Wang Zhifan initially wanted to shoot at these bandit experts, but judged that his marksmanship might not easily hit the swift bandits and could inadvertently harm the villagers. He abandoned the idea of using his handgun, preparing instead to draw his blade for a surprise attack.

However, before Wang Zhifan rushed over, a rifleman in a suit on a nearby rooftop started firing at the bandits below, without any concern for collateral damage. He emptied a magazine into their positions indiscriminately, hitting either bandits or villagers around them.

For a moment, under the hail of bullets, the area behind the fortified gate became a scene of flesh and blood, with continuous screams. Most of the screams appeared to come from villagers hit by the suited youth's rifle, but there were pained grunts from the bandits too, a testament to their struggle against bullets despite using some form of Qi Force defense.

"Dying in friendly fire, this is the tragic fate of close combat!"

Wang Zhifan was glad he hadn't planned to engage in close quarters initially—otherwise, mixed among the villagers, he would have been inadvertently wounded by friendly fire or risked being mistaken for an NPC and gunned down.

Catching the break while the suited youth was reloading, Wang Zhifan suddenly burst into speed, darting into the chaotic bloodbath behind the fortified gate in the blink of an eye, slicing decisively with his blade twice!

The first strike cut into a bandit expert, who was hit by the rifleman's bullets earlier and appeared seriously injured, attempting to escape. The bandit leader failed to see Wang Zhifan due to obstructed vision from the villagers and was beheaded by the Wolf-Slaying Blade, collapsing in a spray of blood.

The second strike was dealt to another bandit expert, heavily injured during the earlier rifle barrage and slumped on the ground. Wang Zhifan's blade pierced through his back and chest, ending his painful struggle.

As for the last bandit expert there, Wang Zhifan confirmed his position amid the chaos only to see that he somehow reached the fortified gate, channeling his strength into a powerful strike that began to shake the gate violently, threatening to collapse immediately.

Luckily, a long-haired woman in black nearby fired a few bullets at the bandit expert before he succeeded, quickly ending the life of the last surviving intruder inside the village.

"The first wave of interception succeeded."

The death of all three bandit experts who forcefully entered the fortified gate meant that Wang Zhifan and the NPCs on the village's side had completed the first round of defense, but this instance was far from over.

As Wang Zhifan retreated to the barricades near the fortified gate, preparing to shoot at the two hundred bandits approaching from outside, a loud explosion came from the gate. He then saw a figure crash through the stout wood gate, sending several surviving villagers flying a dozen meters away!

"It's that bald scar-faced bandit leader from outside… he must be the BOSS of this instance."

Wang Zhifan didn't rashly charge up to engage because he judged this BOSS wouldn't be easy to deal with. The best way to take him down was to let teammates fill him with bullets.

"Brothers, charge!"

"Charge!"

"Charge!"

...

As the gate was forcibly breached by the scar-faced bandit leader, the nearly two hundred bandits waiting outside swarmed into the village like a flood.

There should have been some defensive strength within the village, but due to the earlier indiscriminate roof-top rifle fire and the outside bandit leader knocking down the remaining villagers, nearly two hundred bandits couldn't be stopped from flooding the village, instantly plunging the situation into dire straits.

"The bandits who charged in seem quite ordinary in strength, just numerous."

Without hesitation, Wang Zhifan turned and took cover beside a nearby building, drawing his gun and immediately firing at the bandits pouring through the collapsed gate.

At the same time, as if by mutual understanding, the long-haired black-clad woman on the other side of the gate also fired at the incoming bandits while retreating.

The suited youth on the rooftop, having reloaded, once again unleashed his rifle's firepower, spraying bullets at the incoming enemy, each round potentially piercing several bandits.

However, standing out in the open on the rooftop, naturally drew the attention of the scar-faced bandit leader who had just breached the gate.

The fierce-looking bandit leader stomped the ground and leapt high towards the rooftop, his body surged with Qi Force, targeting the suited youth who was delivering suppressive fire.

The suited youth, appearing not too flustered facing the approaching threat, initially aimed his rifle at the ascending scar-faced bandit leader, continuously firing and weakening the BOSS's defensive Qi Force.

Then, as the enemy was about to reach him, the youth executed a backward leap shot, using the gunner profession's unique skill to counter close-range assaults, buying some time.

Meanwhile, a man in a coat at the center of the village suddenly pulled the trigger on a powerful sniper rifle, and the bullet traversed over two hundred meters, striking the instance BOSS, who was momentarily suspended in the air.

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