Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 648 - 641: The Attacker

Chapter 648: Chapter 641: The Attacker

Before long, several unfamiliar figures appeared in the woods, surrounding the crash site. Luoer secretly observed and noticed that these people had the typical northern Otherworld look and were wearing a mishmash of Otherworld style clothes. The only incongruous element was the rifles they held in their hands.

These people’s rifles varied in length; most were semi-automatic rifles, with a few short-barrelled assault rifles. Seeing their weapons, Luoer knew that these people were not as simple as they appeared.

As mentioned before, the people of Earth actually have a rather strict control over weapons. A case of arms smuggling that took place two years ago was considered very significant.

The United Nations distinguishes types of weapons by their firing speed. This idea was directly copied from the United States’ gun laws but is even stricter.

Civilians in Otherworld can only buy bolt-action rifles, the old-fashioned non-automatic type. Only governmental groups and armies can purchase semi-automatic and automatic rifles. And they still need to show a purchase list to the Otherworld’s Weapon Export Committee for approval.

This differentiation method applies to most weapons, including handguns, submachine guns, etc. Civilians can only purchase semi-automatic handguns, and fully automatic ones are not allowed to circulate among the Otherworld’s civilians, the same goes for submachine guns.

Both the civilians and officials in Otherworld look down on small caliber weapons, but to put it bluntly, even if they wanted to, they would have no chance to purchase them. Earthlings would rather let small-caliber weapons go unsold than sell them to Otherworld civilians.

In conclusion, it is challenging for Otherworld civilians to get their hands on these automatic weapons. If the Advance Team encounters such squads frequently, there are only two likely reasons. Either it is a consequence of the major arms smuggling case two years ago, or there are Earth forces secretly supporting these Otherworld civilian militias.

There have always been spontaneous small group-armaments among the civilians in Otherworld, referred to as adventurers. To manage them easily, the Otherworlders set up an Adventurers’ Guild to centrally manage these adventurers and assign them tasks. Sometimes, even the government would seek help from the Adventurers’ Guild. When the Advance Team first entered Otherworld, they carried out their mission as adventurers.

The gaps in power among these adventurer organizations are enormous. Some adventurer organizations have teams of dozens of people with a dozen or so guns. These types of adventurer organizations often evolve into mercenary groups, tackling more risky tasks.

Some mercenary groups are under the jurisdiction of the Assassins’ Alliance, a shadow organization of the Adventurers’ Guild, taking on clandestine high-risk high-profit contracts.

When the Advance Team first entered Otherworld, they were attacked by a mercenary organization sent by the Assassins’ Alliance. Now they all knew clearly that these people were sent by the CIA, with the aim of preventing the Advance Team from completing their mission in Otherworld.

Because the CIA had not carried out a hybrid breeding plan similar to the Origin Project, their power in Otherworld was often stretched thin. They were frequent customers of mercenary organizations. On this point, the Headquarters had completely the opposite situation.

Unlike the CIA, who often hired mercenary groups, the Headquarters preferred to train its own mercenary organizations. They would select Otherworlders who had the intention to become mercenaries, then provide training in their own way. Since the Blaiqi people have a higher level of education, the mercenaries were largely composed of the Blaiqi people.

After completing their training, these mercenaries would be employed by the Headquarters for free to pay off their training costs, generally for a period of five to ten years. If they repay the full cost of training and want to renew their contract, it’s also possible. The headquarters would hire them at market prices.

The advantage of doing this is to maximize the loyalty of the mercenaries. Although an incident like Luoer had previously occurred in the south, it’s crucial to see that the majority of mercenaries are still loyal to the Headquarters.

Based on the above theories, when Luoer saw these people, he could vaguely guess their identities. These mercenaries are either commissioned by a certain force or supported by Earth forces. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have such advanced weaponry at their disposal.

These mercenaries were slowly advancing towards the crash site in a scattered search pattern. Since these people showed up here, it suggests that the attack earlier was closely related to them.

Luoer reached into his pocket and pulled out a shock bomb. He pulled out the pin and clenched it tightly in his hand. Its power was limited in open terrain, but Luoer was not planning to blind the enemy with it. Instead, he planned to use it to get the enemy’s attention for a surprise attack.

This was a commonly used tactic by the Advance Team. Due to their limited firepower, they often launched unexpected attacks, launching rapid assaults in a short amount of time, causing the enemies to think they were being attacked by a large force and forcing them to retreat.

When the enemies entered the ten meter range, Luoer forcefully threw out the shock bomb. The bomb flew in an arc through the air, hitting a nearby tree trunk and detonating in mid-air.

The moment of the explosion, the shock bomb emitted a blinding light, with the entire forest enveloped in white light. Following this, a shattering sound blasted out, spreading from the center of the explosion.

Not only the mercenaries, but even the members of the Advance Team were taken by surprise. Luoer seized the opportunity to stand up abruptly with his gun in hand and fired at the enemies nearby. The fight was on the verge of beginning.

"Da-da-da-da-da!!!!!!!"

After Luoer initiated the attack, the rest of the Advance Team also began to attack. They acted on a mutual understanding, using the Captain’s gunfire as a signal.

Soon, the forest was filled with the concentrated gunfire of the Advance Team. Several mercenaries were shot down before they could react.

Ever since they discovered that the armor-penetrating bullets had incredible destructive power against unarmored targets, these bullets had become the official bullets of the Advance Team. Although these bullets require a high level of processing, for the highly industrialized Earth, such bullets were nothing. They could completely ensure the supply of such bullets.

Although the initial assault of the Advance Team only lasted a few seconds, the psychological intimidation it caused was deeply felt by the enemy. Several enemies were shot down at the moment the attack began, and the remaining enemies were suppressed by their firepower, making it impossible for them to counterattack.

After the initial attack, the Advance Team immediately gained the upper hand. With the members providing cover, those who had run out of ammunition quickly reloaded and re-joined the fight.

This tactic was especially effective against the usual armed groups in Otherworld, as their discipline was no match for formal military forces. Needless to say, even the formal military forces of Otherworld were significantly better than them.

The Advance Team had previously encountered an attack from the Judgment Legion of the Church Court when they were fighting for the Anti-Magic Blade in Saint Bawa. Their swift and aggressive tactic had been utterly ineffective against the Judgment Legion, whose morale never waned despite the onslaught from the Advance Team. If it hadn’t been for the help of Yalunte, they would have lost The Blade of The Transgressor and suffered huge losses.

The mercenaries did not expect such a swift and fierce attack, and from the start of the battle, they were at a disadvantage. Those who survived the initial onslaught lost their will to fight and only wanted to retreat.

However, Luoer could not celebrate too soon. Since these people could shoot down a plane, it indicated that there must be more of them. Once their main force arrived, the balance of power would be delicate.

So Luoer’s plan was to start searching for the crew of the transport plane as soon as these people were repelled and evacuate everyone from the crash site to at least escape these people’s pursuit.

Now it could be confirmed that these people were definitely related to the disappearance of the reconnaissance plane, and it was very possible that this was a trap. They shot down the reconnaissance plane, set a trap here, and waited for them to walk into it.

If that was the case, then the situation was severe. Because if these people could master the flight route and take-off time of the reconnaissance plane, it indicated that the airboat headquarters was likely infiltrated by their people.