Chapter 15

As Su Peng and Sun Shijia emerged from the dense forest, the four bandits were taken aback.

As Su Peng rushed out, he immediately targeted a bandit wielding a single saber. While charging forward, he suddenly raised his hand and shot a flying knife!

A white line streaked through the air. Su Peng's basic flying knife technique had already reached level 8, greatly improving both accuracy and power. The flying knife nailed the right side of the neck of the bandit wielding the single saber. Although it didn't instantly kill him, it dealt a critical hit, causing -77 critical damage!

Su Peng lunged forward, using the "Shoulder Chop" move from the Pig Slaughtering Knife Technique, aiming for the neck of the bandit with the single saber!

After using the move, the speed of Su Peng's steel knife increased by at least 40%, and the power was significantly enhanced. The bandit's neck, already hit by the flying knife, was still bleeding. However, in a last burst of energy, the bandit suddenly became fierce, disregarding his own injuries, and swung his single saber at Su Peng in a desperate attempt to kill him!

"Swish!" Su Peng felt a chill on his chest as his leather armor was slashed. The "Shoulder Chop" move he used was slightly off, hitting the right shoulder of the bandit with the single saber, causing -34 damage, but luckily triggering the passive skill "Bleed"!

The bandit's neck continued to bleed profusely, and the area where the flying knife hit also bled. Despite this, the bandit was incredibly fierce, stubbornly refusing to fall, and wildly swinging his single saber like a mad tiger, seemingly using some skill!

Su Peng jumped back, and the bleeding and flying knife damage continued to deal -19, -18, -20 sustained damage to the bandit. He wouldn't last much longer!

Su Peng calculated in his mind. His current health was 165, and he estimated the bandit's health was not much higher. Indeed, a few seconds later, the bandit had lost too much blood, fell to the ground, and was unable to move, left with only a breath of life.

Without hesitation, Su Peng stepped forward and delivered a final slash to the bandit's neck, causing a critical throat attack, and the bandit finally died.

"You have gained 17 points of combat experience!" Su Peng received the notification but didn't pay much attention, instead looking at the battlefield!

While Su Peng was fighting the bandit with the single saber, Sun Shijia and Fu Kang were not idle. After Sun Shijia and Su Peng emerged, he immediately used a long spear skill, "Wild Dance"!

Sun Shijia's long spear moved wildly, like a mad demon, performing an area-of-effect (AOE) attack in a fan-shaped area in front of him, hitting two bandits and the bandit leader.

"Damn! Why are you hitting me?" In the chaos, Fu Kang cursed, as Sun Shijia's AOE attack accidentally hit him. The game "Death Cycle" had no ally immunity, and he lost over 20 health points from the long spear!

However, Fu Kang's reaction was quick. As Su Peng and Sun Shijia emerged, he had already used a skill, a level 10 skill from blacksmithing training called "Thousand Hammers, Hundred Forges."

Fu Kang's iron hammer swung in a wide arc, left and right. Although the movement was slow, the momentum and centrifugal force made the hammer's impact quite impressive, almost knocking the weapon out of a bandit's hand.

Another bandit was grazed by his hammer, causing -53 damage, and the blunt impact reduced the bandit's attack speed and movement speed, with a sustained -8, -8 health loss.

"Brother Fu, put in more effort!" Sun Shijia shouted. His long spear skill, in addition to "Wild Dance," had a "Sweep" move. He coiled his spear behind him, using the lever principle, and suddenly swept it out!

"Bang!" However, his spear was blocked by a large weapon in front of him!

It was a spiked club!

The bandit leader had finally recovered.

"I'll kill you all!" The bandit leader roared, his shoulder hit by an arrow, making it difficult to wield the spiked club, but he still interrupted Sun Shijia's skill.

"Boom!" The bandit leader swung the spiked club directly at Sun Shijia, who was startled and rolled on the ground to dodge.

The skill, "Rolling Like a Donkey," reduced the attack area by 50% and increased the dodge chance by 30%!

At this moment, only Fu Kang was left in front of the bandit leader. The bandit leader swung the spiked club at Fu Kang, and at this time, the bandit with the long spear beside Fu Kang also used a skill, the same AOE skill "Wild Dance" as Sun Shijia!

"Damn!" Fu Kang cursed. His agility was poor, and he couldn't dodge the spiked club above his head. Suddenly, from the dense forest, a white-lined arrow shot out, hitting the bandit leader's back of the neck, causing -102 critical damage!

The bandit leader stumbled, and the spiked club missed Fu Kang. Fu Kang's heart, which had risen to his throat, finally settled, but he still grunted, as the bandit using "Wild Dance" stabbed him twice in the leg, causing over 40 health loss.

Another bandit with a single saber also rushed forward, his saber moving, seemingly using some skill.

"Damn, will this ever end?" Fu Kang shouted, swinging his iron hammer, which suddenly accelerated, and with surprising accuracy, hit the bandit with the single saber on the head!

"-198!" A critical hit appeared, and the bandit with the single saber, whose weapon was shorter than Fu Kang's, was directly smashed to pieces, falling like a broken sack!

Fu Kang's move seemed to be a skill, and after using it, he seemed to have consumed a lot of energy, standing still with his iron hammer.

"Whoosh!" Another arrow flew from the forest, hitting the bandit with the long spear in the neck. At this moment, Sun Shijia also stood up and thrust his spear into the bandit's heart, killing him!

Only the bandit leader was left.

"Kill!" The bandit leader roared, and this group of bandits seemed quite fierce. Despite being hit by two arrows in the neck and shoulder, the leader became even more fierce, swinging the spiked club at the group!

"Whoosh!" A white line flew out, and a flying knife nailed the bandit leader's eye, causing -167 critical damage!

"Ah!" The bandit leader, hit by the knife, staggered and shouted, "I won't give up!" before collapsing.

"You have gained 43 points of combat experience." Su Peng received the notification, and the bandit leader was dead!

The battle ended, and Fu Kang and Sun Shijia panted heavily. At this moment, Ji Ming slowly emerged from the dense forest.

"You said you could take out a bandit, but you didn't! You almost got me killed!" Fu Kang looked at Ji Ming, instantly becoming angry, and shouted at him!

"I didn't expect the bandit leader to be so tough," Ji Ming shrugged. "I was going to say, whoever kills the bandit gets the loot, but since the situation exceeded my expectations, I won't divide the loot."

"Damn!" Fu Kang cursed, but he couldn't do anything about Ji Ming and reluctantly accepted it.

Su Peng squatted down, retrieved the flying knife from the bandit's body, and searched the bandit leader and the bandit with the single saber, finding over eight taels of silver.

"Quickly rest and recover your health and stamina. There are four bandits at the wooden bridge!" Su Peng said to the group.

"I lost over 60 health and have a leg injury, temporarily reducing my agility," Fu Kang checked his attributes and told Su Peng.

Su Peng nodded. In this game, injuries were not as simple as drinking a red potion. Depending on the injury, there could be cuts, arrow wounds, stab wounds, and poison wounds, which required treatment at a clinic or using medical skills to recover, otherwise, attributes would drop.

"Here." Ji Ming rummaged through his backpack and threw a porcelain bottle to Fu Kang. Fu Kang caught it, opened it, and smelled it, discovering it was the golden wound medicine sold by Doctor Han in the village.

"Still has some conscience," Fu Kang grumbled. The golden wound medicine cost one and a half taels of silver per bottle, which was quite expensive. Although his injury didn't require a whole bottle, Fu Kang decided to keep the bottle as compensation.

"Hmph, a penny-pincher is a penny-pincher." Seeing that Fu Kang had no intention of returning the medicine, Ji Ming didn't ask for it back, but became even more contemptuous of Fu Kang.

"Quickly clean up. If we alert the bandits guarding the Green Dragon Mountain, it will be bad. Let's quickly cross the bridge." Su Peng, who had recovered some stamina, said to the group.

After the fight, Su Peng roughly assessed the bandits' strength. The bandits' health and base attributes seemed to be stronger than their own, and they even had skills, but the skills were simple and not very flexible. Even so, their group could defeat a single bandit in a one-on-one fight, but facing two was uncertain.

As for the bandit leader, it would probably take two or three of their group to defeat him, and they would still be injured. The relatively easy kill earlier was mainly due to Ji Ming's long-range sneak attack.

From this, it was wise to use tactics to divide the enemy.

At this moment, Fu Kang had also simply treated his wound. Sun Shijia regretfully looked at the weapons on the ground. Single sabers sold by the blacksmith were quite expensive, but the task today was the priority, and they couldn't take the weapons with them.

The four quickly arrived at the wooden bridge. The four bandits at the bridge, although hearing the fighting sounds, were too far away and had the duty to guard the bridge, so they were hesitant about whether to go. Su Peng and the others attacked, and Ji Ming's arrows were extremely accurate, taking down one bandit before they even made contact. Su Peng and the others, with their skills on cooldown, fought and relatively easily killed the four bandits guarding the bridge!

They searched the four bandits and found about three taels of silver. Su Peng and the others walked towards the wooden bridge.

"Wait for me... My leg is still injured, reducing my agility, and I can't keep up with you!" Fu Kang, running last, was already carrying a heavy load, and with his reduced agility, he became a burden.

"You're too slow. Waiting for you will slow us down. Stay here, and we'll pick you up on our way back," Ji Ming, who had already crossed the bridge, looked back at Fu Kang and said.

"Don't think of abandoning me. If I don't complete the task, it will count against you!" Fu Kang gritted his teeth and glared at Ji Ming. Ji Ming coldly snorted, turned, and continued walking, ignoring him. Fu Kang clenched his teeth, crossed the bridge and the tower, and chased after Su Peng and the others, leaving only his back to the tower.

"Snap!"

Just as Su Peng and the others were about to quickly move forward, suddenly, a bowstring vibrated!

"Bang!" Without even a scream, Su Peng and the others only heard the sound of something breaking in a body!

Su Peng and the others suddenly turned around and saw Fu Kang, mouth wide open, slowly turning his head to look behind him...

On the tower of the wooden bridge they had just crossed, a bandit archer appeared, still in the position of having just fired an arrow...

And what Su Peng and the others saw was that the back of Fu Kang's head, a feathered arrow, half of it, had already penetrated Fu Kang's brain...

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