The Death List Novel - Chapter 267

Chapter 267 Lost Graph
Qin Lun’s pupils constricted as he looked at the thirty-odd people flying towards him like meteors. He knew that if these people were able to enter a hegemonic battle, they would probably have one or two moves, but he still hadn’t expected their explosive power to be so strong.

With the speed of the Gale Steps, he had originally been close to breaking out of the encirclement, but now that these people had erupted, he had actually faintly fallen into the encirclement again.

Originally, in his plan, Black Rat and Silver Sail were used as bait to bring him out of the encirclement. After he was exposed, only a small number of apostles were expected to catch up, so that he could leave behind the blueprints and escape from the encirclement.

However, he had clearly underestimated the attraction of the half-plane coordinates to the apostles. He had also never expected that Blackrat and Silversail would be so decisive and would actually discard all the dark gold materials removed from the apostle’s mecha as a basis for trusting the other apostles.

This way, Qin Lun’s original plan would no longer work. If he rushed out, even if he could break through the encirclement, a group of life-chasing ghosts would definitely hang behind his butt.

Faced with four or five beginner apostles, he could pretend to be defeated and leave the treasure map to flee for his life. However, facing more than 30 apostles, he might be besieged and killed in one go, so he did not dare to take the risk of stopping. However, the duration of the Gale Steps was only about ten seconds. It was not a problem to temporarily break through the encirclement. It was definitely not enough for a long-distance attack to escape.

Qin Lun sighed. Since he couldn’t escape, he could only return to the fortress. Thinking of this, he did not hesitate any longer. A light flashed in front of him, and a huge pentagram crystal mirror suddenly appeared.

Qin Lun stepped on the crystal mirror with one foot. Like a parkour, he flipped upside down in the air, removing the power to charge forward. His figure brought a sliver of afterimages and flew towards the fortress’s opening again.

At this moment, Qin Lun’s entire body trembled, and he could only feel a creepy throbbing in his heart.

“It’s a sniper!”

Qin Lun had no experience of being targeted by snipers, but he had possessed Gerthard, a top German sniper, and absorbed the memories of this storyline character.

Gerhardt’s memories were generally the most memorable of his experiences, and the confrontation with the Allied snipers was one of them. This precious experience had saved Qin Lun’s life at this moment. The alarm in the young man’s mind rang loudly. He instinctively lowered his head and leapt towards the pile of ruins closest to him.

“Bang!” In the eyes of all the apostles present, a spiral electric light tore open the air like a drill, leaving behind a dazzling spot in everyone’s retina that could not be retreated for a long time.

At this moment, Qin Lun’s leaping body seemed to have stopped in the air. However, although the early awakening had saved his life, it had not been able to completely dodge the sniper bomb.

This sniper bullet seemed to be a type of dummy bullet. Originally, it was aimed at Qin Lun’s head, but now, it hit the large canvas bag behind him. Not only did the bullet completely tear apart a corner of the canvas bag, but a few shrapnel holes were left on his left shoulder.

Qin Lun’s body seemed to have been struck by a siege hammer as he spun into a pile of ruins in the air. The large canvas bag that was originally behind him was directly torn apart. Military dry rations and water bags flew in the air like flowers scattered everywhere.

However, the corner of Qin Lun’s mouth revealed a smile as he rolled in the air. The reason for that was because the “Treasure Map” he had hidden in the large canvas bag had finally appeared. The blueprints that he had tampered with had now turned into twenty to thirty pieces, floating in the air like butterflies.

Blood arrows flew from Qin Lun’s severely injured left shoulder, and his eyes flickered. He now faced another crucial choice. The Treasure Map had already appeared, but the surrounding apostles did not understand its value for the time being. He had to get them to pay attention before they could see the apostle mecha.

However, due to the existence of the sniper, he did not know if he could accomplish all of this within the cooldown time of the sniper rifle.

Countless schemes flashed through Qin Lun’s mind like lightning. At this moment, it was only when he personally faced a top sniper that he truly understood what those enemies felt when facing him in the past. This was really like biting a hedgehog, pricking its mouth everywhere.

In an instant, Qin Lun’s eyes fell into a daze. The three hands were slowly beating in the depths of his clockwise pupils. However, this time, the pointer was not pulsing clockwise, but counterclockwise.

In Qin Lun’s eyes, his body, which was about to plunge into the ruins, began to fly backwards. His bleeding shoulder withdrew from the bullet and began to heal. The scene of the sniper rifle firing just now was like a movie in which the back button was pressed. It was completely displayed in reverse once again.

Countless data streaked down the death list like a waterfall, forming a reversed battle model. Although there were still many unknown items in this combat model, the firing angle and the initial velocity of the projectile were already listed in the combat model.

‘”With the power and initial speed of that shot, if it was an [A] class skill or above, then this sniper would no longer be able to fire. If it wasn’t for [A] class skills, it shouldn’t be able to rotate and change directions in such a short range.” Qin Lun blinked his eyes and the clock slowly faded. “With the firing angle and initial speed … I can seal it, I can seal his second shot!”

From the moment the sniper shot rang out to the moment Qin Lun was shot and the treasure map appeared in the world, he had already figured out the next steps. Just as Qin Lun was about to land on the ground, his intact right hand pressed down on the ground and his elbow slightly bent, removing the impact. Then, his waist and abdomen bounced back, changing his body posture. At the same time, a pentagram mirror appeared beneath his feet.

Qin Lun bent his knees and stepped on the Pentagram Crystal Mirror. Under the crisp sound of the crystal mirror cracking, he shot into the air like an arrow. He waved his arms and grabbed the fragments of the treasure map that looked like flowers scattering in the sky.

In fact, his body started to fall after he caught a few pieces. Qin Lun swiftly swept his gaze across the entire arena at the critical moment of his whereabouts. At this moment, the nearest apostle was only ten meters away from him, and he was actually the swordsman who was leading the chase.

The swordsman had reacted the fastest in the game at dawn today and was at the forefront, but he was slightly behind because he was chasing after the two thieves. However, he was now the first to arrive, and he was once again the vanguard in pursuit of Qin Lun. It could be seen that his speed attribute was extremely high, and his strength was probably one of the best amongst the surrounding group of apostles.

“Almost there!” Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly and rolled on the ground. When he stood up again, he had an additional magic scroll in his hand. With a shake, a wave of Laws flashed in front of him.

“I want to run!” The swordsman’s eyes lit up and his sword trembled. A sword light the thickness of a rolling barrel drove his body to fly up. In an instant, it crossed a short distance of more than ten meters between the two of them and appeared in front of Qin Lun.

“You’re too late!” Qin Lun’s eyes flashed with ridicule. In the next moment, a two-foot thick earth wall separated the two of them.

“Bang!” Just as the earth wall completely covered Qin Lun’s figure, another heart-shaking gunshot rang out from afar. Two deep craters instantly exploded in the earth wall. The bigger one was the swordsman’s sword light, while the smaller one was the high explosive bullet from the sniper rifle.

The Earth Defense Scroll that Qin Lun tore apart perfectly blocked two deadly attacks. As he was about to cool down and take a deep breath, the swordsmen and snipers who posed the greatest threat to him among the apostles could only watch helplessly as his figure flickered and he sank back into the hole in the fortress.

Seeing Qin Lun hide back in the fortress, the pursuing apostles slowed down and kept their distance from each other. They didn’t immediately chase after the fortress, and they understood the logic of not chasing after the paupers. Moreover, they could only flee into the castle for a while and would be found sooner or later.

At this moment, their attention shifted to the blueprint fragments that were still floating in the air. Everyone’s gazes were different. Everyone saw what happened just now. The escaping apostle was still unwilling to give up these blueprint fragments despite the sniper’s killing intent. Obviously, it wouldn’t be without reason.

In other words, the fragments of these drawings contain information about the coordinates of the half plane. Thinking of this, the eyes of the apostles in the arena revealed a trace of fervor. However, they did not immediately snatch the fragments. Instead, they looked at the expressions of the others with slight vigilance.

“Humph!” A cold light flashed in the swordsman’s eyes as he raised his right hand. A sword light gently swirled around him and swept down a blueprint fragment in the air. As soon as the fragment reached his hand, he frowned. This seemed to be a diagram of a certain mechanical item. Because it was so incomplete, he couldn’t see anything special about it.

The swordsman’s gaze flickered slightly, and he immediately took out another fragment. The surrounding apostles finally couldn’t hold back any longer and each of them soared into the air to snatch up the remaining fragments of the blueprint.

Since the apostles’ abilities were roughly at the same level, these twenty to thirty fragments were more evenly distributed, one to two for each person. However, because the design was rather incomplete, no one could see the mysteries of the design for the time being.

However, most of them immediately turned back to look at the black rats and silver sails standing at the edge of the crowd. At this time, the apostles did not attack them anymore. The two of them even threw out dark gold materials, and what was most precious to them was intelligence.

“It’s the design of that mech!” There was also a fragment in Yin Fan’s hand. Unlike the other apostles, he and Black Rat were deeply impressed by the apostle mecha. Even if there was only a part of the side of the part in his hand, he immediately contacted the apostle mecha.

“You can see it after you enter the fortress. Our brothers don’t intend to entangle themselves with this matter anymore. See you later!” Black Rat and Silver Sail glanced at each other. The two thieves held onto the blueprint fragments in their hands tightly and slowly retreated without a smile. Soon, their bodies disappeared from their original positions.

“There’s a secret hidden in these blueprint fragments! Long Feng, what should we do?” An apostle of one-eyed dragons appeared beside the swordsman at some unknown time. The apostle had a huge sniper rifle on his shoulder, and his one-eyed eyes flickered with a bit of colorful light.

“It’s him, it’s that sniper. He and the swordsman are a pair!” The surrounding apostles began to discuss, their voices filled with intense fear. Just a swordsman or a sniper wasn’t too scared, but the combination of these two people was enough to make them feel awe-inspiring.

“The two thieves said that this is a blueprint for a mech. No matter what we do, we should take a look at that mech first!” The swordsman called Long Feng put the blueprint fragment into his arms, and a cold smile appeared on his face.