Chapter 23: Hunt Time

Killing a few devils triggered a burst of gunfire.

Move to another spot, kill a few more devils, and again a burst of gunfire echoed.

Under Jiang Yu’s deliberate guidance,

soon!

“Click—click”

The long-awaited sound of empty gunfire finally rang out.

Unfortunately,

someone suddenly shouted loudly from the devils’ side.

The sporadic gunfire abruptly stopped!

“Damn! Too late!”

Wanting to quickly drain their bullets, Jiang Yu switched from small stones to several grenades and threw them into the group of devils.

Immediately!

“Boom boom boom…”

“Bang bang bang…”

With the grenade explosions, the gunfire once again became intense.

Jiang Yu glanced at the devils lying on the ground, moaning, then turned to hide in an alley and repeated her tactic.

Only this time she replaced the stones with grenades…

“How come it hasn’t stopped yet? Are you sure there’s only Jiang Yu fighting the devils in there?”

Lai Tianbao, hiding behind a small dirt mound, listened to the intermittent gunfire and distant explosions.

Peeking toward Dahu Village, he asked worriedly.

“Of course! Who else could it be?” Liang Mengwen calmly leaned against the mound with his eyes closed, resting.

Ha!

Although this time the devils were many times more than that small squad before,

based on what he had learned about Jiang Yu these days, she would never risk her life recklessly.

Though he still didn’t understand how she got that weird mysterious skill,

at heart, she was still a timid, cautious woman who loved life, feared death, was full of sympathy, only cared about her small piece of land, had no big picture view, and no real plan…

“But this commotion… it feels like Jiang Yu single-handedly made the noise of at least a whole regiment. Maybe we should go help…”

“No! If we go, it’s just suicide and a burden.”

Liang Mengwen was in the middle of his internal rant when Lai Tianbao, wanting to rush out, was startled and grabbed tightly by Liang Mengwen.

“Let me go! We’re strong and good shots. How are we a burden? I think you’re just scared to die…”

“So what if I’m scared? You’re strong, so what? Can you block a bullet?

No, so just shut up and listen…”

“I can’t block bullets, but I can’t just watch! Jiang Yu is our savior…”

“If nothing’s going on, don’t make trouble or act so self-righteous. She has enough troubles, but she can’t afford any dead weight. Don’t you think that’s why she didn’t bring us last time?”

Damn it. If she wants to die, she shouldn’t drag us down!

Liang Mengwen exhausted from persuasion, finally managed to calm Lai Tianbao.

Meanwhile, inside Dahu Village, after Jiang Yu’s rounds of 360-degree bombardments,

the devils’ gunfire gradually turned sparse, then nearly silent.

But being cautious, Jiang Yu didn’t come out to massacre them openly.

Instead, she switched to throwing grenades and shooting stones from hiding spots, continuing her hunt.

By now, she no longer picked and chose whether a devil was an officer or not.

Anyone wearing that uniform was fair game.

And those collaborators, she spared none.

“Gurgle gurgle…”

Suddenly!

Just after killing another round of devils, Jiang Yu was resting against a big tree when her stomach let out a loud rumble of hunger.

At the same moment, her invisibility unexpectedly wore off.

The devils around had already been cleared out.

Frightened, Jiang Yu quickly climbed the tree behind her, hiding in the shade.

After confirming no one had spotted her, she vomited once.

When the discomfort passed, she took out a bun from her spatial pocket and started eating in big bites.

Glancing at her pocket watch, it was already past one a.m.

Jiang Yu hadn’t expected time to pass so quickly!

It was her own fault — she was too excited from killing devils and didn’t notice how time flew by.

Wait!

Something was off!

Tonight, she had killed at least a hundred devils, not counting those blown up or injured by her grenades.

Why didn’t she feel overwhelmed by the kind of negative emotions like last time when she was near the frontline?

Instead, she was excited, lost track of time, and didn’t even feel tired?

Could it be because those who died were devils, so the more died, the more excited she got?

But last time, those who died were soldiers defending their homeland, which made her feel so much negative emotion because she couldn’t save them?

If that was true, then things were much simpler.

With that thought, Jiang Yu grabbed another bun from her pocket to eat and continued searching around for signs of devils.

Unfortunately!

The devils were clever and had already turned off all the lights in the village.

Moreover, the moon was just covered by a thick cloud, plunging the area into pitch-black darkness.

She couldn’t spot a single devil.

Forget it!

Better to rest for a bit during the invisibility skill cooldown.

Once she stopped moving, Jiang Yu immediately felt extremely exhausted and leaned against the tree trunk to close her eyes and rest.

But!

“Boom boom boom…”

“Bang bang bang…”

Just as she was about to fall asleep, a series of grenade explosions and the devils’ rapid gunfire erupted in the distance.

Jiang Yu immediately opened her eyes and looked toward the direction of the explosions.

Unfortunately, it was too dark to see clearly, but from the sounds, she guessed Zhao Changyun and his team had encountered devils.

“Good!”

Judging by the intensity of the gunfire, Jiang Yu was glad she had given most of the grenades remaining in her space to Zhao Changyun’s team.

“Commander! The commander has come to save us!”

“Keep your voice down!”

“Captain, should we send a telegraph to the rescue team?”

“No need! That squad over there is probably just a scouting team for the rear supply.”

“Ah? Then will they be able to rescue us?”

“Probably not.”

“What should we do? I don’t want to die here, maybe we should run…”

“Shut up! Run? Where could you run to? If you try, you’ll end up alienating both sides, with no way to survive…”

“But if we stay, we won’t live either!”

“Damn! If only we could hide in some peasants’ homes…”

“Don’t think about it, that would only get you killed faster! Let’s find some empty houses to hide…”

Want to run?

Too late!

The invisibility cooldown was over.

Jiang Yu, still up in the tree, had wanted to listen for more news.

But a few devils suddenly prepared to run away.

Jiang Yu quickly dealt with them.

Still, it wasn’t a total loss.

At least she knew Zhao Changyun’s group hadn’t encountered many devils.

She no longer hesitated.

She would just stay in the village and keep killing devils.

As for what the devils said about not hiding in villagers’ homes, Jiang Yu only realized it now.

Every household in the village kept their doors tightly shut, and the devils had indeed never forced their way inside.

It seemed the villagers all had weapons in hand, which made the devils wary.

“Good, good…”

If the villagers didn’t have this kind of deterrent, then with her reckless slaughter before, if the devils hid inside villagers’ homes,

the villagers would have suffered terribly.

Jiang Yu couldn’t help but feel chills down her spine.

Next time something like this happened, she must take this into account.

After all, not every village was so well armed, where every household had weapons…