Chapter 302 - 207: The Seniors’ Counterattack, Part 2

Chapter 302: Chapter 207: The Seniors’ Counterattack, Part 2

He steadily aimed Soul-Devourer, casually picking a few orange-red gems on the periphery to shoot at.

Speaking of which, he’d seen the prodigies from both the freshman and sophomore years by now, but he hadn’t seen a single golden gem appear.

"BOOM! BOOM!"

The roar of Soul-Devourer echoed as a massive shockwave blasted away the surrounding earth and rock, filling the air with smoke.

Visibility was good at this time. Even without the perception of a support Martial Artist, a Martial Artist could spot anomalies relying on their enhanced eyesight alone.

The members of the Sleep Bureau were already on high alert thanks to Qingshan’s warning. Yu Fei’s surprise attack only hit three people. Before he could fire again, a bone-chilling cold washed over him, a feedback from [Dongyou] warning him of the encroaching threat.

After firing, Yu Fei grabbed Soul-Devourer, turned, and ran, keeping his Illusory Sword Intent active.

He had only taken two steps when the ground behind him collapsed, and countless super-powered bullets tailed him in hot pursuit.

Behind Qingshan, a tall woman formed hand seals, sensing Yu Fei’s position. In the sight of the Sleep Bureau members, she continuously marked out his possible escape routes. No matter how he ran, the bullets stayed right on his tail!

Qingshan, holding a heavy super-powered firearm, also joined in the shooting. After firing three shots, he couldn’t help but complain:

"Ah Yun, mark him more accurately! This is useless!"

Yun Jing shot him an annoyed glare. "If you’re so good, you do it!"

Qingshan shut his mouth and said no more, focusing on shooting at the constantly shifting trajectory in his field of view.

Yun Jing was having a hard time pinpointing Yu Fei’s location. He never revealed himself, so she could only infer his possible position from changes in the environment. Some bullets, by chance, had trajectories that overlapped with him, which an ordinary person would have no way of dodging.

In a hail of gunfire, there’s always a chance of being hit. But the target seemed able to perceive the bullets’ trajectories and dodge them in advance. The only downside for him was that this constantly left new traces in the environment, which was how Yun Jing was able to direct her team to stay on his tail.

She couldn’t help but be reminded of Feng Hua, who had a similar ability. With a longsword in hand, he feared no sniper-type Martial Artist.

After a short while, seeing they still hadn’t caught their target, Qingshan immediately gave an order:

"Recon team, move up and lock him down! Everyone else, reduce your rate of fire and focus on infusing the bullets with energy. Assault team, be ready to move at a moment’s notice!"

Yu Fei activated the Shrinking Earth Stepping Technique, supplemented by the Celestial Star Travel Body, and fled for his life. Without the cover of night, it was difficult to completely conceal his tracks, and the difficulty of the fight more than doubled.

This was the wilderness. The footprints he left while running, the grass he disturbed, the dust he kicked up—all of these were clues for Yun Jing to find him.

’The movement trajectory of the Shrinking Earth Stepping Technique is too linear and easily locked onto. I have to use the Celestial Star Travel Body to change direction!’

While fleeing, he glanced back and saw that people were slowly catching up!

’Damn it!’

’This isn’t working. If this chase continues, they’ll probably catch me!’

Spotting a rocky flat ahead, Yu Fei had an idea. As he passed through, he quickly deployed a decoy there, while leaving three afterimages of himself along the path to serve as markers.

Then he abruptly fled to one side. After making a slight disturbance, he continuously swapped positions with the decoy, placing himself on a large bluestone where he wouldn’t leave a trace. He kept the farthest decoy active and recalled the others.

The now-exposed decoy, no longer under his control, was shredded by a hail of bullets. Yun Jing’s brow suddenly furrowed, and her guidance vanished from everyone’s vision.

"Where’d he go?"

Qingshan asked, confused.

A smile touched the corners of Yun Jing’s lips. "Interesting!"

Qingshan said angrily, "Interesting my ass! Hurry up and find where that little bastard ran off to. He took out three of my brothers. You think we can just let him go?"

Yun Jing snorted. "How dull."

Qingshan was so angry his teeth hurt. "Hey... you!"

Yun Jing ignored him, instead rushing to the spot where Yu Fei had vanished and sensing carefully.

She was certain Yu Fei was here, but where exactly?

As the Sleep Bureau’s chief support Martial Artist, her perceptive abilities weren’t known for their range, but for their precision, which was the best among all the sophomores.

This was the first time she had encountered such an interesting Martial Artist, one who could disappear right under her nose.

"Perception team, assemble! We’ll do a joint scan!"

The search yielded no results, so she decided to rely on the strength of the group.

Hiding on the giant rock, Yu Fei’s aura was deep and hidden. His Illusory Sword Intent concealed his form, but his attention was locked on the long-legged woman. He carefully watched her micro-expressions, ready to take her out the instant she discovered him and then make a break for it.

"How strange!"

Yun Jing’s brow was tightly furrowed.

Qingshan asked anxiously, "What’s wrong? Did you find him?"

Yun Jing shook her head. "He’s within one kilometer, but I can’t lock onto his specific location!"

Qingshan irritably lit a cigarette. "I told you to train properly, but you never listen. Every day it’s either makeup or binge-watching dramas... See? When it matters most, you’re completely unreliable!"

Listening to Qingshan’s nagging, Yun Jing had the urge to kick him.

The Sleep Bureau’s chief from their class was extremely laid-back. He had no intention of forming his own legion after graduation and had long since planned to find a good backer to "sell" himself to and then just coast.

Because of this, there was no pressure when interacting with him on a daily basis; he was very easygoing. Strangely, this attitude actually made everyone more comfortable.

But Yun Jing wasn’t about to put up with it. ’So what if he’s the class president?’ Seeing Qingshan still rambling on, she lifted her leg and kicked him.

"Miss Yun, take out the chief! We brothers will support your rise to power!"

Qingshan was delighted to hear this. "Great, great! Brothers, you’re my witnesses. I’ll transfer the class presidency to Yun Jing right now!"

Yun Jing turned and walked away. "Whoever wants to be class president can have it. Not even a dog would want that job!"

"Hey..."

Qingshan took a long drag from his cigarette. "Brothers, search carefully! The target is somewhere in this area!"

Having bought himself a moment of respite, Yu Fei silently regulated his breathing on the giant rock. He would wait until high noon to break out. At that time, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yang Qi would be at its peak, and his combat power would increase by at least ten percent.

"Our little underclassman’s perception range is probably ten kilometers. It’s strong; our recon specialists can’t hide from him."

"He most likely has some kind of danger sense, allowing him to dodge bullets!"

"Isn’t that similar to Feng Hua?"

"Yes!"

...

While Yu Fei was regulating his breathing, Zhang Hu had already met up with Qingshan’s subordinates. However, he was very cautious and didn’t get too close, staying just outside Yu Fei’s range of sight. He communicated intelligence and tactics with Qingshan through the Heart and Mind Network Platform jointly established by Gao Nianzhen and Yun Jing.

Yu Fei was completely unaware of this. The reason support Martial Artists were so precious was that in many border realms, the physical laws of their home planet were completely ineffective. Battlefield command relied entirely on the ultra-long-range Heart and Mind Network Platform jointly established by support Martial Artists to aggregate information and issue commands.

They were like living, breathing base stations and communication devices, responsible for linking all Martial Artists to a single command channel.

These secret pieces of martial arts knowledge were completely unknown to freshmen like Yu Fei.

In their general education courses, they had only learned that support Martial Artists could build a Heart and Mind Network, but its deeper functions were kept secret.

In ancient martial arts cultivation, the Heart and Mind Network was a Divine Power that only a very small number of people could cultivate. But in modern martial arts theoretical research, its methods had been popularized. Although the threshold was still high, it could now be widely applied in actual combat.

The Heart and Mind Network, as the core expression of perception-based Secret Techniques, required a Martial Artist to have opened the ’divine abnormalities of the five senses’ during the second realm of cultivation. After further strengthening in the Inner Qi Realm, they would use spiritual Secret Techniques as a core to form a complex Situation Awareness Secret Skill.

Due to individual differences in the ’divine abnormalities of the five senses,’ each person’s perception range and depth varied. This made support Martial Artists on the battlefield extremely precious. In their training, they needed to master more secret techniques and cultivation methods and continuously cultivate their Spiritual Power, which gave them a higher probability of advancing to Grandmaster and Martial Saint.

Yu Fei met the conditions to cultivate perception-based Secret Techniques, but due to a lack of time, he had not yet begun and didn’t have a deep understanding of them.

As he remained completely oblivious, the upperclassmen were already secretly planning an operation to encircle and destroy him.

After a year of growth, the sophomores hadn’t been wasting their time either. Their tactical expertise was far superior to that of Yu Fei’s cohort; they just had the bad luck of running into a freak like him.

A giant net was quietly closing in, but Yu Fei remained completely unaware.