“Who are these people?” After squatting in the bushes and observing for a while, the bearded man lowered his voice and asked Brother Jue.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Feng Bujue replied in a matter-of-fact tone, “Soldiers.”

“Of course I can see that this is an army camp, but I want to know who these guys are working for…” the bearded man continued.

“Definitely not for Pita,” Feng Bujue replied. “If we’re talking about allegiances… this troop itself represents a force.”

“How do you know?” the bearded man asked again.

“It’s obvious.” At this moment, Isaac interjected, “Did you see their military emblem and flag?”

“Ah…” the bearded man said, “I saw them.” After saying that, he thoughtfully muttered, “I feel like… they look familiar. I think I’ve seen them somewhere before.”

“Have you played *Contra*?” Isaac promptly reminded him.

“Oh!” The bearded man exclaimed, suddenly understanding, and his voice rose.

The sudden shout startled the lightning-headed man next to him, who raised his hand… and slapped it over the bearded man’s mouth.

“Trying to die!” In the next second, the lightning-headed man lowered his voice and sternly said to the bearded man, “We don’t even have weapons right now. If we expose our location, we’ll become sitting ducks!”

“Mmm…” The bearded man nodded and squeezed out a sentence from between the other’s fingers, “Sorry… I wasn’t paying attention.”

Two seconds later, the lightning-headed man released his hand, and then casually wiped the saliva that had gotten on his palm onto the bearded man’s clothes.

“Mr. Feng, what do you think of this situation…?” Then, the lightning-headed man looked at Brother Jue and asked.

Feng Bujue didn’t directly answer the question, but asked in return, “Have you all played *Contra*?”

“Of course,” Isaac replied. “Almost everyone in the rebel army has played that game.”

“Mm.” Brother Jue nodded and said, “Do you know the plot of the game?”

“Uh…”

This question stumped all three of them: Isaac, the bearded man, and the lightning-headed man.

Indeed, everyone had played *Contra*, but you might not find one person in a hundred who knew the plot.

“If you’re talking about the plot…” In the end, the bearded man, after some thought, replied, “It’s probably about Schwarzenegger and Stallone teaming up to mow down an entire regiment of troops, and then also wiping out an alien nest?”

“You’re quite good at summarizing,” Feng Bujue smiled. “In a way, you’ve perfectly summarized the plots of the two *Contra* games on the FC.”

“Heh… thanks for the compliment.” The bearded man also smiled. The simple-minded uncle completely failed to detect the sarcasm in Brother Jue’s words.

“Then, let me give you the un-summarized version…” In the next second, Feng Bujue straightened his expression and explained, “First of all, the background story of *Contra* is indeed based on *Aliens*… and the prototypes of the two protagonists are indeed the Governator and Stallone.”

“Oh…” Isaac and the lightning-headed man reacted as if to say—the bearded man actually guessed right?

“As a milestone and textbook of horizontal shooting games, *Contra* can be called a groundbreaking work that has had a profound impact on all subsequent games of the same type.” Brother Jue’s FC mini-lecture continued, “It’s just that most people… have overlooked the plot of this game.”

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[Note: The plot explained by Feng Bujue below is the Japanese version of the story given by Konami. As for the American and European versions of *Contra*… since both have made different degrees of modifications to the plot, characters, and settings, I won’t go into detail here.

However, I think I can still complain about the “adaptation” itself…

Basically, European and American publishers adapt Japanese games or anime originals for two reasons: one is harmony issues, and the other is commercial purposes.

I have to say, many “adapted” works over the years have truly allowed us to see the countless European and American publishers' hard power of being Low through the earth’s core, stupid through the sky, and scum without end.

Under the unremitting efforts of these self-righteous idiots, not only have the titles of many classic series become very confusing, but what’s even more painful is… that the core intentions of many works have been distorted or even subverted.

To give a more famous example—in the American version of the famous *Dragon Ball* anime, Goku’s line to Frieza after transforming into a Super Saiyan was translated as “I am the hope of the universe, the protector of the innocent, I am the truth, the ally of light…” That’s right, you read that right… they changed the Saiyans to be even more noble than American comic superheroes.

Let’s talk about another classic tragedy—the *Digimon: The Movie* released by Fox; back then, they forcibly cut and combined three *Digimon* theatrical versions with unrelated plots and settings, and even different art styles, forcibly added non-existent connections with subtitles, forcibly inserted a four-minute short film performed by characters from *Angela Anaconda* (which was also owned by Fox at the time) at the beginning of the movie, and then forcibly added a theme song written by some idiot who wrote advertising songs, and finally successfully created a pile of copper-smelling and坑爹-feeling holy sh*t.

If you want to say what contributions these publishers who ruined copyrights have made to the world over the years, it may be that they have indirectly promoted the development of the profession of “supervisor.”]

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Brother Jue paused and then said, “Of course, saying ‘plot’ may not be accurate, because the main content of this game is indeed shooting…”

“Let’s use the term ‘background story’…

“Generally speaking… on September 12, 2631 in the *Contra* world, a meteorite fell on the Galuga Archipelago (a fictional archipelago) near New Zealand. Two years later, in December 2633, the Federal Army Headquarters received intelligence; the intelligence showed that an armed group called ‘Red Falcon’ had taken control of the Galuga Archipelago region and built many bases there, attempting to launch a war of aggression using aliens.

“So, the Special Defense Force ‘Contra’ sent two members to sabotage Red Falcon’s plan.

“As for the results of this secret operation… we all know it; just like the bearded man said… two strong men jumped out of a helicopter, shot all the living enemies and aliens within a few hundred kilometers, and then went back on a helicopter.”

At this point, Feng Bujue pointed to the camp dozens of meters away and then said, “At this moment, this troop in front of us… judging from their red eagle-shaped military flag and emblem, as well as the soldiers’ attire, it is definitely Red Falcon without a doubt.”

“Eh? Wait a minute.” The bearded man heard this and asked suspiciously, “Isn’t this the dimension where Pita’s ‘conscious existence’ is located? How did it become the *Contra* world again?”

“You’re mistaken. This is not the *Contra* world…” Feng Bujue replied, “It’s just that the data fragments related to the *Contra* world have been materialized here.”

“Why is this happening?” Isaac asked, puzzled, “Doesn’t Pita resolutely deny the existence of electronic games? Then how can there be these things in its consciousness dimension?”

“It’s simple… because the Pita on this timeline also possesses all the memory data of the Pita on another timeline,” Feng Bujue replied, “This data is like the memories of the Knowledge Leapers, it is related information that spans two timelines… this is something that Pita cannot get rid of and is extremely difficult to deal with; therefore, the location of this part of the data is also the ‘loophole’ in Pita’s firewall.”

Brother Jue said, and looked around at the three people around him: “And we… as the key chess pieces used by a certain higher will to correct the space-time paradox, are naturally directly sent to this part of the data layer.”

“Mm…” The lightning-headed man heard this and immediately said, “Sorry, I basically didn’t understand… Mr. Feng, please just tell us what to do next.”

“Heh…” Feng Bujue smiled, “Okay~” He turned his head and looked to the other side, “Do you see that tent in the three o’clock direction? If I’m not mistaken (he had already confirmed through the data perspective… that’s right), that’s where the spare equipment is stored in this camp… We’ll sneak in later, get some equipment, and then shoot all the Red Falcon troops here.”

“Hehe, I like this tactic.” When the bearded man heard that he could shoot others, he immediately got excited.

Isaac and the lightning-headed man obviously had no objections. Now that things had come to this point, they definitely had to follow the savior’s actions.

So, under the leadership of Feng Bujue… they quietly and cautiously approached the tent.

Soon, they came to the forest only ten meters away from the tent; at this position, it was indeed impossible to get any closer… otherwise, they would definitely be seen by the guards.

“Okay, this position is fine, you guys wait here.” Feng Bujue whispered after explaining this, and turned around to leave.

“Hey! Where are you going?” the bearded man asked in a hurried tone, quietly.

“I’m going around to the other side of the camp to attract their attention. Once the guards leave, you can rush into the tent from your current position and get the equipment,” Feng Bujue replied.

“Then what about you?” Isaac asked.

“Don’t worry.” Brother Jue waved his hand, “I have plenty of ways.”

These words were very convincing coming from his mouth, so the other three didn’t stop him.

In this way, Feng Bujue left alone.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Isaac and the others held their breath and waited in place, feeling like they were sitting on pins and needles.

Fortunately… two minutes later, the stalemate was broken.

They heard a “boom,” and a thick smoke rose from the other end of the camp.

Immediately afterward, shouts of “Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Requesting support!” sounded one after another in the camp.

For a time, all the Red Falcon soldiers ran towards the direction of the explosion, and the guards in front of the equipment tent were really lured away.

This was the moment Isaac and the others were waiting for. After quickly exchanging glances, the three rushed out of the forest and broke into the tent…

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At the same time, on Feng Bujue’s side…

“Ha! Trying to fight me?” Brother Jue was having a lot of fun at the moment.

While running and jumping around in the forest, dodging left and right, he held a water gun (i.e., the [Stellar Cooling Cannon]) and went Biu~Biu~Biu~ at the approaching pursuers.

Just now, Feng Bujue had sneaked into the forest on this side of the camp alone, and then took out two grenades from the [Endless Grenade Casing]; one was made into a tripwire mine, hidden on the route between himself and the enemy; the other, he threw directly into the Red Falcon camp’s headquarters…

Here, it must be explained that this headquarters tent was the most heavily guarded place in the entire camp; normally, it would be impossible for anyone to approach within throwing distance of a grenade silently.

However… Feng Bujue relied on his arm strength far exceeding normal humans and his precise calculation ability, and he actually threw the grenade from eighty meters away to the top of the tent, making it impossible for the other party to defend against.

The commander of this camp was really unlucky… he was sitting in the headquarters tent, minding his own business, when suddenly he was stabbed into a sieve by shrapnel that pierced through the top of the tent.

With the headquarters blown up, the camp became a mess; Feng Bujue took advantage of the situation and took out the [Deceptive Pocket Watch], using its amplification and voice-changing effects, combined with a little bit of his ventriloquism, to create waves of shouts of “enemy attack” and “request for support” in the camp.

In this way, all the soldiers in the entire camp were attracted to him—they thought they were being attacked by a large force, but who would have thought… that the enemy was actually just Feng Bujue alone.

The first team of Red Falcon soldiers who were led into the forest stepped on the tripwire mine without accident, and the explosion sent five or six of them flying.

The troops that followed saw this scene and naturally felt increased pressure… after all, they didn’t know that there was only one mine anyway, and thought that there were many traps hidden in the forest; with this concern, their speed naturally slowed down.

With this slowdown, Feng Bujue’s room to maneuver increased greatly, he took out the water gun and slingshot, relying on his senses and athletic ability that completely beat the enemy, fought in various guerrilla tactics in the forest, and began to collect kills very efficiently while remaining unscathed.

“Don’t chase! There’s only one enemy! This is a diversion!” After six or seven minutes, a mid-level commander in the Red Falcon’s team finally had a flash of intelligence and shouted this.

Under his command, the soldiers who had chased into the forest also turned around and began to retreat back to the camp.

“Hmph…” Feng Bujue saw this, snorted, and muttered, “It took them seven minutes to realize… too late, right?”

While he was muttering, he heard…

Tutututututututu…

The sound of several waves of heavy weapons firing in bursts came from the camp, along with some sporadic light weapon fire.

“Looks like… they’re fighting over there too.” Feng Bujue knew at once that this was the sound of Isaac and the others engaging the Red Falcon troops after they were armed.

“Phew…” Brother Jue breathed a sigh and turned around, “Well… it’s about time for me to turn around and kill my way back, too.”