"Haha, Old Song, it looks like all your men are wiped out this time."
Watching Xiling, Beiling, and Dongchuan’s three small teams fire wildly, and hearing the screams from within the smoke, Long Xiaotian let out a sigh of relief, looking at Song Sha with a playful smile and mocking, "You don't actually believe a kid's words, do you? Thinking your Nanling can take on fifteen?"
"Hahaha, Director Song, there's no shame in admitting defeat. After all, we're all colleagues, we won't laugh at you," Zhao Shentong of the Dongchuan Security Department chimed in with a laugh.
Lin Jingmeng had also wanted to mock him, but remembering he would need Song Shadao’s help later, he immediately swallowed his taunts. However, although Lin Jingmeng didn't verbally mock him, his face was full of disdain. He had witnessed Shen Lang's prowess, but that didn't mean he believed Shen Lang's words. A single person fighting fifteen was too exaggerated, simply impossible.
"Ah—"
"Ah—"
"Ah—"
While Lin Jingmeng and the others wore expressions of mockery, screams suddenly erupted from within the smoke.
"Bang—"
The onlookers couldn't see what was happening inside the smoke, leaving them bewildered. Two minutes later, two participating members of the Xiling small team were roughly thrown out of the smoke. Like the Dongling Security Department members, each of them had a bloody line across their throats, signifying they had been eliminated. According to the rules, those eliminated had to close their eyes as if they were dead until the competition ended. Thus, the spectators couldn't know what they had experienced inside the smoke. Then came a third, fourth, and fifth person. In less than two minutes, all ten members of the Xiling Security Department team were thrown out, each with a single fatal cut across their throats.
"What?" Seeing that the Xiling Security Department members were eliminated within two minutes, just like the Dongling Security Department, Lin Jingmeng's face turned grim. "This is impossible. What happened?" However, no one could answer, as everyone was equally confused. At this moment, more movement came from within the smoke. Following a flurry of combat sounds, all ten members of the Beiling Security Department team were thrown out in the same manner, each with an identical bloody line across their throats.
"What? The Beiling Security Department team is also wiped out?" Seeing the "corpses" on the screen, everyone, including Thor, was shocked. What had happened inside that smoke? How could two participating teams be eliminated in less than six minutes? These participating teams were composed of seasoned veterans, and it was inconceivable for anyone to be eliminated so quickly. While everyone was in shock, the Dongchuan small team members were also thrown out one by one, all with a bloody line across their throats.
"This..." Seeing the three teams eliminated so easily, everyone's eyes widened. At this moment, the smoke gradually dispersed, but the Nanling Security Department team had vanished from the scene. Not a single person was visible.
"What's going on?" Seeing no one present, Lin Jingmeng exclaimed in shock. They had been watching the smoke closely and hadn't seen Qin Long and the others emerge. Now that Qin Long and his team were gone, how could Lin Jingmeng and the others not be shocked?
"When did they leave? Why didn't we notice anything?" Zhao Shentong echoed, equally stunned. As Zhao Shentong finished speaking, the seven other teams from Xichuan, Nanchuan, Beichuan, Dongdu, Xidu, Nandou, and Beidou arrived at the scene. Seeing the already eliminated Dongling, Xiling, Beiling, and Dongchuan teams, the seven arriving teams were dumbfounded.
"Did the Nanling team do this?" Previously, the Nanling Security Department's boast of taking on fifteen had been treated as a joke by all the directors and participating teams. But now, seeing four teams eliminated, others were no longer nonchalant. In a mere eight minutes, the Nanling Security Department had defeated four participating teams. Such strength instilled terror in all the other participating teams.
"Look, they didn't bring their backpacks," the captain of the Xichuan Security Department team exclaimed, pointing out the backpacks left behind by Qin Long's team. He recognized them as belonging to Qin Long's team because each team had its own logo, and the Nanling Security Department's logo was a falcon, instantly recognizable.
"Why would they discard their backpacks? You know, abandoning your backpack incurs a penalty," the Xichuan Security Department captain said, puzzled. "What are they trying to do?" He didn't have the answer, and neither did anyone else. Thus, the captains of the seven teams stepped forward, each picking up a backpack to examine. They wanted to know what was inside and what Qin Long's team had taken. However, as the seven men opened their backpacks and unzipped them, they were instantly stunned.
"Bastards—" The captains of the seven teams cursed simultaneously and threw their backpacks away. But their speed, though not slow, was still a beat too late. The backpacks contained explosives. Although they were practice bombs, their instantaneous detonation created a terrifying blast wave, instantly knocking the seven captains and their team members to the ground, dazed and disoriented. Before they could react, the ground suddenly stirred. Ten figures rose from beneath the leaf-covered ground. These ten people raised their rifles, forming a dense firing line, and unleashed a barrage of gunfire at the seven teams. They seemed to have undergone countless drills, their coordination was exceptionally tacit. Some of the seven teams were hit and eliminated before they could react, while others managed to dodge. However, Qin Long's team seemed to have anticipated their every evasion angle, firing relentlessly from different directions. The seventy members of the seven teams, thrown down by the explosives and in a state of panic, became even more flustered by the sudden appearance of Qin Long's team. They had lost the initiative, while Qin Long's team was well-rested. Consequently, in less than fifteen minutes, all seventy men were mowed down, becoming "corpses."
"This..." No one had expected Qin Long's team not to flee but to lie in ambush on the ground, having hidden bombs in their backpacks beforehand, thus eliminating seven teams at once. Treacherous, too treacherous. In the spectator box, everyone except Song Shadao, Shen Lang, and Gu Qinghan was furious.