Chapter 104: Boasting That Turns Out to Be True

“Helicopters appearing within the city?” Tanya’s voice was slightly distorted as she rubbed her eyes, certain she hadn’t imagined it.

In this mission, the presence of helicopters was downright ruthless. How were they supposed to deal with this? Maybe they should all just surrender—why compete when someone else had a helicopter?

The difficulty level had unquestionably jumped to three stars. Tanya’s face darkened at the thought; she had no way to destroy a weapon-equipped helicopter. Even though there were dazzling precedents of helicopters being taken down with sniper rifles, she only smiled at those stories.

Without getting too caught up in far-fetched legends, she remained skeptical. Surely those tales were fabricated to glorify achievements, or maybe just a one-in-a-million coincidence.

Like the pilot having had too much to drink! Well, it sounded absurd, but reality often outstripped fiction with even less regard for logic.

“Wow, that’s impressive—actually taking down a helicopter! But that pilot was way too reckless, flying too low and giving the perfect shot for a one-hit kill,” Chu Ning remarked thoughtfully, stroking his chin as he pondered.

“What the hell?” Tanya suddenly looked up at the sky. She had prepared to duck away from the aftershocks of bombs dropped by air support, even if the bombs weren’t targeted at them. The debris from the explosions was annoying enough.

It might even be chance that some of the fragments were headed her way, so she had to stay alert. She vividly recalled how much fun she had mocking the “Final Destination” movies.

How happy she’d been then, how miserable now! After all, this was a world where ghosts existed; strange and inexplicable things were hardly surprising.

Chu Ning watched the helicopter wobble in the air after being hit by a sniper shot. It circled precariously before plunging straight into the second-floor hideout where their target was. Seeing it wasn’t heading their way, he finally relaxed, grateful they didn’t have to move immediately.

Actually, Tanya’s habit of covering her head and hiding was unwise—no different from an ostrich burying its head in the sand in the desert. It was passive surrender, a complete loss of vigilance toward the outside world.

“This can’t be real! I must be hallucinating—someone actually took down a helicopter? Chu Ning, let’s just give up on this mission. The outside world is too dangerous for me,” Tanya said decisively, intimidated by the overwhelming force. She considered herself sensible; rushing headlong against an unbeatable enemy was the stuff of heroes in hot-blooded anime protagonists, not her.

At that moment, the helicopter completed its mission—air support. The crashing into the small building’s roof was followed by a thunderous explosion, the pilot’s final act to take the target down with him.

Though the distance was considerable, Chu Ning quickly ducked behind a wall and pulled Tanya to safety.

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