Love is War

Chapter 17

My plan is to take the high grounds where I have the perfect view from above and take the remaining enemy who will be coming to the supply box, I can see both sides except the back side of the box and if the winning player is careful enough, he will hide there, but the main point here is that they are unaware of my existence. They do not know that I am here, unless I fire shots at them since my sniper will trigger a sound cue in the mini map.

Now I will let them kill each other for the supply box, I’m gonna play it safe since I have a plenty of time to wait here, the ring is not done closing so technically I am still inside the ring. I am sure that once the ring closes there will be a time delay before the ring closes again, besides all of these will be enough before it is done ring closes.

I clicked my right mouse button to aim on the sniper rifle and 10 second passed, I can’t see nor hear any players in the area. I have wait long enough, that’s why I can’t go there, if I play this game rascally everything will be over for me in an instant.

It’s like I am in a real battlefield, those gamers are my real enemy, if we are in a real life battlefield, I am confident that I can trample them in an instant, but this is the virtual world where that status quo of the character’s norm in this world are decided by the developers. Everyone here is equal in terms of strength, I can’t be physically strong or weak enough, that’s the problem here. My real life strength is useless here.

The only thing that will make a difference in this game is oneself intelligence and skill, that will be the most crucial factor. Some physical aspects may apply in the fight but I have it so I will not worry with that. Fingers reflexes? No problem. Awareness? No problem. I got that covered.

My enemies are sure pros in this game as there are no one comes for the supply box, if this is just a normal game. Trust me, it’s like world war just for that box. Now they also felt like that they are in a battlefield where their life is at stake, and that card is that life. We only got one shot and there are no respawns in this battle.

The ring is almost closing that’s why I gotta hurry and if the worst case scenario comes, I will abandon that supply box and I have to put my luck on the next one dropping in the map, there is nothing that I can do right now.

What can I even do? Just to play it safe. The survivor count is stuck in 35 and that means the pros are the ones already left. It’s only been the first round of the game, the top 20 is almost within reach, but the problem is, the small the survivor count, the ring will respond to it. Even in the second round, the ring will appear as small as a coin in the mini map. There is no point prolonging the game if the player will just avoid each other.

The ring closed and to my dismay the ring is 887 meters away from me, this is a long running, but to my luck it gave us 5 minutes to get inside the ring. As I speculated the ring is small, as there are only a few of us left. If the time hits the 2 minute mark, I will run towards the ring and there I will put all my luck in there.

Now I still have 3 minutes to wait and watch what will happen to the supply box, and if the flare is gone, that will be my mark to go there, I don’t have any choice but to get it. I can’t resist it but to go there and get the supplies.

This game is great at playing us, it’s like we are the ones controlled by the game. No wonder why this store used this game as their sifter in the elimination round, the GRX9090 is really meant for gamers out there, in tech world gamers and developers alike are facing the same problem. Card shortage, scalpers and hoarders are buying all the stocks in the retail stores and reselling it 3x or 2x the price of the retail price. People can’t do anything but to waste money on them since the retail stores are always out of stocks. Add the miners who are using the cards to be their power mining tool in cryptocurrency, this is a trend for over a generation and one of the major factors in GPU shortage.

That does not apply to me since I am rich, I just feel like explaining it.

4 minute mark, I guess I have no choice but to go there and loot the box. But I will not go straight on the box but to take a detour and if there is someone who has the same plan as me won’t get me. The jokes on them since I also have a plan in mind. The jokes on them because I will get that card.

Plus I am pretty sure that no one reached that box except for me. I guess… I went down the cliff and sprinted towards nearest house to give me cover from any incoming enemies. I hope no one see nor hear what I just did. I also switched to my assault rifle since using my sniper rifle right now will not help me. I can’t avoid any short ranged battle but I got to keep my distance to make sure that anyone who carries a shotgun won’t one shot me. My level 3 armor is nothing to a head shot from the wide spray gun. It releases multiple bullets at once and that’s what make it so powerful and to be feared in the game.

Oh, the kill notification just added. Anonymous killed TheRadGuy. Only 34 left, I can’t hear any gunshots that’s why I can safely assume that they are not in this area since I cannot hear any sound cues nor any silencer shots.

The silencer only avoids triggering the sound cue from the players but we can still hear a faint sound coming from it. I can’t hear any of it here, except for the rustling sound of the grasses, so I can safely say that if anyone is here is currently camping, they are remaining quiet for them to make their ambush attack towards unexpecting players.

I broke one of the windows making a sound but it cannot trigger any sound cues from the enemies. I’m sure if anyone is here they heard it, and I hope they make their move by the time I am done in this house.

As I expected this house was looted and I can’t get anything here, that’s why I went straight to the back exit of the house to avoid any encounters from them. I went straight to the neighboring house and went inside and there some syringes inside that picked up, and I peeked through the unbroken window inside.

There I saw someone crouching towards the house where I broke the window. The bait worked, that’s very nice of him making everything easy for me. What should I do next? Hmm, that’s an improvised plan for me.

Oh, I see I can avoid him and use that distraction on quickly extracting the tools from the supply crate. He’s carrying a shotgun and I will win a long ranged gun fight unless he switched to his secondary weapon which will give me a huge advantage in the fight since the animation has a seconds delay.

I guess he is the only one in this place and the others ignored the crate since the can sense danger from it. Wise for them since their death will be inevitable with my sniper earlier. I heard he opened the door and I crouched walk towards the door that will lead me straight to the crate.

Once I saw the unsuspecting player inside the house close the door I ran towards the supply crate and I don’t care if he heard that footsteps of mine and I quickly looted the box. I don’t have anytime to check on what’s inside since I am in a rush.

Another one was killed and it’s only 33 left on the survivor count. The timer hits the 2 minute mark and this is my cue to bail out. I ran towards the direction where the new ring is. I heard footsteps from behind me and fortunately I came across on a three. He tried to shoot me but he missed all those bullets by doing the zigzag steps the helped me to easily avoid it.

I am in an open space and I must flee quickly, I switched to my sniper since I built my distance away from him. That player is asking for a fight, fine I’ll give him or her one. I peeked to a corner of the tree while I am in my sniper scope. This should do the trick.

Fortunately he is on my scope vision, when I peeked and I did a flick shot because he jumps to avoid my bullets just like what I did on my zigzag steps.

He was one shotted by my sniper and a notification appeared in my screen.

You killed BornWild.

4 kills and counting, 32 left on the survivor count and there are only 12 of them left before I can feel safe from being eliminated in the match. The noise we produced will surely attract nearby enemies so I need to run on that circle fast. I switched to my basic knife weapon since doing this will increase my movement speed. This kind of games have taken the physics in real life in mind, the heavier weapon I carry the slower I get, but it has exceptions since my back is carrying the weapon. It does not make sense, yet that’s how the developer decided how it works.

Whatever weapon you carry is the one in effect with that mass-movement speed relationship on the game, denying the mass of the two weapons in the back. Funny right?