My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely! Chapter 487 - Without My Permission, No One is Allowed To Die! (Two in One)

“Big Brother Hu, based on our observation, they leave the city once every three hours. It has been…fifty-six minutes since they last left the city!”

Liu Peiqiang was afraid to be spotted by the eye on the wall, so he was extremely cautious with his body movements. Unlike normal animals, humans were adept at recognizing patterns and making use of them. The enemies were out in the open, while they were hidden in the dark. Hence, it was even more important for them to recognize any patterns that might lead to opportunities. “In which direction did they last head out?” “To the northwest. However, they are using a line formation that is at least 30 meters long, and there are approximately 50 of them.”

This time, Li Hu did not reply. Instead, he quickly lowered his head and shifted his sights.

Within everyone’s field of vision, the dwarf that first left the gates suddenly appeared.

Visually, the dwarf was as previously described. Its height was approximately between sixty to eighty centimeters.

The creatures they were riding on were not tall either, being only around 110 centimeters in height.

The creature bore a close resemblance to bipedal dinosaurs from Earth’s prehistoric age. Its skin was green in color and it had pointy fangs.

“This is ridiculous. Don’t they look like Kled from the League of Legends game?”

With the binoculars, Chen Shen observed the dwarves and the creatures from head to toe, and came to that conclusion.

The youngsters among the team nodded in agreement, while Li Hu and the rest who were middle-aged were completely clueless regarding Chen Shen’s words.

“Big Brother Hu, what do we do? They are heading in the northwest direction, but our position here is not an optimal one for an ambush!”

“Should we circle around and position ourselves ahead of them?”

Li Hu shook his head and replied, “Don’t panic. Let’s first assess their formation this time around. If there are too many of them, we’ll give up and wait at the front for the next opportunity. If there are only a few of them, then we’ll speed up and catch up with them. Anyhow, they are carrying goods with them, so they won’t move very fast!”

The dwarves began to pour out from the gate one by one. Behind them, six carts were once again transported out of the city.

The carts were gigantic in comparison to the tiny dwarves. The carts were three meters long and two meters wide.

From behind the slope, they could make out that the carts all contained coal rocks. Black dust trailed behind the carts as they traveled.

Each cart was pulled along by six lizards as it moved at a ridiculously slow speed.

The assault squad still had the Rapid March movement speed bonus. Even if they gave the lizards a half an hour head start, they would still be able to catch up to them with ease-as long as they were still in range.

Due to the slow speed of the dwarves, they waited and waited until an hour had passed.

Like seasoned hunters, they waited until the final cart was sluggishly pulled along by the lizards out of the gate. As the gate closed, they once again got ready and assembled while half-squatting.

However, the dwarves did not seem to be afraid of an ambush, As soon as they exited the gate, they carefreely started heading north without even bothering to form ranks or get into formation.

“Fifteen, twenty, twenty-five…forty-five!”

“Six carts of coal. One cart is roughly carrying 600 to 800kg.”

“Get up, get up. Quick, we need to capture them and the coal as well. If we can get our hands on the coal, we can use it during the heavy blizzard disaster!”

They observed as the team of dwarves finally left the fortified city and headed northwest in a line that was forty-five meters long. The group of men, who had been laying on their stomachs this entire time, could not wait anymore.

If they were only armed with cold weapons, they might have been slightly afraid to face the dwarves and their hundreds of lizards.

However, they were armed with rifles, so defeating these dwarves seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

They half-squatted and moved slowly along the slope. After leaving the range of the red eye’s sight, they began to gleefully break out into a run.

In less than five minutes, they overtook the dwarves and gathered ahead of the long line.

“Big Brother Hu, don’t the weapons the dwarves are carrying look familiar?”

“Eh, now that you mentioned it. It does look like…”

Chen Shen pondered and said, “Are they similar to the dagger that I received from that trade back then?”

“Yes, yes, yes. It’s that dagger that can shoot out blades of light. Looks like we got ourselves a big haul.”

“I’ve counted. There are forty-five of them. In total, there are twenty daggers and a… machete!”

With the binoculars, Wu Feiguang excitedly examined each of the dwarves as he murmured his findings.

This scene was similar to before, when their army had been excited at the sight of the well-equipped opponents.

They passed the binoculars to one another as they spied on the dwarves.

Everyone’s eyes became green with envy!

Hope Village and the basin area… they were really too poor.

In terms of food, they had accumulated enough food to feed everyone for half a year. However, in terms of other aspects, they were still extremely poor.

They only had thousands of rounds of ammunition left and a limited number of firearms; it was barely enough for a medium-scaled battle.

In terms of natural resources, all they possessed were petroleum and the Iron Rock mountain. They were literally the poorest territory in the New World.

Given these circumstances, the only way for them to become rich overnight was to…

“Hold the guns in your hand tight. Don’t shoot unless they are in range. None of these dwarfs shall escape us today.”

“The dwarves, the coal rocks, the lizards, and their weapons. I want them all!”

Everyone firmly nodded in response to Li Hu’s ruthless instructions.

The next second, just like they had practiced in the virtual dimension, they scattered and arranged themselves into a fan-like formation, surrounding the dwarfs and their carts within.

The dwarves who were approaching them were like innocent sheep sent to the slaughter —completely unaware that they had been surrounded.

At least not until…

One hundred and fifty meters!

Buzz!

A piercing siren rang out!

A siren abruptly wailed from the waist of the dwarf that led the team. When that dwarf came within that range, it was as if some sort of trigger had been activated.

“Gu ji ji, ji gu!”

The next second, the dwarfs that were carefreely strolling about immediately raised their guard and swiftly grouped up. Seeing this, Li Hu knew that the dwarves had realized that they had been surrounded.

Fortunately, the dwarves were already within the lethal firing range of their rifles.

As the first gunshot rang out, a bloodbath began!

Bang!

Bang bang!

Bang bang bang bang!

They were reminded of Su Mo’s instructions as they shot with restraint. Most of their shots were aimed and directed at the lower half of the dwarves’ bodies.

Despite that, the rain of bullets snuffed out the lives of half of the dwarves within a mere five seconds.

As for the other half of the dwarfs, except for the leader who had summoned a white barrier, the rest of the dwarfs laid flat on the ground, hiding behind the bodies of the lizards to avoid the flurry of bullets that rained over their heads.

There was a crackling sound as the bullets were stopped by the barrier.

“Stop shooting. Switch to your melee weapons and begin advancing!”

“Stay wary of their attacks and don’t get too close. Be careful of the leader’s machete!”

The moment they began their attacks, even though none of the assault squad had suffered any damage, they still inevitably lost the Rapid March buff.

They could feel their movements slowing down. Li Hu’s face turned somber and, at the same, he also had a bad feeling about the situation.

However, they had already come this far and had invested too much.

If they chose to leave now, it meant that they had done all that for naught.

However, if they stayed, there was still a chance!

Ten Disaster Points were spent and, at the same time, everyone retrieved the various weapons from their storage space. These weapons had been previously crafted by Su Mo for practice.

The blades, longswords, and spears that they held looked somewhat crude, but the truth was that these weapons were exceptionally sturdy.

Armed with their weapons, the seventeen of them stood up and charged-their formation changing continuously.

However, their charge revealed their position to the dwarves.

The dwarves now knew the location of the enemy. Moments ago, they were still lying on the ground; now, they were suddenly emboldened to fight.

They drew their daggers, stood up, and began to howl.

Fifty meters.

Forty meters.

Twenty meters!

One side held their ground while the other charged fervently. The two sides were rapidly closing in on each other.

However, it was also at this distance that, when the dwarfs raised their daggers and charged, all the members of the assault squad stopped in their tracks.

Something awkward happened…

The dwarven daggers’ maximum attack range was only ten meters.

Currently, the assault team stood three meters beyond that ten-meter range.

These three meters seemed like an impassable moat, as the blades of light weakly stuck the ground between the two sides.

“Three!”

Li Hu roared as everyone advanced again. After baiting the dwarves to attack, they immediately retreated to avoid the attacks.

“Two!”

It was the first time the two sides met, yet the skillful tactics of the assault squad left the dwarfs stumped.

The combat tactics of the assault squad were so polished. It was as if they had fought against this team of dwarves countless times. Even their facial expressions when they charged were remarkably synchronized.

They seemed ruthless and evil, almost as if they wanted to feast on the dwarves.

It was this exact expression that fooled the dwarves into believing that their charge was genuine.

The assault squad charged once again. As they were not given any time to think, the dwarfs could only once again brandish their weapons.

This time, however, a few of them were wary of the assault squad’s tactics and only released 10% of their weapons’ energy.

Unexpectedly, the assault squad members that attacked this time did not stop.

Resignedly, the dwarves had to attack once again as the energy in their daggers was completely depleted.

“One!

“Ha ha ha, these fools. They thought that they could fight us with that weapon. Little did they know that our Shelter Leader had already made preparations for it!”

Everyone was ecstatic when Li Hu shouted the number one, as Li Hu mocked the dwarves gleefully.

Previously, during their final two days of training in virtual reality, all the enemies they encountered had been armed with such weapons. Initially, everyone suffered at the hands of such a ridiculous melee weapon that had a long-range attack option.

Some of them even died twenty to thirty times before barely making it through the enemy’s gates.

However, in the end, as everyone’s deaths gradually piled up, they too gained more and more experience.

They shared their experience with one another.

The thousands of villagers all shared their experiences and came up with strategies to deal with the weapons. In the end, even the women that were physically weaker were able to exhaust the energy of their enemies’ weapons without suffering any damage at all.

These dwarves were far weaker than the kobolds that were simulated in the virtual reality training session. Naturally, the dwarves were not a match for the villagers.

After the last attack was once again launched to no avail, the dwarves began to panic.

“Oo oo chi ji!”

“Wa oo oo ji!” The dwarf leader, who was still protected by his barrier, shouted to rally the others. Despite that, the dwarves inevitably scattered.

“This is a good opportunity. Everyone, pick a dwarf and fight. Let no dwarf escape!”

There were only fourteen dwarfs that could still run and fight.

Their strategy was to pair one man against one dwarf. This would leave Li Hu, Liu Peiqiang, and Qi Qin-the strongest among them—to fight the dwarf leader. Armed with sabers, they stared into the dwarf leader’s eyes. The three of them split and charged from three different directions.

Their footsteps were nimble as they floated like butterflies; they attacked and protected one another in synchronized tempo.

However, the power of the machete strapped on the dwarf leader’s waist was still unknown to them. Therefore, they remained cautious of any long-range attacks.

The dwarf leader was still hiding behind his barrier. However, he knew that he was surrounded and had no way out.

With that knowledge, his gaze intensified and his expression turned ruthless.

Buzz!

The white barrier was shattered as the dwarf leader grabbed his machete from his waist.

The dwarf leader was riding a creature that was significantly larger than the rest of the lizards. He began to charge and launch his counterattack.

“He’s going all out to fight us. Don’t answer his challenge. Try to delay him!” Li Hu roared as he watched the dwarf leader charge. The three of them instantly scattered. The first call to attack was filled with vigor and drive.

The second was not as fervent as before, yet still somewhat strong. By the third time, the morale would be completely spent.

When a cavalry unit attacked an infantry unit, the first charge was the most lethal.

After the first charge, it would be difficult for the cavalry unit to gain the distance required to build up another charge. The infantry unit would then be able to take the opportunity to counterattack.

This was plain and simple logic that everyone understood.

Unfortunately, the lizard creature that the leader rode was far stronger than anyone had expected

Amid the chaos, the dwarf leader, along with the large lizard, found Liu Peiqiang’s position.

The two sides were evidently not heading in the same direction, yet this large lizard did not slow down. Instead, the lizard made a sharp 70-degree turn. This instantly exposed Liu Peiqiang and left him at the mercy of the dwarf leader’s machete.

“This isn’t good. Qi Qin, quickly use the rifle to cover him!”

“Shoot the lizard!”

Li Hu instantly reacted to the situation, and Qi Qin quickly took action.

Just as Qi Qin raised his rifle and aimed, the dwarf leader raised his machete and swung it; his blade clashed with Liu Peiqiang’s saber.

Thud!

Splat!

A stream of light with a purple hue flashed from the machete as it was imbued with daunting power. The saber was an excellent quality weapon crafted by Su Mo, and was only given to the captain of the scouting unit. Even so, it stood no chance of withstanding the tremendous impact.

The instant it made contact with the machete, the saber fractured and split apart from the middle. Liu Peiqiang’s right arm was now exposed to the cold light of the machete.

Whoosh!

Thud!

Dat dat dat!

The severed arm fell to the ground just as the sound of bullets erupted.

Without the white barrier, the three successive shots from the K-1 rifle, which spit out 5.56 caliber bullets, instantly sent the large lizard to its grave.

Before dying, the lizard thrashed about and sent the dwarf leader flying. He was knocked to the ground and was stunned dizzy, seemingly with birds circling over his head.

Li Hu, who ran over, immediately slashed and severed the right arm of the dwarf leader that was still holding the machete-eliminating the potential threat.

“Peiqiang, are you okay? Hang on.” “Big Brother Hu, Big Brother Hu, save me. I don’t have my arm anymore. I don’t want to die. My daughter is still in the village. I don’t want to die!”

Liu Peiqiang’s arm had been severed cleanly from the shoulder onward.

At that moment, adrenaline coursed through him, so he barely felt the pain.

Even so, a pool of blood gushed out from his shoulder. Like a person drowning, Liu Peiqiang was frantically grabbing Li Hu’s hands as he shouted.

“D*mn, this d*mn bastard!”

Qi Qin also rushed over. However, he was carrying a tiny 300ml bottle of psychic energy water.

“Quick, onen your mouth and drink this!”

The psychic energy water in Qi Qin’s hand was the enhanced psychic energy water that had been upgraded twice.

It was a reward that Su Mo had given him previously in appreciation for his achievements.

In this instance, Qi Qin willingly gave the liquid to Liu Peiqiang.

Glug glug glug…

The refreshing and sweet psychic energy water flowed down his throat. The shoulder that was spurting blood stopped. It was visibly healing as fleshy scabs began to form on his shoulder that sealed the open wound.

“Don’t worry about your arm. Take the arm with us. Perhaps Shelter Leader will be able to think of something.”

“Yes, Shelter Leader will think of something!”

They picked up Liu Peiqiang’s severed arm. Hearing the dwarf leader’s howls, Li Hu’s eyes were instantly filled with the flames of fury.

He took two steps forward and slapped the dwarf’s face. The dwarf instantly flew and spun three times in mid-air before finally landing on the ground again.

Engulfed by his anger, Li Hu’s slap was harder than usual. This slap instantly knocked the lights out of the already small-sized dwarf.

“Can you walk?”

Liu Peiqiang feebly nodded his head: “I can still walk. But the fight after this…”

“As long as you can walk, it’s fine. Don’t worry about the fight. Anyone who dares to challeng