PUBG: Demon King System

Chapter 42: A Tactic to Fight by the Edge of the Safe Zone

One bottle of painkillers and one energy drink charged Lin Ye’s boost meter back to max.

In PUBG, players had 100 HP and 100 boost points.

That was why there were two types of consumables in this game.

The first type recovered HP instantly, including items like bandages, first-aid kits, and medkits.

The second type recovered boost points. Those were items like adrenaline syringes, painkillers, and energy drinks.

When a player didn’t have full HP, the boost points in the boost meter would be converted into HP.

Now that Lin Ye’s boost meter was full, he could instantly use it to recover HP if he was attacked by another player. This meant a potential counter kill in a shootout with another player.

Many players would max out their boost meter when moving to improve their survival chances.

In PUBG, which was a battle royale, only the player who survived till the end would win.

Lin Ye drove his blue AE86 rapidly along the road and dashed towards Rozhok.

Simultaneously, the blue zone was shrinking right behind him.

In around half a minute, the edge of the blue zone would overlap with the first safe zone, and the next safe zone would appear on the map.

The existence of the blue zone was something interesting about PUBG; it forced players to go into the next zone. With the shrinking of the safe zone, the battles between players would become intensified, which made the game more fun.

Lin Ye had the perfect equipment; a fully equipped M416 and a 98K with an 8X scope. He had sufficient firepower to deal with both long-range fights and close-range combat, so he wasn’t afraid of any battles. He drove towards whichever direction that had the densest gunfire.

Also, many players probably wouldn’t be able to even get close to him since he could do his terrifying snipes with his 98K.

The car speed increased further.

– The bridge toward Rozhok –

Lin Ye didn’t want to go the long way through Yasnaya Polyana, so instead, he drove directly towards Rozhok, which was the shortest route towards the safe zone.

According to his judgment, the speed hack god would want to live longer without fighting and thus would be staying at a location in the center of the safe zone; this player wouldn’t move too much.

He was probably an experienced cheating god, and thus fighting him would be challenging.

However, Lin Ye was never afraid of challenges.

Slaying a god…

He was very much looking forward to it!

The bridge at the very east end of Rozhok had a wild and complicated hilly terrain, and it was quite open.

However, there was a wild area across the small bridge which had a lot of places for cover and secretive shooting locations. If he crossed the bridge without any preparation, then it was highly possible that he would be ambushed.

He stopped the car.

Lin Ye was on the hill north side of the river, and he was able to look down to see what the situation was across the bridge with his 8X scope.

Since this wasn’t a spot with lots of resources, Lin Ye wasn’t able to find traces of other players.

At the same time, the blue zone had overlapped with the first safe zone.

After a short stop, a new safe zone appeared on the map.

A corner in the southwestern part of the map.

The second safe zone was a standard corner-cut circle, which included the majority of Sosnovka Island and Primorsk of the main island. There was a sea between the two places, which created the legendary “Yin Yang Zone” again.

“This game’s safe zone placement sure seems like God is unleashing his wrath on me…” Lin Ye shook his head but then said excitedly, “However, my location here will be key with the safe zone at the southwestern corner. For the players in the north that want to enter the safe zone, they would need to go through Rozhok and the building complexes beside School. If I stay there, I can snipe them all like crazy.”

Lin Ye looked at the map and was quickly able to realize that he was at the key location of traffic.

The building complexes beside School!

That was the key location of traffic for the players in the northern parts of the map. By occupying the building complexes beside School, which was by the edge of the next safe zone, Lin Ye wouldn’t need to rush to move. That was why this place was probably the best target practice spot right now.

For those players in Yasnaya Polyana, Mansion, or Lipovka that didn’t want to take a further route, then they would have to go past the building complexes beside School to enter the next safe zone.

That was why Lin Ye decided to take control of the building complexes beside School to control the key traffic spot. Then, he could have a better chance of shooting his targets and increasing his number of kills.

The tactic of fighting by the edge of the safe zone!

Lin Ye chose the easiest tactic to get the highest number of kills.

Even with a cheating god in this game, he chose to win with grand battles and a large number of kills. Winning by just pure survival and hiding was not in his dictionary!

If Sniper King Baixiao comes, I’ll kill him instantly!

If the cheating god comes, I’ll still kill him instantly!

Not taking life and death that seriously; just fight if you don’t like me.

He got into the car.

After crossing the bridge, Lin Ye abandoned the car and chose to walk.

There were still around 200 meters to get to the building complexes beside School, but there were too many buildings around. With Lin Ye’s driving skills, he could easily be shot dead.

Lin Ye felt a lot safer by using the 98K and brutally fighting his way to victory.

An old driver needs to have some good driving skills… Lin Ye sighed in his mind.

Although he was powerful and resourceful, his driving skills were very bad, causing him to have problems and making him feel constrained when commuting to different places.

Lin Ye looked around the side of the fence wall quickly. He realized that the doors of the building had been opened, and there were also no strange sounds or movements, so he quickly found a gap in the fence wall and went in.

Under normal circumstances, a player would subconsciously close the door after hiding in a building when they were in a city.

That was why when Lin Ye saw that all the buildings in this wild district had open doors, he could conclude that there weren’t any players here.

By the edge of the fence wall, Lin Ye aimed down his 8X scope and looked towards the building complexes beside School.

Very soon, he found a player that was running.

Level 2 grey helmet.

On the roof of the highest building to the left among the building complexes beside School.

Obviously, this player was the winner of building complexes beside School after many battles, as shown through how arrogantly he walked. He obviously thought that his surroundings were safe, and there were no real dangers.

Running.

Continuously running.

The player with the level 2 helmet kept changing locations as if he were trying to find a vehicle to move away quickly with.

Lin Ye raised his gun.

He then aimed down the scope.

The center red dot on the crosshairs of the 8X scope followed that player as he ran.

Estimating distance.

Two hundred meters.

Lin Ye raised the crosshairs slightly.

Hiding in the dark, Lin Ye was not anxious nor rushing.

With shooting at such a long distance, there was only once chance. If he couldn’t hit the target, then the target would be alerted, and there wouldn’t be a better chance to hit the target anymore.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

Time went on.

The player with the level 2 helmet finally found a vehicle. He stayed by the fences on the rooftop, hesitating whether he should directly scale the fences and jump down.

His silhouette stopped.

A momentary chance.

Lin Ye had waited long for this opportunity, so he wouldn’t let it go to waste.

Holding in his breath, the crosshairs of the 8X scope became stable.

Lightly pressing onto the left mouse key and pulling the trigger.

Bang!

A 7.62mm bullet flew out of the barrel of the gun.

In one-third of a second, the bullet flew across the sky.

In the next moment, it landed on the head of that player, with blood gushing out like a blooming flower.

“Linye headshotted gxgxgx888 with a Kar98K.”

A shot from the 98K pierced through that player’s head.

That player who got killed was terrified by how he was shot in the head and his HP instantly vanished without him even knowing.

“F*ck! I’ve got so many resources after searching through the building complexes beside School, and now I got killed instantly!! F*ck you!!” that level-2-helmeted player shouted with anger, clearly upset by the situation.

He had spent a lot of energy to clear the building complexes beside School and never expected someone to kill him like it was a bargain. He was so angry from his helplessness that he almost puked blood.

However, after seeing his dimming grey screen, this player helplessly exited the game.

Nine kills!

After headshotting that player, Lin Ye crossed the open road and ran towards the building complexes beside School.

This should be the last player at the building complexes beside School. Now that he was killed, Lin Ye controlled this area with his 98K, taking base at the highest point.

I grew this tree. I opened this road. If you want to pass by this area…

No way!