Chapter 1: Wilderness Lone Wolf

  Di Lie bore nearly forty kilograms of equipment on his back, like a lone wolf, walking alone in the vast and desolate wilderness.

  Compared with the space-time he was in before, he is indeed "alienated", and it's not just a general distance - possibly several billion light-years.

  Three days ago, Di Lie was still on the deck of the "Star Sea" escort ship in the United Fleet of Yadin Bay, enjoying the sea breeze. He could not have imagined that an emergency pursuit of Somali pirates would unexpectedly send him to this desolate land on a planet he did not know.

  Fortunately, as a special elite, Di Lie not only has good psychological quality but also received multiple wilderness survival training and is used to being suddenly thrown into an unfamiliar environment full of danger. When he was sent abroad to participate in the United Nations Gulf of Aden escort mission, he was also sent with military elites from all over the world to a small island for eight weeks of closed intensive special training, said to be taught by materials from the US Navy SEALs.

  According to that black instructor - the guy who was secretly called "Killer Jack" by the trainees, every single trainee who walked out of this deserted island training camp had the ability to cross the Sahara Desert.

  The environment where Di Lie is currently located, although desolate and uninhabited, cool and eerily quiet, is absolutely much better than the "Sea of Death". At least within three days, he has hunted three snakes, five fish, two field mice and a small amount of arthropods, and occasionally found some water sources. Although the water was scarce and polluted, after repeated filtration treatment, it basically met the drinking standard.

  At 3:45 in the afternoon, the military diving watch on his wrist showed that Di Lie had been marching continuously for more than five hours and finally felt a bit tired. He found a ditch to shelter from the sun and stopped to rest.

  Although it's scorching hot during the day, it gets cold at night with a temperature difference of over 10 degrees between day and night. Di Lie estimated that this season should be around spring-summer transition, not like the areas near the equator, but rather similar to the climate in the northern part of his hometown.

  He was fully armed when the accident occurred while attacking pirates, including a Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle, a steel-plastic portable gun box, a Kevlar helmet, a ceramic bulletproof vest, a military windproof lighter, a military automatic mechanical night light watch, a multi-functional dagger, a camouflage oil paint box, a flat military water bottle, two tactical hand grenades and one stun grenade. In addition, there were some food and medicine, such as two pounds of compressed biscuits, a pack of chocolate, five pieces of chewing gum, a box of aspirin, hemostatic powder, and a small amount of antibiotic tablets. Originally, there was also a self-defense pistol, but unfortunately, it fell into the sea along with 20 rounds of pistol ammunition during the accident.

  These items weighed over thirty kilograms in total, with the Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle accounting for most of the weight. For this military-recognized "King of Sniper Rifles", commonly known as the "Big Cannon" or "Cannon Sniper" in games, Di Lie had been famous for a long time. Long before he enlisted, when playing CF, this was one of his favorite guns to use, but it was only a virtual weapon after all. It wasn't until this deployment abroad, participating in the UN peacekeeping escort mission, that in order to facilitate logistics supply, they uniformly used NATO-standard weapons, and he finally saw the real thing and obtained its usage rights with his excellent sniping abilities.

  The Barrett M82A1 anti-materiel rifle has an impressive range and terrifying lethality, but its drawback is that it's too heavy, weighing 13 kilograms without accessories, making it inconvenient for tactical movement. Therefore, it's usually equipped with a gun case. Opening the gray-brown box cover reveals that the rifle is disassembled into three parts: upper receiver, lower receiver, and bolt carrier group. Additionally, there are accompanying AN/PVS-10 day/night optical sight, five 10-round standard ammunition magazines, and one 10-round armor-piercing magazine.

  That day, while pursuing and eliminating pirates, 5 standard rounds were fired, leaving 55 rounds of ammunition remaining.

  Apart from these equipment, there were two things that originally did not belong to him: two bundles of explosives weighing a total of six kilograms.

  This, apart from the sufficient amount of explosives and extremely simple production of the lasso-style explosive package, is certainly not a NATO-standard weapon. In fact, this is the pirates' homemade explosive - and Di Lie is here in this godforsaken place because of these two things.

  At that time, Di Lie and four teammates were riding in a speedboat dropped from the "Star Sea" to chase a group of Somali pirates who were also on a speedboat. When Di Lie had just exploded three pirates and was about to change his armor-piercing bullet to destroy the pirate speedboat, the pirates happened to turn around a reef and disappeared from view. When Di Lie's speedboat turned around, another speedboat suddenly appeared at an angle, throwing out an explosive package at close range, which was heading straight for Di Lie at the bow of the boat. Di Lie didn't have time to shoot, hurriedly picked up the explosive package, and immediately cut off the fuse. Unexpectedly, a second explosive package was thrown over, and Di Lie had no choice but to pick it up again. Just as he had just eliminated the second danger, a bullet hit his chest...

  Although he was wearing a bulletproof vest and hadn't been injured, the powerful impact of the bullets had caused his body to lose its balance. Just then, a huge wave crashed against him, sending him tumbling into the sea... When Di Lie came to, he found himself in this strange place.

  Adhering to the wilderness survival creed that "any small thing you carry with you in an unknown environment will have its use", Di Lie didn't discard any of his personal items, even though all the equipment weighed nearly 40 kilograms together. Now he was essentially doing one of the most basic training exercises for selecting special forces: a 20-kilometer cross-country run with a 50-kilogram load.

  Now Dili has both good news and bad news.

  The good news is he only needs to carry 40 kilograms.

  The bad news is that this time's load-bearing off-road has no end of time and place.

  However, Di Lie soon discovered a better message that offset the above bad news: he felt that his physical strength and energy had increased significantly. His previous best record for carrying heavy loads in the wilderness was 10 km / 46 minutes and 45 seconds, and after reaching the destination, he was almost exhausted. Now, with a load of 40 kg, running for more than half a day is no problem. The Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle, which used to feel heavy in his hands, now feels like holding a baseball bat, and can be easily held with one hand on the gun's handle.

  Why did his body undergo such a change? Dili was completely unclear, and his poor knowledge of human biology was not enough to help him find an answer. After thinking for several days without understanding, he simply gave up - anyway, it seemed like a good thing at the moment, so he didn't bother to think about it anymore.

  Di Lie rested for half an hour, replenished some water and a few pieces of dry snake meat, and continued on the road.

  The sky and the earth were all white and yellow, with cracked land and withered tree trunks everywhere. Di Lie sometimes even had an illusion that he was walking on Mars, until he saw one corpse after another dried up in the wilderness...

  Starting from the third day in the afternoon, such a miserable scene gradually increased, and also appeared broken earth houses and some village-like gathering places. However, not a single living person could be found, some villages were empty, while others were filled with corpses of different postures. Judging from the degree of decay of the bodies, it was clear that they had been dead for many days, some had decomposed to a high degree, and were covered with flies and maggots, while others had been dried by the wind into hard mummies...

  Di Lie once suspected that this was in a foreign land - the only place on earth where such scenes would appear due to killing and hunger. But from the tattered clothes of these corpses, the skin color of their palms, and the style of their hair, it didn't look like it at all, but rather like something seen in ancient styles on TV or movies.

  Di Lie's anxiety grew with each step, if not for his strong and good mental quality, he might have lost control already. He now urgently needs to find a living person to understand what this place is, what time it is, and why such a hellish scene has appeared.

  Perhaps sensing Di Lie's urgent mood, the distant horizon began to appear with vague human figures. The figures were moving quickly, their target directly pointing at Di Lie's location.

  The faint tremors on the ground triggered Di Lie's vigilance, and when he looked up, he saw a figure approaching him. He was taken aback - good guy! Either none could be found, or they came in large groups. Looking around, the surrounding terrain was desolate, not even a mouse could hide, and it was impossible to find a place to observe from hiding.

  Di Lie instinctively reached back to the gun holster, hesitated for a moment and gave up. This was abroad, every move had to be cautious, this was what his superiors repeatedly emphasized before going abroad. He didn't want to cause any diplomatic incident and get kicked out of the country, or even interrupt his military career.

  Since it can't be avoided, let's just face it head-on then.

  They walked in pairs, with both sides approaching each other quickly. The group of people on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, while Di Lie's footsteps slowed down...

  What a group of people! Some wore fur hats, some iron helmets, and some even had half their heads shaved, with messy braids at the back. They were clad in various styles of leather armor and iron armor, each riding high-headed horses that galloped swiftly, manes flying. The longbows, quivers, and scabbards hung from the saddle, constantly slapping against the horse's flank and the riders' thighs...

  Di Lie was stunned. What kind of situation is this? Medieval times? Savage tribes? Or the primitive remnants in a corner where the light of modern civilization has not reached?

  This group of ancient tribal warriors, numbering over a hundred, each had two to three horses. The formation of the cavalry arrayed in a line, with over 200 horses, created a visual impact that was extremely shocking. Even Di Lie, as a seasoned warrior, couldn't help but be intimidated by their momentum. He stood still, his hands hanging down, so as not to provoke any unnecessary misunderstandings.

  The sound of hooves was like thunder, and they surrounded him on all sides. The smoke and dust that filled the sky gradually dissipated, revealing Di Lie standing in the center with a grey head and a dirty face.

  Di Lie didn't bother to brush off the dust on his body, slowly raised his hands, squeezed out a smile, and released kindness towards them: "Gentlemen, good afternoon... your riding skills are great, the horse is also great...... uh, you don't understand English? How about Somali? Egyptian Arabic? This is the common language of North Africa, still can't understand? Then... how about Chinese?"

  Over a hundred pairs of eyes stared at him coldly and silently. From the expressions on these people's faces, Di Lie could be certain that they did not understand any of the languages he had spoken. He slowly lowered his hands in defeat, considering what gestures to use to convey his meaning. Just then, a rider emerged from the group, a big-bearded man with an iron helmet, scale armor, and a horse whip, carrying a small gray-green flag on his back, looking like a leader. He rode up to Di Lie, circling around him while shouting something in a language that sounded like gibberish.

  Di Lie's expression remained calm, his eyes fixed straight ahead, not following the other person's shadow as it moved around. When the big-bearded figure and the voice finally stopped, Di Lie let out a wry smile, spreading his hands apart and shrugging his shoulders. Unfortunately, he couldn't understand the other person's language either.

  The big beard was extremely dissatisfied with himself for spitting in vain and not getting a response, so he suddenly turned to Di Lie's side and whipped him on the back.

  Di Lie was furious, although the bulletproof vest protected him from injury, this whip didn't hurt his skin, but it made his body sway. Most importantly, this was a great insult to him. That big beard hadn't finished yet, the horse whip came again and again.

  Di Lie was previously unguarded, and now he's been hit once. How could he let his opponent strike again? The big bearded man's whip lashed through the air with a sharp crackling sound, which sounded quite intimidating, but under Di Lie's swift dodges, not a single lash landed on him.

  The big beard swung up with excitement, suddenly galloped forward, accelerated with great force, the whip drew a large semicircle and struck down fiercely.

  This time it seemed to have hit... Di Lie's palm.

  The big beard was shocked and furious, and he violently pulled back with all his might, but the whip that fell into Di Lie's palm did not move at all, as if it had been pinned down by a giant stone.

  Di Lie looked at the big-bearded man with a red face and thick neck, calmly saying: "You want it that much? Then speak up, how can I know what you want if you don't say anything? Oh, you did say something? It's just that I didn't understand, well then, I'll let go!"

  Although Di Lie had given a warning, the poor big beard did not understand his good intentions. Just as the big beard was using all his might to retrieve the whip, Di Lie let go...

  Big Beard fell directly from the horse's back and rolled into a ball, not only was the flagpole broken, but even his helmet rolled out seven or eight steps away.

  In the process of Big Beard's fierce whip fight and stalemate, the opponent's accomplices did not take any action, but instead giggled and pointed. However, in the instant when Big Beard fell off his horseback, a sudden burst of bowstring sounds rang out around him, and in an instant, at least 40 or 50 cold gleaming arrowheads were pointing at him.

  Di Lie reluctantly opened his arms, trying to show the most sincere expression, and loudly said: "I have no malicious intent! Just now was just self-defense, is self-defense! Do you understand?"

  The big beard got up from the ground, didn't even pick up his helmet, limped to get on horseback - unexpectedly, this guy didn't draw out his horse sword for revenge, but instead rode away, seemingly returning to his unit.

  Di Lie was taken aback, just as he was about to express his apologies, when suddenly a sharp whizzing sound pierced the air, and with a swift turn of his head, he saw an arrow stuck in the ground beside his foot, half a chi deep, its tail feathers quivering violently, revealing the immense force behind this shot.

  Di Lie raised his head towards the direction of the arrow shot and saw a knight using a horn bow to point at himself, shouting loudly.

  Before Di Lie could figure out how to communicate with the other party, a sudden and urgent horseshoe sound burst forth from behind him, followed by a fierce gust of wind that seemed like a thousand-pound object had heavily slammed into his back, causing tearing pain to spread throughout his body... Di Lie only felt his body float up like a cloud, his throat sweet, and he spat out a mouthful of blood mist towards the sky, after which his consciousness sank into infinite darkness...

  When Di Lie fell to the ground, the gun box on his back also flew out, and during the rolling process, a protruding stone touched the button, and the gun box popped open with a snap, revealing the neatly arranged disassembled firearms inside.

  The azure-blue machine gun emitted a faint chill, and under the dazzling sunlight in the afternoon, it shone brightly, making people's eyes dizzy...