Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#160 - A brief encounter

His body slightly turned, the muzzle of the gun following ~

With his superhuman reaction speed and hand-eye coordination, Liang Yue instantly locked onto a distant, ashen-skinned Orc.

It was drawing its bow to the fullest, aiming at the previous location of Arwen, but its eyes were darting around.

Clearly, this Orc didn't know that the Elven Princess had already moved to another location after firing that arrow ~

Faced with such a clearly substandard target, Liang Yue didn't hesitate at all; the moment he aimed the gun, he pulled the trigger.

With a muffled "Puff ~" sound.

A splash of blood instantly erupted from the Orc's eye socket, and half of its skull was blown away!

"Puff ~" "Puff Puff ~"

The bullet pierced straight through the eye socket, instantly shattering the back of their heads and creating a bloody mess!

If Liang Yue hadn't been so far away, the scene and the smell would have been quite overwhelming ~

"Puff ~" "Puff Puff ~" "Puff Puff ~" "Puff ~"…

Afterward, Liang Yue pressed himself tightly against the tree trunk beside him, slowly moving and adjusting his angle of view, his eyes unusually calm.

At the same time, the muzzle continued to move with his body, from right to left, slowly and steadily, pulling the trigger with each shot.

The assault rifle in his hand was being used like a sniper rifle!

In less than two breaths, he had directly taken out ten Orcs standing in the distance, whose sole job was to use bows and arrows for sneak attacks.

However, Liang Yue held an indifferent attitude towards his achievement and didn't feel any joy in his heart for racking up this data.

After all, if he really wanted to focus on increasing his Orc kill count, the battlefield of the War of the Five Armies would be the most suitable place.

The Orc squad ambushing him here numbered at most a hundred.

But on a proper battlefield, with the Vulcan Gatling gun firing at full power, the number of Orcs killed in a single volley would definitely be much higher than here~!

Moreover, despite his impressive performance, with the assault rifle in his hand acting like the Grim Reaper's scythe.

Wherever the muzzle pointed, the Orcs would have their heads explode as if they were cursed, quickly being wiped out.

In reality, this was only because Liang Yue wasn't shooting with all his might; he was distracted by other matters!

"It shouldn't be, how come I can't find him?"

While continuing to deliver high-quality headshots to the distant Orcs, Liang Yue was also trying to release his spirit, hearing, and other senses to search for the target he was concerned about.

According to Liang Yue's understanding of this plot, the Orc team ambushing them should be led by someone named Bolg!

He was said to be the son of Azog, the Orc chieftain, and his own strength was very high, definitely belonging to the elite leader level.

In the subsequent battle of the Five Armies, the Elven Prince Legolas, wielding Orcrist, went through a difficult struggle before finally beheading him.

Clearly, compared to killing Bolg, this leader-level monster, the other Orcs were almost negligible in terms of their contribution to the main quest, 《Hunting Evil》~

"I remember that Bolg's appearance should also have a white skin, which is very similar to his father Azog. In addition, that guy seems to have used iron plates to make half a skull for himself on the top of his head…"

"Whoosh ~" "Whoosh Whoosh ~"…

Just as Liang Yue's eyes were wandering, while the gun in his hand continued to snipe the Orcs' ranged attack units, a series of whistling sounds suddenly came from the air beside him.

Clearly, this was the sound of arrows traveling through the air. Based on his own hearing, the power of this rain of arrows was very strong, but the target was not himself.

"Ah!" "Hiss ~ Uh!" "Wow!"…

Sure enough, after a brief whooshing sound, a group of Orcs in the distance were felled by this wave of arrows.

The parts hit were either the neck or the forehead, the accuracy was quite high!

Liang Yue took the time to glance in the direction the arrows were coming from and found that the newcomers were reinforcements from a group of Forest Elves, numbering about twenty or thirty.

Leading the team was none other than the Elven Prince Legolas, who had just separated from them not long ago!

But thinking about it, it made sense. In the original plot, when the dwarves escaped from the elves' prison and drifted down the river, they were attacked by Orcs, and this group of Forest Elves had come to rescue them.

Now, their team also included Arwen, an Elven Princess whose bloodline was said to be even nobler than Thranduil.

In this case, if Arwen were to be ambushed and injured by Orcs within the territory of the Forest Elves, it would definitely be a disgrace to their Mirkwood Elven Kingdom~

In short, with the addition of this group of elite Elven soldiers, the advantage of the battle began to quickly shift towards Liang Yue and the others.

Although, this was originally a one-sided situation.

In the few breaths since the battle began, the melee units on both sides hadn't even had time to engage, and Liang Yue had already used his assault rifle to eliminate nearly half of the enemy's ranged support.

This efficiency was awe-inspiring!

But facing the support of the Forest Elves, Liang Yue still had to be grateful.

Soon, under the barrage of arrows and the continuous sound of gunfire.

In just a little over half a minute, the Orcs, who had originally ambushed on the side, intending to catch the Dwarves' expeditionary army off guard, were all wiped out!

A faint bloody smell began to drift in the air.

The dwarves and elves began to celebrate the victory, but Liang Yue didn't feel any sense of accomplishment at this time. The reason, of course, was that Bolg, the Orc who should have appeared here, had not shown up.

"Could it be that the kid saw that the situation was not good and ran away in advance?"

"As a leader-level character among the Orcs, cowardice… should be impossible."

"Could it be that the elves startled him when they came?"

"That's probably the only explanation. It can't be that my intrusion directly scared him away, right…"