Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1207 - 633: Who Attacked Xu Xin? (Part 2)

”So that’s how it is...”

”As long as the power difference isn’t huge.”

Xu Ying’s words slightly eased the tense atmosphere in the room.

”But...” Li Wenxi said worriedly, ”If you take out that weapon from the other dimension, won’t you...”

Wen Guixin said to Xu Xin, ”Those weapons are all in your hands, right? Don’t use them until it’s absolutely necessary!”

Lately, Xu Ying has been getting along well with everyone and has made significant contributions to helping other survivors enter the World Tree. Naturally, no one wants to see her erased from the world.

Xu Ying pursed her lips, ”Just use them when necessary. Of course, at this stage, there’s no need for that! After all, we have a very powerful World Tree; as long as we’re inside the World Tree, we’ll be invincible. However, the outside matters are a bit troublesome.”

The underground world residents and incoming survivors are problems that need consideration.

”Weapons in the underground world have developed for a thousand years,” Ji Chaoyang placed a specially made handgun on the table.

The handgun was small, about the size of a palm, but its power far exceeded that of handguns from a thousand years ago, possibly even reaching the level of sniper rifles from that era.

And this is merely a small personal self-defense weapon, not any formal weapons.

Additionally, in this millennium of underground world weaponry development, laser weapons, drones, and even small nuclear weapons have been developed, and now, thanks to the World Tree’s abundant resources, they are being continuously manufactured.

”Well, maybe we’re not as good as the other side in terms of large weapons, but when it comes to small weapons, which are used for individual combat, we are not inferior to them.”

Xu Ying picked up the small handgun and fiddled with it.

”Hey, don’t play around with it. Be careful about accidental discharge,” Xu Xin pressed down her hand.

”Tsk, there’s no way it will discharge in my hands,” Xu Ying curled her lips and put down the handgun.

”Fortunately, the ones attacking us now are just administrative personnel and not those so-called... ’Order Enforcers’,” Zeng Tao sighed, ”Those Order Enforcers shouldn’t be like me with specialized combat abilities right? That would be too strong...”

Ji Chaoyang said, ”This point... hasn’t been confirmed, right?”

He looked at Xu Xin, Lou Fei’Er, and others, and presented the most crucial question, ”Can you really be sure that the person who attacked you is the survivor you saw in Shi Wanyun’s treehouse? There’s currently no evidence to prove that.”

”Hmm... there’s some similarity,” Lou Fei’Er pointed to the shell casing, ”In Shi Wanyun’s World Tree, that survivor also fired at me, and the effect of that shot was similar to what we witnessed when Huihui was hit.”

There was no gunfire sound, no explosion sound. It was just a simple ”buzz” behind us, and a big hole appeared on the treehouse wall.

Even before Huihui was injured, it was like that. A flash of light, no explosion sound, and Huihui’s wing had a big hole in it, after which it screeched and rolled down.

”Two kinds of weapons, perhaps they’re the same... wait.” Lou Fei’Er looked at Shi Wanyun and Jin Yue, ”Was there a shell casing that fell to the ground when that man attacked me?”

”...I didn’t notice,” Shi Wanyun shook her head, ”I only saw him raise his hand, and the weapon he held... was very small.”

”No,” Jin Yue replied, ”I can confirm that at least none fell to the ground.”

”Then the weapons are definitely not the same,” Xu Xin said, ”How could such a small weapon have such a large shell casing?”

Keke brought back this shell casing, which was two fingers wide, a very large bullet shell.

”That much is certain,” Xu Ying leaned back against the sofa backrest, ”Fei’Er just mentioned that the small pistol couldn’t have hit a fast-flying pterosaur in mid-air, and this shell casing, at least, is from a sniper rifle. The shooter was exceptionally skilled to hit the wing with one shot.”

Sniper rifle...

Xu Xin squinted, ”So, someone had already set up a sniper rifle there, waiting for me to return and then attack me?”

If that’s the case...

”If that’s the case, then the person who attacked Xu Xin couldn’t be the man you three met, who came looking for his son,” Ji Chaoyang expressed Xu Xin’s inner thought.

”Huh? Why?” Zeng Tao asked, puzzled.

”...Because he wouldn’t have had the time, nor the shooting skill,” Shi Wanyun replied.

”No time?” Lou Fei’Er muttered, ”Hmm... indeed, we had just parted with that man not long before and had just transmitted back from Zone 1 when we saw the scene of Xu Xin getting in trouble.”

”Ah, that means unless the person transmitted along with you, he wouldn’t have had time to prepare,” Wang Lei slapped his hands, realizing.

”But... he couldn’t have transmitted with you using the Transmission Array,” Xu Ying looked at the light column of the Transmission Array outside, ”This Transmission Array is already affected by the World Tree, without our permission, the other party can’t use it. Unless... you brought him over.”

Xu Ying looked at the three.

Deep down, she seemed not fully convinced of the three people before her.