Chapter 783
Cathy and Caroline immediately dodged.
Aria tilted her head, and an arrow grazed her hair before sinking into the tree trunk behind her.
Cathy glanced back and asked, “Is everyone alright?”
Allen said. “Don’t mention it.”
Liz said to Aria, “There’s an instructor at the State Security Bureau who’s a real expert in ancient hidden weapons. He invented most of these. Compared to the others, this one’s pretty basic.”
Aria said, “Thanks.”
While Cathy and Caroline were grabbing the resource packs, Aria picked up those arrows.
Jocelyn looked puzzled. She asked, “What are you picking those up for?”
Aria asked, “Doesn’t this count as a resource?”
“You can’t use those to hurt anyone,” Jocelyn said.
“I’m not going to hurt anyone. You never know when something like this might come in handy,” Aria replied.
The State Security Bureau wasn’t short on cash-they’d even gone so far as to remodel a whole uninhabited zone and rig it up with tons of cameras to monitor everything live.
Outside, a veteran watching the big screen nodded in satisfaction and said, “That girl’s really sharp.”
The rules said one couldn’t use weapons on people, but there was nothing about animals.
By collecting stuff like this, if they ran into any wild animals, they could just take them out-no need to fight with their bare hands. It would be way less effort.
Jocelyn was a first-timer and had no idea one could even do that.
Cathy and Caroline got the resource packs.
Noticing the arrows in Aria’s hand, Cathy couldn’t help but laugh. She said, “Yeah, that’s totally allowed. As long as you hurt anyone, anything you find in the uninhabited zone is fair game.”
Aria said, “Let’s check what’s inside the packs first.”
Emily opened the backpack and found water and some ration bars inside.
Cathy said, “We got lucky-at least we won’t go hungry for the next two days.”
“Let’s take turns carrying it,” Aria suggested.
“No problem,” said Cathy.
As the morning mist faded away, Cathy’s team kept going. When they got to a certain spot, Aria suddenly came to a halt.
Cathy asked, “What’s wrong?”
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“There should be a resource pack here,” Aria said.
The other six looked where Aria was staring, but didn’t spot anything.
Cathy said, “I don’t see anything. Maybe it’s a trap.”
Aria pointed to a hidden camera and said, “Whenever there’s a camera, there’s a good chance there’s a resource pack nearby:
“There is a camera, Cathy said.
Emily stepped closer to take a look, then followed the direction the camera was pointed in, using a stick to push aside the
grass.
The next second, a long, dark shadow shot out.
Emily quickly sidestepped and kicked out.
The shadow was sent flying. It was a venomous snake. It hit the ground, but tried to lunge at Emily again.
Just then, with a quick flick of her arm, Aria sent the broken arrow flying, nailing the snake to the ground.
Emily exclaimed, “I didn’t know you could use it like that.”
Allison rushed over, shuddering as the venomous snake kept writhing on the ground, goosebumps all over her arms. She hurried to Aria and asked, “Can I have one arrow?”
Aria handed her three arrows, keeping just one for herself.
“She nailed it from that far away?” someone watching the livestream exclaimed in disbelief.
Another chimed in, “Without specialized training, pulling off a shot that precise would be almost impossible.”
Owen, catching their conversation, just curved his lips in a faint smile. He thought, ‘If she had her needles, she’d be even more in her element.’
Tessa commented, “These cameras are way too obvious. Next time, let’s not make it so easy to spot the resource packs by aiming the cameras right at them.”
“Understood,” someone replied, though they thought they hid those cameras pretty well.
Tessa said, “Let’s see how Fabian’s team is doing.”
The resource pack Cathy’s team found was a map this time.
