Ten minutes later, the gunfire ceased.
Roy stood amidst a pile of corpses, covered in blood. He wasn't in great shape; his clothes were riddled with bullet holes, and his left arm was fractured from a close-range shotgun blast.
However, he had managed to eliminate all the mercenaries, so he considered the cost acceptable.
The only troublesome part was digging the bullets embedded in his skin out. Time was also of the essence, as he didn't know when the time bomb would detonate.
So, Roy decided to forgo treating his injuries. He'd just let the bleeding continue; he wouldn't die right away anyway.
Instead, he gathered the mercenaries' weapons and ammunition. These were all good items, and even if he didn't need them himself, he could sell them.
During this, Roy noticed that all the mercenaries' uniforms had the same logo, which read "Black Mountain Military Company."
After collecting his spoils, Roy immediately went to find Wade and Seth.
"We can go!"
The cousins were startled when they saw Roy covered in blood.
"Boss Roy, are you alright?"
Wade still showed some concern for Roy's well-being.
"I won't die just yet! Let's get out of here quickly. Those bastards planted a time bomb in the nursing home, it could go off at any moment!"
Hearing about the time bomb, the cousins didn't dare delay any longer and grabbed their bags of medicine to run.
"Boss Roy, what about those mercenaries?"
"I took care of all of them."
Wade and Seth were filled with awe and respect, especially after they walked out of the Gospel Nursing Home and saw seven or eight armored vehicles. They knew then just how much Roy's words meant.
"Be careful, there might still be some mercenaries left!"
Just as he finished speaking, several ambushing mercenaries opened fire on Roy and the others.
These remaining mercenaries must have learned about the changes inside the nursing home through their radios, so they were lying in wait outside, ready to ambush anyone who came out.
However, what these mercenaries didn't know was that their positions had already been sensed by Roy due to the fear they were emitting.
The moment the mercenaries poked their heads out, Roy had already drawn his Smith & Wesson M625 revolver and pulled the trigger.
Six remaining mercenaries, six revolver bullets, not a single one wasted.
Even after Roy had run out of bullets and the mercenaries had fallen to the ground, Wade and Seth hadn't even reacted yet.
"What are you guys standing around for? Get in the car!"
It wasn't until Roy got into the Chevrolet Camaro, started the engine, and called out to Wade and Seth that the two of them snapped out of their daze.
"Boss Roy, your gun skills are amazing! Even the cowboys in movies aren't as good as you!"
As soon as Wade got into the car, he started flattering Roy, showering him with all sorts of compliments.
"Stop with the flattery!"
Roy was certain that he hadn't locked the Chevrolet Camaro. So where had that honking sound he'd heard earlier come from?
It couldn't have been the six remaining mercenaries outside who were bored and decided to open the Chevrolet Camaro and honk the horn, could it?
With this question in mind, Roy drove away from the Gospel Nursing Home.
Less than three minutes after driving away, a deafening explosion came from behind them. In the rearview mirror, they could see a huge blaze of fire, and the whole mountain shook.
Those mercenaries' bomb had a considerable yield!
Seeing this scene, Wade and Seth were both a little worried.
"What kind of people were those mercenaries? How could they play things so big?"
"I don't know, I only know they're from a company called Black Mountain Military."
Hearing this, Seth paused for a moment. Roy saw his strange expression through the rearview mirror.
"Seth, do you know something about this?"
Seth hesitated for a moment but decided to tell them what he knew, after all, the three of them were in this together now.
"Black Mountain Military Company was hired by the Gospel Nursing Home. They used to work as guards there."
Sure enough, these mercenaries hadn't appeared out of thin air. This meant that there was a huge secret behind the Gospel Nursing Home, otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to send 54 fully armed and well-trained mercenaries to destroy the nursing home.
Wade curiously asked his cousin, "Cousin, what exactly was hidden in the Gospel Nursing Home? Why did they have to use mercenaries and explosives to cover everything up?"
Seth was silent. Having worked at the Gospel Nursing Home for three years, he had vaguely sensed something was amiss.
Roy answered Wade for Seth.
"My guess is human experiments."
Seth looked at Roy in shock.
"How did you know?"
"Hehe, what other tricks can the American government come up with? This kind of plot has been in movies more than once or twice."
Wade and Seth nodded.
Just as Roy said, the American government was far ahead in terms of being inhumane.
You might think the stories in movies are fake, but in reality, the American government's actions were even more outrageous. Things like sterilizing Black people, injecting children with smallpox virus, and conducting radiation experiments on cancer patients.
There was nothing you couldn't imagine that the American government wouldn't do.
That's why the ordinary people in America never trusted the government. Even when the government wanted to spray fire retardant during the Los Angeles fire, the people refused.
Who knew what kind of things were mixed into that fire retardant.
"Seth, I think it's best if you keep a low profile for a while after we get back. The nursing home might not know about me and Wade, but it would be bad if they found out you didn't die in the nursing home."
"You're right, I'll pack my bags and go abroad to lay low as soon as I get back!"
Seth didn't dare gamble on the integrity of the Gospel Nursing Home and Black Mountain Military Company. Going abroad was the best choice.
The rest of the journey was quite dull. Seth and Wade were both preoccupied with their thoughts and a little absent-minded, so no one spoke to Roy.
Let's switch the scene to Jennifer's house. At this time, the three girls were chatting casually.
It was mostly Jennifer and Nancy talking, while Needy was playing games on her laptop, only occasionally chiming in with a word or two.
Well, as a genius hacker, Needy naturally enjoyed playing computer games, and she was quite skilled at it.
If she had started streaming ten years later, she might have even become an e-sports goddess.
As they chatted, the girls' topic turned to Roy, just like how boys' topics were either politics or girls.
Girls' topics were similar, either gossip or boys.
"That's strange, Roy hasn't come back yet after so long?"
Jennifer calculated the time and realized that Roy had been gone for quite a while.
"Maybe something happened on the way?"
Nancy was still thinking positively.
"Logically, Roy should have been back half an hour ago, right? Could the car have broken down?"
Jennifer patted Needy on the shoulder.
"Needy, do you think we should call and ask?"
However, Needy didn't react at all.
"Needy, what's wrong?"
Jennifer pushed Needy in surprise, only to see her body slump and fall onto the bed.
Needy had fallen asleep without them noticing!
Needy was playing the recently popular shooting game CS. The various gunshots coming from her headphones made her feel like she was on a real battlefield.
Suddenly, the gunshots in the game disappeared, making Needy think she had lost connection.
Waterfall Town was just a small town, and fiber optic cables hadn't been laid yet, so Needy still had to use a dial-up connection via a phone line to play online games.
This type of internet connection wasn't very stable, and packet loss or disconnections often occurred, which Needy had gotten used to.
However, Needy found it strange that the current situation was different from a normal disconnection.
In CS, if you got disconnected, your character would stay in place and repeat the previous actions, but right now, the character Needy was controlling could still shoot normally.
Frowning slightly, Needy opened the data panel. In this game, she was on the police team, and all the other players had disappeared, but there was still one player on the terrorist team.
And this player's name was very special; it was actually Freddy.
Needy's heart skipped a beat. She immediately took off her headphones and looked for Jennifer and Nancy, only to find that the room was empty, and she was the only one left.
"Jennifer, Nancy, where are you? Don't scare me!"
No one responded. Needy realized she had fallen into a nightmare, and her fear began to grow.
At this moment, a sexy and magnetic male voice came from her ear.
"Oh, darling, are you looking for me?"
It was Roy's voice, and Needy was very surprised and happy.
However, when Needy turned her head to look at the person speaking, it was indeed wearing the clothes Roy had worn today, but the face was a rotten and ugly one.
"Hehe, are you surprised, little Needy?"
There was no surprise, only shock!
Needy screamed and started to run, but when she opened the door and ran out, she found herself in the classic warehouse map from the CS game.
Needy was very familiar with this map, so she was a bit confused when she saw herself appear at the police spawn point.
There was also an M4A1 on the ground. Without thinking, Needy picked it up, not even considering that she had never actually used a gun in real life.
"Hehehe, little Needy, here I come!"
Freddy's lewd laughter came from the distance. Needy frantically shot at Freddy.
Although she was a skilled shooter in the game, she had never used a real gun, which resulted in Needy's shooting skills being comparable to drawing an outline of a person.
However, Needy was lucky. The last bullet successfully hit Freddy, but he quickly respawned in the distance and continued walking towards her.
"Don't struggle anymore, little darling!"
Needy bit her lip and continued shooting, reloading her magazine according to the game's mechanics. She firmly believed that Roy would appear to save her, so she had no intention of giving up.
Just as Needy entered the real-life CS and started playing zombie mode, Jennifer and Nancy outside the dream were in a panic.
Jennifer had tried various methods to wake Needy, including slapping her face, pinching her thigh, and splashing her with cold water, but she couldn't wake Needy up no matter what she did.
"How could this happen? Nancy, have you encountered this kind of situation before?"
Nancy's face was also full of helplessness.
"Freddy's power is increasing, so he's able to prevent Needy from waking up."
"Then how did you defeat Freddy last time?"
Nancy opened her mouth, but in reality, her ability to defeat Freddy was largely due to the protagonist's aura helping her. She wasn't even sure if she could succeed again.
"I, I don't know!"
Jennifer was speechless. At this point, she could only rely on herself.
Closing her eyes, Jennifer began to contact the other soul within her body.
"Ms. Lilith, can you help me?"
Lilith quickly replied to Jennifer.
"I can't deal with Freddy, at most I can let you enter Needy's dream as well."
Jennifer replied without hesitation.
"Okay! Then let me enter Needy's dream too!"
"Are you sure? Your witch abilities are powerful, but you won't be able to defeat Freddy in a dream. This will only put yourself in danger as well."
"No matter what, I can't let Needy get hurt!"
When Jennifer opened her eyes again, Nancy noticed that her aura was different. She had become charming and seductive, and even Nancy, as a woman, felt that she was incredibly attractive.
"Jennifer, what are you..."
"Shhh! Don't interrupt me."
"Jennifer" extended her finger and touched Needy's forehead, then began chanting in a language Nancy couldn't understand at all, like some kind of spell.
This appearance of "Jennifer" made Nancy a little scared, and she began to pray in her heart for Roy to come back quickly.
On the other side, in Needy's dream, she had run out of ammunition and only had a USP pistol left in her hand, forcing her to constantly hide in the warehouse map.
Freddy wasn't in a hurry to kill Needy. Instead, he was constantly playing a cat-and-mouse game, making Needy produce fear, which further strengthened his power.
"Hahaha... little sweetheart, let Uncle Freddy give you a good pampering!"
Amidst the lewd laughter, Needy finally collapsed to the ground, exhausted.
Freddy felt that the time was right, so he walked up to Needy, ready to finish her off with his classic bladed glove.
"Goodbye, my cute little sweetheart!"
Just at this moment, Jennifer suddenly appeared in front of Needy, blocking Freddy's attack for her, but her stomach was also pierced by the bladed glove.
The sudden change made Freddy frown. He pulled out his bladed glove and took a few steps back.
"Jennifer!"
Needy was very shocked and quickly helped the fallen Jennifer, who had fallen backward.
"Needy, don't worry about me, I'm fine!"
"No, how can you be fine with such a serious injury?"
Needy looked down and saw that Jennifer's stomach was already healing rapidly. A few seconds later, apart from the hole in her clothes and her pale face, there was no sign that she had been injured.
This situation left Needy speechless for a moment, but Freddy, who was not far away, saw through something.
"So, you're a witch, how interesting! Speaking of which, I haven't tasted a witch yet, I wonder what the difference is compared to ordinary people!"
Freddy wiggled his bladed glove and slowly began to walk towards Jennifer and Needy.
Every step felt like it was stepping on their hearts, making them very nervous.
Outside the dream, a large hole suddenly appeared in Jennifer's body, and blood instantly stained the quilt red, scaring Nancy.
Nancy knew that Freddy had attacked Jennifer, which made her feel helpless and unsure of what to do.
Fortunately, after "Jennifer" frowned slightly, the wound on her stomach quickly healed, making Nancy wonder if she was the one who was dreaming.
Just then, Nancy heard the sound of a car outside the window.
In a small town like Waterfall Town, there would be no cars driving on the road late at night, so Nancy knew it was Roy who had returned. She quickly leaned on the windowsill and called out.
"Roy, Needy has been dragged into a nightmare by Freddy!"
"What did you say!"