203 – In a Tent

For some reason, Jia's group did not know of our arrival. So, I chose to do a surprise attack using mermans. I ordered them to go straight ahead and open fire on the camp.

The camp members immediately panicked. The women who were doing activities—strangely, no one was wearing any clothes—were scattered. At the same time, the men came forward and lay down or did cover while holding firearms.

I deliberately didn't order the mermans to let the combatants hide first. After that, the army of the half-fish creatures could all go out. They implanted tubular tools into the ground, which magically brought out metallic plates that were strung into hiding places.

The sound of gun explosions began to echo with the hisses of the merman's water rifles. The members of Jia's group were far more numerous. Still, they couldn't do anything because their shots only hit the metal covers of the mermans. Some of them fell under the gunfire of the half-fish creatures.