Kamiyā Yuu's intervention split the battlefield in two.
On the map of the game 'Washington Has Fallen,' the battle took place on what was essentially a bombed-out city street. Although the map offered numerous interconnected routes, the high-rise where Kamiyā Yuu was positioned overlooked a vast open area. The way the map's cover objects connected inevitably left gaps, and any enemy who entered the effective range of Kamiyā Yuu's semi-automatic sniper rifle never survived for more than a second. This meant he had successfully flanked the enemy, cutting off the frontline forces suppressing Kamiyā Sora from their rear support, greatly easing her burden.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Five consecutive gunshots rang out, and the five enemies attempting to force their way through the blockade all fell on the spot.
"Damn it! Is that guy using some kind of auto-aim cheat? Even players wearing heavy armor are getting one-shot headshots? The headshot hitbox is so ridiculously strict that even King couldn't pull off shots this difficult!"
The player codenamed Fox cursed in Korean. The "King" he referred to was a famous German professional player, universally acknowledged as the strongest sniper in 'Modern Battlefield 4.' During one match where his team had been at an overwhelming disadvantage, he single-handedly turned the tide by sniping dozens of opponents from another top-tier team in succession. His extraordinary skill had earned him the nickname "Death's Scythe." Any enemy caught in his sights was like someone with Death's scythe hanging around their neck—one gentle pull, and their head would roll.
Yet just moments ago, they had deliberately sent five heavily armored characters charging forward together, only to have every one of them killed with a single shot. It was even more outrageous than using an aimbot.
Still, Fox knew cheating was impossible. Not even hacks could guarantee one-shot kills against heavily armored characters. Moreover, from the spectator's perspective, this bizarre medic was clearly playing with a console controller. Using cheats on a console was about as absurd as an ordinary person jumping off a twenty-story building and walking away unharmed.
"Giraffe, hurry up and reinforce us! Our side has already grouped up for defense and is engaging 'Sky'! We won't be able to hold out much longer!"
"Report! All solo players have been eliminated. The only enemies remaining are the medic with fourteen respawns left and the non-respawnable 'Sky.'"
"Lion, what should we do now?"
The commander codenamed Lion fell silent for a moment before making a decisive call.
"The frontline squad will launch a suicide assault. Your objective is to eliminate 'Sky' directly. Everyone else returns to the defensive line. Do not initiate any attacks until the match ends."
It was a smart and decisive order.
With an overwhelming numerical advantage, defending against the two monsters—the medic and 'Sky'—was far easier than attacking them. All they had to do was wait another ten minutes. The match would end automatically, and thanks to the huge difference in remaining respawns, Team TBC would be declared the winner.
With their coordinated teamwork and complete disregard for their own lives, the remaining four-man TBC frontline squad had little difficulty taking down 'Sky,' who had no teammates left to support her.
And they succeeded.
Score: 10–85
Time Remaining: 7:56
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"Game Over."
Red letters appeared over the black-and-white death screen before Kamiyā Sora.
Three of the four enemies who had launched the suicide attack were killed, while the last player managed to eliminate Kamiyā Sora before being immediately headshot by Kamiyā Yuu, who had returned to defend.
Kamiyā Sora didn't seem interested in her character's death at all. She set the controller on the table, hugged her rabbit plush, and lazily sprawled across the sofa.
"Yuu, I'll leave the rest to you."
"A correct decision."
Kamiyā Yuu praised the enemy's decisiveness before chuckling.
"That's fine. As long as I'm still engaged with the enemy, the match won't end even if the timer runs out, right?"
The game had such a mechanic. It was just like the game 'Overwatch' from his previous world—as long as your side still had someone contesting the objective or escorting the payload, the match wouldn't end when the timer reached zero.
"Mhm."
Still hugging her rabbit plush, Kamiyā Sora quietly watched his screen, showing no desire to continue playing.
Smiling, Kamiyā Yuu said, "Then there shouldn't be a problem. Even if we lose, at least it won't be by such an embarrassing margin."
He controlled his character toward the enemy base while carefully observing his surroundings to avoid being ambushed at the last moment.
The enemy was far more cautious than he had expected.
He encountered no resistance the entire way.
Only when he was about to enter the enemy base did Kamiyā Yuu suddenly stop his character.
It remained motionless for quite some time at the corner of a hallway inside a ruined building.
Kamiyā Yuu froze.
His character had come to an abrupt halt.
"What's wrong?"
Lying quietly beside him while hugging her rabbit plush, Kamiyā Sora asked softly.
Why had he suddenly stopped?
Even if there were enemies ahead, shouldn't he scout them first?
Kamiyā Yuu himself couldn't answer that question.
A strange, vague sensation told him that two enemies were waiting just around the corner.
There was no minimap.
There were no indicators on the screen.
Yet he had developed an unmistakable, bizarre certainty.
The feeling was both unfamiliar and strangely familiar.
It was similar to the sensation he experienced when using the consciousness space to enter the internet of his previous world.
If that experience had been an entire ocean...
Then what he was sensing now was merely a single drop of seawater.
"It's nothing. I just have a feeling there might be enemies lying in ambush along this route."
Kamiyā Yuu took a deep breath.
His heart was filled with indescribable emotions.
Shock?
Excitement?
He couldn't tell.
Perhaps because he had become so focused on winning, this strange perception had naturally surfaced and was instinctively accepted by him.
He backed his character away and found another concealed path leading upstairs.
After reaching the floor above the hallway corner, he peered through a cracked section of the wall.
Sure enough, two enemies were waiting in ambush at the end of the corridor.
One held a sniper rifle aimed directly at the hallway corner.
The other covered the opposite doorway with a machine gun.
Had Kamiyā Yuu peeked around that corner moments earlier, a professional sniper would likely have killed him before his character model had even fully emerged.
His character was a medic with extremely poor defensive stats.
Even a sniper round to the leg or another non-vital body part would still count as an instant kill.
Kamiyā Yuu found an opening leading down to the lower hallway.
Without hesitation, his character jumped.
While still in midair, he aimed down the sights of the SG1 sniper rifle.
His crosshair first settled on the sniper covering the hallway...
Then immediately shifted to the machine gunner facing the doorway.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two bullets.
Two kills.
Like twin blossoms blooming on the same branch.
The instant Kamiyā Yuu's character landed on the hallway floor, both enemies defending the end of the corridor collapsed simultaneously.
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WRITER'S NOTE: It seems a lot of people keep saying I've given the protagonist an overpowered cheat ability. Honestly, his cheat isn't nearly as powerful as people imagine. No matter how much he learns or copies through the consciousness space, he's still limited by what an ordinary person can do. To put it simply, even if he gave it everything he had, it would still be impossible for him to produce ten anime series in a single year.
Compared to the protagonist of 'Animation China,' his cheat is much weaker. That protagonist at least had alien technology capable of consciousness imaging. Producing twenty-four episodes of an anime in a month was effortless for him. As for my protagonist, 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' is a perfect example—creating a twenty-four-episode series would require him and the entire Yosuganosora Animation Studio to work painstakingly for more than half a year.
So after giving it some thought, I figured it was about time for the protagonist's cheat to develop a little. Overall, it won't become too outrageous. He won't reach the level he had in his previous world, where he could casually invade the entire internet. By the late stages, he'll probably be similar to protagonists in psychic hacker novels—using the consciousness space to freely transfer things between the two worlds, writing code directly with his mind, and so on.
This is mainly to pave the way for development into other fields, such as games. Of course, the main storyline will still revolve around the animation industry, with yours truly expressing my opinions on various famous anime through the protagonist.