Hunting the World

White RiceQidian

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Featured Fiction War and Military Fiction MercenarySniperSystem FlowRise from Humble RootsComing of AgeFast-Paced FictionNorth Africa

Summary

Li Changjiang, a young man who failed the college entrance exam, travels with his father to North Africa for work just as war erupts in Benghazi. Amid explosions and gunfire, father and son are separated. Waking from a severe injury-induced coma, Li unexpectedly gains an aiming assistance system that displays shooting distance and ballistic trajectories. A rookie who has never fired a gun is forced to take up arms to survive and kills a rebel soldier for the first time in street fighting. Searching for his father, he navigates between warring factions and various forces, rising step by step from a marksman to an ace sniper. He forms a hunter squad that takes on mercenary contracts, carrying out high-risk assassination missions across the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe, and beyond, ultimately reaching the pinnacle of the global mercenary world.

Editor's review

This is a classic military system power-fantasy. The sniper details, firearm specifications, and urban combat descriptions are quite hardcore. The protagonist's growth from a failed exam student to an elite mercenary moves at a fast pace, making it suitable for military enthusiasts and readers who crave passionate combat. Its weaknesses are a strong sense of system cheat powers, relatively thin character development, and increasingly formulaic later plotlines; readers interested in serious military nonfiction or slow-burn coming-of-age stories may find it lacking in depth.

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Reading tips

  1. Start reading continuously from Chapter 1 to experience the protagonist's psychological transformation from civilian to soldier
  2. Pay attention to the sniper tactics and firearms details as supplementary military reading
  3. Treat the system setting as a power-fantasy aid and don't over-scrutinize its plausibility; you'll enjoy the pace more

About the publisher

Qidian

Qidian is a platform whose catalogue brings together online literature, with about 45,000 titles in the library spanning categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, science fiction, selected fiction and quality web novels. Representative titles include Reincarnation Paradise, War Soldier Leon, The Fairy Is Fierce (also known as Tai Mang), The Expert Is Right Beside Me, Dragon Herder, You Should Cross the Mountains Like a Hero, The Adventures of a Clever Girl and Summoning Heroes of All Ages in Another World, with themes extending from fantasy and xianxia to science fiction and adventure. Representative authors available in the library include Na Yi Zhi Wen Zi, Chi Gua Zi Qun Zhong, Guan Guan Gong Zi, Chenxing LL, Luan, Chen Mo De Ai, Piao Yi Dao Zhang and Dong Tian Bu Leng. Their works mostly appear as serialized web fiction aimed at readers who prefer long genre fiction. Public information on its founding background and scale is limited, so no inferences are made here; the description is based solely on the library's titles and categories.

FAQ

Is this book completed? Yes, it is completed with 712 chapters; the final chapter is "The Missing Hunter Squad."
What is the protagonist's system? A scope-like assistance system that displays shooting distance and ballistics and automatically locks onto targets.
Why does the protagonist go to Africa? After failing the college entrance exam, he goes to Africa with his father as a migrant worker and is separated from him during the war.
Is it suitable for military enthusiasts? The firearms specifications and street-combat tactics are described in detail, giving military enthusiasts a strong sense of immersion.

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About the author

White Rice Author

White Rice is an online-fiction author about whom little public information is available. Three of the author's works are listed here: Hunt the World, Reverse My 1997, and The Capital Is Earth. Judging by the common categories, the writing spans urban fiction, war and military fiction, and science fiction: some stories are set against a realistic urban backdrop, while others involve military operations or future settings, showing a fairly wide range of subject matter. Reverse My 1997 suggests a return to an earlier era and a relived life, Hunt the World leans toward military and action-driven plotting, and The Capital Is Earth shifts to a science-fiction perspective. Overall, the works fall mainly into the categories of male-oriented fiction and premium fiction, aimed at readers who prefer strong plots, fast pacing, and genre reading. Because basic details such as nationality and dates of birth and death are unknown, no speculation is offered here.