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Chapter 343: Chapter 69: The Echo of Thunder
Chapter 343: Chapter 69: The Echo of Thunder
The mud-color radiation dust shot straight into the sky.
The gunner sitting on top of the combat vehicle bit down on his teeth, twisting the heavy machine gun with his leather gloves. The golden bullet chain swung provocatively in the bloody air.
“You little bastards! Come on!”
Flaming red bullets whizzed into the tornado-like radiation dust, as the third-tier “Fire-addict” gunner cursed loudly, his eyes bloodshot with an indiscernible mix of fear and rage.
No sooner had he spoken than with a puff sound, Li Yan burst from the dense dust and shot out of the sky on his own!
Hundreds of bullets poured down like a violent storm. Li Yan, suspended in mid-air with bare hands, pushed off the mountain ladder, and like a cannonball, he smashed onto the rooftop below. Then, rising from the ground with one hand, he dodged the sniper scope in a flurry of movements. By the time he stood up again, he was less than thirty meters from the gunner on top of the combat vehicle!
The clunky combat vehicle’s cannon had just turned around, unable to catch even a glimpse of Li Yan.
The gunner, his head down, heard the mournful clash of steel on the vehicle’s roof and let out a roar, pulling a sixty-centimeter long bayonet from under the heavy gun. He stabbed forward on instinct, but all he saw was a blur as a fist reeking of blood filled his vision!
Li Yan’s knuckles sank half a centimeter into the gunner’s face, pulling out a handful of sticky black blood when he withdrew his right hand.
As for the driver inside the combat vehicle, he was taken away by a round of “Blood Dip.”
Bang~
Li Yan tilted his head, and a bullet flattened the edge of the mountain peak behind him.
Several drones swooped down, Li Yan charged and leapt off the combat vehicle, vanishing between the buildings shrouded in smoke and flames after just two bounds.
All that remained were scattered corpses, clueless drones circling back and forth, and no fewer than seven combat vehicles standing intact on the spot.
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“If it’s avoidable, don’t initiate the teleportation ability. He can really sense the direction of my bullets; it’s not just a simple dynamic visual acuity. What a monster.”
Song Zuo sighed, with the communicator by his hand buzzing non-stop. He tapped to accept it.
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“Mr. Song?”
Mo Sui’s voice came through.
“Was it you who broke the target’s left arm?”
“Lucky shot. Won’t happen a second time.”
“You’ve been a huge help. We’ve reached the battlefield and are about to launch an attack on the target. When the time comes, I hope Mr. Song can coordinate with us.”
“I will.”
Song Zuo’s tone remained flat without any fluctuation.
“Aside from basic shooting ability and large-scale firepower, this man’s capabilities are truly godlike for a vanguard on the battlefield.”
Mei Hu couldn’t help but admire.
“In open terrain, even the dynamic vision of a third-tier soldier can’t keep up with his speed. A monster’s intuition makes all predictive fire from cruising weapons a waste. Plus, he has the mental shock and concussion-type defensive armor. If the skill level isn’t up to a certain threshold, no amount of soldiers can corner him, just like a martial warrior from ancient novels.”
“Zhao Zilong of Changshan? There are always limits to a person…”
Mo Sui spoke with a cold tone.
…
The bare mountain was blasted into one crater after another, and the solemn temple buildings were set ablaze with raging fires.
Swollen Face, carrying a black war blade, stepped onto the blood-soaked battlefield strewn with debris.
Surrounding him were perilous peaks and sparse plants, with tall and short buildings in disarray. Unburnt wild fires were visible everywhere.
“Swollen Face, are you in position?”
“I’ve got to grab my gear first.”
Around his neck, he wore a necklace glowing with blue light crystals.
“The intensity of the opponent’s mental shock is extremely rare. Any soldier below the fourth tier loses combat capability the instant they enter his attack range. Xiao Ye’s ‘Illusion Viewer’ ability was almost completely useless before she was killed. You’re ranked first in close-quarters knife combat in the action team; this time we’re counting on you to restrain the opponent.”
“I’ve seen the combat recording from the helmet of one of the casualties, no big deal. That swordsmanship, flashy but insubstantial.”
Swollen Face, special operations fourth-tier soldier type: Chariot Judgment.
He and Li Yan were the same type of ability users, both monsters in close combat.
As Swollen Face spoke, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Li Yan stood by a suspension bridge, still chewing on something.
“Ptui~”
Li Yan spat out a bitten-off green carrot top, licking his teeth, “Seems like there’s an extra person around.”
Hearing this, Swollen Face responded with a snide smile, “You’ve broken an arm, yet you still talk big.”
“Who told you I was missing a hand?”
As Li Yan spoke, he raised his Azure Phoenix Sword and slashed at Swollen Face.
Although Swolen Face did not personally experience the successive deaths of Xiao Ye and Ye Ying, he was certainly not about to joke with his own life at this juncture. As the blood in his veins boiled instantly, his black saber tore through the air with a high-pitched screech as he collided with Li Yan.
Bang!
Amid the grating sound of impact, Swollen Face’s hands throbbed with pain, but Li Yan was sent flying backward, rolling into a thick patch of Venus Ferns.
Swollen Face moved like silent thunder; his saber chopped into the bushes, and a bright sword tip pierced through the lush greenery, directly facing two bright scarlet lights.
Sabers clashed with swords!
A figure somersaulted up from the bushes, covered in scarlet stripes and decked in mottled black armor, his face hidden behind the fierce facade of the Star Helmet. In one hand, a sharp longsword, in the other, a black short halberd, he pounced towards Swollen Face, and the two engaged in a frenzied melee.
“Transformed? His arm is attached again?! An ability from the outsiders?”
Recalling Li Yan’s earlier words, Swollen Face immediately made this connection.
The abilities of the outsiders were bizarre; Swollen Face did not spend too much time doubting.
As soon as Swollen Face located Li Yan, the response team members received the news through their tactical goggles, and a variety of automated weaponry, including autonomous firepower spiders and drones, started closing in from all directions.
Boom!
A low-speed grenade exploded behind the Black Rider Ghost, flames bursting forth; the Black Rider Ghost let out a mournful howl.
Bullets and kinetic energy could not harm him, but neither Wupozi’s sorcery nor the Nightmares Armor Body could thrive against flames, their ultimate bane.
“Effective!”
Mo Sui clenched his fists secretly as he rushed to the battlefield.
Holding a new model sniper rifle atop a high point, Mei Hu frowned and said, “Something’s not right. Why do I feel his movements are less sharp than before?”
A small black dot circled behind her head. Mei Hu noticed but disregarded it, mistaking it for a normal wilderness insect.
Six response team members fired continuously, and each time the grenade struck, it caused a violent explosion. The Black Rider Ghost was flung onto the suspension bridge like a powerless weed, the Azure Phoenix Sword falling from his grasp.
The response team members raised their muzzles, but the Black Rider Ghost in a dire situation turned and hacked the bridge’s ropes with his halberd and grabbed onto the planks. The lengthy suspension bridge collapsed thunderously as the Black Rider Ghost’s body swung into the abyss.
As wind roared and the view quickly shifted among the cliff edges, a sudden bright red gleam flickered in the eyes of the Black Rider Ghost. Before he could even relax, a segment of a saber thrust into his waist and out his chest!
Swollen Face’s visage abruptly appeared behind the Black Rider Ghost. Both fell off the cliff, the Black Rider Ghost clinging to the bridge plank, and the whole weight of Swollen Face, 150 kilograms, pressing down on the saber that impaled the Black Rider Ghost!
Mo Sui stood at the edge of the cliff, with a heavy black firearm in his hands, the rifle scope fixed on the Black Rider Ghost’s head more than a hundred meters away.
Dudu dudu~
A communication signal began to ring. Mo Sui squinted and chose to answer.
“I’m Song Zuo, the armored man is the target’s accomplice, not the target himself.”
Mo Sui’s mind exploded from his skull right down to his tailbone, he didn’t even question Song; instead, he angrily demanded, “Why didn’t you say it sooner?!”
“I made an oral report before with Black Star Chariot, and you were also present at the time. The special operation team’s channel does not match the public channel, and you didn’t give me the channel password, so I couldn’t get in. In fact, I just discovered that the operation team ignored my words. By the way, your communication signal now, you dialed to me fifteen minutes ago, encrypted number, I called back to get in touch with you. Otherwise, I could not find this private number.”
As he was speaking, the lifesigns of Mei Hu suddenly dimmed on the team members’ goggles.
Mo Sui was about to burst with fury, he twisted his neck, the veins standing out, and turned his head, and at that moment, another brutal gunfire resounded through the mountains once again!
Every soldier turned in shock, looking around, and roughly five or six seconds later, half a corpse fell from a deserted building 400 meters away. Judging by the long legs and protruding buttocks, it was once the body of a sexy woman with a rating above eighty.
…
Li Yan wiped the dirty blood off his face and looked around, but found nothing.
In the few breaths it took to kill Mei Hu, a deadly exploding sniper bullet had come in like a ghost, trying to blast the two of them into pieces together. However, it was not successful and only shattered the upper half of Mei Hu’s body.
He initially was searching for Song Zuo—confronting the main force of Black Star Chariot under that old man’s surveillance was still too dangerous.
Unsurprisingly, he stumbled upon another sniper, and of course, Li Yan saw no reason to let her go.
What was laughable was that to date, the harm and pressure inflicted on Li Yan by the Black Star Chariot’s tier-four elites was still less than what Song Zuo, a tier-three Hell’s Vanguard, had done to him.
Mei Hu praised Li Yan as a god amongst battlefield vanguards, but compared to Song Zuo, who spent an entire life in the hell of slaughter and gunfire, perhaps he was the one truly deserving of that title.
Taking a deep breath, Li Yan approached the edge of the rooftop. Although he was covered in injuries and fatigue, the oppressive aura emanating from him was even more intense than before.
The wind was wild. Li Yan stared into the distance at a swath of deathly white.
Regardless of what had transpired there, the signs of the fallen fruit implied an end.
He too needed to make a quick getaway.
“A team captain, one with a blade, three left.”
He turned his gaze back to the battlefield, to those response team members.
