Chapter 146: One Dead, One Injured
“What a coincidence, I know a bit of combat skills too.”
Su Huan licked the corner of his mouth and dove down.
Electric arcs filled the sky, crackling loudly.
The lightning spear that instantly formed in his hand was flung directly toward Zhong Cheng.
If the opponent had been promoted to Tier 3 “Master of Combat,” Su Huan would absolutely not humiliate himself, but the current Zhong Cheng was merely a Tier 1 “Fighter,” so it wasn’t impossible to try.
After all, in his previous life, he had been a dual domain evolver in energy supply and defense.
Facing the electric spear that arrived in an instant, even Zhong Cheng could only manage to raise his hand, his whole body flickering with electric light, with no chance to dodge.
Even with his extraordinarily strong physique, he was still paralyzed for a moment, and the three subordinates beside him had already rushed forward.
Then they flew back at an even faster speed.
“Bang bang bang——”
Su Huan spat out the grenade pin clenched between his teeth and landed steadily.
With one foot on the ground, he charged toward the man holding the saber, judging by the intensity of general energy perception that he was the weakest among the five!
One hand flickering with electric light reached forward.
A fierce light flashed in the saber-wielding man’s eyes as he turned and slashed toward Su Huan’s palm.
But Su Huan didn’t advance at all, pointing at the opponent from three meters away, a high-voltage electric current following the rainwater directly striking the opponent’s chest, the combat suit instantly pierced by the voltage.
Zhong Cheng’s furious shout came from behind, “Die!”
Electric arcs flickered in Su Huan’s eyes as he advanced instead of retreating, increasing the intensity of the current in his hand, his right hand reaching toward the side of his forehead.
A non-reflective arrow directly pierced his palm, trailing a string of blood beads as it shot backward.
Zhong Cheng’s earlier furious shout had been to cover the sound of the arrow cutting through the air.
However, the archer’s position had always been within Su Huan’s perception.
Although he hadn’t blocked the arrow, by sacrificing one palm, he had still deflected its trajectory, avoiding the fate of being killed by a single shot.
Su Huan’s back was fully exposed to Zhong Cheng.
Just one strike with the stick!
He was confident he could cripple Su Huan.
But just as he prepared to advance, his body’s combat instinct wildly warned him.
With almost no time to think, his foot instinctively shifted to the side.
A sharp impact immediately came from his shoulder blade.
The familiar sensation let him know he had been shot.
His powerful physical fitness didn’t numb him for long; through pain sensation feedback, he quickly judged that his bulletproof vest had been penetrated by the bullet.
‘Armor-piercing round, there’s a sniper!’
Zhong Cheng’s momentary hesitation gave Su Huan the opening.
Su Huan had already crashed into the saber-wielding man’s arms, his whole body flickering with electric light, his intact palm glowing red as he fiercely jabbed upward toward the man’s lower jaw.
His fingers pierced the flesh and blood, directly tearing off the windpipe and half the lower jaw.
He casually picked up the carbon fiber composite long saber, twisting his body and flipping his wrist, the blade slashing backward and down.
It collided with Zhong Cheng’s rubber short stick.
“Bang!”
Only then did the saber-wielding man’s corpse hit the ground, splashing up a circle of water.
The two separated immediately upon contact.
The immense force from the long saber made his entire palm and forearm tremble uncontrollably, but Su Huan still wore a faint smile on his face. Although he said nothing, that sentence was evident from his expression.
“Don’t ignore my comrade.”
Opposite him, Zhong Cheng’s face was ashen, his eyes fixed deadly on Su Huan, scalding blood sliding down the rubber short stick and mixing into the rainwater.
From the start of the clash to the end, it had lasted only a few breaths.
Su Huan injured one hand, while the opponent’s five had one dead and one wounded.
The acid rain that had fallen all day grew even more intense, already submerging their soles, a layer of blue ghostly light spreading outward from Su Huan’s sole of foot.
With almost no energy spent, a power grid spanning fifty meters in radius easily unfurled.
Taking advantage of their dodging, he ran toward the nearest engineering vehicle.
The soldier holding the Night Demon sharp claws tentatively lifted his foot, sensed the crisis, and quickly dodged to the side; a sniper round silently grazed past his ear, leaving a trail of blood.
Zhong Cheng frowned and looked toward the train.
On the second floor of the second carriage, the muzzle of the sniper rifle retracted, and the chilling sensation of being targeted finally receded.
Only those aimed at by a sniper knew how tricky this thing was.
We defenders dodge bullets not the ones leaving the barrel, but the sense of crisis when locked by the muzzle.
If the opponent never fires, they just threaten with the muzzle.
This battle can’t be fought.
Zhong Cheng raised his hand to wipe the rainwater from his face, spinning the rubber short stick in his palm.
Urgent breathing sounds came from the archer behind him—that fool was still trying to aim at the sniper position on the train.
“Ignore the sniper.” Zhong Cheng’s voice was like sandpaper scraping, “First ensure intercepting the train.”
As soon as the words fell, the remaining three dashed toward the engineering vehicle.
Zhong Cheng himself stood motionless in place, rainwater trickling down his torn raincoat, pooling into a pale red puddle at his feet.
……
The armored train had already been stopped by the Steel Council using various means, several engineering vehicles surrounding it to encircle the train in the middle.
Wielding various equipment, they hammered at the carriages.
The futile attacks from the first two defense lines had finally drained Xiao Ba’s energy, so there was no worry about metal manipulation destroying the vehicles.
However, after absorbing crystals for half a day, it should have accumulated some now.
But not to be wasted here.
Before coming down, Su Huan had told Xiao Ba not to act.
If the opponent still had a cannon at this time and fired at the front of the train with zero armor, it would be game over.
Adjusting his breathing rhythm, Su Huan climbed into the engineering vehicle’s driver’s cabin with one hand, stabbing the driver to death with a saber, kicking the corpse out, and only then sitting in the driver’s seat to catch his breath.
Just now, he had used a long saber to cut down two teams of soldiers guarding the engineering vehicles.
Even with his terrifying energy reserves, under this high-intensity continuous combat, he was starting to struggle, his internal energy already below thirty percent, not even daring to use the electromagnetic sniper rifle.
Merely equivalent to one Lin Jin, or one and a half Xiao Ba.
No choice, the train conductor was left only with energy.
At this moment, the engineering vehicle underfoot was still using a large electric drill frame to bore into the train, already creating a hole over half a meter wide in the armor.
Su Huan looked at the pile of levers on the control panel without panicking, found the steering wheel, and reversed the vehicle.
The electric drill moved away from the nearly shattered carriage.
The adjacent engineering vehicle was still adjusting its angle, that rock-breaker-like thing already raised; Su Huan’s eyelid twitched—if that thing gave the train a “massage,” the vehicle would fall apart on the spot.
How could that be allowed?
He turned the front of the vehicle and rammed it while the opponent’s center of gravity was unsteady, flipping it over.
Several evolver soldiers rushed up, one of them with a rather special ability, a blast of airflow suddenly stabbing toward Su Huan’s eyes.
If not for the energy reacting too violently, he would have been blinded on the spot.
Su Huan kicked open the car door and pulled two grenades from his bosom, throwing them out.
Looking up, two more people were clinging to the glass on the right, staring viciously at him, one of them flickering with electric light on his body.
A strong numbing sensation came from the nearby metal.
Another energizer, unfortunately not advanced.
General energy’s conversion efficiency was too low; even at full output, the influence on Su Huan wasn’t great—with his current lightning resistance, plugging into an outlet barehanded would just perk him up.
To truly hard-control him, at least Tier 1 was needed.
But with both discharging at each other, who would control whom was unknown.
“Don’t be anxious, the train conductor has plenty of treasures here!”
Su Huan tugged at the corner of his mouth, like placating a mischievous child with candy, opened the window, and threw out two more.
Specializing in fulfilling every request.
This was the train conductor’s close-combat secondary weapon.
“Bang bang bang…”
The explosive blast wave lifted his long hair, revealing that pair of eyes gradually filling with madness, the engineering vehicle crushing over the large and small figures on the ground, charging toward the next one.
“Boom——”
The three-hundred-ton mining truck was directly flipped sideways by this violent surging force, its steel skeleton scraping the ground and sparking blinding fire.
The searchlight on the roof cut a pale arc through the rain curtain, smashing down like a guillotine blade toward the charging Zhong Cheng.
Zhong Cheng retreated half a step, switching the rubber short stick to his uninjured hand, drawing a semicircle in front of him.
“Bang!”
