Chapter 91: Three In A Row!
He Jie sat on the ground, pressing bullets one by one into the magazine.
The crisp sound was like a beast grinding its teeth, ready to deliver a fatal strike at any moment.
Before, he was a gambler who had put everything on the table, and now he was a gambler who had lost all his possessions, already deeply in debt, with his only hope being to turn things around at this gambling table.
The situation had now reversed.
It wasn’t without benefits; he had also shifted from the open to the shadows.
“Hua Gou, note down what I say—”
“Hua Gou has already fallen in battle. The following information will be recorded by Hei Gou.”
Another scout said.
He Jie paused for a moment, then continued.
“They have at least two manipulators, one who can manipulate sound, one who can manipulate electric current. They might be the group mentioned in the data that clashed with mutated beasts on the Mo Jiang Bridge in the high-temperature zone.”
“Moreover, they have rich combat experience and extremely strong anti-reconnaissance awareness. They are very likely manpower sent by other forces to cause trouble.”
At this point, He Jie thought of those five grenades.
He always had the feeling that the opponent had seen through him, though there was no real basis for it, but the Defenders relied on intuition, not reason.
“What about the evolutionary degree?”
The scout looked up at him.
“For the evolutionary degree, write… approaching Tier 1. No, just write Tier 1.”
He Jie thought about Su Huan’s electric current intensity and said thoughtfully.
Actually, he felt Su Huan hadn’t reached Tier 1 yet; otherwise, as a fellow Tier 1, he couldn’t have so easily withstood the opponent’s electric current without sustaining serious injuries.
The lethality of such manipulators was often terrifying, able to easily crush the Defenders in the early stages.
Only by saying this could he make the higher-ups take it seriously.
And to a certain extent, reduce the pressure from the failure of this task, but a failure was a failure. Still, leaving even a sliver of a chance for reversal was good.
“If we don’t see White Dog and the others on the way back, add a piece of information above: there is an unknown Tier 1 evolver on the train.”
“Alright, recording complete.”
“Then withdraw from the battlefield and bring the information back.”
Hei Gou was stunned for a moment, then clearly said “Yes.”
Silently placing the extra magazines from his body on the ground, he quickly left the building.
“They’re coming.”
The Demolition Man said in a low voice, gripping the thing in his hand tightly.
He Jie instantly shoved the magazine into the rifle, slapped the ground with one hand, flipped himself upright, his eyes revealing a ferocious gleam. “Prepare for battle!”
“Wait, the number of vehicles is wrong!”
He Jie quickly stepped forward and looked down; there was only one SUV and one fire truck.
The other two fire trucks and the off-road vehicle had vanished without a trace.
The opponent was clearly playing the game of feint and reality.
The Demolition Man turned back to look at him. “Do we fight?”
He Jie didn’t hesitate at all, raising the muzzle. “Fight!”
……
A sniper lay on top of a high-rise building one kilometer away, with a metal shelf beneath him blocking the flowing acid rain, covered by a large rain cloth.
He held a massive heavy sniper rifle in his hands, its bipod propped on the ground, observing the battlefield outside through the scope.
From this position, he could take in the situation across most of the area.
The explosion marking the start of the battle naturally didn’t escape his eyes.
But he soon noticed something off.
Another convoy was coming from a different direction.
After hesitating, he still chose to swing the muzzle around, locking the crosshairs on this trailing convoy.
The acid rain greatly affected his line of sight, but with his evolutionary ability, lv2 “Sniper Specialization,” he still had an 80% chance of hitting.
He adjusted his breathing, his mentality, taking all factors into account.
At the instant the fire truck turned the corner, he pulled the trigger.
The heavy sniper rifle’s unique thunderous explosion sounded on the rooftop, the accumulated rainwater on the rain cloth instantly flying outward, like throwing a high-explosive round into the water.
It kicked up a massive spray of water.
The fire truck’s side glass shattered, and it crashed headlong into a roadside mall, attracting a large group of zombies.
‘Hit.’
He wasn’t worried at all about the driver’s survival rate; what he held was a 12.7 anti-materiel sniper rifle— even a glancing hit was a kill.
Let alone a direct hit.
He didn’t choose to fire one shot and change position; he was the only sniper on the entire battlefield right now, urgently needed to turn the tide.
And he was now one kilometer away.
With the opponent’s ordinary sniper rifle, in this heavy rain, hitting him would be a joke.
He swung the muzzle, directly aiming at the driver of the next fire truck.
At that moment, an inexplicable sense of alarm rose in his heart.
Instinctively looking up, he saw a blue light streaking across two kilometers, tearing through the rain curtain, charging straight at him without hesitation.
It made almost no sound, like passing through a block of tofu.
The blue light that passed through the sniper continued flying two more kilometers forward, then completely vanished into the gloomy clouds.
He looked toward the source of the blue light.
A figure in a black raincoat stood on the rooftop of a small building, holding a 1.8-meter-long anti-materiel electromagnetic sniper rifle, electric light crackling around their body, repelling the acid rain falling on the gun body.
Su Huan took a long breath, his heart starting to beat slowly again.
As expected of a sniper rifle that could fire at Mach 5; at the moment of firing, he had felt a suffocating sensation of his energy being drained empty.
But that was just an illusion caused by the sniper rifle’s instantaneous excessive energy demand.
With his current constitution, he could probably drive this gun about fifteen times.
It wasn’t a lack of energy, but the sudden draw could easily tear his body apart.
‘Best to still perform general energy modification.’
Su Huan thought silently to himself.
If he installed a general energy crystal and supplemented it appropriately with his own ability, it would be much more bearable.
But that was for later.
Su Huan swung the muzzle toward another part of the battlefield. Though he couldn’t see Captain He and the others, the occasional bursts of firelight from the building proved their presence.
‘Distance five hundred meters, wall thickness 50 centimeters, overclock mode, three-round burst…’
The capacitor array behind the gun body lit up with pulsing blue light patterns, the superconducting coils oscillating at 20kHz frequency, the segmented superconducting track lighting up node by node like dominoes from the chamber toward the muzzle, emitting a crystalline sound like shattering glass.
Su Huan felt his “general energy core” contract sharply, vast energy being drawn out and converted into electrical energy.
1.2 seconds later, the bullet left the chamber.
The conical shockwave vaporized the rainwater ahead into white mist.
After a moment, the sonic boom spread far away.
Yu Yue anxiously said beside him, “Distance too far, can’t suppress the sound anymore.”
Su Huan didn’t answer her; the sniper rifle in his hands started another round of charging, his heart, not yet recovered, shrinking another size from the strain.
Leaping serpentine electric arcs illuminated Su Huan’s face in a bluish-gray hue.
When the third shot left the chamber, the gun barrel had turned a fiery red, and Su Huan’s complexion was frighteningly pale.
Yu Yue hurriedly stepped forward to support him, looking at his sharp bridge of nose, her trembling fingers resting on his pulse.
“Not dead.”
“Don’t talk!”
Even when angry, Little Aunt’s voice carried a soft charm.
Only after thirty seconds, hearing his steady heartbeat, did she relax.
Su Huan looked at the radial holes in the distant cement wall and chuckled lightly, “I’m not dead, but the other side might not be.”
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