Chapter 181 White Rhino Energy Technique <TOC> Chapter 183 Chaos Ensues
Translator: SumTLMan
When Kari became serious, his boxing techniques were more disciplined and had fewer unnecessary flaws. The two exchanged blows for over a dozen rounds in the blink of an eye.
The sound of fists and feet clashing resembled the dense beat of drums, stirring fear and accelerating blood flow. The entire training ground had become a mess.
Li Mu’s combat suit was torn and tattered by the destructive force of Kari’s Hand of Steel, revealing his strong, bruised body.
The sharp force of the punches even tore through the defense of the White Rhino Energy Technique, leaving several wounds on Li Mu’s body, from which blood seeped out.
These were the scars created by the circulation of psychic energy on his body’s surface. Having mastered the Luo-style Genesis Energy Technique, he was not only adept at healing wounds but also at disguising them.
Even without activating the Ancient Scales, the fusion of various Energy Techniques in the Dragon and Tiger Astral Specter still subtly enhanced his skin to a level that ordinary enhancer-type awakened individuals could hardly reach.
Kari’s clumsy Hand of Steel could only create bruises on his body; injuring the skin was still far from possible.
After about three to four minutes, Li Mu suddenly seized an opportunity, leaped out of the melee, and raised his hand.
“I admit defeat.”
He decisively chose to concede.
Kari was not willing to let it go. Although he had gained the upper hand, he had not yet recovered from his earlier losses.
“My psychic energy is exhausted,” Li Mu said, staring at Kari.
A somewhat burly middle-aged man from the security officer’s team forcefully intervened in the battle, standing in front of Li Mu.
“I remember this was just a friendly match, Kari. Do you want to kill a security officer in front of so many others?”
He also activated his psychic energy.
Kari regained his composure. Naturally, he couldn’t choose to antagonize the security officers as a whole for the upcoming mission. He suppressed his anger and returned to Kallari’s side.
He realized that he had lost points in his master’s eyes this time.
“Kid, you did a good job. My name is Gurbasik Singh.”
Gurbasik Singh patted Li Mu’s shoulder vigorously.
Due to the enhancement of psychic energy, awakened individuals age very slowly. Gurbasik Singh, who is over eighty years old, appears to be only middle-aged.
Li Mu expressed his gratitude modestly.
Rajaral Santanu felt somewhat disappointed that the two had not fought to the death, as he had hoped to witness a bloodbath.
To put the minds of the security officers at ease and motivate them to fight, the Santanu family decided to spend heavily, acquiring advanced weaponry from the Central Federation.
Among the most expensive items were the high-energy electromagnetic rail rifles and the GP-7R combat armor.
The GP-7R combat armor was made of a psychic metal alloy exterior and a high-hardness ceramic bulletproof interior. It not only provided excellent defense against various kinetic weapons but also resisted psychic impacts.
For the local security officers to purchase the armor, they had to save up five or six years of their salaries and find a way to obtain it through proper channels.
After a night of hasty preparation, the Santanu family organized an attack on the Soul Cult, led by the province’s infantry division.
However, before engaging the armed forces of the Soul Cult, they had to cross vast stretches of marshland.
Using hovercraft for troop transportation was fast, but the core void copper of hovercraft was highly susceptible to interference from powerful psychic-type awakened individuals, something the Soul Cult was not lacking. Hence, hovercraft were only used to transport supplies on the frontline.
Without hovercraft, they had to find passable routes through the swamp.
Li Mu’s 7th Squad was incorporated into a vanguard motorized infantry unit responsible for firepower reconnaissance. They sought to determine the enemy’s troop deployment and firepower configuration by attacking the Soul Cult’s positions and forcing them to retaliate.
This was an extremely dangerous combat mission, so the morale of the entire unit was not high, and the soldiers’ spirits were low.
Li Mu was fully armed, wearing the issued GP-7R combat armor, a matte green helmet, carrying an NII-40 assault rifle, and a heavy, broad-bladed steel sword on his back.
This was the heaviest cold weapon provided by the Santanu family, made of solid tungsten steel, and incredibly sharp and sturdy. However, due to the limited ductility of tungsten steel, the blade was only slightly over a meter long, resembling a ruler.
At the moment, he was sitting on the roof of a KPT-25 infantry fighting vehicle, traveling along the muddy road. The vehicle’s suspension had some issues, causing a bumpy ride, and an ordinary person would easily be thrown off.
Li Mu chose to sit on the roof because the view inside the infantry fighting vehicle was very limited, and its defensive capabilities were inferior to his own.
The road beneath them was a highway from before the Great Catastrophe, with the remaining foundation allowing the infantry fighting vehicle to travel on it.
If the path were to be deviated from, even though the KPT-25 infantry fighting vehicle’s tracks were quite wide, they would still become mired in the swamp, rendered immobile.
The entire motorized infantry brigade stretched into a long serpent-like formation along the road, and even from atop a vehicle, the end of the line was not visible. Scattered Soul Cult armed priests had already launched several harassment attacks on the convoy. They hid in the swamp and fired shells at the vehicles using recoilless guns.
“How is it going? Any discoveries?”
Li Mu spoke to Shen Luoyan through a psychic link. Shen Luoyan was inside the infantry fighting vehicle. The command variant of the KPT-25 infantry fighting vehicle was equipped with a small phased-array radar, and the entire radar system had a psychic detection mode.
Psychic-type awakened individuals only needed to put on the operating helmet to directly connect to the radar system and release psychic energy beams through the radar’s phased-array antenna.
With the amplification of the phased-array radar, the psychic-type awakened individuals’ psychic energy beam detection range could be increased by at least 80%, and the accuracy improved by 200%.
“About 20 kilometers ahead, there is a city ruin from before the great disaster. The terrain inside is too complicated, and the psychic energy beams are experiencing severe interference. According to the information from the division headquarters, scattered armed forces of the Soul Cult have been gathering there,” Shen Luoyan reported.
Complex terrain would cause psychic energy beams to refract multiple times, resulting in severe interference to the reflected beams.
The Ushas multi-purpose helicopters of the army aviation brigade had already carried psychic-type awakened individuals to scout the general deployment of the Soul Cult.
“Rajaral Santanu is an incompetent commander. He has no idea how to lead an army,” Li Mu said through the psychic link.
“If it were me, regardless of how many sacrifices it took, I would seize the Chalva Bridge as soon as possible. Without that damned bridge, the entire affiliated army wouldn’t be able to launch an offensive against the Soul Cult! They would just be stuck on the eastern bank of the Mohanendi River.”
The deployment of a division’s troops required space, yet Rajaral Santanu crammed a large number of weapons and personnel into a narrow area, much like a lame elephant stumbling into a confined pond, moving sluggishly with faltering steps.
Chapter 181 White Rhino Energy Technique <TOC> Chapter 183 Chaos Ensues