Chapter 6 Departure <TOC> Chapter 8 Psychokinetic Shooting
Translator: SumTLMan
Li Mu rested his rifle, lying on the hovercraft, as the surrounding air had already been reoccupied by mist. The two hovercrafts had traveled approximately five or six hours in the fog.
In order to reach the sentry outpost before dark, the speed of the two hovercrafts was increased to eighty kilometers per hour, with the monotonous scenery passing by outside the craft.
Finding direction and a safe route in the midst of the dense fog and monotonous grasslands and swamps was extremely difficult. Once lost, the outcome was only death. Navigators were core members in any marauder gang.
The navigator of the Iron Claw Gang was a hunchbacked Xingdu man. He stood at the bow of the first hovercraft, determining his position.
Suddenly, he gestured to slow down with his fist, and the Xia sentry outpost was about three or four kilometers away.
Yue Zhe jumped off the hovercraft, indicating that several other Xia people should also disembark. They took off their armor, one person carrying a water deer hunted on the way on his shoulder, pretending to be hunters.
As for clothing, whether hunters or Eastern Xia people, almost everyone was dressed in dirty and tattered clothes, completely unnecessary to change clothes, only Yue Zhe and Li Mu changed into old patchwork clothes with varying patches.
“Let’s go, your Xia language is poor, try not to talk.”
Yue Zhe said, almost only Eastern Xia people still use Xia language, the entire Iron Claw Gang only he can speak Xia language, so he had to participate in this operation.
Li Mu followed several people, one step deep and one step shallow, stepping in the mud, walking towards the sentry outpost.
They took a detour, trekked to the rear side of the sentry outpost.
After about thirty minutes, the direction of the sentry outpost heard the sound of guns, and the marauders launched a frontal attack on the sentry outpost.
“Depart!”
Yue Zhe said, leading the way.
“Remember, after infiltrating the sentry outpost, focus fire on the women inside.”
Soon, they saw the battlefield in the midst of intense fighting. A group of marauders was attacking the sentry outpost. They crawled on the ground, exchanging shots with the soldiers in the sentry outpost. The Eastern Xia soldiers in the sentry outpost were very stubborn, and despite being at a definite disadvantage in terms of numbers, they did not retreat, but relied on cover to counterattack in an orderly manner.
“Bang!”
The rear-mounted mortar fired shells one by one towards the sentry outpost. The artilleryman’s technique was limited and most of the shells went astray, landing on the grassy fields beside the sentry outpost, splashing mud everywhere. Some that were even further off fell into Luo Gong Lake in the distance.
“Who are you!”
A soldier spotted the people coming from behind the sentry outpost and immediately raised his gun, shouting a warning.
“We are from the fifth group in New Bengbu, we came out to hunt for some meat for our children at home, but we just happened to encounter the attack on the sentry outpost, so we quickly dropped our prey and came to support!”
Yue Zhe pointed to the deer that they had abandoned on the ground. The disguised Xias behind him had already started shooting at the attacking marauders. Without cover, one person was soon shot down and fell to the ground with a growl.
“Brother! Let us in quickly!”
Yue Zhe’s face was full of anxiety, he fired his gun at the marauders while desperately appealing to the soldier.
The soldier gritted his teeth.
“Hurry in! Duck down and don’t get hit!”
Yue Zhe lowered his head with a hint of a triumphant smile on his face, but soon it faded. A group of Xias dragged the wounded into the sentry outpost.
The sentry outpost echoed with the sound of gunfire, the sound of shells falling on the ground, some people were injured, and the air was filled with a bloody smell.
They fought with six people against an attack of nearly fifty people outside, which was very difficult.
“Squad leader! There is a group of hunters nearby who specially came to support.”
Li Mei shot a small boss of the marauders in the head with a shot, then pulled the bolt, loaded a new bullet and killed another small boss, and then began hunting down the machine gunners and the brightly armored members of the enemy team.
Without command, combined with the enemy’s accurate sniping, the whole looting team suddenly fell into chaos and morale plummeted. Some marauders tried to turn and run, but were forced back onto the battlefield by the supervising team behind them with knives, but as more and more marauders escaped, the offensive still failed.
Li Mei breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the people entering the sentry outpost.
“Hello, platoon leader comrade, we are here to help.”
Yue Zhe walked towards Li Mei. He was also an awakened person and was confident that as long as he got close enough, he could kill her directly with an unexpected attack.
The Xia people behind him also prepared to strike.
“Clang!”
Suddenly, the sound of a cold knife unsheathing came from behind, and the sentry outpost suddenly lit up.
Before Yue Zhe could react, he felt like he was floating, the sky and earth quickly flipping, and a headless body was spraying blood like a fountain below.
“Such a fast knife.”
These were his last thoughts.
【Absorb source essence 5.3】
The sudden change left everyone in the sentry outpost stunned. Only Li Mu and Li Mei, without any hesitation, attacked the other several Xia people who infiltrated the sentry outpost.
The long sword turned into a cold light, consecutively killing the remaining three Xia people, and the final remaining person was shot dead by Li Mei.
【Absorb source essence 1.3】
【Absorb source essence 1.2】
【Absorb source essence 1.3】
“Don’t shoot.”
Li Mei stopped the other soldiers who had reacted and were about to attack Li Mu.
“Is this the letter you sent?”
She looked at Li Mu, just now that one sword was as fast as lightning, powerful and heavy, easily breaking the hard spine, not something a normal person could do.
Li Mu nodded, a little curious, and looked at the young girl in front of him. She didn’t look like she could hunt descenders.
“I’m sorry, the bird you sent the letter with was shot down by me.”
Li Mei picked up the burlap bag on the side, took out the flying letter inside, somewhat bashfully.
Fei Lian saw Li Mu and immediately struggled to pounce on him. The bullet in its belly had been removed, the wound was treated with medicine and bandaged. Blood seeped out again due to the present struggle.
Li Mu took out a water bottle and fed it a few sips of Sun Spring water.
After drinking the spring water, Fei Lian regained some energy and was no longer listless as before.
“There are 219 people outside, one 60mm mortar, twenty rocket launchers, and one ZBD-88 power armor. The recent attack was just a feint, they are waiting for these people to attack successfully.”
Li Mu kicked the corpses on the ground and spoke all the information he knew. On the way, he was being watched and couldn’t send the latest information.
Since the girl in front of him could hunt descenders, she must have some powerful means that have not yet been used.
Li Mei nodded, as a military-trained person, she knew how much these pieces of information could play a role.
“I have already sent someone to request support, he rode the only horse at the outpost, support should be able to arrive in twenty minutes. We just need to hold on for twenty minutes.”
After hearing that the raiders outside had power armor, she still had confidence in holding on for twenty minutes and even killing all these daring raiders.
“Everyone leave the sentry outpost and go to the trench.”
The roof of the sentry outpost could not withstand the bombardment of the mortar.
“If I lure Goldbeard out, can you kill him?”
Li Mu asked.
“Of course.”
In Li Mei’s eyes, the notorious Goldbeard seemed to be just a regular marauder.