Chapter 7 Betrayal <TOC> Chapter 9 The Seven Demon Calamities
Translator: SumTLMan
“Big boss, second boss succeeded, the people in the sentry outpost were all killed by him.”
Goldbeard sat cross-legged on a mat, wiping the curved knife in front of him with a piece of velvet. The power armor that had been taken off was kneeling half beside him.
As a formidable equipment that could fight against the awakened by wearing it, Goldbeard would never allow his subordinates to use this power armor.
Hearing this news, Goldbeard’s hand holding the curved knife tightened, and a burst of excitement rose in his heart. Could he finally possess a holy relic?
He was very aware of Yue Zhe’s strength, even a little apprehensive. Humans don’t have the strong defensive ability of the Black Membrane like descenders, though it’s not impossible to kill the target in a sudden sneak attack.
After the excitement, the caution developed from years of looting occupied his mind again.
“You take a few people to check, see if Yue Zhe really succeeded.”
He climbed to the back of the power armor, opened the hatch, and entered the cockpit. After three hundred years, the main systems of the power armor were still intact, but some small parts had been replaced several times, and the ventilation system was also a little overburdened.
In the noise of a fan, the turbid air in the cockpit became a little fresher.
With a matching wrench, Goldbeard opened the dust cover of the power switch and was ready to start the power armor at any time.
Soon, a subordinate ran back in a panic.
“Boss, boss! There are a few Xiamen people mixed in with the Eastern Xia scouts. The people who went to check the sentry outpost were all killed! The morale of our guys is at rock bottom!”
Goldbeard directly started the power armor.
The core fusion battery inside the armor instantly released surging electricity, driving the hydraulic device, and the artificial muscle. The entire tall steel giant came to life.
The screen in the cockpit lit up, quickly flashing a logo of the Northern Industry, and then entered the control interface.
Goldbeard put on the neuro-sensory helmet and put on the touch gloves, controlled the power armor to stand up, swung his fists a few times, and then raised the machine gun.
He turned on the broadcast switch.
“Initiate the attack, kill all these Eastern Xia people!”
The power armor in the military system of the Xia people was originally assigned to the commanding officers and non-commissioned officers of the grassroots level, allowing them to drive the power armor and coordinate the infantry and tanks with the infantry in complex environments and fight against the awakened ones.
With the activation of the power armor, the morale of the marauders, who had fallen to the bottom of the valley, suddenly rose.
In their impression, the power armor was almost invincible, and as long as it could move, the enemy would immediately collapse and run away.
Soon, the reorganized marauders once again launched an attack on the sentry outpost.
They split into several teams and surged towards the sentry outpost. Two in front and one from the side.
The first to arrive was sporadic shelling, suppressing the soldiers in the sentry outpost, and several marauders carried rocket launchers with rifles under cover, half-kneeling on the ground and launching towards the sentry outpost.
“Boom!”
Amongst the roar and gunfire, smoke filled a launch site. The accuracy of rocket launchers that can be aimed straight is much higher than that of mortars, and some ammunition directly hit the sentry outpost, blasting a large hole in the solid concrete walls of the sentry outpost.
The chaotic movement of the marauders also caused some trouble for themselves. Several unlucky people were affected by the flame wave of the rocket launchers and immediately fell back and broke bones. There were also people whose necks were directly twisted, losing their lives.
The power armor launched a charge, leading the charge for the attackers behind.
The vertical stabilization system allowed the entire power armor to remain stable in the intense maneuvering.
The sentry outpost launched a counterattack, with bullets whistling, especially a machine gun deployed on the side wing, plowing through a blood-filled mist among the marauders.
The power armor fired a long shot, with the 23mm shells turned into a flaming chain, instantly silencing the machine gun position.
The intense firepower pressed the soldiers in the sentry outpost to lift their heads.
Li Mu continuously fired short shots, suppressing the marauders’ attack. As for that power armor, the sturdy special alloy armor was not something that his NII-203 could penetrate.
He knew that if Li Mei didn’t do anything, the sentry outpost would be destroyed.
Defending an attack of over two hundred people with seven people, and not retreating when under artillery fire, showed their combat willpower was already very powerful.
“I found it.”
Li Mei leaned against the trench and suddenly spoke. She took out the bullet from the gun barrel and replaced it with another one.
Li Mu curiously took a glance and found that the bullet was actually a blank, with a shell but no head.
She pulled the gun bolt and pushed the bullet into the gun barrel, a daunting aura emanating from her. She leaned forward, almost without aiming, and directly pulled the trigger.
“Bang!”
A shot rang out and the recoil lifted her shiny black braid high.
“Boom!”
A distant thunder-like roar was heard, followed by a mournful scream and the sound of flying gravel.
Li Mu peered towards the battlefield and saw a descender named Bushegaro appearing suddenly on the edge of Loban Lake. Approximately 800 meters from the battlefield, his head was blown into a bloody mess and his scales rolled.
A wriggling black membrane was trying to fill the gap.
He immediately took advantage of this opportunity and fired a series of long shots at the wound, most of the bullets missed, and the bullets that hit only got stuck in the muscle, causing almost no effective damage.
As a lower descender, the few individuals with extraordinary talents among the Mofulele Pythons can even grow in strength and naturally reach the fourth level. Although Bushegaro only has the fifth level, even without the black membrane, the threat posed by light weapons is still very limited.
“After receiving your intelligence, I suspected that this beast might be hiding near the outpost, waiting for Goldbeard to consume my psychic energy and engage in a struggle for fish using a fisherman’s advantage,” said Li Mei as she took out the casing and pushed another bullet without a head into the gun barrel, taking a break.
The recent attack was not light.
“As for my ability, it’s to materialize psychic energy into bullets and launch them through firearms.”
The girl pulled the trigger again.
“Bang!”
The gun barrel trembled.
The bullet screamed past, piercing straight through the wet head of Bushegaro. The intense pain caused it to roll on the ground, exposing its blue belly.
It gritted its teeth against the pain and hid its head, which had already been shattered by the black membrane within its body.
If it had not leaned slightly at a critical moment, its brain would have been shredded by this psychic energy bullet. The skull that could once withstand direct hits from machine guns was now as fragile as paper.
The attackers who were launching an offensive were momentarily stunned and at a loss as they saw the sudden appearance of the terrifying attack.
“Goldbeard! What are you waiting for? Continue the attack! If that bitch kills me, you won’t get away either!”
Bushegaro roared in a hoarse voice. It felt pain again after so long.
Li Mei rubbed her temples. She was only of the fifth level, and the cost of manifesting the bullet was high. Although she had severely injured Bushegaro, the burden brought on by the rapid consumption of psychic energy was also very heavy.
The second psychic energy bullet surprisingly failed to kill him, which was unexpected for Li Mei.
“This guy is much more difficult and cunning than the last Mofulele python.”
She took a deep breath and hesitated whether to use all the remaining spiritual energy to give him a fatal blow.
But when the time came, that powered armor would be a bit of a hassle.
On the battlefield, Goldbeard’s expression was uncertain. On one hand, he was shocked by the terrifying power of the awakened being in the sentry outpost, who could destroy Bushegaro’s black membrane with just one shot. On the other hand, he understood Bushegaro’s thoughts.
This cunning Bushegaro was indeed using him as bait. The promised holy relic might not be kept after all.
But now the arrow was on the bowstring and he had to let it go. The awakened being in the sentry outpost was too terrifying, and choosing to run would only lead to a quicker death.
Chapter 7 Betrayal <TOC> Chapter 9 The Seven Demon Calamities