Squid Who Loves Diving
Chapter 21 Encounter
Jiang Baimian, seeing that they didn't seem to have recovered yet, smiled and added, "In that previous accident, I lost not only part of my hearing, but also my entire left arm."
"No," Long Yuehong subconsciously shook his head. "I mean... is that it? Is the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent really finished?"
He completely forgot that he hadn't said anything a few seconds ago and hadn't expressed any thoughts at all.
He couldn't help but show his surprise, finding it a little hard to accept that the imposing Blackmarsh Iron Serpent had lost its life in just a few seconds.
Although this was a good thing.
Jiang Baimian glanced sideways at the twisted corpse of the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent and chuckled. "Didn't I tell you? In all the wilderness and forests, apart from a very few creatures, mankind's greatest enemy is always other humans. Sadly, the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent isn't one of those very few creatures.
"In a sense, the top predators should be humans."
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly sensed something and turned her head to look in the direction they had come from.
Thump, thump, thump! A middle-aged man wearing a military exoskeleton, with a "Torrential Rain" submachine gun slung across his chest and carrying a light machine gun, charged toward the source of the gunfire and cries.
Behind him, two heavy motorcycles protected the flanks on the left and right, while a black SUV trailed behind at a distance, not intending to participate in the first wave of combat, only planning to clean up the battlefield.
A Yu, Ji Shun, and the others were very confident in that military exoskeleton, feeling that their boss alone could easily take care of the "Relic Hunter" team and the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent, who were both severely weakened.
Thump, thump, thump!
The crystal visor of the middle-aged man's metal helmet reflected the scene ahead:
A Blackmarsh Iron Serpent, thicker than two ordinary buckets, covered in thick, black scales, and at least fifteen meters long, lay silently by the roadside, surrounded by broken trees and the blood and brain matter it had flung out;
The gray-green four-seater jeep was parked sideways a few dozen meters away, two men in gray camouflage clothing standing one outside the right-hand car door and the other by the left-hand side of the trunk, both holding black assault rifles;
The ponytail-wearing, tall woman was rubbing her left shoulder, positioned between the gray-green jeep and the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent corpse, but closer to the former, of course;
At this moment, this woman had turned her body, looking towards himself and his group;
And at the front of the jeep, a slender rifle was propped up, and another woman was crouching behind it, turning the scope around.
Turning around… The middle-aged man's forehead twitched, and without thinking, he made an evasive movement.
With the help of the exoskeleton, he instantly leaped up, jumping seven or eight meters to the right.
Bang!
Bai Chen pulled the trigger, and a bullet flew out, passing through the spot where the middle-aged man had been a second before, and hitting a distant tree trunk.
As the middle-aged man leaped sideways, he realized this, and was simultaneously shocked and regretful:
"How are they completely unharmed?
"The Blackmarsh Iron Serpent just died like that?
"They solved the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent so quickly, and even chatted for a while?
"How did they do it?
"If it weren't for the integrated early warning system, I would have been dead just now, I couldn't have reacted at all!"
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and the middle-aged man quickly made a decision:
Even if the other party easily killed the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent, demonstrating terrifying strength, he still had to charge up and provide suppressive fire.
At this time, if he turned around and ran, he, with the military exoskeleton, would be mostly fine, but A Yu and Ji Shun would not be able to escape!
Moreover, he didn't think that he, wearing a military exoskeleton, was necessarily stronger than the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent—his speed and reaction ability might be superior, but his strength and resistance to blows were far inferior.
If the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent was easily dealt with by those people, could he, wearing a military exoskeleton, necessarily escape?
As soon as his feet landed, he immediately raised the light machine gun in his hand and fired wildly at the other side.
Da-da-da!
Clods of dirt flew up from the ground, and one bullet hole after another appeared in the doors of the gray-green jeep.
As early as when Bai Chen fired, before the middle-aged man wearing the exoskeleton dodged, Jiang Baimian, who was the first to discover them, drew her "Joint 202" pistol with her right hand while tensing the muscles in her legs, sprinting like a cheetah towards the location of the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent's massive corpse.
She made this reaction partly because she felt it might be too late to turn around and hide behind the jeep, and partly because she thought there needed to be a crossfire point so that they could support each other.
Besides, the bulletproof ability of the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent's corpse was much stronger than that of the jeep.
Unfortunately, the bionic limb's power needed to be accumulated; after using the maximum power once, she had to wait some time before she could use it again. Jiang Baimian could only think of other ways to deal with the enemy.
While Jiang Baimian was sprinting, Shang Jianyao didn't bother to get back into the jeep first and then get out from the other side. He held onto the car door with one hand, using force in his waist and abdomen, and supporting himself with his knees, directly leaping into the air, flipping over the top of the jeep, and landing on the side where Bai Chen was.
Having had genetic modifications from birth and having undergone arduous training, his physical fitness was on full display at this moment.
Bai Chen had just fired, and Shang Jianyao had already bent his knees, hunched his back, and run in small steps to her side, hiding behind the front of the car.
This was something they had been taught in training class:
In a gunfight, if you want to use a vehicle as a "wall" to protect yourself, you must choose the front part of the car that is equipped with various devices—other parts are easily penetrated by bullets and don't provide much protection.
Therefore, although Long Yuehong, who was on the same side as Bai Chen, was nervous and slow to react, he still managed to react in time and also shrank to Shang Jianyao's right.
Bai Chen, seeing that the target wearing the exoskeleton hadn't been hit, also decisively pulled back the rifle and squatted down.
Da-da-da-da-da-da!
The sound of machine-gun fire rang out, hammering at their nerves, causing their bodies to tense up inevitably.
On the other side, Jiang Baimian, before the light machine gun swept over, kicked off with both feet, diving and pouncing behind a section of the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent's corpse, and then crawling on her stomach.
Clang, clang, clang!
The outermost black scales of that section of the corpse finally shattered one after another under the continuous strikes, but there were still two layers inside.
And even if these two layers could be shattered, the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent's flesh and blood would still have a powerful slowing and damage-reducing effect, not to mention that on the other side of the flesh and blood, towards Jiang Baimian's body, there were still three layers of black scales.
In other words, it was almost impossible to break through the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent's corpse with a light machine gun, unless one could always aim at one spot and have enough bullets, and Jiang Baimian couldn't crawl and move to change her position.
The middle-aged man, aided by the exoskeleton, held the light machine gun and quickly approached the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent and the gray-green jeep, suppressing Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Jiang Baimian, preventing them from daring to poke their heads out and try to fight back.
When the gun barrel became seriously hot and the pre-prepared, wrapped around his body, not-so-many bullets were exhausted, the middle-aged man threw down the light machine gun and raised the "Torrential Rain" submachine gun slung across his chest with his right hand.
His left arm followed, raising the grenade launcher loaded on it, pointing it forward.
At the same time, the "Precision Aiming System" appeared on the crystal visor of the exoskeleton's metal helmet.
A series of numbers flashed rapidly around this aiming pattern, helping the middle-aged man choose a suitable trajectory.
As long as he launched that grenade, the gray-green jeep would be blown to pieces, and Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao, and Long Yuehong, who were hiding behind the front of the car, would undoubtedly not be spared.
But in that case, the jeep itself and the things it carried would certainly suffer heavy losses.
And for wilderness bandits, supplies were the ultimate goal of their fighting.
Hesitating for a moment, the middle-aged man changed the direction, aiming the grenade launcher at Jiang Baimian's location.
While continuing to suppress Jiang Baimian with the "Torrential Rain" submachine gun, he used the thermal imaging module of the integrated early warning system to determine her exact location.
In the process, he signaled the two companions riding heavy motorcycles who had caught up to flank the jeep and provide suppressive fire, so that the enemies there couldn't interfere with him.
The two bandits were no strangers to similar situations and understood their boss's meaning almost without him having to speak, immediately detouring away from the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent, approaching the front of the jeep from the side.
Da-da-da!
They were highly skilled, holding the handlebars with one hand and firing in bursts with the submachine guns in the other, preventing Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen from daring to show their faces.
When Jiang Baimian's orange, red, and green image, passing through the cooling Blackmarsh Iron Serpent corpse, finally entered the eyes of the bandit leader, a grin appeared on the latter's face, and he began to choose the trajectory of the grenade.
After the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent fell, even though it was huge, its corpse was not that high, far lower than the front of the jeep. As long as the shooting distance and the trajectory of the grenade were suitable, it would be difficult for it to provide protection.
ps: Seeking recommendation tickets~