Sitting in the front row of the black SUV, the young man in a worn cotton-padded jacket twisted his head and said eagerly:
“Boss, are we chasing after them now?”
The burly middle-aged man with a fierce aura and an old scar at the corner of his right eye shook his head with a smile:
“Don't rush. With their firepower and the experience they've shown, they should be able to hold on for a while. Besides, the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's size is what it is, its straight-line speed definitely can't compare to a Jeep.
“If we arrive too early, we might be attacked by both sides at the same time, which would be too dangerous.
“Besides, we still need to take this opportunity to prepare. Ji Shun, stop the car!”
“Yes, Boss.” The driver was an older man wrapped in animal fur.
The black SUV then came to a stop. The burly middle-aged man with a fierce aura, carrying a "Storm" submachine gun, opened the door, got out of the car, and walked to the trunk.
Then, he took off his wrinkled black wool coat and handed it, along with the weapon, to his companion on the left heavy motorcycle.
After doing this, the middle-aged man opened the trunk lid, bent down, reached out his hands, and grabbed something.
His face flushed immediately, the veins on his forehead bulged, and his knees bent even more, as if he had used a lot of strength.
He retreated step by step and pulled out a tattered square wooden box, a square wooden box big enough to fit a person.
With a thud, the wooden box was placed on the ground.
As it was opened, the contents inside were revealed.
It was an iron-black item, suspected to be armor but with many metal skeletons.
“A Yu, Ji Shun, give me a hand.” The middle-aged man turned his head and said to the young man in the worn cotton-padded jacket and the middle-aged man who had been driving.
A Yu and Ji Shun came over and, one on each side, lifted the thing inside the square wooden box without too much effort.
With the pull of gravity, the item quickly unfolded, revealing its complete appearance:
Its appearance was very close to humanoid, with a metal helmet with crystal goggles. Below the helmet were several pieces of armor connected together, protecting important pipes and circuits.
Below this part of the armor was an iron-black, extremely sturdy, and large backpack, and surrounding this energy backpack, extending forward and downward, were various metal skeletons resembling cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, radius, humerus, ulna, scaphoid, femur, patella, tibia, and fibula. They also had joints and were equipped with metal buckles and dense sensors.
Among them, the thoracic vertebrae were connected to thick pieces of armor, and the arms were respectively embedded with a grenade launcher and an electromagnetic weapon.
This was a military exoskeleton device. Its production capacity has always been insufficient. Even in large organizations, only the elite among the elite could be equipped with it. It was a true heavy weapon.
It could not only smoothly reflect human movements through a complex and precise sensing system, allowing the wearer to far exceed human limits in terms of strength, speed, and balance, but also loaded with a thermal weapon system, precision aiming system, auxiliary combat system, comprehensive early warning system, anti-virus filtration system, and bulletproof armor for important parts.
In addition, just like the invention of thermal weapons reduced the requirements for human physical strength in combat, exoskeleton devices could greatly reduce the wearer's consumption, allowing them to fight continuously.
As long as one was equipped with this kind of equipment, it was definitely not a dream for one person to fight against a team armed with only light weapons.
——Relying on speed beyond human limits and a comprehensive early warning system, the wearer's unprotected parts were not so easy to hit.
The middle-aged man walked over and, with the help of A Yu and Ji Shun, put on the military exoskeleton device, fastening the metal buckles on each part one after another.
Finally, he adjusted the crystal goggles on the metal helmet and activated the equipment.
After the integrated system passed the self-check, the middle-aged man laughed:
“The battery is only 30% left, enough for more than two hours… that's enough.”
As he spoke, his hands covered in iron-black auxiliary skeletons easily took back his "Storm" submachine gun, as if it were just a toy, without any weight at all.
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“This, what do we do?” Long Yuehong almost suffocated upon hearing the term "Black Marsh Iron Serpent."
In this situation, with no experience in this regard, he could only seek answers from Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.
——He had just clearly seen that Shang Jianyao's assault rifle burst fire had not caused any damage to the giant python, only causing some damage to the outer scales.
Combined with the knowledge he had learned before, he suspected that the "United 202" large-caliber pistol and Bai Chen's "Orange" rifle, which could be used as a sniper rifle, would also be unable to penetrate the thick multi-layered scales of the Black Marsh Iron Serpent, unless they could hit unprotected vital points.
As for whether the grenade launcher would be effective, Long Yuehong couldn't be sure, but he felt it probably wouldn't work, after all, the main killing power of the grenade lay in the explosion it produced and the splashing of fragments, not armor-piercing.
Jiang Baimian glanced through the rearview mirror:
“Let's race first.
“This guy isn't good at this kind of thing, and besides, it'll get tired, the Jeep won't. As long as the high-performance battery, engine, and tires hold up, running until tomorrow morning won't be a problem.”
While Jiang Baimian was speaking, Bai Chen didn't slow down the car too much, but only released the extreme state to prevent the various parts of the Jeep from malfunctioning.
Obviously, she also agreed to "race" with the Black Marsh Iron Serpent, not wanting to fight head-on.
The Jeep sped along, occasionally hitting rocks and tree stumps, bouncing, giving people the feeling of flying.
If Bai Chen's skills weren't quite good and she didn't have some experience in wilderness racing, the Jeep might have overturned on the ground long ago, rolling several times and unable to move.
The giant Black Marsh Iron Serpent seemed to be enraged, using sparse trees and overgrown weeds to chase after Shang Jianyao and the others from time to time, sometimes in the sky and sometimes on the ground, unwilling to give up.
Its speed was definitely not as good as the "full throttle" Jeep, but due to terrain problems, Bai Chen couldn't keep the Jeep at high speed all the time, and had to slow down from time to time to avoid obstacles or mud, so, although the distance between the two sides was getting farther and farther, the Black Marsh Iron Serpent had not been thrown off.
During this process, the Black Marsh Iron Serpent opened its mouth twice, spraying venom and spewing poisonous fog, but both times it failed to affect the gray-green Jeep due to distance problems.
After two attempts, the giant python seemed to have become smarter, no longer trying to attack from a distance, but chasing desperately.
After a few minutes, Bai Chen suddenly stepped on the brakes and pulled the steering wheel.
With a screech, the gray-green Jeep stopped sideways.
Because Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao had consciously fastened their seat belts during the high-speed driving just now, they were not thrown out, but were pulled back when they felt a strong inertia.
Before they could recover, Bai Chen had already said in a deep voice:
“The terrain ahead has changed!”
Jiang Baimian also noticed this problem:
Ahead was a black, boundless swamp, with deformed trees growing sparsely, and no hard roads suitable for vehicles to pass through could be found in the middle.
It was as if the Great Swamp had expanded at some point, swallowing the originally existing route.
And whether looking to the left or right, no boundaries could be found at present. It was unknown how long it would take to go around, and it was also unknown whether this area had been surrounded by the Great Swamp, and only returning the way they came could they escape.
Just as Bai Chen was thinking about whether to suggest continuing the "race" and adding the "circle" item, Jiang Baimian had already shouted loudly:
“Shang Jianyao, get me a metal rod from the trunk.
“Bai Chen, use the Jeep hood as a support point and prepare to snipe the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's eyes.”
No one questioned it. In this split second, everyone chose to trust the team leader and follow her orders.
Shang Jianyao immediately unfastened his seat belt, reached back, grabbed a metal rod, and handed it to Jiang Baimian, who had already opened the door and got out of the car.
——They had seen this thing before and had always been a little puzzled as to why the team leader didn't bring a tent but instead brought this strange thing.
Bai Chen, carrying the "Orange" rifle, came to the hood of the sideways Jeep, put the weapon on it, and put her eyes in front of the scope.
After Jiang Baimian took the metal rod with her left hand, she moved her body in place.
The giant python covered with layers of black scales swam rapidly, getting closer and closer.
Even the surrounding wind seemed to be stained with a fishy smell.
Seeing that the terrifying Black Marsh Iron Serpent was about to enter the range where it could spew poisonous fog, Jiang Baimian, holding the metal rod in her left hand, ran forward two steps suddenly.
Her body stopped abruptly and she threw the metal rod towards the Black Marsh Iron Serpent.
At the same time, a bright, dazzling, and thick electric arc appeared between her left palm and the metal rod!
The electric arc grew longer and longer, wrapping around the metal rod, making a sizzling sound.
In an instant, the metal rod turned into a silver-white, thick beam of electricity, cutting through the sky and falling towards the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's body, like a punishment from heaven.
The Black Marsh Iron Serpent sensed the danger, but such an attack was not fatal, so it simply folded its body and avoided its head.
Clang!
The metal rod wrapped in countless silver-white electric arcs hit the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's long and thick torso.
Without a doubt, with Jiang Baimian's strength, this metal rod had no chance of piercing the target's thick multi-layered scales, but the terrifying arc clusters it carried erupted!
With a sizzling sound, the silver-white light illuminated the surrounding gray-black mud, and countless currents spread to every corner of the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's body in an unstoppable speed.
The giant, bizarre python suddenly stiffened and became paralyzed on the spot.
Although she didn't know that this change would happen, Bai Chen, who had been prepared, did not hesitate, slightly adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and resolutely pulled the trigger of the "Orange" rifle.
Bang!
A golden bullet shot out, heading straight for the Black Marsh Iron Serpent's cold, dark yellow left eye.
The Black Marsh Iron Serpent sensed in advance that a deadly danger was about to descend, but in its electrocuted state, it could only watch helplessly, unable to try to avoid it.
With a puff, the bullet penetrated its cold eye with vertical pupils, drilled into its brain, and rolled around wantonly.
The electricity quickly faded, and the open mouth of the Black Marsh Iron Serpent emitted an indescribable cry that did not belong to a snake.
Its body suddenly collapsed, rolling wildly on the spot, banging into several trees.
Before long, the giant python stopped moving and lost all activity.
Jiang Baimian turned her head to look at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, who looked bewildered, and smiled, rubbing her left arm with her right hand:
“Eel-type bionic limb, you deserve to have one.”
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Not far from Shang Jianyao and the others, the middle-aged man in a military exoskeleton device and his companions heard gunshots, cries, and noticed slight vibrations on the ground and the sound of trees collapsing.
The middle-aged man said with a happy expression:
“They've reached the most intense and tragic stage.
“Now is the time, charge!”
ps: Asking for recommendation tickets~