Chapter 60 The Roar of the Steel Beast
Zhao Di's little hands tugged happily at the holographic screen that emitted a faint blue light.
Each click was accompanied by her excited, childlike voice: "This! This red dot is running!"
"And this one, hiding in the grass, thinking I can't see it?"
Outside the train carriage, an asymmetrical war is unfolding.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The two newly raised twin-mounted automatic gun turrets on the roof did not become gentle just because the operator was a three-year-old child.
On the contrary, with the assistance of the system's fire control, they exhibited a chilling level of accuracy.
The flames spewing from the cannon were over a meter long, accompanied by a piercing shriek that tore through the air, precisely delivering death to every corner of the reed marshes.
"Thump—!"
A high-explosive bomb landed where the enemy intelligence chief, "One-Eyed," had just been standing.
The earthen slope where the person was still shouting through a megaphone was instantly flattened by a large section.
Soil, gravel, and the large horn that had been blown to pieces flew everywhere like rain.
Although One-Eye was agile and managed to fall into a crater beforehand, the huge shockwave still made his internal organs churn.
He spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and looked up in horror.
The "coffins" that he had once considered his for the taking had now transformed into a steel monster covered in spikes.
The armor plating exposed by the flipped-out window was covered with bullet holes, but not a single dent was left.
On the other hand, their own side was a complete one-sided massacre.
"Da da da—"
The robotic arms extending from both sides of the carriage were also busy.
Those anti-aircraft machine guns mounted at the apex were like venomous snakes with eyes, relentlessly biting down on every firing point that tried to retaliate.
The machine gunner had just set up his gun and hadn't even had a chance to pull the trigger when he was riddled with bullets from the sky.
The Maxim machine gun, which they considered a heavy weapon, was blown more than ten meters away along with its support, twisting into a pile of scrap metal.
"Ah! My leg!"
"Help! This isn't a train!"
"That's a tank! No, it's even more powerful than a tank!"
In the reed marshes, the hundreds of desperate men who had once been menacing now resembled a flock of sheep driven into a dead end by wolves.
Their supposedly formidable human wave tactics looked utterly ridiculous in the face of such overwhelming firepower.
The bullets hit the carriage, making a sound, but they didn't even scratch off a layer of paint.
A single shell from the enemy could take away more than a dozen of their lives.
Inside the train carriage.
Lin Jianguo watched the horrific scene outside through the holographic screen.
Flames soared into the sky, and smoke filled the air.
Limbs and severed arms flew through the air amidst the gunfire.
He was a veteran who had been on the battlefield and seen dead people.
But this kind of massacre, which felt like playing a video game, still made him feel a sense of inexplicable absurdity.
He turned his head and looked at his daughter, who was engrossed in playing on the screen.
Zhao Di's little face was rosy, her eyes were bright, and there was still a trace of drool left from eating fruit candy at the corner of her mouth.
"Daddy! Look at that red dot, it's running so fast!"
"I won't let him escape!"
Zhao Di stretched out her chubby little index finger and poked the red dot hard.
"biu~"
She even added her own sound effects.
On the screen, the red dot representing the enemy disappeared instantly.
In reality...
A rocket, trailing a long plume of flame, precisely pierced the ditch where a spy attempting to escape was hiding.
"boom!"
In a flash of light, the spy was reduced to ashes before he could even scream.
Lin Jianguo couldn't help but swallow.
That feeling was so strange.
On one side are innocent and naive children's words, and on the other side is a bloody and chaotic battlefield.
On one side is a three-year-old child playing with "toys," and on the other side is the Grim Reaper who holds the power of life and death.
"Daughter..."
Lin Jianguo wanted to say something, such as "Slow down" or "Stop playing around."
But when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't say anything.
That's the enemy.
They are hungry wolves intent on killing them.
Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to one's own people.
If it weren't for his daughter's "cheat code," he and his comrades in the truck would be lying outside, turned into minced meat.
There was even... Zhao Di.
Thinking of this, the slight reluctance in Lin Jianguo's heart instantly vanished.
Instead, there was a ruthlessness that came from the very core of his being.
kill!
Kill all those bastards!
Anyone who dares to lay a finger on my daughter should be prepared to be crushed!
“Father, there are still many red dots hiding under that bridge.”
Zhao Di suddenly pointed to a corner of the screen and said.
That's where the piers of the Longmen Bridge are located.
Several red dots were gathering suspiciously, seemingly installing something.
Explosives!
Alarm bells were ringing in Lin Jianguo's mind.
Seeing that they couldn't win, those bastards wanted to blow up the bridge completely, and even blow up the train that was stopped at the bridgehead!
"Zhao Di! Hurry!"
"Point there! Don't let them move!"
Lin Jianguo practically roared it out.
Zhao Di was startled by her father's loud voice, but she didn't stop what she was doing.
"Alright! Let's beat the bad guys!"
She used both of her little hands to randomly poke at the red dots on the screen.
"Knock knock knock knock—"
The main gun on the roof adjusted its angle and unleashed the most intense roar of the entire battle.
The four shells, like four fiery dragons, roared towards the shadows beneath the bridge pier.
"No--!!!"
The spies under the bridge had just finished tying up the explosives, but hadn't even had time to light the fuse yet.
Then I saw four huge fireballs explode in front of me.
The violent explosion not only engulfed the spies, but also detonated the explosives they had prepared.
"Boom—!!!"
A deafening roar.
A small mushroom cloud rose from under the bridge.
Fortunately, the system's fire control was extremely precise and did not directly hit the main structure of the bridge pier, but only cleared the "parasites" attached to it.
The bridge shook violently a few times, and a shower of dust fell, but it still stood stubbornly upright.
Run!
"This is unwinnable!"
"The thing sitting in there isn't a human! It's a devil!"
The remaining agents completely collapsed.
They threw away their guns, their machetes, and didn't even dare to pick up their shoes after running away.
They fled in all directions, crying and screaming.
Even a ruthless character like One-Eyed was terrified at this moment.
One of his ears was deafened, half his face was covered in blood, and the large machete in his hand was nowhere to be found.
He scrambled into a thicket of reeds, trembling like a mangy dog with a broken spine.
That's terrifying.
That's terrifying.
The intelligence report only stated that it was a special train transporting experts.
But nobody told him that it was a mobile war fortress!
With this level of firepower, even a reinforced battalion of a regular army would be forced to kneel!
"Retreat...retreat quickly..."
The one-eyed man trembled as he pulled out the half-used walkie-talkie, intending to issue a retreat order.
But he found that there was only a dead silence of static on the walkie-talkie.
His men were either dead, deafened, or ran away.
He became truly alone.
Inside the train carriage.
The number of red dots on the screen decreased until they finally dispersed completely, escaping the firing range.
"Huh? All the red dots have disappeared."
Zhao Di withdrew her small hand with some disappointment.
"It's not fun anymore, there are no more moles to hit."
She turned her head, looked at her father, and pouted.
"Daddy, I want to eat candy."
"My hands are sore from typing just now."
Looking at his daughter's adorable little face, Lin Jianguo's tense nerves finally relaxed completely.
He felt his legs go weak and his back was covered in cold sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
But he still forced a smile.
He reached out and hugged his daughter, giving her a big kiss on her chubby little face.
"Eat! Dad will buy you whatever you want to eat!"
"You're the savior of everyone on this train!"
The surrounding soldiers also gathered around.
The way they looked at Zhao Di was a mixture of awe and doting.
What they just witnessed completely shattered their worldview.
Who would have thought that the commander of this earth-shattering counter-ambush battle was actually a three-year-old child still wearing open-crotch pants... oh no, I mean, a little military uniform?
And he was even eating candy while giving instructions!
"Zhao Di, from now on you will be our platoon's unofficial instructor!"
Li Tie slung his gun over his shoulder and gave Zhao Di a thumbs-up.
"If anyone dares to bully you in the future, I'll bombard them with a cannon!"
Zhao Di giggled. Although she didn't understand what an instructor was, she knew it was a compliment.
"Then I want the kind of candy with flowers on it!"
"Buy! Buy them all!"
Li Tie waved his hand, displaying his boundless pride.
The atmosphere in the carriage finally relaxed from its previous somber tone.
Only Chen Zhiyuan remained, hunched over the holographic screen, watching the replay data while trembling.
"The reaction speed of this fire control radar...this ballistic calculation model..."
"This is technology we don't have right now..."
"This is practically... alien technology!"
He pushed up the only remaining piece of his glasses on his nose and looked at Zhao Di, who was surrounded by a crowd.
His eyes were filled with an almost fanatical adoration.
This child...
Just how far will this country's technological development be led astray?
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