Chapter 715 It's really lively outside the Second Prison. Are they welcoming me?
So, adding the white spider still lurking near the firewall searching for the "corpse thief," there are actually four white-masked figures lurking in this patch of grass?!
The appearance of a white mask could perhaps be explained by coincidence or accident.
But what about four?
This is no longer a simple coincidence or accidental encounter; it's more like a pre-planned battlefield, or... a trap set for certain people.
The target of this trap certainly couldn't be the two people, one dead and one crippled, in that wrecked car. Dealing with weaklings of that level wouldn't require the use of four white masks.
Therefore, the answer is obvious—this trap is aimed at…
Zhang Shenyi's heart sank suddenly, and his gaze involuntarily swept quickly towards the man from the maintenance department next to him.
The trembling lips and contracted pupils of the man in the maintenance department also betrayed the turmoil in his heart.
"It was aimed at him, no, it should be said that the target knew someone would ambush him, so they set up a counter-ambush in advance, and then our Relief Studio foolishly followed this guy and walked into their trap together..."
As if to verify Zhang Shenyi's conjecture, he saw on the screen that the two running "shadows" were rushing along a path that pointed straight to... the coordinates where the second group had arrived ahead of time and was setting up an ambush.
Xiaoyou's cold voice came through the earpiece again, uttering a judgment on an imminent crisis without any emotion:
"Based on the target's movement speed and path simulation calculations, it is expected that Group 2 will come into contact with the enemy's high-speed approaching unit and be exposed in four seconds."
Probability of contact: 97.3%.
Following the percentage figure, a countdown timer that keeps decreasing is thoughtfully included:
3……2…..
Meanwhile, two vehicles traveling from the direction of the Second Prison on the highway seemed to have finally noticed the anomaly on the road ahead—the still-smoking wreckage of a car and the straight wall of fire rising into the sky from the grass.
Instead of slowing down to observe, the two cars seemed to receive some kind of instruction and accelerated forward.
This scene, combined with the two figures that suddenly appeared and rushed straight towards the ambush point of Group Two, made it seem to everyone in the Relief Studio that Group Two had been discovered and was now surrounded by the enemy.
The unexpected appearance of a white-masked figure gives me a threefold advantage!
Now, with four white-masked figures lying in ambush, it's their own team members who are trapped in the encirclement.
So, how many times the advantage do I still have left?!
Before Zhang Shenyi could even figure it out, the countdown on the screen had already turned into "1".
He immediately roared:
"Fire!!!"
The moment the command was given, three figures leaped out of the dense grass, sending grass blades flying and mud churning.
The three men formed a triangle, their weapons emitting a deathly roar and sparks flying everywhere.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Two of them raised their guns and fired at the "shadow" behind them, their movements so coordinated that they seemed like one person.
The assault rifles in their hands spat out terrifying tongues of fire, the muzzle brakes suppressing the violent throbbing, and the bullets, like a swarm of precisely targeted bees, densely shot towards the two figures rushing straight at them.
"Crackling and popping—"
The bullet struck the invisible barrier, and the water-like surface rippled violently, as if a transparent "water suit" was being forcibly torn and shattered by a violent force.
A corner of the menacing white exoskeleton armor beneath was faintly visible.
The fleeting glimpse of white, amidst the flickering firelight, appeared even more eerie.
At the far end of the triangle formation, Ahr completely ignored the threat behind him, trusting his back entirely to his teammates.
He was carrying a high-tech individual rocket launcher on his shoulder, which he had already aimed and locked onto.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
His fingers pressed the launch button twice in quick succession, and two Peregrine-type tracking missiles, trailing pale blue flames, drew two elegant yet deadly arcs in the air like messengers of death, heading straight for the side of the second vehicle.
"Ah, get out of the way!"
I heard my teammates shouting loudly.
Ah didn't have time to use his eyes to confirm where the threat came from; the muscle memory and absolute trust formed from fighting side by side for a long time allowed him to react instantly.
With a burst of core strength from his waist, his whole body twisted violently to the side as if breaking, while his feet pushed off, resulting in a mid-air side somersault.
"laugh!"
A sharp, scorpion-tail-like streak, half-watery and half-white, swept past his tactical waist pack with a stinging gust of wind.
If he had been even a fraction of a second slower, he would have been disemboweled by now.
While still in mid-air, before he could even finish his roll, the Akh man used his core strength to forcefully adjust the angle of the rocket launcher, and without even looking, fired the last missile from inside the launcher behind him.
"boom!"
The missile was launched almost skimming the ground before sharply curving upwards in a short arc and crashing into the pursuing Shadow Scorpion and Fortress.
Needless to say, years of working side by side have forged an unbreakable tacit understanding.
Just as Akh fired the missile and was about to hit the ground, a teammate immediately grabbed his shoulder and used the momentum to pull him to the side and roll over.
The other person leaned back slightly, his military boots stomping rapidly on the muddy ground in a strange posture, like a frog leaping backward, but his speed was astonishing, instantly creating a distance of several meters.
At the same time, the muzzle of the machine gun in his hand flashed wildly, and dense tongues of fire spewed out, forming a fan-shaped barrage without blind spots, accurately covering all the space where Shadow Scorpion and Fortress could possibly dodge.
"Clang, clang... Bang, bang, bang!"
A dense hail of bullets struck the barely visible white exoskeleton, igniting a series of sparks and ear-piercing impacts.
Although these conventional munitions could not penetrate White Mask's sturdy armor, the powerful kinetic energy they carried was solidly applied to Shadow Scorpion and Bastion, like a continuous barrage of heavy punches, momentarily halting their movements.
This precious moment!
“PONG——!!!”
The explosion at extremely close range produced a deafening roar.
The blazing flames rolled and expanded, and the shockwaves slammed outwards like invisible giant hammers, violently kicking up rubble and dust from the ground, which then flew in all directions.
The fortress, bearing the brunt of the attack, let out a deep, muffled roar. The thick armor plates covering its arms made a "click-clack" mechanical sound as they rapidly transformed and assembled like living things, instantly becoming a giant blue shield that was at least two meters tall.
The shield appears to be only a thin layer, but the faint blue energy flowing across its surface indicates that it is a highly efficient energy deflection shield—a high-energy ion shield.
The flames and most of the impact from the explosion slammed solidly into the azure shield, producing a teeth-grinding "sizzle" sound.
The flames were forcibly diverted, roaring past both sides of the shield. The fortress's massive body shuddered violently, its feet sinking deep into the ground like iron plows. Under the enormous impact, it was dragged backward, creating two deep trenches several meters long.
On the other side, the Shadow Scorpion's exoskeleton focuses more on agility and cunning, and its defense is far less formidable than that of the Fortress.
The shockwave from the explosion violently lifted him into the air, where he tumbled uncontrollably several times like a kite with a broken string.
The advanced stealth "water suit" could no longer maintain its stability and dissipated completely like a shattered soap bubble, revealing its complete form underneath.
The scorpion-like exoskeleton, with a segmented mechanical scorpion tail swaying unconsciously behind it, and the white mask appearing even more sinister in the firelight.
He crashed heavily to the ground, the tip of his scorpion tail snapping straight up and embedding itself deep into the earth like an anchor point, carving a terrifying trail more than ten meters long before barely stopping his retreat.
He looked disheveled and seemed to have suffered a significant shock.
Just as Shadow Scorpion was struggling, seemingly trying to get up from the ground, his head suddenly jerked backward without warning.
It felt as if I had been struck head-on by an invisible hammer.
A specially made bullet, almost the length of a palm, appeared out of nowhere like a poisonous stinger, piercing straight and precisely into the center of the white mask's brow.
The mask split open with a sharp, long, and menacing gash, revealing the biological tissue beneath. A viscous liquid, a mixture of milky white and bright red, gushed out from the crack.
Without delay, a cold, hawk-like voice came through the communication channel:
"Shot right between the eyebrows, kill!"
Almost at the same moment he spoke, a yellowish-green figure suddenly leaped up from a small hill about 1.2 km away.
It was Xu Yingyan!
The muzzle of the heavy sniper rifle in his hand, which was almost as tall as him, still had faint traces of gunpowder smoke.
Almost as soon as he stood up, his specially designed boots emitted wisps of air, making him glide rapidly along the ground in an unpredictable S-shape, as if he were riding an invisible skateboard, at an astonishing speed.
The air seemed to only belatedly emit a sharp "hiss" sound at the spot where he had just lurked and jumped away.
Even faster than the hissing sound, a wall of blazing white fire appeared out of nowhere, suddenly rising into the air and completely engulfing the small mound.
The high temperature caused the air to distort violently, and the sand and soil on the ground were melted into a glassy state.
On the roof of the abandoned gas station, the brow beneath the Fire Raven mask furrowed almost imperceptibly.
Seeing that his first shot missed, he was about to turn the muzzle of his gun to aim again when a chill suddenly ran through him.
Without any thought, driven purely by his honed battlefield instincts, his feet moved faster than his brain could react, and he sprang to the side.
Although his exoskeleton armor looks quite large, in order to pursue ultimate mobility and sniping stability, it is actually the lightest and most flexible of the four besides the captain.
He pivoted on his left foot and pushed off sharply to the side and back with his right foot. In his haste, he lacked the strength to generate enough force, but his movement was like a startled crow skimming the ground. He flew out horizontally for a full ten meters.
Meanwhile, as he flew horizontally, he used the sense of direction from the chill to twist his waist, and the strange sniper rifle on his right arm almost swung over.
The blue patterns on the muzzle lit up again, and the accumulated destructive energy compressed at the muzzle, about to erupt once more.
However, it was still a fraction of a second too slow!
Just as he moved sideways and flicked his sniper rifle, a kilometer away, in another seemingly peaceful patch of grass, another yellow-green figure appeared.
It jumped out using both its hands and feet.
It's the observer "Lynx"!
His appearance was extremely abrupt, his movements were as swift as lightning, and his hands swung rapidly to the sides of his body at a dazzling speed, leaving a trail of afterimages.
Special smoke grenades, each only the size of an egg, were flung out like a shower of flowers.
"Puff puff puff puff—!"
A series of muffled explosions occurred, and in less than half a second, the area within a hundred-meter radius of the Lynx was instantly enveloped in opaque black smoke containing special interfering particles.
And with the howling wind, it seemed poised to spread outwards.
"Iron Claw! Area 331-27, at least two snipers! Force them out of their rat holes!"
Fire Crow spoke coldly into the communication channel.
He abandoned blindly firing into the smoke zone, and the blue light on his gun went out.
At the same time, the plates of the exoskeleton armor on his back emitted a series of dense "clicking" sounds, quickly folding and unfolding into a pair of metal wings with a wingspan of more than four meters.
The next instant, a high-pressure airflow suddenly erupted from beneath his feet, and he abruptly rose into the air, gliding at an astonishing speed towards the black smoke zone.
Hundreds of meters to the side, Iron Claw snorted in displeasure, but still exerted its eight claws and leaped at high speed toward the black smoke area.
This series of rapid shifts in attack and defense, though seemingly lengthy, actually took less than a blink of an eye.
On the other side, Ahr had just landed when he casually tossed aside the empty rocket launcher on his shoulder. As soon as he looked up, his gaze instinctively fell in the direction where Shadow Scorpion had just fallen.
The echo of Eagle Eye slaying the enemy still lingered in his ears. Just as he was about to admire the true face beneath the cracked white mask, he heard Xiao You's chilling synthesized voice coming through the channel:
"The dynamic environment simulation data shows abnormal fluctuations, the physical interaction when falling over has a distortion of 0.08 seconds, and the environmental collision performance is missing..."
Overall assessment – Target is a highly realistic holographic illusion. Warning: The enemy is…
Xiao You's warning was like ice water poured over his head, making Ah He's heart skip a beat, and a chill ran down his spine to the top of his head.
His eyes widened suddenly, his adrenaline surged, and everything in his field of vision seemed to slow down.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his teammate, who was guarding the flank, suddenly and without warning split open vertically.
That's right, it split open, neatly divided in two from the top of the head to the crotch!
Scalding blood and internal organs splattered wildly to both sides like splashed paint.
The splashing crimson streaks in the air strangely outlined a metallic scorpion tail, dripping with blood, slowly emerging from nothingness.
Behind the scorpion's tail was a smooth mask.
There was no bullet that had pierced through; only the bright red blood that had just splattered onto the surface was slowly sliding down the smooth curve.
Beneath the mask, a mocking yet cruel laugh, with a metallic, scraping quality, pierced the ears of Ah and his other teammate:
"Fools, where are you looking?"
The next instant, the Shadow Scorpion swung its tail, and dozens of Shadow Scorpions appeared out of thin air, surrounding Ah and the other person in the center.
On the side road, Feng Mu turned his head to glance out the car window, watching the invisible health bar flying in the air, as well as the wall of fire and dozens of shadow scorpions appearing in the grass.
Then, unhurriedly glancing at the missile hurtling towards the distance, he habitually stroked his glasses and said with a half-smile:
"Captain Li, I didn't expect it to be so lively outside the Second Prison. Do you think they're welcoming us?"
(End of this chapter)
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