30 minutes later, a Gladiator III that looked like it had just driven out of a scrapped vehicle recycling point crashed through a low wall and rushed out of the alley onto the main traffic road.
The top half of the car's frame had vanished, leaving it more savage than the most radical convertible in the world. Only half of its six wheels were still inflated, and the others had worn their hubs dry.
Lu Xianwusheng helplessly clung to the remaining roll cage. There were a few decorative fired bricks piled on his legs, and he didn't have time to throw them away.
The reason for this outcome was simple: Li Wenjia's aggressive driving style had unleashed a predator dormant in the river. Those drones, clad in bionic shells, weren't confined to underwater life. When some of them shed their camouflage, their six thin, engineering plastic legs were more than enough to hold their own against all-terrain vehicles.
Li Wenjia spent some time dealing with these heavy amphibious drones in the ruins of the city.
They were incredibly formidable and powerful—each one carried an antimatter bomb, containing a millionth of a mole of antiprotons. If the shell were breached or the containment failed, it would unleash a devastating annihilation explosion, powerful enough to blow an entire city block skyward.
Fortunately, those bombs are essentially their energy cores. They will not choose to commit suicide unless they have no other choice.
Li Wenjia suspected the hunters hadn't registered their heat signature. They were probably just chasing the car, not trying to kill the driver. That would make things easier. Once they were out of reach of the hunters, they could abandon the car and save the driver.
He turned onto the main road and then drove onto the city elevated road.
"Old Lu, help me." Li Wenjia glanced at the rearview mirror. "Help me pile the bricks on the accelerator. Hurry up! Our car can't outrun them!"
"Okay, okay!" Lu Xianwu unbuckled his seat belt and stuffed all the stones and bricks on his body and under the seat at Li Wenjia's feet.
Li Wenjia tested the stone's center of gravity with his foot, then removed two stun grenades from his chest. After biting the safety pins with his teeth, he shouted to those around him, "Are you ready? When I say three, jump down. Don't worry about anything else!"
"Where to jump?"
"Under the bridge!"
Li Wenjia locked the steering wheel with a piece of metal wire, then pushed the grenade back and shouted again: "One, three! Jump!"
He climbed into the driver's seat and flipped two switches on his wrist. Before his exoskeleton finished charging, he felt the car's impact to the left. He immediately followed the force and flew forward.
"Bang!"
Only one of the two stun grenades exploded, and the other one was split into two halves by the hunter while spinning in the air.
Li Wenjia drew an arc in the air. He couldn't guarantee that the drones would be attracted by the grenade, so after taking off, he curled himself into a ball to confuse the drones' sensors.
About five seconds later, the two heavy objects fell into the snow, attracting no onlookers. The noise on the bridge gradually faded away, until finally there was no louder sound.
Li Wenjia rolled over, raising his unconscious left hand. Four fingers were bent upwards at a 90-degree angle. He gritted his teeth and quickly twisted his fingers back into place, his brow furrowing. He lay on the ground for a moment, then climbed to his feet, cursing. He felt as if his internal organs had shifted, as if he'd been struck by a sledgehammer.
He limped towards the other man and nudged him in the head with his toe.
"Hey, are you okay?"
"If I'm fine, then I'm seriously in trouble! It's four stories up there, and you f**king made me jump! I'm not Iron Man, and my exoskeleton isn't some f**king magic that can make me look fine even if a f**king tank hits me!"
The man under his feet was cursing, but he couldn't get up from the ground after trying for a long time.
Li Wenjia studied him for a few minutes, then kicked him in the right lower back. The stuck part finally recovered its function, and he was finally able to stand up. Congratulations.
Lu Xianwu, holding onto the bridge pier beneath the elevated overpass, looked like a man with kidney deficiency. He fumbled with his hands behind his back for a while, then pointed at his eyes a few times before finally asking Li Wenjia, who was squatting nearby, "Do you have a tablet?"
"Tablet? What tablet? I don't make it."
"It's the tablet they distributed before the operation! That damn white tablet!"
"Oh, you're talking about that." Li Wenjia searched around on himself. "What a coincidence! I didn't take it either. It should still be in the car."
Not only that, most of their weapons and equipment were also placed on the back seat of the car.
Lu Xianwu felt like the sky had fallen, as if his most important mission item had been stolen mid-flight. He felt like crying, but he couldn't. He hammered twice on the bridge pier, then, as if making up his mind, he grabbed Li Wenjia by the back of his collar and pulled him up from the ground.
"What, what are you doing?"
"Come on, let's go back and get the tablet!"
"Go back?" Li Wenjia untied the claws behind his back and turned to meet his eyes—or rather, his visor. "Are you going back to fight those spiders head-on? What can you use to fight them? Just the two of us, a gun, and a hundred or so bullets?"
"But......"
"boom!"
Lu Xianwu was about to argue when two huge explosions were heard in the distance. Li Wenjia immediately tackled the man in front of him to the ground, and then felt a large number of small stones falling on his back.
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