Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 898 Electric Mine
If Ke Lan jumped up at this moment and shot randomly in the direction of one o'clock, there was a high probability that he would hit the opponent...but Ke Lan was not sure of the exact probability.
What if the other person is also a very cautious person and crawls on the ground like me?
What if the opponent is equipped with a bulletproof shield or is simply wearing a power armor?
Ke Lan still had five bullets left, and he didn't want to waste them without being able to guarantee effective damage.
Sitting back and waiting may seem a little foolish, but it is the safest option at the moment.
For a completely unknown enemy, there are too many variables in an encounter. If it is an ambush, at least Ke Lan can still take the initiative into her own hands.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
Ten minutes passed and there was still no sound in the fog, not even gunshots or grenades. It was as if the guy who sniped Ke Lan had left.
"The other party also chooses to sit back and wait?" Ke Lan muttered in his heart, "Or...playing hard to get?"
Now it's time to test the patience of both sides. Whoever loses patience first will be the loser.
Fifteen minutes, twenty minutes...
Ke Lan lay on the ground like a piece of rotten wood, and he remained unmoved even when a group of mutant ants crawled across his cheeks.
He has always been patient, and as long as he can achieve his goal, he can wait as long as it takes... even in extremely dangerous and tense situations.
When he was still a lone hunter, Ke Lan explored a C-level ruins. The ruins were originally A-level, but the advance team successfully destroyed the "access control system" of the ruins, reducing the difficulty of the ruins a lot, and then took away the most valuable things in the ruins. As a result, the ruins were downgraded twice, from A-level to C-level.
But no matter what, this is at least an A-level relic. Although the access control system has been destroyed, it does not mean that the passages within the ruins are unobstructed. For hunters, those damaged mechanisms are still fatal.
The advance team destroyed the access control system, but the destruction was not complete - those passage doors would only be opened for a dozen seconds a day, and the opening time was completely random. Hunters who wanted to go deeper into the ruins could only wait at the door... and the most fatal point was that these doors were equipped with automatic defense systems, which would be triggered immediately as long as the hunters made a little more noise.
Hunters who want to enter this ruins can only squat in front of the door all day, cannot talk, cannot walk, can only eat with a straw to suck the liquid food in the backpack, can only use diapers to go to the toilet, and even the rhythm of breathing and heartbeat must be deliberately controlled...
There was once an independent hunter who was traveling with Ke Lan. When he saw the gate open, he was so excited that his breathing became a little heavy, and he turned into ashes in front of Ke Lan.
"Stay focused, keep a calm mind, control your breathing..." Ke Lan said silently in his heart. He had closed his eyes and pressed his cheeks and ears against the wet soil on the ground, feeling the various vibrations coming from the ground.
The rustling sound was the ants that had just crawled out of his face, the faint cracking sound and the subsequent friction sound was the sound of a fungus cap opening after it drilled out of the soil, and the rustling sound was the sound of the wind blowing the gravel rolling...
All the sounds were heard. Although Ke Lan closed his eyes, a three-dimensional image was drawn in his brain. This was very close to Asano Akira's ability, but there was a fundamental difference between the two. Asano Akira actually relied on invisible tentacles of his mind, which was more of a disguised "sense of touch" than "hearing". Ke Lan relied on his true hearing, as well as his brain's terrifying information processing and computing capabilities, to reconstruct various fragmented information into a complete scene.
An hour passed, and what Ke Lan didn't expect was that the first person to lose his temper was "Nietto", a third-party bystander.
Although "Nieto" lost control of most areas of the upper city, some powers were still retained, including the weather control system of the "Jungle Hunting Ground".
A rainstorm fell without warning. The rain hit the treetops, making loud crackling sounds, and then flowed down through the gaps between the leaves... and as the rain fell, the mist that filled the forest gradually dissipated.
Ke Lan was shocked to discover that, with his position as the center, within a radius of thirty meters, a very dense minefield had formed - those anti-personnel mines were scattered around so casually, basically there was one every few steps.
Although these mines were not buried in the soil and were exposed on the ground, under the current circumstances, Ke Lan had no way to remove or bypass them.
These anti-personnel mines are triggered by omnidirectional laser remote sensing. As long as Ke Lan approaches within five meters, they will be triggered directly... What's even more troublesome is that these mines are all non-lethal mines.
If it was the kind of landmine that mainly kills with fragments, steel balls or explosive shock waves, Ke Lan might be able to rely on living armor and strong self-recovery to cross the minefield, but non-lethal landmines are more troublesome - these mines will not produce fragments or steel balls when they explode, and the shock waves are so small that they can be almost ignored, but they will release a high-voltage electric current that can cover a range of ten meters.
The voltage of this electric current is quite high. For ordinary people, it is enough to cause people to go into shock or even die instantly. For Ke Lan, although the high-voltage current is not fatal, from a certain perspective, it is "more deadly" than a lethal mine - even with the protection of living armor, he will fall into a short-term paralysis when hit by the current.
The other party was not nearby. Apparently, he had just hidden himself after setting up the minefield, waiting for Ke Lan to be paralyzed by the electric mine before striking.
"This guy...how did he manage to place so many electric mines nearby silently..." Ke Lan lay on the ground, slightly raised his head, and observed his surroundings - the distance between each electric mine was within five meters, and there was no gap for people to pass through. As for jumping over the minefield, Ke Lan must jump to a height of more than five meters. Not to mention whether he could find a safe foothold after jumping, this height alone was enough to turn him into a living target in mid-air.
Ke Lan was not wearing a power armor with thrusters, and Ze Luo's spatial ability could not be used in this place. He could not change direction after jumping into the air. The enemy hiding in the dark could easily predict his movement trajectory and then shoot. Ke Lan would definitely not be able to dodge.
