Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 899: Living Hook and Gravity Gun
Unless, you can change direction urgently in mid-air, in this way, you can not only avoid the opponent's shooting, but also trick the opponent into shooting and find the opponent's hiding place.
Ke Lan took a look at the gun in his hand. It was a large-caliber pistol with a caliber of 0.5 inches, the same as the one used by the other party, with amazing recoil... But it is difficult to make a large-scale emergency change of direction relying solely on the recoil during shooting. The scene where the time spent in the air can be increased by shooting at the ground is either the result of using more powerful weapons or from soft science fiction that is purely for the pursuit of coolness... In reality, even if Ke Lan fired all five bullets in the gun chamber in one breath, he could only move his body a few inches in the air at most.
With this magnitude of displacement, the opponent only needs to fire two more shots with the gun to hit him, and there is no point in even dodging.
Just as Ke Lan was thinking about how to get out of the minefield, his sight suddenly stopped at those thick tree trunks...
“There is a way!”
Ke Lan took a deep breath, and the living armor condensed into a hook connected to a chain at the end of his right hand. With the help of a simple catapult device, the hook suddenly flew out and fixed on a tree that was as thick as a man's embrace.
The tree was about eight meters away from Ke Lan, and the hook was fixed about ten meters above the ground. The moment the hook embedded into the bark, the chain connected to the hook tightened rapidly, carrying Ke Lan into the air!
The moment Ke Lan left the ground, he caught a glimpse of a black muzzle of a gun flashing from behind a huge rock twenty meters away from him at the three o'clock direction!
Ke Lan pulled the chain in his right hand hard, and the tree trunk fixed by the claws was immediately broken in the middle - he chose the thinnest tree nearby, with the purpose of letting the fallen trunk interfere with the opponent's shooting path.
As the tree trunk fell, Ke Lan released the claw on his right hand, and the second claw that had already formed in his left hand shot out rapidly, nailed on another tree beside him, and dragged Ke Lan to fly in a completely different direction.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The other party fired four shots in succession, but except for the first shot which was only a dozen centimeters away from Ke Lan, the second and third shots were getting farther and farther off target. The fourth shot, which was pulled back after noticing that Ke Lan had turned and changed direction in the air, hit the broken tree trunk directly.
“Boom!!” “Crackle—”
The broken tree trunk fell to the ground with a loud bang, triggering a large number of electrode mines that had been laid. A large bright and dazzling electric arc was raging on the ground. However, at this time, Ke Lan had already soared to a height of more than ten meters. He did a front flip, retracted his grappling claws, and landed steadily on a horizontal branch.
Ke Lan took out his gun and pointed it at the boulder.
However, when Ke Lan took out his gun, the person hiding behind the boulder had already shrunk back, leaving Ke Lan no room to fight back.
Fortunately, before the other party retreated, Ke Lan had used his time-stopping ability to capture a crucial frame of the picture.
The hand holding the gun is a human hand. Judging from the skin color, it should belong to a white male. The pores on the back of the hand, the skin texture, and the blood vessels, bones, and muscles under the skin are clearly visible. It does not look like a cyborg prosthetic hand - if it is a prosthetic hand, it must be the kind of advanced bionic hand used by members of the Undead Crew.
The most crucial point is that this hand shows no signs of mutation.
It's a human... not a corpse?
If he was one of the crew members of the battleship who came in with Heruni, it is impossible for him to still maintain his human form... What's more, the bullets used by this person and the electric mines he laid are new weapons developed in recent years. In Heruni's era, there were no such things at all.
And there was the body that had just been dug out… It was a soldier… Although Ke Lan couldn’t remember any acquaintances he had in the army, Neto didn’t lie to him. Subconsciously, the skeleton did give him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Who killed him? Was it the man hiding behind the boulder?
Judging from the looseness of the soil pit, the skeleton had been buried there for only a few hours. Based on this calculation, it is very likely that the gunshot heard earlier had killed the person... But the question is, how could a person who was shot to death a few hours ago turn into a skeleton so quickly?
The soil in the jungle hunting grounds is not corrosive. Under normal circumstances, it would take several months for a corpse to rot to that extent, and clothes made of that kind of fabric would take decades to begin to degrade...
But we cannot rule out the possibility that a creature similar to the "man-eating tree" ate up the flesh and blood of the dead... But when Ke Lan thought in this direction, his subconscious kept suggesting to him that this was a wrong guess.
There was a familiar aura on the corpse that made Ke Lan feel... It was...
Several scenes flashed back in Ke Lan's mind... the black skeleton, the black cardinal, the holy words, the sacrifice, the black mummy... Ke Lan finally found the source of this familiar breath: this corpse was sacrificed as a "sacrifice" when he was alive!
Was the sacrificial ritual initiated by the deceased? Or... by the person who attacked him?
Ke Lan stared at the boulder and asked, "I have something to talk to you about. What do you think?"
There was no response from the other party.
"I really want to know why you want to kill me. Moreover, you seem to be very , and have a lot of information about me... I think you came here to kill me on purpose, right?"
Still no sound.
"You are still hiding behind the rock, which means that the gun can also cause fatal damage to you. In the current situation, I obviously have the upper hand." Ke Lan continued to shout, "If you are willing to answer a few questions for me, I can give you a chance for a fair duel."
Still no movement.
After saying these three sentences, Ke Lan no longer planned to negotiate - although there were no connected shelters around the boulder, there was no guarantee that there was no temporary tunnel dug underneath the boulder. If the other party escaped, the initiative that Ke Lan had spent so much effort to grasp would be gone.
Ke Lan directly took out the gravity gun seized from the tunnel dweller and aimed it at the boulder.
"Although it would be difficult to discern your identity from a pool of meat paste, you are carrying so much equipment, you must have a lot of things on you that can provide clues..." Ke Lan muttered to himself as he pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"boom!"
As if an invisible giant hand slapped down from the sky, the hard boulder was instantly turned into powder. With the boulder at the center, the ground in an area with a radius of five meters sank by half a meter, and the soil at the bottom of the pit was compacted like stone.
At the moment the gravity field took effect, Ke Lan clearly saw blood spurting out - the other party did not escape, but was crushed together with the boulder.
"Should he be...dead?"
Ke Lan jumped down from the tree and walked towards the big hole created by the gravity gun.
