Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 196: Fighting the Black Skeleton Again
"Everyone, focus on me, defend the advancement formation--"
Before Victoria even uttered the word "formation", the black skeleton suddenly rushed towards a security agent on the outside of the team!
The agent's reaction was not slow. He pulled the trigger of his automatic pistol the moment the black skeleton jumped up. In an instant, a volley of bullets was fired out like water. However , all he achieved was to tear apart the robe wrapped around the black skeleton, but failed to cause any effective damage to the skeleton itself.
In the blink of an eye, the black skeleton had crashed into the agent's arms, and its sharp bone claws left several deep wounds on his thighs that could be seen to the bone. Then, it threw the injured agent towards the team members, and then it crouched down and crawled into the nearest room.
An agile agent immediately rushed forward and dragged his companion back, while the others fired wildly at the room, trying to suppress the black skeleton hiding inside with firepower.
"Ah... uh... ah... legs... my legs! Ah..." The attacked agent wailed in pain until the agent who rescued him injected a quick-acting painkiller into his arm. Only then did he stop screaming and gasp for breath.
"No abnormal cells were found in the wound, so the risk of infection from the Seed of Erosion has been ruled out!" The rescue agent quickly checked his wound and reported to Victoria, "But the opponent's bone claws carry a special toxin that can accelerate the festering of the wound and greatly increase the sensitivity of the pain nerves."
"No wonder..." Ke Lan nodded silently. Agents like these from the Security Bureau have all received extremely strict training. Training like enduring pain is the basics of the basics. Let alone a few scratches, even if his entire leg was cut off, he wouldn't be able to scream so loudly... But if this toxin can amplify the pain several times or even dozens of times, then even a person with a strong will can't remain silent... unless he faints from the pain.
"Carry the injured to the middle of the team and deal with the emergency first. Everyone else, keep your eyes on the target!" Victoria shouted, and she herself, with the help of the explosive power of her mechanical prosthesis, jumped onto the roof of the building.
In her hand, she held an electromagnetic heavy machine gun with rapid firepower and fired at the ground below. Suddenly, a hole with a diameter of three meters was cut on the roof, and Victoria fell directly into the house through the hole!
"The target is not inside! It ran away!" Victoria's voice came from inside the house. At this moment, a scream suddenly came from the other side of the team. When everyone turned around, they saw that the black skeleton turned behind a mobile cold drink shop, leaving behind a garrison sergeant with his abdomen cut open by bone claws lying on the ground.
"Hurry up and save him !" Ke Lan shouted to the stunned soldier, "Be careful not to step on his intestines!"
"That thing is behind here! Kill it!" Ashkani suddenly seemed like a different person. He roared and rushed towards the cold drink shop. He pulled the trigger as he rushed, and a large number of cans of soda and alcoholic beverages in the cold drink shop were immediately blown up.
However, the walls of this cold drink shop were made of thin, removable panels, and the bullets easily penetrated the back wall, leaving several large holes in it.
"It's still there!" Major Ashkani seemed to have left the terror behind him at this moment. He dropped his assault rifle which was empty of bullets, pulled out his pistol, and broke into the cold drink shop, firing continuously at the black skeleton hiding behind the wall!
"Major, retreat quickly! Your weapons can't hurt it!" Ke Lan shouted. He had already experienced the physical strength of the black skeleton in the cargo hold - that thing could even fight Asano Akira's Nino alloy blade for dozens of moves. Conventional ammunition could not penetrate that layer of bone at all.
The pistol Ashkani used was a large -caliber revolver model "Defender R05", which could kill a cow with one shot at a distance of one hundred meters, but its only drawback was that it had a small ammunition capacity, with only four bullets in a cylinder.
While Ashkani was reloading, the black skeleton seized the opportunity to crawl through the hole in the wall, and swung down with its bayonet-like bone claws.
“Bang!!”
At this critical moment, a light gray grenade exploded between Ashkani and the black skeleton - a large amount of plastic foam poured out of the grenade, directly pushing the distance between the two by several meters, and also wrapping up half of the black skeleton's body.
This is the same foam mine that Ke Lan used in the glacier ruins. It is also often used by garrison soldiers to suppress riots. He saw several boxes of it on the blockade line just now, so he took a few and put them in his arms. He didn't expect that they would come in handy at this time.
Ke Lan ran over, took out the thinner and sprayed it on Ashkani a few times to dissolve the plastic foam stuck on his body, and then fired another foam bomb at the black skeleton that was about to break free.
"Hu...Hu..." Ashkani panted heavily, and with the help of Ke Lan, he took several steps back before sitting down on the ground. His red eyes stared at the black skeleton trapped in the high-strength plastic foam.
Ke Lan noticed that there were three pinholes arranged in a triangle on Major Ashkani's arm, with fresh blood oozing out of the pinholes. It seemed that this guy had just injected himself with a stimulant, which was why he became so brave...
"Are there any more foam mines? This thing is about to break free!" Ke Lan shouted to the non-commissioned officers and agents behind him.
"No need, I'll do it!" Victoria's voice came from above her head. With a crisp "click" sound, she directly stepped on the thin composite board on the roof of the cold drink shop and once again fell into the room from the sky.
Victoria grabbed the black skeleton's head, and her steel-claw-like prosthetic fingers exerted force instantly, crushing the black skeleton's skull in the blink of an eye.
"The skull alone cannot make it lose its ability to move." Ke Lan reminded. The skeleton they encountered in the cargo hold was so mutilated that only an upper body and two arms were left, but it was still able to fight on equal terms with Asano Akira... The "vitality" of this thing is so great that even cockroaches would have to admit defeat.
Moreover, in addition to these characteristics, the black skeleton seems to have some special abilities - he still remembers the "black hole" that almost swallowed up Ke Lan's self-consciousness.
However, judging from the information currently collected, Ke Lan had some rough guesses in his mind: the ability of the black skeleton should be a gift from the "great god". As servants, the "Alpha people" must pay with their lives to control this power. So, the language of the Alpha civilization, except for the "Holy Word", should be one level lower than the black skeleton. Ke Lan had previously attempted to use the language of the Alpha civilization to control the black skeleton, but the result was backlash from the other party.
But Ke Lan always felt that this explanation was a bit far-fetched... Could it be that the "great god" believed in by the Alpha civilization still exists and can "hear" the prayers of believers? But... if it can respond to the requests of believers, how could the Alpha civilization disappear?
Could it be that these guys did something terrible and angered the god?
"I know." Victoria said coldly. While Ke Lan was thinking about these things, she had already torn the black skeleton into a pile of broken bones, even the tiny joints such as fingers and toes were not spared and were all broken.
"Do you think that this guy's purpose is actually to delay time?" Ke Lan looked at the broken bones on the ground and said thoughtfully.
"I can see that it had the chance to kill my men, but it only seriously injured them." Victoria nodded.
