Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 215 The Last Three
"Be careful...hiss...there's someone on this floor." Victoria raised the gun and pointed it at the corridor outside.
"Someone?... Are you sure it's a person?" Ke Lan gripped the gun handle tightly with his right hand and placed the gun on his arm. In his left hand, he held up an offensive grenade with the safety pin pulled out, ready to throw it at any time.
“Not sure.” Victoria shook her head. “According to… the vibrations… there are three targets… hiss… approaching… hiss…”
"Only three enemies?" What Ke Lan was most worried about was being blocked at the exit of the elevator by a large number of monsters - the space here was small, and there was basically no room to dodge or move . The control system of the elevator they were riding had been completely destroyed during Victoria's violent invasion, and the entire car was stuck on the 29th floor. If they wanted to go down, they could only blow up the bottom of the car and jump directly out of the elevator shaft.
"Close," Victoria said, her finger already on the trigger.
Without her saying anything, Ke Lan had already heard the obvious footsteps coming quickly towards the elevator.
But just as the footsteps reached the corner and were about to appear in their shooting range, they suddenly stopped, followed by a slight "click" sound.
"Back quickly!" Ke Lan instantly realized what the slight sound meant. He grabbed Victoria's shoulders and pulled her back with force. At the same time, he threw the grenade in his hand towards the corner of the corridor!
"boom!!"
“Puff——!”
Two explosions sounded almost simultaneously. The louder one was the offensive grenade thrown by Ke Lan, while the lighter one was the projectile thrown by the other party.
It was a silver metal tube, as thick as a fist and ten centimeters long - it was a small thermite grenade, which was not common in the military because when fire attacks were needed, commanders of field forces would often directly choose to call in bombers to drop napalm bombs. When air support was unavailable, there were also incendiary grenades with a larger attack range.
In comparison, the attack radius of thermite grenades, which is only a few meters, is too small. If you want to set up a wall of fire to block the herd, you have to throw in at least hundreds or thousands of thermite grenades, while only a few incendiary grenades are enough.
But this thing is widely praised in the hunter circle - hunters rarely need to face large-scale indigenous biological communities, and basically do not need large-scale killing weapons. The smaller the power of the weapon often means more control and higher safety. What's more, in the hands of hunters, thermite grenades are generally not used as killing weapons...
It can be used to destroy traps, melt metal, provide lighting... and even to start a fire for warmth in an emergency. Ke Lan and his team also brought a lot of thermite grenades in their equipment boxes. If they hadn't been lost in the plane crash, they wouldn't have been in such a mess when facing the swarm of split-jaw insects.
With a "swish", a flame zone five or six meters long and more than half a meter wide appeared where Victoria had just stood. Under the high temperature generated by the thermite reaction, even the alloy ground showed signs of melting. As for the rotten meat around it, it was carbonized in an instant, emitting a peculiar smell of burnt protein.
However, this scene made Ke Lan breathe a sigh of relief - since the opponent could use thermite grenades, it meant that he was not a monster, at least not yet.
"Here they come again!" Two more thermite grenades rebounded from the wall and landed in front of Ke Lan and Victoria. The sudden rise of fire forced the two to retreat again.
"They want to shrink our space for movement. We must rush out, otherwise, we will soon have nowhere to hide!" Ke Lan quickly understood the other party's intention and said to Victoria in a low voice.
"I...hiss...will throw you out...hiss...be prepared..." Victoria nodded, and the mechanical arm had already clamped Ke Lan's waist tightly.
"Throw them out? Wait——" Before Ke Lan could finish his words, he was thrown into the air by Victoria and flew directly over the fire zone. At this time, he finally saw the true face of the opponent—three warriors wearing Japanese armor... No, that's not right, those armors were not worn on the body, but directly embedded in the body... That was not armor, but a special cyborg prosthesis!
These were three high-level biochemically modified humans - in an instant, Ke Lan guessed the identities of these three people.
The only three remaining among the Six Samurai !
Before Ke Lan's brain made this judgment, his finger had already pulled the trigger -
“Thump, thump, thump—!!”
He was still holding the modified Type 01 assault rifle. The huge recoil pushed him out and he fell heavily to the ground.
However, this burst of gunfire still successfully forced the three people to retreat - compared to monsters, humans at least still maintained their nature of seeking benefits and avoiding harm. They would use cover and find ways to dodge enemy attacks. If it were monsters driven by instinct, they would probably have rushed up under the bullets by now.
Victoria quickly jumped over as well. She rolled on the ground to absorb the impact of landing, then quickly aimed her gun at the corner where the three Six Samurai were and fired a series of suppressing shots.
"They are the remaining three of the Six Samurai , Iran, Nizo and Karamon, two level eight and one level seven cyborgs." Ke Lan got up from the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner and said quickly to Victoria.
"Is it a cyborg...hiss...or..."
"It's not that kind of monster." Before Victoria finished her words, Ke Lan already knew what she wanted to ask, "At least there are no obvious signs of mutation on the outside ."
"Got it." Victoria took out a magazine with a special mark from her backpack and put it on. The magazine was filled with a kind of ammunition called "acid-etching bullets". This stuff is generally used to deal with indigenous creatures with hard shells. The cuticle and exoskeleton that are difficult to penetrate by ordinary armor-piercing bullets are only a matter of time in front of acid-etching bullets - the same goes for the cyborg armor of the Six Samurai.
Ke Lan also replaced the magazine of the modified Type 01 in his hand with a full one - although he had other weapons that were easier to control, when facing the Six Samurai, perhaps only this weapon with terrifying recoil could cause effective damage.
"The person who just used the thermite grenade should be the level seven fire gate. According to the description in the information, this person is good at using firearms, projectiles and explosives. Be careful not to fall into his trap." Ke Lan reminded Victoria from behind.
