Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 423 Sniper Target
"What if... the seeds of erosion from other areas don't all arrive to support us? What should we do?"
"Just in case, let's make as much noise as possible." Ke Lan said as he took out a piece of highly concentrated sticky explosive from his backpack, rolled it into a long strip, inserted a detonator, and stuck it to the outer wall of the wreckage of the building.
"When the first batch of 'reinforcements' arrives, we will directly detonate the explosives and try to create the illusion that the two sides are engaged in a fierce exchange of fire. With the intelligence of the Seeds of Erosion, we are not afraid that they will not take the bait."
In addition to sticky explosives, Ke Lan also buried several decoy bullets that could make gunshot sounds a little further away. Although such decoy bullets were difficult to fool veterans with rich battlefield experience, they were completely sufficient to deceive these monsters. Especially in a complex environment like the Molten Mine, the sound from a distance was almost indistinguishable from real gunshots.
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After completing this series of arrangements, Ke Lan led the reconnaissance team away from the wreckage of the building. Except for Layton who hid in a shallow pit two hundred meters away from the wreckage of the building as a relay station for signal transmission, everyone else moved to the top of the huge rock on the other side of the rift.
Valentina controlled the mecha and lay down. The six-meter-long rail sniper gun barrel extended and was fixed on the boulder with a quadruped.
Because the location of the "nucleus" of the S-type mutant could not be determined, this sniper attack adopted a "saturation strike". This shell, which was thicker than a thumb, carried sixty units of active cells of flesh-eating worms, which was nearly twice the "charge" of the "trump card" installed in Victoria's mechanical arm.
"You only have one sniper chance. Don't be impatient. Wait until you are absolutely sure before shooting... But if you choose to pull the trigger, you must kill with one shot." Ke Lan stood next to Valentina 's mecha and said to her in a deep voice.
The images captured by the mechanical snake were projected onto the AR screen inside the power armor helmet. After being analyzed and converted by the computer, Ke Lan could see the outline of the S-type mutant outlined by orange translucent lines, appearing on the surface of the wreckage of the building.
Valentina slowly moved the muzzle of the gun and aimed it at the constantly twisting outline - as long as the cannonball was fired at this angle, the monster would be hit accurately.
Although the skeletons and walls within the wreckage of the building will interfere with the trajectory to a certain extent, at a distance of four hundred meters, this interference is almost negligible.
A light blue fluorescence began to emanate from the heat dissipation port of the railgun. The acceleration coil had been energized and the voltage was increasing rapidly.
Ke Lan could even hear Valentina's deep breathing in the team channel.
The three charging indicator lights lit up one by one, and a slight "buzzing" sound began to come from the barrel, but the muzzle was so stable that there was not even the slightest vibration, and the adjusted crosshairs always stayed in the middle of the outline and never moved.
“Boom!”
A muffled sound rang in Ke Lan's ears, and a stream of dark blue light accompanied by a bright white electric arc shot out from the muzzle and instantly penetrated into the wreckage of the building!
The next second, the orange shadow in the AR image exploded and could no longer maintain its original shape.
Ke Lan quickly reached out and pressed the side of the helmet, and the AR image immediately switched to the real-life scene captured by the mechanical snake - the entire upper body of the S-type mutant had disappeared, and the remaining lower body was disintegrating and rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye. Countless tentacles drilled out from under the skin, making a final frantic struggle. Grayish-white pus spurted out from the broken part of the mutant's body, and before it hit the ground, it had already turned into a translucent jelly-like substance.
After all, it is a dose of sixty units. For the seeds of erosion, even if it does not directly hit the "core", the toxicity is enough to kill it instantly.
The Erosion Seeds that had been guarding the S-type mutants, after smelling the active cells of the flesh-eating worms, rushed towards the remains of the S-type mutants like crazy. It was not until then that Ke Lan noticed that the upper body that was blown off by the shells was thrown into the corner of the room. More than a dozen Erosion Seeds rushed forward, desperately fighting for the remaining active cells.
Seeing this scene, Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief - now it is basically certain that, except for the S-type and C-type mutants, the other species of corrosion act on instinct, and their intelligence, compared with all the indigenous creatures on Alpha, can only be ranked in the middle and lower levels. After losing their "direct superiors" who can communicate directly with the "commander", these monsters will instantly lose control.
This is exactly the effect Ke Lan wanted. Even the human army would lose its composure after their officers were sniped, let alone these monsters that had lost their minds.
"Layton! Retreat quickly!" Ke Lan shouted in the team communication channel, "I will detonate the sticky explosives and decoy bombs in twenty seconds."
"I know! I'm coming to you!" Layton's voice came from the headset. He jumped up from the shallow pit where he was hiding. After a run-up of more than ten meters, he directly activated the jet pack behind him and flew to the boulder.
"Fuck you, you prodigal son. The fuel you carried is only enough to activate the jet pack twice, and you've already used it up once?" Seeing Layton flying up, the Hound couldn't help but complain.
"Aren't you afraid that you will run too slowly and then you won't be able to get away?" Layton turned around and lay down on the boulder like everyone else. "The equipment we brought is to be used. We have to use it when necessary. Otherwise, it will be tragic if we don't even have the chance to use it."
"Okay, okay, you are right... Hey! Look! At twelve o'clock! One thousand two hundred meters away! Something is coming out!" The hound suddenly exclaimed.
"It's another team of Erosion Species... one S-type mutant, three B-type mutants, and fifteen ordinary species. The configuration is similar to that in the wreckage of the building." Ke Lan murmured, tightening the detonator in his hand.
He had already turned on the intelligent search function of the helmet. Every Seed of Erosion that appeared in his field of vision was marked with a bright orange box. There was an independent ranging scale between each "box" and the wreckage of the building. As for the three Type B mutants in the front, the scale reading was less than 100 meters.
