"Bang!"
The sudden sound of gunfire shattered the silence of the night, and the originally quiet street was like a pot of boiling water, completely boiling.
"Bang, bang, bang--!"
The orange-yellow tracer shuttled freely in the night, and the continuous gunfire was like exploding firecrackers, catching the mutants in the park off guard.
But it was only like this at the beginning.
Those mutants seemed to have long been accustomed to sudden sneak attacks.
They dragged their fallen companions back behind the bunker, then picked up their weapons and roared to launch a counterattack in the direction of the gunfire.
Ye Shi quickly glanced at the map and compared it with the area where the gunfire sounded.
He could be sure.
There were no one of his own there.
Almost at the same time as the gunfire exploded, a noisy sound came from the communication channel.
"Fuck, who fired the gun?!"
"Ye Shi???"
Hearing his ID, Ye Shi couldn't help but spray.
"Did you hear the sound of the electromagnetic gun?"
These bastards!
They are still teasing me at this time.
"Quiet! It's not our gunshots!" At the critical moment, Lao Bai was still reliable and quickly interrupted the quarrel in the public microphone.
If you listen carefully, the first gunshot was indeed not the sound of LD-47. After playing the game for so long, he can still hear the gunshots.
However, among the crackling gunshots that sounded later, some of them were obviously fired by LD-47.
Perhaps it was because the recoil of the full-power bullet could not be suppressed, and the gunshots were very short, maintaining the rhythm of two or three rounds per round.
Ye Shi immediately made a judgment in his heart.
These people are using miscellaneous equipment!
Although it is impossible to judge whether these people are elite from the gunshots alone, at least it can be judged that they should not be very rich.
Could it be mercenaries?
Just as he was thinking this, the voice of Brother Fang came from the communication channel. Hearing the gunshots leaked from the microphone, the B team he led should be very close to the crossfire area.
"... A crossfire was found on North 13th Street. Besides us, there are others who are eyeing this place."
While reporting the situation, a group of photos were uploaded to the team member's VM.
Although the street was dark in the night, the outline of the group of people could still be roughly seen by the light of the gun flames.
There were about a dozen of them, wearing different styles of casual clothes, and the weapons in their hands were also different. It was impossible to judge their camp by their equipment.
However, they all had a unified symbol on their bodies, which was the armband wrapped around their left arm. There seemed to be an elongated arrow drawn on it, and it looked like a high-voltage tower or a signal tower when it was enlarged.
At this time, news came from Kuangfeng.
"The nearby mutant tribe has sent reinforcements. The terrain is complex and the number of people cannot be determined. There are twelve modified armored vehicles that can be seen."
Ye Shi was shocked when he heard this.
"Armored vehicles?!"
Kuangfeng: "It's just a modification to the extent of welding steel plates... But there are some strange-looking weapons on it that make me more concerned. These mutants may be different from those we have encountered before."
Lao Bai: "How long will it take to arrive?"
Kuangfeng: "Within three minutes."
After a brief pause in the communication channel, Lao Bai made a decisive judgment.
"We have to find a way to figure out their identities. It would be best if we can bring two alive."
The group of unknown armed forces that suddenly launched an attack was obviously just a sheep attack, and they did not intend to take down the research facilities occupied by mutants.
This is easy to judge.
Guerrilla warfare and siege warfare are completely different in terms of both fighting style and scale. He could tell by just listening to the intensity of the exchange of fire and the distribution of gunfire that this group of people had already planned an escape route when they launched the attack.
Obviously, this is not the first time they have harassed the mutants here.
If these NPCs are like the resistance organization in Xizhou City, they are all survivors who rose up under the oppression of mutants and the Torch Church.
They may be able to cooperate.
Fang Chang: "Leave it to me... This group of people here will probably be in trouble, and we should be able to save one or two."
Lao Bai: "Ye Shi, you support him, Group A, C, and D retreat, and leave this to Group B and reconnaissance."
A uniform answer came from the communication channel.
"Received!"
In the darkness, a group of soldiers wearing exoskeletons began to move, and Fang Chang led three teammates to the rear of the guerrilla group they were targeting.
The mutants obviously also targeted this group.
The group of green-skinned guys seemed to know that it was impossible to catch all the mice, so they planned to concentrate their efforts to catch the most jumpy ones first.
The group of guerrilla soldiers seemed to realize something and began to shrink their positions backwards. However, they were not facing ordinary soldiers, but mutants who were not afraid of death.
Those green-skinned guys are like cancer cells. Even if half of their bodies are blown off, they can still survive. Unless the bullets smash their skulls, a few bullets on their bodies will not hurt them at all.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the Viper transport plane parked on the high-rise building evacuated the battlefield first and flew to the evacuation point at the back.
Lying on the edge of the building again.
Ye Shi skillfully unfolded the bipod of the 15-type "Python" Gauss rifle and adjusted the scope to thermal imaging mode.
The field of vision is clearly black and white.
The white spots hiding in the darkness instantly exposed the positions of the two sides of the firefight.
"Can you see your three o'clock direction?"
Comparing the map and markings on the tactical eyepiece, Ye Shi quickly determined the position that Fang Chang said.
A group of mutants are moving quickly in the half-collapsed high-rise building, and it seems that they are planning to move to the side and rear of the guerrillas to establish a firepower point.
Looking at the mutant who threw the machine gun to the broken window and unfolded the bracket, Ye Shi's eyes flashed with surprise.
Good guy!
These mutants also understand tactics? !
Without hesitation, he immediately replied in the communication channel.
"I saw it... The scale is about a team of ten people, and they are ready to set up the machine gun."
Fang Chang: "Shoot them down!"
"Got it!"
As the voice fell, Ye Shi had already pulled the trigger.
The arc flashed slightly between the gun barrels, and the recoil evenly hit the shoulder armor, and the aftereffect was like throwing a javelin.
At the same time, the mutant holding the machine gun hundreds of meters away, his head instantly looked like a watermelon hit by a club, and red and white were scattered all over the ground.
"One!"
To deal with soft targets without armor protection, there is no need to charge the capacitor, and a hit on the head only requires one shot.
After killing one, Ye Shi did not relax his breath and quickly aimed at the next target - the mutant who rushed over to take over the machine gun.
"Two!"
The moment the trigger was pulled, another head was blown into pieces.
Two mutant warriors were blown up in a row, and the remaining eight mutants were immediately in a panic, shouting and daring not to touch the machine gun on the window.
Seeing that no one showed up for a long time, Ye Shi gently exhaled the turbid air in his chest, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"The machine gun firepower point was successfully suppressed!"
Fang Chang's voice came from the communication channel.
"Well done! Keep suppressing... leave the rest to me!"
The picture taken by the drone was projected on the tactical eyepiece. Through the holographic image, Ye Shi could see that the team led by Fang Chang successfully intercepted the mutant team that went around the back of the guerrillas.
These guys are indeed different from the mutants they have encountered before.
Although the tactics of these green-skinned guys are not proficient, and can even be said to be simple and crude, lacking in skills, they are just right for the tough physique of mutants.
A sharp buzzing sound accelerated towards the ground, and a flash of fire burst out from the mutant reinforcement convoy in the distance.
That was the work of Kuangfeng.
Judging from the power of the explosion, it was obviously the "Yellow Bullet Knife" that shined in the battle of Xizhou City. This thing can even overturn the Conqueror No. 10 tank, and it is more than enough to destroy a modified truck.
The sudden explosion blocked the reinforcement convoy in the street, and this also bought some time for the besieged guerrillas to retreat.
Those people obviously noticed the helpers who suddenly appeared and were trying to join the team led by Fang Chang.
"Received!"
After a brief reply, Ye Shi continued to stare at the thermal imager, his eyes fixed on the machine gun, waiting for the rabbit, but after waiting for a long time, the third head did not appear.
A faint heat source could be seen by the broken door, and he was sure that the mutants were still guarding there. Those animals probably never dreamed that their heavy breathing was also a heat source, and was also outlined in the thermal imaging camera.
With his index finger rubbing the trigger, Ye Shi was getting impatient.
To be honest, after playing this game for so long, this was the first time he saw such a cowardly mutant. After two of them died, they shrank behind the bunker and dared not show their heads.
With a thought in his mind, a wicked smile rose at the corner of his mouth.
"You like to hide behind bunkers, right?"
It's a good time to try out new equipment.
Before in Luoxia Province, he thought he could rely on the range advantage and armor-piercing ability of the Gauss rifle to show his skills, but he didn't expect that his expectations would be in vain.
The terrain there was indeed wide, but because it was too wide, the distance between the two sides was far beyond the range of rifles. Ultra-long-distance combat was basically handed over to tanks, aircraft and artillery. The few raids he participated in had no place for sniper rifles to show their strength.
As soon as he said it, Ye Shi took out a long spike-shaped bullet from behind his buttocks.
This thing is an armor-piercing bullet designed for concrete bunkers, specifically for those old bastards who hide and don't show their heads.
Putting the bullet into the gun chamber, Ye Shi pressed the charging switch of the capacitor, and then slowly pulled the trigger.
The current flowed from the battery to the high-energy capacitor, and the hot plasma kept rolling in the gun chamber and released the moment he released the trigger.
With a short explosion, the hot air squeezed out of the muzzle, creating a circle of ripples at the muzzle, and broke through the sound barrier together with the high-speed mass bullet!
The bullet drew a hot and transparent track in the night sky, and blasted into the dark window like a cannonball, directly smashing an entire wall.
The reverse recoil caused the shoulder armor to shake slightly. Looking at the corpse emitting white light in the thermal imager, Ye Shi couldn't help but curl up a smug smile at the corner of his mouth.
"Three!"
The power of this Gauss rifle is really not exaggerated. It directly blasted the people and the wall.
Although it was a bit wasteful, it was cool!
After being shot, the group of mutants were obviously stunned. I don't know that the guerrillas who came to pick a fight every day actually have this ability.
At a distance of hundreds of meters, Ye Shi couldn't hear their communication, but it seemed that they were scared and didn't dare to stay behind the wall. They all fled downstairs.
"Too weak!"
However, just when he was feeling proud, a warning sign quietly crept into his heart, causing his hair to stand up involuntarily.
Something was targeting him!
He could faintly sense the existence of that thing, but he could not sense the specific direction of the killing intent!
What was certain was that the guy had probably been targeting him for a while, maybe when he fired the first shot.
It was only now that he was within his sensing range...
This guy was very strong!
He immediately raised his alertness to 120 points. Ye Shi did not dare to be careless. He immediately put away the Gauss rifle on the edge of the building and retreated to the entrance of the safe passage, shouting in the communication channel.
"I seem to be targeted!"
Fang Chang's voice came from his ears.
"You retreat first and go to the evacuation point immediately! We are ready to finish work here."
Ye Shi immediately replied.
"Got it! See you at the base!"
He punched open the rusty security door.
The moment he retreated from the roof to the top floor, Ye Shi clearly felt that the omen of crisis was getting stronger and stronger.
If he went down the stairs, he might run into the mutants head-on. The narrow terrain might not be easy to deal with even with power armor.
Moreover, he was not good at frontal combat, but shooting from a distance.
Thinking of this, Ye Shi had an idea and decisively gave up the stairs, went to the elevator room, and used both hands to forcefully pry open the rusty elevator door.
The elevator shaft was pitch black, and it was unclear what was happening below.
He reached out and pulled the cable hanging in the middle. After confirming that it had enough bearing capacity, he put the hook on it, then pulled the cable and jumped down to the bottom of the elevator shaft.
"Squeak--"
Although the weight of the power armor was more than one ton, it was also within the weighing range of the elevator system, and the locking and lowering process was relatively smooth.
However, the tooth-grinding metal friction sound was a little beyond his expectations.
"Oh my god... Don't let anyone hear this."
It shouldn't be that bad, right?
Isn't the sound insulation effect of the elevator shaft quite strong?
Just as he was thinking this in his mind, the outline of the elevator car suddenly appeared below, and Ye Shi quickly clamped his legs and the hook to start slowing down.
His feet stepped heavily on the top of the elevator car, and the elevator car creaked and shook.
Ye Shi quickly glanced at the number on the wall and found that this was the tenth floor, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
There should be no problem taking the stairs next.
Holding the handle of the elevator car's top door with his right hand, Ye Shiyi pulled it off the top of the elevator car and threw it aside.
However, just as he was about to step one foot in, his face changed slightly.
What the hell? !
This hole is too small!
The top door of the elevator car is only about 1.5 shoulder widths, just enough to get stuck on his shoulder armor. If he got stuck in the air halfway down, then A Guang, who was peeping at the screen, would laugh like a pig.
That won't do!
"MMP! You're giving me a problem!"
What to do?
Ye Shi immediately looked around to find a way out, but at this moment, his feet suddenly felt empty and he lost the touch of the ground.
"Ka--!"
The feeling of weightlessness at that moment almost flipped him over, and the explosion from above his head made him immediately realize what happened.
Someone blew up the cable.
The last time it was overhauled was two centuries ago. After losing its only traction, the elevator car with a completely inoperable braking system immediately began to free fall in the elevator shaft.
Looking at the rapidly descending floors, Ye Shi's face changed wildly.
Although his power armor is the legacy of the Orbital Airborne Division, it must be used with an airdrop capsule. He has not heard of any power armor that can jump down with a weight of more than a ton.
Maybe a pentagonal warrior can do it.
But unfortunately, the character he trained is just a weakling of the perception system.
"I'm so stupid!"
I was careless!
...
At the same time, in Hope Town, dozens of kilometers away, Xiaoyu No. 1, who was standing on the edge of the town, suddenly raised his head slightly.
"Eh?"
Hearing the voice coming from the communication channel, Luoyu stopped and looked back at it.
"What's wrong?"
Yu Yi and Yu Er looked at each other and tilted their heads in confusion. Yu San looked around and suddenly said something.
"Boil!"
Luo Yu: "..."
Damn.
He thought Xiao Yu had discovered something, but it turned out that he was just swearing.
Relieved, Luo Yu was about to catch up with the convoy when he suddenly saw a green-skinned guy walking out of the town gate.
Although it was already night and the lights under the fence were dim, he was sure that he was not wrong. The face under the hood was green.
But for some reason, his physique was not as burly as that of the mutants, and his bones and body lines were closer to humans.
Luo Yu, who was covered with sweat and hair, almost reflexively drew his weapon and pointed it at the guy's head.
This sudden action scared everyone around him.
Wu Wenzhou, the leader of the team, didn't understand the situation, and the green-skinned guy did the same thing as Luo Yu. This also resulted in ten more rifles pointing at his head.
Seeing the two men at loggerheads, the old guard standing at the gate of the town immediately took off the rifle on his back and walked towards this side with it in his hand.
"Hey! Stop it, man! Private fighting is prohibited within 100 meters of the town!"
Seeing the pitch-black exoskeleton, he instinctively felt a little scared, but still shouted.
"Mutants!" Luo Yu stared at the green-skinned guy, "Does this settlement allow mutants to come in and do business?"
"That guy... not really."
The guard looked a little embarrassed, as if he didn't know how to explain, and was a little hesitant about whether to help that guy.
There is no doubt that fighting is prohibited in the settlement. This is the rule, especially for Hope Town, which needs to rely on trade to survive.
After all, without rules, everything will be a mess.
But to be honest, he didn't like these green-skinned guys very much. Even if they looked more like humans, they also had half mutant blood flowing in their bodies.
Especially since most of them came from the mutant tribe called "Qi".
There was no survivor in the entire Jinhe City area who didn't hate and fear those guys.
The green-skinned guy looked at Luo Yu coldly, suddenly curled his lips, put away his weapon, and then silently took off his pants.
Startled by his action, Luo Yu quickly freed his left hand to cover his eyes, but in order to aim, he couldn't completely block it, so he missed a gap of a finger.
"Fuck, what are you doing——?"
Huh?
No?
Looking at the smooth green skin, Luo Yu was stunned.
He read in the information on the official website that some mutants are said to have no penis, especially the oldest ones.
They were not transformed by reproduction, but were born in culture tanks, and some of them were even engineers and scholars. If they hadn't gone crazy, they might still retain human sanity, but this kind of existence is too rare.
Most of the guys who were canned and forcibly turned into mutants would go crazy for various reasons and become complete animals.
Very few could stay awake.
Since this kind of species synthesized by technical means cannot reproduce, the speed of expanding the population size is obviously not as fast as the mainstream species in the wasteland, so it is almost impossible to meet in the wasteland.
I was screwed by this strange guy.
When Luo Yu came to his senses, he had already pulled up his pants and walked away.
"... Hybrids, occasionally you can see such guys, inheriting more genes from their mothers, neither reproductive ability nor mutant physique. I heard that there will be one or two in ten thousand mutant cubs, but who knows? Mutants will not give birth in front of us."
"Besides, mutants themselves don't like these guys very much. They usually regard them as a shame and leave them in the wasteland to fend for themselves."
Looking at the back of the man leaving, the guard on duty with a rifle narrowed his eyes and continued.
"How do you put it?"
"They are like a mule born from a horse and a donkey, haha."
The man laughed to ease the atmosphere, and the other people in the caravan also laughed, but Luo Yu always felt a little uncomfortable.
This metaphor not only draws a line between those "hybrids" with half human blood flowing in their veins, but also seems to draw a line between those captives who were unfortunately captured by mutants.
He didn't know how to evaluate the former, but at least the latter was innocent and should not become a joke to ease the atmosphere.
"What's the name of that guy?"
"Who knows? They all look the same. No one is interested in looking at their faces closely. They usually cover their faces. If you need to find him, just call him 'Hey'. They are good hunters. They occasionally take some mercenary jobs. The price is cheap, but they usually don't leave the local area."
"If you don't leave the local area, you can't do business as a merchant." Wu Wenzhou patted Luo Yu's shoulder and grinned, "Don't worry about that guy. Are you interested in a drink?"
"Yeah." Luo Yu nodded. He just wanted to find out some local information.
According to Brother Fang's theory, the tavern is the easiest place to collect intelligence, especially the tavern frequented by merchants and mercenaries.
Wu Wenzhou glanced at the ten strong and loyal thugs behind him.
"What about those guys?"
These people are very strong, but they never take off their helmets, and they have never seen them take off their masks.
If possible, he wants to have a good relationship with these guys. This is not just for his boss, but also for himself.
Luo Yu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said.
"Ah, Xiao Yu, there's no need."
Xiao Yu?
Who?
Wu Wenzhou glanced at the ten thugs, they all seemed to react to this name, so that he couldn't tell who was called.
But this kind of thing is not important, there are so many strange things in the wasteland.
He laughed, asked his men to park the car at the hotel he often went to, and then took this ruthless man to the bar at the entrance of the town.
"Grizzly and Streetlight... the name of this tavern, this is a good place!" Standing at the door, Wu Wenzhou took a deep breath intoxicatedly, and then strode into the door.
Luo Yu frowned and fanned his nose, and followed him with a stiff upper lip.
The pub's facade looked unremarkable, but the hall and the bar were almost full, with noisy sounds all the time, and the speakers playing music that tortured the eardrums, like scratching a fork on a blackboard.
Not only that, the air here was quite turbid, with a strange musty smell in addition to the smell of smoke and sweat.
I couldn't tell what it felt like.
But people here didn't pay much attention.
Perhaps in the eyes of most people here, this was the only way to feel alive.
But in the wasteland only a hundred meters away, the feeling of being alive was too thin. Even a powerful awakener could lose his life if he wasn't careful.
In a radius of about a hundred miles, only here could you relax and have a few drinks without worrying about being shot in the head by your enemies - unless he didn't want to live anymore.
While talking endlessly to Luo Yu about the history of this tavern, Wu Wenzhou found a secluded place to sit down and ordered a few side dishes and two large glasses of beer from the waiter holding a tray.
"Everything else is expensive in Jinchuan Province, only food is cheap."
In fact, there is another thing that is cheap.
That is population.
Whether it is men, women, old people or children, they are extremely cheap in this fertile and chaotic land, usually only half the price of other places.
However, considering that this guy is a resident of the shelter, Wu Wenzhou was very tactful and skipped this matter.
Luo Yu tasted a sip of beer, the mellow taste was indeed good, but there was a strange smell in the air here.
He noticed it when he just came in here.
"This taste always feels weird."
Thinking he was talking about the beer, Wu Wenzhou said with a smile.
"Are you not used to drinking wine outside your hometown?"
"It has nothing to do with wine," Luo Yu nodded, looked around, and whispered, "There is something unclean."
He didn't know what it was.
It was Xiao Yu who told him.
He said that he smelled a bad smell when he entered the town, and the closer he got to the tavern, the stronger the smell became.
At this time, the waiter came over with a basket of bread and a jar of green bottles and placed them on the next table.
"Pine nut bread, a specialty here."
The mercenary at the next table took a look at the green glass jar and asked curiously.
"What is this?"
Before the waiter spoke, the man sitting next to the mercenary said with a smile.
"Hope Town's special jam! Delicious stuff, it's quite popular in this area recently, you'll know after you try it! I bet you'll love it!"
"Haha, come on, I don't eat sweet things, I only eat meat!"
"Try it, it's my treat anyway."
Encouraged by his good brother, the mercenary curiously unscrewed the glass jar, dipped a little with his finger and put it in his mouth, sipped it, and grumbled after savoring it for a while.
"It's a bit weird, I'll try it again."
Looking at the jar of green jam, Luo Yu suddenly recognized it, and his eyes bulged out.
Good guy.
Na Guo... Jam? !
Now he finally figured out what made Xiao Yu uncomfortable...