The black night sky was covered with moonlight like icy silver frost, scattering over the earth like a light veil.
The cold wind was biting.
Xia Chujian knelt on one leg on the rooftop of a twelve-story building, and with a click, opened the gun case. Her hands moved as fast as lightning, instantly setting up the 12mm Adjudicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle.
Looking through the scope of the sniper rifle, Mulan City in the darkness resembled a deep gray steel forest of varying heights.
There were skyscrapers reaching into the clouds, as well as dark, narrow, winding alleys with no end in sight.
The edges of the tall buildings shone with colorful neon lights, and floating airships roamed the night sky with long, self-illuminating billboards, embellishing the colorful night scene. The bright places became brighter, and the dark places became darker, like two distinct black and white worlds.
She checked the time; it was already one in the morning.
There were few pedestrians on the streets, and the inner city's suspended trains had long stopped running.
Occasionally, a few small private aircraft sped past in her scope, leaving trails of white smoke that dissipated in an instant.
The deep voice of Captain Ye Shijie came from the team channel in her headset: "Dark Night Hunter Association, Guiyuan Branch, District Three, Team Nine, 321 Squad, report in."
"Number 2, Li Fu, left flank, in position."
"Number 3, Song Mingqian, right flank, in position."
"Number 4, Ping Qiong, left flank support, in position."
Xia Chujian was Number 5.
She calmly said, "Number 5, Xia Chujian, linear distance of one thousand two hundred meters, twelfth-floor rooftop, in position."
Ye Shijie was the captain, Number 1.
He nodded and said, "Number 1, Ye Shijie, captain and action commander, right flank support, in position."
"Repeating: Today's mission is to destroy a human trafficking stronghold in the western district of Mulan City. According to intelligence, Room 004 on the first floor of Building 334 in West District 089 is harboring a group of abducted young men and women, who will be transported out of Mulan City tomorrow."
"There are five human traffickers, all Gene Evolvers, two D-Rank and three E-Rank in mental strength, extremely vicious, with a long history of bloodshed."
"Our mission is to kill these five human traffickers and rescue the victims."
The team members responded in unison, "Roger."
Xia Chujian lowered her head and patiently loaded each eighty-gram bullet into the sniper rifle, then lay on the rooftop, aiming the scope at their target for today's ambush.
It was a low, six-story building, sandwiched between several skyscrapers hundreds of stories high, almost buried in the darkness.
The building was very dilapidated, not made of new building materials, but of old steel and concrete.
The cement on the walls was severely peeling, exposing black steel bars, like the bones of a ferocious beast in the night.
The group of vicious human traffickers and the abducted young men and women were in the fourth room on the first floor of that six-story building.
From her position, it was exactly a linear distance of one thousand two hundred meters.
The other four teammates were already lying in ambush at the left and right entrances of the room.
And she was the team's remote support, responsible for taking out the human traffickers who tried to escape from the room.
The location she had chosen allowed her to cover the area with heavy firepower from top to bottom, indiscriminately.
Even if the other side suddenly deployed armed helicopters, she could guarantee one shot per helicopter, with unerring accuracy.
Xia Chujian concentrated on looking through her scope.
The windows of the target room were tightly closed, and even the curtains were drawn.
Ordinary people could not see inside.
However, her sniper rifle scope had a high-precision thermal imaging *x-ray system. The walls of the other party's room were just old steel and concrete, which did not have the function of shielding the thermal imaging x-ray* system, so she could clearly see the situation inside through the wall.
At this time, in that room of about twenty square meters, people were lying all over the place.
They all looked like very young men and women, who should be the abducted young men and women that Captain Ye Shijie mentioned.
She said in the team channel, "Report: Twelve girls and twelve boys in the room, should be the victims, all unconscious. There are also five adult men, should be the human traffickers, drinking alcohol. Request permission to move. Report complete."
The helmet visors of the other team members were also equipped with the same high-precision thermal imaging *x-ray* system, with the same function as Xia Chujian's sniper rifle scope, so they could clearly see the situation inside the wall.
Captain Ye Shijie looked at it, shook his head, and refused, saying, "Those two D-Rank Gene Evolvers have very keen intuition. Don't aim your sniper rifle at them for now; they keep looking in the direction of the window."
Xia Chujian pursed her lips and moved the muzzle of the gun slightly away by a millimeter.
They waited a few more minutes.
The five traffickers, hiccuping from the alcohol, drunkenly stood up from the ground.
They walked to the young boys and girls lying motionless on the ground, bent down, and poked at these unconscious victims one by one, as if selecting goods.
Xia Chujian's face was as *sink* as water, and she moved the muzzle of the sniper rifle back.
The burliest of the traffickers grinned hideously, unbuckled his belt, and lashed it fiercely at a girl lying on the ground.
Pa! The girl's clothes on her right shoulder were torn open, revealing her snow-white skin. At the same time, a hideous red mark appeared on her skin, as white as fresh snow, the mark left by the belt.
Xia Chujian's finger on the trigger tightened slightly, and she said again in the team channel, "Reporting, Captain, one of the traffickers is beating a victim. Request permission to engage."
Ye Shijie also saw it through the lens on his helmet.
His voice was calm, without a trace of fluctuation: "This is a D-Rank peak Gene Evolver. Only Song Mingqian and I in our team are D-Rank Evolvers, and I am intermediate, while Song Mingqian is only elementary. Li Fu and Ping Qiong are both E-Rank, and you are an ordinary person whose genes cannot evolve. Do you think we have an absolute chance of winning if we act at this time?"
"Then what does the captain think would constitute an absolute chance of winning?" Xia Chujian's voice was also very calm, but her speech was a little fast.
Because she saw that the trafficker had already thrown away the belt and started tearing at the girl's clothes, occasionally slapping her a few times.
The girl was unconscious, being manipulated like a rag doll.
Ye Shijie was silent for a second and said, "Wait until they... are halfway through their business. That's when their vigilance is at its lowest, and it's our best opportunity."
"What do you mean by halfway through their business?" Xia Chujian was baffled and didn't understand for a moment.
Ye Shijie awkwardly twitched the corner of his mouth.
Ping Qiong sighed, "It means... when they are violating the victims."
Li Fu explained more directly in the team channel: "It means when they are halfway through raping the victims."
As soon as Xia Chujian heard this, she exploded: "So the captain's intention is to wait until they actually violate those victims before taking action?! Don't you think it's already too late?!"
As soon as she finished saying "too late," she unhesitatingly pulled the trigger.
A heavy sniper bullet weighing eighty grams and 150 millimeters long shot out of her sniper rifle silently!
Drawing a parabola in the night sky that was invisible to the naked eye, it took only 1.5 seconds to penetrate the dilapidated wall and hit the man's back of the head with a boom, then burst out from his forehead and shot through the opposite wall!
Under the powerful kinetic energy of the sniper bullet, the man who was about to lean over and press down on the unconscious girl fell forward with a thud, and the blood spurting from his forehead instantly stained the girl lying on the ground red.
The other four men turned their heads in astonishment. The alcohol made them slow to react. Although they were all Gene Evolvers, they had not yet realized what was happening.
Xia Chujian went all out. Holding the sniper rifle, she didn't even need to adjust the data. She directly turned the muzzle and used only her eyes to aim through the scope for pinpoint shooting.
At this time, she no longer specifically aimed for the brain, but only aimed at the opponent's vital parts, either the chest, the femoral artery, or the neck.
In short, she aimed wherever it was convenient and quick.
Her heart was filled with raging fire, but she remained calm and composed, possessing the excellent qualities of a sniper.
Kacha! Kacha! Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!
Holding the Adjudicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle, her hand speed was extremely fast, and she ejected the magazine five times in a smooth and flowing manner.
In less than three seconds, the sniper rifle, equipped with a top-notch silencer, was, like its name, an Adjudicator that eliminated evil completely.
After the barrel vibrated several times, the five traffickers in the room all died under her sniper rifle.
Xia Chujian half-knelt up, put away her gun, and said in the team channel, "Five traffickers have all been killed. Report complete."
Ye Shijie narrowed his eyes, didn't say much, and gave the order: "Enter the house, action begins."
The other three team members exchanged glances and quickly emerged from their hiding places.
Li Fu ran the fastest. He was tall and burly, wearing a dark brown fur coat, like an adult brown bear.
With a boom, he kicked the door open.
The room was a mess.
In addition to the twenty-odd abducted young boys and girls, there were five men lying in pools of blood, the very traffickers they were supposed to kill tonight.
Li Fu gave a weird laugh, and gave a thumbs-up towards the window: "Chujian is awesome! —Chujian goes on an expedition, not a blade of grass grows!"
Ping Qiong poked her head out from behind him, saw the situation in the house, and clicked her tongue twice: "We got a merit for free tonight, little sister Chujian, thank you!"
Song Mingqian walked in, flicked the long strand of hair he had deliberately left on his forehead, and struck a pose he thought was dashing: "Quick, take a picture! My smart bracelet needs a new cover!"
"Pervert!" Ping Qiong rolled her eyes, but still used her smart bracelet to take a set of photos for him.
Xia Chujian shrugged and said calmly in the team channel: "Caliber is justice, range is truth. —You should thank Zong Military Industries for their newly developed Adjudicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle."
Ye Shijie was the last to come in.
His face was not very good. He walked around the house and used his smart bracelet to take many photos of the scene, and uploaded them one by one to the Dark Night Hunter Association's star network cloud system in the Mulan City branch.
Although Li Fu looked rough, he was actually very thoughtful.
As soon as he saw Ye Shijie's expression, he knew what he was thinking. He smiled and nudged him with his arm, and said in a low voice, "Captain, don't be so hard on little Chujian... she's only seventeen years old, not even an adult yet..."
Ping Qiong and Song Mingqian nodded along, saying, "Captain, you're a magnanimous person, don't be so hard on little Chujian!"
Ye Shijie glanced at them and said lightly, "You just indulge her... it's not good for her growth. As long as she apologizes and promises not to do it again, I'll pretend this never happened."
"Got it, got it! We'll definitely beat her up later!" Li Fu said with a smile, trying to smooth things over, while beckoning to Song Mingqian. The two of them quickly dragged the two dead human traffickers out.
Xia Chujian heard her teammates pleading for her in the team channel, and felt warm in her heart, but she didn't want to apologize to the captain.
She planned to change the subject and gloss over the apology.
Just then, a scream suddenly came from the team channel in her headset.
It was Ping Qiong's voice.
Xia Chujian quickly looked through the sniper scope.
She saw that a sudden change had occurred in the small house! The human trafficker who was shot dead by Xia Chujian with one shot actually stood up from the ground, swaying!
He turned around, his face covered in black and red blood, with an egg-sized hole in his forehead. She could see the wall behind him from the front of his forehead. It was a penetrating wound from her sniper shot.
It was impossible for someone whose brains had been blown out like that to be alive! Ping Qiong, who was closest to him, couldn't help but scream.
This human trafficker, who had clearly been killed, took a few steps forward, swaying, and then suddenly opened his mouth wide.
A thick, elephant trunk-like gray tentacle shot out from his mouth and wrapped around Ping Qiong, who was closest to him! Ping Qiong, who was screaming subconsciously, had her remaining screams suppressed in her throat by the tentacle.
Ye Shijie, Li Fu, and Song Mingqian immediately raised their guns and aimed at the human trafficker as if by reflex.
Bang bang bang bang!
Gunshots rang out, and bullets flew around the small, confined space, almost hitting Ping Qiong and the unconscious victims.
Normally, their marksmanship wouldn't be this bad.
But as soon as they raised their guns, they felt a sharp pain in their heads, as if someone had smashed their foreheads open with an axe and then stuffed a red-hot iron into them. The pain was so intense that they felt like they were about to burst into flames.
They couldn't concentrate, and they couldn't aim their guns at all.
Their fingers convulsed as they pulled the triggers. How could they possibly hit anything?! Xia Chujian, on the rooftop in the distance, suddenly changed her expression and immediately lay down, aiming the sniper rifle at the tentacle.
But the tentacle seemed to have eyes that could see a thousand miles away.
As soon as Xia Chujian aimed, the tentacle retracted, hiding behind Ping Qiong, grabbing her by the back of the neck, making it impossible for her to move, and using her as a shield.
This made it impossible to snipe.
Xia Chujian's eyes were cold and stern, and she made a decision in an instant.
She picked up the sniper rifle, slung the half-person-high gun case on her back, took a step forward, jumped onto the small combat aircraft parked on the edge of the rooftop, and sped towards her teammates.
It was only a straight-line distance of 1,200 meters, and it would only take a minute to get there in this small combat aircraft.
Instead of looking for an opportunity to snipe the tentacle monster from afar, it was better to go there immediately and improvise.
The autopilot function of the small combat aircraft that Xia Chujian was riding in was excellent.
During this time, she had just freed up her hands and spent only twenty seconds to set up the aircraft's own fully automatic Star-Telling 800 Smart Machine Gun.
The bullets of the fully automatic machine gun were not as long and heavy as the sniper rifle bullets, but the firing speed was much faster.
Under the same kinetic energy, it could fire eight hundred bullets per second.
Quantitative change can still lead to qualitative change.
By the time her small combat aircraft landed on the open space in front of the six-story building, her teammates inside were already on the ground, unconscious like the young men and women who had fainted.
And the trafficker with tentacles growing out of his mouth was searching among the unconscious young men and women in the house, seemingly looking for something.
Xia Chujian arrived and saw the situation inside through the high-precision thermal imaging scope on her helmet, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, they should all still be alive.
She didn't act rashly, but stayed in the small combat aircraft, and quickly took out the parts from the gun case, assembling a Contender 700 Semi-Automatic Micro Submachine Gun.
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