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Chapter 2 - All Fear Stems From Insufficient Firepower

Inside the room, the trafficker seemed to dislike the slow speed of searching with only one tentacle.

He raised his head, opening his mouth wide like a giant silver carp, and more and more tentacles appeared.

At first there was only one, but now there were four or five tentacles as thick as elephant trunks, reaching out from the depths of his throat, as if his body was an abyss from which monsters could crawl out at any moment.

Xia Chujian felt disgusted when she saw this scene.

She hated tentacles the most and firmly refused close contact, so she had no intention of entering the house for close combat.

Besides, she was a sniper, and long-range attacks were her strength.

Moreover, she wasn't a gene evolver, only someone courting death would go in for close combat, using her weaknesses to attack others' strengths.

Xia Chujian knelt on one leg in the small combat aircraft, and the aircraft's translucent flight canopy opened with a whoosh.

She held her Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle, and through the three-dimensional imaging lens, she aimed at the tentacle on the other side of the wall.

Kacha!

A shot with a top-notch silencer pierced through the wall, directly piercing a tentacle that was rummaging through the victims.

The tentacle trafficker was caught off guard, and in an instant, the powerful kinetic energy of the sniper rifle bullet carried him backwards, until he crashed into the wall and fell heavily with a bang.

This completely enraged the tentacles.

Boom! The door of the cabin was pushed open violently.

A fishy and foul smell, as if from rotten fish and shrimp left for thousands of years, rushed straight out of the house.

Then, three or four huge tentacles stretched out rapidly, shooting out from the house andto roll up towards the aircraft in the open space outside.

Xia Chujian was almost sent to heaven by the stench.

"This is a freaking biochemical weapon... The Empire clearly prohibits its use! This is outrageous! No martial morality!"

While muttering, she quickly activated the microbial defense function on her mask, filtering out all odors or toxic fumes, and at the same time, she opened the mechanical intelligence system of the Starling 800 Fully Automatic Machine Gun with her other hand, locking onto the oncoming tentacles.

Da da da da!

The Starling Machine Gun equipped on the small combat aircraft, although it was the initial model, was already a technically mature fully automatic intelligent machine gun that could fight monsters on its own.

The automatically operating magazine, along with the ammunition equipment box, was like a highly precise assembly line, continuously supplying bullets to the fully automatic intelligent machine gun.

In one second, it could fire more than eight hundred rounds, and sometimes even reach a terrifying firing rate of one thousand rounds per second.

The bullets flew like rain, all landing on the open space in front of the building.

The strong sulfur smell in the gunpowder actually suppressed the stench emanating from the deep decay of carbon-based organisms.

Because Xia Chujian had activated the mask's microbial defense function, she couldn't smell anything now, but she could see the pollution level of the outside air dropping sharply from the system data displayed on the mask.

Those four or five tentacles were not ordinary either.

They waved themselves like the turntable of a Ferris wheel, impenetrable, but before they couldto roll up over, they were caught off guard by the all-round coverage of the shooting.

The tentacles were thick-skinned and grew quickly, but they still couldn't withstand such fierce firepower.

In an instant, they were riddled with bullets from the massive amount of ammunition, still long and narrow sieves.

The tentacles seemed to be stunned, as if they had never suffered such a direct and violent attack, and were psychologically unable to accept it, pausing in the air for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, suckers protruded from the rough surface of each tentacle, opening and closing at the top, like octopus legs covered with mouths.

A burst of high-frequency roars came from the densely packed opening and closing suckers.

Xia Chujian's weapons all came with top-notch silencers, so they didn't make much noise even in the silent night.

But as soon as the tentacles began to roar, countless residents in the surrounding area woke up from their dreams, covering their heads and rolling in bed, in so much pain that they wished they could cut off their own heads.

Xia Chujian didn't feel a headache, she just found it noisy.

The sound was so unpleasant, like sandpaper grinding on a rough, rusty iron plate, making people's gums feel weak.

"...What a powerful sonic attack..."

Xia Chujian murmured, raised her hand and pressed a button, and the smart helmet instantly turned on soundproofing mode.

The world was instantly quiet.

The tentacles immediately seized the opportunity and lunged forward.

One of the tentacles actually dodged the swift barrage of fire, stubbornly rushing in front of Xia Chujian, stretching into a straight line, its tip as hard as a cone, attempting to pierce her directly!

Xia Chujian didn't panic, and the Contender 800 Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun in her hand started firing.

She fought side by side with the Starling 800 Fully Automatic Machine Gun, firing fiercely at the oncoming tentacles, relentlessly spraying bullets.

Within two minutes, the two guns fired nearly one hundred thousand bullets, almost emptying the ammunition reserves of the small combat aircraft.

Those waving tentacles grew rapidly, and their splitting speed was even more astonishing. They could regenerate severed limbs in minutes, but under the powerful and swift suppression of firepower, their splitting and growth speed couldn't keep up.

Before long, the lifeless tentacles were shattered into pieces, scattered around the small combat aircraft, and no new tentacles emerged from the trafficker's mouth.

Xia Chujian let out a long sigh of relief, slumped in the small combat aircraft, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and turned off the helmet's soundproofing mode.

Too damn thrilling.

One hundred thousand bullets fired in two minutes, although most of them were sprayed by the fully automatic smart machine gun, the Contender 800 Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun in her hand still had to be fired manually.

Her right arm was completely numb, and half of her body felt foreign.

After she eliminated those tentacles, the teammates who had fainted in the house gradually woke up.

The first to act was Li Fu.

He held an extended Killer 850 Smart Aiming Pistol that could hold eighty bullets, and rushed out of the house shouting.

He saw a small combat aircraft, the size of a boxcar, parked quietly on the open space in front of the building.

The half-open top hatch of the aircraft revealed a dark Starling 800 Fully Automatic Machine Gun! It looked so reassuring!

Li Fu's eyes turned red, and he was so moved that he almost cried.

"Chujian! You're finally here! Where's the tentacle monster?!"

Xia Chujian pointed to the ground, "Be careful, don't step on it."

Li Fu looked down and realized that the trafficker, whose thick tentacles had emerged from his mouth after death, had been beaten into nothing but a human skin.

Long and short charred tentacles were scattered on the ground, along with shiny silver-black bullet casings. The air was filled with a strong sulfurous smell, like the smell of firecrackers being set off all over the streets during the New Year.

Li Fu widened his eyes in surprise: "...You used a gun to kill this monster?! You can resist the tentacle monster's mental attack?!"

Let alone raising a gun to fight back, he had fainted from the pain in the house, completely losing his ability to act.

Ping Qiong, Song Mingqian, and Ye Shijie, who followed him out of the house, also saw the scene on the open space, and everyone fell silent.

Ye Shijie stared at Xia Chujian and said coldly, "The tentacle monster's mental attack is at least Grade C. My and Song Mingqian's mental strength as Grade D gene evolvers couldn't resist it. You don't have any mental strength at all, how did you resist it?"

Xia Chujian frowned: "Mental attack? -- No, it was just a sonic attack."

She pointed to her helmet, "...I turned on the soundproofing mode."

However, that extremely unpleasant, broken gong voice, and the biochemical weapon-like fishy smell, were indeed equivalent to a mental attack, Xia Chujian silently complained in her heart.

"It didn't launch a mental attack on you? Impossible -- why did they give you a break?" Ye Shijie raised the smart bracelet on his arm, took pictures of the scene, and glanced at Xia Chujian with suspicion from time to time.

Xia Chujian flattered without batting an eye: "Maybe they ran out of mental strength. Captain, you guys aren't pushovers either. Just knocking you down must have exhausted them. By the time they got to me, there was only a sonic attack left, right?"

Actually, she didn't understand why either, but she really didn't feel any "mental attack."

Of course, this might also be related to the fact that she herself was not a gene evolver and had no mental strength at all.

She concluded in a serious tone: "Because I don't have mental strength, mental strength can't attack me."

What the hell "because I don't have mental strength, mental strength can't attack me"! Her teammates stared at her, all with the look of "if you dare to talk nonsense again, we'll kick you out of the team."

Everyone knew that ordinary people without mental strength were lambs to the slaughter in front of gene evolvers with mental strength, with absolutely no room for resistance.

If you don't believe it, go ask those ordinary people who are often slaughtered by gene evolvers. Those people would probably have to open their coffins and fight Xia Chujian! Where does the situation of "no mental strength, so mental strength can't attack me" exist?! Xia Chujian was just making it up.

In fact, not being able to undergo gene evolution and having no mental strength was Xia Chujian's eternal pain.

She had to use some bizarre reasons to numb herself, otherwise, she really wouldn't be able to live this life.

Li Fu scratched his head and said with a smile, "...Even a sonic attack is difficult to resist. How did you fight back, Chujian?"

Xia Chujian patted the unmoving fully automatic Starling Smart Machine Gun beside her and smiled, "Of course, I retaliated in kind, relying on my best comrade-in-arms, using the most beautiful sound in the universe -- 'the murmur of the Starling' to fight back!"

What the hell is "Starling's Rhapsody"! They always knew Xia Chujian was good at making things up, but today she's really gone overboard! Her teammates' faces were turning green from holding back their laughter.

Xia Chujian even put her hands together in a gesture of prayer, a pious look on her face: "Namo Starling Bodhisattva, with great compassion, save all living beings, repay grievances with grievances, and revenge with revenge."

Ye Shijie's face turned cold: "Speak properly!"

Xia Chujian spread her hands, earnestly explaining: "All fear stems from insufficient firepower. Conversely, as long as there's enough firepower, there's no fear in this world."

"As long as there are enough bullets, even a Grade B Tentacle Monster, I'll take it down without hesitation!"

Hearing her say that, Ye Shijie seemed to remember something. He strode to the small combat aircraft, his face turning ashen: "Xia—Chu—jian! How many bullets did you use?!"

"One hundred thousand, what's wrong?"

Li Fu: "..."

Song Mingqian: "..."

Ye Shijie, burning with anger, lunged at Xia Chujian.

Li Fu: "Captain, Captain, calm down, calm down!"

Song Mingqian: "Chujian, quickly come up with an excuse!"

Li Fu and Song Mingqian chased after him, grabbing Ye Shijie from the left and right, preventing him from actually strangling Xia Chujian to death.

Ye Shijie roared, veins popping on his neck: "You spendthrift! You can't use up the entire ammunition stock! Do you know how much one hundred thousand bullets cost?! Huh?! Huh?!"

Ping Qiong rolled her eyes, rubbing her neck, walking over with lingering fear. She jumped into the small combat aircraft, tugged on Xia Chujian's arm, making her move aside, avoiding the captain Ye Shijie, who had transformed into a "fire-breathing dragon," and deliberately shouted loudly, saying, "Chujian, you're so lucky that you weren't subjected to mental attacks... We just had a close call with death! Look at my neck, it almost strangled me to death!"

Xia Chujian gently stroked the Contender 800 Semi-Automatic Submachine Gun in her arms, calmly saying, "I'm not a gene evolver, and I don't have mental power. You were all unconscious, what else could I use but bullets? —Compete with it in a screaming contest to see who's voice is more unpleasant?"

Ye Shijie glared at her, about to continue scolding her, when suddenly, the sound of buzzing large drones came from not far away through his high-performance Bluetooth embedded headset, followed by the deafening roar of helicopters, and the sound of brakes approaching.

"The regular army is here! We have to go!" Ye Shijie's expression changed. He didn't bother to continue scolding Xia Chujian and jumped into the small combat aircraft very nimbly.

Li Fu and Song Mingqian also jumped in.

Xia Chujian immediately closed the translucent flight canopy, pressed an address, and activated automatic flight.

The small combat aircraft spewed out a brilliant burst of fire, quickly ascending straight into the air, and then entered stealth mode, leaving this place.

...

Not long after they flew away, a very low-key and luxurious large private aircraft revealed its shape from mid-air, slowly landing on the open space in front of the building.

The aircraft's hatch opened, and a tall woman, draped in a black fur cloak, wearing a hood and veil, staggered out of the aircraft and rushed into the house where many abducted young boys and girls were hidden.

Several women who looked like guards followed her into the house.

Before long, they escorted the woman wearing the hood and veil out of the room.

The woman was no longer alone, she was also holding someone in her arms. She was no longer wearing the cloak, revealing her slender and graceful figure.

The cloak was covering the person she was holding in her arms.

The group hurriedly boarded the aircraft and quickly left.

...

After they left, more and more small armored vehicles, drones, and helicopters roared over, surrounding the six-story building tightly.

Large drones surrounded the small building from the air, simultaneously turning on dazzling white lights, illuminating the place like daylight with a 360-degree view.

Several people wearing black uniforms with silver trim got out of the small armored vehicles.

Holding their guns, they first looked around warily before walking into the open space in front of the building.

When they saw the scattered tentacle fragments on the open space, the ground covered with bullet casings, a riddled human skin, and the lingering smell of sulfur in the air, they all fell silent.

This is... they used bullets to kill the Tentacle Monster? You can do that? The update frequency is one chapter a day during the new book period, updated at 0:10 every day.

After it is put on the shelves, it will be updated twice for the time being. Time to be determined.

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