Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 634 Silent Battlefield
"...I just noticed now that the sound of the fleet bombarding the tower has completely disappeared." The commander of the mobile unit said.

Although the indiscriminate bombing of the air force fleet did not cause any damage to the core tower, the sound of continuous huge explosions can be heard even tens of kilometers away from the ruins of the Bronze City, let alone the core control area located in the center of the explosion .

But now, their surroundings are as quiet as if they are about to be haunted.

"This feeling is really uncomfortable." Layton complained, "I feel like I am deaf."

"Compared to other disturbances, I think this is already within the acceptable range." Ivan said calmly, "At least, it's better than environments with abnormal gravity, ultra-high radiation, extreme heat and extreme cold." .”

"Go ahead. Judging from the current situation, the air force fleet should not be able to break through the core tower from the outside... The so-called hope can only be pinned on our shoulders." 33 said.

"By the way, I remembered something." Layton suddenly said in a somewhat excited tone, "Now that we have figured out the special features of this place, can it be considered that those few airborne groups that lost contact before In fact, the troops may still be alive, but their movements are completely 'shielded' by this weird place? If you continue to go deeper, maybe you can join them..."

"No, I don't think so." The commander of the mobile unit shook his head, "Based on the time, if the previous batches of airborne troops were not completely wiped out, they should have entered the core tower by now. But according to According to the observation report of the fleet, during this period of time, there has been no change in the core towers, and the frequency and density of anti-aircraft firepower in the core control area have never shown signs of decay.”

"Lieutenant General Lin De of the General Command also thinks so." At the end, he added another sentence.

Although the current status of the first five airborne troops is only "lost contact", the general headquarters in the rear has actually acquiesced that their actions have failed.

Looking at the airframes and armored vehicles connected by cables as thick as arms, for some reason, Ke Lan always has a visual sense of "connecting chains of iron chains" in Chibi... But then again, vehicles made of alloy materials, You shouldn't be afraid of fire attacks, right?
"Boom!!"

A loud sound of metal collision exploded in everyone's ears very abruptly. Ke Lan and a soldier wearing power armor and holding a shield beside the commander suddenly flew up, and then fell heavily to the ground!

In front of Ke Lan, there were four thumb-thick . , or those wakes caused by the warhead breaking through the air at high speed, were all frozen in midair.

With a slight wave of Ze Luo's slender arm, these warheads were instantly crushed into small metal balls and fell to the ground.

"Sniper! It's an anti-material sniper rifle!" The commander immediately shouted, "Array! First defensive formation!"

The mechas and vehicles of the mobile unit moved immediately, firmly surrounding the infantry in the middle, and the mechas equipped with physical shields stood side by side, forming a row of solid shield walls.

"Their main target is me." Ke Lan said.

He raised his head and looked in the direction of the bullet, but the opponent's gun seemed to be equipped with a very advanced flame suppressor, and the shooting distance was also very far away. He could only determine the general direction of the sniper, but could not accurately locate it.

The sound can only be transmitted to the core control area 20 meters away. This is an excellent sniper field - no matter how large the caliber of the firearm is, it will become a silent assassination here. weapon.By the time the target hears the sound of the bullet tearing through the air, the reaction time left for him is almost negligible.

But this is only for ordinary people. Even if Ze Luo didn't make a move, Ke Lan could rely on Shi Ting and the living armor to block the bullets flying towards him.

"How about the brother who was shot?" Ke Lan turned to look at the commander of the mobile unit and asked.

"That shot pierced the shield, but it also changed the ballistic trajectory. It didn't hit the armor on his body at a vertical angle, and slid past from the side... Otherwise, with the penetration of this shot..." the commander replied road.

"The first shot was just to break through the cover of the shield and create a shooting window for the subsequent shots." Ke Lan pointed to the bullets that were kneaded into balls on the ground, "There is obviously more than one sniper."

"Isn't this like the power of a .[-]-caliber armor-piercing projectile?" Ivan asked, "It can penetrate a [-]mm thick composite armor shield, and it can also blow away soldiers wearing a full set of power armor....[-]-caliber , Are there any anti-material sniper rifles powered by gunpowder that are so powerful?"

"There is one and only one, the 'Scorpion Mk-Ⅲ' large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle launched by Korva Precision Industry in 917 of the new era. Although the caliber is the more traditional 25mm, the gun itself The structure has adopted a lot of innovations. When using special armor-piercing projectiles, its actual penetration is stronger than many anti-material weapons with a caliber of [-]mm or even [-]mm in the old era. Let alone ordinary armored personnel carriers, even some The frontal armor of a light tank is no different from a piece of paper under its muzzle." As soon as he mentioned this, Layton immediately got excited and explained eloquently.

"So exaggerated?"

"Of course... It's just that the cost of this thing is terrible, and the requirements for daily maintenance are extremely high. It is impossible to mass-produce it for the army. In my impression, only less than [-] prototype models have been produced. , after failing to bid with the K series anti-materiel Gauss sniper rifle, the production was discontinued. The design drawings were also sealed up by Korva Company. The few surviving sample guns have almost become the top collections in the hands of firearms collectors... … Logically speaking, it shouldn’t have appeared in the hands of heretical sects.”

"And there's more than one." 33 interjected.

"These are not important, what is important is to find out the positions of the snipers." Ke Lan interrupted their discussion, "Akira Asano, can you detect the source of the gunshots?"

"No." Akira Asano replied very simply, "Not only the voice, but also my ability is restricted... In my perception, the world beyond 20 meters is blank."

"Where's Ze Luo?" Ke Lan pinned his last hope on the most perverted person in the team. When Ze Luo shot to block the sniper bullets for himself, Ke Lan had just awakened the power in his body. The living armor hasn't even been released yet.

"I'm the same as Asano Akira, and my perception ability can't extend beyond 20 meters." Zelo replied, "But I can reverse the ballistic trajectory... The position of the sniper should be there."

Zelo raised his hand and pointed to the roof of a metal building 600 meters away.

But the roof of the building is now empty.

"The sniper probably moved away after shooting." Layton frowned, "We have already missed the opportunity to fight back immediately."

"Can thermal imaging be used?" Ke Lan asked.

"I've already seen it, but there's nothing there." Augustus shook his head imitating human movements, "Do you suspect that guy is hiding there with an optical camouflage device?"

"How fast is the fire rate of the Scorpion MK-III?" Ke Lan suddenly asked a somewhat irrelevant question.

"Uh... the scorpion needle series are all bolt-action guns. Once you fire one shot and pull the big bolt, the rate of fire will not go anywhere...By the way, why are you asking this?"

"Five shots were fired at that place just now, which means that there are at least five snipers hidden on the roof of this building—but, do you think that place can hide five people?"

The architectural style of these metal buildings in the core control area is the same as that of the central tower. They are all hexagonal cones in cross section. The area of ​​the platform at the top is probably less than one square meter, and it is very difficult for one person to stand on it, let alone five people.

Ke Lan asked Ze Luo again: "Are the starting points of the five trajectories all on the roof of this building?"

Ze Luo nodded: "The distance between each trajectory is only about ten centimeters."

"The one who shot was not a human being." Ke Lan made a judgment immediately.

"Not human? Could it be some kind of mutated seed of erosion?" Layton froze for a moment.

"If it's a seed of erosion, there's no need to use firearms to attack." Ke Lan said, "It should be some kind of mechanical device that can be remotely controlled to aim and shoot..."

"So that's what you're talking about?" Layton, who was sitting in the cockpit, slapped himself hard on the forehead, "Oh, I know about this too...but because the enemy is a heretic sect, I subconsciously turned towards monsters." Think about that, who would have thought that these people would still use these high-tech devices!"

"They didn't use these things much before, simply because they didn't have them." Ke Lan said, "But this place is their lair, and in addition, there are many people in the upper class of the ark who are connected with heresy sects. It's no surprise there's some stockpiling."

"Speaking of it, I'd rather face these familiar things than those strange gadgets dug out from the ruins of the Alpha people."

"Can you let your soldiers bomb the roof of that building for a round?" Ke Lan turned to look at the commander of the mobile unit.

"Okay!" The latter immediately agreed. Immediately afterwards, two "Propeller" tactical mechs walked up to the shield wall. The rocket launchers on their shoulders were raised about 45 degrees, and dozens of miniature rockets were fired at one go. Launched.

A huge fireball exploded silently on the roof of the building, and as the environment around the explosion point was distorted, some metal brackets and wreckage of mechanical devices flew out of the fireball—these things were not fragments of rockets, but It is a part of the automatic sniper device that Ke Lan just mentioned.

This is a "five-mounted" sniper seat, and this sniper seat is also covered with an optical camouflage camouflage device from the Alpha civilization.This kind of optical camouflage device can perfectly cover the muzzle flame of a sniper rifle. Even if you look closely, you can only see a few extremely inconspicuous black shooting holes with a diameter of no more than two centimeters, let alone a few extremely inconspicuous black shooting holes. Visual effects beyond 600 meters.

In this silent situation, surrounded by various electromagnetic interference, without air support and drone reconnaissance, there is really no second way to find out in such a short period of time, except by capturing ballistics. This sniper point.

"Report, the enemy's sniper point has been ruled out."

The two "propellers" retreated back, but the shield wall and defensive array were not disarmed immediately - the sniper spot was ruled out, but the person who remotely controlled the sniper seat did not find it... the only thing destroyed was It's just a "tool for committing crimes". As for the real black hand, he is still hiding in a hidden corner.

The two "Propellers" hadn't completely retreated behind the huge shield raised by "Shield Mountain", a laser beam as thick as an arm penetrated the chest and abdomen of one of the Propellers in an instant - this is the thruster mecha. In the cockpit, the pilot who was hit by the laser was instantly vaporized on the seat, and the "propeller" that lost the operator also stopped in place after completing the preset actions of the calculator program.

"We were attacked by the defense facilities of the ruins?"

This was everyone's first reaction, but soon Layton yelled: "No! That's the weapon of the Ark! If it's the kind of laser beam used for air defense in the ruins, it's impossible to just shoot a laser beam on the mecha. Holes, but should evaporate the entire body including half of the shield formation!"

"It's a charged cluster laser cannon." Ze Luo said, "I played with this weapon in the realistic MOD of Red Alert. It is a light energy weapon specially equipped for infantry and used to counter mechs. .”

"I know that thing." Layton said, "Relying on the ultra-small energy conversion device unearthed in the Alpha ruins, it can reduce the cluster laser cannon to the size of a shoulder-fired rocket launcher... But this thing is the same as a disposable rocket launcher , can only fire one shot, the cost of a single shot is extremely high, and it takes nearly half a minute to store power before launch, a batch of tasteless... At the same time, the military high-level thinks that there is no need to equip infantry with cluster laser weapons, so this proposal It was canceled. Compared with the 'Scorpion Tail MK-Ⅲ', this thing is just a concept, there is no actual sample, how could there be a heretic sect?!"

"The heretical sect may not have samples of this laser cannon, but they do not lack ultra-small energy conversion devices." Ke Lan said, "The structure of that thing shouldn't be complicated, right?"

"It's not complicated, it's just that the materials and core components are more difficult to get..."

Before Layton finished speaking, Ze Luo suddenly shouted: "The second shot is coming, and the target is you!"

Augustus' shield instantly opened at its maximum power, colliding with the light beams from a distance, and the dazzling glare immediately reflected the surroundings in white.

"You... how did you predict it?" Layton asked in surprise.

This light beam is a real laser, it can hit wherever you want, and it can shoot without fail. It is by no means the so-called "beam weapon" that flies slower than bullets in sci-fi film and television works, and the protagonist can easily rely on manipulation to avoid it—unless The target can travel faster than the speed of light.

"Intuition." Zelo replied.

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