Chapter 4 A Critical Moment

In Sword of Dawn, because of the presence of firearms and explosives, it is not difficult to kill monsters by leapfrogging. The exception is for mutated creatures such as the Demon Hunter Mantis.

It is incredibly fast, capable of flying at speeds of nearly two hundred yards. This makes hitting them a difficult task. Their hard chitin carapace can withstand small-caliber rifle shots at medium distances. Powerful compound eyes with amazing dynamic vision.

All this makes the Demon Hunter Mantis a veritable rookie killer.

Li Mu found a comfortable shooting position and lurked, he wiped a handful of mucus left by the friction of the demon hunting mantis on the wall with his hand, and rubbed it on his face and body to cover the smell on his body. Although the smell of the pile of corpses was strong enough to mask the smell, the Demon Hunter Mantis's sense of smell was also very sensitive, so it was prepared.

They often look for suitable prey through their sense of smell at night.

Li Mu held his breath and adjusted his lying position. For mutated creatures with strong vitality, only by penetrating their brains can their lives be completely ended. And the huge Demon Hunting Mantis has a surprisingly small brain, only the size of a fist, and their skulls are very hard. When a bullet hits the head, it is extremely easy to deviate from the trajectory.

Its weak point is the center of its two compound eyes, where its brain is connected, and it is extremely demanding for the shooter to accurately hit two small dots flying in the air at high speed.

Li Mu wasn't sure when the Demon Hunter Mantis would return, which was the most troublesome point. A high concentration for a long time is very draining, and people will get tired quickly.

I don't know how long I waited, maybe five minutes, maybe half an hour, but the silent underground shelter finally resounded with that eerie hum.

The mantis flew in with the corpse of a child in its mouth. Then the boy must have been only seven or eight years old, and his still childish face had turned pale, and his hands hung limply, swinging with the movements of the demon hunting mantis.

Li Mu took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, his cheek was against the butt of the gun, and his fingers lightly hit the trigger.

Boom!

The sound of gunfire was a little dull in the closed shelter, and the low-light night vision device lowered the brightness of the muzzle flame very well, and did not flash to Li Mu's eyes.

Li Mu did not open the electromagnetic guide rail, and the gun body was under the hydraulic buffer mechanism, but it was slightly shocked.

【Demon Hunter Mantis Killed by You】

[EXP +185]

[Small Firearms +1, XP +10]

A string of small words slowly emerged from the lower right corner of his retina.

The Demon Hunting Mantis fell to the ground, its limbs twitching slowly, but it had lost its life.

Li Mu wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood up from the shooting point. He stepped forward, looked at the child's body, was silent for a moment, and closed his open eyes with his hand.

[Level 4 Gun Ranger (145/900)]

Walking out towards the cave, he had to hurry up, Miss Shen had already dug a position for the recoilless cannon on the high ground outside the village, and was waiting for Li Mu to indicate the target for him.

Li Mei clutched her rifle tightly in her hand, leaning against the wall, gasping violently.

The 81 bar in her hand is old, and the 7.62mm rifle bullet with the old-fashioned propellant is so weak that not many people use it anymore.

Bullets kept coming in, down the windows, through the doors, into the house. Everywhere there is shooting, everywhere there is death.

Grandma hugged her brother tightly, who was her half-brother. Just five minutes ago, he was shouting to himself: "Sister, I'll go get a rifle, I'll use it to protect you." Then he was blown off the skull by a stray bullet. Because of the excessive blood loss, the face became stiff and pale.

"Why are you killing my child, why? He didn't say a bad word to anyone, he didn't offend anyone, why! ”

The elderly grandmother was in tears, yelling out the window in response to her bean-like gunshots.

"Whoosh!"

A rocket whizzed into the next room, shaking the whole room violently, and countless dust fell from the ceiling.

Li Mei covered her ears, and her eardrums were shattered.

"Grandma, we've been discovered, we need to get out of here quickly, the enemy attacks will continue to come this way."

"Meimei, let's go, grandma is old, she can't walk, grandma won't go anywhere."

The grandmother held her grandson's corpse with a wooden face, shaking it gently, as if her grandson was still alive and just asleep.

Li Mei wiped off the dust on her face, and looked at her grandmother with a pair of shining eyes, she knew that her grandmother was a very patriarchal person, often harsh on herself, but she was very doting on her younger brother. The death of her younger brother made her despair.

She took a deep breath, flashed out the window, and fired a long shot at the gangster door across the street. Then flashes back inside the wall. There were fewer and fewer gunshots to fight back, and she knew that there were fewer and fewer villagers alive. The villagers who were caught off guard suffered heavy losses at the beginning, and then they were suppressed in the house by the firepower of the other side.

The whole village was in danger, and she knew that she had to get out of here as soon as possible, but she looked at her grandmother who was holding her brother, and her heart was torn between them.

There was a sound of a car engine across the street, and Li Mei poked her head out, and it was a pickup truck driving in, reversing through the street, reversing its body to this side.

On the body is a 23mm anti-aircraft gun, the muzzle of which is facing this side.

“”

She was about to pounce on her grandmother when the anti-aircraft cannon roared dullly.

Because the recoil of the cannon was too strong, the suspension of the pickup truck could not support the continuous fire, and the robber pulled the trigger and fired several bursts of fire at the opposite direction.

The 23mm shells tore through the concrete façade like tearing paper, shattering everything in the house.

"Cut, finally beat this little to death."

A marauder spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm and breathed a big sigh of relief, the little girl opposite, who didn't know how to practice marksmanship, bit flesh with a gun. Five people have already been killed, and they can't take the lead at all.

"It's a pity that it's broken, otherwise I really want to taste it."

A few people looked at the house that was beginning to burn and walked over from the side.

"Anyway, it seems that there are a lot fewer corpses, and I still want to reduce some ammunition from those unlucky ghosts, but when I look for them, I can't even find a corpse."

Li Mei lay on the ground, her right leg injured, and was hit by the flying debris. She lay weakly, not even the strength to move.

There was a burning smell in the air, and the combustibles had been ignited by the shells, and the fire gradually grew larger. A puddle of blood slowly flowed beside her, she didn't dare to look, her grandmother and younger brother, all hit by the whistling cannonballs, had turned into a puddle of mud, no one was human.

"Who's going to save me"

Li Mu could already see the light coming from the exit, and the sound of gunshots like popping beans came from outside the passage, and there was still a fierce battle outside.

This made him breathe a big sigh of relief, but fortunately it was not too late. Immediately afterward, he was so shocked that his hair stood on end.

A high-frequency flapping sound peculiar to the Demon Hunting Mantis came from outside the cave entrance, and he miscalculated, it turned out that the surviving Demon Hunting Mantis was not one, but two.

He subconsciously turned the dial and turned the power of the electromagnetic guide to tenth gear. At this level, the kinetic energy of the bullet is already close to the kinetic energy of the 30mm armor-piercing bullet of the old era GAU-8.

At this level, each shot fired requires up to three seconds of recharge time, even with the high-efficiency capacitors used by the Silver Star. This time is enough time for the Demon Hunting Mantis to cut itself into a plate of shredded meat. Moreover, the huge recoil brought by the huge power was enough to numb his entire arm and even crack his bones, causing him to lose most of his combat effectiveness.

He pressed his left shoulder against the butt of the rifle and pointed at the hole, and even with ten gears of power, he had to hit the torso with a single shot to ensure a kill on it.

The creepy buzz was getting closer, and the demon mantis was getting closer. Li Mu estimated that the muzzle of the gun was lowered, and under the huge recoil, the muzzle would rise very strongly.

A demon hunting mantis appeared in view, and because it was too close, he could even clearly see the fluff under the mantis's two compound eyes.

"Boom!"

Because the muzzle velocity is too high, the bullet rubs against the rifling violently, and in the dark, you can even see that the black barrel turns dark red due to the high temperature.

The bullet hit the chest and abdomen of the Demon Hunter Mantis, and with the huge kinetic energy, its hardest breastplate directly opened a large hole with the mouth of a bowl.

"Squeak! Chirping! ”

The Demon Hunting Mantis let out a unique scream, and its tenacious vitality allowed it to struggle for more than half an hour or so. Its huge compound eyes stared directly at Li Mu, and several hind limbs jumped towards Li Mu.

A pair of sickle-footed, already open, sliced in. The Demon Hunter Mantis has hard chitin serrations on its scythe feet, which can scrape off a large chunk of flesh if it is struck a little. It is cut head-on, and it is dismembered in an instant.

Under the secretion of adrenaline, the muscles of Li Mu's whole body were violently stretched and contracted. His hand was steady, and his sword drew out and rested on the severed scythe foot.

"Z!"

There was a sharp grinding sound, and the blade rubbed violently against the sicklefoot. Li Mu was very close to the sicklefoot, and he could smell a burning carapace when he was close. The huge power coming from the sickle foot, and the attribute suppression brought by the high level, made the Demon Hunting Mantis still enough to suppress Li Mu even if he was seriously injured and dying.

Levi's boning swordsmanship!

Although Li Mu only mastered a little bit of the fur because of the extremely low level, he could still clearly perceive the changes in the strength of the Demon Hunting Mantis.

One person and one monster were almost stuck together, and Li Mu could already smell the stench coming from the mouth of the demon hunting mantis.

"Ding!"

The sharp long sword was bent to a limit under the scythe-foot slash, and with a swing of Li Mu, the potential energy accumulated on the sword body exploded, and the long sword turned into a bolt of lightning and stabbed straight away, piercing through the compound eyes of the demon hunting mantis.

【Demon Hunter Mantis Killed by You】

[EXP +85]

[Levi's boning sword +1, experience +20]

"Whew, whew"

Li Mu used his sword as a crutch to prop up his body, and the momentary confrontation just now consumed his physical strength.

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