Chapter 48: The Battle to the Death (I)

Plasma bombs of 120 mm caliber, like a brilliant meteor shower, fall from the night sky. Looking at the dazzling brilliance in the sky, the nearly 1,000 Federation troops stationed at the edge of the blockade area looked up at the sky like lost puppets, until the dense points of light fell and accurately hit the hangars where a large number of fighters were parked.

Rumble! -- The silence was broken by the explosion of many hangars at the same time, and a terrifying hurricane was unleashed. The dense hemispherical shock wave was like a sudden light bulb, completely lighting up the silent federal air base.

Suddenly, a terrible siren sounded. The Union soldiers, staggered by the aftermath of the shock wave, screamed in despair as if they had suddenly woken up from a nightmare, dropped their guns in terror, and fled in all directions.

And under the firelight of the sky, hell descended...... "This is ......"

At the same time, on the roof of a hangar somewhere in the Ninth District, Pete, who was holding a Gauss sniper rifle, looked up in surprise and looked at the federal hangar, which was already in flames.

"How can this be ......"

Pete stared vacantly at the spreading explosion, the smoke and flames that billowed up and brightened his pale complexion.

Suddenly, a feeling of being fooled came to his mind, and he turned his head to look at the hateful figure scurrying around like a rat with a hideous face.

"Damn, let this bastard get my attention here, and then let his companions bomb it!" Coming to his senses, Pete kicked off a metal railing beside him in anger, knowing that in tonight's battle, the soldiers of the Republic whom he had never looked down on had won the final victory. And he and Auston became the humiliating background of the picture of the victory of the Republic.

If it weren't for this Republic squad that fell from the sky, then Auston and Bancroft's private deal would have been just a small shadow under the shadow of the extended family. But now, this time the success of the Republic's special forces has completely exposed this unknown transaction to the spotlight, and no one dares to hide the truth anymore, and he, Alston and Armstrong will be put on the hat of treason and sent to the gallows.

The status that was hard to fight, the future that was hard to fight, everything disappeared with the appearance of this republic team.

Pete couldn't believe that this could happen to him, and he couldn't stand being teased like a clown and playing a pointless shooting game here.

"Damn Republic mongrels! ~”

Pete's eyes were blood-red, and he gasped like a raging bull.

Ten shots, from the beginning to the present, he actually fired ten shots at the Republic clown who jumped up and down. This is the first time since Pete became a professional soldier that he has not shot an opponent with ten consecutive shots, and with the two shots he sniped Robin before, Pete has missed two magazines tonight, but he has not even wiped a single hair from the opponent.

The unprecedented humiliation made Pete grit his teeth and gurgle. At this moment, condescending Liao looked at the seemingly tireless small figure, and Pete transferred all the hatred in his heart to him.

"I'm going to let you die a terrible death! Damn clowns! Pete unplugged the empty magazine and inserted a third, filled energy clip, into the bomb bay.

He took a deep breath, maximized his super perception, and neatly adjusted his breath and raised his gun to aim: "Since you can run so much, then I'll shoot your legs first......"

"Huh?"

Just as Pete was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly felt something and instinctively jumped forward.

Rumble! ~Rumble! ~ Suddenly, two hummingbird-like rockets from the darkness hit the place where he was standing, and among the scattered metal fragments in the sky, an emaciated figure suddenly stepped on the metal bracket and jumped high, aiming at Pete, who was rapidly retreating, and fired several rounds in succession.

"It's his helper......"

Pete, who had just landed on the top of another chamber, avoided a deft curve and then jumped off the top of the vault with a continuous backflip. At this moment, a figure holding a six-wheeled Gatling suddenly slammed out of the hangar next to him, aiming at Pete in a series of angry shots.

With the high rate of fire of six rounds of Gatling, hundreds of energy projectiles were fired in the blink of an eye, but when the smoke cleared, Aven's eyes were empty, only the shattered hangar that had been shot collapsed with a sharp metal squeak.

"Aven, move to 7 o'clock, quick! ~”

Suddenly, Colin's voice rang out in Aven's headset. Immediately, Evan did not hesitate to pick up his gun and gallop towards the direction indicated by Colin at full speed.

And at this moment, on the roof of the warehouse, Colin was holding two large-caliber pistols, running rapidly, and constantly firing at the figure that was getting farther and farther away.

"Damn, why can't you get rid of him! ~”

Pete, who was leaping with a sniper rifle on his back, turned his head angrily and glanced at the thin figure who was in hot pursuit.

Based on the difference in speed and agility between the two sides, it should only take a few seconds for Pete to use the cover of the building to completely shake off Colin. But what puzzled him was that the guy behind him seemed to be able to ignore the obstruction of the building, judge his exact location at the first time, and use the pistol's accurate point shot to delay his mobility.

Unbeknownst to Pete, Colin's glasses weren't just meant to compensate for his eyesight deficiencies. These glasses, in fact, have the ability to scan holograms within a radius of 100 meters, and can present all holograms in front of Colin's eyes through the lenses.

Technically, the high-tech content of these glasses is not high. But with the exception of electronic warfare experts like Colin, no one can adapt to the sudden innumerable amount of data and multiple images that would suddenly come with normal vision. Therefore, this method of combining vision with holograms is unique to Colin, and his blind shooting at close range without blind spots is also based on this.

Now, in this close-quarters multiplayer pursuit, Colin acts like a combat tower. Using holograms and precise tactical arrangement, he and Aiwen, the two weak combat forces, actually succeeded in containing Pete, and made Pete's strong pressure become more and more anxious.

"Yes...... It's Colin ......"

In a hangar a few hundred meters away, a panting Li looked back in surprise at the direction where the shots rang out.

Based on the tacit understanding between him and Colin, he could tell that it was Colin just by the sound of gunshots, and after analyzing the direction of the battle, Li suddenly realized who Colin was fighting with.

"It's the sniper! Damn ......"

For this sniper with whom he has been entangled for a long time, Li has a deep jealousy. Lee, who is also a sniper, knows very well how terrible this sniper is, if he didn't fight back and escape, he would have been a corpse by now.

And even if he just escaped, Lee's current consumption is definitely no less than having experienced a protracted war that has been going on for a long time. His highly tense nerves were constantly using his second-order perception and second-order computing abilities, and many subconscious evasions were actually the credit of these two abilities. Originally, a large amount of mental exertion had already brought Li to the limit, and his mental and physical strength could no longer support him to continue. But it was at this moment that Colin and Evan appeared just in time to contain Pete, the terrifying sniper, and give him a few seconds to breathe.

Now, in this short period of time, the swelling pain in Li's brain has been slightly relieved. Moreover, Colin and Aven's containment finally won him the first chance to counterattack since the battle.

"Where, damn it...... Let me take a look, and just ......"

Holding the sniper rifle on the window edge, Lee looked through the sniper scope and anxiously searched for the nightmarish figure in the dark cracks of the building.

Time passed second by second, and the extreme anxiety and tension made the cold sweat on Li's forehead splash like raindrops. Based on his judgment of the sniper, a terrifying sniper who could make an accurate blind shot at a distance of 800 meters did not have the same melee weaknesses as ordinary snipers. It may only take a few seconds to judge that the right person can catch Colin and Aven's movements, and shoot them with a blind shot of lightning and flint.

"Don't ...... Don't die ......"

Just as Li was reciting words as if he had hypnotized himself, a flashing black shadow suddenly flashed past him.

"See! ~”

This accidental capture of the figure suddenly lifted Li's spirits, and he subconsciously swung his sniper rifle to lock on to the fast-moving figure, but at this moment, the narrow space of the window restricted his locking, and the figure suddenly disappeared after a blurred flash.

"Damn! ~”

Li angrily slammed into the wall and stumbled out with a sniper rifle. In the face of the sniper whose level was far higher than him, the fighter plane was fleeting, and Li clearly knew that every time he missed the fighter plane, every extra second, Colin and Evan would be more dangerous. At a moment like this, there is no time for him to waste.

While Lee was desperately chasing, in the building complex not far away, after several consecutive changes of direction, Pete finally used his super movement ability to forcibly shake off the pinch attack formed by Colin and Aven.

"It's my turn, bastard of the Republic! ~”

As he ran, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of Pete's mouth, and he stepped on two times in succession, leaping high like a big bird, leaping over the shield formed by the building, and occupying the commanding heights for a brief moment.

"Die! ~”

At the moment of volley, Pete threw out a shot without looking back.

After the flash of brilliance in the dark night of the plasma bomb was extinguished, Pete quietly landed, instantly disappearing into the shadows like a ghost in the dark night.

(To be continued)