Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 102 - 14 Giant Qin Yuan

Chapter 102: Chapter 14 Giant Qin Yuan

The two cat vehicles turned around and headed straight for the highway exit not far away, then got off near the Xu Family Village and drove directly into a small waterlogged ditch by the road.

The lights were turned off, and the personnel concealed themselves on the spot, with only the drones continuing to patrol and track from the air.

The huge monster was still active 3 kilometers away, using the scent pouch on its antennae to constantly perceive the traces left by surrounding biological activity, shuttling through the woods to hunt.

This was Chen Jian’s first time witnessing the monster’s predation activities, and the scene brought him an indescribable shock.

He had heard before that when tigers hunt in the mountains, they only need to roar once for the prey around them to immediately be so frightened they lose the ability to move, at the mercy of the tiger.

Obviously, this statement carries a significant degree of exaggeration and interpretation, but now, he saw a real-life example.

The monster continuously emitted howls from its mouth, and even the dense forest could not block the high-decibel sound.

Small prey nearby were all knocked down by the shock of the sound waves, with no room for resistance or escape.

From the drone’s perspective, he saw small heat signatures flashing through the forest occasionally, and soon the monster would shuttle to the heat source, using its appendages to penetrate its prey and send them into its mouth.

Chen Jian felt a chill down his spine; he couldn’t imagine what would happen if his team had confronted the monster without drone reconnaissance.

Although active noise-cancelling headphones can block a lot of noise, once the sound reaches above 180 decibels, it’s more than just a "sound" issue.

The sound ceases to be a sound; the energy carried by the sound waves pushes the air to form a shock wave that hits the human body directly.

Strong resonance can cause the internal organs and muscles of the human body to spasm and convulse, even rupture and bleed, rendering one completely incapacitated.

In his first indoor stun grenade training, the violent stomach spasms caused by a stun grenade blasting led him to vomit before he even had time to react.

At that time, the noise from the stun grenade was only 170 decibels.

This is definitely a tough opponent.

Chen Jian took the PDA from his chest and handed it to Xie Liu, then asked in a low voice:

"The Qin Yuan you mentioned, does it look like this?"

Xie Liu took the PDA, observed it closely for a moment, then replied:

"I’ve never seen Qin Yuan, but from what I’ve heard before... it looks very similar."

"Then it’s highly likely, it may very well be some kind of abnormal gigantism individual."

Chen Jian exhaled lightly and continued to ask:

"Does the Qin Yuan have any other features?"

"Features...."

Xie Liu frowned and thought for a moment, then answered:

"It’s said that the spikes on its tail are poisonous, and a touch will cause the skin to split and burn a person to a skeleton."

"Corrosive venom, possibly some special digestive fluid."

Chen Jian immediately updated the information on the PDA, then asked:

"What about hearing, smell, and perception abilities?"

"There’s not too much detailed information."

Xie Liu shook his head and said:

"But the legend has it that the Qin Yuan is very fast and can fly short distances, similar to flying squirrels."

"Understood."

Chen Jian stared at the drone footage and then judged:

"This thing doesn’t look like it can fly... it’s not high enough to glide."

"However, its speed is indeed fast, with a high instantaneous acceleration."

"To maintain such speed with such a body size, its agility maxed out..."

"So, what do we do? Do we have a good strategy? How do we fight it?"

Once Chen Jian finished speaking, Lei Jie was the first to respond:

"It’s difficult. The weapons we have won’t inflict any effective damage on it unless they hit directly."

"But the problem is, to ensure a direct hit, the distance must be reduced to at least 300 meters."

"It’s 3 kilometers now, and the decibels are already over 80. When it’s 300 meters, won’t it go off the charts?"

"Can anyone withstand off-the-chart noise? Zeng Yi, can you guys handle it?"

"...Obviously not."

Zeng Yi whispered:

"We’re more sensitive to sounds than you are. Explosions and gunshots on the battlefield are mostly torture for us, so we seldom use firearms....."

"That’s a problem..."

Chen Jian exhaled deeply.

"We need guided weapons... damn it, I should have had Zhou Qin gather some sleeve arrows and send them over."

"Weapons with small damage like sleeve arrows might not cause it much harm, and the jungle is too dense, limiting the effectiveness of guided weapons."

Lei Jie frowned deeply, thought for a moment, then said:

"The only thing that might take it down is the 14.5 heavy machine gun, but the heavy machine gun can’t move flexibly, has limited firing range, and the target keeps moving at high speed, so the chance of hitting is like winning the lottery."

"So what we actually need is not guided weapons, but remote-controlled weapons."

"Can we do that? Didn’t you fix weapon stations?"

Chen Jian immediately asked.

"There’s no time."

Lei Jie shook his head and said:

"By the time I get back to make a remote-controlled weapon station, the cabbages would be cold."

"For now, the best way should be to stealthily approach while it’s resting and hit it right in the soul."

"It must sleep sometimes, right—do monsters sleep?"

"They do."

Zeng Yi replied affirmatively, then added:

"But we can’t gamble. What if it doesn’t sleep and charges straight into Yellow Stone City?"

"Monsters also seek safe places to rest, but unfortunately, in the surrounding area, the island on Great Governance Lake seems like the safest..."

"Then there’s no way."

Chen Jian put away the PDA again, then said:

"We have weak long-range projection capability and get overwhelmed by the roar in close combat."

"We can’t fight in the wild; we need to go back."

"Split into two groups."

"He Shuo, Zeng Yi, Li Shi, Lei Jie, Xie Liu, you head back first and prepare the combat plan."

"Shen Yue and I will follow and probe the monster’s maximum combat range."

"If we can get within 500 meters... We have so many recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, I can’t believe not a single one will hit it."

"As long as we can destroy its ability to emit sound, we can just hang it and hit!"

"Understood!"

Upon the command, the team immediately split.

Chen Jian led his team back into the cat vehicles, quietly approaching the distant monster.

Meanwhile, He Shuo and the others raced toward Yellow Stone City, racing against time.

They had to be fully prepared.

If Chen Jian ultimately confirmed that getting closer was impossible, then the limited long-range projection weapons in the city would be their last line of defense....

...

Meanwhile, on the distant river surface.

A powerless small wooden boat was quietly anchored by the riverbank.

Zhou Qin stood respectfully beside a man, who handed him the binoculars and then spoke:

"This is the giant Qin Yuan in Jiugong Mountain."

"Just as I said, the evil deeds of heresy indeed invite severe retribution; this is the natural order."

"Now, this Qin Yuan is heading towards Yellow Stone City, and those heretics won’t survive for long."

"Zhou Qin, you should have delayed for at least another day."

"If you could delay one day, then all those livestock and poultry wouldn’t have been wasted in vain, and we wouldn’t have had to trek all this way."

After the man’s words fell, Zhou Qin nodded first, but then hesitated and asked:

"Lord Guardian, do you really believe this monster will completely destroy those... heretics?"

"Of course."

The man confidently said:

"This monster called Qin Yuan is already nearing Level 2 monster standards. It’s not just them; not even a whole Holy Temple Guard brigade of the Mechanical God Sect could easily handle it."

"It will definitely require a price to eliminate it."

"And Yellow Stone doesn’t have enough resources."

"They’ll all die, saving us a lot of trouble..."

"Hopefully."

Zhou Qin echoed with a nod, but he couldn’t help but have doubts in his heart.

It’s just a monster.... even though it’s almost a Level 2 monster.

But can this monster really do anything to those so-called "Huaxia Army"??