Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 119 - 31 They couldn’t possibly be that fast!

Chapter 119: Chapter 31 They couldn’t possibly be that fast!

In the jungle, following the direction given by Bai Xu, Ji Xing ran forward with all her might.

Her body wove through the treetops, snapping countless fragile branches, but after a brief fall, she quickly bounced off the ground and leapt back up to the treetops.

She accelerated as much as possible, even though her skin was scratched by branches, showing no signs of stopping.

She was in a hurry.

But it wasn’t because she was truly anxious.

In fact, she held no affection for Huadu or the people from Huadu, especially after discovering they controlled civilians with drugs and expanded their power through debauchery, her originally neutral attitude turned into absolute disgust.

So, seeing these people suffer, she honestly felt a dark and Schadenfreude-like emotion.

She wished for these people more perverse than monsters to become extinct sooner, especially those in power.

But she also understood one thing.

The one in office, deals with its politics.

As a guard, she has no right to choose her clients.

Especially after leaving the Holy Blood Temple, her space for survival became even smaller.

Every task was like walking on thin ice, fearing that if anything went wrong, she wouldn’t complete the task, ruining the reputation she had struggled to build.

By then, living wouldn’t be so difficult.

But losing this profession, it would be almost impossible to achieve her unrealistic dreams.

So, she could only give her all.

No matter how sharp her words might be, when faced with the tasks given by Bai Xu, she had to complete them without fail.

By now, she had been sprinting through the woods for 5 minutes.

Calculating based on her familiar speed, she had covered about a kilometer of distance.

Still too slow.

There were still 4 kilometers to the target location, and according to that town leader, the squad left half an hour ago.

Even if they were just regular people, and even if their speed through the trees was much slower than hers, they should be extremely close to the target location by now.

She had to be faster.

If she couldn’t intercept them before they reached the target location, the mission could be declared a failure.

—But the question is, what exactly was there?

Bai Xu only said that the "Huaxia Army" wanted to attack the outposts established by Huadu in the wild, but didn’t mention the defensive situation inside the outposts.

Four people to overturn an entire outpost?

Even if there were two Holy Blood among them, the possibility was too small, right?

Huadu isn’t some pushover anyone can just squeeze, in small-scale battles, they are even stronger than the Mechanical God Sect!

Maybe Bai Xu was just worried about any accidents.

Perhaps he sent her over just to add an extra layer of insurance.

After all, didn’t he also say it?

"Try to keep them alive as much as possible."

That suggests he actually had quite a lot of confidence in the defense of the outpost....

With this in mind, Ji Xing’s heart settled slightly.

She took out the compass from her pocket to confirm the direction once more, then slightly adjusted her posture, shooting towards Wushan Lake.

From the treetops, she could vaguely see the sunlit reflection of the distant lake.

In another 500 meters, she would be out of the dense forest and reach the lakeside, allowing her movement speed to increase even further.

There’s still time!

Ji Xing finally relaxed.

—But just then, in the distant air, there was suddenly the sound of gunfire.

Immediately following was denser gunfire and explosions!

"Bang bang bang bang bang—"

"Boom—"

The fight has started!

Ji Xing frowned deeply, and the moment her feet landed on solid ground, she suddenly exerted force, her body leaping forward rapidly like a cheetah.

The distance was now down to the last two kilometers.

These two kilometers, she only needed two minutes to cover!

There’s no way the Huaxia Army could take down the outpost within these two minutes, right?

Impossible.

There’s still time.

There’s still a chance!

...

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Chen Jian swapped a new magazine for the 201 aircraft and put away the weapon mount on his back.

Zeng Yi wiped the blood off his long sword, while Xie Liu habitually picked up the shell casings scattered on the ground.

He Shuo, on the other hand, continued to monitor his drone, searching for any possible escaped targets.

This ambush went incredibly smoothly.

Once they had a general location, the drone showcased its greatest reconnaissance advantage.

And under the high mobility provided by Zeng Yi and Xie Liu, Chen Jian’s squad successfully established a strong fire point before anyone in the camp could react.

Using the cover of the two 201 aircraft, they effortlessly, like calling roll, reaped the evil lives within the camp.

Even the monster, which was extraordinarily fast, was swiftly brought down under the infrared tracking of the sleeve missile like a joke.

Upon discovering the target, it took less than a minute to eliminate all enemies.

The tremendous firepower revealed incredibly sharp fangs, leaving no chance for any enemies exposed to the firing net to retaliate.

The surroundings of the four were in utter disarray, with blood flowing from the bodies staining the ground, and the "beast" that caused such significant trouble for Wuxue Town was lying on the ground with a large hole blown in its abdomen by the sleeve arrow.

It, or rather he, was still breathing.

However, with all limbs shattered by bullets, it couldn’t move at all.

Chen Jian held his gun, aiming at the monster’s head, approaching step by step. When he saw the Blood Skull mark on its chest, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It’s a Blood Skull."

"A mutated Blood Skull, likely the same type as that Blood Sun General."

As he spoke, the Blood Skull monster on the ground tried to open its mouth, seemingly wanting to say something, but its lungs, injured by shrapnel, couldn’t support any speech.

Ultimately, it only made a few short gasps, with half-formed phrases that couldn’t convey any clear meaning.

Yet even so, Chen Jian’s attention was drawn to its ’wanting to speak’ gesture.

He slightly furrowed his brow, looking down at the monster, and asked:

"Do you want to talk?"

The corner of the monster’s mouth curled into a cold smile; he did not nod but, after spitting a mouthful of blood, spoke with difficulty:

"You... are the real monsters."

As the words fell, the gaze of the four-person team simultaneously turned towards the monster.

"You can talk?"

Chen Jian said in surprise.

As soon as he said it, he realized the foolishness of the question.

Of course, Blood Skulls can speak.

They’re just inherently bloodthirsty, intellectually diminished, but not to the point of being completely inarticulate.

Yet the problem was that from the monster’s short sentence, Chen Jian caught a different meaning.

It had logic.

And logic, for a low-intellect creature, was an incredibly rare existence.

This was no ordinary Blood Skull.

It’s likely a high-intelligence Blood Skull individual!

Things seemed to be growing more mysterious.

If it were a high-intellect individual, so high as to communicate smoothly with humans, then why was there a need for those drugs brought by Huadu?

They could completely cooperate in other ways, so why use drugs to control?

Or is it that the drugs are merely a supplementary control method?

A myriad of questions arose in Chen Jian’s mind, and hearing Chen Jian’s question, the Blood Skull on the ground also moved.

He struggled to swing an arm to deal a fatal blow to Chen Jian, but with bones long shattered by bullets, there was no support for the muscles’ weight.

His thick arm hung powerlessly down, pulling his body sideways.

Chen Jian frowned deeply at the movement and asked again:

"Can you understand what I’m saying?"

The Blood Skull coughed violently, and despite being intermittently, there was evident resentment in the tone:

"I was... so close to... succeeding..."

"You... you truly are the real monsters..."

"You’re the bloodthirsty monsters... I’m just... I’m just..."

"Huh... huh..."

The Blood Skull’s words abruptly halted, accompanied by intense vomiting sounds.

Cautiously, Chen Jian circled to the front, only to find that it stared at him with wide eyes, but no longer moved.

Chen Jian sighed in relief, sent a bullet into its skull, cautiously eliminating the last breath of life.

Then, he turned to look at Zeng Yi, and asked:

"What’s the situation with this Blood Skull? Why is his intelligence... so high? Have any of you heard of such a situation?"

Zeng Yi shook his head and answered:

"Our direct conflicts with Blood Skulls are few, and we know little about them."

"From what I know, some high-intellect individuals do exist among the Blood Skulls, but one like him... is very special."

"He said he was close to success... what exactly was about to succeed?"

"It’s evident there was some sort of transaction with Huadu, what exactly were these people doing here?"

"...I asked you one question and you answered with three, how should I respond to that?"

Chen Jian shrugged helplessly, then said:

"Guess we’ll have to ask the people from Huadu."

"But that’s out of our scope of work—better leave it to the Ring Chamber of Commerce, those intelligence sellers should find this matter interesting."

Having spoken, Chen Jian lowered the barrel of the 201, then ordered:

"Mission accomplished, prepare to withdraw."

"Regardless, Wuxue Town will no longer be threatened by monsters."

"Contract completed, time to go collect the reward."

"Withdraw along the designated route back to Wuxue Town!"

"Understood."

With a command issued, everyone promptly packed their equipment and left.

.....

What they didn’t know was that, behind them in the distance, concealed by dense shrubbery, a pair of eyes closely watched their actions.

The owner of those eyes was Ji Xing.

She witnessed the entire ambush process.

She had a chance to get within 200 meters to launch an attack and disrupt this ambush.

Yet her acute sensitivity to danger told her she must not be exposed.

Because exposure meant death.

For the first time in her life, she felt an overwhelming fear.

Though they were just using guns like the Church Protection Army of the Mechanical Sect, the feeling they gave her was entirely different.

As if merely standing there made them terrifyingly strong.

Absolutely must not become enemies with them...

Ji Xing held her breath and remained still until the entire team had gone far away, then she finally emerged from the shrubbery.

Looking at the chaotic camp, she arrived at a depressing conclusion.

This task was thoroughly botched...