Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 207 - 80 Long-Distance Bombardment

Chapter 207: Chapter 80 Long-Distance Bombardment

As the words fell, the Priest asked with a bit of confusion:

"Why can’t we wait until they and the monster are both badly injured, then step in to clean up the mess?"

"Don’t you understand?"

The Archbishop glanced sideways at the Priest, then said:

"The battle with the monster can’t be predicted using common sense, and the Mimic Heretics are not ordinary enemies."

"We can’t guarantee they don’t have the capability to eliminate that monster, nor can we guarantee that, after they eliminate it, we can arrive at the battlefield in time to seize the treasure within the Jinling Ruins."

"No one knows what the treasure inside the Jinling Ruins is, but those massive underground vaults, I don’t think you haven’t seen them."

"If they seize the opportunity to enter the vault first, we will be faced with an extremely passive situation."

"Therefore, eliminating the monster was never the goal; it’s just an obstacle to the ultimate objective."

"Without the assurance of quickly and thoroughly eliminating the enemy, don’t hope to rely on the enemy to clear obstacles for you."

"I think their plan is the same as ours."

"Therefore, we must hurry..."

"Because perhaps, they have already..."

"Bang!"

As the Archbishop’s words fell, a sudden muffled cannon shot was heard from afar.

And immediately following, more continuous cannon fire kept coming.

"They have already started!"

The Archbishop’s expression changed, then he ordered:

"Advance at full speed!"

....

"Load!"

Lei Jie gave a loud order, and Li Shi, serving as a temporary loader, immediately operated the loading machine, pushing the 53-kilogram projectile into the rifled chamber, then inserted the cartridge and closed the wedge breechblock.

Lei Jie then placed his hand on the trigger, simultaneously issuing the command "Ready—Fire!"

"Boom!"

A huge explosion sounded instantaneously.

At the moment of firing, a conical fireball with a diameter of 8 meters spouted from the muzzle brake, the projectile traced a high trajectory of 792 mils at an initial velocity of 800 m/s, and the gun carriage, under the action of the hydraulic recoil mechanism, accurately returned to position after the recoil.

A few seconds later, Chen Jian, who had already reached the designated dismounting position, took over the gun reconnaissance position and reported back swiftly based on the drone-displayed shell impact point.

"120 east deviation, near miss!"

"Received! 120 east deviation, near miss!"

Repeated Lei Jie as he subconsciously wanted to use the bracketing method to calculate correction parameters, but just as Chen Jian’s words fell, the War Skull AI had already automatically recognized the voice information and actively intervened to calculate according to the combat scenario.

In just an instant, a line of bright information appeared above Lei Jie’s eyepiece.

"Azimuth adjustment -0-04, elevation increase 0-80, initial velocity compensation +1.2%."

Without a moment’s hesitation, Lei Jie immediately adjusted the artillery parameters according to the information guidance.

A few seconds later, the second shell fell towards the distant target in an unstoppable manner.

The shell traced a thrilling arc in the air, and 17 seconds after leaving the muzzle, the shell hit the target, forming a deadly shrapnel ring over twenty meters in diameter in the target area.

"Boom!"

A large amount of sediment flew up, and it was as if a "flower of blood" made of mire and fungi had exploded on the monster’s body.

Toxic gases quickly spread, forming a thick blood mist.

The monster’s wailing echoed through the sky, its front half raised high, spewing countless burst spore clusters.

Accompanying the spreading of the spore clusters, was an even denser blood mist.

This precisely hit shell had obviously enraged it, and it impulsively wanted to find a target to retaliate against.

However, Lei Jie and his team were attacking from too great a distance; even if it could rely on the information conveyed by the symbiotic fungi, it was simply impossible to accurately locate the attackers!

In a fit of rage, it launched indiscriminate attacks on its surroundings.

Numerous spore clusters were shot out, a large amount of poisonous fog was released, and even the monster’s body began to twist and writhe rapidly, crushing fungi forests into powder one after another.

Just 5 kilometers away, Chen Jian watched this terrifying scene with unparalleled shock, unable to imagine the method either the Mechanical God Sect or the Holy Blood Temple would use to defeat this monster.

Even if they could get within attack range, then what?

This monster, though massive, moved with astonishing speed.

Just a simple "crushing" was enough to take countless lives!

Powerful!

Seeing the monster, like a small mountain, fully reveal its form, Chen Jian no longer hesitated and swiftly ordered:

"Instantaneous fuse rapid fire! Maintain the bombardment!"

"Understood!"

In fact, without Chen Jian’s order, Lei Jie had already adjusted the parameters according to the drone’s guidance, ready for the next shot.

For an artilleryman, hitting a moving target accurately from over a dozen kilometers away isn’t as simple as it seems.

But what if that moving target is several hundred meters large?

One shell after another was fired from the gun barrel at intervals of less than 15 seconds, and then, one after another, they hammered the monster’s body.

The immense explosions kept resounding, and though not every shell could accurately hit the same impact point, with the precision correction of the pulse guidance reducing error to the minimum, the only unfavorable factor affecting the shell’s impact point was left to the monster’s movement itself.

Several irreparable craters appeared on the monster’s body, and after the first wave of six rapid-fire shots, its layered armor was blown off a thick layer!

At this moment, the monster seemed to finally feel a real threat, rather than a so-called "provocation."

Its state grew ever more frenzied, biological electricity rapidly transmitted across the fungal mat, causing the entire Jinling Ruins to undergo a dramatic change.

A large amount of poisonous fog was released, and the fungal people frantically rushed everywhere, searching for their target.

The location where Chen Jian was originally was quite dangerous, but they had already prepared anti-infrared measures in advance, and Chen Jian even activated the electro-optic camouflage.

They had vanished right under the noses of the fungi and the monster.

And at this point, who could still be discovered by the monster?

Only the Mechanical God Sect, who had just stepped into the dense fungal carpet area and hadn’t had time to deploy their formation!

Seeing the monster issuing a bull-like roar and charging at the Mechanical God Sect’s ranks, Chen Jian’s expression slightly changed.

Then, he decisively ordered:

"The plan has changed, the monster has left the core area!"

"Reduce the artillery pace! Maintain suppression, but don’t kill it!"

"Let them fight, we’ll head to the core area first and locate the entrance to the ruins according to Lingxi’s guidance!"

"Understood!"

A response immediately came from the rear artillery position, and at this moment, as Chen Jian sped back towards Fortification 011 near the Zijin Mountain Observatory, he felt an unprecedented sense of absurdity.

At first, he indeed hadn’t thought of diverting trouble eastward and letting the Mechanical God Sect bear the monster’s attacks.

He hadn’t even planned for the Mechanical God Sect’s people to join in.

The reason was simple, he couldn’t judge the real combat power of the Mechanical God Sect, nor could he possibly know if they could defeat the monster, or how long it would take to defeat it.

So the safest plan was still to eliminate first, occupy first, and harvest first.

But now, circumstances have changed.

The infuriated monster had left its original territory, rushing towards the Mechanical God Sect’s army over ten kilometers away.

Its rear was almost in a vacuum state, and this gave Chen Jian an excellent opportunity.

Whether or not the Mechanical God Sect could take down the monster no longer mattered; his goal had already been achieved.

Enter 011, establish a defensive line, organize the defense; he had already seized the initiative.

And if that monster could eliminate as much of the Mechanical God Sect’s power as possible, it would be an unexpected delight.

Thinking of this, Chen Jian floored the accelerator.

The cat vehicle roared forward at full speed, the thick fungal carpet being flung up by the tracks, making such a commotion that it far exceeded the exposure standard.

But at this point, the monster seemed no longer concerned about the situation behind it.

Because the cannons of the Mechanical God Sect had also started roaring....