Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 48: Can’t Escape

Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Can’t Escape

The squad of 8 people quickly maneuvered towards the Baisha Zhou Bridge. After getting on the sparsely vegetated overpass, Chen Jian turned off the exoskeleton’s power, but their speed didn’t decrease.

minutes later, the group arrived at the bridgehead of Baisha Zhou Bridge and then used simple covers to construct a temporary bridgehead.

At this time, the monsters that landed from Thompson Lake had already reached the location where they previously battled with the groundhogs, and the images taken by the drone exposed the monster’s shape completely.

Looking at the images on the smart goggles, Chen Jian was dumbfounded.

He had considered many possibilities, but never expected that something capable of defeating the Mechanical God Sect multiple times and causing the quick and agile Holy Blood Scouts to fail to even deliver a message, could look like this!

It’s not a beast-like monster like the groundhog or mantis, nor a humanoid monster like the mother body in Chuansha City. If anything...

This thing resembles a giant bullfrog with a turtle shell.

Highly developed leg muscles are covered with thick, spiked scale armor, and the forearms are extremely long, moving with only the elbow joints touching the ground, resulting in them developing tumor-like scar tissue.

The forward-reaching forepaws are also covered in scale armor, and the sharp bone claws exhibit a strange, semi-transparent amber color under the moonlight, sweeping over and flattening patches of low vegetation.

The most horrifying aspect is the monster’s head hidden under the rugged carapace, which has completely lost its basic skeletal structure, like dough kneaded into a round shape and then slammed onto a gravel-strewn ground, with sharp gravel embedded into it, distorting the skin and muscle tissue completely.

This thing is not cute at all.

Especially in the eyes of the Holy Blood members who do not have night vision devices, the terror of the creature jumping up and descending from the sky nearly made them lose the courage to face it head-on.

No wonder the previous teams died at its hands.

Its extreme mobility certainly deserves the title of "Level 3 Monster"!

Xu Lie looked at Chen Jian, seemingly wanting to ask about his plan.

But Chen Jian just calmly lay on the ground, aiming at the opponent with his Type 191, speaking in a low voice:

"This thing is odd, its entire body is a carapace structure."

"It jumps so high, leaving aside its strength, can its skeletal structure withstand it?"

"The mother body we saw in Chuansha City could barely walk steadily and had to use its tentacles to stay upright."

"We need to figure out the specific components of its body structure, otherwise..."

"In times like these, is there really a need for such research?"

Xu Lie finally couldn’t help but interrupt Chen Jian. At this moment, the monster, having inspected the groundhog corpses, let out a sharp howl.

Along with its wailing, the drone’s view suddenly showed numerous abnormal heat signals.

"Groundhogs."

Chen Jian calmly ordered:

"The groundhogs are indeed in a symbiotic relationship with this Level 3 monster----by the way, didn’t you give this monster a name?"

"No... But is that important??"

Xu Lie was ready to retreat, and he noticed noticeably that the abnormal sounds coming towards the overpass were getting very close.

Leaving now, is it too late?

If surrounded by these groundhogs and their position exposed, if that Level 3 monster lunged over, even if chosen by the gods, they wouldn’t escape at close range, right?

I don’t want to die here!

"Of course it’s important, without a name our subsequent commands lack reference."

"Alright, just call it Bullfrog."

"Deploy the drones to lower altitude, maintain surveillance."

"He Shuo, use the anti-material sniper rifle to fire at the target, test the armor-piercing performance."

"Lei Jie, set up the mortar, anyway, let’s hit it with a shell first!"

"Shen Yue, target the creature’s head with the machine gun, disrupt its perception."

"Other Holy Blood members, stay put. If any groundhogs approach, take them out immediately!"

"We’re not running??"

Xu Lie was dumbfounded.

"Run? Can you outrun it?"

"It can jump hundreds of meters, we might not even outrun it in a helicopter."

"We can only fight first, retreat while fighting!"

"...Alright."

Xu Lie could only stay on guard, while Lei Jie had already removed the mortar from the weapon rack on his back and adjusted the sight.

"Boom!"

He Shuo’s Type 10 sniper issued a deep blast as a precious 12.7mm caliber armor-piercing incendiary shell was fired, hitting the monster’s head 1.2 kilometers away.

The flash of fire flared up momentarily upon impact, the bullet easily penetrating the irregular scale armor on the monster’s head and burrowing under the skin.

"Roar----"

The monster rolled on the ground howling, but only moments later it stood up again.

Nonetheless, the cavity effect of the 12.7mm bullet is too limited for its vast body size, achieving a one-shot knockout is not that simple.

"Continue firing at the carapace, test the bulletproof performance!"

"Understood!"

With a command, another armor-piercing incendiary round was shot.

Sparks flew, and this time, everyone could see that the effect of this round was quite limited.

Did it penetrate?

It did.

The heavy carapace couldn’t block the armor-piercing incendiary capable of penetrating 20mm of homogeneous steel plate, but the problem is, after penetration, the inflicted damage was practically nonexistent.

No significant harm!

Chen Jian gained a preliminary understanding of the Bullfrog’s defensive level, and after a quick analysis, he came to a fairly simple conclusion.

"We can only aim for the head."

"Armor-piercing incendiaries can barely penetrate, our weapons won’t cause much damage on body impact."

"Damn, it’s a pity that the ammo for the grenade launcher is depleted."

"I should’ve conserved them until now!"

"We must find a way to pin it down... Lei Jie, try firing a round first!"

"Roger!"

Lei Jie, having already loaded the ammo, immediately pulled the trigger; the extended detonating bomb fell from the sky, accurately hitting the monster’s carapace.

"Boom!"

After the explosion, shrapnel swept through.

But just as Chen Jian predicted, this round did hardly any damage to the monster.

It was merely knocked to the ground by the blast wave, staggering a bit before standing again.

By now, it had locked onto the squad’s location, marking the bridgehead of Baisha Zhou Bridge.

Without hesitation, Chen Jian unfolded the weapon rack.

Soon after, 4 micro missiles were unleashed in full force!

Accompanied by sharp whistles, 3 missiles rushed towards the monster’s abdomen, while the other, making an odd turn, aimed for the monster’s constantly writhing head.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Boom!"

Four explosions followed, flames surged.

The terrifying power of CL-20 explosives was evident, and when the smoke cleared, a vast opening was ripped open on the monster’s head.

Blood flowed, bones shattered.

The monster tried to roar again but could no longer make any sound.

It could only hold its ground, staring in the direction of the squad.

Then, it leapt.

The monster lunged straight towards them!