Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 455 - 13 - Race with Death_2

Chapter 455: Chapter 13 - Race with Death_2

"What a joke, a civilian dares to show off." The Old Soldier already vaguely sensed that Tang Zheng and his subordinates were not to be trifed with, but as for the other civilians, nobody cared whether they lived or died. With Gesang dead, they were all worried about their future lives. It was only natural for them to rebuff Sun Bo’s attempts to start a conversation.

Seeing Li Meilian’s Hummer still short of a few people, several observant folks tried to hitch a ride but were stopped by her. Li Meilian wanted to choose a few reliable helpers, but this caused a conflict to arise.

"Where is the commander of this fleet? Why haven’t we seen him yet?" Marcus, unable to recruit any additional people, was fuming. He was looking for an excuse to hit Tang Zheng.

"Don’t you guys have an important task to carry out? Just go." Tang Zheng changed the subject, "Don’t think about using us as bait. It’s every man for himself now. Goodbye."

"You--" Kaia was annoyed, swinging a straight punch at Tang Zheng’s chin. Seeing him block it with a single hand, she immediately twisted her waist and swung her left leg, aiming at his temples.

Tang Zheng brushed off Kaia’s punch, swung his forearm forcefully, and hit her calf with the back of his hand. Simultaneously, he threw a punch aimed at her eye. The rapid speed and the intense air currents were so overwhelming that Kaia could hardly keep her eyes open.

Kaia swiftly retreated, bending her body forward and delivering a knee strike towards his lower body.

Carmine obviously liked Kaia and, seeing her at a disadvantage, let out a loud shout and lunged forward with a punch.

Tang Zheng went on offense. His left hand blocked Kaia’s knee strike, and he then grabbed her pants, causing her to stagger. He also grabbed the front of her shirt.

Kaia frowned in pain when Tang Zheng pulled her towards him; he then placed a cold dagger against her throat.

"Let her go." Carmine bellowed, only to be kicked in the stomach by Tang Zheng and sent sprawling backwards.

Marcus and his men once again aimed their guns at Tang Zheng, but this time Qin Yan and the others didn’t react; they continued to make arrangements for the civilians to start the cars.

"Aren’t you guys tired of this? Can’t you come up with something new?" Lu Fan waved his hand, clearly annoyed. "Go away, we don’t have time to waste with you."

Tang Zheng put his dagger away and released Kaia’s clothes. She was rather resentful and was preparing to fight Tang Zheng one-on-one. However, she was pulled back by Dom. Seeing that they could not gain any advantages, a frustrated Marcus led his followers away.

"We shouldn’t linger here, let’s go." Tang Zheng got into the command vehicle and saw Pang Meiqin yelling at Li Muqing. The woman, dressed in a dead man’s clothes, was crouched in a corner, allowing herself to be berated but refusing to move, determined to ride in this car.

"Enough, let her stay. Come over here and drive." Tang Zheng threw the bodies of Gesang and others for the Beastman Mobile Battalion sideway to pick it up and laid three explosive booby traps along the roadside. Then, he grabbed the sound pickup and announced to the convoy to move on.

At a crossroads, Tang Zheng directed the fleet to separate from Marcus’s group. Ten minutes later, two Beastman Mobile Battalions roared past, and under the guidance of flying Beastman Soldiers, they went after Marcus. Only two squads were sent to pursue Tang Zheng and the others.

Two hundred Beastmen riding eighty three-wheel motorcycles and two armored vehicles caught up with the fleet. Each vehicle had two men; the machine gunner in the carrier was assigned to attack the fleet.

"Uncle, it’s your turn." Lu Fan wasn’t fond of highway chases, so he urged Tang Zheng to act.

"Damn, the usage of the Hellfire has been restricted." Tang Zheng was frustrated again, "It can only be used for two minutes a day."

"Trojan is dead set on wiping us out." Pang Meiqin was furiously anxious. Now that even their ultimate weapon was ineffective, what were they going to do?

Tang Zheng pulled out the Gauss sniper rifle, climbed on top of the command vehicle, set up the bracket for stability, loaded the gun, aimed at the enemy through the scope, and pulled the trigger.

The high-explosive incendiary electromagnetic projectile didn’t disappoint him. The scorching bullethead instantly punctured the upper body of a Beastman driver. Losing control, the three-wheeled motorcycle swerved off the highway.

Tang Zheng cocked the gun, and the hot bullet shell jumped out from the ejection port with a new one pushed into the chamber. Boom, this time a three-wheeled motorcycle was blown up, and its body turned into a fireball. It flew a distance before crashing into the wilderness with various mechanical parts falling everywhere, creating a tinkling sound on the concrete road surface.

Beastman machine gunners fought back, furiously spraying bullets at the fleet, with countless bullets whistling past carrying the whisper of death. Two remaining forest tanks opened fire, immediately attracting quite a lot of fire for Tang Zheng.

As Tang Zheng lay flat on the roof of the vehicle, he didn’t have to worry about the oncoming airstream. He shot calmly, and each time he could blow up a motorcycle. He was merely taking advantage of the weapon’s long range. If the Beastman cavalry entered the shooting range, the fleet would end up in a complete disaster.

"Two shots per second, the interval is so accurate." Lu Fan observed the battle results through the bullet holes and every time a motorcycle was destroyed, he would cheerfully thump the carriage wall.

The civilians in the truck, holding their heads and trying to crouch, reduced the area exposed to gunfire. They were originally terrified hearing the bullets whizzing past, but seeing through the cracks in the canopy curtain, two motorcycles exploded every second, they suddenly felt much safer. Although they couldn’t see the trajectory of the electromagnetic projectile, the destroyed motorcycles recorded Tang Zheng’s battle achievements.

During the first encounter with the enemy, in less than twenty seconds, a third of the Beastman motorcycle unit was wiped out. Their war result was an unlucky guy who was hit by a stray bullet. Because they hadn’t entered the shooting range, the retaliatory gunfire of Beastman machine gunners didn’t achieve any results.

Finally, the commander of the Beastman armored vehicle made his move. The remaining motorcycle unit immediately scattered like hornets, leaving the highway and started chasing Tang Zheng from both sides.

"Tch, what’s the use." Tang Zheng sneered at this and focused on shooting motorcycles on the highway. For those traveling on the bumpy wilderness on either side, not only was their speed reduced, but shooting had also become an obstacle. Even for a sharpshooter, the bullets could be wildly off target.

Tang Zheng had thought about taking out the commander’s vehicle but found that the armor was too thick and the driver’s skill was exceptionally good.

The chase went on, three minutes later, a tank broke down and left the fleet. Three motorcycles charged fearlessly towards it. The Beastmen jumped off their motorcycles just before collision, successfully using the motocycles to destroy it. Then they leaped from the ground, pounced on the top of the tank, wedging all their grenades next to its hatch. After pulling the safety pins, they quickly retreated.

When the hatch was blown open, the Beastmen reappeared and threw tear gas grenades inside. They were too large to get inside human tanks, and if they threw in offensive grenades, then the bodies would be completely wasted. Therefore, they used tear gas to force the humans out.

Beastman soldiers were clearly experienced in such tactics. The human soldiers who escaped from the smoke-filled tank barely ran five steps before being shot dead by them. They then rushed over, took out their daggers and directly consumed the human flesh.

Beastmen didn’t need captives, just food.

When two snipers climbed onto the top of the armored vehicle to fight back with their own medicine, Tang Zheng had already destroyed over forty motorcycles. He was single-handedly suppressing the Beastman’s motorcycle unit with his Gauss sniper rifle, until his luck ran out. After all, he was just one person and while he was reloading, the motorcycle unit finally charged forward.

The Beastman machine gunners wildly sprayed bullets, killing half of the civilians in the last carriage directly.

Now, the survivors started throwing the corpses onto the road surface in an attempt to obstruct the enemy’s chase and lighten the load at the same time.

Bodies thrown off the speeding vehicles rolled on the road due to inertia, causing multiple abrasions and fractures. Some unlucky ones were run over by motorcycles, their limbs detached, turning into a bloody pulp. Looking down from a high altitude, one could see human-shaped bloody stains all over the road surface.

A Beastman sniper with night vision goggles affixed to its forehead fired. Their shooting skills were superb, and the first shot hit just ten centimeters from Tang Zheng’s side.