Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 708 - 50: The Queen Mother’s Clone

Chapter 708: Chapter 50: The Queen Mother’s Clone

The blue energy beam tore through the air, and the moment it hit the woman in the red leather clothes, she quickly raised her right arm, creating a red, curved position shield in an instant, blocking herself.

Boom, when the two energy sources collided, they scattered into countless light spots. The unscathed Matriarch’s clone locked onto Tang Zheng, swung her right arm, and two crescent-shaped energy blades fired out. They rotated and hit the armored vehicle.

"Biyun, dodge!" Tang Zheng shouted, kneeling on single knee on the roof of the vehicle to steady himself. He hurriedly pulled the trigger. A series of beams burst like fireworks, suppressing the Matriarch’s clone.

Tang Zheng had anticipated that his attack would draw the Matriarch’s clone’s attention, so he was not surprised. While testing the clone’s abilities, he began to consider how to delay time. On the clock, they had a little over three minutes left before they could merge with the soldiers sent by the command post. By then, there would be more cannon fodder to utilize.

Bang bang, the two light blades missed and hit the ground, creating a two-meter-wide deep pit.

The Matriarch’s clone activated the thruster on her back, spewing out a red airflow which changed direction, heading towards the command vehicle, completely ignoring the shackles of gravity.

"Damn it!" Tang Zheng watched as the Matriarch’s clone closed in rapidly, reducing the distance to a hundred meters. Ordinary energy beams were completely useless. Tang Zheng decisively pressed the release button with his right hand, grabbed the cannon beam magazine with his left, slotted it in with a click, and while he had no time to aim, he held the gun steadily and fired, based on the muscle memory developed from firing hundreds of thousands of bullets.

Click, as the old magazine fell on the roof of the car, Tang Zheng had already fired two short, hot cannon beams. The air around the beams twisted, and just as quickly, they hit the Matriarch’s clone.

The position shield appeared once again. It still did not shatter, but the powerful impact stopped the woman in the red leather clothes in her tracks. The next shot knocked her over.

After rolling on the ground a few times, the Matriarch’s clone’s body mechanism exploded and she jumped up with a whizz, sprinting towards the command vehicle. Her head full of snake-like tentacles wriggled in the windless environment, absolutely nauseating.

Whoosh, when the Matriarch’s clone realized she couldn’t catch up with the command vehicle, she squatted down, then suddenly sprang powerfully, easily covering a distance of over ten meters, and landed on the roof of an armored car.

"Ah!" the on-board machine gunner screamed, shooting her with a look of terror on his face. A flame over a foot long burst from the muzzle, and countless cartridge cases were thrown out with a ding-dong sound.

The clone of the Mother Queen remained expressionless, slightly raising her right arm and bringing out the position shield once again.

The bullets hit the shield and were all bounced off. Even the bullet heads were seen to deform from the impact.

The clone of the Mother Queen did not even bother to glance at the machine gunner, kicked, and the unfortunate machine gunner’s head burst like a balloon full of water. Flesh mixed with white brain pulp and blood splashed half of the vehicle’s roof, and the headless corpse slid into the carriage.

The armored car began to swing left and right, evidently trying to shake the Matriarch’s clone off. The machine gunners in the front and rear armored cars paled in fear, tightly pulling the trigger, pouring bullets onto the clone.

Her feet of Matriarch’s clone emitted a magnetic force, sucking tightly onto the roof of the car. But the next second, she jumped and leapt towards the armored car seven meters ahead. Mid-air, it swung back, and two crescent-shaped energy blades fired out.

"No!" The driver was startled, frantically turning the steering wheel, but failed to dodge. Boom, a meter-long blade of light easily cut into the armored vehicle, like a sharp dinner knife cutting open a cream cake.

Clang, the blade of light first cut the driver in two, then ripped apart the car body. The elite soldiers inside the carriage were in deep trouble. They had not even caught a glimpse of the enemy before they were amputated in real time by the two light blades.

The armored car broke into four pieces, then exploded with a bang, burning into a pile of wreckage.

"Die, die!" The machine gunner shot at the Matriarch’s clone, shouting loudly, trying to dissipate the fear in his heart. Her tight leather clothes, showcasing her attractive legs and curvy buttocks were in his field of vision, but no man had time to appreciate them; all they wanted was to kill this grim reaper as fast as they could.

The Matriarch’s clone waved her hand, and the light blade shot out again directly cutting the machine gunner into chunks.

"We can’t let that thing get close!" Dantai fired the Thunderstorm rifle indiscriminately, not caring about the consumption of ammunition, but the thunderballs hit the clone’s position shield and dissipated without even sparking a flame.

"Can’t even break the defense?" Chu Baichuan was holding an on-board machine gun, intending to add some firepower, but seeing that even the cannon beam that was worth a point could not tear open the clone’s position shield, he immediately dismissed the idea as a waste of effort. "Biyun, speed up and flee."

"We’re going as fast as we can." Xu Biyun was sweating profusely with urgency. The speed of the whole team had almost reached its limit. Facing the Matriarch’s special forces, no one wanted to stay behind and wait for death.

"Musketeers, come out!" Tang Zheng took out a black iron seed and activated his ability, and three female musketeers immediately appeared.

Without wasting time with words, Tang Zheng directly threw two Gauss sniper rifles over and then pulled out ten bundles of cluster hand grenades, tying them together with a parachute rope.

Sophie and Alizeh took turns firing to prevent the Matriarch clone from approaching.

Chu Baichuan watched Tang Zheng consume a Black Iron Seed to prevent the red leather-clad woman from advancing, and was filled with envy. Tang Zheng certainly wielded great wealth and power. If it were up to him, Chu Baichuan, he would have never dared to make such a sacrifice.

The form of the Puppet Queen resembled a female, with a curvaceous, tall, and slender figure that easily surpassed two meters. However, under the tight leather suit, there was no hint of clumsiness. Instead, she exuded a heroic aura. Each movement was incisive, full of the icy sense of mechanical precision.

The second batch of mechanical soldiers, landing at a height of five meters, activated their thrusters to counteract the opposing force, then thudded onto the ground and began to charge. Simultaneously, they started firing at the armored vehicle fleet with their laser cannons.

Boom, an armored vehicle was hit, exploding into the sky.

"Sophie Alizeh, stop the Puppet Queen from getting close. Marilyn, you target those mechanical soldiers." Tang Zheng handed Marilyn a heavy gravity gun, then picked up a cluster hand grenade, pulled out the pin and, exerting all his strength, threw it in the direction where the mechanical soldiers were concentrated.

Boom, flames ascended, the shockwave whipping up sand dust, engulfing the surroundings. Three unfortunate devils were killed by the blast, followed by the detonation of the bombs planted in their bodies, producing a continuous series of relentless explosions.

Nevertheless, the mechanical soldiers fearlessly continued their charge. They were incredibly fast, matching the speed of the armored vehicles, and unaffected by the road conditions, drawing closer gradually.

All of the rebel soldiers climbed out, grabbing vehicle-mounted machine guns shooting at the mechanical soldiers. However, their bullets did little damage. Even when they hit, they only sparked off a string of Martian sparks, helpless to halt the soldiers’ advance.

The Puppet Queen swung her arm, sending an energy beam blade to blast the armored vehicle beneath her, then leaped towards the armored vehicle in front.

Hiss hiss, two Cannon Beams tore across the sky, hitting the Puppet Queen directly. Despite her quick reaction to deploy a position shield, she was still knocked back by the impact.

The Puppet Queen frowned for the first time, got up and began to chase after them again, leaping once more. But at the peak of her jump, the Cannon Beam fired again, blasting her towards the ground.

Marilyn curled her lips in dissatisfaction with the weapon in her hand. But she thought something is better than nothing, and began shooting at the mechanical soldiers. Each time she squeezed the trigger, the muzzle of the heavy gravity gun lit up.

There wasn’t any ballistic trajectory, but as Marilyn changed her target, the upper body of a mechanical soldier would explode without warning two seconds later. Subsequently, self-destruction bombs would detonate, scattering burning wreckage everywhere, inundating people with heat, singeing faces, bringing on waves of dry air.

Chu Baichuan switched to his Thunderstorm Rifle and began to shoot at the mechanical soldiers. Although his shooting skills were decent, shooting moving targets was a different task entirely. On average, it took four or five bullets to kill one soldier, a far cry from one-shot-one-kill.

"Your round of attack must have at least earned a bunch of points." Chu Baichuan inhaled sharply, looking at the powerful female gunmen with increasing admiration. He wished he could take their place, but he knew it was wishful thinking. After all, his heart belonged only to Ai Yixin.

"That Cannon Beam uses one point per shot, Tang Zheng must have spent a lot already." Dantai speculated that Tang Zheng might have been close to tears due to the toughness of the Puppet Queen’s position shield. It had endured over a dozen hits without showing any signs of damage. If this was an average Conqueror, they surely couldn’t stand such consumption.

"Our leader is working hard." Although Chu Baichuan was a bit reckless and single-minded, he wasn’t beyond redemption. He recognized the sacrifices Tang Zheng was making, so he had recently become a supporter.

"Although Yixin always praises him, he indeed is capable." Although Chu Baichuan was a bit annoyed from hearing his wife constantly praising Tang Zheng, he knew his wife meant well. If they fell out with Tang Zheng, there would be no place for them in the team.

"If we leave this team, we’ll be done for." Chu Baichuan thought his wife’s words made sense.

"Tang Zheng, this cannot go on. We have a little over a minute left, but I see no reinforcement arriving. We need to figure something out." Dantai shifted his focus onto Zhuo Lie’s armored vehicle, "Don’t hesitate, let them sacrifice."

Dantai knew that Tang Zheng understood his meaning.

"I see that little boy." Tang Zheng saw the little boy on Zhuo Lie’s vehicle. Using others as human shields was something he could force himself to do, but using children was too INHUMANE.

"Strike first and gain the upper hand, they surely don’t think the same way." Dantai kept his eyes on the control vehicle, not daring to shift his muzzle, fearing it would alert them, "They haven’t attacked the mechanical soldiers so far. Weren’t they trying to conceal their identity, wanting us to maintain the Puppet Queen’s attention?"

Tang Zheng, of course, understood this, but what they were doing was harming the innocent. Plus, if he didn’t speak up, Dantai surely would make Chu Baichuan carry the burden. Of course, the special agent was cunning enough to trick Chu Baichuan.

"What’s it going to be? Don’t hesitate. If you guys won’t do it, I will." Chu Baichuan was becoming impatient with this indecisiveness. To keep his wife safe, he was willing to kill and to set fires.

"Blast Zhuo Lie’s vehicle apart. There is bound to be a VIP on top. Use them as bait." Dantai had no qualms about it and told Chu Baichuan what he needed to do.

"Alright!" Chu Baichuan responded and just as he moved his gun, Old Zhou climbed onto the roof of the vehicle with his Gauss sniper rifle. (To be continued. If you like this novel, please vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)