Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 234 - 234 14 Everything You Need

234: Chapter 14 Everything You Need 234: Chapter 14 Everything You Need Xiang Shan lay under the mule’s carriage, one hand clutching a handgun.

His prosthetic body was still too small.

If he wanted to ensure that his limbs had enough strength to deploy, the spaces in these parts that could mount additional components were a bit too small to cram in a complete firearm.

Ah, small-caliber bullets weren’t a problem.

But that type of weapon had difficulty penetrating the Cybermen’s external armor—it was something for assassinating Natural Persons.

Xiang Shan still couldn’t do without firearms.

He secured himself under the mule’s carriage.

At the same time, he stuck a speaker on one side of the mule to play the sound of footsteps.

He had recorded these footsteps in an emergency and played them after simple editing.

Within a certain distance, it sounded like “a person walking one meter to the left of the mule.”

Within this range, whether the opponent attacked with a firearm or approached stealthily as last time, they would expose their presence.

Then, he could burst out from under the carriage and capture that guy.

“From the earlier skirmish, it is undoubted that my martial arts are superior.

However, limited by the computing power of the electronic chip, I am unable to exert my full strength.

But facing that Life-Chasing Cavalry, it should mostly be sufficient.”

Xiang Shan was well aware that if given another chance to get close, he was confident that he could kill the Life-Chasing Cavalry with his hands.

Last time, that Life-Chasing Cavalry had taken the initiative, so his reaction was half a beat slow.

Before he could mount a counterattack, the Life-Chasing Cavalry had already retreated first.

At this moment, Xiang Shan heard a muffled sound coming from the left.

The sound was very faint, as if someone was flicking a rubber band next to your ear.

But Xiang Shan knew clearly that this was the noise of a bullet being fired from a gun muzzle with a silencer.

The reason the bullet firing is so loud is because the bullet is accelerated within the barrel by the explosive force of the gunpowder and then shot out from the muzzle.

After the bullet leaves the barrel, the residual hot gases also eject, causing a significant gunshot sound in the atmosphere.

A silencer, however, is a device that suppresses this air flow.

A silencer cannot completely eliminate the sound of a gunshot.

But it can reduce the volume of the gunshot and completely change the tone of the gunshot.

People are more sensitive to “sounds that I find meaningful.” Those familiar with gunshots can quickly filter the gunshot noise from ambient sounds.

But if the tone of the gunshot is changed, it is easy for someone to mix it with the background noise undetected.

After all, it is hard for someone to have a conditioned reflex of alertness to the “sound of a rubber band being snapped.”

However, as an assassin, Xiang Shan was equally familiar with this altered tone.

At the same time, his brain function was powerful enough to filter more finer details from the ambient noise.

Xiang Shan instantly raised his handgun and fired.

But, at the moment he pulled the trigger, Martial Ancestor regretted it.

He realized he had been tricked.

He had only heard the gunshot, but not the sound of the bullet.

Of course, in the old days there were s-called “silent bullets.” These were subsonic bullets, designed to avoid the loud noise caused by a bullet breaking the sound barrier.

But with the emergence of cybernetically enhanced people, such weapons were quickly phased out.

Subsonic bullets could only kill Natural Persons.

They couldn’t penetrate the external armor of cybernetically enhanced people.

The target of Life-Chasing Cavalry was a Jianghu Hero, so it was even less likely to use these subsonic bullets.

—The same tactics…

Xiang Shan released the vacuum suction cups he was holding, forcefully sprung up, and rolled out two meters away.

A bullet snapped one of the mule’s prosthetic legs.

—Damn.

Xiang Shan roughly understood.

The opponent, a Houndhawk, was very familiar with the maneuvering tactics of heroes—he had created these tactics himself, and they must have been studied by many people.

A sharp sound rang out again.

Then came the muffled sound.

This was the sound of bullets and the sound of a gun with a silencer firing.

Xiang Shan immediately issued a command to the automatic weapons on the “mule.” The machine gun spat fire, licking towards the designated coordinates.

But it seemed to be of no use.

Xiang Shan heard footsteps.

At the same time, several bullets hit the gun’s muzzle.

—Got you now!

Xiang Shan rolled on the ground, then stood up and fired forward.

Although visibility was only a few meters, he knew the target was there.

After firing, Xiang Shan spun away.

The next moment, bullets stirred up dust on the ground, blending with the sandstorm.

Missed.

Xiang Shan immediately made a judgment.

A small speaker silently fell to the ground behind him.

At the same time, he enhanced his footwork, continuously shooting and advancing.

Bullets buried into the sandstorm.

Bullets flew out from within the sandstorm.

Both sides had installed flash-suppressing devices on their muzzles, so there was no flash.

Infrared was not enough to penetrate the thick sandstorm.

Bullets were faster than sound.

With no senses to rely on, both sides could only engage in gunplay by “guessing,” invisible and inaudible.

Bullets whizzed by then buried into the sandstorm.

The storm scattered the sounds of their impact.

—That’s why I hate the Firearms Path.

Xiang Shan still managed to muse on this at the moment.

Even he could not guarantee that every bullet would hit the enemy.

In such close combat, he couldn’t afford to care much.

If it were in a populated urban area, these stray bullets could potentially cause massive casualties.

The two exchanged a round of bullets.

At that moment, Xiang Shan suddenly heard a crisp sound.

It wasn’t the sound of a gunshot suppressed by a silencer, but the sound of metal striking…

—He’s out of bullets!

Xiang Shan stepped forward, following the sound.

…………………………………………

Kan L felt as though he was dancing with death.

Dozens of bullets whizzed past him one by one.

Each bullet could have taken his life.

His mind was almost completely blank, incapable of any stray thought.

Kan L had no choice but to focus his consciousness on “calculating” and “speculating” to maintain his actions.

—Just hold on a bit longer…

He thought this as the tenth bullet passed him by.

—Just hold on a bit longer…

He thought this as he fired the fifteenth bullet.

Then, when he pulled the trigger again, his left gun made a “click” sound of being empty.

As the magazine automatically ejected, he heard a sharp sound ahead of him.

Kan L discarded the gun in his left hand.

With deliberate control, he still had two bullets left in the gun in his right hand.

He always staggered his shots to intentionally reduce the frequency of his firing.

Combined with his confusing footwork, it was easy to make someone think there was only one gun.

He fired again toward the direction of the dark shadow.

This was the move that would determine the outcome!

The moment the bullet hit the sand dust, he felt as if something in him was also hanging in the balance.

—Did it hit…

Before he could finish that thought, a figure burst through the sand dust screen and charged at him from the side.

—Damn…

There must be another sound from that direction.

That sound misled Kan L’s judgment.

In the blink of an eye, Kan L’s Prosthetic Eye captured the movement of the dark shadow.

He saw the opponent apparently raising their hand.

Kan L immediately kicked, knocking the gun being pointed at him askew.

The Hero took another step forward, bodyslamming in an attempt to disrupt Kan L’s stance.

Kan L fired the last bullet.

The figure dodged that final strike, then raised the gun again.

Kan L crossed his arms, knocking it aside.

At this moment, the two were close enough to see each other.

At this distance, they could see each other’s outlines through the sandstorm.

The two were less than a meter apart!

The Life Chasing Ranger knew that his chance to escape alive hinged on these few seconds.

In the end, he was too eager for a kill, aiming to assassinate the Hero.

The figures of the two crossed in an instant.

Kan L’s legs tensed, ready to jump.

But just then, a gunshot rang out.

It wasn’t altered in any way.

This was none of their guns.

On the “Mule”, Yuan Wenren put down the sniper rifle and called out, “Senior!”

Although there was a ninety percent chance of hitting the enemy, she couldn’t guarantee that there hadn’t been a subtle switch in positions between her senior and the Life-Chasing Ranger during the fight.

She called out once.

Xiang Shan’s voice pierced through the dust, “Yes, I’m fine.

Well done.”

As he spoke, Xiang Shan moved closer, then stood next to the “Mule”.

He said to Yuan Wenren inside the shooting port, “That was a decisive shot.

Well done.”

Yuan Wenren asked, “What about that Life Chasing Ranger?”

“Unfortunately, to avoid confusing you, I didn’t catch up in the first moment and fell half a step behind.

After he was hit by your bullet, he used the force of the bullet to roll on the ground and escaped from my sight.

I didn’t expect him to flee so decisively.”

Hearing this, Yuan Wenren felt guilty, “In that case…

isn’t it my fault?

You took such a risk, and yet I didn’t kill him with one shot…”

Xiang Shan smiled, “No, it’s already a significant achievement.” Saying this, he opened his hand and said, “Your shot probably damaged his armor and even scraped the protective layer of the isotopic battery.”

In Xiang Shan’s palm lay some small black fragments.

“What is this?”

“It must be some kind of part or protective Shell fragment,” Xiang Shan laughed.

“The radiation this thing emits is abnormally high.

I can detect a clear presence of radiation.”

“That Ranger can no longer hide the beta radiation he emits.

Well done!”

In Xiang Shan’s field of vision at that moment, there were small fragments on the ground, emitting radiation much stronger than visible light.

Under the influence of this radiation, the sand dust seemed transparent.

The small fragments on the ground stood out like Mars.

“Whether it’s the battery or the army’s direction, we’ve gained an edge.”