Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 297 - 297 77 In Time

297: Chapter 77: In Time 297: Chapter 77: In Time Yuan Wenren had already abandoned all her senses, betting everything on the last hundred meters.

That was the most advantageous distance for a gunner against a fighter.

Within that range, the speed of a bullet wouldn’t allow a close-quarters combatant any chance to react.

Even the most formidable martial artists could only rely on “prediction” to gamble with their lives.

On the other hand, within that range, the speed at which a gun barrel moves will always be faster than the lateral movement of the martial artist.

And this situation would reverse as soon as the fighter closed to within a few meters.

Then, the movement of the gun barrel might not keep up with the movement technique.

Yuan Wenren simply stood up.

This was an open field lacking concealment.

She couldn’t retreat while staying hidden.

In other words, the female hero had no way out.

She severed the connection with most of the drones, retaining only the perception of a few within a hundred meters.

The data stream that came from them was minimized, her brain only needed to process the simplest data.

Yuan Wenren detached the extended barrel

——I’m really stupid to die like this…

Leveled the gun barrel.

——Don’t be afraid, there’s still hope.

He’s already been weakened by one round, and his parts are also facing thermal pressure.

Adjusted the focus of the prosthetic eye.

——This time I must avenge the dead…

Borshu stepped into the “hundred-meter realm.” In that millisecond, Yuan Wenren’s stray thoughts vanished like bubbles in a dream.

Pulled the trigger.

In Yuan Wenren’s field of view, Borshu’s figure suddenly “thickened” for a moment.

Still about eighty-three meters away.

The second shot.

It didn’t hit.

Still about sixty meters away

The third shot…

An explosion burst out from the ground.

And to dodge the bullet, Borshu had to jump up for a moment.

At fifty meters, Yuan Wenren no longer needed both hands to operate the firearm.

She held the sniper rifle with one hand, while the other caught the rapid-fire submachine gun that popped out from her waist.

Flames spewed, bullets surged out like raindrops.

And Yuan Wenren’s sniper rifle was always locked on Borshu’s vital points.

The bullets from this gun were the daggers hidden in the rain!

Borshu had no choice but to trace complex curved trajectories to dodge the bullets.

His upper body nearly swayed like the pendulum of a metronome, the power of his waist and tail assisting his turns and also seeking the greatest angle for the bullets to enter.

Forty meters…

thirty meters…

twenty meters…

The last shot!

The moment the bullet grazed the armor on Borshu’s neck, Yuan Wenren knew she was doomed.

Before the engagement, she had been employing fatigue tactics for a long time, weakening this Green Forest’s energy.

And until she fired, she had been using the advantage of intelligence, calculating the situation within a few rounds after engaging.

She had indeed done her best, without a single error.

It’s just that this guy’s martial arts were indeed superior to her own.

Within ten moves of close combat, she would be killed.

But even so, Yuan Wenren didn’t plan to wait for death.

This Green Forest was already at his worst state.

Parts of his external armor were nearing fatigue, and his system had to deal with the issue of heat dissipation.

In these few moves, even in death, she would damage several parts on his body!

Yuan Wenren threw away the sniper rifle and automatically ejected another submachine gun from her waist.

The gun chamber switched modes, canceling the structure that vented recoil, allowing the full force of the recoil to act upon the gun itself.

The Female Hero fired bullets while stepping back swiftly.

Borshu left zigzagging tracks on the ground, sprinting like a ferocious dog.

At this moment, Yuan Wenren’s bullets could no longer catch up to him.

The distance between them was only the last meter when Borshu prepared to exert force…

But at that instant, he felt several radars’ beams.

Not a single sweep of radar, but sudden appearances of different frequency radars…

——There’s murderous aura!

Borshu instinctively felt it was another sniper watching him.

Although Heroes tend to be lone wolves, having companions wasn’t strange!

Just as the thought formed, his legs had already carried his body back.

Yuan Wenren seized the opportunity and fired all the remaining bullets in the drum, widening their distance to ten meters.

Logically, with Borshu’s arms outstretched and Yuan Wenren’s Swimming Dragon Step enhanced by the recoil, she would not escape death.

But the sudden radar pulse disrupted Borshu’s rhythm.

Yuan Wenren was also affected by the radar, but she had long resigned to death; even if support came for her, she’d just die in a different way, so she remained unfazed.

Just like that, the situation changed in an instant.

Yuan Wenren raised her left hand towards Borshu, the bullets embedded in her wrist maintaining suppression.

Her right hand reached behind her, drawing other weapons to meet the enemy.

At that moment, Borshu finally saw the source of the radar waves.

It was actually a battle chariot with a fairly makeshift appearance.

Within “Mule,” Yuki, still unsettled, let her fingers relax and then nudged the little one beside her who was close to vomiting, panting, “That was close…

That was really close…”

“Eek!

Yah!”

Under Xiang Shan’s command, Yuki finally found this place.

Following the methods Yuan Wenren had previously taught, she transmitted several different radar beams.

The monitoring system showed that the two dark figures fighting in the distance suddenly split apart, so she must have had an effect.

But…

[Master, it seems to have had no effect…]

As Borshu rolled and dodged bullets, he sized up the war chariot and realized from its structure that it might not be equipped with weapons deadly enough to be fatal, at most it seemed to be a radar wave launcher.

He realized he had been duped and immediately lunged at Yuan Wenren.

But just as they were only a meter apart, it felt as though he was struck by an invisible iron fist.

Amid a shower of sparks, Yuki even saw splinters of armor fly off.

—Impossible…

Borshu internally roared.

The shooter who had just fired, did they not care about the life of the individual before them?

They were barely a meter apart and both still maintaining a high-speed movement technique, tangled together.

A bullet traveling from afar to this point would take several seconds, but the two entangled fighters were changing positions every second.

At a distance, Xiang Shan was waiting for a slight breeze to die down.

He said, “That’s just enough.”]

Although Martial Ancestor wasn’t fond of firearms, he still understood a bit about gunnery martial arts.

At least sniping wasn’t an issue.

Borshu found that the external armor on his lower abdomen had been completely peeled open.

Just one more hit, and the internal structure would be compromised.

The bullets fired rapidly by the first gunner with the submachine gun hadn’t been a waste of effort either.

In his moment of hesitation, the next bullet was already on its way, hitting his thigh straight on.

The electronic muscle fibers felt the strong force and triggered the warning system, contracting in a specific direction and speed, locking the bullet in to minimize damage.

His thigh stiffened for an instant.

In that instant, Xiang Shan’s next bullet had already shattered his shoulder armor.

—Impossible…

What kind of assistance was that guy using…

—Without observational equipment for atmospheric conditions, even the greatest gunner couldn’t achieve such long-distance sniping…

Of course, Xiang Shan could not possibly perform such long-distance sniping without assistance technology.

The answer was the drone formation.

Xiang Shan had hacked into the drones.

Not just those he had hacked into within the city.

Those drones also served as a relay, transmitting his will to the drone swarm that Yuan Wenren had taken with her.

To handle that “one hundred meters,” Yuan Wenren had focused all her attention on a few drones.

It was in that moment that Xiang Shan took control of the swarm.

He directly employed the drone formation Yuan Wenren had set up—a mature sniping observation formation.

Xiang Shan even took the opportunity to kill a government martial artist and seize his sniper rifle on the way over.

He wasn’t quite accustomed to this rifle, but that wasn’t too big of a deal.

At this very moment, Xiang Shan stood there holding the rifle, taking steps forward, while intermittently firing according to the guidance of the drones.

Seconds later, Borshu realized that this new gunner seemed to be a bit stronger than the one he was currently dealing with.

He checked the state of his armor and realized he probably wouldn’t be able to kill this gunner.

If he insisted on killing this gunner, he would have to withstand combat for several seconds in front of that expert with terrifying predictive abilities.

And within these seconds, the weaker gunner would strike back as well.

Even Borshu couldn’t guarantee a safe retreat if he missed a shot.

Borshu’s armor was shattered in several places.

He changed his strategy, spinning his body as his tail struck towards Yuan Wenren.

Yuan Wenren countered with her firearm, not expecting that the tail was just a light tap on her wrist.

That tap actually employed all of Borshu’s lifelong skills.

The clever force could temporarily disrupt the function of a typical wrist structure.

The gunner’s wrist would need some maintenance to maintain precision.

At the same time, Yuan Wenren’s remaining firearms were destroyed by him.

Then, without lingering for a moment, Borshu sprinted up the mountain, making his way behind the rock where the girl was hiding.

Xiang Shan originally intended to keep shooting, but suddenly, he also paused.

The gun was out of bullets.

Xiang Shan shook his head in self-mockery.

After all, the rifle was seized, and he had not gauged the exact number of bullets inside.

It was too late to reload now.

Sniping at this distance still depended on the flow of the wind.

A slight breeze, a slightly uneven air mass could cause the bullet’s trajectory to deviate slightly, resulting in a significant error.

Opportunities were fleeting.

—This thing really isn’t easy to use.

Xiang Shan lamented in this way.

If it had been close-quarters combat, that guy would have had no chance of escaping.

Of course, without firearms, he wouldn’t have been able to save Yuan Wenren either.

The distance between them was indeed a bit exaggerated.

“But that was certainly close,” Xiang Shan sighed.

“If it weren’t for Yuki’s radar waves startling the enemy for a moment, causing them to distance themselves again, even I wouldn’t have been able to save him.”

“But speaking of which, isn’t that guy going to run away?”