Chapter 99: Ambush of Prisoners and Contradictions of Human Nature [Seeking Order II]
Two scouts stood twenty or thirty meters away from Ophelia.
Both sides looked at each other.
"Is there another guy?"
Faced with her question, Marcelo, wearing a black cloth hat, showed a slightly obscene smile.
"He's wandering where you can't see him."
"So, dear lady, why do you want to break the tacit understanding between us?"
"The dim currency in your hand and the bulging money bag are all gone. It's giving us a signal."
As he spoke, he drew out the long dagger from his waist.
Marisol, the "non-mainstream" female scout standing next to this guy, also licked her lips.
"Marcelo, stop talking nonsense!"
"Her purse looks richer than the entrusted reward."
"Did you just see it?"
"That purse poured out all dark gold coins!"
Compared to Due to Marcelo's vulgarity, Marisol's eyes are full of greed.
She easily took out the short thorns on both sides of her lower back.
With so much money, who cares about bullshit commissions?
Wouldn't it be easier to just snatch the half-elf lady in front of us?
As for their companions, they entered a stealth state, quietly looking for opportunities for sneak attacks.
Facing the two men who made no secret of their intentions, Ophelia looked indifferent and collected the money bag with her backhand.
Immediately afterwards, he began to slowly pace back.
Marisol and Marcelo looked at each other, then opened a few meters apart and moved forward.
At the same time, the halfling stalker slowly moved around Ophelia's rear from the side.
Both sides were advancing and I was retreating, the pace getting faster and faster, and becoming more and more urgent.
Not long after, the two guys entered the intersection marked by multiple red circles.
Chen Xuan, who was hiding on the commanding heights, naturally saw this scene through the magnifying glass of his sniper rifle.
He immediately pressed multiple radio detonators one after another!
The M57 pulse igniter in the mine spurted sparks of electricity.
Then there were several explosions of fire and smoke rising into the sky.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Not too violent explosions sounded one after another.
Different from traditional TNT explosives.
Because C4 has the advantages of easy portability, high stability, good plasticity, high explosive power, and excellent waterproofness, it is sufficient for detonation tasks in most environments.
Chen Xuan had already activated his supersensory vision and stared at the explosion scene through the magnifying glass.
With the 0.7x slowdown and the zoom of the field of view, he could even see the trajectory of the steel balls flying from both sides.
Multiple M18A1 broadsword mines fired thousands of anti-personnel steel balls in a fan-shaped range.
They were hidden in the flames and smoke of the explosion, and they were very fast, pouring down to the designated area like a heavy rain.
Marcelo and Marisol, who were in the mine ambush area, were suddenly shocked.
A magic shield appeared on each body, like an umbrella shaking in a violent storm.
Unfortunately, the steel balls were too dense, and the light curtain-like shield appeared instantly and dissipated in the same short period of time.
The subsequent lethal steel balls hit the two of them, consuming their protective magic at an extremely fast rate!
Countless steel balls flew in all directions. One of the walls that was hit seemed to have been swept by a rake, and it immediately became pitted. The charred wood in the ruins also shattered under the sweep of the steel balls.
Within seconds, the ambush site became a mess!
Marcelo, a scout with a black cloth hat, lost all his magic energy while escaping. One of the sputtering steel balls grazed his shoulder, leaving a bloody mark like a gap.
Marisol, the "non-mainstream" female scout, is in slightly better condition than Marcelo, with about one-fifth of the magic left in her body.
In just one face-to-face encounter, the two bronze-level senior scouts lost their combat effectiveness.
I originally thought this was a hunting feast, but I didn’t expect that they were the prey that was calculated!
Ophelia ducked behind the wall of the ruins long after the first mine exploded.
The sneaky halfling stalker was so startled when he first saw the explosion that he almost ran away.
However, when he saw Ophelia hiding behind the wall with her back to him, she failed to withstand the test of the money bag. He tried to take the opportunity to attack and kill her, first grabbing the money bag, and then using stealth to escape.
His figure is extremely weak and only fluctuates to a certain extent when moving quickly.
When the explosions subsided, this guy no longer hesitated and encouraged the magic element to run away.
The surging magic energy made his figure become more obvious.
When he was still three or four meters away from Ophelia, a 7.62mm warhead with a muzzle velocity of 860 meters per second and a muzzle kinetic energy of 3567 joules hit his head!
The protective magic shield appeared and disappeared in an instant, and the kinetic energy of the warhead weakened, hitting the halfling's head hard, consuming one third of the magic energy in this guy's body in an instant.
You must know that the total amount of magic energy of halflings at the same level is not much.
Although there was magic to resist the damage for him, the impact of the warhead still caused the guy to fly out.
Ophelia had already drawn her longbow at this time. After receiving the warning, she suddenly turned around and shot several arrows in succession. The first few arrows were wearing down the halfling's magic defense.
The next few arrows were accurately inserted into the guy's calves and arms.
After running out of magic, his stealth effect was automatically canceled and he was lying on the ground vomiting blood.
Rebecca appeared from another direction holding a dagger and directly controlled the halfling.
The two Dora sisters were not idle either. They took action as soon as the explosion started.
Like catching a rat, he blocked the temporary hiding place of the other two scouts.
Waving a single sword in his hand, he first cut off the black hat scout's arms.
Blood spurted all over the floor, and the severed bone stubble turned pink.
Marisol, who still had the strength to resist, activated her magic skill and threw a thorn, then turned around and ran away.
Without even looking at Marcelo, who was wailing and spitting blood.
The short thorn in the hand, attached to the pure white magic element, flew towards Yuclan's chest like a poisonous snake.
This short thorn has another mystery.
The impatient Beria took the first step and struck out the sword light.
After the two collided, the short thorn split in two from the front and flew away again. The magic energy attached to the surface exploded, giving the short thorn a second acceleration force. After the trajectory changed, it headed faster. Shoot at her.
Yuclan's pupils shrank, and she concentrated on sweeping away the first short thorn with the knife.
Another short thorn hit her heart from a more tricky position!
"Cang!"
There was no penetrating sound as expected, nor was the magic element or magic shield triggered.
After the short thorn penetrated the thin first layer of Kevlar fiber, it pierced the GA8 bulletproof chest plate inside.
The waterproof fabric on the surface of the bulletproof plate is broken, then the polyurea coating is applied, and finally the thickened composite steel plate body.
This bulletproof chest plate is made of steel. Although it is not as lightweight as the ceramic bulletproof plate, its defensive power is even better. It can reach a level that cannot be penetrated by M2 armor-piercing bullets. It is often used on targets in shooting ranges.
Its technical process is very simple, and to sum up, it is stupid, big and black.
The spikes shot by the magic throw finally left only a peanut-sized depression with a depth of no more than 1.5 mm.
The short thorns hung dejectedly on the Kevlar fiber, looking "downcast".
"Haha!"
Yuclan shouted and pulled out the short thorn.
A crazy smile actually appeared on the faces of the two sisters.
He ran wildly towards Marisol, who had just escaped not far away.
Without any effort from the two sisters, Marisol was sniped as she was escaping.
The SSG69 sniper rifle fired again, and the bullets shot at her predictably across a distance of several hundred meters.
Marisol's adrenaline was secreting heavily at this moment.
The sensitivity of body perception has also been enhanced to an extremely high level.
Even when the warhead escaped from the gun and shot at her, warning signs were rising in her heart.
After the magic essence was tempered, the body subconsciously made evasive movements.
It's a pity that she is not as skilled in magic and martial arts as Chen Xuan, and lacks spiritual assistance.
This ultimately made her dodge seem a bit clumsy.
"Bang!"
The bullet came first and the sound came later.
When Chen Xuan's shoulder leaning against the butt of the gun trembled due to the recoil.
The bullet had hit Marisol.
Just because of her dodge, the bullet originally aimed at the vital part hit her right arm.
The few remaining magic elements could no longer effectively protect the body, and were completely destroyed in an instant.
The 7.62mm warhead carried the remaining kinetic energy and hit her elbow just above her elbow.
The skin tempered by copper-level magic is comparable to raw cowhide, but this defensive ability is meaningless in front of the warhead.
The bullet penetrated the skin, tore open the brachioradialis muscle and biceps tendon, shattered the bones of the humerus-radial joint, and then got stuck directly in the arm.
Blood spurted out instantly, like a blooming flower.
After the magic element was exhausted, Marisol's speed dropped sharply, but she did not dare to stop. She dragged her injured arm away while wailing in pain. Under such circumstances, she was quickly caught up by the two Dora sisters. .
Neither Yucca nor Beria is the Virgin, and they treat their enemies mercilessly.
After catching up with this guy, the two sisters raised their knives. One of them leaned over and chopped off his legs, while the other chopped off his arms at shoulder level.
Marisol lost her ability to resist in the blink of an eye.
After the limb arteries are injured, the blood spurts out like a gurgling stream.
But soon, the amount of blood loss slowly decreased due to the self-healing effect of his strong body.
From the gaps in the severed limbs, it can be seen that after practicing magic, the density of muscles and bones will increase.
Chen Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the gun bolt, and stood up.
He has already summed up the techniques for dealing with Naroya magic cultivators.
First of all, magic element is a consumable.
It can be used to activate magic skills, externally attached to increase attack lethality, and mobilized to limbs to enhance strength and reaction capabilities. When used, consumption will be incurred.
Whenever the magic element is exhausted, the additional strengthening effect will disappear, but the tempered body will still exist.
In addition, when a magic element practitioner is directly attacked, the magic element in the body will automatically protect the body.
They will generate corresponding consumption depending on the density and strength of the attack.
Under normal circumstances, when the magic energy in the body is exhausted, it only needs to enter the cultivation state and maintain it for a certain period of time to recover.
The same principle applies to magic shields. When they resist kinetic energy damage to a certain extent, they will be overloaded and collapse.
Those magic jewelry can basically only withstand one round of attacks at full capacity before breaking into pieces.
If the attack strength is weak, it can be reused by charging the magic core.
But after every hit, there will be damage.
For example, the [Blue Guardian] necklace worn by Chen Xuan had a small crack after it blocked two bullets for him in the KK Park.
If you want to kill a magic practitioner quickly, the best way is to use high-density medium-low power attacks to quickly wear away the opponent's magic shield and body-protecting magic.
Or achieve this goal through violent explosions and other forms of attacks.
The whole process was called "defense breaking" by Chen Xuan.
As long as the defense is successfully broken, the remaining problems will be easily solved.
To sum up through the enemies he has fought so far.
The protective magic of a bronze-level adventurer can probably withstand 25 to 80 rounds of continuous firing of small and medium-caliber ammunition.
This does not include those ethnic groups that Chen Xuan has not yet come into contact with.
It’s still a commonplace issue. The performance of cultivation is really different between ethnic groups.
There is at least a 3 to 4 times innate gap between Bronze-level halflings and Bronze-level orcs.
As for those races that are taller and stronger than the orcs, it goes without saying.
But correspondingly, the more powerful the ethnic group, the slower their cultivation speed.
After the body becomes larger, although it can hold more magic elements, it will also take more time to complete the physical training and accumulation of magic elements.
In addition, the fertility of those powerful ethnic groups is very impressive, and they are the kind that cannot hold back a child for decades.
Even after birth, there is still a period of growth that can take anywhere from forty to fifty years.
Of course, the lifespan of this type of ethnic group is also very long.
All in all, Naroya is a balanced world with a complete system and multiple races coexisting.
Wherever there is a loss, there must be a gain, and where there is an advantage there must be a shortcoming.
It is precisely because of the innate gap that most halflings would rather farm than be mercenaries and adventurers.
As for those individual cases, there is no need to discuss them. Every ethnic group has its own quirks.
Chen Xuan walked quickly towards the half-dead prisoners, thinking about firearms against extraordinary power.
In fact, his thoughts are very contradictory.
When he used firearms to attack those magic practitioners, he wished that the protective power attached to the magic was as weak as possible.
It is best to use protective magic that can penetrate bronze-level enemies with one shot.
But when Chen Xuan replaced himself and planned to become invincible in Blue Star with his extraordinary power, he also hoped that the magic element could withstand higher damage.
Human beings are such contradictory creatures.
Sometimes they are even so contradictory that they abandon reason and objective facts, just to hold on to that small amount of unreal pleasure.
Shaking his head, he trotted to the ruins.
Most of the city block here is covered in burned ruins.
The ruins formed a black maze, and no matter how loud the sound was, it was no longer clear after half a block.
Especially those broadsword mines, the momentum is not as big as expected.
The sound decibels will decrease exponentially as the diffusion range increases.
In fact, the explosions of small-caliber artillery shells and grenades are not much louder than those of two-kick firecrackers.
But for the sake of safety, Chen Xuan had to seize the time to conduct interrogation.
Everyone hid in the ruins of a house that was still intact.
The three seriously injured scouts were gathered together, waiting for his torture.
The charred ground was dripping with thick blood.
Chen Xuan picked up the halfling's collar. There were arrows stuck in his limbs. There was no magic in his body, and he was already unable to resist.
Judging from appearance alone, this guy is probably the most spineless.
"Who sent you to follow me?"
"Tell me the truth."
"There's no need to stand up for someone who has nothing to do with you."
"After all, it was that guy who caused your current miserable situation."
Chen Xuan spoke calmly. The eyes under the tactical goggles cannot be seen clearly, making them even more unpredictable.
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