jdhmnovel Chapter 460: The cheating motorcycle won by arguing with the system blew up the Japanese army into a
Chapter 460: The cheating motorcycle won by arguing with the system blew up the Japanese army into a
Lei Tao's combat boots crushed the half-dried blood scabs of the 1938 jungle. Fragments of Japanese helmets lay scattered among the rotten leaves. The energy fluctuations in the Bagua spinning space hadn't yet completely subsided when he finished assembling the HK14 assault rifle. The silencer clicked softly as it engaged the barrel. The moment a high-capacity armor-piercing round was loaded into the magazine, the clang of metal startled the treetops, and a sharp night cry echoed through the dense forest.
"Chen Feiyang, you better be alive," Lei Tao muttered to himself, his assembly point coordinates repeatedly circled in red on the tactical map. Three days prior, the booby traps he'd laid on the northeastern ridge had successfully delayed the Japanese pursuit. But leaving Chen Feiyang to retreat alone through the jungle, facing a Japanese encirclement, felt like a thorn in his heart. His fingertips rubbed the grip of his rifle, and he suddenly paused—fresh drag marks snaked southeastward across the humus-covered ground.
Following the trail for several hundred meters, Lei Tao's pupils suddenly constricted. Five Japanese bodies lay fanned out in the bushes. The edges of the penetrating wounds between their brows were charred black, and the diameter of the bullet holes perfectly matched those of AK-series assault rifles. This was Chen Feiyang's signature "point-and-shoot" tactic. Each bullet pierced helmets and skulls, creating a lethal cavity at close range.
"Still alive." Lei Tao's tense jaw finally relaxed, his fingers tracing the traces of metal still etched around the edges of the bullet holes. "No more than two hours." Before he could finish his words, a burst of gunfire erupted from the valley several kilometers southwest. The crisp crackle of Type 38 rifles mingled with the short bursts of AK47 fire, the characteristic muffled thud of the Scorpion submachine gun intertwined with the air-tearing strafing of the MP35, and the shrieking of grenade launchers pierced the night sky.
Lei Tao immediately knelt on one knee and retrieved three intelligent Hummingbird drones from the Bagua Gyro space. These nanoscale reconnaissance devices, when unfolded, were only the size of a coin, their carbon fiber wings vibrating at a rate of 300 times per second. He quickly adjusted the drones and issued a command via the tactical tablet: "Dispersed reconnaissance, thermal imaging priority." Like arrows from a bow, the silver Hummingbirds vanished into the darkness.
The retinal projection instantly lit up three images: Drone A flew through the bushes, its infrared field of view showing over 300 heat sources fanning out in a fan pattern, and the leading soldier wielding an MP35 submachine gun; Drone B soared over a cliff, spotting Chen Feiyang, Meng Xiaoyu, and the Li brothers retreating to a hilltop; Drone C spotted a Japanese mortar position...
Lei Tao stamped his feet anxiously. "Miss Gossip! I'm in a hurry here. Chen Feiyang and the others can't handle it anymore. Quickly give me a motorcycle like the red-haired girl in "Special Forces"! The one with a Gatling gun and missiles!"
The silver-haired girl conjured by the system crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. The data stream on her virtual skirt suddenly turned into a speechless emoticon. "Please! The motorcycle you asked for is unscientific, and it has a weapon system installed. It's simply science fiction. Why don't you just ask for a flying broom?"
After Lei Tao cocked the HK14 assault rifle and released the safety, he raised the HK14 with his right hand and gestured wildly with his left hand: "Science? I just blew up a modern mercenary helicopter with a NATO missile, and now I'm fighting the Japanese devils in 1938 with HK14. Is this scientific? Or are you making it up? Otherwise, give me a flying sword and let me fly it to chop down these damn devils." He pulled off his tactical gloves, and the totem on his neck that was connected to the Bagua gyroscope space emitted a strange purple light. "Hurry up, I want to let the devils know what a dimensionality reduction attack without martial ethics is!
She suddenly leaned in, prodding Lei Tao's tactical tablet with her fingertips. "Besides, even if I built it for you, wouldn't this 1938 gasoline be enough for a motorcycle? If it runs on diesel, it'll just go 'thump, thump, thump' and turn into a tractor!" Before she could finish her words, the shriek of a Japanese grenade launcher echoed from a distant ridge. A shell exploded twenty meters away, its blast blowing the tactical backpack off Lei Tao's shoulder. He rolled to avoid the shrapnel, then switched his HK14 to three-round burst mode, firing accurately and knocking down three scouts who had appeared. The shell casings pierced the girl's virtual skirt and clattered to the ground.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Lei Tao pulled off the blood-stained tactical goggles. "Replace the frame with meteorite alloy, reconstruct the transmission system with nano-insect swarms, and I'll solve the fuel problem myself!"
The girl suddenly burst out laughing, and a barrage of exaggerated rants popped up on the holographic projection: "That's enough energy to travel through time three times! Commander Lei, are you using me like Doraemon?" She casually tossed out a diagram of a motorcycle disassembly, and the parts shattered into pixelated blocks. "Also, missiles in movies can navigate automatically. How would you equip a piece of metal from 1938 with GPS? Are you going to have pigeons carry maps to it?"
Lei Tao raised his gun and blasted a Japanese scout's head off. The shell hit the girl's virtual nose. "I emptied the Sakura Army's ammunition depot and several modern fighter planes. They have all kinds of missiles and enough fuel to circle the earth. I even got some uranium these past two days! Do you believe I can use depleted uranium bombs as fireworks?"
The girl covered her head exaggeratedly. "Okay, okay, okay! You're the ultimate black sheep!" She waved her sleeve, and the motorcycle model began to reassemble, with two rainbow special effects appearing on the wheels. "But let me be frank: the nanoswarm will take three minutes to reconstruct—your friend is at war now, not filming a slow-motion scene from 'Saving Private Ryan'!"
"Speed up!" He shoved a new magazine into his rifle and fired at the approaching Japanese soldiers. "If my Xiaoyu loses a hair, I will replace all the emoticons in your system with AI-powered images of you wearing a bellyband and square dancing!
The virtual girl stamped her feet in anger, sparks of data streams erupting from her feet. "You're so cruel!" She waved her arms, and a motorcycle made of liquid metal took shape in the void, its tires emitting rainbow special effects. "It will take three minutes to reconstruct the nanoswarm! If you dare to rush again, I'll teleport you to the Jurassic period and let the Tyrannosaurus Rex teach you what true unsportsmanlike behavior means!"
A sudden, violent explosion erupted from the direction of the col, sending both men stumbling. The girl's holographic image nearly shattered into snowflakes as she screamed, "If you keep pushing me, I'll strike! I'll make you ride a Japanese army bicycle and carry a Gatling gun!"
A sudden, violent explosion erupted from the col, the blast of the mortar blast blowing away entire shrubs. Through the smoke, Lei Tao saw the image transmitted by drone B: Meng Xiaoyu's VSS sniper rifle had misfired, and she grabbed a high-explosive grenade, pulled the safety, and hurled it at the Japanese; Chen Feiyang shielded the unconscious Li Shuiniu with his body, the barrel of his Scorpion submachine gun ablaze.
Lei Tao switched his HK14 assault rifle to burst mode, unleashing a hail of bullets on the swarming Japanese troops. A warning of an energy overload emanated from the Bagua Gyrosphere, but he ripped open his collar, letting the veins connected to the totem bulge like green snakes. "Activate the emergency plan! Use a Victora crystal to repair the system overload. This time, I'm going to show Hoshino Sho what a dimensionality reduction strike is!"
As Lei Tao issued his command, the Victora crystal shimmered with a strange light and slowly merged into the core area of the Bagua Gyro space. The energy emanating from the crystal, like an invisible force, began to repair the damaged energy circuits within the space. The system girl's holographic image also stabilized due to this powerful energy. A look of relief crossed her face, but then she stared nervously at the various data within the space.
Atop the hill, Chen Feiyang's AK-47 had just been loaded with a new magazine, and the dull sound of metal clanging echoed in the chamber. Li Shuiniu's light machine gun barrel burned red, jammed parts lodged in the ejection port. Cursing, he dropped the machine gun and grabbed his Scorpion submachine gun, firing alongside Li Shuiyang. Meng Xiaoyu half-knelt behind a rock, white mist rising from the silencer of his VSS sniper rifle. Each bullet pierced a Japanese helmet with pinpoint accuracy, yet the densely packed charging column continued to close in.
"We can't last more than ten minutes like this!" Chen Feiyang shot a Japanese soldier who showed up in the head with a burst of shots from his AK47.
The Japanese charge blared closer, and Li Shuiniu's Scorpion submachine gun jammed three times, causing him to slam the butt of the rifle into his thigh. Meng Xiaoyu's sniper rifle was already burning hot, and the dense Japanese figures in the scope made her palms sweat.
At this critical moment, a few kilometers away, Lei Tao, riding a modified Italian Augusta Brutale 1078RR motorcycle, sped towards them. As he drew closer to the Japanese artillery position, he locked onto the target using the motorcycle's onboard system. He sneered, "Time to clear the area!" As Lei Tao's thumb pressed the launch button hard, the titanium alloy cover of the motorcycle's launcher unfolded like a bee's wing. Three silver-gray grenades, swathed in flames, shot out, tracing three flaming arcs through the air. The sharp cracks ripped through the humid air, startling the chickadees in the forest and sending them scattering.
The first grenade slammed precisely into the center of the mortar position, sending a sudden, orange-red fireball exploding. Two artillerymen loading their ammunition were blown away, their guns and their bodies. The barrels twisted like dead branches, weaving into the trunks of trees. The flying shrapnel jagged the helmets of the surrounding soldiers. Scorching shell casings rained down, sending plumes of smoke rising from the rotting leaves.
The second grenade, anticipating the Japanese escape route, exploded two meters from the ground. Five soldiers, clutching the shells and running frantically, were thrown into the air by the shockwave, tumbling and falling like puppets with their strings cut. One of them had his Type 38 rifle broken by the blast, the sharp butt of the rifle piercing his comrade's back.
The third, most lethal grenade, trailing a spiral, slammed into the pile of ammunition crates. Amidst the deafening roar of explosions, the entire position was transformed into a living hell. Unexploded mortar shells shot up like rockets, exploding mid-air. Burning wooden crates, shrapnel scattering in a fan-shaped pattern, shattered the organs of more than a dozen fleeing guards by the violent blast, leaving them bleeding from their ears and noses as they collapsed onto the charred earth.
Lei Tao's pupils constricted slightly behind his goggles as he watched the Japanese position reduced to rubble in flames. Burning debris streaked across the night sky like meteors, illuminating the ammunition data flashing across his tactical eyepiece. Without waiting for the smoke to clear, he slammed the accelerator, his motorcycle roaring like a beast, tires rolling over scorching bullet casings as he sped toward the next battlefield.