Low-Rise Building District · Outside the East Gate
Modified off-road vehicles stood bumper to bumper across the broad road like a wall of steel, blocking the way ahead. Sharp Iron Thorns carpeted the ground before the vehicle barricade like Ground Spikes.
Gang members armed with guns stood densely packed before the vehicle wall, rapidly pulling their triggers at the heavy vehicle silhouette charging down the road, trying to stop it from advancing.
Bullets poured forward through the dark night like a torrential rain, clattering against the black alloy body.
Yet the heavy off-road vehicle emerging from the darkness showed no fear before the rows of vehicles forming the "wall." It pressed harder on the accelerator and charged forward even faster.
Boom--
A massive explosion erupted behind the off-road vehicle. It was the sound of the Electromagnetic Cannon fired in pursuit from behind it.
As the vehicle sped forward, some of the gang members standing closer to the middle of the road immediately leaped aside.
Boom--
The heavy off-road vehicle surged over the Iron Thorns covering the ground and rammed straight into the vehicles forming the wall without slowing.
Screech--
The violent collision crushed the batteries of the vehicles forming the barricade. Fierce sparks spilled from beneath their chassis, then transformed into roaring flames and booming explosions that swallowed the vehicles near the impact point.
Surging flames and rapid explosions spread into the night alongside the breached vehicle wall, like the skirt of the heavy off-road vehicle.
The dense Iron Thorns finally punctured the off-road vehicle's tires, while the torn-open vehicle wall hindered its advance.
The off-road vehicle slowed and gradually tilted out of control.
Screech--
After fishtailing across the ground and leaving black marks behind, the heavy off-road vehicle finally came to a sideways stop before the East Gate.
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