"I think—" Yang Qiaoxi clutched the overhead grab handle tightly, her body swaying from side to side with the violently jolting off-road vehicle. "We should think about—how to escape alive!"
Another giant rose from the yellow sand, directly blocking Sun Hang and the others' path.
A "Dung Beetle" light armored vehicle charged out from the diagonal, and a mercenary wearing a powered exoskeleton used the built-in grappling claws to secure himself to the roof. Holding a 12.5mm heavy machine gun in each hand, he roared as he unleashed a barrage at the giant blocking the road.
The loom-like gunfire seemed to tear through both the air and everyone's eardrums at once. A continuous stream of muzzle flames licked across the giant's body, but only sparked a dense shower of light.
The sound of metal striking metal was exceptionally crisp and pleasant, but to humans, it brought nothing but endless despair.
The giant bent down to look at the vehicles charging toward it. The next second, it actually plucked the head from its own neck and hurled it at the Dung Beetle armored vehicle!
With a thunderous boom, the mercenary standing on the roof was blasted straight into a pulp. Mangled flesh oozed through the gaps in the utterly deformed exoskeleton frame. The two ruined heavy machine guns still hung from the exoskeleton's auxiliary arms, dangling down on either side of the roof and repeatedly banging against the doors as the vehicle sped along.
After smashing a huge dent into the Dung Beetle's roof, the giant's head flew far away. The eleven-ton light armored vehicle, meanwhile, bounced off the ground from the recoil, soaring more than ten meters through the air before slamming back down.
Yet the driver inside appeared unaffected. The vehicle did not lose control after landing. Instead, it