His body slammed hard into the ground.
He rolled over.
Another sniper round struck the spot where he had been lying.
He kicked the door shut, then dragged the wardrobe against the wall over and knocked it down, blocking the door from behind.
Bang, bang, bang!
Bullets kept punching through the wall, but Su Xiao instead calmed down.
The enemy sniper had lost his line of sight and was firing blindly.
As long as his luck was not truly abysmal, he probably would not be hit.
He steadied himself and surveyed the room. His gaze then locked onto the space beneath Charui's usual desk.
He pushed the desk aside and stomped hard several times. Sure enough, the floor there sounded different from the rest.
He lifted the rug covering the floor, revealing a hatch underneath.
There was just one problem: a lock still hung from it.
McCoy had never told him that the tunnel entrance was locked.
There was no time to look for the key.
Su Xiao cut the lock off with his knife.
He opened the hatch and jumped into the tunnel.
This camp had once been a Biotech factory. After it was abandoned, it became the Buckle Family's camp.
During Serita's time as the family's leader, she had people dig a tunnel leading outside in case of emergencies.
By the time Su Xiao emerged from the tunnel, he was already outside the camp.
Gunfire continued behind him, coming from the camp without pause.
But compared with before, it had already quieted considerably.
He glanced at the boundless wilderness, then looked back at the camp.
He did not leave.
Instead, he rushed toward the enemy sniper's position.
A Sentry Turret had also been set up beside him to protect him.
As the name suggested, this kind of automatic interception Sentry Turret did not require anyone to operate it and could attack enemies on its own.
The Mk.31 Heavy Machine Gun manufactured by Military Technology that it carried had astonishing firepower.
Its flaw was that it was far too massive. Without special cybernetic modifications, carrying it was highly impractical.
Furthermore, reloading it alone during combat was extremely difficult, so it could only provide one burst of firepower.
But this Heavy Machine Gun had originally been designed as a stationary heavy weapon.
No one at Military Technology had ever considered that someone might be able or willing to carry such a massive gun around.
They were usually more useful as fixed sentry positions or when mounted on vehicles.
Setting up a Sentry Turret beside a sniper was enough to repel an entire squad's assault.
Anyone else might have been helpless against it.
But McCoy had told Su Xiao how to deal with a Sentry Turret.
A Sentry Turret had an infrared electronic eye, which was effectively its "eye."
Under normal operating conditions, the Sentry Turret would swivel back and forth like one of those electric fans at a street food stall, bobbing its head from side to side.
But when the Sentry Turret's muzzle was aimed in one direction, it could not "see" any other direction.
That made Su Xiao's task very simple.
He crept closer until he was outside the Sentry Turret's firing range.
The moment the Sentry Turret's muzzle turned toward another direction, he immediately sprinted forward at full speed.
The sniper lying prone heard the movement behind him.
His reaction was not slow.
He spun around, raised his sniper rifle, and fired straight at Su Xiao.
Bang!
The instant the sniper rifle aimed at him, Su Xiao's body flashed to the side.
The large-caliber sniper round tore through the spot where he had just been standing.
Despite missing his first shot, the sniper did not freeze.
Instead, he abandoned the sniper rifle, gripping a Tactical Dagger in one hand and a Tech Pistol in the other.
Su Xiao stepped on the sniper's left hand, the one holding the Tech Pistol, then swung his Katana downward and severed his right hand, which was gripping the Tactical Dagger.
Amid the sniper's screams, Su Xiao moved his right foot away, hauled him up from the ground, and used him as a shield behind himself.
At that moment, the Sentry Turret's muzzle finally swung back around.
But Su Xiao held the shrieking sniper in front of him as a human shield, causing the Sentry Turret's electronic eye to identify him as a friendly unit and preventing it from firing.
Su Xiao picked up the Tech Pistol, aimed it at the sniper's head, and pulled the trigger.
After the gunshot, the wailing stopped.
He then threw the sniper's corpse at the Sentry Turret.
At almost the same time, he lunged beneath the Sentry Turret.
He inserted the Decrypter into the slot.
One of the Nomads' jobs was dealing with corporate armored convoys.
But not every Nomad was a hacker.
That was why the Decrypter came in handy.
The corporations' Armored SUVs and Sentry Turrets could all be hacked.
Of course, the prerequisite was inserting the Decrypter into the slot.
Unlike a hacker, it could not break in remotely.
Su Xiao glanced at the display on the Decrypter. The hacking progress was proceeding in an orderly manner.
The Sentry Turret had now been shut down. Once the progress bar finished,
it could be reconfigured.
After confirming that, Su Xiao finally relaxed. He picked up the sniper rifle the sniper had discarded earlier.
A set of data appeared.
Name: SPT32 Ice Storm Type: Kinetic Sniper Rifle Damage: 1705–2084 Attack Interval (Rate of Fire): 0.28 rounds/second Durability: 70/100 Manufacturer: High-Tech Military Industry Notes: Around the turn of the twenty-first century, the arms industry faced a severe challenge. Many popular sniper rifles performed increasingly poorly against targets equipped with extensive cybernetics. A bullet that could once kill an ordinary person now left behind nothing more than a dent. A new generation of sniper rifles was urgently needed. The Russian-made SPT32 Ice Storm was the first-generation product of this new wave, and many people considered it the most powerful sniper rifle on the market. Although it paid less attention to detail than similar products from Arasaka or Military Technology, a well-trained marksman did not need to rely on weapon assistance to judge the wind. In their hands, the Ice Storm could unleash terrifying power. No wall could stop it from hitting its target.
After finishing his inspection, Su Xiao set up the rifle and aimed toward the camp.
Bang!
An enemy exchanging fire with the Nomads in the camp had his head blown apart.
Bang!
An enemy hiding behind a tent had his chest blown open and crumpled to the ground.
Bang!
When the third enemy was shot in the neck by a sniper round fired from behind...
Only then did the enemies who had stormed the camp finally realize that something was wrong.
They hurriedly scattered and found cover.
"There's a sniper!"
"He's behind us!"
"Damn it, that's where our people are!"
"Our sniper must have been taken out!"
One enemy placed his hat on the barrel of his gun, then slowly extended it from behind cover.
He tried to attract Su Xiao's attention that way.
Su Xiao obliged him.
A sniper round pierced through his cover and punched through his thigh.
Blood gushed out as he screamed like a stuck pig.
Before the Ice Storm Sniper Rifle's tremendous power, anyone who dreamed of stopping a Kinetic Sniper Rifle's bullets with a crate or an iron barrel was indulging in a fool's fantasy.
"We can't keep this up. We're no different from targets here."
"Leave a few people behind to keep suppressing the camp. The rest of us split into two groups and flank him from both sides. Take that sniper out."
The sudden gunfire also drew the attention of the Nomads in the camp who were still fighting desperately.
"Was that McCoy and the others coming back?"
"Doesn't look like it."
"What are they doing? Retreating?"
"Forget what they're trying to do. Stop them."
The Nomads tried to stop the enemies from leaving, but the firepower of those left behind drove them back behind cover.
"Damn it, their firepower's too strong."
The Nomads were pinned down behind cover. They did not dare raise their heads, and could only stick their guns out and fire blindly in the enemies' general direction.
"Trying to flank me?"
When Su Xiao saw the enemies in the camp abandon it without a thought, split into two groups, and sprint rapidly along both sides, how could he fail to see their intentions?
Unfortunately for them, anything they could think of, Su Xiao could think of as well.
Firing would reveal his position and draw the enemies toward him. He had anticipated that from the start.
Therefore, when he saw the enemies flanking toward his position, Su Xiao did not leave or attempt to flee.
Instead, he first glanced at the Decrypter.
It had finished hacking.
Su Xiao reconfigured the Sentry Turret.
Once it was done, he continued using the Ice Storm Sniper Rifle to unleash a fierce barrage at the group of enemies approaching from the left.
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