Starting from Night City

He crashed heavily onto the ground.

He rolled over.

Another sniper round struck the spot where he had just been lying.

He kicked the door shut with one foot, then dragged a wardrobe from the wall to block the door.

Bang, bang, bang!

Bullets continuously pierced the wall, but Su Xiao grew calmer.

The enemy sniper had lost sight of him; they were firing blindly.

As long as his luck wasn't extraordinarily bad, the chances of being hit were slim.

He steadied himself, surveyed the room, and then his gaze locked onto the area beneath Charui's usual office desk.

He pushed the desk aside and stomped on the floor a few times. Sure enough, he could hear that this section of the floor sounded different from the rest.

He lifted the rug covering the floor, revealing a hatch.

However, it was secured with a lock.

McCoy hadn't mentioned that the entrance to the tunnel was locked.

There was no time to look for a key.

Su Xiao cut the lock directly with his blade.

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 family leader, she had specifically sent people to dig a tunnel leading outside, as a contingency.

By the time Su Xiao emerged from the tunnel, he was already outside the camp.

Behind him, the sounds of gunfire continued within the camp, unabated.

But compared to before, the intensity had greatly diminished.

He glanced at the vast, open wilderness, then back at the camp.

He didn't leave.

Instead, he headed towards the enemy sniper's position.

Beside the sniper, a sentry turret had been set up for protection.

As its name suggested, this auto-targeting sentry turret could attack enemies without human control.

It was equipped with an Mk.31 Heavy Machine Gun from Military Technology, boasting incredible firepower.

Its drawback was its immense size, making it impractical to carry without specialized cybernetic modifications.

Furthermore, reloading it alone during combat was extremely difficult, so it could only provide a burst of output.

However, the original design of this heavy machine gun was for fixed heavy firepower.

No one from Military Technology had ever considered that someone could or would be willing to move around carrying such a massive weapon.

They were typically more useful as fixed emplacements or mounted on vehicles.

A single sentry turret positioned next to a sniper was enough to repel a small squad.

Anyone else might have been at a loss.

But McCoy had told Su Xiao how to deal with sentry turrets.

Sentry turrets had an infrared electronic eye – that was their "eye."

When operating normally, a sentry turret would swivel back and forth, much like a oscillating fan at a street stall.

And when the turret's barrel was aimed in a particular direction, it couldn't "see" in other directions.

Therefore, what Su Xiao needed to do was quite simple.

He crept stealthily to just outside the sentry turret's range.

When the turret's barrel turned to face another direction, he immediately sprinted forward at full speed.

The prone sniper heard the commotion behind him.

He reacted quickly.

He swiftly turned, raised his sniper rifle, and fired at Su Xiao.

Bang!

As the sniper rifle aimed at him, Su Xiao dodged to the side.

The large-caliber sniper round flew past where he had just been standing.

Unyielding after missing his shot, the sniper didn't hesitate.

but instead dropped the sniper rifle, holding a tactical dagger in one hand and a tech pistol in the other.

Su Xiao stomped on the sniper's left hand, which held the tech pistol, and swung his katana downward, severing his right hand that clutched the tactical dagger.

Amidst the enemy's screams, he moved his right foot, pulled the opponent up from the ground, and used him as a shield behind his back.

Just then, the sentry turret's muzzle finally turned back.

However, Su Xiao used the wailing sniper as a human shield in front of him, causing the sentry turret's electronic eye to identify him as a friendly unit, unable to open fire.

Su Xiao picked up the tech pistol and aimed it at the sniper's head before pulling the trigger.

After the gunshot, the wailing stopped.

He then threw the sniper's corpse towards the sentry turret.

He himself lunged towards the base of the sentry turret almost simultaneously.

He inserted the decrypter into the slot.

One of the Nomads' jobs was to deal with corporate armored convoys.

But not all Nomads were hackers.

Therefore, the decrypter came in very handy.

Corporate armored SUVs and sentry turrets could all be cracked.

Of course, the prerequisite was that the decrypter had to be physically inserted into the slot.

Unlike hackers, who could hack remotely.

Su Xiao glanced at the decrypter's display screen, which showed the decryption progress proceeding in an orderly fashion.

The sentry turret was now shut down, and once the progress bar was complete, it could be reset.

With confirmation, Su Xiao finally relaxed and picked up the sniper rifle the sniper had dropped earlier.

A line of data appeared.

Name: SPT32 Ice Storm

Type: Kinetic Sniper Rifle

Damage: 1705-2084

Attack Interval (Rate of Fire): 0.28 shots/sec

Durability: 70/100

Manufacturer: High-Tech Military Industry

Notes: Around the turn of the 21st century, the arms industry faced severe challenges. Many popular sniper rifles became increasingly ineffective against targets equipped with extensive cybernetics. A bullet that could kill a normal person now only left a dent. A new generation of sniper rifles was urgently needed. The Russian-made SPT32 Ice Storm was the first product of this new wave, and many consider it the most powerful sniper rifle on the market. Although it paid less attention to detail compared to similar products from Arasaka or Military Technology, a well-trained marksman who didn't rely on weapon-assisted windage could unleash the Ice Storm's terrifying power. No wall could stop it from hitting its target.

After the inspection, Su Xiao set up the rifle and aimed at the direction of the camp.

Bang!

An enemy in the camp, engaged in a firefight with a Nomad, had their head explode.

Bang!

An enemy hiding behind a tent had their chest blown open, their body slumping softly to the ground.

Bang!

When the third enemy had their neck snapped by a sniper round fired from behind...

The enemies attacking the camp finally realized something was wrong.

They quickly sought cover.

"Sniper!"

"Behind us!"

"Damn it, that's in our direction!"

"Our sniper must have been taken out!"

One enemy placed his hat on his rifle barrel and slowly peeked out from cover.

Attempting to attract Su Xiao's attention in this manner.

Su Xiao obliged him.

A sniper round pierced through his cover and his thigh.

Blood gushed out, and he howled like a pig.

In the face of the powerful Ice Storm sniper rifle, the idea of using boxes or iron barrels to block kinetic sniper rounds was undoubtedly a fool's errand.

"We can't go on like this. We're like targets here."

"Leave a few people to keep suppressing the camp, the rest split into two teams, flank them from both sides, and take out that sniper."

The sudden gunfire also caught the attention of the Nomads still fighting fiercely in the camp.

"Is that McCoy and his crew back?"

"Doesn't look like it."

"What are they doing? Retreating?"

"Don't worry about what they're doing, just stop them."

The Nomads tried to stop the enemy from leaving, but the firepower of the remaining enemy forces forced them back behind cover.

"Damn it, their firepower is too intense."

Suppressed and forced to huddle behind cover, the Nomads didn't dare to look up, only extending their guns out from cover and firing blindly in the general direction of the enemy.

"Trying to flank me?"

Seeing the enemies in the camp leaving without regard, splitting into two teams and running quickly from both sides, Su Xiao could see their intentions clearly.

Unfortunately, what they could think of, Su Xiao could also think of.

Firing would expose his position and draw enemies, which was within his expectations.

Therefore, when Su Xiao saw the enemy flanking towards his location, he didn't leave his position or try to escape.

Instead, he first checked the decrypter.

He found it had finished decrypting.

Su Xiao reset the sentry turret.

After setting it up, he continued to use the Ice Storm sniper rifle to fiercely open fire on the team of enemies coming from the left.