Six Direct Hits (Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!)

Six Direct Hits (Wishing Everyone a Happy Spring Festival!)

Xia Chujian's gaze darkened slightly. Gritting her teeth, she rapidly spun the control handle and made a sharp turn. The entire Flying Vehicle rotated another 180 degrees, changing from northbound back to southbound.

Now, she could clearly see the Micro Missile speeding toward them from the opposite direction.

Xia Chujian immediately stopped panicking. Without even thinking, she pressed the button, locked onto the incoming Micro Missile, and launched one of her own straight at the Micro Missile that had locked onto their Flying Vehicle.

Boom! A blinding flash lit up the darkness, and a tiny Mushroom Cloud bloomed in the night sky.

Xia Chujian smiled.

She knew there was no escaping once a missile locked onto them—unless they directly destroyed the missile that had locked onto them!

When the Mental Strength Expert at the peak of C-Class saw the Micro Missile he had launched neutralized in such an inconceivable manner, he flew into a rage.

"How is that possible?! How is that possible?! I'm at the peak of C-Class! The peak of C-Class! Isn't the highest Mental Strength level in that squad only D-Rank Mid-Stage?!—That's impossible!"

As he howled wildly inside the spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle, he launched his Mental Strength without restraint, swearing to kill everyone aboard the opposing craft.

The conditions of Xia Chujian's teammates suddenly worsened. Li Fu and Ping Qiong, whose Mental Strength levels were lower, had already begun bleeding from all seven orifices.

But Xia Chujian saw none of this. She was not affected by anything at all and directly entered an undisturbed combat state.

While the enemy was struggling to launch a Mental Attack, Xia Chujian had already activated the Flying Vehicle's weapons Control Console and launched a fierce assault on the spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle! Although their squad's craft had run out of bullets, they still had a few Micro Missiles left.

Those were the last of their assets.

After locking onto the enemy Flying Vehicle, Xia Chujian mercilessly pressed the missile launch button.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Six Micro Missiles screamed out at once, launching a saturation attack on the high-end-looking spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle from above, below, left, right, front, and back!

No matter which direction that Flying Vehicle fled, there would always be a Micro Missile waiting for it! Unless the other side could simultaneously lock onto all six Micro Missiles and attack them at the same time.

Theoretically, that was possible, but in reality, the two Flying Vehicles were far too close.

Even if the enemy could truly lock onto all six Micro Missiles and launch six of their own simultaneously, it would only result in their Spaceship being blasted to pieces by the twelve missiles colliding head-on.

It was a dead end—advance and die, retreat and die!

Boom! With an earth-shaking explosion, the enemy put up no resistance at all. The six missiles actually struck the spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle at the same time! Xia Chujian had thought that at most one missile would hit, but unexpectedly, all six hit their marks...

The spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle was instantly blown to fragments, raining down toward the ground like a meteor shower.

Had she really eliminated it that easily? That was a Mental Strength Expert who had undergone Gene Evolution!

Xia Chujian did not dare let down her guard. She continued searching through the smoke after the explosion and, sure enough, saw that the man had not been killed. He leaped out through the rising flames and plummeted downward.

He had parachuted! Xia Chujian wished she could immediately pull out her Sniper Rifle and put a bullet into him, but she still had to manually pilot the Flying Vehicle. Otherwise, the whole craft would fall from the sky.

Just as she cursed furiously in frustration, a thick black fog suddenly filled the entire Upper Space over the South District.

Not only was it extraordinarily dark, but the black fog resembled viscous Liquid. Beneath its cover, every person and object seemed to have sunk into a swamp, unable to move even an inch.

In an Instant, Xia Chujian felt the resistance ahead increase hundreds or even thousands of times. The Flying Vehicle was like it had fallen into glue, practically frozen in place.

At the same time, a faint, intermittent roar echoed through the night sky.

Ye Shijie and the others, who had nearly regained consciousness, once again fell into a deathly coma. Their faces turned bluish-purple, and their life force rapidly drained away.

Sweat was about to break out in Xia Chujian's palms.

"Stay calm... I have to stay calm..."

The situation was incomparably strange. Her thoughts were chaotic for an Instant before stabilizing again.

No matter what appeared ahead, her first priority was to deal with the Mental Strength Expert who had ambushed them. She could not let him escape alive!

Seeing the Flying Vehicle unable to move through the viscous black fog, Xia Chujian gritted her teeth and tried letting go of the autopilot handle.

Perhaps because of the viscous black fog, although the Flying Vehicle was descending, it was descending extremely slowly, as if something were holding it suspended in midair.

That gave her enough time to deal with the parachuting Mental Strength Expert first, then return to piloting the Flying Vehicle.

Xia Chujian's thoughts raced. She grabbed the gun case and assembled her Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle in five seconds.

With her other hand, she pressed buttons on the Control Console, and the Flying Vehicle's translucent hatch slowly opened a narrow gap.

Xia Chujian braced her Sniper Rifle against it.

The Mental Strength Expert who had parachuted out of the spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle was not far below her. He too was falling, but he was clearly affected by the viscous black fog, descending at an outrageously slow speed.

What Xia Chujian did not know was that the Mental Strength Expert had lost control of his body as early as the moment that faint roar sounded.

His head felt as though it were splitting apart. He desperately wanted to clutch his head and roll around, but he could not even raise an arm.

He had never heard of, nor seen, such a Mental Strength pressure filling heaven and earth.

Immense fear gripped his heart, and he regretted accepting this mission beyond measure.

Xia Chujian, however, felt nothing. She lowered the specialized night-vision lenses on her Helmet, raised her Sniper Rifle, and through the objective lens of the Cross-shaped Scope, saw the man's parachute slowly opening.

Just then, another sudden change occurred.

A massive Tentacle that had Descended from the Sky appeared in the Sniper Rifle's Scope! Its diameter was two or three times larger than the elephant-trunk-thick Tentacles she had seen in that six-story Small Building before! Xia Chujian swiftly raised her head and looked upward.

She wanted to know where these Tentacles had come from.

Previously, she had only seen Tentacles extend from the Human Traffickers' mouths.

But now she was in midair, and the direction from which this Tentacle extended was even higher than she was. Could there be someone in the sky?!

Instead, she saw that the round moon in the night sky above her head no longer looked like a moon. It wriggled and wriggled, transforming into a rectangle.

It was like a door. Black clouds churned within it, and nothing could be seen.

The soul-chasing Tentacles were extending from that rectangular moon door!

What was behind the rectangular moon door? Xia Chujian tightly hugged the iron-hard Sniper Rifle in her arms, trying to bolster her courage.

Only this Gun could give her a sense of safety now.

She could tell that these Tentacles were even more formidable than last time.

Because after swaying once in the air, it split into two.

One plunged toward the Mental Strength Expert slowly falling beneath his parachute. Heading Straight For him from above, it tore through the parachute with a ripping sound, entered through the Crown of the Head, and directly exploded him into a cloud of blood mist! At the same time, the other Tentacle flew toward Xia Chujian's Flying Vehicle.

The Tentacle tapered from thick to thin, its Tip as sharp as an awl.

With a bang, the awl-like Tip of the Tentacle viciously stabbed into Xia Chujian's Flying Vehicle.

A hole appeared in the top of the craft. The Tentacle pierced into the cabin, Heading Straight For Xia Chujian's Crown of the Head.

Still clutching her Sniper Rifle, Xia Chujian did not hesitate. She raised her hand, and the Gun Barrel that had just been braced against the gap at the corner of the hatch thrust upward, blocking the Tentacle that was about to blast apart her Crown of the Head.

The Tentacle seemed to sense the obstruction. Its awl-like Tip suddenly opened, like a dark-red starfish, directly above her muzzle.

Then, a long vertical pupil appeared in the center of the starfish-like Tentacle and stared fixedly at her.

Black fog swirled within the vertical pupil. It did not look like an eye, but rather like a mirror reflecting a scene from some unknown place.

Boundless blackness. Bottomless evil.

It was a nauseating gaze, sticky with extreme malice.

Goosebumps rose all over Xia Chujian's body.

She abruptly shut her eyes and snarled, "Fuck off! I hate Tentacles the most!"

Xia Chujian pulled the trigger of the Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle without regard for anything else.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

She cycled the magazine three times and fired three shots in a flash.

The Sniper Bullets shot toward the vertical pupil at the Tentacle's Tip. The enormous recoil slammed Xia Chujian back into her seat, and the stock of the Sniper Rifle nearly gave her a comminuted fracture in her right shoulder.

The Tentacle seemed not to have expected such a Bold Move and froze stiffly in midair.

Then an earth-shaking roar rang out.

Like a wisp of Black Smoke, the thick Tentacle that had pierced through the Small Combat Aircraft dissipated before her eyes, vanishing as though it had never existed.

Not only did that Tentacle disappear, but the other Tentacle outside, which had just blown apart the Mental Strength Expert, vanished at the same time in an Instant.

Only the hole in the cabin above her head proved that she had not experienced a Hallucination. Something really had broken into the cabin—and had even tried to kill her!

Xia Chujian frowned.

This Time was completely different from the Tentacles she had killed before.

Xia Chujian remembered that last time, she had blasted those Tentacles into severed pieces all over the ground, and they had even given off the aroma of gunpowder-roasted carbon-based high-protein organisms.

But This Time, she could feel that her Sniper Bullets had struck empty air. She did not even know where they had flown...

Yet the Tentacle before her had indeed disappeared, so did that mean her Sniper Bullets had hit it, but not completely?

What the hell was this shit?!

Xia Chujian's pupils suddenly contracted, and a chill rose from her spine.

All the blood in her body rushed to her brain. Her adrenaline surged wildly, and she did not dare relax her guard in the slightest. She continued holding up her Sniper Rifle, aiming at the hole in the cabin roof that the Tentacle had pierced through.

At the same time, within her Scope's field of view, she saw a Gray Figure leap out from the moon door above, which had already become rectangular!

Then an even thicker Tentacle came chasing out from behind the rectangular moon door, refusing to let go of the Gray Figure that had jumped out ahead of it.

After extending from the rectangular moon door, the Tentacle began splitting in the air again. One became two, two became four, four became eight, eight became sixteen...

It continued splitting endlessly. In an Instant, the dark night sky was filled with densely packed Tentacles.

The only place they avoided was where Xia Chujian's Flying Vehicle was located.

But Xia Chujian knew none of this. She huddled inside the Flying Vehicle, trembling, her eyes squeezed shut and her fingers nearly unable to pull the trigger anymore.

As someone with both Tentacle phobia and trypophobia, this sight was truly double the mental pressure.

At that moment, she truly understood what a "Mental Attack" was! It was even more terrifying than a Mental Attack—it was Mental Pollution, something that made one want to gouge out one's own eyes after a single glance.

Xia Chujian fumbled to activate the Flying Vehicle's stealth mode. Then, in her heart, she silently recited the name of the merciful, suffering-saving "Namo Star-te-lin Bodhisattva," set up the Star-te-lin 800 Full-Intelligent Automatic Machine Gun, and prepared to fight back to the death.

Just then, streaks of dazzling light tore through the thick black fog and swept toward the dense Tentacles extending from the rectangular moon door.

Even with her eyes shut, Xia Chujian could feel the white light blazing across the sky outside the Flying Vehicle.

She activated the visual protection mode in her Helmet's Eyepiece before daring to open her eyes and look out through the specialized eyepiece.

Her spirits instantly soared! That was no ordinary light—it was the power of a Portable Miniature Laser Rocket Launcher! Xia Chujian watched in fascination, instantly feeling as though her body and mind had been cleansed. She no longer felt fear or disgust.

So this was the legendary laser-standard weapon!

She had only seen videos of them on the Star Net. Never mind the price—the key was that they were not sold to the public at all. Only certain elite personnel within the Empire could be equipped with them.

Compared with that, even the latest Sniper Rifle in her hands was Not Appealing Anymore.

This was the difference between conventional weapons and Space-Based Weapons...

Xia Chujian followed the direction from which the beams originated, wanting to see what kind of hero was equipped with such a fine weapon.

Below the Flying Vehicle was the South District ground of Mulan City.

At that moment, Lieutenant Yi Nanping of Group 12, District 3, Mulan City Branch of the Imperial Special Security Bureau, was leading his team in a life-and-death struggle against the thick black fog.

After leaving Building 334, West District 089, they had rushed directly to their next mission. They arrived at South 404 District Nothing Lane in Mulan City to lie in ambush, continuously observing the High Altitude sky.

Thus, they had seen the desperate battle between the two Flying Vehicles in the night sky. They had also seen an ordinary Combat Aircraft use a saturation-style Bold Move to reverse-kill the more advanced spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle.

But their focus was not on those two Flying Vehicles. It was on the round, silvery-white moon above them.

When they saw that silvery-white moon wriggle and wriggle into a rectangular moon door, Yi Nanping gave his team the order: "Take your positions!" Unexpectedly, a thick black fog soon descended from the rectangular moon door in the sky, followed by several long Tentacles that launched Indiscriminate Attacks on the targets in the air.

The person who parachuted out of the exploded spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle and the Combat Aircraft that had just defeated the spindle-shaped Flying Vehicle were both their targets.

First, the parachuting person was blown apart through the head by a Tentacle and directly turned into a cloud of blood mist.

Then the Small Combat Aircraft that had just won was also pierced through from the top by a Tentacle. Most likely, no one inside was alive either.

Only due to the sticky nature of the thick black fog, the pierced Flying Vehicle remained floating in the air instead of falling.

But strangely, the two Tentacles then let out a roar and suddenly disappeared from midair, leaving them somewhat puzzled.

Wishing everyone a happy Spring Festival! May you have great fortune and prosperity!