Watching the Sand Shinobi who wanted to kill him first but were temporarily unable to approach him because Yueguang Xingye and the other two had stopped them, Yueguang Han smiled. He raised his left arm, which had transformed into an M249, and aimed it at one of the Sand Shinobi tangled up with Yueguang Xingye.
"No!" The Sand Shinobi targeted by the light machine gun was instantly terrified out of his wits, cold sweat soaking his back. He immediately tried to break free from Yueguang Xingye and escape.
"Rat-tat-tat!" Unfortunately, Yueguang Han gave him no chance at all. The light machine gun roared, and five or six bullets pierced through the Sand Shinobi's chest in the blink of an eye, shooting through his heart and sending spurts of bright red blood spraying out.
"Damn it, we have to kill him first!" Seeing another companion killed in an instant, the remaining Sand Shinobi's expressions changed drastically. After one of them shouted, several Sand Shinobi forcibly took Yueguang Xingye's group's attacks, retreating a few steps despite their injuries to widen the distance. Then, from several directions, they fired seven or eight Kunai tied with lit Explosive Tags at Yueguang Han.
"Protect Young Han!" Seeing the Sand Shinobi throw Kunai bound with Explosive Tags at Yueguang Han, Yueguang Xingye's eyes reddened with fury. Without a moment's thought, he hurled the longsword in his hand, knocking one of the Kunai aside. He himself used Taijutsu and the Body Flicker Technique to rush toward Yueguang Han at high speed, intending to block the Sand Shinobi's Explosive Tags for him—at the very least, to shield him from the blast.
Although Yueguang Long and Yueguang Shiye were not as reckless as Yueguang Xingye in trying to save Yueguang Han, nor did they have time to rush over, they also threw their longswords to knock away the Kunai. At the same time, they fixed their eyes on the Sand Shinobi, prepared to block them with their lives.
Everything happened too suddenly. In less than a breath, the situation had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the Sand Shinobi already wore smiles as though victory were within reach.
"Rat-tat-tat...!" The light machine gun rang out repeatedly.
The Sand Shinobi's Kunai were fast, and Yueguang Xingye was faster, but neither came close to the speed of Yueguang Han's machine-gun bullets. With the Electronic Eye's precise tracking and the T800's exact calculations, he only needed to adjust the light machine gun's angle. The bullets leaving the barrel were like bees with eyes, accurately striking the incoming Kunai. The bullets' tremendous Impact easily knocked every incoming Kunai off course.
"Boom, boom, boom...!" Explosions rang out one after another, but Yueguang Han remained completely unharmed. The blasts all occurred more than ten meters away from him.
Yueguang Xingye and the other two showed relieved expressions, while the Sand Shinobi's victorious smiles froze on their faces.
"This is the first time I've encountered this move. It really pisses me off." Yueguang Han spoke coldly. Both his arms transformed into Barretts, aimed at the chests of two Sand Shinobi.
"Bang, bang...!" Before the Sand Shinobi could dodge, bullets had already passed through their chests. This time, however, Yueguang Han had not used standard bullets, but abrasive bullets, also called Tumbling Bullets.
This was a type of bullet with extremely high lethality. Its brutality had even once made people mistake it for a dum-dum Bullet. After entering flesh, its trajectory changed drastically due to friction. However, these bullets were not very accurate. The Chiang Kai-shek Rifle had used this kind of ammunition before. When a 7.92mm abrasive bullet entered a human body, it left only a thumb-sized hole, but when it exited, it could blast out a fist-sized bloody cavity, tearing away huge amounts of flesh.
"Pfft! Pfft!" The .50-caliber abrasive bullets directly blasted apart the two Sand Shinobi's chests, scattering blood and shredded flesh everywhere.
"Damn it, retreat!" Seeing two more companions die miserably, the remaining two Sand Shinobi trembled with fear. Knowing they could not win, they did not dare remain any longer. They threw down two Smoke Bombs and fled at high speed under the cover of thick gray smoke.
"Bang, bang!" Gunshots rang out. The smoke could not completely block the Electronic Eye's infrared vision. The .50-caliber bullets passed straight through the thick smoke, blasting apart the chests of the two fleeing Sand Shinobi and leaving basketball-sized holes in their chests.
"Young Han, let's go back! The Sand Shinobi fired signal smoke when they attacked just now. More and more Sand Shinobi will definitely be coming. And one of the ambushers escaped—the one whose arm was broken. Your information has been exposed, which is extremely unfavorable for us." Yueguang Xingye said to Yueguang Han. His heart still pounded with fear. Although Yueguang Han had easily counter-killed the ambushing Sand Shinobi this time, he had just been on the brink of death. Yueguang Xingye truly did not want Yueguang Han to risk himself again.
"No." Yueguang Han shook his head. As he walked toward the Sand Shinobi corpses to collect their forehead protectors, he said coldly, "I'm continuing the operation. Since my information has already been exposed, then I'll kill every Sand Shinobi here."
"No! It's too dangerous! We must retreat!" Yueguang Xingye said in a commanding tone. If Yueguang Han had not been so stubborn, he would not even have agreed to Yueguang Han's previous plan. Now that the danger had increased, he opposed it once again.
"I have to continue the plan. I won't let these Sand Shinobi go." Yueguang Han said firmly. After speaking, he continued running toward the Sand Shinobi stronghold in the valley.
"Young Han, you!" Yueguang Xingye was enraged. He finally understood why Yueguang Han had insisted on his plan. Yueguang Han had only one objective: revenge against the Sand Shinobi.
"Clan Head, what do we do?" Seeing Yueguang Han continue toward the Sand Shinobi stronghold, Yueguang Long and Yueguang Shiye grew anxious and hurriedly asked Yueguang Xingye.
"What else can we do? Chase after him." Yueguang Xingye gritted his teeth and said angrily, then hurried after Yueguang Han.
Fortunately, Yueguang Han was not fast; he could not even compare to an ordinary Genin. In the time it took to exchange a few words, he had only run a little over a hundred meters. Yueguang Xingye and the other two caught up with him in just a few breaths, blocked his path, and shouted angrily, "Come back with us. Your life doesn't belong to you alone."
"It's already too late." Yueguang Han said coldly, "Actually, you should have trusted me."
"Protect this reckless brat." Yueguang Xingye frowned and immediately drew a Kunai, turning around and preparing for battle. Yueguang Long and Yueguang Shiye did the same. The three formed a triangle around Yueguang Han, protecting him in the center.
"Lord Luo Fei, the seven ninjas we sent through Earth Style have already approached the four enemies coming down from above."
Inside the Sand Shinobi stronghold in the valley, the Sand Shinobi Sensory Ninja hiding behind a wooden hut loudly reported the situation he sensed in real time to Elite Jonin Luo Fei, who was hiding behind a nearby building.
Hearing the Sensory Ninja's report, Luo Fei said nothing. He merely nodded twice and had him continue sensing the situation at all times. The enemies attacking from the shadows clearly had no way to deal with them while they hid behind obstacles, which was why they had sent four people to attack, intending to lure them out of hiding.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang...!"
"Rat-tat-tat...!"
Less than ten seconds after the Sensory Ninja's report, gunshots and the explosions of Explosive Tags rang out repeatedly from the mountain.
"They've engaged!" The Sand Shinobi Sensory Ninja continued reporting as he closely sensed the battle's developments.
"Lord Luo Fei." Yet before thirty seconds had passed, the sensing Sand Shinobi reported sorrowfully, "Six are dead. Only one escaped! The enemy attacker is among those four, and they're heading this way. All of our ninjas who used Earth Style are rushing there."
Hearing the Sensory Ninja's report, Luo Fei said nothing, because he had no way to relay orders to those Sand Shinobi who had gone underground.
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