Silicon-Based Half-Brained Ape

"Attack the wheels!" roared the lead gorilla knight, spraying the armored vehicle's road wheels with his assault rifle.

Judging by the voice, he was the gorilla who had issued the hunting order!

The remaining gorilla knights fired at the armored vehicle's wheels at the same time. Though their aim was unsteady from horseback, they still landed many hits.

Fortunately, the Defender-3 armored vehicle's wheels had a honeycomb structure and would not go flat. Otherwise, it might already have lost its balance.

"Hoo roar! Don't let the humans escape!"

The horsemen who had howled past both sides of the armored vehicle had already circled around ahead, adjusted their direction, and charged again.

Shen Feng slammed on the brakes, bringing the armored vehicle to a halt. Then he shifted into drive, increased the power, and charged straight toward the horsemen.

The gorillas had not expected the human to charge them instead of fleeing, and chaos broke out at once.

Shen Feng controlled the vehicle-mounted machine gun and began spraying the gorillas.

This time, several gorillas were finally hit. They let out miserable howls and fell from their horses.

Charge!

I have to break through!

No, if these gorillas had discovered me long ago, there must be an ambush ahead!

Shen Feng sharply turned the vehicle, smashing through the highway guardrail and charging into the wilderness.

Sure enough, the instant he left, two rockets shot out from up ahead on the highway.

Had he continued forward, he would definitely have been hit directly.

One rocket flew wide, while the other struck the armored vehicle's armor from the side, ricocheted away, and exploded nearby!

Shen Feng's heart nearly leaped into his throat. He had never felt so tense.

He had heard that metallic ding just now. If he had not turned in time, the armored vehicle might already have been pierced by the rocket!

After all, although they were not anti-tank rockets, he was only driving a lightly armored vehicle!

Shen Feng focused completely on controlling the armored vehicle and drove toward an abandoned city not far away.

Against enemies with heavy firepower such as rockets and grenade launchers, he absolutely could not fight in open terrain.

A snarling gorilla knight had already ridden up beside the armored vehicle, repeatedly blasting its wheels with the shotgun in his hand.

Shen Feng's face twisted viciously as he suddenly swerved, instantly knocking both gorilla and horse to the ground and crushing over them amid a burst of screams.

The armored vehicle's engine gave a beastlike roar as it charged into a thicket.

The thicket was roughly as tall as a person. The armored vehicle could naturally plow through it, but horses could not advance through such dense brush.

The pursuers immediately slowed down and could only follow the tracks pressed out by the armored vehicle.

Fury rose in Shen Feng's chest. He quickly set the cruise control, left the driver's seat, and climbed into the gunner's position.

The driver could only control the externally mounted machine gun, while the armored vehicle's strongest weapon was its main cannon!

The gorilla cavalry was charging in relentless pursuit. When they saw the armored vehicle's turret turn, they were all stunned.

The turret rotated one hundred and eighty degrees and aimed at the pursuers behind it.

The bespectacled gorilla leader instantly realized something. Overwhelmed by a fear born of animal instinct, he leaped from his horse and shouted:

"Dismount! Get down! Take cover!"

Before the remaining gorilla knights could react, the Defender-3 armored vehicle's 40mm main cannon began to roar!

Three gorilla knights riding in formation were instantly pierced through by a shell, huge holes blasted through their bodies. The leading gorilla knight was even torn in two at the waist!

The shell did not even explode as it howled onward behind them.

"Bang!" A warhorse's head was hit by the shell and exploded into a burst of gore.

Then the armored vehicle's main cannon began spitting out howling shells one after another. Like Death's scythe, they ruthlessly harvested the pursuers' lives!

The armored vehicle was loaded entirely with armor-piercing rounds. Anyone hit was immediately left with a gaping hole.

The gorilla cavalry, who had been fierce and vicious in their hunt for humans, instantly felt instinctive fear.

Seeing their companions and mounts torn apart by shells with their own eyes was such a shock that many gorillas immediately fell into panic. All the warhorses were startled as well and stopped advancing.

The path carved out by the armored vehicle's tracks had become a road of death!

"Kuafu, what do we do!? Death, scared!" a gorilla knight cried despairingly toward the roadside.

"Dismount, dismount! Take cover!" the bespectacled Kuafu roared. "Abandon the horses!"

The remaining gorilla warriors finally came to their senses. They abandoned their horses, jumped down, and hid in the brush beside the road.

In just over ten seconds, the armored vehicle's autocannon had fired dozens of shells, harvesting the lives of more than twenty gorillas and dozens of warhorses!

The road in the armored vehicle's wake had turned into a river of blood.

"Hoo roar, hoo roar!"

The remaining fifty-odd gorillas gathered around Kuafu, letting out terrified roars.

They had never imagined that challenging humanity would be so brutal!

"Kuafu, humans returned to take everything from apes!"

"Apes don't want to enter cages!"

"Apes are civilization's inheritors!"

"Gather the remaining horses. Follow them. Prepare the rockets!" A crack had appeared across Kuafu's glasses. He stared grimly through the lens at the departing armored vehicle and slowly said, "Humans must die!"

He then took out the radio at his waist, pressed the button, and said, "All apes, proceed to Radiant City. Kill humans!"

The apes present obeyed without hesitation. They immediately organized the remaining horses and followed far behind the armored vehicle.

Kuafu mounted his horse as well, carrying a large-caliber hunting rifle as he headed toward the nearby city ruins.

Inside the armored vehicle, Shen Feng climbed down from the gunner's position, disengaged cruise control, and steered the armored vehicle forward.

Although that barrage had intimidated the gorilla knights, Shen Feng would never assume he had shaken them off.

No one knew exactly how many gorillas there were, and those rockets had been utterly terrifying.

Though the armored vehicle's defenses were strong, in the face of rockets, it was nothing more than an oversized iron coffin.

He had to enter the city as quickly as possible. Only by hiding among the ruins could he seize the initiative!

While driving the armored vehicle, Shen Feng took out his phone and opened the Real Doomsday Game app, wanting to see what those Counter-Strike Elite gorillas really were.

The moment he opened it, a mission prompt popped up:

"Stone Statue Apocalypse mutated creature Silicon-Based Half-Brained Ape (Brain Ape for short) discovered. Side mission alert: Find the cause of the Brain Ape's mutation and collect Brain Ape tissue samples. Will the player accept?"

"Completing the mission will grant generous rewards. If the player refuses the mission, they will receive an unknown punishment."

Silicon-Based Half-Brained Ape? What the hell was that!?

Whatever it was, it was clearly not any gorilla he knew of.

Shen Feng frowned and tapped accept.

He had a feeling that these Silicon-Based Half-Brained Apes were absolutely connected to the humans who had gone extinct in this world.

Who knew how many monsters those people had created before they got themselves killed!

The armored vehicle sped forward at full power, roaring as it charged into the deathly silent ruins of Radiant City.

Only half an hour later, groups of gorilla knights gathered like streams from the wilderness in every direction, assembling behind Kuafu.

Warhorses neighed, while the gorillas roared, their cries echoing across the wilderness.

Soon, more than a thousand fully armed gorilla knights urged their warhorses onward, lances in hand, following the armored vehicle's tracks into the lush green ruins of Radiant City...