Chapter 404: Cheers
By this point, the battle had essentially entered the cleanup stage. Fewer than one in a hundred demons in the horde remained, and even the survivors were rarely unscathed.
Across the smoke-shrouded battlefield, monsters wailed everywhere, and those cries often drew aerial fire.
Bang... Splat
Aboard a helicopter a hundred meters overhead, a sniper watched through his scope as a monster's head burst in a spray of blood. It twitched and fell, while he muttered to himself.
"I'm a born sharpshooter. Number thirty-six!"
The S-1 Heavy Sniper Rifle in his hands was a killing machine whose power surpassed that of conventional anti-materiel sniper rifles.
More than a year earlier, firearms experts had already anticipated how physically capable soldiers would become, and most of the individual weapons developed accordingly had received positive feedback.
Snipers were already subjected to rigorous selection. Their physical and mental capabilities ranked among the best in the military, so naturally, they were even better equipped to handle their new "sweethearts."
Bang... Splat
Below, an elephant-sized monster's head burst open, but it continued running slowly. Two of its four legs had already been severed, and its body was a bloody mess.
The comrade beside him joined in, tongues of flame bursting simultaneously from the muzzles of two large-caliber sniper rifles.
Bang! Bang!... Splat! Splat!
Two more hits struck the same spot, and the heavy body finally collapsed.
"You know, once they're dead, these monsters aren't so scary anymore!"
Most ordinary demons were relatively large. As thoroughly seasoned masters of marksmanship, these elite snipers rarely missed.
J-Type Fighters continually streaked across the sky, while violent explosions occasionally sounded in the distance.
The fighters mainly patrolled the perimeter. By now, General Chu Jianfeng would no longer allow a single demon to escape.
The Great Faceless Ghost and