At 80 miles per hour, the vehicle swayed slightly in the storm.
That wasn't fast. Even for Jackie, who didn't have a Sandevistan installed, it wasn't fast.
But because of the sandstorm, by the time anyone in the vehicle noticed something was wrong, it would already be within twenty meters. An ordinary person wouldn't have time to react.
The structure of the human body limited the nervous system. Although bioelectric signals traveled through the body at nearly the speed of light, information still passed between synapses through chemical neurotransmitters. The transmitters needed time to diffuse through the body's internal environment before the next synapse could receive them.
Unless there was a way to override chemical transmission and use electric current instead.
That was one of the original purposes behind the Sandevistan's design.
Perhaps they couldn't predict where the land mines were, but the moment something happened, the Sandevistan's electric current had already overridden the biological nerves, exceeding the speed of chemical transmission.
The voltage of those currents was enough to carry them across the tiny gaps between synapses, physically surpassing the limits of human reaction speed.
The explosion couldn't be stopped, but they could still do their best to deal with what came afterward.
The two gang members attacking them wore combat jackets, and both had a tattoo of a blind man crying, his eyes gouged out, on their necks.
A long rope was tied around each of their waists. Clearly, it was meant to let them get back onto the vehicle after climbing aboard to fight.
But now things were different. The ropes had become death warrants.
The land mine was powerful, but the Kronium armor plates mounted on the Legendary Mackinaw's chassis could easily withstand the impact. The armor deformed slightly, while the complex electromagnetic suspension and internal