The two hundred and ten swarm drones had just flown above the Fungus Puppets, and their underbellies sprayed out large quantities of bombs reminiscent of button batteries. These bombs fell among the puppets, instantly forming clusters of dazzling flas.
"Button bombs, the swarm drone’s anti-infantry weapons," said Nagano Souta. "They’re very effective against units without armor, but if the target has high defense, the only function of these button bombs is to obscure the enemy’s vision and hearing. This isn’t much different from the second-generation swarm drones, though the third generation seems to have a significantly increased ammunition capacity."
"But if that’s the only improvent, there’s indeed no necessity for the Dragon City Defense Army to procure new equipnt," Candle Dragon remarked. "Moreover, this kind of anti-infantry equipnt has limited applicability against supernatural entities... if used as riot equipnt, its lethality seems excessive... "
While Sun Hang and the others discussed Bai’s Military Industry products, the power armor equipped with twin-barrel thermal fusion used its backpack thrusters to jump nearly a hundred ters, landing directly in the densest area of the Fungus Puppets!
The heavy armor stepped down several Fungus Puppets, and then flas enveloped in black smoke swept sideways. From an overhead view, the flas spewed by the twin-barrel thermal fusion perfectly painted a blazing Taiji symbol in the battlefield’s center.
"Mr Jin! Fall back!" Chen Jing harshly reprimanded, "You’re pushing too far forward! You’ve already detached from the main force!"
"No worries! Trust , Mr Chen!" shouted the person called Mr. Jin, "With this armor on, these supernatural entities can’t harm at all! Let burn them all to ashes! Our contributions will all count towards the Chen Family!"
Chen Jing couldn’t help feeling a surge of frustration. This Mr. Jin was a long-ti guardian who followed his father, loyal and outstanding in combat. His only flaw was getting too charged up during fights, completely disregarding his own safety—back when Dragon City was less peaceful, he had entered the ICU three tis for the Chen Family, with roughly a third of his body containing artificial components. Even the heart beating in his chest was a prosthetic heart made of tal and polyrs.
The Chen Family Patriarch had specifically instructed Chen Jing before departure not to spend Mr. Jin like cannon fodder—Chen Jing felt like a million grass mud horses were galloping through his mind; he wasn’t planning to use Mr. Jin as cannon fodder, but couldn’t stop the man from charging to the forefront!
"Mr Jin! Get back here! That’s an order!" Chen Jing commanded in a lowered voice over the communication channel. "Besides, the equipnt you’re wearing was provided by the Bai Family, and a lot of the contribution points you’ve gained have to be shared with the Bai Family."
"Didn’t the Bai Family say these pieces of equipnt were provided for free?" Mr. Jin asked while setting the puppet swarm ablaze, "Moreover, since we gave their equipnt an outing opportunity, they should be paying us testing fees. There’s no reason to give our contribution points to them!"
"Forget about that for now. Fight and retreat, reconnect with the main force as soon as possible." Chen Jing said, leading a group outfitted with protective gear, including Hunters and rcenaries, over the vehicle defense line, shooting and advancing toward the puppet army.
"Concentrate fire! Take down the humanoid supernatural entities in the front row first!"
Although bullets couldn’t kill these Fungus Puppets, a fragnted Fungus Puppet was very different from a fully ford humanoid one. The forr could only slowly squirm on the ground, while the latter could run at speeds rivaling professional athletes among ordinary humans.
"Prepare incendiary rounds! Aim at zones one and two, fire!"
Chen Jing and the others had a simple tactic: first, take down the Fungus Puppets in a designated zone with firearms, then before the fragnted Puppets regained mobility, "sweep" the areas with incendiary rounds.
Accompanied by a muffled "thud" sound, short, thick cylindrical rounds were fired from attached launchers or standalone tubes under firearm barrels. The fuses for these incendiary rounds had been pre-set to explode upon reaching the target zones, dispersing burning napalm evenly over the ground below.
"Zone one and two have been cleared! Incendiary round usage at eleven percent!"
"Prepare to shift attack focus toward zone three!"
At this point, Chen Jing was no longer commanding the Hunting Squad. The command was taken over by several middle-aged n in dark gray armor—veterans with rich experience, although technically rcenaries, unlike freelance rcenaries who work for pay, these n were under long-term contracts with the three major families... these contracts were usually lifeti ones.
The three families not only paid their salaries but also helped them start families. Even their offspring could secure good positions in the enterprises owned by the three families.
Calling them Death Warriors or private militias raised by the three families wasn’t an exaggeration... these actions naturally violated federal law. However, given Hexi Corridor’s status as a semi-lawless area and the fact that the three families declared these n as "instructors" hired for employee training, the Dragon City Defense Army turned a blind eye to such practices.
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