The camp mbers have already dragged it away for treatnt.
[Mission Objective Update]
[Deal with the Big Ghost Power Armor. (Not Achieved)]
[Capture Kunbu Alive. (Optional)]
Even in Eden City, one can see police and special ops teams equipped with Power Armor executing missions.
Only the thugs executed on the street and the people present can truly comprehend the terror of facing a steel monster.
"What the hell is this thing!"
John was gasping for air, clutching his chest.
Black Light was slightly agitated, recalibrating the paraters of Igdrasir and other Prosthetic Bodies.
Oulos’s voice rang in the team channel.
[Get your act together, it’s a Raqi Industry’s Power Armor from ’23, modified, probably stashed by the Plato Company in a warehouse for reference work.]
The bullets never stopped.
After forcing the armored truck to a halt, the Big Ghost went on a killing spree, its auxiliary device and kinetic system terrifyingly powerful.
It exhibited agility completely disproportionate to its size, leaping and running between various cover positions.
Its thick, sharp palms could shatter concrete with a slap.
Bulletproof vests and subdermal armor were rendered aningless.
Where the Big Ghost passed through, it was appropriately described as a bloody carnage, like a demon descending from the sky, slaughtering camp mbers fleeing for their lives.
John realized the information obtained through scanning was limited.
He wanted to use Black Light to get more specific paraters, which required a physical connection with the Big Ghost, but if he could do that, those damn paraters wouldn’t be necessary.
Oulos was highly efficient.
She obtained information on the Big Ghost through Plato’s channels and simultaneously sent a weakness scanning program through the channel.
[Install it, John, your Eye version is the highest!]
BANG!
"Phew, f*ck!"
The cover in front of John took a massive hit.
The Big Ghost used its thick firearm as a lee weapon, charging into the crowd and smashing wildly.
He ran several ters before following Oulos’s instructions.
There were other paraters in the team channel.
[System Slot 1: Combat Logic Editor]
[Description: Automatically matches sches based on battlefield environnt, utilizes intelligent algorithms to auto-prioritize attack targets, calibrates combat stance, and enables autonomous actions within a small area.]
[System Slot 2: Superego Sensor]
[Description: Connects all sensors of the operator, rendering through a special neural relay, turning Power Armor into flesh, enabling faster reactions and more complex actions.]
"Is this really a product from decades ago?"
Oulos didn’t expect them to read the product manual on the battlefield, but started hacking once the data was uploaded.
A group of cyberspace warriors, who had just survived a fierce battle, went online again, hamring at the Big Ghost’s ICE firmware, traversing corporate firewalls to the utmost, searching for tiny breakthroughs.
The Big Ghost hesitated slightly.
It crouched again, chanical screw spinners whirling, enduring a fierce barrage from all directions.
John seized the opportunity to download the program.
[Eye Software Upgrade: 67%↑]
Black Light instantly beca boiling, anything loaded into the system was parsed and covered by it, like a more active firewall layer.
ssiah’s Eye was in overdrive.
His brain was hit with a dizzying impact, bloodshot appeared around his pupils, and his body heated up from the side effects.
Beep, beep beep beep.
[F*ck, everyone move, run!]
Oulos scread in the channel.
The Big Ghost’s visor position experienced a minor explosion, a diffuse crimson light continued to shine, black smoke drifting around the helt, as if the result of an overdriven internal program.
Oulos kept urging everyone to dodge.
The side gun barrel of the Big Ghost was fully lit, flipped to the front after charging.
The air twisted into a swirling vortex.
The blue light inside the barrel reached its limit and shot out, piercing straight through an abandoned two-story building, smashing cover and flesh, blowing up the signal vehicle parked behind the line!
Crackling sounds echoed in the voice channel.
All hackers were forcibly logged out.
The drone swarm in the sky fell like children’s toys out of power, scattered among them.
The life signs of several camp mbers disappeared.
[Program installation complete, reboot accomplished, initiate...]
Finally, a prompt appeared in front of John’s eyes.
Although it was only a few seconds, it seed so long on the ever-changing battlefield.
The Graphene Chip played a significant role.
It alleviated the pressure on the Eye’s overdrive, preventing both eyeballs from popping out of his cheeks.
John’s vision was constantly focusing.
The unit progress bar labeled [Big Ghost] is fully loaded.
The body of the Power Armor flashed with more than a dozen red squares of varying sizes, accompanied by fluctuating data, seemingly updating in real-ti according to the battlefield situation.
[Communication Channel Sharing Authorization/Confirmation]
Unexpectedly, Black Light popped up with a prompt never seen before.
After absorbing the Pandora Algorithm, it seed to have beco more intelligent.
John didn’t have ti to verify, he accepted it by default, and in the next second, all the weaknesses he had scanned were shared into his teammates’ view.
[Идикчёрту!Убирайсякчёрту! (F*ck you, get out of here!)]
Talia spat out a curse.
She had already climbed onto the rear of another armored vehicle, setting up a 25mm caliber cannon targeting Big Ghost.
All the camp mbers were seasoned combatants.
Based on experience, they could also guess—this beast would surely need a breather after firing. Now was the ti to hamr it, aiming straight for the red dot centers with any weapon they had.
In an instant, the firepower beca concentrated.
Shooting erupted simultaneously from all sides of the cover, with yellow bullet chains converging into a dashed network that trapped Big Ghost at the center.
Before long, Big Ghost’s right leg armor plate was blasted off.
It let out a roar, hiding behind so complex cover, using its agility to run and kill at the sa ti.
The Wanderer family was fired up.
The readings in front of John kept updating.
[Front Chest: 18%]
[Right Arm, Zone A: 65%]
...
John stretched his legs and ran following behind.
Most gunners gave up escaping imdiately after being caught up.
The bravery of the Wanderer family and the subjective willpower of humans were vividly demonstrated among the rain-like bullet shells falling around them.
The visibility provided by flares was getting lower.
Big Ghost charged through the ruins, its right-arm gun barrel’s energy levels kept rising notch by notch.
Soone’s shout echoed out.
All the gunners quickly distanced themselves from where Big Ghost was.
Woosh—
A high-penetration anti-materiel missile sliced through the dark battlefield, its tail describing a thick trajectory as it hit Big Ghost.
The explosion caused a violent tremor.
The entire transport zone beca unbelievably hot, floating particles in the air made it impossible to breathe.
Everyone quickly pulled up their masks or activated their filters.
But before they recovered from the heatwave, they saw a mass of black monstrosity break away from the battlefield, directly fleeing towards the container area.
John’s ssiah’s Eye focused and chased after it.
[Configuration: Reactive Armor [Plato]]
[Description: An armor that reacts to anti-equipnt attacks, using an inert explosive layer for blast mitigation.]
The site exploded into shouts and the sound of screeching brakes.
The camp mbers scrambled onto vehicles at the fastest speed, or started running on foot.
Big Ghost must be intercepted and killed on the road.
If this beast makes it into the underground mainfra room, it would be nearly impossible to defeat it in the narrow facility passageway, and with factors like radiation levels and Exile reinforcent...
The longer this drags on, the lower the chance of victory.
John jumped into a vehicle through the window, floored the accelerator, and shot up to the front position—he was already chasing Big Ghost, his ssiah’s Eye scanning program firmly locking onto the target, a massive support point for the whole assault team.
Bam, bam bam.
Big Ghost took giant strides in the night.
It moved with climbing motions against the building walls as if it were on the ground, crossing complex streets to reach the pier and the plaza by the sea.
The road surface twisted and cracked in waves.
Almost all warehouses ant for unloading collapsed, and the docking and bridging zones also crumbled and slipped into the bay, with only the black sea surface making rhythmic lapping sounds against the shore in the night wind.
Bullets whistled past.
Pale yellow streaks of light shot over in bundles.
From far to near.
Containers from countless offshore cargo ships were piled up around the plaza in a chaotic array.
Big Ghost climbed on the rusted steel surface.
It suddenly twitched its head to keep its half-hung position, staring at the vehicle John was on.
The pursuit had gone too deep!
This thought flashed in John’s mind.
Screech—
He pivoted on the spot, his heart pounding, with faint red lights drifting by on both sides of the road.
Then Big Ghost descended from the sky, blocking the path.
It retracted its fist, ready and charged, slamming down fiercely towards the engine hood!
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