Chapter 60: 060 Control Center
“Watch out.”
Chen Xu heard Jinxia Yang’s warning and beca cautious. Suddenly, he was pushed hard from behind, causing him to take two steps forward as a strong gust of wind swept down on the back of his head, making him instantly aware that he was under attack.
He turned around and saw a giant black creature whose two claws were gripping Jinxia Yang’s hands.
Almost instinctively, without having ti to aim, he swung his gun and pulled the trigger at the precise mont.
Bang!
The massive creature flapped once and fell, dragging Jinxia Yang down to the ground as well.
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Damn it.
He saw her left arm covered in blood, a trace of anger on his face. He walked forward, and fired a few more shots at the still-flapping beast.
By now, he had clearly seen the creature’s form. It looked like a giant eagle, its entire body gray and white, extrely large in size, with a wingspan extending over two ters.
Rather than being angry at the giant eagle’s sudden attack, he was more annoyed at his own carelessness for not considering the potential threat from the sky.
If it wasn’t for Jinxia Yang’s tily warning and push, it would have been him who was injured now.
He opened his backpack, took out a dical kit, and began treating her wound.
Her left forearm was scratched with four bloody holes, the wounds deep and continuously bleeding.
Chen Xu took out a small bottle of alcohol, unscrewed the cap, and said, “Bear with it,” then poured the alcohol onto her wound.
He looked at her face and noticed her lips trembling and her nostrils flaring, clearly an indication of imnse pain. Yet her eyes were scanning behind him.
She was still observing her surroundings at this mont?
His hand holding the alcohol bottle trembled slightly. What kind of life experience led such a beautiful woman to develop such a vigilant mindset?
He silently took out a few pieces of hemostatic tape and carefully stuck them onto her wound.
These hemostatic tapes, which he had never used before, were most likely products of this world, just like the exoskeleton chanical arm.
He observed that once applied, the bleeding stopped, showing great effectiveness.
“You can’t leave this on for too long. It needs to be removed in half an hour.” He instructed, then added after a mont’s thought, “If I forget later, remind .”
“Okay.”
Jinxia Yang said no more unnecessary words, stood up, picked up the stick she had dropped earlier, and stood behind him again.
Watching her actions, Chen Xu’s mouth opened slightly. Eventually, he said nothing and continued forward.
……
The road was very wide, enough for four cars to drive side by side.
On both sides of the road were buildings resembling warehouses, with so of the doors wide open. Inside was a scene of chaos and severe damage, with so withered plants visible on the ground.
From the overall layout map, this was all part of the cultivation area.
In other words, these were essentially agricultural greenhouses.
Chen Xu looked as far as he could see and noticed that the greenhouses stretched to the end of the road, counting at least hundreds of them. He estimated that each had an area of about a thousand square ters.
This indicated that this settlent was much larger than he had imagined.
So of the greenhouse doors were tightly closed, showing no signs of damage, roughly accounting for one-third of them.
“I just don’t know what they are growing inside. As long as one of them has food crops, it would be enough for two people to eat for half a year.” He resisted the urge to open those greenhouses.
The priority was to eliminate all the monsters within the settlent.
Bang.
Through the sight, Chen Xu saw the massive green-skinned gorilla inside the greenhouse fall, then lowered the muzzle, silently thinking, “The fifth one.”
Upon entering the settlent, he had put away his pistol and used only the rifle, which had greater power and was easier to aim.
Including the five smaller ones at the entrance, he had already eliminated ten monsters, taking ten shots in total, all of which were one-hit kills. The one at the farthest distance, about 50 to 60 ters away, had its head blown off with one shot.
“When did I develop such shooting skills?”
He himself found it unbelievable.
In the first dream, after practicing for several months, he was only at the beginner’s level, suitable for shooting stationary targets. His accuracy was acceptable within ten ters but dropped significantly beyond twenty ters. Let alone hitting moving targets.
It was as if overnight, he had transford from a novice into a sharpshooter.
After thinking long and hard, he could only co to one conclusion: the talent he received after the last dream ended. Nonetheless, he was still very surprised, “Is the enhancent of this ‘Throwing Precision’ talent on shooting so exaggerated?”
It was at this mont that he realized there was much more potential to explore with this talent.
During the past month, he had been busy with work while indulging in throwing all sorts of objects, without truly digging into this talent’s potential.
Although nad “Throwing Precision,” it did not an the talent was limited to just the action of “throwing.”
He really felt like knocking on his head, wondering why he hadn’t thought of it sooner.
He fell into a blind spot in thinking, subconsciously treating the talent obtained from the dream as a kind of ga reward.
In a ga, you can set a talent to only work within a certain scope.
But reality was not a ga; it couldn’t be that you were exceptionally accurate when throwing things, hitting a target as small as a ping-pong ball from over ten ters away, but couldn’t hit a target with a gun.
A little more thought led him to deduce that achieving “Throwing Precision” required two prerequisite conditions.
One was marksmanship, the ability to judge at a glance the distance to the target, its size, the required force, and so forth.
The other was extrely precise control over force.
Taken this way, he essentially had two talents.
In comparison, using a gun involved far fewer factors, nowhere near the complexity of throwing.
He had previously practiced shooting skills, and with the boost from the precision talent, he suddenly beca extraordinarily skilled.
Realizing this, he felt as if the whole world opened up. He was eager to imdiately verify his thoughts.
“Now is not the ti.”
He took a deep breath, suppressing his urge. Regardless, he needed to eliminate the threats within the settlent first.
With this thought, his steps unconsciously quickened considerably.
He understood his marked improvent in shooting skills made him more confident. As long as he avoided getting too close, the green-skinned gorillas he had encountered so far posed no threat.
As for those gray eagles, as long as there was prior vigilance, they posed no great threat either. The sky was wide open, allowing ample ti to spot them in advance.
After ten more minutes of walking, during which he eliminated four green-skinned gorillas, they finally saw the door to the control room.
Simultaneously, they also saw two particularly massive green-skinned gorillas.
Chen Xu stopped and assessed the situation, couldn’t help but gasp, “King Kong?”
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