Chapter 378 - The Tyrant Arrives
Chapter 378: The Tyrant Arrives
Silvermoon City West. Past the main entrance of a straight and clean street, and on top of a low-rise coffee shop!
“12 o’clock direction. Distance, 97.5 meters. Height, 38.5 meters. Top left corner of the gray spiral platform!” said Dan Hen lightly as he read the information on the recon meter in his hand.
“Bang!”
A gunshot rang in the air.
A searing hot sniper bullet exited the barrel of Eye of the Thunder. It rotated at high speed across around 100 meters, heading straight and accurately towards the direction Dan Hen mentioned.
“Pa!”
“-4267!”
A Level 45 Elite Grade Forager hiding in a dark corner of the street was struck, and its dark red head was split open. A yellow weak point damage of over 4,000 appeared on top of its head, taking out around half of its HP!
However, the brain was not the main weakness of T-virus infected creatures such as the Forager, that was the main reason why it did not die even after having its head shot!
“Roar!”
Instead, it opened its mouth to let out a roar towards the direction where the bullet came from!
After that, it no longer hid its body. It jumped directly from the platform to a wide wall of the commercial building.
Its four limbs moved quickly as it crawled towards the players.
In the eyes of warrior players who did not have the best vision to detect objects moving at high-speed, they could only feel a dark shadow closing in on them!
“Distance: 72m, HP: 54%!”
Dan Hen and Feng Luo looked calm as Dan Hen quickly reported the HP of the Forager closing in on them!
As for Feng Luo, the Eye of the Thunder in his arms moved and followed the Forager crawling quickly on the building wall; however, he was in no hurry to shoot.
It was only until the Forager crawled past the wall of the building and was only about 50 meters from them and had leaped into the air, trying to reach the wall of the next building, that Feng Luo fired a shot!
“Bang!”
The sniper rifle let out another ringing shot. A C-grade Deflagration Bullet emanating a red glow flew at high-speed towards the Forager less than 50 meters away! The bullet accurately struck the main weak point of the Forager, the heart that was pumping quickly due to the Forager’s actions, as it was in mid-air for only a few tenths of a second.
“-5066!”
Five thousand! Red Lethal Damage!
“Crash!”
The Forager’s lifeless corpse fell from the sky to the ground.
As it was moving at high speed, the momentum caused its body to roll a few times on the ground across a certain distance before slamming into an SUV! The door of the SUV was scratched, while only half the body of the owner was left after being fed on!
“Threat eliminated. Continue forward!”
Dan Hen gave Feng Luo a thumbs up before waving to the others to signal them!
Below the two of them was the group made up of the three NPCs, a Doctor, and a Manipulator being surrounded by four shield-wielding Heavy Armor Warriors and two Light Armor Warriors on the outer circle.
They quickly moved forward towards the street cleared by Feng Luo, Dan Hen, and Skynet!
…
At that moment, it had been seven minutes since Feng Luo and gang began their exit operation.
And the retreating group made up of NPCs and players was only 500 meters, just two streets, away from the exit of Silvermoon City.
However, these 500 meters were also the most dangerous streets!
Normally, the more central parts of the city would be more populated, and the edge of the city, such as these two streets, should have far fewer zombies compared to city centers!
However, since Silvermoon City entered a state of war earlier, a ten-meter defensive metallic energy wall rose around the city. Apart from Tyrants that had explosive leaps, the smooth wall made it incredibly difficult for the monsters, including even the Foragers, to jump over the wall!
As such, a lot of the zombies that were pursuing the retreating players or NPCs were all stuck at the edge of the city wall.
Although it limited the spreading of the T-virus to a certain extent, it was most definitely a problem for the others who decided to retreat and make their exit later like Feng Luo’s group.
The reason Feng Luo chose the route to make their exit was that the region was a non-commercialized and non-residential area. So, the number of zombies in the area should be fewer!
In addition, the group had a top-class veteran Scout, Dan Hen, who, even without the recon meter, could easily detect hidden Foragers within a radius of 300 meters by just using his night vision scanning ability through a pair of military binoculars!
That was why the retreat was relatively smooth.
The only nuisance was probably the only female player of the squad, Azure!
After all, whether it was the zombies or the Foragers, they still had human characteristics in terms of their appearance, and even if one were to turn off the gory visual mode, the brain would still be affected quite a lot.
Fortunately, everything would end soon!
“There are only two streets left. The straight line distance is just 513 meters. In five minutes, at most, we’ll be out of the city!”
Dan Hen looked at his recon meter and projected a virtual 3D image of Silvermoon City into an empty space.
As for Feng Luo, he naturally already came to the same conclusion in his mind.
“Finally, the difficulty of this mission was definitely quite high. Moreover, by staying in here for such a long time, I feel that even my mental state has been affected. After we get out of here and after I get offline, I’m definitely going to go visit a beautiful virtual superstar doctor and have her treat my mental trauma,” joked Skynet, who was standing by the side, holding his sniper rifle with a slightly relaxed expression.
“Don’t let your guard down. The last stage isn’t going to be any easier. There’s even a chance of encountering a Tyrant!”
Dan Hen did not relax. More than that, he used the skill, Detection, with the help of the recon meter to scan the surroundings behind them.
However, he had already repeated this action around seven to eight times. Normally, no new Foragers would appear in the cleared out area, so he was only doing it as a habitual precaution.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
Unfortunately, something unexpected happened!
The initially quiet recon meter suddenly flashed a yellow warning light while making loud beeping sounds after being used with the added bonus of the 85% Expert Level Detection skill!
“Boss Dan Hen, this mouth of yours!”
Skynet was dumbstruck as he stared at Dan Hen.
“High life energy reaction, energy reaction mid to low… Unable to determine the specific wave type, but from the extra information provided by the recon meter, there’s a 70% that it’s a Tyrant!” Dan Hen lowered his head quickly to look at the recon meter as his yellowish scarred face looked distorted!
However, even if the recon meter did not show any signs, everyone would have been able to come to the same conclusion.
After all, even when there were different variants of mutated creatures inside the city, around 95% of them were infected humans, and as such, the probability of it being a Tyrant was the highest!
Moreover, Dan Hen and his group had already fought a Tyrant earlier, so the memory of its strength was still very fresh.
And before long, their guess became a reality!
It was because, coming from the direction shown on the recon meter, with the help of the illuminating tools as well as the moonlight, everyone could see an over-three-meter tall, dark human figure moving towards them quickly in front of the large buildings of the city!
The dark figure moved in an amazing way; its entire body did not seem to touch the ground, even as it jumped quickly between the different residential and commercial buildings of different height.
As long as the distance between two buildings was not more than 30 meters, it would only need one stronger leap with its powerful legs to overcome the distance. Even if the height difference between the two buildings was around 30 to 40 meters, it would not receive the slightest damage or stay any longer as it landed!
As for the two large claws that were around one-third of its body size, they clearly indicated what it was!
“Oh, my God… This guy will be difficult!” Skynet mumbled as he saw the scene unfold before his eyes.
“Hurry up, battle formation!” Dan Hen shouted with a calm expression.
“Ta, ta, ta!” The Level 48 Rare Grade submachine gun in his hand had already released a flurry of bullets at the Tyrant that was by then, less than 200 meters away from them!
“Bang!”
Feng Luo’s Eye of the Thunder also let out a loud roar. A searing hot Deflagration Armor-piercing Bullet pierced through the air and flew towards the Tyrant, leaving a straight red trail in its wake!
“-96, -85, -95…”
The submachine gun bullets hit the Tyrant’s body in mid-air, producing damage numbers that did not even reach three digits. This produced a grim expression on Dan Hen’s face.
“Bang!”
“-1343!”
Although the bullet struck the Tyrant’s cold-hard face, the less than 1,500 damage number also made Feng Luo’s heart sink.
“It looks like this will not be an easy battle!”