70: Chapter 70 Out of bullets? Get some from the military!

"Qin Hongye, load armor-piercing rounds."

Chen Chen's voice came through the vehicle's loudspeaker, echoing in the underground space.

Second floor.

Qin Hongye pushed the round into the chamber, her A-class Eagle Eye locked onto that giant, beating heart.

First floor console.

Chen Chen pressed the firing key.

"Click."

A crisp mechanical dry-fire sound rang out.

On the control panel, the ammunition count for the two c-class twin vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns displayed a bright "0".

It was empty.

Just now, while charging the overpass to clear the Holy Light Church's defensive line, five thousand armor-piercing incendiary rounds had been completely squandered.

The atmosphere suddenly froze.

Iron Wall was still waiting eagerly for fire support, only to hear the dry fire of an empty chamber.

Chen Chen's face remained calm.

He turned his wrist, aiming the vehicle's loudspeaker directly at the military position.

"Iron Wall."

"Bring all the 12.7mm armor-piercing rounds from your vehicle over here."

The hope that had just ignited in Iron Wall was doused by this sentence.

Gritting his teeth, he hid behind a half-melted armored vehicle and shouted:

"Chen Chen! This is the military's 7th Mechanized Infantry Brigade's ordnance! I can give it to you, but you must first cover our retreat from this stomach area! As soon as we get out, you can name your price for the ammo!"

A typical negotiation tactic.

Using rules to pressure people, then writing blank checks.

Chen Chen leaned back in his chair, tapping his fingers on the steering wheel.

"Trying to negotiate terms with me?"

Behind Iron Wall, a calf-sized acid-spitting aberration was quietly crawling out of the mud, its sharp claws already raised, aimed at the back of Iron Wall's head.

Chen Chen moved his mind.

The A-class skill "Soul Pierce" was activated.

An invisible mental blade instantly crossed the hundred-meter distance.

"Splat!"

A smooth, circular hole appeared out of thin air on the acid-spitting aberration's head.

The monster collapsed with a thud, brain matter mixed with dark green bodily fluids flowing all over the ground.

Iron Wall turned his head sharply, looking at the monster lying at his feet, cold sweat soaking through his combat uniform.

He hadn't even seen how Chen Chen made his move.

He hadn't even lowered the windows of the Ghost Fortress!

"Three seconds."

Chen Chen's calm voice came from the loudspeaker.

"Three."

"Two."

"If you don't move them, I'm turning off the chassis engine and leaving right now. You can stay here and be fertilizer for that big meatball."

Iron Wall's face turned liver-colored.

He looked at the screaming soldiers around him, then at the increasingly manic brood core.

Between survival and rules, there was no need to choose.

"Move them! Take all the ammo crates from Vehicle No. 3 and Vehicle No. 5! Send them to him!"

Iron Wall shouted at the top of his lungs.

Several soldiers scrambled out of the remaining armored vehicles, dragging over a dozen heavy green iron crates, braving the acid rain, and running desperately to the edge of the Ghost Fortress's shield.

"Boss, I'll go get them."

Jiang Yanxue pushed open the car door, stepped out with her long legs, and dragged the dozen or so ammo crates into the vehicle.

A full eight thousand 12.7mm armor-piercing rounds.

Shen Wanxing ran over, lifting her silver skirt, rubbing her fair little hands, staring excitedly at the ammo crates.

"Chen Chen, let me touch them! Let me touch them!"

She was already used to the thrill of opening blind boxes; as long as she tapped them, the bullets could double, or even become higher-level special ammunition.

Chen Chen reached out and pressed down on her head, pushing her away.

"Don't bother."

"Why?" Shen Wanxing pouted, feeling a bit aggrieved.

"These are trade goods, not monster drops, nor are they system rewards. Your talent is ineffective on things that already have clear ownership."

Chen Chen took the opportunity to tutor her.

If everything could be crit-boosted, he could just find a few people to trade supplies back and forth and loop it infinitely.

The system wasn't that stupid; even god-level talents had underlying logical limitations.

Shen Wanxing said "Oh," and obediently stepped aside.

Jiang Yanxue moved extremely quickly, having already linked the ammunition into the supply system.

"Loading complete."

Chen Chen placed his hands back on the virtual crosshair control panel.

"Qin Hongye, find the weak point."

"Received!"

At the second-floor sniper position, Qin Hongye took a deep breath.

Her A-class Eagle Eye talent was pushed to the limit.

The gauss sniper rifle's crosshairs scanned back and forth across the surface of the brood's giant heart.

"Bang!"

The electromagnetic explosion rang out.

The projectile tore through the air, burying itself fiercely into the root of the thickest energy-absorbing blood vessel on the left side of the brood.

The purple entry [Weak Point Marking] was triggered!

A scarlet cross mark lit up on the surface of the brood, incredibly piercing.

"Nice shot."

Chen Chen pressed the firing key.

"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!"

The two c-class twin vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns let out a deafening roar.

A wall of dark red fire spewed out.

Eight thousand armor-piercing rounds chased the scarlet cross mark, pouring out crazily.

The characteristic of Weak Point Marking was one hundred percent true damage.

The thick calcified flesh armor on the outer layer of the brood, which even the military's heavy artillery couldn't blast through, was torn apart under the baptism of the metal storm.

Flesh fragments flew everywhere, and green high-pressure blood splashed around like a fountain.

"Hiss—"

The brood felt the pain and let out an extremely sharp mental shriek.

The terrain of the entire underground space shook violently, and large chunks of rock fell from the ceiling.

It felt a fatal threat.

The brood decisively gave up continuing to absorb the earth's energy, and those dozens of thick blood vessels were violently pulled out from the ground.

Hundreds of acid-spitting aberrations in the surrounding mud were forcibly absorbed by the blood vessels.

The monsters were melted alive, turning into a huge flesh shield over ten meters thick, blocking in front of the heart.

At the same time, countless mouths split open on the surface of the heart, and countless high-pressure corrosive blood columns swept indiscriminately toward the Ghost Fortress and the military position.

"Ah!"

There were screams from the military position.

Several soldiers couldn't dodge in time and were hit by the blood columns, instantly melting into a pool of blood along with their guns.

Iron Wall's eyes turned red with anxiety.

"Chen Chen! Save them! Save them first!"

Iron Wall roared with a cracked voice.

Chen Chen didn't even turn his head.

On the Ghost Fortress's B-class energy deflection shield, blue light flickered.

The high-pressure corrosive blood columns hit it and were all deflected; the people in the car didn't even feel a single vibration.

Save them?

He came here to get the golden blueprint blind box, not to act as a living Bodhisattva.

No matter how many military personnel died, what did it have to do with him?

Just then, a "slurp" sound suddenly came from the first-floor living quarters.

Su Xiaoqi was pressed against the car window glass, her eyes wide open.

She was staring at the blasted-apart acid-spitting aberrations outside, and the green blood sprayed out by the brood.

"It smells so good..."

The little girl swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.

The high-level energy emitted by the brood was like a top-tier Michelin meal to her "Gluttony Evolution" talent.

"Brother Chen Chen, can I go eat?"

Su Xiaoqi turned her head, looking pitifully at Chen Chen.

Chen Chen glanced at Su Xiaoqi's bond progress on the panel, then looked at the dense monsters outside.

"Go ahead."

"Just don't burst from overeating."