91: Chapter 91: The skeleton refused to let go of the accelerator until death! It devoured every last bit of the remains.

The Polaris cut in from the right flank of the frontal battlefield at a speed of eighty-five kilometers per hour.

The new tread suction array kept the chassis as steady as a rock amidst the chaotic terrain of the high-speed battlefield intervention.

The ice surface was covered in explosion craters and debris. If it were the previous pure coal-fired boiler and old tracks, running over a crater at this speed would make one bite their tongue from the jolting.

Now, not even a hint of excess vibration reached the steering wheel.

The Magnetic Anchoring Units held every track link firmly to the ground, allowing the twenty-plus ton chassis to glide over craters and debris with unmatched stability.

The eight remaining vehicles of the Ice-Rift Swarm were split into two groups with a four-hundred-meter gap between them.

The front group of five was exchanging fire with Zhao Tiezhu's Patrol Car.

In the rear group of three, one was painted with golden skull patterns.

White Bone.

Lu Chen targeted the rear group first.

The three vehicles formed a triangular formation, with White Bone's command vehicle in the center.

The formation was tight, with less than twenty meters between them.

"System, load fragmentation grenades."

[Fragmentation Grenade Launcher Array: Consuming 50 Truth Points, ammunition generating.]

Three seconds.

[Loading complete.]

The distance to the three vehicles was three hundred meters.

He pulled the trigger.

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump!

Twelve fragmentation shells detonated above the three vehicles.

A rain of metal fragments poured down.

The roofs of the three vehicles were blanketed.

The additional communication antenna array on the roof of White Bone's command vehicle was shredded by the fragments.

The City Lord rotated the Heavy Machine Gun turret toward the vehicle on the left flank of the triangular formation.

A forty-round burst.

The transmission shaft bearings shattered, and the tracks came loose.

Disabled.

The turret of the vehicle on the right flank was rotating toward the Polaris.

He locked on with the Harpoon Cannon.

One hundred and fifty meters, side profile.

The harpoon fired.

The fifty-pound solid steel barb pierced the weld of the side armor.

Three-second delay.

Implosion.

The side armor plate flew off, and the boiler piping ruptured.

The second vehicle, scrapped.

White Bone's command vehicle.

This vehicle did not slow down, did not turn, and made no evasive maneuvers.

It accelerated.

The engine was pushed to full power, and thick white steam billowed from the exhaust pipe.

It charged straight toward the iron wall.

Speeding towards death without slowing down.

The command vehicle accelerated out of the one-hundred-and-fifty-meter range, and the 75mm gun on its turret fired a shot at the iron wall while moving.

The shell hit the side armor of the iron wall, sending sparks flying; the thick armor of the lv.3 fortress-class didn't even have a dent left.

One of the iron wall's 105mm guns aimed at White Bone's command vehicle.

Close range.

Three hundred meters.

The effect of a 105mm shell on the frontal armor of an Lv.2 combat vehicle was completely different from a 75mm hitting the iron wall.

A single penetration.

The shell entered through the front armor and exited through the rear wall of the engine compartment.

White Bone's command vehicle slid forward another twenty meters by inertia.

The engine caught fire.

The entire vehicle slowly came to a halt amidst black smoke and flames.

The doors never opened.

Vehicle destroyed, occupants dead.

The four words Zhao Tiezhu had mentioned were an operational method for White Bone.

He executed those four words in his own way until the very last second.

Lu Chen didn't dwell on White Bone for long.

The Polaris had already charged toward the remaining five Ice-Rift Swarm vehicles still struggling with the Patrol Car.

Heavy Machine Guns, Ramming Prow, Steam Spray Gun, Mechanical Arms.

Fifty points per round for fragmentation grenades; five scattered vehicles weren't worth it.

Finishing up with the most cost-effective method.

Disabling transmission wheels, overturning with the Ramming Prow, pouring in with the spray gun, and ripping open hatch covers with Mechanical Arms.

Five vehicles, four minutes and twelve seconds.

The last vehicle, even after its tracks were broken, tried to use its turret rotation to hit the Polaris's Mechanical Arm.

The Hydraulic Claws of the Mechanical Arm gripped the gun barrel and bent it ninety degrees with one pull.

The entire vehicle was flipped upside down.

"Battalion Commander Zhao," Lu Chen said into the communicator.

"Here," Zhao Tiezhu's voice was hoarse.

"Front cleared. All eight destroyed. White Bone is dead."

There was a three-second pause on the other end of the communicator.

The cheers of the Patrol Car driver came through the background.

"City Lord," Zhao Tiezhu's voice returned to its usual gravelly tone, "is White Bone really dead?"

"His command vehicle was pierced by your 105, it's on fire, and the doors didn't open."

"I hit him?"

"Your gun, your credit."

Zhao Tiezhu fell silent for two seconds.

"Good."

Only one word.

"Starting to decompose the wreckage now." Lu Chen extended both Mechanical Arms. "Give me three minutes."

"And after three minutes?"

"Full speed back to defend the Black Rock City-State."

"Understood!"

The Polaris's two hydraulic Mechanical Arms began working at high speed amidst the lingering smoke and darkening twilight.

Pale blue Degradation lights lit up one after another on the battlefield.

White Bone's command vehicle dissolved in the blue light.

Overturned combat vehicles dissolved in the blue light.

Engine compartments emitting black smoke dissolved in the blue light.

The City Lord decomposed the wreckage while moving the vehicle.

Each time a vehicle dissolved, the numbers on the holographic panel jumped.

The system popped up the final statistics.

Degradation of the remaining wreckage at the front and rear complete.

Including the three flank wrecks not yet decomposed, they were also handled while moving.

All Degradation complete.