76: Chapter 76 Surprise Attack

A harsh, grating noise, as if countless broken gongs were being struck simultaneously, came from above the cliff on the right side of the battlefield.

"What is that sound?" Lin Li frowned, looking up in confusion.

He saw over a dozen oddly shaped aircraft emerging from somewhere in the gray, gloomy sky.

They had crude propellers, and their fuselages were entirely riveted together from scrap iron plates and thick steel pipes, coated with messy red paint.

These machines were belching thick black smoke, their engines roaring as if they were about to explode at any moment, weaving unsteadily through the air.

As a veteran of Warhammer, Lin Li recognized this aerial trash at a glance.

"Deffkoptas?!" Lin Li's pupils contracted sharply.

This was the signature aerial strike vehicle of the Orks.

They were piloted by those mentally unstable Stormboyz and Flyboyz.

The armor of this helicopter was as thin as paper, completely sacrificing protection to trade for that reckless, lightning speed.

However, what made Lin Li's scalp tingle was...

These dozen or so Deffkoptas were not flying toward the main player position in the front.

They bypassed the most heavily fortified front line and the towering cliffs on both sides, like a flock of mutated vultures smelling blood, diving straight toward the construction site in the far rear!

"Oh no!"

Cold sweat instantly broke out on Lin Li.

The anti-air defense in the rear of the construction site was currently almost zero!

Those eighteen artillery players were focusing entirely on firing at the coordinates in the front, completely unaware of what was above them.

And working here were not only nearly a thousand Nomads, but also over five hundred natives attached to the Shelter.

If these helicopters were allowed to swoop down and conduct indiscriminate machine-gun strafing, and then air-drop those Flyboyz carrying bombs...

Although Lin Li was safe wearing his Power Armor, this group of unarmed natives would definitely suffer heavy casualties!

By then, the system's 'Protect the Nomads' challenge mission would definitely fail, and the Shelter would lose a massive amount of valuable population resources.

"Enemy aerial units are attacking the rear! Anti-air fire, return to defend immediately!"

Lin Li roared into the PV command channel.

But there was simply no time left.

The reckless speed of the Deffkoptas brought them there in an instant.

Lin Li took the red helmet from under his arm, put it on, and locked the visor securely.

"Everyone! Get down! Find cover! Hide behind the wall! Quickly!!!"

Through the external amplifier module of his Power Armor, Lin Li let out a deafening roar that drowned out the drone of the helicopters.

Thanks to the large number of workers, the cement wall spanning the pass had already been built over a meter high, barely serving as waist-high cover.

Hearing Lin Li's roar, the Nomads, who had spent years wandering the dangerous wasteland, reacted extremely quickly.

They rolled on the ground and stuck tightly behind the cement wall like loaches.

But the miners were a beat slower to react.

They stared blankly, looking up at the steel monsters in the sky.

The next second.

"Da da da da da!"

The crude multi-barreled machine guns mounted on the noses of the Deffkoptas spat out violent tongues of fire.

Dense bullets poured down onto the construction site like rain.

Sand and soil splashed, and cement debris flew everywhere.

A dozen miners who couldn't dodge in time were hit instantly, falling into pools of blood while screaming, and the construction site immediately descended into chaos and panic.

After a round of strafing.

The helicopters began to lower their altitude, hovering a few dozen meters above the ground.

A dozen Stormboyz wearing crude rocket packs air-dropped down, attempting to launch a massacre in the core area of the construction site.

"You want to run wild on my turf? You're courting death!"

A trace of ferocity flashed in Lin Li's eyes.

He gripped the metal shaft of his refined steel halberd tightly with both hands, spread his legs slightly, bent his knees, lowered his body, and assumed an exaggerated squatting position.

The servo motors inside his Power Armor let out a piercing, high-frequency screech, pushing the power output to the extreme red line.

Coupled with Lin Li's current terrifying strength attribute of 32 points at level 14.

His current explosive power was even approaching the physical strength of those genetically modified Space Marine!

"Get down here!"

Lin Li let out a wild roar and kicked off the ground with his legs!

"Boom!"

The hard rock beneath his feet was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and a deep pit was stomped out.

Lin Li's body, clad in heavy Power Armor, was like a dark red cruise missile fired from a tube, creating a piercing sound as it broke through the air, charging straight toward a Deffkopta tens of meters in the air!

On the ground.

Pointy Ears, the native miner who had just heard Lin Li's warning and escaped disaster by hiding behind the wall, was trembling with both hands.

He saw his brother Ironhead beside him, gripping a heavy shovel, stepping out of cover in two strides.

Pointy Ears gritted his teeth and threw away the pickaxe in his hand.

He grabbed a random unloaded Logging Gun from the neatly arranged weapon rack nearby and scrambled over to Ironhead's side.

"Brother Ironhead! Where is Lord Dawn? He has no cover!" Pointy Ears looked around anxiously.

Just then, he heard a sonic boom from above.

Pointy Ears subconsciously looked up, just in time to see a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.

The Lord in red armor had actually jumped dozens of meters high from flat ground!

Like a burning meteor, he smashed fiercely into the steel monster in the sky!

Pointy Ears opened his mouth wide and blurted out the advanced vocabulary he had learned from the players during this time without any hesitation:

"Holy sh*t!!!"

In mid-air.

"Bang!!!"

Lin Li's shoulder smashed heavily into the side armor of that Deffkopta.

How could this thin-as-a-cicada-wing scrap metal shell withstand the dual impact of the Power Armor and dozens of points of strength?

The helicopter was like a soda can hit by a hammer, instantly collapsing and deforming!

The Orks Flyboy who was laughing wildly in the pilot's seat was smashed into meat paste, along with the control stick.

The out-of-control helicopter tumbled twice in the air, its tail rotor snapped, and it spiraled toward the ground, trailing thick black smoke and wailing Orks.

"Boom!"

The helicopter smashed heavily onto the open ground of the construction site and exploded instantly.

A huge fireball flipped all the surrounding sand and soil.

Amidst the shockwave of the explosion, a Stormboyz, covered in flames, was blasted over and landed right in front of Pointy Ears and Ironhead.

Although the monster was burned to a crisp, it still roared and raised the chopper in its hand.

Pointy Ears was so scared his legs went weak, and he couldn't pull the bolt of the gun in his hand.

Ironhead stepped forward expressionlessly, not needing a gun at all.

He swung the heavy shovel used for mixing mud with both hands, using the strength of his waist, "Bang, bang, bang!"

Three strikes in one second! Fast as lightning!

That strong Orc Boyz didn't even see Ironhead's move before his entire green head was smashed like a watermelon by the shovel, splattering green blood and brains all over the ground.

And at this moment.

From the burning wreckage of the helicopter, a tall, dark red figure walked out unscathed, stepping over the charred corpse of an Orks.

Lin Li carried his halberd, his breathing slightly rapid under the mask, but his eyes were startlingly bright.

At this moment.

The thousands of Nomads hiding behind the half-section cement wall were all stunned.

They widened their eyes, their mouths open wide enough to fit a fist.

As bottom-rung refugees struggling in the wasteland, they had seen mutated beasts and warlords with big guns.

But where had they ever seen such a "humanoid beast" that could jump tens of meters high, destroy an aircraft with its bare body, and walk out of an explosion's fire unscathed?!

"Is... is this a god descending?"

In the sky, the remaining dozen or so Deffkoptas, seeing their companion shot down in such a brutal way, did not retreat; instead, it provoked the ferocity of these lunatics.

They turned their noses, preparing to concentrate fire on Lin Li.

Just then.

"Da da da da da!"

Dense aviation cannon fire came from the clouds higher up.

The player [Elbow-Strike Helicopter] was flying a wooden biplane, descending like a divine soldier.

The tongues of fire from the nose spewed crazily, instantly blowing up two Deffkoptas preparing to dive in the air.

"I specialize in dealing with you crappy helicopters!" He yelled arrogantly from the cockpit, "This wave, this wave is called professional matching!"

On the ground, a few players who had originally been charging at the front but had accidentally sprained their feet and retreated to the rear for bandaging, saw the helicopters in the sky, and their eyes lit up instantly.

"Holy sh*t! Experience is falling from the sky! Grab it!"

They didn't even bother wrapping their bandages, and one after another pulled out RPGs and Heavy Stubbers, firing wildly at the helicopters in the sky.

After a brief panic, the native laborers at the construction site were greatly encouraged by seeing their Lord's heroic feat, and their morale soared.

The recruited guard soldiers raised their automatic rifles and began to counterattack against the sky.

Although the anti-air fire had improved, the remaining seven or eight Deffkoptas still managed to successfully drop nearly forty Orks Stormboyz wearing rocket packs before they crashed.

These monsters that descended from the sky smashed heavily onto the construction site.

They waved their crude Chainsword and large-caliber pistols, croaking and screaming, preparing to launch a ground massacre.

Lin Li looked coldly at these prey that had landed in front of him.

The collision in the heat of the moment not only left him unscathed but seemed to have opened some kind of locked switch in his heart.

Since transmigrating into this dark and desperate Warhammer universe, Lin Li had always upheld the spirit of "playing it safe".

He would avoid going out if possible, and if he could use players to fill the lines, he would never do it himself.

Even after drawing this set of invincible Power Armor, he still subconsciously thought he was weak.

Under the influence of that preconceived fear, he became more and more cautious, more and more cowardly.

But just now, under the protection of the Power Armor and the bonus of his high 14-level strength, he discovered...

He was actually this badass!

That violent adrenaline washed over his brain, his heart pounding violently in his chest, not because of fear, but because of an unspeakable excitement and fighting spirit!

"I've already f*cking put on the armor of the Golden Men, why am I still playing it safe?!"

Lin Li swept away the cowardice in his heart, looked up, and let out a roar that shook the battlefield!

"Kill!!!"

He gripped the refined steel halberd tightly with both hands, turned into a red afterimage, and charged straight into the group of more than forty Orks who had just landed!