Published: February 10, 2025
"Two-in-One"
It was still not over.
As Xia Bai Squad retreated into the valley, they all turned around. In the process, they had all changed their magazines. Then they raised their guns and began to shoot, sending glowing bullets into the thick mist.
On both sides of the valley, hundreds of soldiers emerged from hollows carved out of the mountains, each holding white-level firearms, unleashing a barrage of bullets.
“Creak!”
A sound, though not loud, was enough to cause one to cringe, echoed from the other side of the valley. As this sound grew louder, an air-splitting noise approached from a distance. By the time everyone heard it, several beams of light had already entered the mist.
Although they couldn't see clearly, everyone in Cloud Summit understood that it was a throwing vehicle known as the Peashooter.
It was named the Peashooter due to a very famous game. Although this equipment only resembled the game in its method of attack, its power was truly comparable to that in the game.
Strictly speaking, this was a type of multi-barrel rocket launcher.
After Guangyao entered the Cloud Summit sequence, several skilled weapon experts among his subordinates became soldiers only because firearms had fallen out of favor.
This was an undeniable fact. Even that type of rocket launcher might not inflict as much damage on a life form with an evolution level exceeding five as a skill of the same level. The explosive power was indeed somewhat lacking; even the mini-missiles on the Jingjue Floating Sphere could only take down a giant tree.
However, with their expertise, they entered the magic crystal laboratory and, alongside Le Da Yuan and others, developed a launcher that used a multi-barrel rocket launcher but fired metal spheres instead.
For thrust, Le Da Yuan personally took charge, using a magic crystal circuit.
It did not launch magic crystal energy; rather, it used magic crystal energy as a power source.
The principle was not complex, but it represented an innovation and expansion of traditional concepts regarding magic crystal weapons. The attack power of magic crystal weapons relied heavily on sharp cutting, while this multi-barrel rocket launcher focused on impact damage to the target.
It created vibrational damage to specific areas to functionalize the reduction of the target's combat effectiveness—this was the original statement from Le Da Yuan and several designers.
Ye Zhongming figured they meant to crush organs and shatter bones.
With magic crystal energy as the power source, the thrust was immense, and the metal spheres would rapidly increase in temperature during their short flight, inflicting a degree of scorching damage on the target.
It looked impressive, but this weapon also had its drawbacks; the launcher was extremely fragile under magic crystal energy, and even the metal processed by Ye Zhongming could not withstand such a sudden surge of power.
After all, if the power was insufficient, the damage would be low, losing its purpose. Therefore, this device could only be used once unless Ye Zhongming employed precious materials like Ghost Gold.
From the corrosive bombs in the mist to magic crystal aerial bombs, to magic crystal giant cannons and giant crossbows, finally culminating in a rain of bullets and multi-barrel solid projectile rocket launchers, all these attacks hit the iron lock prisoner shrouded in the mist within mere seconds.
It was hard to imagine that Cloud Summit Villa would transport so many weapons to set an ambush here, and even harder to believe the astounding transformation they made to the valley in just two days. This all allowed them to eliminate the height gap with the iron lock prisoner, enabling their attacks to strike the most fatal areas directly.
Although the intensity of the attacks in such a short time was astonishing, the assault did not stop. Everyone remembered Ye Zhongming's words.
Only three situations could halt the assault: one, I give the command; two, the iron lock prisoner falls; three, the ammunition runs out.