Translator: AnubisTL
Chen Jiang stopped the artillery, securing it to the roof of the off-road vehicle.
He then took Scar Dog's space bracelet, flipped onto the vehicle's roof, and ordered, "Drive."
"Right away!" Scar Dog didn't hesitate, immediately sliding into the driver's seat. With a stomp on the accelerator, the off-road vehicle roared forward.
Chen Jiang gripped the roof rails tightly, pressing semi-scrapped items against the artillery's barrel to reinforce it.
Reinforcement prevented simultaneous firing. This time, he focused on reducing recoil.
However, he soon realized a miscalculation.
After consuming nearly three hundred semi-scrapped items, he managed to increase the recoil reduction from +20 to +30, but this only reduced the recoil by 50 kilograms.
This was barely better than nothing.
He didn't know about other vehicles, but his battered off-road vehicle certainly couldn't withstand a one-meter-caliber turret firing repeatedly from its roof, especially without any recoil reduction design.
Chen Jiang quickly realized a better approach.
Reinforcing the turret's recoil to a level the off-road vehicle could handle would come at too great a cost.
It would be far simpler to seize a vehicle already capable of withstanding the recoil.
Just one armored vehicle would suffice—something sturdy and heavily armored.
Like the several armored vehicles currently speeding toward them from the side.
Chen Jiang stared with a peculiar expression at the armored vehicles approaching rapidly from about a few hundred meters away.
Each vehicle had roughly ten wheels, five on each side.
Except for the wheels, the entire vehicle was encased in thick armor, radiating an aura of impenetrable security.
Far superior to the off-road vehicle Ma Zi had cobbled together from scrap armor.
These vehicles were clearly designed to withstand the turret's recoil.
However, how to seize these armored vehicles remained a problem.
He could unleash a full burst from the turret, but that would likely cripple the vehicles, leaving them useless. A strategic approach was needed, not brute force.
At that moment, the three armored vehicles charging straight toward them began to unleash their firepower.
The machine guns mounted on the vehicles locked onto the abandoned off-road vehicle and opened fire in a relentless barrage.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Tracer rounds rained down, clanging against the armored deck of the off-road vehicle beneath Chen Jiang.
With no time to spare, Chen Jiang dove through the sunroof into the passenger seat.
Glancing at the three armored vehicles closing in through the rearview mirror, Chen Jiang licked his lips, a glint of greed flashing in his eyes as his mind raced.
I'm definitely taking those armored vehicles.
Meanwhile, inside City 18, the elder watched the live feed of Chen Jiang's desperate retreat. He slammed his fist on the table, shouting triumphantly, "Excellent!"
"Just as I predicted, the human player has run out of ammunition."
"Strike the snake dead in one blow! Pursue him relentlessly—don't let him escape!"
"If he manages to reload his magazines to full capacity, he'll be a headache for City 18 for quite some time."
Nearby, several men gazed at the screen displaying the scene on the wall, their faces filled with awe and flattery. "The leader's judgment was spot-on," one of them remarked. "Surviving the previous Ten Thousand Races Arena proves he's truly exceptional!"
"Hmph," the old man scoffed, a flicker of smugness in his eyes. "The current Ten Thousand Races Arena has only been running for three months. It's impossible for a player to have amassed such firepower in such a short time."
"Even if he did, the usage restrictions must be severe. He's likely already exhausted his ammunition."
"If we pursue him now and eliminate him here, we'll never have to worry about this flea buzzing in our ears again."
"Surround him!"
"Yes, sir!"
Soon, the remaining nine fully equipped armored vehicles, racing across the wilderness, received orders from City 18 and swiftly turned to encircle Chen Jiang's off-road vehicle.
At that moment—
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Two rockets streaked from the armored vehicles, arcing gracefully through the air before striking Chen Jiang's off-road vehicle with pinpoint accuracy.
Boom!
A massive wave of flames, accompanied by a shockwave, instantly blasted the off-road vehicle into the air!
Smoke and black smoke billowed skyward, mingling in the air.
Meanwhile, the remaining nine armored vehicles hadn't yet arrived. To form a complete encirclement, they had taken a slightly longer route.
The human player had left an indelible shadow over City 18.
The three armored vehicles trailing behind didn't lower their guard. Instead, they fired another volley of rockets, their ear-splitting sonic booms and orange-red flames streaking toward the overturned off-road vehicle.
Boom! Boom!
More explosions erupted.
The off-road vehicle had been reduced to a burning fireball, black smoke billowing from its charred remains.
No one emerged from the wreckage.
The damned human player must have been killed instantly by the first rocket strike.
"Good!"
"Excellent!"
In City 18's command center, the elderly commander and his staff rose to their feet, clapping excitedly. "He's finally dead!"
"A lucky human brat dared to challenge the mechanical race!"
"His audacity knew no bounds!"
At that moment, Fei Yiming, seated nearby, raised his hand, his expression shifting between uncertainty and concern. "Commanders, the human player might still be alive."
"If he had died, the human player would have disappeared from my pursuit order. But the pursuit order is still active."
"This means the human player is still alive."
Upon hearing this, the leader of City 18 frowned and immediately glanced at the race kill rankings.
[Rank 1: Human Player Chen Jiang]
The name hung high on the list, showing no signs of trouble.
If Chen Jiang had died, his name would have vanished instantly from the race kill rankings, not remained there.
"Still alive?"
The leader stared in disbelief at the footage of the off-road vehicle rolling nearby, engulfed in flames and billowing thick smoke. How could anyone survive such a situation?
Could he be critically injured?
At that moment—
In the footage, the three armored vehicles had come to a halt. About ten fully armed soldiers cautiously raised their weapons and advanced toward the burning off-road vehicle.
Their mission was to eliminate the human player.
Therefore, they needed to see the human player's corpse to confirm the mission's completion.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Soon, the ten fully armed soldiers, guns raised, stopped just three meters from the burning off-road vehicle.
[Rat-tat-tat!!!]
A rapid, ear-splitting barrage of gunfire erupted like a torrential downpour.
Without a word, the soldiers unleashed a synchronized volley into the burning off-road vehicle.
(End of the Chapter)
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