Translator: AnubisTL
While City 18 was frantically strategizing, Chen Jiang showed no signs of stopping.
His 110mm cannonballs, firing at a rate of 2,900 rounds per minute, rained down on the outskirts of City 18 like miniature missiles.
With City 18's energy shield and Spiderweb Air Defense System completely disabled, the city was utterly defenseless.
Their merit points had been exhausted, rendering both the energy shield and the Spiderweb Air Defense System inoperable. The missile authorization couldn't be unlocked, and even if it could, the Heaven's Eye Pursuit Order hadn't yet taken effect, preventing them from inputting precise real-time targeting data.
Sending troops to overwhelm Chen Jiang was an even more absurd notion.
Without artillery support, the armored vehicles, infantry, and drones were annihilated by the relentless barrage of cannonballs before they could even approach within a kilometer of Chen Jiang.
At this moment, everyone in City 18 could only cling to one hope!
The human player Chen Jiang's ammunition would inevitably run out!
The projectiles fired were energy cannonballs.
Since they were energy cannonballs, they used energy cartridges. These cartridges couldn't be removed; once depleted, they would only automatically replenish after 24 hours!
Although this human player seemed to have an unusually large supply of ammunition, they were confident it would soon be exhausted.
At that moment—
The turret, its red patterns flickering violently, suddenly went silent, as if deflating with a shudder.
The ammunition was depleted.
The race kill rankings now stood as follows:
[Top Ranking: Mechanical Race Player Feng Jiutian.]
[Alien Race Kills: 15,182]
[Second Ranking: Human Player Chen Jiang.]
[Alien Race Kills: 9,237]
By this point, his turret's 81,000 rounds of ammunition had been completely exhausted!
At the turret's firing rate, 81,000 rounds could sustain continuous fire for nearly 27 minutes!
In other words, he had been bombarding City 18 for a full 27 minutes!
After accounting for the cannonballs blocked by the energy shield and those intercepted by the Spiderweb Air Defense System, the remaining projectiles had caused nearly 10,000 casualties in City 18.
A terrifying number, on the surface.
Yet Chen Jiang remained slightly dissatisfied.
Each cannonball was essentially a small missile. A barrage of 2,900 such missiles per minute should have inflicted far more than 10,000 casualties, falling short of his expectations.
However, the factors at play were understandable.
The energy shield, the air defense system, the fact that they could only bombard City 18's periphery while driving in circles, giving the mechanical race ample time to retreat to the inner city, and the many critically wounded who hadn't yet died and thus hadn't yielded merit points—all these had limited the damage.
But now, all these obstacles had been eliminated.
Chen Jiang gazed at the defenseless City 18 before him, then glanced at the race kill rankings, which had noticeably risen. He chuckled softly. "This back-and-forth is getting rather dull."
"Crush them."
"Give them a number so devastating that the mere sight of it will fill them with despair."
With that, he pulled out a small, seemingly delicate stun gun from his chest pocket.
[Item Name]: Energy Cartridge Replenishment Gun
[Item Tier]: One-Star Item
[Item Effect]: Aim this gun at the energy cartridge of your energy weapon and fire to instantly restore the cartridge to its peak condition.
[Item Description]: As you know, instantly replenishing an energy cartridge is far more costly than allowing it to recharge naturally. Therefore, you should understand why this item isn't cheap.
[Item Price]: 1,000 Human Race Merit Points
This was an auxilia.ry weapon he had purchased from the Human Race Merit Points Shop for 1,000 merit points.
His current merit points balance stood at 9,237. After buying the Energy Cartridge Replenishment Gun, he still had a substantial 8,237 points remaining!
Enough to buy eight more!
In other words, City 18 could endure at least eight more rounds of indiscriminate bombardment lasting 27 minutes each!
A faint smile played on Chen Jiang's lips. Without hesitation, he leaped out of the vehicle, aimed the stun gun at the energy cartridge at the rear of the turret mounted on the roof, and gently squeezed the trigger.
Bang!
A dull, crisp gunshot, like a baby's fart, rang out.
A searingly bright energy bullet shot forth, striking the energy cartridge at the turret's rear!
The entire turret crackled with lightning-like energy.
This process lasted a full three seconds.
Then, all the strange phenomena vanished instantly.
The stun gun in Chen Jiang's hand quickly transformed into a completely scrapped item.
Chen Jiang casually tossed the energy cartridge replenishment gun aside, paying it no further attention. Only intact or semi-scrapped items could be used for enhancement; this single-use, completely scrapped item was useless for that purpose.
Soon, his turret's ammunition capacity was fully restored.
[81,000/81,000 rounds.]
"Then let's continue," Chen Jiang murmured, standing at the front of the vehicle, gazing at the smoke-filled city ahead, where flames still burned fiercely in the distance. His expression remained calm as he added softly, "A real man never stops."
But just then—
A raspy voice suddenly echoed in his ear!
["Human Race Horn."]
["Li Xiumei: Player Chen Jiang, this is Li Xiumei, Secretary-General of the Human Race Guardian Association. I order you to immediately cease your pointless display of competitive spirit!"]
["We have more information than you do. The mechanical race is one of the most powerful races in the Ten Thousand Races Arena, while the human race barely managed to squeeze into the top seventy!"]
["The Human Race Guardian Association has decided to prioritize stable development and avoid conflict. We must not engage in pointless rivalry with the mechanical race player Feng Jiutian, even though securing the top ranking and the associated racial rewards would greatly benefit the human race!"]
["Such actions would draw the mechanical race's attention to us, leading to future massacres of humans!"]
["While you may think you're bringing glory to the human race, you're actually making us a target for all other races. What the human race needs now is stable development, not reckless displays of bravado!"]
["Immediately cease your energy attacks against Feng Jiutian of the mechanical race!"]
"A human race horn?" Chen Jiang raised an eyebrow slightly, having seen this item in the human race merit points shop.
[Human Race Horn], a one-star item, priced at 300 merit points.
This was the first time anyone from the human race had used the human race horn.
After all, the human race merit points shop had only opened yesterday. For most players, killing 300 alien race members within two days to earn 300 merit points was simply impossible.
And for those human players who had painstakingly accumulated 300 merit points...
They would never waste their hard-earned merit points on a completely useless human race horn.
"I remember the human race horn had a limit of 200 characters, right?" Scar Dog asked, looking at the horn's pop-up window with a puzzled expression. "This message clearly exceeds 200 characters, doesn't it?"
(End of the Chapter)
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