V let out a loud shout, and as Sianwistan accelerated, she had already sprinted out from the driver's seat, with flames blazing from the back of her armor. But just as she took off, her shoulder was suddenly struck, bursting into a spray of blood.
Almost half of her shoulder was blasted apart, and she was sent flying backward. Had she not seen the trajectory of the bullet in the air and dodged in time, this shot would have killed her!
This electromagnetic sniper rifle, used against anti-material, could even be called an electromagnetic cannon. If not for her armor, her nanometer armor and nanometer combat suit absorbing most of the impact, her entire upper body might have been turned into a bloody mist!
She didn't scream in pain or hesitate, and with a snap of her mantis blades from her arms, she fiercely slashed at the air upon landing.
In the air, a flash of blood appeared, followed by Agent Arasaka who looked somewhat shocked, sliced in half by her single strike. The optical camouflage twisted in the air, outlining a body split in two.
"Eleven o'clock, sniper, seventh floor!"
The squad's voice channel echoed with V's armor 'Mao Jun' AI's voice prompt.
"Where's our reconnaissance drone? The cameras? Why didn't anyone notice there was an ambush?"
"It's optical camouflage! Many of them have optical camouflage! Damn, even our communications are being jammed!"
Several Netherworld Dogs shouted, quickly confirming the situation.
Inside the vehicle, Mercer couldn't bother with these, as the RPG in the sky aimed directly at the car Mercer was in.
The armored vehicle got hit on the side by a rocket-propelled grenade — more precisely, it hit Rebecca.
Her speed was equally fast, under the acceleration of the Frenzy System and armor, she got ahead and opened the car door, rushing in front of the rocket, taking the missile head-on for Mercer's car!
Meanwhile, the micro missile launcher on her back activated, half targeting the sniper's position, and half targeting the incoming RPG.
"Rebecca!" Mercer got his head buzzing from the shock wave but hurriedly shouted to check on Rebecca.
Rebecca, blasted straight into the armored car; the impact almost tipped the vehicle, but she just lowered her arm and raised a thumb: "I'm okay!"
Mercer quickly reached out, pulling Lucy from the passenger seat to help her crawl to the back seat.
Rebecca then pushed ahead with her engine, raising her arms and shouting while shooting at the glowing spots of gunfire around.
Mercer's expression was extraordinarily solemn: "Watch out for elite agents!"
"Sianwistan!" Mann, in the front seat, had already sounded the alarm.
But faster than his warning was V, who charged forward like a phantom wielding the mantis blades.
No less than three elite agents activated Sianwistan, appearing intermittently in the air, rushing toward Mercer's vehicle.
But Jack and Mann, among others, were not helpless, the Frenzy System was slower, but it didn't mean those agents could utilize Sianwistan's speed to the utmost like V.
In an instant, gunfire roared, Mercer instinctively activated the Network Access Vault, but immediately felt as if struck by lightning, a muffled sound escaped him as chaotic signal waves surged into his mind, like a thousand birds screeching inside his head.
Lucy felt the same, stifling a scream of pain before grabbing the box Rebecca had thrown onto the seat, containing Mercer's octopus arm and weapons.
"It's a large electronic countermeasure device!"
Lucy warned, yet Mercer couldn't care less; he tossed his suit aside, roughly tearing open his shirt to expose the heat sinks on his back.
A huge buzzing ensued — Mercer's vision sparkled with data, fully absorbed in electronic warfare.
"Don't worry, I can handle it!" Mercer said, quickly beginning to counter-hack that electronic countermeasure device, progressing swiftly.
As always, if he could hold on, secure the squad's local network, he could then hack the enemies; V and Rebecca only needed to delay until he completed the hack, then they could start cleaning up the battlefield.
But before he could tackle the distant large electronic countermeasure device, a huge EMP shockwave exploded, following closely.
This attack spared no one; even Arasaka's elite agents knelt down, convulsing unable to move, everyone's prosthetics sparked, Mercer's hacker prosthetic buzzed before smoldering smoke.
Nothing's deadlier than suddenly taking an EMP at full-combat power! He felt his Network Access Vault got fried, not to mention his delicate hacker prosthetic.
"Damn..."
This was the trap set for Mercer!
Mercer barely struggled, pulling Lucy who, sparking, lay sheltered beneath him, as she had no mobility left, she could only stare at him, unable to move.
Then he looked at the Zhuo Shotgun in the safe.
Fortunately, his suitcase was an advanced storage box that could shield multiple electromagnetic signals, plus being inside the cabin, in a sense equated to a Faraday cage, partially weakening the pulse.
This protected the contents inside the box from any damage.