Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 383: Section 379 - Living Captive

Underneath the snow velvet weeping willow, Squad 04 had dug several large pits and discovered some seal and whale bones, even a human skeleton.

It looked like the poaching gang had caused a fatality here, but it was unclear whether the deceased was an innocent or an accomplice.

However, there were still no leads related to the "Water Bear" organization.

Boom!~

A sudden loud noise shook the entire investigative site under the snow velvet weeping willow, branches fell off and scattered all over the ground.

"What’s happening?"

A chorus of alarmed voices rose from inside the mobile base vehicle, as everyone, who had been asleep, was jolted awake with many branches hitting the roof of the vehicle.

Boom! Another loud noise, and even more branches fell.

The Earth Mage on night duty, Ruan Tiankai, shouted, "We’re under attack!"

"’Adam,’ start the vehicle, let’s break through!"

Chen Fei, who had just woken up, immediately gave the instruction.

If it weren’t for the armor of the mobile base vehicle, staying put would mean a dead end for Squad 04.

The mobile base vehicle promptly accelerated, breaking away from the area underneath the snow velvet weeping willow, as it became enveloped in flying snowflakes, causing several people to roll out of their beds unexpectedly in the chaos.

At that moment, the third loud noise completely blasted away the canopy of the snow velvet weeping willow tree, leaving only the main branches incompletely intact and few smaller branches the size of kittens.

Adam: It’s artillery fire, I’ve captured the projectile trajectory, the cannon is approximately 8 kilometers to the southwest, caliber larger than 80 millimeters.

Thanks to the variety of auxiliary modules meticulously designed by Henghai Tactical Weapons Group for the single soldier tactical armor, compatible with various battlefield environments, Chen Fei had all those modules integrated into the mobile base vehicle, driven by "Adam."

Chen Fei asked in confusion, "Why didn’t we detect it before?"

Adam: The infrared thermal imaging reaction was blocked by plant branches, and it was not yet the next radar detection cycle.

The mobile base vehicle wasn’t completely defenseless, with radar detection every ten minutes. The artillery fire coincidentally happened during a gap between automatic detections; if it had been a few minutes earlier or later, it would probably have been noticed immediately.

Without hesitation, Chen Fei said, "Prepare the railgun, lock onto the enemy target, fire!"

The carriage shook slightly as a 152 demolition bomb roared out.

"Adam," while reporting, had already completed the auto-lock, just waiting for Chen Fei’s order to fire.

On a moonless night, as geese fly high, the barbarian king escapes under cover of darkness.

Wanting to chase the light cavalry, the snow fills my bow and blade.

Boom!~

The quiet snowy night suddenly lit up, illuminating a good portion of the sky with fire.

In the distance, a fire rose and then disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"What happened?"

Adrian, clothed in haste, rushed to the driver’s seat to see Chen Fei manhandling the steering wheel, accelerating the vehicle.

The wheels crushed through the snow directly onto the uneven frozen ground, shaking and vibrating the carriage violently.

Chen Fei floored the accelerator, and the mobile base vehicle almost seemed to hover, not turning his head, he said, "It’s a cannonade, someone took advantage of the gap in our surveillance to launch a surprise attack."

A 152 shell had been fired, no matter if it was accurate or not; even if it missed by thirty or forty meters, the outcome wouldn’t differ much.

Chen Fei was in a hurry to get there, hoping to catch one or two individuals still barely breathing, to see if he could extract some information from them.

In the middle of the night in the uninhabited Siberian tundra, ordinary people simply couldn’t manage such an act.

The eight-kilometer distance was reached in a moment, the bright lights cut through the snow curtain and shone on a large, indistinct crater; nearby, all the snow had vanished to reveal the ground littered with various debris, such as metal fragments, frozen soil and gravel, torn cloth, and flesh.

Adrian frowned at the sight, knowing that after such a bombardment, there was no chance of survivors.

"Quick, quick, quick, go out and check!"

Eager to see for himself, Kiterley, an A-class Metal Ability User, was the first to swing open the door and rush out, sword in hand.

A gust of cold air swept into the vehicle, causing everyone to break out in goosebumps.

"Wait for me!"

Apu, a big dark-skinned man, hastily put on a pair of trousers, leaving his upper body in just a tank top, wielding his big treasure sword, and jumped out of the vehicle in his eagerness.

He slipped on the snowy ground, landing flat on his face.

"Look for survivors!"

Adrian called out from behind the two men, urgently reminding them.

"Ta-da! Dual Blade Style, Mouri Misono, here I come!"

Mouri Little Sister was the third to strike.

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Following were the Constructed Puppet Warriors, armed with automatic weapons and tactical flashlights; they didn’t need clothing but still took time to arm themselves.

"It’s, it’s too cold!"

Susanna, an Ice Ability User, embarrassed her peers by curling up in the blankets like a freezing bird, shivering.

Whether she was there or not didn’t make much of a difference.

If they encountered a large number of mutants, it would make sense to attack then; as for now, it was better to stay warm a little longer.

"I’ll take a look too!"

Chen Fei left the driver’s seat, the cable automatically disconnecting from his waist.

Because he had found that high-capacity military crystalline block, the dependence of the mobile base vehicle on him had significantly decreased. However, charging was still indispensable when he was idle, although he no longer needed to be tied to the driver’s seat for extended periods.

With every step towards the vehicle door, Chen Fei’s body was covered layer by layer with complex components, which finally evolved into the ’Dragon Guard’ single soldier tactical armor that enveloped his entire body.

Among the three land combat tactical armors from Henghai Tactical Weapons Group, each has its own focus: ’Dragon Guard’ prioritizes comprehensive combat and team cooperation, ’Dragon General’ enhances communication and command functions, and ’Dragon King’ is more like a Lone Ranger, not only with strengthened defenses but also capable of carrying heavy-duty individual tactical weapons, often seen active on the battlefield during breakthrough moments.

152 had smashed out a crater with a diameter of three meters on the tundra, and the impact wave lifted or melted all the accumulated snow within a fifty-meter radius.

The members of Team 04 quickly found a shattered barrel of a 120mm mortar, a pickup truck with half its body violently torn away, a head, three arms, four feet, numerous fragments of ribs and vertebrae, a few segments of intestines, and a blood-soaked, barrel-waisted aunt, who was barely breathing under the shocking wounds, with a thick layer of pale yellow fat leaving her a breath of life, but gasping without taking in air, soon, even if she wouldn’t die of severe injuries, she would freeze to death in this icy tundra.

Not being killed outright by the 152 was proof of a very tough life.

Seeing the only survivor barely clinging to life, Adrian quickly looked around; his first thought was of that little guy only the size of a fist.

"Where’s Xiao Jiu?"

While there was still a breath left, it was necessary to interrogate immediately, but before that, they had to revive her; otherwise, if she died before they could ask a couple of questions, it would all be in vain.

The strongest healing spell in Team 04 was undoubtedly wielded by Pure Light Sparrow Xiao Jiu.

Although the Holy Knight Walter Sam also knew a few light-based spells, he was, after all, a War Professional, and the healing spells he could master were limited to the first-rank ’Light Healing Technique’ of the Human Order. He was unable to cast the second-rank ’Light of Redemption.’

"The current temperature is minus 45 degrees Celsius; Xiao Jiu can’t come out at all!"

Chen Fei, of course, would pamper his own child, unwilling to let it leave its warm nest and come here to freeze.

It was observed that in the face of Siberia’s cold snap, even B-rank ice ability users had to kneel; the Little Bird would probably only last a few seconds before directly freezing into an ice bird.

Not just Xiao Jiu, the Blue Scaled Colt couldn’t come out either, at most enduring half an hour before inevitably ending up frozen stiff.

Cold snaps are a force of nature; even low-rank magic beasts cannot completely ignore them.

"Light Healing Technique!"

The Holy Knight chanted the incantation and released the only healing spell he knew.

"Let’s move her into the vehicle first and let Xiao Jiu do the healing," Adrian immediately decided.

Without needing his intervention, Apu directly scooped up the barrel-waisted aunt, who weighed nearly three hundred pounds, under his arm.

When it came to weight, the big dark fellow was certainly not to be outdone.

"Let me lend a hand too!"

The Old Tree Boundary Ape Lulu An glanced at the prisoner gasping for life and took a sesame-sized seed from his pocket, slapping it into one of her grotesque wounds.

Under the prompt of wood system spells, a green sprout soon poked out from the wound, fine roots delving deep into the subcutaneous fat layer, spreading in all directions, with the gaping blood wounds quickly closing. The roots acted like internal stitches and the senator stopped bleeding immediately.

"Wow, Lulu An, what is this healing spell?"

Apu lowered his head and saw that the prisoner’s wounds had all closed, leaving only line-shaped scars, and she no longer looked as terrifying as a rag doll.

"It’s a kind of special parasitic plant that can temporarily save her life. It won’t last long, at most one hour. If we only use ’Light of Redemption’, the effect will probably not be very good."

Lulu An leaned on his withered vine staff, following leisurely behind the big dark guy.

"Even ’Light of Redemption’ won’t work?"

Adrian’s heart was lifted with concern.

The fat woman could die anytime, but definitely not right now.

"Her organs are ruptured. If we only use low-rank healing spells, it probably won’t last until she’s completely healed, unless there’s a high-rank magic medicine."

Lulu An’s hundred-plus years had not been in vain, rich in various experiences. One look at the barrel-waisted aunt and he knew that all her organs had been shattered by the Demolition Bomb from the 152. Although she was momentarily left with a breath of life, death was inevitable.

The killing power of a soccer field per shot was definitely not just a boast.

Chen Fei, about to board the mobile base vehicle, turned his head and casually said, "Like ’Life Resuscitation’?"

"Hmm, that would work perfectly! But using it on a prisoner would be a waste, the parasitic plant is enough."

The Old Tree Boundary Ape nodded; ’Life Resuscitation’ was an Earth Order rank magic potion, capable of pulling people back from the brink of death from such fatal wounds.

Adrian exclaimed in astonishment, "Eh? You have that magic potion?"

Team 04 wouldn’t likely have anyone saintly enough to waste such a precious thing for nothing.

"No!" Chen Fei decisively shook his head and said, "I’ve had one before, but I forgot what it tasted like."

"Good fellow!"

Adrian blurted out involuntarily, recalling Chen Fei’s personal information.

The ruthless person who dared to use ’Dragon Slayer Missiles’ at close quarters against the Dragon of Slaughter, not sparing even himself when merciless.

An Earth Order rank magic potion would definitely not come cheap, and no medium or small military contracting company could obtain such a lifesaving treasure.

Well! The mystery behind Chen Fei’s financial status was finally unveiled.

Many looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

If you buy your life with money, how can you not be poor?

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