Legend of the Cyber Heroes-Chapter 63 - Annihilation

63: Chapter 63 Annihilation

63 -63 Annihilation

“If you claim to be a hero, you ought to clearly state your principles and tell your adversaries what justice means.

This is not the time to speak otherwise.

You should speak like this.”

Xiang Shan stood straight, turned, and faced those Green Forest thugs: “I am a hero.

To let the mother of my disciple, Miss Yulia, rest in peace, to console the lady over there whose name I do not know, and all other humans you have ravaged…

I swear to make you walk towards death amidst the same fear and violence, to cleanse your own sins.”

As Xiang Shan spoke, he suddenly shook the huge cloth bag he was dragging behind him.

Twelve long spears were thrown into the air.

It was only then that the remaining fourteen thugs recovered from the second-in-command’s wailing.

Little Edward yelled, “Bastard!”

Everyone raised their guns.

In that moment, Yuki’s vision shifted to an incredible level.

He saw fourteen people, twenty guns raised simultaneously.

The extensions of the gun barrels interwove, forming a red net.

Xiang Shan, humming a tune, spun his body and stepped back slightly, simultaneously drawing two automatic rifles floating in mid-air, aiming at two men, and firing.

The gunshots were almost simultaneous.

Two thugs with lower modification rates had their heads shattered and suddenly fell down, while the others’ bullets, for some reason, hit right in front of Xiang Shan.

Yuki saw all the red extensions converging right in front of Xiang Shan.

In that instant, Xiang Shan had removed the limitation of “Gu,” cleared the process.

But Little Edward didn’t know this.

He had already shared the “delay of about 0.3 seconds” setting with all his companions.

No one realized this.

So their bullets were aimed at “the position Xiang Shan would be in 0.3 seconds later as guessed.”

Only those two with lower modification rates aimed at the correct position.

But their trigger-pulling speed simply could not compare to that of a prosthetic body.

So, they were shot before they could fire.

That was also why Xiang Shan uniquely did not dodge the extended lines of those two gun barrels.

After Xiang Shan fired, the sides of the rifle chambers slowly opened, preparing to eject the shell casings—Xiang Shan had rushed into the armory, randomly grabbed a bunch of plain rifles without smart locks.

These things might have some structural advantages in the twenty-first century, but they were useless in a gunfight.

As Xiang Shan spun forward, he tossed up the two rifles and simultaneously stretched out his hands to catch two rifles that were falling down with safeties off.

Then there was the second round of gunfire.

Two more thugs had their necks broken.

Xiang Shan once again threw the guns in his hands, stretching both legs in mid-air and drawing down two more rifles.

“Damn it!” Little Edward, realizing his numerical advantage was utterly meaningless, finally began evasive maneuvers.

His body was mostly prosthetic, but the parts below the knees of his legs were replaced with wheels.

He had more flexible footwork and could also kick people.

He drew circles with his steps, spinning to dodge.

Another thug fell to the ground.

Xiang Shan tossed the rifles upwards again, then dived down to dodge, avoiding two gun barrel extensions.

He stretched his arms up like an eagle spreading its wings, catching the two falling guns.

Then he fired again.

Yuki, stunned, watched all this.

Xiang Shan’s footwork was like an art form…

no, it was an art form.

Logically speaking, with twenty guns, they should be able to block his path completely.

Even with the “Gu Poison’s” misjudgment causing their aiming to be off, the extension lines of the gun barrels were not just for show.

Yet, Xiang Shan always moved fluidly, weaving through the network of “extensions.” He couldn’t ensure that he would never intersect with those gun barrel extensions through only his movements.

But even if he had to take the risk, he merely dipped his body slightly downwards.

And if he truly had to intersect with a gun barrel line, he would definitely shoot first, killing the source of that extension line.

— No, that’s not right…

Yuki immediately understood another thing.

Xiang Shan was always blocking between him and the baby.

Or rather, Xiang Shan limited his movements, not dodging unrestrictedly.

He always ensured he stood between the thugs and Yuki and the baby.

Anyone who tried to move around Xiang Shan to shoot at Yuki would definitely be interrupted by Xiang Shan’s gunfire. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

Every time Xiang Shan fired, he took down one or two thugs.

When he fired the last two bullets from the last two guns, the first two guns had just completed the “slide back and reload” operation.

New bullets had already been pushed into the chambers.

If Yuki was shocked, then Little Edward was in despair.

Whether aiming, correcting, or shooting, Xiang Shan’s movements were impeccable.

This was definitely the level of a Firearms Famous Practitioner.

Yet this famous practitioner was only using plain rifles supplied to the lowest lackeys in the Great Stockade to face the enemy.

Why?

This was essentially “showing off,” giving “despair”…

Just like what they did to intimidate those civilians.

This hero was so strong that he was not content simply to crush them instantly.

He even chose to use these slow-firing guns, leaving them with an illusion of “I might slip up,” forcing them to resist.

Then slowly crushing that resistance.

When Xiang Shan changed to the second round of guns, there were only four people left on the scene.

One thug finally snapped and tried to flee, but Xiang Shan shot him through the back of his neck.

Then, Xiang Shan once again tossed the long guns upwards, stretched out his hands to pull down two more guns from mid-air, and amidst the flurry of bullets, aimed and shot.

Two more were toppled.

Little Edward finally trembled.

He turned to flee, trying to use the armor on his body to withstand the rifle fire of those plain rifles, then using the superior acceleration of wheels over legs to escape.

But Xiang Shan threw the long rifles aside and directly used the accumulated strength of his legs to charge.

Little Edward twisted his waist one hundred eighty degrees, desperately screaming as he shot at Xiang Shan.

At that moment, the distance between them was less than ten meters.

“Movement technique faster than a gun barrel” became possible.

Xiang Shan instantly closed in on Little Edward’s inner ring and struck him in the chest with his shoulder.

The balance of the Green Forest thug was instantly destroyed, and his whole body tilted and crashed to the ground.

Little Edward raised his right leg, trying to stabilize himself, but Xiang Shan gently tapped on his right knee.

With a burst of dust, Little Edward fell to the ground.

Only then did Xiang Shan wave backwards.

A rifle slowly descended into his palm.

The sound of “pop pop pop pop pop” rang out continuously.

At this moment, those rifles began to fall to the ground.

“Spare me…” Little Edward called out softly.

Xiang Shan did not respond but stepped on Little Edward’s shoulder as he tried to rise, once again disrupting his balance.

Then he aimed the rifle at his prosthetic eye.

“Boom!”

Little Edward’s prosthetic body shuddered violently.

“Don’t kill me, give me a…”

“Boom.” The second shot.

Xiang Shan calmly waited for the shell to eject from the chamber.

Then he fired the third shot.

Finally, Little Edward stopped moving.

A severe concussion had knocked him unconscious.

At this moment, Xiang Shan suddenly cocked his head to listen, then his prosthetic eye swiveled.

Then, he took three steps back.

A series of bullets swept across the ground, kicking up a flurry of dust.

Xiang Shan looked up into the sky.

At this moment, “Blue Steel Vulture” Daniel finally returned.

The Blue Steel Vulture Daniel was using a prosthetic body similar to a vehicle, but it was not a tank or anything.

True to his nickname, the “Blue Steel Vulture” could fly.

His entire body resembled a triangular-shaped aircraft.

The entire body’s shape was designed to minimize electromagnetic wave reflection, with a blue special coating on the lower levels.

His arms and legs served as winglets and tail fins.

Just a moment ago, he had fired a burst of bullets at Xiang Shan from a distance.

—What’s going on?

Daniel didn’t yet know what had happened.

He had only left the base to scout and incidentally practice his martial arts before heading home.

Only when he got home did he see a hero killing his brother.

So, naturally, Daniel chose to “attack.”

—The attack just now was dodged…

indeed, to get closer…

For a practitioner of the Firearms Path, “distance” is “advantage,” but “distance” and “advantage” are not always directly proportional.

The enemy doesn’t need to be faster than a bullet, nor even move faster than the muzzle.

At extremely long distances, it takes at least a few seconds for a bullet to travel from the barrel to the target.

Yet projecting this information onto a prosthetic eye takes less than a thousandth of a second.

Practitioners of the Firearms Path always aim to secure the “one hundred meters” of absolute advantage in distance.

And Daniel had a particular mastery over this distance—he could close it in an instant by diving, then pull up again when the distance between them was less than thirty meters.

In this way, he would almost be unbeatable against combat martial artists.

This time was no different.

As usual, he closed the distance once again.

Xiang Shan employed exceptional movement techniques to continuously dodge.

However, as the distance between them closed, the time left for Xiang Shan to react grew shorter and shorter.

—About to win…

Ah!

At that moment, a sudden rain of bullets appeared on the side, striking around Xiang Shan.

Daniel had to unfold and transform his wings to increase their area and make an emergency turn to avoid being hit.

A rock nearby shattered, revealing an anti-aircraft gun inside.

—Are the guys in the organization being pushed to use this now?

Bad move!

—And this thing will be targeted by satellites!

While thinking, Daniel tried to increase the distance.

This was his last thought.

Due to the emergency maneuver, he was nearly hovering fifty meters in the air, with almost zero acceleration.

He was two hundred meters away from the anti-aircraft gun.

At this moment, the speed of the martial artist was definitely slower than the speed of the gun’s muzzle.

So…

Xiang Shan watched the Blue Steel Vulture explode in mid-air and mimicked the sound of fireworks with his mouth: “Whoosh—bang!”