dognovel Chapter 043 Besieged?!
Chapter 043 Besieged?!
The team composed of top geniuses like Lei Qianjun and Su Qingying transformed into several streaks of light and rushed without hesitation toward the ruins of the most conspicuous skyscrapers in the city center.
Clearly, the closer to the center, the more advanced the mechanical guards will be.
Moreover, its high elevation allows for a clear view of what is happening elsewhere, making it the perfect ambush location.
A large force of several thousand followed closely behind, and the whole scene was chaotic. As soon as they entered the city of ruins, small-scale conflicts broke out on the outskirts.
"What should we do?" Tie Meng looked at everyone, clearly unsure of what to do.
All eyes involuntarily fell on Lin Qiye and Han Yue.
It's not just because Han Yue initiated it first, but also because the two of them were the first to achieve it.
Being the first to arrive indicates the strongest strength.
Han Yue looked at Lin Qiye, seemingly wanting to hear his opinion.
Lin Qiye calmly surveyed the chaotic situation before him and said in a deep voice, "Don't go into the city center."
"Why?" Zhao Shu asked, puzzled. "Aren't the best things all in the center?"
"The center is a meat grinder now." Lin Qiye shook his head and analyzed, "Top teams go to fight for territory, and large teams go to fight for kills. If we six people go in, we won't even make a ripple. We'll just be swallowed up and not even bones will be left."
He pointed to the outskirts of the city, to the inconspicuous, low-rise residential ruins.
"Our goal is the badges, not to fight to the death. We'll go to the outskirts first; there might be less prey there, but the competition will be less. We'll survive first, familiarize ourselves with the environment, and then we'll think about other things."
Survival is always the top priority.
This suggestion was immediately accepted by everyone.
"That makes sense!"
"That's what we'll do!"
The six reached a consensus and, without the slightest hesitation, immediately broke away from the main force surging towards the center. With a turn of their bodies, they silently slipped into the shadows on the edge of the city, like several inconspicuous shadows.
……
The abandoned city was more dilapidated than I had imagined.
The collapsed walls were covered with moss and vines, and the rusted and ruined wreckage of hovercraft was scattered all over the streets.
The wind howled through the empty windows, adding to the eeriness of this dead city.
Lin Qiye's six-person team moved cautiously through the ruins in a combat formation.
"I'll go scout ahead first," the thin young man Zhao Shu said in a low voice. His body seemed boneless as he nimbly leaped up a broken wall and disappeared into the shadows ahead in a few bounds, his movements swift and silent.
"Tie Meng, you and Chen Feng and Chen Yun, watch your sides. Han Yue, you and I, watch our backs and front." Lin Qiye quickly made the arrangements.
Everyone nodded and became wary.
Not long after, Zhao Shu emerged from an abandoned shopping mall ahead, made a hand gesture to the group to indicate that everything was safe, and said in a low voice, "It's safe ahead. We haven't seen anyone or any mechanical guards."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued on their way.
Just as they were walking through the mall lobby, preparing to leave through the back door, Lin Qiye suddenly stopped.
"etc."
His gaze was fixed on a pile of collapsed shelves not far ahead.
After becoming a martial artist, his perception, which far surpassed that of ordinary people, allowed him to detect an extremely faint energy fluctuation that did not belong to this environment.
"There's something there," he whispered.
Everyone immediately stopped, gripped their weapons, and looked in the direction of his gaze, but found nothing.
Lin Qiye didn't explain. He simply picked up a piece of cement about half the size of his head from the ground, strained his arm muscles, and threw it hard at the pile of shelves!
"Bang!"
The cement block slammed onto the shelf with a loud bang.
next second!
"Buzz—"
A red light suddenly shone!
The collapsed shelves suddenly exploded, and a humanoid machine, two meters tall, made entirely of dark silver metal, resembling a spider but with six sharp limbs, suddenly stood up from the ruins!
On its chest, a single red eye gleamed, coldly locking onto Lin Qiye and his group of six.
"Intruder detected... Initiating cleanup mode..."
A cold, electronic synthesized voice rang out, and six gleaming metal limbs suddenly pushed off the ground, sending the entire mechanical spider hurtling towards the crowd like a cannonball!
"Mechanical Guardian!" Tie Meng roared, a hint of excitement and seriousness flashing in his eyes.
Unexpectedly, we encountered our first prey so soon!
The moment the mechanical spider appeared, a sense of crisis, colder and more deadly than the killing intent of the mechanical guards, erupted simultaneously from behind and to both sides of Lin Qiye!
Lin Qiye's martial arts intuition was screaming alarms, and he roared almost instinctively!
"Die!"
The Chen brothers' faces were no longer adorned with any trace of their honesty; instead, they were filled with a ferocious murderous intent!
Their fists, one on the left and one on the right, were like iron hammers, whistling through the air, aimed straight at Lin Qiye's back and temples!
On the other side, Han Yue, who had always appeared calm and rational, moved as close as a ghost and delivered a cunning and ruthless whip kick, like a steel whip, to Lin Qiye's lower body, blocking all his escape routes!
The three of them acted with perfect timing!
This was the moment when everyone's attention was most diverted because they were drawn to the mechanical guard!
They worked in perfect harmony and their killing moves were ruthless.
They had calculated correctly: with the mechanical guards and the three of them attacking from both sides, this guy named "Kobayashi" would be either dead or seriously injured!
That's how the strongest guy was taken care of.
However, they underestimated Lin Qiye!
Faced with this seemingly hopeless situation, Lin Qiye showed no panic whatsoever; instead, a cold sneer flashed in his eyes.
From the very beginning, he never fully trusted these so-called "teammates"!
That martial artist's perception, far beyond that of ordinary people, made him prepared in advance!
"Innocent!"
Lin Qiye sneered inwardly.
He did not choose to confront either side's attack head-on, as that would only put him in a dead end, surrounded by enemies on all sides.
In the blink of an eye, he made a move that surprised everyone!
Instead of retreating, he lunged forward, his body suddenly lunging forward like a cheetah, charging straight at the oncoming mechanical spider!
"court death?!"
A hint of surprise flashed in the eyes of Chen Feng, Chen Yun, and Han Yue.
Is this guy scared out of his wits?
Why would it deliberately run into the mechanical guard's blade?
However, the next second, the expressions on their faces froze completely!
Just as Lin Qiye was about to collide with the mechanical spider, his body suddenly sank downwards.
With an extreme low slide tackle, his entire body pressed against the ground, he flashed through the narrow gap beneath those six sharp metal limbs!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye!
When Chen Feng, Chen Yun, and Han Yue's attacks missed.
As they stiffened slightly from exerting too much force, Lin Qiye's figure appeared behind the mechanical spider like a ghost!
The mechanical spider that had just started up clearly hadn't anticipated this audacious maneuver of "diving between the legs."
Its single red eye flashed, and having lost its initial target, it immediately locked its hatred onto the three people closest to it who had just attacked its "teammates"!
"New threat target detected... Cleanup mode activated..."
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
The six sharp metal segments are like six drawn blades...