Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 264 Fried Fish
At an altitude of 2500 meters, in the narrow cabin of a Mosquito bomber.

Lei Jie huddled in the un-air-conditioned cabin, shivering and complaining:

"This thing can only fly in the summer! It's too cold!"

"Next time you come up here, at least bring an electric heater. My feet are freezing!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jian's questioning voice came over the radio.

"Do you want to return now? There's still time!"

"Hypothermia can be fatal. You don't have a life detection system right now, so it's hard to judge your own condition!"

"Need not!"

Lei Jie shook his head subconsciously, and then said:
"I know what's going on! My core temperature is basically maintained, but my hands and feet are cold."

"My location data is floating here. Can you see the specific location?"

"The Doppler positioning data is accurate. We are 120 kilometers away from the target. We can descend now."

Chen Jian continued:

"The terrain map has been sent to your PDA and can be visually matched."

"Understood. Prepare for visual matching."

As soon as Lei Jie finished speaking, a three-dimensional map popped up on the smart eyepiece.

He slightly pressed down the joystick to lower the altitude. When the plane passed below the clouds, the real-time image captured by the smart eyepiece was immediately transmitted to the PDA, and the graphic matching calculation began.

Without the support of Fuxi, this step proceeds very slowly with limited computing power.

But in the end, Lei Jie determined his position.

At this time, he was less than 110 kilometers away from Hanshui City in a straight line, and below him was the distinctive Bailianhe Reservoir.

Referring to the direction where the Xishui River merges into the Bailianhe Reservoir, he slightly calibrated the flight position and pulled the joystick to the right.

The already frighteningly light plane turned deftly to the right, and after flying a gentle arc, Lei Jie leveled it out again.

He planned to fly directly over the Huangzhou ruins and reach the sky above Hanshui City using the shortest route.

“Are the target characteristics clear?”

Lei Jie asked loudly, and after a moment, Chen Jian's reply came from the headset.

"You don't have to shout at the top of your lungs. The helmet has great noise reduction."

"The targets are three level four monsters and one level three monster."

"Among the four level monsters, the characteristics are unknown, and only one Blade Beast's characteristics are known."

"The third-level monster is a 16-meter-tall alien monster. It is currently active on the Yangtze River east of Hanshui City."

"A large number of cavitation bubbles appeared in the river water, and people who were close to it were suffocating. It is speculated that the monster produced a large amount of carbon dioxide."

"This thing is very similar to the monster we encountered in Xiama Town before. It's possible that they are the same one!"

"Xia Ma Town?"

Lei Jie was stunned.

For him, the name Xiama Town is actually a distant memory.

He still remembered that it was there that they had their first direct conflict with the Mechanicus.

The consequence of the conflict was that some of the residents of Xiama Town died in the "carbon dioxide leak" created by the monster, while the other part was controlled and treated by the Holy Blood in a special way.

His most profound impression of this town was not the monster in the lake, but the miners with tentacle-like respiratory organs sticking out of their mouths.

But now, that monster actually appeared in Hanshui City?
Lei Jie frowned.

He calculated the distance silently in his mind.

The straight-line distance from Xiama Town to Hanshui City is about 180 kilometers. It has been less than two weeks since the beast tide formed, and this level monster appeared in Hanshui a week ago.
That means that most of the large monsters should have completed their migration to Jinling City and surrounding areas.

The real beast tide will soon start.

His heart skipped a beat, and after explaining his judgment to Chen Jian, Chen Jian immediately replied:

"This is consistent with the clues found by the reconnaissance balloon." "We don't have much time, at most one to two weeks."

"But don't worry, the residents of the Imperial City will arrive tomorrow, and once our manpower arrives, the infrastructure will be completed soon."

"Focus on the present and kill this monster first!"

"clear."

Lei Jie answered in a deep voice, and at this time, the Mosquito bomber he was flying had flown over Hanshui City and reached the sky above the Yangtze River.

He pressed the joystick again and the plane continued to descend.

On the ground, people like ants were moving slowly away from Hanshui City. Lei Jie could see that they were fleeing.

Further north, three level four monsters were fighting fiercely with the crusaders defending the city and the hired mercenaries.

A large number of artillery pieces spewed out green smoke, completely covering the vast battlefield.

The sound of gunfire and artillery fire was drowned out by the noise of the propellers, and Lei Jie seemed to be watching a silent pantomime.

But even so, he could still feel the fierceness of the battle.

A level 4 monster passed through numerous obstructions and pounced on the artillery array where the firepower was most intense. Several bullets, trailing white smoke, hit its huge body and pinned it to the ground again, but its rolling body still overwhelmed a dozen crusaders who were lined up in front to intercept and contain it.

The extremely fast Holy Blood Warriors swept in from both wings, trying every means to attract the monsters' attention.

Incendiary bombs were thrown one after another, and flashes of fire appeared, but those tiny sparks seemed insignificant in front of the monster.

The front line of the Hanshui City defenders was close to collapse.

But at this time, Lei Jie only had two bombs.

Which one to fry first?!
It was impossible for him to seek advice from the rear because no one could see the situation on the battlefield more clearly than him!

Lei Jie flew around the monster, and the defenders, whose attention was drawn to him, looked up at him, raising their hands high as if they were praying devoutly.
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When has it been? !
Pick up the gun!

Lei Jie cursed in his heart, but at this moment, huge bubbles suddenly appeared on the surface of the river.

That level three monster!

The moment the bubble bursts, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas gushes out.

The heavier-than-air, suffocating gas followed the terrain, extinguishing fires and forcing people to retreat wherever it passed.

The formation was disrupted again, and this time, even the artillery didn't have time to withdraw!
Must get rid of it first!
Lei Jie took a deep breath, pressed the joystick to the left to control the plane's turn, then quickly used the smart eyepiece to calibrate the flight direction, and after calculating the altitude and speed data, he projected the bombing crosshairs in front of his eyes.

This is a simple solution used temporarily to replace the bombsight in the short term. Although its accuracy is insufficient, it is more than enough to blow up a monster more than ten meters tall when flying at ultra-low altitude!
The bomber suddenly dived down, and at the moment the monster's body emerged from the water, Lei Jie pressed the trigger, the bracket carrying the bomb loosened, and the bomb was immediately dropped!
At this time, the distance between the nose of the plane and the monster was less than 500 meters.

This has reached the level of those specially designed dive bombers!
Bearing the consequences of the wing possibly tearing apart, Lei Jie slowly pulled up the joystick.

With an unsettling creaking sound, the plane finally withstood the pressure and began to climb once again.

And behind it, the dropped bombs exploded by the impact the moment they touched the monster's broad back.

The 250-kilogram bomb has a maximum killing radius of 300 meters for unarmored units.

If dropped to the ground, the crater created by this bomb would be an astonishing 3 meters deep and 10 meters wide.

No carbon-based creature could withstand the close-range explosion of this bomb.

This bomb hit the monster's back with incredible precision.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded.

The monster, whose back had just emerged from the water, was instantly broken into two pieces.

When Lei Jie turned the plane around again, the monster's corpse had already floated on the muddy river water.

Like a big fish.

"Fuck."

Lei Jie lowered the joystick in amazement, and then said:
"Contact the defenders of Hanshui City and tell them to run as far as they can."

"I still have one more shot!"

(End of this chapter)