The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

Su Mu took a deep breath and tapped his fingers on the workbench.

"Production".

next moment.

Magnum armor-piercing rounds poured out of the forging stand, their brass-colored casings gleaming coldly in the sunlight, clattering as they landed at their feet, piling up into a small mountain.

Su Mu squatted down and picked up the bullets one by one from the ground, stuffing them into his backpack.

The bullet is longer than a regular Magnum bullet, with spiral patterns on the surface, and feels heavy in the hand.

Armor Penetration... Ignores 30% of armor. High Explosive... Explodes in a small area upon hit, dealing an additional 50% damage. These two attributes combined should be enough to deal with that blood-red vine.

He tidied up the old ammunition in his backpack, making room to pack a total of two hundred rounds.

The remaining 800 rounds are not needed for the time being, but carrying them won't take up much weight... He currently has a strength of over 100 points, and his weight limit is over 500 kilograms. The 200 bullets plus the original supplies in his backpack are less than half of his current weight.

Su Mu slung his backpack over his shoulder, hoisted his AWM onto his shoulder, and headed toward the tallest building.

......

It's very windy on the rooftop.

Su Mu stood on the edge of the 18th-floor hotel rooftop, mounted his AWM on the railing, and aimed his 8x scope at the distant blood-red vines. From here, the entire square was laid out before him... The vines, centered on the red building in the northwest corner, stretched in all directions like a giant octopus, its tentacles covering an area of ​​nearly one kilometer in radius.

The thickest part of the trunk is thicker than an adult's waist, and its surface is covered with dark red lines that pulsate slightly like blood vessels.

Su Mu did not rush to fire.

He adjusted the scope to its maximum focus and slowly scanned the entire area of ​​vines.

From the outer wall of the Red Building to the monument in the center of the square, from the monument to the shops to the south, from the shops to the parking lot to the east... he examined every thick branch and every suspicious node carefully.

He couldn't find a "core." Or rather, he couldn't see what resembled a core. The vines all looked similar, some thick, some thin, some long, some short, some straight, some curved, intertwined together like a tangled mess.

Su Mu's finger rested on the trigger, aiming at the thickest vine on the outer wall of the Red Building... That vine hung from the rooftop all the way to the ground, with a diameter of at least one meter, and its surface had deeper veins than the others. He pulled the trigger.

"Bang......!"

The sound of AWM gunfire exploded on the rooftop, the dull thud making the concrete ground beneath their feet tremble slightly.

The bullet shot out of the barrel at supersonic speed, leaving a trail in the air that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and hit the vine with precision.

The bullet exploded into a cloud of dark green liquid.

A fist-sized hole was pierced through the vine, its edges charred and emitting white smoke. Through the scope, Su Mu saw that the tissue around the hole was turning black and withering at a visible speed, but in less than two seconds, new green sap gushed out from the edge of the wound, enveloping, devouring, and replacing the charred part.

The hole shrank at a visible speed, and three seconds later, it was completely healed.

[Precision Charge: On hit, damage +2%. Current cumulative: 32%.]

[Precision Charge: On hit, damage +2%. Current cumulative: 34%.]

Su Mu did not fire a second shot. He put away his AWM, turned around, and ran.

...It's not an escape, it's a transfer.

He had barely left the hotel for a second when the vines behind him went berserk.

Su Mu stood on the roof of another building, watching from afar as the blood-red vines lashed wildly at everything around them.

Dozens, hundreds, even thousands of vines shot out from the ground at the same time, like countless giant snakes dancing wildly in the air.

They lashed at the ground, tearing the concrete pavement to shreds like paper; they lashed at the buildings, leaving deep cracks in the walls, with broken bricks and glass flying everywhere; they lashed at enemies that did not exist in the air, as if they were fighting an invisible opponent.

The monument in the center of the square was snapped in half by a thick vine, and the upper half collapsed with a crash, hitting the ground and raising a cloud of dust.

The parking lot on the east side was completely ransacked; several abandoned cars were entangled in vines, shredded, and smashed to the ground, turning into piles of scrap metal. The exterior walls of the shops on the south side were riddled with holes, revealing dark, gaping rooms inside.

Su Mu stood behind the scope, watching all this, a slight smile playing on his lips.

really.

This thing can't hear gunshots.

Magnum rounds are quite loud; even with a silencer, they are still very loud on the quiet rooftop.

But this vine clearly didn't locate its prey by sound... it attacked haphazardly in all directions, not from the spot where he had just fired. Furthermore, its attack range was limited, approximately a hundred meters.

The hotel was less than 100 meters from the edge of the vine-covered area, right within its attack radius, so it didn't react immediately.

This means that he can keep probing from different directions and distances, and the vines cannot fight back.

Su Mu set up the AWM and this time aimed at a vine near the base of the monument in the center of the square.

It wasn't a random choice... The vine's location was the second among the "suspicious nodes" he had previously observed. He pulled the trigger.

"Bang......!"

The bullet struck, exploding into a cloud of fluid. As before, the wound healed rapidly. Before the vines could react, Su Mu holstered his gun and ran.

Behind them, the vines raged once more. This time, their attack covered a wider area than before, tearing up a large section of the ground around the monument's base to reveal the dense root system beneath.

Su Mu saw those roots through the scope... some as thick as a bucket, some as thin as a finger, intertwined like a giant net.

He memorized the location.

For the next twenty minutes, Su Mu kept moving, firing, and moving again. He climbed six tall buildings, changed firing positions seven times, and fired nearly eighty rounds.

Each shot hit a different spot... some on the outer wall of the Red Building, some on the base of the monument, some on the roof of a shop, and some in the ruins of a parking lot.

After each hit, the vines would retaliate fiercely, with each attack becoming stronger than the last, but never exceeding a 100-meter radius centered on the point of impact.

Su Mu's precision charge buff had been stacked very high, and each bullet dealt more damage than the last. But he gradually noticed a problem... no matter where he aimed, the bullets never "deviated".

It's not that he can't hit the target. Of course he can.

But what he needs is to "miss"... he needs talent to help him pinpoint his weaknesses.