Chapter 96: Bloody Battle

Hearing the sound of bullets whistling past his ears, Zhou Liming gripped his sniper rifle tightly.

In the Radiation Zone, people wearing Radiation Suits, whether they were Fierce Beast Warriors or not, all looked just like ordinary soldiers. This sudden transition into combat made Zhou Liming feel a bit unaccustomed. Thinking of the soldiers he had seen in movies before, who were all trembling with nervousness, he finally understood their feelings now.

Thinking about it, having only fifty-odd men but trying to stop nearly a thousand maddened abandoned soldiers from India was indeed somewhat crazy.

This place was open and empty. Apart from a few sand dunes, there was no place for cover. The experts had all climbed onto the armored vehicles and were quickly evacuating to the rear. These abandoned, radiated soldiers from India had all their vehicles destroyed by sniper rifles. Without cars, it was impossible for them to catch up with the armored vehicles.

Kahn lay in the sand, then crawled to a clump of withered yellow grass. Holding his submachine gun, he roared: “Snipers, don’t let them get too close.”

Receiving the order, a sniper from the Russian Snow Leopard, who had been leaning against a sand dune holding his sniper rifle, suddenly flipped over. The sniper rifle was set on the sand dune with a “thud,” and then with a loud “boom,” the airflow from the shot even kicked up the sand on the dune. A soldier from India charging madly in the distance was suddenly shot into two pieces mid-run. Scarlet blood sprayed into the air, the soldier’s gun was flung into the sky, and he plunged headfirst into the sand.

The terrifying penetrating power of the sniper rifle meant this soldier was just the beginning. The second soldier following closely behind him hadn’t even reacted before the bullet passed through his abdomen, cutting him in two as well. His hideous face was filled with disbelief as he slowly fell down.

One bullet took the lives of a full five soldiers before finally disappearing into the sand.

However, these soldiers from India, having fallen into madness, had long stopped treating themselves as living human beings the moment they were radiated. They all howled and charged forward.

Zhou Liming quietly poked his head out. In just a short while, these people had actually charged within one thousand meters. In terms of sprinting alone, they were absolutely tough. At a distance of one thousand meters, Zhou Liming simply swept his scope over them, then decisively pulled the trigger.

With a dull “boom,” the sniper rifle kicked back, and the bullet whistled out.

With a “pop,” a soldier’s head directly turned into splattering debris. His whole body was flung up by the huge impact, falling heavily backward and smashing into the sand.

Huang Dazhuang smiled at Zhou Liming, raised the sniper rifle in his hand, and fired with another “boom.”

A mist of blood instantly appeared among these mad soldiers, and then seven people fell down. Their bodies were all bitten by the sniper bullet, leaving a bloody hole that killed them instantly. His experienced skills allowed Huang Dazhuang to maximize the results. In a dense charging formation and on open ground, the power of a heavy sniper rifle was enough to shoot through seven or eight people.

Now Zhou Liming finally understood the gap between himself and them. His headshot was very precise, but now was not the time to compare accuracy, but rather how to eliminate a massive number of enemies.

The entire X Squadron, except for Qiao Bingsen who used a machine gun, all carried sniper rifles. Adding the sniper rifles in the hands of other personnel, the number reached thirteen sniper rifles, enough to be called a sniper troop.

Under the long-range sniping of thirteen sniper rifles, in the dense charging formation, one shot could always kill two or three. When luck was good, one shot would make five or six fall. The power of a heavy sniper rifle meant that just a graze would cause severe injury. Those who were hit died in a very gruesome manner; almost half of their bodies were shattered.

Realizing the power of the sniper rifles, a leader shouted for the team to scatter.

A bullet arrived instantly. This leader didn’t even have time to turn his head before his entire abdomen was beaten into a pulp. His upper body was flung into the air by the impact, flipping several somersaults before falling down. His lower body was left with just two legs, and the sprayed blood shot into the sky, forming a cloud of blood mist.

But there were too many of them. The sniper rifles clearly could not stop their advance. In a moment, some had already pushed to within five hundred meters.

The M99 had a magazine capacity of only five rounds. This was not too few for dealing with radar and armored vehicles, but now used against people, the effect of five rounds was not very significant. Zhou Liming’s five rounds only blasted seven people into debris. Although he carried enough clips, he couldn’t kill that many people. These were all desperadoes. Even though their leader was hunted down, they still threw themselves forward as usual, completely unaffected.

Seeing that they had pushed to within five hundred meters, Kahn shouted: “Machine gunner, get ready.”

In the entire team, besides sniper rifles, there were machine guns and submachine guns, so the firepower was absolutely fierce. But facing a charge of nearly a thousand people, everyone was breaking out in a cold sweat.

Qiao Bingsen lay coldly on the ground. The M134 was in his hands as he pulled the trigger rhythmically. The six barrels rotated gently under the drive of the rotary linkage mechanism, but he did not let the speed reach the state of firing bullets, just preheating it, ready to enter firing status at any time.

“Son of a bitch, come on. You want my life? It’s too early for that.”

Four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters… As they constantly approached, gunshots rang out densely like firecrackers. Bullets swept over the sand dunes from time to time, kicking up a series of sand and sending dust flying. More and more bullets flew overhead, making a “hissing” sound. The withered grass was occasionally cut by bullets, and when the wind blew, it rolled across the sand surface and flew into the distance.

Qiao Bingsen took a breath, then suddenly roared. The preheating M134 suddenly sped up, spitting fire tongues, constantly ejecting empty shells. The bullet chain was continuously devoured by the machine gun, turning into a terrifying torrent of metal that smashed head and face onto the enemies who had entered within seventy or eighty meters ahead.

“Da… da… da da da… da…”

The soldiers from India charging up madly were constantly hit by bullets on their bodies, blooming with flowers of blood, then falling down. Screams filled the air. Where the fire tongues aimed, the machine gun constantly swept back and forth. The charging soldiers fell like wheat. In the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers were killed, and a large patch of sand was dyed red.

Zhou Liming opened his mouth wide. In comparison, this was the true life harvester. With such fierce firepower, no one could get close at all.

“Ah… I’m fucking hit, I’m hit!”

A European Special Forces Soldier was suddenly seen rolling on the edge of a sand dune not far away. He hugged his thigh, where a bullet hole spurted blood, sprinkling it onto the sand.

Hearing the despair in his voice, everyone felt helpless toward him. The torn Radiation Suit had lost its effect; he had been radiated the moment he was hit. Once radiated, the difference from death was that you were still alive, but it was more painful than dying.

“No… no… God…” Perhaps sensing his fate, this Special Forces Soldier fell into madness. He suddenly picked up the gun he had just thrown away, dragged his injured leg, stood straight up, took a few steps out of the sand dune, and kept shooting: “Come on, you shit! I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill you!”

Several charging soldiers from India were hit by his sweeping fire, their chests bursting with flowers of blood as they slowly fell down.

“Thump thump” sounds rang out. Bullets likewise burst into several flowers of blood on the body of this brave Special Forces Soldier, then his movements stopped, and he fell straight down.