Free Web NovelChapter 469: Chapter 272: The Contaminated Soldiers’ Weakness (Part 2)
From his drone feed, Fang Zhen saw that over 300 Abnormal Ghosts had somehow gathered behind Karen and were now in pursuit. In the sky, seven or eight more Poisonous Soaring Ghosts appeared. In addition, a squad of more than two hundred contaminated soldiers had popped up out of nowhere, looping around to block Karen’s path of retreat.
Seeing this on the drone console, Fang Zhen informed Karen of the situation via his walkie-talkie.
"Faster, or you won’t make it back into the city!" Fang Zhen urged. As he spoke, he took an AWP sniper rifle from his King’s Belt.
Once his drone reached a certain altitude, it hovered high in the sky, acting as a sentinel to monitor the situation below.
Fang Zhen set the console aside. Standing on the city wall with his AWP sniper rifle, he loaded it and aimed at the Poisonous Soaring Ghosts in the sky.
The greatest threat to Karen and Pat was the Poisonous Soaring Ghosts.
The Poisonous Soaring Ghosts were the fastest. They could swoop down to snatch people and spew highly toxic spit.
If Fang Zhen hadn’t used special tactics earlier, most of the people in Lanxi City would have likely been killed by the Poisonous Soaring Ghosts.
Once Fang Zhen was in the zone, he immediately began firing his sniper rifle repeatedly into the sky.
"BANG! BANG! BANG!"
Firing three consecutive shots, Fang Zhen didn’t miss. He took down three Poisonous Soaring Ghosts.
Beside him, Anglo also raised his Alchemy Bow. He drew the string, nocked an arrow, and targeted the Poisonous Soaring Ghosts in the sky. In the space of a few breaths, Fang Zhen and Anglo had shot down all seven or eight of them.
At that moment, Fang Zhen saw that the two most ferocious pursuers behind Karen and Pat were Armored Fierce Ghosts. The Black Armored Fierce Ghosts were only a few dozen meters away from them.
Seeing this, Fang Zhen immediately aimed his sniper rifle at the Black Armored Fierce Ghosts and fired!
"BANG! BANG!" The two Black Armored Fierce Ghosts leading the charge were shot and killed by Fang Zhen’s sniper rifle, their chests shattering as they collapsed to the ground.
The soldiers on the city wall who witnessed this erupted into a massive cheer. Meanwhile, Karen and his companion rode their horses rapidly toward Lanxi City, and were now approaching the walls.
Fang Zhen kept the drone hovering in place. He could also see that on the path ahead of Karen’s group, one to two hundred contaminated soldiers had appeared out of nowhere, blocking Karen and Pat’s route back.
Fang Zhen hadn’t intended to bother with these contaminated soldiers; with only one or two hundred of them, they could be easily bypassed. But then, he noticed something unusual through his sniper scope. ƒгeewёbnovel.com
He saw one contaminated soldier mixed in with the crowd. While the others wore black masks, the mask on this particular soldier’s face was a ghastly white.
Fang Zhen didn’t know what this meant, but his intuition told him this contaminated soldier was somehow different.
He raised his sniper rifle. Suddenly, one of his passive skills triggered. He took aim at the white-masked contaminated soldier and fired.
The bullet left the barrel and, with a loud CRACK, killed the soldier nearly five to six hundred meters away.
When the bullet struck the white-masked contaminated soldier, Fang Zhen suddenly noticed a peculiar phenomenon.
Around 100 of the black-masked contaminated soldiers in the vicinity went limp, as if they had been disconnected from a network. They all collapsed to the ground at the same time, motionless.
Seeing this through his rifle’s scope, Fang Zhen couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.
’What’s going on?’
He thought for a moment.
’Could it be? Are the white-masked contaminated soldiers like drone relay stations, or maybe some kind of networked server?’
’They don’t have consciousness of their own. Instead, one white-masked soldier controls a hundred of them. Does that mean killing the leader makes all the ordinary contaminated soldiers die too?’
With this theory in mind, Fang Zhen aimed through his scope again. Soon enough, he spotted another white-masked soldier hidden among the ranks of the contaminated.
Fang Zhen locked on and squeezed the trigger. With a single shot, another white-masked contaminated soldier fell. Instantly, just like before, the death of this soldier caused a surrounding group of them to collapse, as if they’d been disconnected from a network.
This discovery confirmed Fang Zhen’s theory.
By this time, Karen and Pat had ridden back to the base of the city wall. Someone on the ramparts quickly lowered a wooden cage. The two of them rode their horses into it and were hoisted back up to the top of the wall by a pulley system.
A cheer went up on the wall. Everyone watched with looks of pleasant surprise as Karen and Pat arrived. Pat just stood in the background with a silly grin on his face.
"You two did a fine job," Alexander said as he walked over.
Alexander looked at Karen with an expression of approval.
Karen remained relatively composed—or rather, he put on a calm front while inwardly bursting with pride.
But at that moment, Karen saw Fang Zhen, and his expression turned serious. "It wasn’t because we were skilled," he said. "All the credit should go to Fang Zhen. If not for him, we would have been marching to our deaths. He used his alchemy equipment and his various abilities to help us escape this disaster."
"If there’s any glory, it should go to Fang Zhen first, then Pat, and finally me."
’Hmph. As much as I hate to admit it, that’s just the way it is.’
After hearing his words, everyone on the wall felt it was true. Their gazes once again converged on Fang Zhen.
