Chapter. 10 Lead and Silver Coins (31)
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Kkeeeeeik-!!!!
Pak! Kaang!
“Hey, let’s make a U-turn! “You can’t break through this!”
“Shut up and look for landmines! “The rear armor is weaker than the front, so the moment you see your butt, the snipers will rush in!”
Unfortunately, the situation of the breakthrough group, including Ian and Ezel, was not so good, as someone who was being chased by a crazy tiger on the other side of the wasteland was ignoring their wishes.
The tank armor I trusted was in tatters. The reinforced windshield, which was stacked so many times that the front looked blue, had a spiderweb-like texture that made it difficult to see what was in front, and the elastic alloy tires, which were said to never explode, were filled with fragments of landmines that exploded next to them, drastically reducing driving speed. It was in progress.
“What on earth are these crazy people doing, taking down the armor of a state-of-the-art tank with a self-repair function by sniping?…”
“I guess this means they are far beyond the level of a gunman rotting in the wasteland. Because it was a hasty modification, the connection between the vehicle and the armor was poor-”
Kwajik!
“-go!”
“Aaaah!”
“Read the radar while you’re yelling! “If you step further, you’ll really fall behind!”
“-42 degrees and 13 meters! 15 degrees 28 meters! 1.2 degrees…7 meters!”
“If it’s 7 meters long, we should have told you about it a long time ago!”
Kkeeeeeeeek-!
Kwaaaaang!
The moment Ian sharply turned the steering wheel, the ground in the distance flipped over and the sound of shrapnel hitting like a machine gun filled the truck.
‘….The mall is being bullied. They are not only good at shooting, but they are also good at designing. This could really explode….’
It’s not a landmine that explodes when you step on it, but a remote mine that can be detonated at any time you want. If you make a threat by shooting and try to avoid the danger area shown on the radar and return –
Kwaang!
Kuwaan!
Kwaaaaang!
I’m so excited – I’m shaking!
“Shit! “It’s the first time I’ve seen such an extraordinary method of clearing mines!”
Dozens of impact mines laid in the direction they were planning to go were detonated at the same time, forcing the vehicle to be pushed back by the aftereffects. Since it was a heavy armored truck, it bounced halfway and then regained its balance. The shock was so great that it could overturn an ordinary combat vehicle just from the aftereffects.
‘It’s hard to see because of the dust, but we’re almost there. There is almost no gap between the gunshot and the impact, so it must be about 100 to 200 meters at most. And if they’ve been steadily hunting us down…’
Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep!
“Hey hey this…!”
Ezel was at a loss for words while trying to call out the coordinates of the mine.
The thick smoke cleared and a rocky hill came into view. The exosuit’s radar showed mines laid in front of it, leaving no room for anyone to pass by.
“I have no intention of hiding it anymore. It’s like a whole box of mines turned over and scattered. I guess they were busy over there too? “It’s really clumsy at the end.”
“If you don’t want to become a piece of meat on that clumsy landmine, do something! junior! “Back up, back up!”
“How many times do I say that it is a remote mine and not a percussion mine? There was probably a lot of it on the road we passed. That’s because they set off landmines to force them here. “There’s no way I’ll let you go easily.”
Although he was obsessed with explosives, this wasteful format was not Ian’s style.
‘The modified truck’s defense is too high to be penetrated by sniping. Although it was shattered here and there, the armor covering important parts was still intact. This means that they will lock us up so that we can’t move and beat us up with excitement… Hmm. So are there any mines on the way out? If you fall back, the rear wheel will lift first and you’ll flip over like a turtle, right? Then you’ll get hit on the lower side where the armor is weak.’
Taang! Ta taang!
Kwasik! Kwazijic!
Pow!
Unfortunately, there was no more time to think or move. Enemy bullets finally began to penetrate the multiple layers of tempered glass and reach the interior of the vehicle.
“…It was completely pierced. “There was a bullet stuck in the fucking seat!”
“I changed it to a projectile with good short-range penetration performance.”
Amidst the smoke and dust, the sniper’s bullets relentlessly flew toward the windshield. A shot from such a short distance that the sound doesn’t echo, but rather feels like it’s hitting your ears.
After thinking for a moment, Ian opened the driver’s seat door, got out, grabbed Ezel, who was fidgeting next to him, by the collar, and pulled him into the driver’s seat.
“Wow! You are crazy…! Where!”
“Let the tires idle for a moment. “You can’t see me.”
Without getting an answer, Ian came out onto the battlefield littered with mines and snipers.
He quickly crawled under the car and dust started flying behind him. Along with a loud noise, a smoke screen created by the auger began to billow around the vehicle.
‘It’s not enough to cover a large truck… but it’ll be enough to cover a person moving in a blind spot behind the truck. Let’s see. If I planted a mine… it would definitely be around here…’
Ian hurriedly moved to the spot he had thought of in advance. Right behind where they secured the car. If he had designed this minefield, he would have placed a lot of impact mines to push the enemy forward regardless of his defense.
A fierce smile formed on Ian’s lips as he looked at the unique flat and concave shape of the impact mine that was revealed when the dust was swept away .
Because what he was going to do from now on was a little more crazy than the crazy things his crazy friend did for dinner.
A vehicle-delaying impact mine capable of blowing up any object with a mass of 1.5 tons or less within a 15 meter diameter radius. There are so many precious items lying around right in front of you, so how can you get rid of them without using them?
Ian, who had collected all the impact mines he could find, crawled under the idling truck and began to delicately install each mine one by one. One by one, based on my knowledge of destruction engineering, which I majored in a long time ago when I only knew about explosions and arson. Some right under the axles. Some are slightly sloped with small stones placed underneath.
Ian placed all 15 impact mines he had randomly scraped up under the truck in one minute, then lowered the track cover of the tank armor and pressed all maintenance triggers on the metal tires, causing the truck to sink. Ian quickly went into the truck’s cargo area after seeing that the tire had lost its force and the lower part of the truck had become semi-closed.
Empty!
“Hey Ezel! Okay, now go over and activate the suit!”
Taaaang!
Kwazijic!
“What can I do!” “Are you ready to die?”
“Uh… it’s similar! “Come out quickly!”
“Is it similar? It’s similar! “Have you carved some kind of monument?”
“You can’t do that if you’re late, so come quickly, you idiot!”
“…Damn it, these BDSM guys are this guy and that guy, they’re all so crazy…!”
After crying out all the names of God he knew in his heart, Ezel ran to the back of the car.
What caught his eye was Ian, who was in the auxiliary battery slot of his suit, carrying all the firearms he had brought with him in the truck. And he was holding it in his hand and wiggling…..
“You crazy bastard! Why did you bring that! “Take it away immediately!”
“It’s not going to explode, dude. Because I took off the remote signal first. “When I thought about it, I realized there was no trigger, so I had to use one.”
It was a concave-shaped impact mine.
land mine. Landmines that have been persistently harassing them until now. And the steel-jawed man, grinning and cracking open a landmine, wondering what he was thinking.
For a moment, Ezel remembered what kind of tendencies that man had and became very anxious.
To that man, a pin is something to pull out and gunpowder is something to explode. The button must be pressed first, and the bullet must be fired no matter what. Land mines against the sniper on the rocky hill in the distance… Why?
“trigger?”
“hmm. They’re not fools either. If we cover them with dust, they’ll probably notice that we’re trying to do something. “I don’t have time to fix everything, including everything that’s laid out underneath, so I’m just going to roughly prepare the space and start with this one.”
“Do you look at your hands one by one? “The one you laid down?”
Ezel’s anxiety grew even more. [Looks at what he laid down.] What that crazy man is looking at right now is a landmine. Since I said ~, it can be said that the object that I am currently working on and the object that I have yet to work on are the same. So, that guy has laid a mine under our feet that could explode at any time in the hands of the enemy…
Wow!
“What! Are you crazy!”
“You’re the one who’s crazy! If you want to lose, do it alone, Metal! “It’s not enough to avoid the land mines right away, so bring the land mines!!”
“I heard it won’t explode, so that’s why! That thing was on our back line! “It’s safe if you stay here and don’t let the car go backwards or explode!”
“I don’t think you know much about the damn word ‘safety’! ‘Safety’ means sitting in a warm and cozy home, eating peeled fruit, and giggling while watching someone else’s broadcast! I’m not talking about being marooned by dozens of fucking snipers and being stranded on a pile of mines that the enemy can detonate at any time! “This… this is just crazy!”
Ezel wasn’t stupid either. A vehicle that suddenly lands. An impact mine said to have been placed under a truck. The ‘trigger’ that Ian spoke of. This crazy guy wants to set off a bunch of shock mines and blow the group up in a truck and throw them into that rocky valley!
“Did you know that people who are blown away by landmine explosions are usually called ‘dead people’!! yes!”
“You idiot whose balls have degenerated naturally! Isn’t it because there’s no way to survive here other than doing something crazy? Trust me dude! When I was a soldier, I blew up a building with thousands of 5mm bullets! I beat 50 to 1 by spraying 40 plasma rods the size of fingernails! Don’t doubt the experts’ calculations! Anyway, the snipers jump out before we even get close! “There is no other way to access it in an instant like this!”
“Damn… Zenjaaaaang!!!”
Kiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu three!
Ezel turned on the exosuit even while shedding bloody tears inside. Spilled water anyway. As long as Ezel didn’t shoot the explosion fanatic’s head off, he would faithfully carry out his crazy plan, and unfortunately, considering his personal combat power, there was a high chance that doing such a thing would end up blowing a hole in his head.
Whirring – clack!
Seeing that Ezel had finished preparing, Ian immediately threw an impact mine equipped with a time-limited fuse into the back of the vehicle, then quickly closed the cargo compartment door and threw himself into the auxiliary battery seat.
Tick. Tick.
A few seconds felt like an eternity.
“…Can I ask one question?”
“12 seconds.”
“Not that one. “From the crazy things you said about using the 5mm gunpowder and the plasma baton… how much damage will our troops suffer?”
“…!”
Uncharacteristically, Ian hesitates for a moment. However, as Ezel looked at the back of the seat with an anxious expression, his unique, bizarre smile appeared.
Smirk.
“…I apologize in advance.”
“What what?”
“you do not have to know. “By the time you find out, you will be worthy of an apology.”
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“ah.”
Only after understanding those words did Ezel finally lose his sense of reason.
“Fuck you bastard!!!”
“Hahaha! Get used to it, Cheri! Anyway, you were picked on by Professor Park! This means that no matter how hard you struggle, you will have to engage in this kind of crazy behavior dozens of times in the future! Accept it! Fall into the arms of BDSM, Ezel!”
“Ugh!!! God Buddha Jesus Confucius! President! Manager Mong! Kimmy! load! Nadella! “A mother whose face I don’t even know!!!”
As Ezel felt the stinging pain and saw the cardiotonic injection that Ian had unknowingly injected into his thigh, Ezel began to cry in advance of the tragedy that was about to happen.
Click-
Yiiiiiiiing-!!!!!
A shock mine’s unique energy acceleration sound that is heard along with Ezel’s scream that resonates like a chord.
Tuung-
“Ugh!”
Ezel could not even scream due to the tremendous impact and gravitational acceleration that came before he could even think that it had exploded, and he could only hang on to the control stick of the suit. Although I couldn’t see the outside because I was in the cargo hold, I clearly felt a unique eerie feeling and an itchy feeling in my stomach when I was floating in the air.
The unique feeling of fear when falling in free fall.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
The snipers of the 38th district executive department could not help but be embarrassed by the scene unfolding before their eyes, as was unbefitting apposite 00 snipers who use their coolness as their weapon.
A perfectly driven target. The truck, which was now like a solid turtle that just needed to be beaten, was briefly enveloped in dust and then suddenly soared into the sky.
Hung- Hung- Hung- Hung-
If someone had suddenly jumped up, I wouldn’t have been so embarrassed. Because they are veterans and have experienced all kinds of strange things in the wasteland. But now, it is a large truck that is spinning and flying like a hatchet thrown by someone. This crazy thing has a tank top attached to a specially strengthened frame. It’s flying across the sky. And straight towards their location!
“I flew…did I come?”
With someone mumbling, panic soon gave way to confusion and spread among the snipers.
“It’s enemy air support!”
“Leave! To the next sniping point-”
“Ugh! “It’s a flying truck!”
Hung- Hung- Hung-
Hung- Kwaaaang!
As Ian, who prides himself on being unparalleled when it comes to destruction engineering in the wasteland, Ian succeeded in blowing up the truck at the target with a narrow margin of error.
Although the truck and cargo compartment were separated due to the impact, it succeeded in landing safely(?) in the middle of enemy territory.
Nod, crouch, crouch!
The
cargo compartment, which had been stuck at one end, settles on the floor, and the door, which fell almost halfway due to the impact, slowly opens to reveal a large body.
Kiwoowooung-clap!
“Ugh! Ouch! “Aaaahhh!”
“Hahaha! “I told you to bite your tongue!”
The ones that jumped out of it were Ezel, who was spitting out red foam mixed with hemostatic agent and blood like a crazy person, and Ian, who jumped out of the battery compartment and raised a huge machine gun.
“It’s hard to see that face! “You little girls!”
The snipers came to their senses in an instant and raised their guns, but Ian, who had prepared in advance, was much faster than them.
Tukwakwakwakwakwakwa!
“Hahaha! “This is my return for a grand welcome!!!”
In an instant, several of the snipers are separated and Ian fires suppressing fire at the others who are taking cover.
“cherry! “If we can’t serve one person each, we’ll all die!”
“Ugh! Argh!”
Ezel let out an unintelligible scream, perhaps because he was biting his tongue, and responded by blocking the fire pouring from above with a shield.
“Iuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
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