Chapter 23: Fire!

The bunker itself was divided into two levels. To attack the Feiqiu Beasts in the sky, one had to go to the top floor. After discussing, the teachers from each class divided their group members into two parts. One part would go to the second level to shoot the Feiqiu Beasts, while the other part would rest. They would switch every two hours.

Zhang Tianming came before the six students of Class Five and said, “You’ve all had shooting lessons, so I don’t need to explain much. Here, I must seriously emphasize: when shooting, try to be as accurate as possible. Otherwise, you’ll just be wasting energy. Although the Feiqiu Beasts are numerous, they don’t pose the main threat. The real threat is still to come. We need to completely clear the Feiqiu Beasts from the sky before the first two lines of defense collapse, so accuracy is essential.”

“Yes!”

“Also, do you know why the county government had to expend such great effort to build three lines of defense? Besides wearing down the numbers of the Savage Beasts layer by layer to the greatest extent, it’s also to give you all a chance for real combat. You must cherish this opportunity. If the first two lines of defense truly collapse, you must all withdraw immediately.” Zhang Tianming instructed earnestly.

“Understood!” everyone responded in unison.

Right after, Zhang Tianming discussed with the other teachers and divided the students here into two groups.

Yang Tong’s group was very coincidentally assigned to the first attack batch.

“Yang Tong, are you scared?” Feng Xiaobo had now recovered from the initial shock of seeing that terrifying and bloody scene, regaining some of his mental composure.

“A little. I did feel like retching earlier. But thinking carefully, this is war between races. There’s no way to avoid it. We must resist; we can’t just sit and wait for death, right?” Yang Tong replied calmly. He switched on the rapid-fire gun, mounted the sight onto the gun stand, and went to a firing port. Using the sight, he tried aiming. The sight accurately locked onto a Savage Beast flying swiftly. Then he pulled the trigger.

The gun gave a slight tremor, and a strong laser beam shot out.

The laser beam accurately hit a Feiqiu Beast in the air. The Feiqiu Beast was shot in the chest, opening a hole the size of a fist. The wound still retained sustained high temperature, causing the fist-sized wound to gradually expand to the size of a soccer ball.

The Feiqiu Beast let out a shriek, struggled its wings, and looked with blood-red eyes toward Yang Tong’s direction. Then it flew, pouncing toward Yang Tong. Midway, it was hit by another, larger laser beam, directly disintegrating in the air.

The chest, head, and base of the wings of a Feiqiu Beast were all effective strike areas, especially the head—a hit there meant certain death.

“Ah, it’s a shame it’s just a Type A Artifact rapid-fire gun. Even with a sight, it doesn’t have the fierce power of a Type A Artifact sniper rifle,” Yang Tong sighed. The shot that just disintegrated a Feiqiu Beast—only a Type A Artifact sniper rifle or a Type B Artifact rapid-fire gun could have such power.

Feng Xiaobo, watching clearly beside him, couldn’t help but say, “Come on, who told you to use the Artifact rapid-fire gun like a sniper rifle? You could have fired several shots just now, enough to kill that pesky Savage Beast.”

Hearing this, Yang Tong chuckled. The firearms in this world were more structurally precise, higher in technological content, and more powerful. They also had minimal recoil, aiming functions, stable shooting accuracy, so even ordinary people without martial training could use them. Like this Type A rapid-fire gun, although it reduced the power of the laser shot, it could fire tens of thousands of rounds continuously without worrying about the barrel’s endurance. It could load fifteen Beast Crystals or Standard Crystals, maintaining the gun’s ammunition sustainability. The theoretical firing range was twenty thousand meters, and the effective attack range was five thousand meters!

Taking this gun back to Earth would make one practically invincible. This gun could be used to shoot down planes and missiles because they weren’t as fast as lasers. Moreover, it was convenient to carry, with nearly unlimited ammunition (Beast Crystals and Standard Crystals could be reused before being fully consumed).

It couldn’t be helped; this was the huge gap in technological levels. A Type A Artifact rapid-fire gun like this was merely the lowest grade among nine firearm categories, capable of low-cost mass production. The reason such firearms were popular at lower levels was precisely because they were good, cheap, and could be mass-produced.

The only thing Yang Tong was somewhat dissatisfied with now was that the communication technology in this world seemed a bit backward, which made him feel extremely frustrated.

Yang Tong often pondered this issue. It really made no sense. According to the Artifact Technology level of humans in this world, they couldn’t possibly lack communication technology, could they? Even a Type A Artifact rapid-fire gun could overpower most advanced weapons on Earth. How could they not have advanced communication technology?

“Alright, enough talk. Let’s shoot,” Ai Dong reminded from the side, excitedly mounting his gun and continuously pulling the trigger at the moving targets in the sky.

Yang Tong and Feng Xiaobo didn’t say anything more. Each stood at their own firing port, aiming and attacking the massive horde of beasts in the sky.

One hour passed. Yang Tong personally had shot down hundreds of Feiqiu Beasts, but the sky was still dark and dense; their numbers seemed not to have decreased at all.

The base of the city wall was already piled high with Savage Beast corpses. At this moment, Yang Tong saw a man clad in silver full-body armor, holding a fiery red spear. With a flourish of his spear, circles of fire appeared out of thin air, falling down the wall. Instantly, immense fire spread below, burning the Feiqiu Beast corpses to ashes within half an hour. Then, dozens of experts, under the protection of the silver-armored man, jumped off the city wall and began collecting the leftover Beast Crystals.

From the Feiqiu Beast horde, a group suddenly split off, about ten thousand strong, howling madly as they pounced toward the silver-armored man and his group.

“Intercept!” Zhang Tianming, seeing this scene, loudly ordered.

At that moment, all bunkers that could provide support opened fire on this beast group.

A large number of Feiqiu Beasts died, but still, hundreds of Feiqiu Beasts managed to swoop down.

The silver-armored man snorted coldly, gripping his spear with both hands. He executed a move—plum blossoms dotting—with spear shadows filling the sky. In that instant, all the Feiqiu Beasts turned into balls of fire, shrieking as they fell to the ground. The other several dozen experts ignored them, continuing to collect the Beast Crystals. After all the Beast Crystals were gathered, they took several steps up the city wall and leaped back up.

The silver-armored man did it even more directly; he simply made one leap and came back up.

Zhang Tianming said admiringly, “That’s the power of an Earth Rank Warrior. Students, you must work hard in the future!”

This time, Yang Tong gained a relatively clear view of the combat power of an Earth Rank Warrior. Although it was just a glimpse, not the whole picture, he still got a direct understanding.