Chapter 623 - A Disagreement that Resulted in Violence
Stomp, stomp!
Twelve figures landed onto the firm ground with force.
Jiang Chen stood up with his arms pressed against the ground. He moved his limbs covered with hardened steel and then pressed the digital screen on his right arm a few times. The hologram map expanded and the observation pod hung below the airship synced the aerial map of the water treatment plant to his control panel. Light ripples scanned across the map and marked the red dots.
There were 142 people in total.
Fortunately, they didn’t install life signal jammers in the base.
Jiang Chen and his force were wearing the newly research K2 kinetic skeleton. Without decreasing the mobility, it maximized the defense of the external skeleton. In exchange, the cost of the K2 type was four times the K1 type.
And because of this, only the General’s private force was equipped with this type of kinetic skeleton.
“All units have landed,” Sun Xiaorou walked beside Jiang Chen and spoke gently.
“Perfect.” Jiang Chen was about to order to move forward when he suddenly saw a few red dots leaving the plant and approaching them.
Jiang Chen raised a fist to signal the soldiers to be on alert.
Not long after, ten thuggish-looking people walked up.
When Sun Xiaorou saw the appearance of them, she almost burst out laughing.
Only a few wore a bulletproof vest, some had a piece of steel dangling in front of their chest, and even some’s clothes were torn apart, not much better than hobos. As to the weapons in hands, they were mostly homemade rifles, common among survivors.
The only weapon that looked okay was the assault rifle in their leader’s hand.
While infuriated by Sun Xiaorou’s expression, Six examined the equipment of these people and then glanced at the airship high in the air, and he intelligently controlled himself.
“Where are you all from? What’s your purpose of coming to our clan’s territory?”
Jiang Chen and Sun Xiaorou exchanged glances and communicated via the private channel.
Jiang Chen: “Raiders?”
Sun Xiaorou: “Looks like it… should we fight?”
Jiang Chen: “Wait, I still need to ask them a few questions.
Six had a grave expression seeing that the two “weirdos” equipped to their teeth didn’t speak.
There was no one on the wasteland that dared to disrespect the water treatment plant clan like this, even “Empire” and “Federation” with power armors in the city were respectful when they came to negotiate.
“Hello, my boss is talking to you!”
A muscular man with tattoos on his face stared Jiang Chen down viciously while shouting at him.
The raiders were not afraid of the kinetic skeletons they are wearing. Even with the homemade rifles, as long as they are loaded with armor-piercing bullets could penetrate their armor, they are unfearful unless they encountered power armors.
“You’re the boss of this place?” Jiang Chen ignored the small pawn and looked at the person in the front, intrigued.
“No, not me,” Six thought about the man with his eyes dug out and his back was instantly covered in cold sweat, so he quickly clarified.
But then, he met Jiang Chen’s intrigued eyes.
“Fu*k, I’m asking where you came from—”
Six’s expression suddenly froze.
The black muzzle was pressed against his forehead.
Jiang Chen looked at him expressionlessly and the Reaper assault rifle was in his hand.
The sudden unexpected changes caught the raiders of the water treatment plant clan completely off guard. The thugs, seeing their boss was pointed at by a gun, immediately raised their rifles and entered a standoff with Jiang Chen’s force.
“Our clips are loaded with armor-piercing bullets, do you want to try?” Six was dripping with cold sweat with both his hands raised, his calmness sounded forced.
Jiang Xiaoyou, at the top floor of the water treatment plant, zoomed in as he didn’t see how Jiang Chen pulled out his weapon. While he was shocked, the sniper rifle’s crosshair locked onto Jiang Chen and he waited for his employer’s order.
Right now, Wang Xie standing in the water treatment plant had her arms crossed in front of her chest, her focus switched between the airship and the group with a gloomy expression.
The turn of event surprised her; the opponent was way too confident.
Jiang Chen didn’t seem to mind his threat. Just as he was about to interrogate for some useful information, the voice of the airship communicator entered into his ear.
“We detected a 40mm cannon inside the plant. They are setting up the cannon and attempting to aim at us. On the fifth floor of the building directly in front, we detected an enemy sniper.”
Jiang Chen’s expression turned into a sneer, he suddenly changed his mind about interrogation.
[If you’re asking for death.]
[Then, go die.]
“Other than the person I’m aiming at, take the rest out.” Jiang Chen changed to the public channel and ordered the execution.
“Roger.”
The four gunners thousands of meters high in the air opened the safety after receiving the order. They pressed the trigger after locking onto the targets.
Six was secretively relieved seeing Jiang Chen didn’t dare to shoot.
[Since the enemy is afraid to shoot, that means they are afraid of us…]
“Boom—”
The screech of the sound barrier being broken instantly destroyed Six’s confidence. The deafening bullets made his head dizzy.
When the dust dispersed, he saw the cuts on his face from the shrapnel, the contemptuous smile, and the black muzzles. Six couldn’t stop shaking, but he couldn’t even make a sound.
Suddenly, he felt his pants were wet. The stained yellow between his legs made his face instantly turn to an ugly red.
“I already said… there is nothing to talk about with raiders.” Sun Xiaorou let out a sigh and gently pulled out her gun. “Regardless, we’ll have to fight.”
If the hideous raiders didn’t use the sympathy of the fallout shelter residents, the sisters wouldn’t have been separated for so long.
“Leave a few alive; one is not enough.”
Jiang Chen advised the vicious looking Xiaorou and signaled a soldier before pointing at the completely shocked hostage.
The soldier with contempt walked forward and used his rifle to kick and drag the raider that wetted his pants onto the road. Then he took out a graphene handcuff and tied the sucker to a lamppost.
There was smoke coming from the water treatment plant in the distance. The machine guns on the airship could clean out the thug clan that had the audacity to challenge them. Whether it was the sniper or the cannon hidden inside the bunker, they all could not escape the hailstorm of bullets.
A grimacing smile appeared on Jiang Chen’s face as he watched the black smoke rise. He then pressed on the radio of his helmet.
“Airdrop crew, prepare yourselves. Kill the bugs for me!”
“Roger.”