Book 5 Chapter 24.4 - Hurt


    The location Ricardo chose was an abandoned little town, a ce that originally housed several hundred households. The small town’s surroundings were undting mountain ridges, the terrainplex, favorable for ambushes and escape. After circling and advancing for several hours, fighting many small-scale intense battles, Ricardo finally upied the intersection to enter the town. His fingers groped around in the pocket of his jacket that was so filthy its original color couldn’t be recognized anymore for a long time before finally producing a cigarette butt that only had two centimeters left. He lit it, took a deep breath, and only then did he aim his sunken eyes at the peaceful little town before him. He stood there just like that. The soldiers that survived scattered on their own, searching for suitable ces toy in ambush inside the town. Meanwhile, that previously tall, sturdy, and steady man inspected their battle positions one by one.


    Ricardo put out the cigarette butt after taking only a single hit, and then carefully returned it to his pouch. He then walked towards one of the abandoned stores in the town withrge steps, climbed up to the third floor, and then looked outwards from the broken window. This was a high point in the city, the field of view quite good, and at the same time not too eye-catching, quite suitable for observation and sniping. He removed that ridiculouslyrge sniper rifle from his back, cing it by his legs. This heavy sniper rifle was almost thirty centimeters longer than an ordinary sniper rifle, the weapon’s style simple yet heroic, a bit simr to the olden era’s Barrett, only much thicker and longer. The pitch-ck muzzle was a whole ring thicker than the Barrett, the dark blue radiance that asionally shed through the gun barrel disying that it was made of some type of superior function super alloy. Meanwhile, the electromaic energy support instations proved that this was alreadypletely a new era sniper rifle.


    Ricardo opened the gun bolt, pressing three rounds of special green bullets into the barrel. Instead of calling these 25mm caliber fes bullets, it was better off calling them artillery shells. The new ammunition and electromaic energy’s speed supplementation provided this weapon with an initial firing speed of over 2000 meters per second. The cost of the great increase in power, was the extremely high requirement for the shooter and firearm’s quality.


    Smoke slowly surged from the horizon outside the town. Three light armored off-road vehicles rushed out from the smoke and dust, roaring as they sped towards the small town. Then, seven transporting off-road trucks followed. If every vehicle could carry 20 people, the troops that tailed them were six or seven times that of Ricardo’s.


    Pah! Ricardo spat heavily onto the ground, cursing with a low voice, “Motherfucking... why is there so many of them! This doesn’t look too good. Hanlon, how is our retreat path looking?”


    The male named Hanlon was currently observing the surroundings from another window. When he heard Ricardo’s question, he replied without even turning his head around, saying, “There are around thirty people at each side trying to outnk us. Our retreat path will be cut off in a few more minutes.


    “60 in total? Not that many then.” Ricardo didn’t seem too bothered. He slowly raised his shockinglyrge heavy sniper rifle, and then aimed at the leftmost armored off-road vehicle.


    “60 isn’t that much, but there are definitely many ‘old friends’ within. At the very least, hindering the two of us shouldn’t be too big of an issue.” Hanlon reminded.


    Ricardo took aim, arge grin appearing on his mouth, revealing a ratherzy looking smile. “If those ‘old friends’ truly wants to do this, then they’ll definitely be in for quite the surprise.”


    Ricardo wasn’t wrong. In the recent half month, Hanlon already became different from before, while Ricardo changed even more significantly. Some men were naturally suited for survival in steel and mes.


    Ricardo was only able to smile halfway when his face suddenly became a bit distorted, squeezing out a few names from the gaps of his teeth. “Fucking piece of shit, why is it him?!”


    “Who?”


    “My family’s old fifth... as well as my most, most ‘beloved’ little brother.” Ricardo didn’t hide his anger at all.


    Hanlon frowned and said, “I heard that apart from you, he is Fabregas’ strongest ability user. He should have six levels now, right? What, you can’t set bring yourself to take him down? Then let me!”


    “No! This good chance definitely can’t be given to you! I did like him quite a bit before, but now, I like mother more. That woman looks just over 20, just the right vor. Did you know? After deciding to take the empress’ side, the stupidest thing I did was entrust my two girls to this dear little brother of mine. They are extremely obedient, moreover giving birth to my children, but now, I already know what happened... let’s not talk about these! When we win this war and capture this little bastard’s mother, how about it, you interested in ying around a bit?” Ricardo’s voice became lower and lower, his face also appearing more and more sinister.


    Hanlon on the other side couldn’t see Ricardo’s expression, but he could well imagine what he looked like. He replied indifferently, “I don’t like old women! However, I can lend you a hand in this matter, go at the same time, me in the front and you in the back.”


    “Haha, good, then this matter is settled!” Ricardoughed loudly, the trigger pulled down under the ear-splittingughter!


    The heavy sniper rifle’s muzzle continuously released three sts of mes, the gunshots sounding in session, gathering into a thunderous rumbling sound. The scorching heat produced a small storm in the house, and along with the muzzle’s minute movements, the three special alloy bullets drew out a fiery arc, separately shooting at the three armored off-road vehicles.