Chapter 23: Fire!
The bunker itself was divided into two levels. To strike the flying fur beasts in the sky, one had to go to the top level. After consultation, the teachers of each class divided the team members into two parts: one part would go to the second level to shoot the flying fur beasts, while the other part rested, rotating every two hours.
Zhang Tianming came before the six students of class five and said, "You have all taken shooting classes, so I don't need to explain much. Here, I want to solemnly state that when shooting, be as precise as possible; otherwise, it's just a waste of energy for nothing. Although the flying fur beasts are numerous, they don't constitute a major threat. The real threat is still ahead. We need to completely clear the flying fur beasts from the sky before the first two lines of defense collapse, so precision is a must."
"Yes!"
"Also, do you know why the county government had to put in so much effort to construct three lines of defense? Besides blocking the advance layer by layer and consuming the number of savage beasts to the maximum extent, it is also to give you an opportunity for actual combat. You must cherish this chance. If the first two lines of defense really collapse, you must all withdraw immediately," Zhang Tianming instructed earnestly.
"Understood!" the crowd responded in unison.
Immediately after, Zhang Tianming discussed with several other teachers and divided the students here into two groups.
Yang Tong's group was coincidentally assigned to the first attack wave.
"Yang Tong, are you afraid?" Feng Xiaobo had now cleared his head from the initial bloody and terrifying scene and recovered some of his mental state.
"A little. I did feel like retching just now, but thinking about it carefully, this is a war between races, and there's no way to avoid it. We must resist; we can't just sit and wait for death, can we?" he replied calmly. He turned on the switch of the rapid-fire gun, mounted the sight onto the gun rack, and came to a firing port. He tried aiming with the sight, which accurately captured a savage beast flying at high speed, and then pulled the trigger.
The body of the gun vibrated slightly as a strong laser wave shot out.
The laser wave accurately hit a flying fur beast in the air. The beast was shot in the chest, leaving a fist-sized hole. The wound retained a continuous high temperature, causing the fist-sized injury to gradually expand to the size of a football.
The beast let out a miserable shriek. Its wings struggled as its blood-red eyes glared in Yang Tong's direction, and then it lunged toward him. Midway, it was hit by an even larger laser wave, causing it to disintegrate directly in the air.
The chest, head, and base of the wings of a flying fur beast were all effective strike points, especially the head—a hit there meant certain death.
"Sigh, it's a pity it's an A-type psionic rapid-fire gun. Even with a sight, it doesn't have the violent power of an A-type psionic sniper rifle," he sighed. The shot that had just caused a flying fur beast to disintegrate must have come from either an A-type psionic sniper rifle or a B-type psionic rapid-fire gun to have such power.
Feng Xiaobo saw it clearly from the side and couldn't help but say, "Come on, who told you to use a rapid-fire gun like a sniper rifle? You could have fired several shots in a row just now, which would have been enough to kill that hateful savage beast."
He chuckled. The firearms of this world were more sophisticated in structure, had higher technological content, and were more powerful. Moreover, the recoil was minimal, they had aiming functions, and the shooting accuracy was stable; even ordinary people who hadn't studied martial arts could use them. Like this A-type rapid-fire gun, although the power of the laser was reduced, it could fire tens of thousands of rounds consecutively without worrying about the barrel being unable to withstand it. It could be loaded with fifteen beast crystals or standard crystal stones, maintaining the gun's ammunition endurance. The theoretical shooting 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 portable, and the ammunition was nearly infinite (beast crystals and standard crystal stones could be recycled before they were completely exhausted)...
There was no helping it; this was the huge gap in technological levels. An A-type psionic rapid-fire gun like this was only the lowest of the nine grades of firearms and could be mass-produced at low cost. These types of thermal weapons were popular among the lower classes because they were high quality, inexpensive, and could be mass-produced.
The only thing he was dissatisfied with now was that the communication technology of this world seemed somewhat backward, which made him feel extremely frustrated.
He often thought about this. It really didn't make sense. Given the spirit tool technology level of humanity in this world, how could they not even have communication technology? Even an A-type psionic rapid-fire gun could sweep away most of Earth's advanced weapons, so how could there be no advanced communication technology?
"Alright, enough talk. Let's shoot," Ai Dong reminded from the side, excitedly mounting his gun and pulling the trigger incessantly at the moving targets in the sky.
He and Feng Xiaobo didn't say anything more either, each at their own firing port, aiming and attacking the massive swarm of beasts in the sky.
Two hours passed. He had personally shot down hundreds of flying fur beasts, but the sky was still a dense black mass, and the numbers didn't seem to have decreased at all.
The base of the city wall was already piled high with the corpses of savage beasts. At this moment, he saw a man clad in silver full-body armor, holding a fiery red tasseled spear. With a flourish of the spear, rings of fire were created out of thin air and fell down the city wall. Within half an hour, a boundless fire spread, burning the corpses of the flying fur beasts to ashes. Immediately after, dozens of experts, under the protection of the silver-armored man, jumped off the city wall and began to pick up the remaining beast crystals.
A group of about ten thousand beasts suddenly split off from the flying fur beast swarm, shrieking as they lunged toward the silver-armored man and the others.
"Intercept!" Zhang Tianming shouted the order upon seeing this.
At this time, all the bunkers capable of providing support simultaneously launched an interception against this group of beasts.
A large number of flying fur beasts died, but hundreds of them still managed to pounce down.
The silver-armored man snorted coldly. Holding the spear with both hands, he performed a plum blossom technique, and spear shadows filled the sky. In just that instant, all the flying fur beasts turned into balls of fire, falling to the ground with miserable cries. The other dozens of experts picked up the beast crystals as if they hadn't seen a thing, and once all the beast crystals were collected, they jumped back up the city wall in a few steps.
The silver-armored man was even more straightforward, jumping up in a single leap.
Zhang Tianming said enviously, "This is the power of an Earth Rank Martial Master. Students, you must work hard in the future!"
This time, he had a relatively clear view of an Earth Rank Martial Master's combat power. Although it was only a glimpse and not the full picture, he now had a direct understanding.