The brief negotiation came to an abrupt halt, and the survivors in Akse City, seeing the sand bandits fall silent, suddenly gained a bit more confidence. Though fierce, the sand bandits would have to expend considerable effort to wipe them out completely.
Just then, the whooshing sound of mortar shells was heard from the far end of the street. The defenders instantly shouted,
"Mortar shells! Incoming!"
A barrage of explosions started erupting in the districts surrounding the square, smoke rising, and dust flying everywhere. Countless missiles were seen shooting from all directions across the sky.
Accompanying them were the sand bandits’ assault vehicles, with various heavy machine guns, Arc Pulse Cannons, and rocket launchers firing at full blast towards the square!
A full-scale siege battle erupted!
"Fight them to the end!"
Members of Team Dawn, the Akse Brotherhood, and the Fu Lu Shou Team were frantically fighting back, wielding all sorts of heavy weaponry. For a moment, buildings and windows in the streets were shattered to pieces.
Some sand bandits, acting like suicide squads, shrieked as they charged out of the smoke with specially made high-explosive bombs and incendiaries, throwing them into the defensive encampments.
The moment the sand bandits appeared, they were shredded to pieces by the survivors’ heavy firepower, but the explosives they hurled exploded, destroying and setting ablaze defensive vehicles, causing many casualties among the defenders.
The sand bandits in high-speed mountain vehicles acted like madmen, charging one after another, with armored vehicles in the rear continuing to push toward the square.
"Watch out for the Superpower Users!"
The Flying Superpower User, Poison Snake, sped from a rooftop, twin guns sweeping the crowd below. At that moment, a Superpower User from Team Dawn, transforming into a leopard, leaped from a rooftop, pouncing Poison Snake, and they tumbled onto a flat-roof building, rolling into an alley where a brutal melee ensued!
Meanwhile, more Superpower Users joined the fray in the alleys, with a squad from the Fu Lu Shou Team in Power Armor moving together into action.
In an instant, the battle descended into a fever pitch, with the area around the square turning into a war zone, the sounds of collapsing buildings and breaking walls echoing nonstop.
In the rear of the sand bandits, the combat vehicles of Lao Xie, Red Eagle, and the Bone Dragon slowly advanced.
"Wu Laosan has found the spot. They’re all hiding in that Black Rose Bar; just take them out, don’t waste time," Lao Xie’s raspy voice declared. Check latest chapters at novel⸺fire.net
Elsewhere, on the square, the Earth Stone Transformation Superpower User, Granite, wielded a piece of discarded tank armor, smashing burning cars and barricades as he charged into the vehicle formation under a hail of bullets.
The survivors behind the car barricades looked on, their faces changing with alarm as they shouted.
"Don’t let him through!!!"
"Concentrate your fire!"
"Use the Pulse Cannon to drive him back!"
At this moment, two survivors lifted an Arc Pulse Cannon, charged it, and fired directly at Granite!
An electrifying Arc burst forth, hitting the tank armor, detonating a dense Magnetic Storm, halting Granite momentarily. But before they had time to react, their Arc Pulse Cannon exploded into pieces, blasting a survivor’s arm apart!
"There’s a sniper, be careful!"
The survivors below shouted.
From the Watchtower in Akse City, Scorpion wielded a high-precision anti-material sniper rifle, chewing gum, with a sinister expression as he looked through the scope, hiding behind a wall, wantonly harvesting lives through a hole.
"Yes, just like that. I love to take down multiple people with a single bullet; you’d best line up."
In a corner of the square, unnoticed by anyone, a ’Invisible Man’, camouflaged to blend with the ground and walls, moved leisurely, holding a sharp dagger, crossing the defensive line as if nothing were amiss, heading towards the Black Rose Bar on the inner street.
He was the Superpower User who tailed Lin Xian yesterday, Chameleon!
"Once inside, seize the opportunity to either take out Lu Zhao or Hu Lushou. Their teams have the most people; once they’re dealt with, the outside battle ends immediately."
Wu Dapeng, standing by a broken window in a building, looked toward the direction of the Black Rose Bar with binoculars, communicating with Chameleon.
Chameleon leisurely approached the Black Rose Bar, ready to raise a hand to push the door when he suddenly stopped in midair.
He sensed a slightly off smell.
As a Scout long hidden in the shadows, his sense of danger was highly acute, and Chameleon greatly trusted his sixth sense.
Thus, he withdrew his hand, stepped back to observe.
He couldn’t move too quickly; doing so would easily draw attention from those around to his peculiar change.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, a voice suddenly sounded behind him, sending chills down his spine!
"Who are you looking for?"
Chameleon’s nerves tightened instantly, instinctively spinning around with a slash.
The blade seemed to hit something solid. Upon focusing, Chameleon found a floating spherical drone behind him, a huge red ’eye’ staring fixedly at him.
Sensing the unease, Chameleon prepared to flee immediately, but in the next moment, countless spherical drones descended slowly, surrounding him completely.
In the Thunder Falcon 2000’s thermal imaging and observation system, Chameleon’s body temperature and heartbeat were rapidly soaring.