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087 Blue Scheme
"Report! The core temperature of the target is decreasing!"
The white mist began to slowly dissipate, and Constantine's lips moved as if he were calling someone's name.
Immediately afterwards, its entire skeleton emitted a deafening cracking sound.
Bronze scales rapidly covered his skin like chainmail, his spine was forcibly elongated, and the outline of his back twisted into an arched beast's spine. Bone spurs pierced his elbows and knees from the inside, the skin on his back was torn apart, and a pair of membranous wings that had been attached to his back suddenly opened, dripping with blood.
With such air superiority, it would be easy to either disengage from the battlefield or launch an attack.
Chu Zihang stood up from behind the cover and wiped the mud and blood off his face.
"Everyone, fire freely, use your incantations freely, but the use of incantations of the bronze and fire elements is prohibited!"
Gunfire set the entire campus ablaze in the darkness; this time, the bullets did not vaporize.
Frigga's tranquilizer darts finally completed their flight, their firing rate of tens of thousands per minute forming a solid red iron wall that slammed into the boy.
"Hit! Kinetic energy transferred effectively!" the frontline observer shouted from the mud.
"Clang clang clang—!"
Frigga's bullets struck the newly formed bronze scales, ricocheting off with a clang, leaving not even a white mark.
Crimson anesthetic mist exploded on Constantine's body. The anesthetic gas had no effect on the Dragon King, but the thousands upon thousands of high-frequency physical hammer blows finally made the King of Bronze and Fire feel pain.
As Norma continuously pumped underground water, massive jets of firefighting water relentlessly pounded the plaza. With the loss of a large area of heat radiation, except for the area around Constantine where rainwater was still turning into steam, the ambient temperature of the entire battlefield was rapidly decreasing.
"Heavy firepower team, haul the stuff out of the equipment department's logistics vehicle!"
Several huge black equipment cases were opened. What was revealed to everyone were more than a dozen heavy-duty pneumatic crossbows with a futuristic look, as well as composite longbows made of high-strength carbon fiber.
The toys made during the exercise finally came in handy.
Susie drew the string and gave the order:
"Load carbon fiber armor-piercing arrows! Fire!"
A dozen or so Lionheart members with incredible arm strength picked up pneumatic crossbows and locked onto their targets.
"Sizzle—smack!"
With a deafening roar, more than a dozen carbon fiber arrows, completely devoid of any metal parts, tore through the rain and pierced deeply into the gaps in Constantine's dragon scales!
Black and red boiling blood shot out from the black arrow shaft. The Dragon King let out a painful roar, and his huge membranous wings flapped violently, the violent airflow breaking the first few arrows in the front row.
"efficient!"
Constantine suddenly flapped his dragon wings, and the air pressure blew the mud wall directly in front of him away.
Susie quickly said, "Beat its wings, don't let it fly!"
"Close combat assault team, move out!" Chu Zihang ordered.
In the mud and water, the last dozen or so engineering boxes were lifted up.
Carbon fiber spears, ceramic daggers, obsidian battle axes, and Kevlar riot shields. At the very bottom of the box are several suspiciously shaped items: Frostmourne, the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, and Cloud's greatsword. These weapons once "defeated" the King of "Earth and Mountain," and now they are about to face the test of combat.
"All club leaders, step forward." Chu Zihang, carrying a carbon fiber spear, walked to the front of the position. "Form a square formation and execute Operation Rock Blue Plan."
More than thirty hybrids with physical enhancement abilities or top-tier physical attributes picked up their weapons and lined up in five squads.
"Charge into the high-temperature zone, attack once and then retreat immediately," Chu Zihang stared at the dragon king who was pulling out carbon fiber arrows from its body. "Regardless of the outcome, you are absolutely not allowed to be greedy for kills."
"First echelon, charge!"
The student with the shield stepped forward and used it to block the membrane wings that the Dragon King instinctively swung. After blocking the attack, he immediately retreated.
Behind the shield, Chu Zihang's golden eyes burst forth with a blinding light. He raised his spear and thrust it into the gaps in the scales, then immediately rolled backward to dodge Constantine's attack.
The other team members who were hit or missed also scrambled out of the high-temperature zone and plunged into the mud pit behind them, which Norma had filled with ice water.
"Hiss—!" The ice water hit their scalding hot protective suits, instantly creating a cloud of white steam.
They had barely withdrawn when Caesar's second echelon, armed with ceramic swords and spears, filled the gap and plunged into the scorching inferno.
Sprint, thrust, burn, discard weapons, tumble into the water. And so it goes.
The medical station was located in the northwest corner of the square, 300 meters from the steam area. It was the only place in the entire area where people could still hear each other talking, but even that was only relatively speaking.
On the position of more than a hundred people, coughs, groans, and the sound of scissors cutting through the fibers of fireproof suits could be heard one after another.
Aki knelt beside a tactical mat. The wounded soldier in front of her was Marcus, who had been withdrawn from the second echelon. His left arm was dislocated, and he had extensive burns on his chest. He was breathing rapidly but was conscious.
Zero crouches on the other side of Marcus.
With her left hand, she positioned Marcus's shoulder joint, and with her right hand, she found the key position. With a short, quick rotational repositioning motion, the joint clicked back into place.
Marcus was about to scream in pain when he turned his head and saw Eileen beside him.
Eileen, holding the bandage, ignored him and strode quickly toward the wounded behind her.
"This is the girl I've chosen!" Marcus shouted excitedly, ignoring Eileen. He jumped up as if he had been injected with adrenaline and retreated behind the assault team, preparing for a new round of assault.
After quickly tidying up, Ling reached out to take the next wounded person.
Aki watched Zero's retreating figure, this girl who was less than 1.5 meters tall and weighed an estimated 40 kilograms. In those half hour, she treated the most wounded, spending only a few minutes on each person. Every movement of hers was deliberate and efficient, simple yet forceful.
Aki recalled those twenty minutes inside the gates of the Moniach, when Zero did the same thing to the wounded as she had done to Lu Mingfei.
Zero is good to Lu Mingfei, but not in a way that allows him to continue fighting on the battlefield.
Aki was thinking about another question.
Ye Sheng will retire after this battle. They'll be going back to Kyoto next week to see Noh, and next month they'll learn how to cook seafood. She knows she's chosen a life where she can retire.
Zero is the right fit for Lu Mingfei, who is now in a situation where war is inevitable.
But what if one day Lu Mingfei no longer needs to fight? What will happen then?
Aki shook her head, thinking she was overthinking things; perhaps Lu Mingfei needed a zero like that right now.
Once Lu Mingfei's condition changes, perhaps Ling will change as well. Ultimately, the two should influence each other and gradually improve.