Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1243 - 1236: Black Hole Effect

Chapter 1243: Chapter 1236: Black Hole Effect

From the recent scuffle, the General had clearly felt that even though Bai Po lacked protective True Qi, his combat skills and strength were superior to his own. If it weren’t for the enhancement of his protective True Qi, his brains would have been splattered by now.

As his magical power drained, he knew if he continued to fight, he would surely perish. Thus, he began to harbor thoughts of retreat.

"Your skills are impressive, why don’t we call it quits here?" the General panted and then said with a cupped-fist salute.

"Get lost!" Bai Po, with his head lowered and eyes slightly narrowed, responded rudely to his words.

In fact, it wasn’t just the General who was thinking of retreating. Bai Po found the General tough to defeat; without depleting his magical power, it was almost impossible to kill him instantly. Although he had now exhausted the General’s magical power, he himself was also worn out.

He could kill the man immediately, but if the General counterattacked out of desperation, he would sustain unnecessary injuries. Therefore, after weighing his options, Bai Po decided to let him go.

With Dongsheng Empire’s heavy troops invading, there was no need for him to dwell on this issue. Rather than risking killing the General, it was safer to let him go. They were going to face even more trouble ahead, and if he got injured over this, the upcoming battles would be much more difficult.

"The General is making a run for it!" Zisu alerted.

"I know!" Luo’er nodded and raised his gun to aim at the General.

Relieved at Bai Po’s consent, the General immediately ran toward his warhorse. Because the horse was so tall, the stirrups were like a staircase, and he had to climb several steps to mount it.

Once he was on his horse, the General didn’t linger but turned around and galloped toward his troops.

"Hey, he’s getting away!" Seeing the General getting further away, Zisu said anxiously.

"He won’t escape," Luo’er replied coldly, the crosshairs of his optical sight constantly fixed on the General.

Since the General had never fought in a firearm war, he lacked awareness of evasive maneuvers and ran straight toward his troops. This gave Luo’er the opportunity to aim. He directed the crosshair to where the General would be, his index finger already resting on the trigger.

"Aim for the abdomen and shoot!" Zhuyan Yu suddenly suggested from beside him.

"Huh?" Luo’er instinctively paused.

"No time for hesitation, aim!" Zhuyan Yu commanded.

Luo’er said nothing more and did not hesitate. He slowly moved the aim point down, and once the crosshair caught the General’s retreating figure, he pulled the trigger without a second thought.

Bang!

The chamber of the Origin Submachine Gun let out a thunderous noise as the anchor and bullet were successively fired, hitting the General who was less than a hundred meters away. His Origin Submachine Gun was a semi-automatic gun, but since he released the trigger at the right moment, he only fired once.

In the distance, the General on horseback suddenly jerked, then emitted a blood-curdling scream before rolling off the horse, writhing and screaming in pain on the ground.

As the incident was abrupt, almost no one noticed what had happened, and because the Origin Submachine Gun’s report wasn’t particularly loud, no one except for Zisu and Zhuyan Yu realized who had fired the shot.

"He’s not dead yet, finish him!" Zhuyan Yu took a look through her binoculars and then ordered coldly.

"Yes," Luo’er nodded, his crosshairs tracking the General’s head and neck, capturing his movement trajectory.

When the moment was ripe, he squeezed the trigger once again. The Origin Submachine Gun let out another booming report and this time, the anchor and bullet hit the General’s neck in quick succession. The two sets of Odd Origin Particle Groups collided there, unleashing a tremendous amount of energy that promptly severed the General’s neck, his head flying a great distance due to the blast wave.

The soldiers and officers on the other side were completely dumbfounded and took a long time to react. They watched in horror as one of their own collapsed in agony, and then saw his head flying off; this inexplicable sense of terror sent shivers down the soldiers’ spines. Had it not been for their discipline, they probably would have turned tail and fled on the spot.

Bai Po, mounted on a ferocious beast, was likewise puzzled because he only saw the General suddenly fall down dead, without any warning. If it had been a musket, there would have been an enormous bang, but in truth, he only heard two relatively faint booms.

"He’s completely dead now. All we need to do next is take out the relevant personnel, and no one will know Feng’s identity," Zhuyan Yu said with satisfaction, putting away his telescope and nodding.

"This... This is too amazing, isn’t it?" Zisu stood aside, wide-eyed and astonished. She had never imagined a firearm could be so accurate, hitting the stomach when it meant to hit the stomach, and the head when it aimed for the head, without a single miss. In her memory, she had never seen such an impressive weapon.

Actually, Luo’er was also carrying an automatic rifle with him, if the firing principle of an automatic rifle was similar to that of a musket, relying on the kinetic energy of gunpowder. Then the Origin Submachine Gun in his hands could be said to be a weapon that transcends eras.

After these two shots at the target, Zhuyan Yu had roughly figured out some characteristics of the Origin Submachine Gun. It seemed that the anchor shot out by the rifle particularly favored parts of a target where magical energy was denser, like humans’ Dantian or beasts’ Magic Core, the storage site for their magic power, also the place where the anchor preferred to go.

Therefore, as long as he aimed at their bellies and fired the gun, in most cases, the anchor would be drawn to their Dantian, guiding the bullet for collision.

As to why the collision of Yuanzi Groups would directly smash the Dantian, Zhuyan Yu was more inclined toward the explanation of resonance. But even without resonance, the explosion of Yuanzi Groups within the Dantian could still shatter it, after all, the Dantian, Magic Core, and Magic Crystal were essentially the same—a type of crystal container for storing magical power.

However, as cultivators, human Dantians might be a bit more special, and the best way to understand what they actually looked like would be through dissection and observation. But they didn’t have the conditions for that at the moment.

By rights, the Yuanzi Groups launched would behave like rays of light that might experience refraction or reflection, but they traveled mostly in a straight line, unaffected by gravitational and wind forces.

However, both the Dantian and Magic Core seemed very special; they acted like black holes, capturing any nearby Yuanzi Group.

Therefore, when aiming, it wasn’t necessary to be very accurate, just aiming at the general area was enough, the Yuanzi Group would naturally be attracted by the Dantian or Magic Core, then captured, and wait for the bullet’s impact—this was probably the process by which the Origin weapons killed the General.

After the General fell, almost everyone was in a daze—not until after a good long while did a few soldiers step forward. Two of them led the horse, and the others carried away the General’s body and his head.

It was evident that the opposing side was exercising great restraint. Given that they lacked siege weapons and hadn’t prepared for a siege, a hasty assault on the city walls would be more harmful than beneficial. Therefore, the enemy commander chose to swallow his anger. After retrieving the General’s body, they retreated five hundred meters, started to set up camp around the city, and awaited the arrival of the reinforcement troops.

In fact, had the other side not retreated, Luo’er was already prepared to counterattack. Once the Advance Team assembled at the top of the city walls, relying on their Origin weapons, they could completely suppress and intimidate the invading enemy. It can’t be said that they could annihilate them entirely, but causing significant casualties would be quite easy.

After all, their Origin weapons didn’t require any ammunition; as long as they could keep the gun barrels cool, these weapons could practically keep firing without ever releasing the trigger.

"You’ve succeeded," Zisu said with a smile, standing beside Luo’er as he stowed his rifle.

"Thank you for your cooperation," Luo’er replied with a nod.

"Then, let’s fulfill our agreement," Zisu said, tilting her little face up and closing her eyes, her ears twitching excitedly.

"Leader Zisu, I am not a ruffian; I have my own principles," Luo’er gently declined her implication.

"That won’t do. If you don’t follow through with what was promised, wouldn’t your honor be tarnished? Is that your idea of having principles?" Zisu opened her eyes, and said dissatisfied.