Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 755 - 748: Rune Detonator

Chapter 755: Chapter 748: Rune Detonator

Soon, the gunfire on the Asirens became more intense, suggesting that the marines had started a full assault against the rebels onboard.

Luoer was concerned that if Mu Lansi was not on the bridge, he might be caught in the crossfire. But that didn’t matter much because neither he nor Reimer wanted Mu Lansi alive, so falling into Reimer’s hands would hardly be worse than falling into his own.

The group moved forward when suddenly a group of rushed dwarf soldiers poured out of a doorway. Luoer didn’t hesitate and pulled the trigger right away.

All thirty rounds in his magazine were fired on full auto mode before the enemies even had time to react, leaving many of them down before they even knew what happened.

However, the muzzle flash still revealed Luoer and the others’ position, and the dwarven gunmen who survived began hurriedly seeking cover and preparing to counterattack.

"Change the magazine!" Luoer shouted and swapped positions with Cheng Ziang to reload his magazine.

Cheng Ziang took Luoer’s position and continued firing at the dwarf gunmen. Those who were left and had no time to find cover were promptly hit and went down. Soon, the corridor was littered with bodies and splattered with blood.

"Stay alert!" After reloading, Luoer patted Cheng Ziang’s arm, exchanged positions with him again, and continued to lead the team forward.

Upon reaching the scattered bodies, Luoer cautiously checked their point of entry—an operations room with only one exit. Everyone who had come out had already been killed in their previous fight.

Relieved by the sight, Luoer let out a breath, but he barely had time to exhale when he suddenly felt his center of gravity shift, causing him to reel backward and nearly fall.

Leaning against the door, Luoer looked at the others and found them in the same situation, barely able to maintain their balance. He then noticed that the corridor where they were standing had inexplicably begun to tilt.

"What’s happening!" Hu Daoke, holding onto a bookshelf, asked wide-eyed.

"They’re elevating the bow, preparing to ascend!" Cheng Ziang frowned and analyzed calmly.

"Damn, haven’t they taken down the antigravity engine and propulsion engine yet?" Luoer frowned, looking worriedly in the direction of the incessant gunfire.

"Luoer, Luoer," Fulajie’er’s anxious voice came over his earpiece. "That, Mu Lansi guy is on the bridge. You need to hurry up. They seem to be preparing something."

"Understood, stay on high alert!" Luoer nodded, then turned to Cheng Ziang and said, "It looks like Mu Lansi is up to something."

"Yes, I think so too," Cheng Ziang nodded in agreement.

The command center on Ronisca’s airship couldn’t directly control the airship’s mobility or firepower—it could only instruct the relevant compartments to do so. Therefore, the command center served more as a coordinating center, responsible for managing the personnel in the other compartments to control this gigantic warship.

This is why Reimer had suggested capturing the antigravity engine room first, because once it was taken, it would mean that the command center would lose control of the antigravity engine.

At this moment, the corridor they were in tilted almost thirty degrees. Under the force of gravity, the corpses dragged long traces of blood across the floor and the pool of blood began to flow towards the lower end.

"Keep moving, let’s control the command center as soon as possible!" Luoer ordered.

A thirty-degree tilt wasn’t too steep for the group. But Luoer still couldn’t understand why Mu Lansi was rashly choosing to ascend.

Generally speaking, when an airboat or airship encounters danger, it either maintains its regular cruising altitude or slowly descends to the ground. If there is a lake or river, it can make a soft landing.

The reason for maintaining standard cruising altitude was that it’s the right height for parachutes to deploy, ensuring people would not be mortally injured from the fall. However, there was no case where danger required them to increase altitude. They still couldn’t figure out what Mu Lansi was planning to do.

Did he simply desire to shake off the two airships trailing behind him? That would be laughable, and Luoer believed that Mu Lansi wouldn’t make such a rookie mistake.

After all, ground support ships were used for ground support, and thus had thick armour on the bottom. But this heavy armour affected their mobility. So no matter what, a ground support ship would never be able to outrun the top-tier design of a Main Battle Airship.

So, after weighing all possibilities, Luoer felt there was only one possibility: Mu Lansi planned to use the powerful firepower system on the bottom of the ground support ship to attack the two airships trailing behind him.

With that thought, Luoer hurriedly led the Advance Team towards the bridge. After walking for about ten minutes, the Asirens returned to a balanced state. It was unclear if the anti-gravity engine room had been controlled or if they had decided not to rise further.

In actuality, since the Asirens was equipped with an anti-gravity engine, the ship could rise and drop vertically. The only reason for tilting was probably to use the propulsion engine to accelerate the Asirens’ ascent.

With Fulajie’er guiding, the pace of Luoer and the others noticeably increased. But the closer they moved towards the bridge, the more risks they encountered. Barely five minutes after the Asirens had steadied, Luoer and the others had at least three shootouts. Although they successfully defeated their opponents with the help of Fulajie’er, the increasingly dense defense made Luoer increasingly cautious.

"There’s one more hiding behind the cover. I’ll scare him out!" Fulajie’er said, and then flew behind the Dwarf, making a ghastly sound, causing him to jump out in fright and be instantly killed by Cheng Ziang.

"Clear!" Fulajie’er shouted after they killed the last Dwarf.

By now, Luoer and the others had already reached the door of the bridge. The door was tightly shut, clearly someone had locked it from the other side.

"Little Ke, Ziang, prepare the directional explosives, let’s blow the door open!" Luoer said as he pulled out a flashbang from his pocket.

"Copy that!" Both nodded, glanced at each other, then took out the directional explosives strapped to their backs, and began to set them up at the door.

Because they were using a high-yield explosive, they couldn’t sneakily infiltrate this time. Even though it was a directional explosive, standing near the door could still be fatal. They had to hide around the corner.

Once the setup was done, the duo prepared the explosives, ran back to the team, and, seeing them return, Tangmo picked up the magic wand, ready to detonate the explosives.

This time they brought a peculiar item along with the high-tech rifles and super mobility devices - the rune remote detonator.

The detonator combined Otherworld magic and Earth technology. It had an active rune layer printed on it. Once the Spells were activated, the rune would be activated and the detonator would explode.

Of course, this type of detonator was also very dangerous. If the enemy mastered the Spells, they could detonate the detonators carried by the Advance Team members. Therefore, it usually didn’t have a rune on it, and the rune was only printed on it when it was needed. The rune and the detonator were stored separately to ensure safety during transport.

"Ready!" Tangmo raised the magic wand and looked at Luoer and the others.

Luoer nodded, then pulled the pin out of the grenade, waved it in front of Cheng Ziang and Hu Daoke, and they quickly pulled the pins out of their flashbangs as well.

Then, Tangmo recited the Spells silently, then swung down the magic wand forcefully. Because she had to recite the Spells, she couldn’t count down or give any verbal warning, she could only indicate through her actions.

With the activation of the rune detonator’s rune, the detonator in turn triggered the directional explosives attached to the door, causing a loud noise. The violent explosion produced a massive shockwave, even causing the entire Asirens to shake.

A wave of dust and shockwaves rushed toward them. Even though they had taken cover around the corner, they couldn’t avoid the shockwave. After the explosion, Luoer, with dust clouding his vision, swallowed hard, quickly stepped out from the corner, and accurately threw the flashbang in his hand into the blasted open cabin door.

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