NFBE Chapter 7 Global Shock! A monster that even heavy machine guns couldn't penetrate, he annihilat
Chapter 7 Global Shock! A monster that even heavy machine guns couldn't penetrate, he annihilat
James stared at the screen without saying a word.
No one in the studio dared to make a sound.
Satellite footage of the Indian capital was still hanging directly above all the live broadcast rooms, showing groups of chameleons rampaging through the city, skyscrapers collapsing, vehicles overturning, and screams and thick smoke everywhere.
Just then, the announcement started to change, and the font changed.
The original punishment notice disappeared, and a new line of text appeared.
[Warning: India's number one player has died. A replacement player is being randomly selected and is being drawn...]
The chat in more than 200 live stream rooms around the world came to a standstill once again.
The viewers in Da Xia's live stream were the first to react.
[Substitute? What does that mean?]
[If one dies, should we just pull another in?]
Wait... this game doesn't have an exit mechanism?
[If a player dies, they're replaced? When will that happen?]
[Until... no one else can replace them?]
The moment that last comment appeared, the entire live stream went silent.
In the official studio, Lin Xiaotang turned to the live feed window.
"Professor Zhao, what does the substitute system mean?"
Zhao Mingyuan's answer was very short.
"This means there's no forfeit button in this game. If a player dies, they're replaced; if they die again, they're replaced again. This continues until everyone in that country is wiped out, or the game ends."
He paused for two seconds.
"Each time a player dies, a disaster of the same level will occur. The more players die, the more frequent the disasters will be."
Lin Xiaotang did not respond.
The chat in Da Xia's live stream slowly started scrolling again.
So if Su Shen dies, not only will an S-class disaster occur, but an ordinary person will also be dragged in to take his place?
[Then death, then more disaster, then more people being dragged away...]
This is a vicious cycle.
I feel cold all over.
Nobody's using emojis anymore.
The scene then cuts back to India.
Temporary defense lines have been set up on the streets.
Three infantry fighting vehicles were positioned across the intersection, a dozen heavy machine guns were mounted behind sandbags, and soldiers lay prone behind cover, all pointing their guns at a split-jawed lizard that was tearing apart the wreckage of a bus 300 meters away.
The split-jawed lizard was over six meters long, its grayish-brown scales covered in shards of glass and concrete powder. Its split jaws were still chewing on steel, and the sound of metal being chewed was chilling even through the screen.
A commander wearing a red beret stood behind the tank, a walkie-talkie pressed to his mouth.
"Attention all firepower units! Target 300 meters directly in front! Fire a volley!"
Gunshots rang out.
More than a dozen heavy machine guns opened fire simultaneously, spitting out ammunition belts with a whooshing sound. Tracer rounds left dense streaks of light in the air, all slamming into the body of the split-jawed lizard.
Sparks flew everywhere.
The bullets struck the scales, leaving only a series of dense white dots, without even breaking the skin.
The split-jawed lizard didn't even lift its head; it swallowed the bus wreckage from its mouth, its throat twitching slightly.
Then it turned its head, its vertical pupils pointing directly at the muzzle of the gun.
The live stream chat in Da Xia's room was flooded with comments.
[Unbreakable! Absolutely unbreakable!]
[A heavy machine gun! 12.7mm caliber! It couldn't even make a scratch!]
[This is still a D-rank monster? Are D-rank monsters this tough?]
[How hard must an S-class be...?]
In the video, the split-jawed lizard begins to move towards the defensive line.
The speed was not fast, even a bit slow.
But with each step, the asphalt surface cracks into a spiderweb pattern.
The commander's expression changed.
"Armor-piercing rounds! Switch to armor-piercing rounds!"
The ammunition belt was changed, armor-piercing rounds were loaded, and firing continued.
The sound of armor-piercing bullets hitting armored scales is sharper and more piercing.
But the effect is the same.
The white mark deepened slightly, but it still didn't penetrate.
The split-jawed lizard walked up to an infantry fighting vehicle, lowered its head, opened its split jaws, and bit down on the vehicle's turret.
It ripped the entire turret off by the roots, flung it aside, and smashed through the exterior wall of a three-story building next door.
The soldiers inside the tanks jumped out like madmen.
The commander's voice cracked.
"Rocket launcher! Load the rocket launcher! Quickly!"
Two soldiers carrying RPGs rushed out from behind cover, half-kneeled, aimed, and pulled the trigger.
The first shot missed; the rocket grazed the back of the split-jawed lizard and exploded in the ruins behind it.
The second shot hit right in the abdomen.
The lizard's plastron is thinner than its carapace. A rocket penetrates the gaps in its scales and explodes inside its body.
A fireball expanded from his abdomen, sending blood, flesh, and shards of armor flying in all directions.
The split-jawed lizard let out a piercing roar, its body twisted violently twice, and it crashed heavily to the ground.
twitch.
Then it stopped moving.
One.
One was killed.
The cost was the destruction of two infantry fighting vehicles, the partial collapse of a building, and injuries to at least a dozen soldiers.
The crack in the sky had not yet closed, and groups of split-jawed lizards were still roaming the streets in the distance.
Viewers in the global live stream saw all of this clearly.
The chat in the US livestream room exploded first.
[Heavy machine guns can't penetrate? Armor-piercing rounds can't penetrate? A rocket launcher barely managed to kill one?]
[This is still the lowest-level D-rank monster?]
【Wait a moment……】
【Wait, wait, wait, wait!!!】
How did Su Chen manage to shovel that rusty iron spade in there?!
The moment this question was raised, it instantly ignited a frenzy in all the live stream rooms.
Da Xia's live stream room.
[Holy crap! Yeah! Even machine guns couldn't penetrate the scale armor, but Su Shen pierced it with a single shovel?!]
No, he punctured the air vent's weak point!
[The stomata were only three centimeters wide! How did he find them?! How did he do it?!]
[Just look at this! In India, they had to use a rocket launcher to shoot one in the abdomen to kill it, while Su Shen killed it instantly by poking its air vent with a shovel!]
[Was Su Shen's shovel strike more powerful than a rocket launcher?!]
I watched the replay three times. That shovel strike was clean and precise; the tip went straight in without hesitation!
How exactly did he locate that three-centimeter-long pore? That's beyond human capability, isn't it?
Live stream from the Russian Bear Country.
That young man from Da Xia... he's got some skills.
A three-centimeter weakness, hit the target with a single blow.
The live broadcast room of the country where the sun never sets.
[Watching the replay. He didn't hesitate, not even for a second. He knew exactly where to stab.]
All the comments on the live stream channels were pointing to the same question: How exactly did Su Chen do that?
The live stream from the United States.
James Hall sat up straight and slammed his hand on the table.
"Everyone, everyone! Calm down!"
He loosened his tie and raised his voice by half a octave.
"I must correct a misconception! The swamp devourer that Su Chen killed was dormant! Dormant! Do you understand?"
He stretched out his finger and pointed it forcefully into the air.
"First, the monster was asleep and caught off guard! Second, that vent was soft! Third, it was pure luck! A blind cat stumbled upon a dead mouse!"
The co-host hesitated for a moment.
"But James, replays show he made a clear aiming motion before he stabbed—"
"Aiming?" James interrupted him, shoveling the beer can to his lips and taking a large gulp. "A Great Man with a rusty shovel, standing in the mud, and you're telling me he's aiming?"
He wiped his mouth.
"He doesn't even have a scope! If this is what you call aiming, then me peeing into the toilet with my eyes closed is also called precision guidance!"
The comments from the US immediately followed suit.
[Hahaha, LeBron James is so mean!]
[That's right! Dormant monsters don't count at all!]
[Try finding one that's awake! I guarantee it'll be reduced to ashes!]
When these screenshots were sent to Da Xia's live stream, the chat exploded.
[Precision-guided? He's talking about precision-guided? His own country's contestant is driving a Class B armored vehicle and has already killed several monsters? Huh?]
[The Indians used a rocket launcher to kill one, while Su Shen killed it instantly with a shovel. Is that luck?]
[James, did you pee in the toilet and wet your pants?]
[I heard the players from the US are still circling in the safe zone. They have the nerve to talk about other people's luck?]
Is it luck that gets you the world's first kill, and skill that gets you nothing?
[Got it, the US's strength lies in hiding and never going out.]
The official studio of Da Xia.
After watching the replay of the battle in India, Zhao Mingyuan turned to the camera.
"Let me respond to what the commentator from the United States just said."
He picked up the remote and froze the frame on the moment Su Chen killed the Swamp Devourer.
"Look here, everyone."
Zoom in on the image.
Su Chen's shovel tip was less than half a centimeter away from the edge of the air hole.
"The breathing hole is three centimeters wide, surrounded by hardened scales. If the deviation exceeds one centimeter, the shovel will bounce off the armor. The same result as the armor-piercing bullet from the Indian soldiers earlier."
He put down the remote control.
"A single shovel strikes a target three centimeters wide, with zero hesitation and zero deviation."
"That's not luck. That's ability."
Lin Xiaotang continued, "Professor Zhao, what about the reduced defense capabilities during hibernation, as mentioned by the United States..."
"It will indeed decrease," Zhao Mingyuan nodded, "but it decreases the overall defense, not the location of the weak points. The vents are only so big; whether the monster is awake or asleep, three centimeters is three centimeters."
"Finding it, or not finding it, is the dividing line between life and death."
Just as Lin Xiaotang was about to speak, the system notification above the live stream popped up again.
[Global Announcement!]
[The substitute players for India have been randomly selected.]
[Substitute player: Priya Sharma, female, 19 years old]
[Deployment Location: Tier C Calamity Zone - "Scorching Earth"]
Vehicle Allocation: Tier E Vehicle - Bicycle
The chat in Da Xia's live stream room froze completely at that moment.
Nineteen years old...a college student...
【bike?】
On a patch of cracked, scorched earth, a thin girl huddled beside a rusty bicycle, trembling and covering her face with her hands.
Her cries, broadcast live globally, reached everyone's ears.