Chapter 234: Large Villager
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Seeing that shooting heads was ineffective, Lin Ye fired at the charging villagers, with bullets hitting their left and right chests and two locations in their abdominal cavities. The other three villagers continued charging forward, with only the one hit in the center of the abdominal cavity collapsing to the ground.
"Aim for their navels, there must be something inside there."
Lin Ye fired again and killed the remaining three villagers.
"Fall back, many more are coming."
Jessica shot and killed the two villagers crawling on the ground, with bullets precisely hitting their abdominal cavities from behind.
"Copy that."
Lin Ye fired while retreating, killing villagers pouring out from the village. It wasn't that they couldn't handle these villagers, but the problem was Night Inscription Village likely contained more than just these villagers.
Jessica was also shooting the villagers emerging from the village. After confirming the villagers' weak points, each gunshot resulted in another villager falling.
The two quickly retreated near the jeep, but the villagers weren't letting them leave, instead following them closely. They could only drive away from the village area first.
"Wait a minute, the restricted area shouldn't be this large. We didn't drive this long when we entered."
Lin Ye sat in the passenger seat, watching the almost unchanging scenery outside the window, suddenly speaking up.
"You mean we're trapped?"
Jessica floored the accelerator, but no matter how she drove, she couldn't find the mountain road leading to the outside world.
"Probably... isn't this place supposed to prohibit abnormalities? This doesn't seem normal."
Lin Ye tried to extend his mental energy outside his body, but found the restriction still existed - he still couldn't use his mental energy.
"That was just my speculation. Perhaps this restriction only targets outsiders."
Jessica wasn't clear about Night Inscription Village's specific situation either.
"Driving like this is pointless. We need to find a place to eliminate all the villagers behind us."
The villagers kept following the jeep, appearing near it at regular intervals. They were likely circling around the village vicinity.
"Alright."
Jessica parked the jeep by the roadside and retrieved a light machine gun and two ammunition belts from the trunk.
Lin Ye also took some weapons from the trunk, loaded them, and placed them in easily accessible locations. Before they could finish preparing, some villagers spotted them and quickly surrounded them.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...
The two hid behind the jeep, back to back, each handling villagers from one side. Some villagers carried hunting shotguns, engaging in long-range exchanges with them.
But whether in terms of weapon power or shooting accuracy, they completely overwhelmed these villagers. The first wave of approaching villagers was quickly eliminated.
Lin Ye was somewhat worried about his special ability. He didn't know what kind of entity would be invoked by killing these sacrificial offerings.
"I'll go examine their physical structure."
Just as Lin Ye was about to go dissect the villagers' corpses, he heard heavy footsteps approaching from not far away.
"Let's check later. Something seems to be coming."
Jessica turned the light machine gun's muzzle toward the direction of the sound. Soon, a tall figure emerged from the mist.
It was a humanoid monster nearly two and a half meters tall, its body surface covered with fissures of varying lengths. Deep within these fissures, something squirmed incessantly.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat...
Jessica immediately opened fire on the monster before them. The light machine gun's bullets swept across every part of the monster's body, penetrating its flesh, yet the monster didn't fall.
Lin Ye also fired at the monster, emptying his magazine, with most bullets hitting the same spot on the monster's head.
The monster halted its steps, swayed for a moment, and finally collapsed to the ground.
But before they could catch their breath, several more tall monsters emerged from the mist, approaching them step by step.
"What are these? Oversized villagers?"
Lin Ye had no choice but to switch to another gun and continued firing at the tall monsters. Although they had ample weapons, if these oversized villagers kept approaching, they would eventually exhaust all the ammunition in the vehicle.
"Not sure. Aim for their heads. After dealing with these few in front of us, we'll drive into the village. We can't continue like this."
Jessica had a feeling these monsters' purpose was likely to waste their ammunition.
"Be careful, there's something beneath those fissures. Don't let them get close."
Lin Ye tried attacking different parts of the monsters' heads, eventually finding no difference. The monsters' heads seemed to have some protective structure - only by shattering this protective layer could they kill the monsters.
"Get in the vehicle! We're charging in!"
After eliminating the nearby monsters, Jessica prepared to storm directly into the village. She couldn't afford to hesitate anymore.
Though feeling it wasn't entirely safe, Lin Ye didn't refuse. He was already prepared to start his next simulation, but before ending this one, he wanted to gather more information from the village.
Jessica drove toward the village direction. When passing by the monsters' corpses, Lin Ye suddenly had a bad feeling. Remembering the fissures on the monsters' bodies, he quickly turned and said:
"Stay away from those corpses!"
Jessica's reaction speed was no slower than Lin Ye's. The moment Lin Ye said to stay away, she sharply turned the steering wheel, creating distance from the corpses.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Just as Jessica controlled the jeep to turn, the monsters' corpses exploded. The explosion flipped the jeep over, and a large amount of squirming flesh shattered the jeep's windows, flooding into the vehicle's interior.
Lin Ye had opened the door and jumped out just before the jeep overturned, using the vehicle body to shield himself from the explosion's impact and the squirming flesh.
Jessica jumped out after Lin Ye, though her side door was jammed against the ground.
Lin Ye rolled several times on the ground before stabilizing himself, while Jessica handled it much more gracefully, easily maintaining her balance.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang...
Numerous bizarrely shaped squirming flesh chunks pounced toward the two. Lin Ye drew his pistol and easily shot down the chunks attacking them, while Jessica returned to the jeep area to deal with the flesh chunks there. If possible, she didn't want to abandon their only means of transportation.
The flesh chunks posed no threat to the two, but the jeep was totaled.
The explosion had damaged the jeep's internal structure. Without appropriate parts, they couldn't repair the jeep.
"...Grab the weapons. We're fighting our way in."
Jessica said expressionlessly.
"Doesn't the organization cover situations like this?"
Lin Ye asked somewhat curiously.
"I already told you, we have no backup... and naturally no reimbursement either. This vehicle, these weapons - they're all my personal collection."
Jessica was feeling extremely distressed now. Regardless of this operation's outcome, she was nearly bankrupt.
Lin Ye silently stepped forward to pick up the weapons. He definitely didn't want to provoke Jessica in her current state.