Chapter 29

After setting everything up, the team retreated a distance. The Cleaner and the Bandit found a sniper position to prepare to engage the monster. The Bandit looked at the sniper rifle in the Cleaner's hands with a mix of envy and resentment. For a Gunner, a good sniper rifle was like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman, making his heart race.

"Prepared." The Cleaner's position was a full kilometer from the container, arranged to give the Cleaner enough space to snipe. Actually, the Bandit would have been more effective with the Cleaner's sniper rifle, but if the Bandit went to snipe from a distance, no one would be left to engage the monster. Since the minefield had been set up, the melee fighters couldn't rush in before the BOSS stepped on a mine.

The Gunner now had a grenade skill with a range of 100 meters. It wasn't very lethal but had a powerful explosive force with a knockback effect. The BOSS was confirmed to be inside the container, and the Bandit using this skill to engage the monster was the perfect choice.

"3, 2, 1, start." Since the Bandit was the one to lure the monster, the Cleaner needed to coordinate with him. According to the plan they had just discussed, the Cleaner aimed the scope at the most likely position where the BOSS would appear first after being engaged.

Boom! A grenade shot directly into the container, instantly shattering it into pieces. A metal shadow, the size of a calf, burst out of the smoke and lunged at the Bandit. However, just as the shadow landed, it stepped on a mine, and the explosion sent its body flying backward.

Bang! The Cleaner seized the moment when the BOSS's landing force and the mine explosion were in a stalemate and pulled the trigger. The armor-piercing bullet hit the BOSS's eye. However, at the moment the bullet hit the BOSS's eye, a layer of energy shield appeared, blocking the bullet and preventing any damage.

Although the Cleaner's shot was highly threatening, since the Bandit had lured the monster and set the mines, the BOSS, after being blown away, rolled on the ground and got up, ignoring the Cleaner and continuing to lunge at the Bandit.

The first shot had no effect, which made everyone frown. The BOSS's strength was a bit beyond everyone's imagination. The Cleaner frowned, not taking the armor-piercing bullet from in front of him and loading it into the gun. Instead, he moved his left hand, which was supporting his right shoulder to steady the gun, to the back of the gun and hooked the bolt with his fingers.

The positions of the mines set by the Bandit instantly replayed in the Cleaner's mind, and the image now included the BOSS's current position. His left hand pulled back and quickly returned to its original position.

Bang! At the moment the BOSS stepped on another mine and it exploded, the Cleaner fired the second shot. His left hand pulled back again, loading another bullet. As his left hand and the bolt returned to their original positions, the Cleaner fired the third shot, then the fourth, fifth, and so on.

From the second shot onward, the sound of the sniper rifle formed a continuous line. The BOSS, no matter how it moved or landed, was immediately blown up by another mine. The bullets the Cleaner fired seemed to have eyes, each one hitting the BOSS's eye.

The Cleaner almost used the sniper rifle like an assault rifle, firing 10 bullets in three seconds. Before each shot, the Cleaner made micro-adjustments and predictions. This was the fundamental reason why each bullet seemed to have eyes and aimed straight for the BOSS's eye.

Clang, clang, clang... The protective shield over the BOSS's eye and the sound of the Cleaner's gun formed a continuous line. Each bullet's impact made the shield over the BOSS's eye wobble. The frequent attacks of 10 bullets in three seconds exceeded the shield's short-term protection limit, and it shattered when hit by the 10th bullet.

Immediately, the 11th bullet hit, shattering the BOSS's right eye, which was emitting red rays like a glass ball. Then the 12th, 13th, and so on, until the 15th bullet, the Cleaner stopped pulling the trigger, his chest heaving as he took deep breaths to relieve the pressure on his heart.

"Is... Is he using a sniper rifle or a machine gun?" After 15 shots, the BOSS, with its right eye blinded, fell heavily on the site where the container had been blown up, creating a brief silence. The Bandit swallowed, looking fearfully at the Cleaner's position, stammering, "What... what is he using?"

Indeed, it was fear, not admiration. Using a semi-automatic sniper rifle to fire at the speed of a fully automatic machine gun was beyond the Bandit's understanding. When something unfamiliar and unimaginable suddenly appears, the first reaction is often fear, and the Bandit was no exception.

"What are you doing? Use fire support to make the BOSS step on all the mines, then the melee can go in and kill the BOSS." The Violent Squad members all had expressions of shock and hadn't had time to answer the Bandit when the Cleaner's voice came through the team chat.

"You can still talk?" The Gambler, the first to react, asked in surprise. The pressure on the heart from firing 15 shots in 5 seconds was unimaginable. But that pressure was definitely not something an ordinary person could bear, even trained people like the Gambler couldn't handle it. So the fact that the Cleaner could still talk was a great surprise to the Gambler.

"I'm not dead, why can't I talk? What are you all doing? The BOSS is already charging towards me." Wang Fusheng had directly blinded one of the BOSS's eyes, reducing the red bar indicating the BOSS's remaining health by 20%. At this point, the BOSS's hate was all on the Cleaner.

"Ah? Oh, oh, oh." At this moment, the Violent Squad members finally came to their senses and began to attack in a somewhat chaotic manner. But fortunately, they were all professional soldiers, and after a brief panic, their attacks became more organized.

A distance of 1000 meters was neither far nor close. The Violent Squad members, not worrying about the BOSS's hate, began to use all their skills with knockback and knockdown effects on the BOSS, making it step on almost all the mines. The BOSS took only 30 seconds to reach the Cleaner.

Whoosh! When the BOSS was still 50 meters away, the Cleaner abandoned sniping and prepared to release his mech to fight the BOSS in close combat. But before the Cleaner could release his mech, arcs of electricity began to flash in the BOSS's mouth. The Cleaner immediately sensed danger and rolled to the side, a laser hitting the spot where he had been standing, creating a deep, bottomless hole the size of a ping-pong ball.

Long-range laser attack! This attack from the BOSS stunned everyone. The Cleaner broke out in a cold sweat, clearly no one had expected the BOSS to have this ability.

"Fortunately, it's not a continuous attack, or I would have been dead. No matter how fast I dodge, I can't be faster than a laser." The Cleaner, having dodged the attack and seeing that the BOSS wasn't going to use it again, breathed a sigh of relief. He instantly released his mech and jumped in.

The BOSS, battered by the mines, especially two anti-tank mines, was covered in dents and had metal fragments embedded in various places. Despite this, it still reached the Cleaner and launched an attack.

"Fortunately, the werewolf's defense wasn't that great, and I could snipe it from a distance. If it had been a melee fight, I would have been torn to pieces." Feeling the ferocity of the mech BOSS, the Cleaner couldn't help but think. Clearly, the near-death experience had given him a clearer understanding of the BOSS's strength.

"Use the sprint skill, run around the area we cleared, and we'll attack. Try to control the hate and switch with you." The Gambler commanded in the team chat. The Cleaner, who had just dodged the BOSS's lunge, turned and ran.

However, the Cleaner didn't run in a straight line but in a curve. After all, the range they had cleared of monsters was limited, and running out of this range would attract other monsters. But with the Cleaner drawing the hate, the others could use all their skills without worrying about defense and attack at full speed.

With the Cleaner occasionally turning back to hit the BOSS, making it pause and take more hits, the BOSS's health began to drop rapidly. The sound of its movement became creaky, like an old, worn-out machine.

Bang! Just as the Cleaner was fully focused on dealing with the BOSS's attack, a gunshot made his eyebrows twitch. The Cleaner's left hand pulled the control stick, tilting the mech to the left, and a bullet grazed the mech's shoulder, sparking.

"Enemy attack." The system's warning and the Cleaner's shout rang out simultaneously in the team chat.

"Have the Cleaner lead the BOSS back to the path we cleared. The Bandit and the Robber go deal with the people trying to steal the BOSS." The Gambler instantly gave the order. As a melee fighter, the Robber's hate was almost equal to the Cleaner's, and he could take over soon, so he couldn't leave now.

After the sniper attack failed, the people trying to steal the BOSS realized they were exposed and no longer hid, jumping out. Excluding the sniper, there were nine people, indicating a full 10-person team. The fact that they could clear monsters from another direction to reach the BOSS showed that they were not to be underestimated.

Boom! Just as the Gambler finished speaking, a grenade exploded between the Cleaner and the BOSS. Although the Cleaner, who was trying to lead the BOSS back, wasn't injured, the explosion's force made the mech stagger.

The knockback effect of the grenade on the BOSS was clearly not as strong as on the Cleaner. Thus, the Cleaner, who had been dodging the BOSS's attacks with ease, was directly bitten by the BOSS. Although it wasn't a laser attack, the mech was hit and thrown back.

The Cleaner didn't know how many volts of electricity were in the BOSS's mouth, but just a light bite made the heavy mech fly as if someone had touched a high-voltage wire.

Thud! The unprepared Cleaner fell to the ground, and the mech spun several 360-degree rotations before stabilizing.

"Suppress the enemy Gunner, don't let him interfere." The disoriented Cleaner shouted in the team chat. Clearly, the enemy was also experienced in stealing BOSSes, trying to eliminate the main tank (MT) who was drawing the BOSS's hate, then using the off-tank (OT) to make the BOSS help them clear the opponents before killing the BOSS.